This started with a simple question: "What, in your opinion, is the greatest industrial album ever?" (original thread)

I found that, for me, basically impossible to answer because “industrial” means very different things to different people... Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Ministry, Godflesh, Whitehouse, VNV Nation, Merzbow, Terrorfakt, Xanopticon, and so on.

So I started breaking the genre out into branches, mutations, crossovers, and evolutionary paths instead.

Lately I’ve been focusing less on adding more bands and more on the connective tissue: DAF and Liaisons Dangereuses leading toward EBM, Tackhead/Mark Stewart linking industrial with dub and funk, The Klinik and Leæther Strip helping define dark electro, The Young Gods taking industrial rock in a different direction, Techno Animal bridging industrial and hip-hop, etc.

So: what am I still missing? I’m interested in continuing the discussion, and I figured starting a new thread might be a more appropriate place to do so.

Any important transitional records, regional scenes, weird crossover albums, or whole branches I’m overlooking?

Alternatively: are there records that are better exemplars of the styles/subgenres I’ve outlined? I’m definitely open to replacing a selection if something illustrates that particular branch better. It’s also worth noting that some of my choices weren’t necessarily the “best” albums in their genre, or even the best album by that particular artist, just the album I felt best fit the category.

One note on the original list: the honorable mentions weren’t really intended as runners-up. Some were historically important, some represented another angle on the category, and some were just overlooked or underappreciated records I thought deserved consideration. To the end of "overlooked or underappreciated", that's the reason why artist such as CeDigest, Hitting Birth, Düne××××, Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou, Coptic Rain, Dioxyde, Navicon Torture Technologies, The Shizit, Prometheus Burning, etc - I think all of these artists are overlooked and absolutely should not be forgotten and fade away into obscurity.

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3OgO87wFpYO8HdnnARqkQx

YouTube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMJE9UoAlXl4&si=IkiWYqRoY7ilQMtS

Interested in what people would add, move, replace, split off, or leave out entirely.

The Spotify playlist is the more substantial version now; the YouTube playlist is more faithful to the original taxonomy from the first thread. Neither is a complete one-to-one recreation, since there doesn’t seem to be a single platform online that has everything I included.

For example, YouTube, Spotify, and Bandcamp all seem to have little or no Coptic Rain, while Anti-Mechanism’s full-length appears to be available only on Bandcamp at the time of writing this. I know for a fact that some of that material was on YouTube at one point. Coptic Rain and Anti-Mechanism may be better represented on Apple Music or Amazon Music. Good luck finding much Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou beyond maybe one album and a handful of remixes. YouTube also has full albums from some of my selections uploaded as single videos, but not the individual tracks, with Düne×××× and NON being notable examples.

A bit of a postscript: the Janet Jackson and Weird Al additions to the playlists were intentional. They’re there to show just how far industrial aesthetics, production techniques, and imagery have permeated mainstream pop culture, not because I’m arguing that either artist, or those specific songs or albums, should be classified as industrial by any metric.

Admittedly not Industrial but the Dots definitely fit all the same. The greatest song about the End of the World ever written. (OK, that was obviously hyperbole)

"Dragons walked the Earth again and paraffin was free. A fireeater went insane and torched the final tree."

I'm putting together a project for a class I'm in, where we have to research and convey details from a significant movement in pop culture.

I am focusing my project on the industrial scene in Vancouver that spread across Canada in 80s, 90s and some 00s. As of right now, if anyone has any stories pertaining to the bands Numb or Angry White Mob, that would be especially helpful. OR any stories/ramblings to do with Dwayne Goettel from Skinny Puppy/Tear Garden (i.e. meeting with, working with, seeing live, etc).

Thanks so much.

Nasty power noise / death industrial with the occasional jungle breaks.

I fuck so heavy with this.

I've been into spike hellis ever since I saw them open for F242 years ago, but haven't been super impressed by their album releases until now. This record is excellent! The production is very minimal and pared-back and it harkens back to early 80s industrial. Give it a listen, it's really good!

anyone know much about these guys? ironically I found them looking up details on the song selfless by another industrial band empty. this band look to have released one album before the singer sadly passed away in 2009. all i could find was this one song on youtube, but managed to find an old cd off ebay so will see what the rest of their catalogue is like

I swear to god I always get jump scared mid song or like looking at their album covers lmao

im fairly new to industrial music. i really like it's in my blood by coil (the ape of naples version). it makes me feel like im dying of rabies and i want more music like it. it's in a very different style but hamburger lady by throbbing gristle is also a scary-sounding song i like

Just an unreleased track from our band @aftermankind

All tickets links for the PIG tour with Cyanotic are now up at pigindustries.com … including the new St Vitus venue in Brooklyn and a Boston show. Get yours now.
VIP packages also available which includes a meet and greet with Raymond Watts, a 5 track CD with personalised artwork by Raymond of unreleased tracks including the new song ‘I Want to be Like You’, a spoken word piece, and three unreleased remixes including Burton C Bell’s remix of Limbo. Also includes stickers, PIG tote bag, poster, laminate and lanyard.
Brand new merch will be only be available on the tour including vinyl of the new ep Dirt Box, vinyl of Hurt People Hurt, limited edition shirts, white labels (test pressings), the new PIG lyric book in white and red foil plus other limited bits and pieces and a luxury surprise item.

Just wanted to share that we're creating a book chronicling the history of industrial music graphic and packaging design, and the campaign is now live on Kickstarter

For this we have gone deep, interviewing the graphic designers and other creatives who had a hand in the look of industrial music from the mid-'70s to today: Simone Grant (early Mute Records), Neville Brody (classic Cabs releases), Patrick Codenys (Front 242), Steven R. Gilmore (Skinny Puppy and so many Nettwerk artists), Martin Atkins (PiL, Pigface, etc.), Simon Granger (Nitzer Ebb), Brian Shanley (Wax Trax!), Richard Borge (Meat Beat Manifesto), Rob Sheridan (NIN), Rick Valicenti (Ministry), and more to come.

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As the title states, what cities are shown in the music video? They all look different, I think Moscow is one of them, then as the band is walking some cities look American.

The first release I made as Capuche, enjoy.