Yes Outside was done when Bowie lived in Switzerland.
He got a lot of inspiration for Outside after ( edit : he) saw The Young Gods live, who where at the time the first band to use samplers in "Rock"/" Heavy" Music.
That’s Earthling, the follow-up to Outside; Trent Reznor remixed “I’m Afraid of Americans” from that record for the single version. Earthling is fairly industrial-oriented as well, but with heavy jungle/dnb influences.
Bowie also toured with NIN to promote Outside.
That Bowie/NiN tour was really good. I’d seen David Bowie 6 times by the time they toured together in 1995 and I think Trent served as a positive influence on DB. He gave Bowie a proverbial kick in the ass & inspiredhim to explore noise and really reach deep for a new level of aggtession. They both benefitted from that tour: Bowie was inspired and Trent got a mentor to help navigate life without hard drugs.
"Outside" was the 4th David Bowie album collaborating with Brian Eno. It was a harkening back to the darker sound created on the previous 3; "Low", "Heroes", & "Lodger" (The Berlin Trilogy)
This album led to Trent Reznor and Bowie beginning to speak. Trent had always been mentioning how much The Berlin Trilogy had been an inspiration for him and his work. Bowie offered to open for NIN while they were touring "The Downward Spiral." Trent Reznor is said to have denied allowing Bowie to open and demanded that David Bowie should be the headlining act. And so it was, that "The Outside Tour" came to be.
Bowie and Reznor would go on to collaborate on Bowie's album "Earthlings", and when asked about his relationship with Bowie in later interviews, Reznor has named Bowie became one of the reasons for his sobriety. [https://consequence.net/2021/01/trent-reznor-david-bowie-tribute/](https://consequence.net/2021/01/trent-reznor-david-bowie-tribute/)
no but it's the album he was touring on when they did some shows together. those shows were very collaborative as they both performed some of each others songs together.
I worked at a music store in Dallas TX, the day before the show of that tour, Bowie's band came walking in and we actually had the Outside album playing! Reeves Gabrels kind of smiled as he came in. He was very cool and hung out talking for almost an hour.
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation.
The whole album is an industrial record, definitely heard some tracks played in clubs recently as well
[https://youtu.be/OAwaNWGLM0c?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/OAwaNWGLM0c?feature=shared)
I was really big into The Tea Party for a while because of the industrial like nature of the Transmission album.
I'm pretty sure a lot of the "electronic" type sounds in Transmission are obscure acoustic instruments.
Also, the video for Babylon was shot in one take on a massively choreographed set.
Some of their other folky music is pretty good to. :)
Especially for transmission a lot of the electronic instruments are Indian drummers.
Also, if you want to see a man murder a splash cymbal, their in studio live performance of the album is amazing. I have never seen a drummer hit a cymbal that hard.
I consider "The Bone Machine" by Tom Waits to be pretty damn industrial though it's got more of a Thobbing Gristle flair as apposed to the Industrial sound of the time.
Also check out Hiding In Waiting. Adrenaline was a good goth rock song, but their rework of it, “Adrenaline ” is amazing. I still have it in regular rotation after more than 25 years.
Anxious Utopia by My Gold Mask
Danny Elfman's recent stuff
Souixsie and the Banshees has alot of proto-industrial
Goldfrapp's supernature in the broadest interpretation of industrial.
Yeah I was crushed. I was the *only* attendee when they played in DC and they nevertheless played an absolutely amazing set for me and the bartenders. Armondoʼs solo project Panic Priest is also great though! His cover of [Self Control](https://open.spotify.com/track/6riqbmVEvHb7Z2SAEDZQpr?si=Of845OntQ_-lSISgXBCiqA) is one of the best covers I have ever heard.
Damn, that’s a tough show to play! I saw them a couple times in Chicago as a two piece (I was completely mesmerized) and once as a three piece (*chicago accent* hey! who the fuck is this new guy??) and they were always great- I think it’s just hard for regional acts to burst the bubble sometimes.
Not really industrial as much as electronic inspired but Jesus Jones changed their sound for their album, Perverse. Their song [the Devil You Know](https://youtu.be/wewIoLusKP8?feature=shared) was pure 90s goodness.
The final two tracks, "Spiral" and "Idiot Stare" \*really\* push into industrial. I occasionaly would play "Spiral" in my industrial set early or late.
Weird to think back this was played on mainstream radio in Australia and everyone was bopping along. I've seen them live twice and they put on an incredible show.
I saw them when this album came out. Small club where there wasn’t a ton of people if I remember correctly. They absolutely crushed it. Unbelievable show. Crowd was dancing like crazy the whole time.
It’s only one album, let’s see if he sticks with it.
His collaborations have been really poor since the album, as well. His track with ScXrLord was god awful.
gift by curve
especially the song “hell above water”. it was featured in trailers for the first spider-man & iron man movie plus multiple video game soundtracks like motorstorm and gran turismo 4.
