Industrial Rock

Industrial rock is a genre characterized by its fusion of heavy metal's aggression and punk's energy with industrial music's mechanized rhythms and sonic experimentation. Emerging in the 1980s and 1990s, industrial rock drew inspiration from post-punk and gothic rock, incorporating distorted synths, driving beats, and often, provocative, theatrical vocals. Artists like Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails popularized the genre in the 1990s, blending industrial's noise and dissonance with catchy hooks and riffs. This fusion of styles created a unique sound that was both brutal and melodic, speaking to a generation disillusioned with mainstream culture. Industrial rock's cultural significance lies in its confrontation of societal norms and its embracing of the dark, the surreal, and the transgressive. With its intense live performances and often, shocking aesthetic, industrial rock pushed the boundaries of rock music, influenced by and influencing genres like nu metal, gothic metal, and electronic body music.

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Album - 10 Tracks - Released January 24, 2025

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3TEETH
A Tribe Apart
ALT BLK ERA
Bad/Love
Big Black
Blaqk Van
Bloodlyne
Burton C. Bell
CANTERVICE
Cassyette
Cathedral In Flames
Celldweller
Chemical Empire
Chris Harms
Cinnamon Babe
Combichrist
Daemon Grey
Danzig
Dark Remedy
Darkside Retox
Darkways
David Draiman
Dead On A Sunday
Deadcode
Death Valley High
Delilah Bon
Disciple Theory
Dolly Dagger
Dozy Doe
Dreadlight
Echo Drone
Einstürzende Neubauten
Eisbrecher
Esprit D'Air
Everything Goes Cold
FKA Rayne
FLAT BLACK
Flesh Tape
Front 242
Front Line Assembly
GUNN & LINDEMANN
Gavin Friday
H6LLB6ND6R
Hurt Division
Jacob Lizotte
Jeris Johnson
KID BRUNSWICK
Katrina Ford
Killing Joke
Kiss Meta
LOVELORN DOLLS
Laibach
Laney Piper
Leæther Strip
Lifeless Past
Luci Ferrum
Marilyn Manson
Market
MayNard
Meat Beat Manifesto
Mimi Barks
NOCTURN
Occults
Odd Obsessions
PEAKS!
PIG
Parallyx
Pitchshifter
Pop Will Eat Itself
Puscifer
REDSHIFT
Ray Bull
Reznor
SAMURAI
SENEX IV
SINthetik Messiah
Savages
Seething Akira
Skold
Solemn Golem
Soviet Shiksa
Stabbing Westward
The Desire
The God Bombs
The Legendary Pink Dots
The Plague
The Sweet Kill
Throbbing Gristle
Till Lindemann
VILYN
VNDETTA
Void Chapter
WARGASM (UK)
WHITE GALLOWS
We Are PIGS
Widow7
Witchz
XANU
Zero 9:36
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Rammstein
Marilyn Manson
Rob Zombie
Nine Inch Nails
Type O Negative
Jeris Johnson
Static-X
Danzig
Sisters of Mercy
Witchz
Till Lindemann
Bauhaus
Puscifer
Zero 9:36
Celldweller
Ministry
Oli Sykes
Eisbrecher
Helmet
WARGASM (UK)
Cassyette
SAMURAI
Killing Joke
OOMPH!
Orgy
David Draiman
KMFDM
WHITE GALLOWS
KID BRUNSWICK
Swans
Combichrist
Bark
Dozy Doe
Delilah Bon
3TEETH
Mick Mars
Jimmy Urine
Ray Bull
ALT BLK ERA
Skinny Puppy
Bloodlyne
Front 242
How To Destroy Angels
Dead On A Sunday
FKA Rayne
Vast
Stabbing Westward
Einstürzende Neubauten
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Lords Of Acid
Black Light Burns
Chris Harms
Front Line Assembly
FLAT BLACK
Laibach
XANU
Paul Ferguson
Machines Of Loving Grace
Trent Reznor
Die Krupps
Lilith Czar
Psychic TV
Kidneythieves
Esprit D'Air
Snake River Conspiracy
CANTERVICE
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We Are PIGS
Throbbing Gristle
Daemon Grey
Void Chapter
Nitzer Ebb
Bad/Love
Gavin Friday
Pitchshifter
Cabaret Voltaire
Pop Will Eat Itself
Switchblade Symphony
Skold
Velvet Acid Christ
Meat Beat Manifesto
Blitz Union
Savages
Tones On Tail
PIG
FRANK ZUMMO
Leæther Strip
Jacob Lizotte
Die Form
Revolting Cocks
Cinnamon Babe
ZILLION
Jason Williamson
Whyte Fang
Omniscore
The Legendary Pink Dots
NOCTURN
Reznor
The Plague
Socionic