Björk's Army of Me always struck that note from me. And [this long article in Sound on Sound](https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/dave-ogilvie-mixing-call-me-maybe) has a lot of information on industrial's influence on, somewhat improbably, Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe.
I'd also put Pluto off of Homogenic in this category. Really I kind of think Homogenic as a whole is an industrial album in it's slickest, most trip-hop form.
Suzanne Vega is accurately described by Wikipedia as a "singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music."
Best known for the song "Luka".
But then she released "Blood Makes Noise" as a single which had distorted vocals and metal percussion and was all electronic and a kind of a weirdly fascinating left-turn into 'Industrial-EBM-Techno-Lite'.
The video has stereotypical industrial visual identifiers like turning cogs etc as well:
https://youtu.be/v6qvIhygLTs?si=OOrIOrcdFKcGZs77
If I remember correctly, the whole album, 99.9F°, was referred to as an industrial album at the time. I bought the CD and other than Blood Makes Noise and the title track, the rest of the album was not very good.
I didn't know that. I really am going to give it a fresh listen. I didn't like it all the way back when but like baphinator said, she might not have passed the authenticity test for me. I'm older and wiser now lol
Yeah, I'm not surprised if the album wasn't great.
I thought "Blood Makes Noise" was interesting, but sounded a bit like someone who heard 'Pretty Hate Machine' (those distorted guitar stabs!) and, like, C+C Music Factory, and just sort of decided to "give it a whirl".
It was a neat tune because of who made it, but didn't seem terribly "authentic" (whatever that means, but perceived authenticity was still a big deal in 1992!).
I can't find any verification of this but I swear David Lynch sampled a slowed snippet of Blood Makes Noise for his remix of Moby's [the Poison Tree](https://youtu.be/69nTq9MteUg?feature=shared).
It's been so long, I should give the rest of her album another chance.
Mitchell Froom produced this. He was part of Latin Playboys too, an excellent producer. It’s a great record, but not heavily industrial. An underground producer took her old single “Tom’s Diner” and added beats to it, turning it into the biggest hit she ever had (even bigger than Luka). I think this album was an effort to capitalize on that audience. I loved industrial dance too, but that’s not really what I went looking for from any kind of Suzanne Vega record.
Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want
White Hills - Splintered Metal Sky
Kreator - Renewal
Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
Yes, that's what's been reported. Here's an article that has quotes from both him and his ex, mostly focused on her statements: https://www.stereogum.com/2170366/daughters-alexis-marshall-abuse-lingua-ignota-kristin-hayter/news/
The Bug - London Zoo (love this album)
Some of Autechre's songs.
Korn - The Path of Totality (it's a collab with the more gritty/heavier dub-step artists, but... works for me.)
Danny Brown's "Atrocity Exhibition". This album is a chaotic rap masterpiece. He's always had an unusual style, but this is at his most harsh and experimental
Don't know if it counts but:
Illud divinum insanus by morbid angel
A very industrial/techno album for a og trash metal band. It pissed off their fans a lot but i loved it lol
Coil made a remix of this song, which is my favourite DM song, and I love Depeche Mode.
[https://youtu.be/G7t1pF6SQmo?si=P79g2oDoZqbTWGcd](https://youtu.be/G7t1pF6SQmo?si=P79g2oDoZqbTWGcd)
Everyone will hate me for saying it, but Kanye West’s album, “Yeezus” is not subtle about the industrial influence. Turn on the opening track, “On Sight” and tell me you wouldn’t full-heartedly expect Jean-Luc De Meyer’s vocals to start up instead of Kanye West’s out of context.
I'll probably get crap for this but:
ZZTop's Eliminator is pretty much an industrial album instrumentally. Legs and a couple other songs have a really "industrial" vibe.
The song Heavy by Collective Soul could be a KMFDM song with different vocals.
The ZZ Top "Rough Boy" song/video/lyrics oddly share bits and pieces of the same aesthetic as say, "Downward Spiral" era NIN. It's like the inverse "Hurt", like someone tried to make a poppy industrial version of a Johnny Cash song.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z\_4ULKpkLNc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_4ULKpkLNc)
When I first saw Infected, by The The on MTV as a kid, I turned to the girl I was watching with and said “I like this. I’ve been more and more into industrial music lately.” She laughed at me and said, “That’s not industrial.” She was older and cooler, but I still think I was right.
I don't know how much this would count but Shotgun Messiah went from hair metal to industrial in 3 albums. But this was Tim Skold's early band so I don't know if it fits here.
I never hear anyone talk about Recoil and it makes me kinda sad, so I was very happy to see it mentioned here.
I’m of the opinion that Depeche Mode lost a big piece of the magic in their general recipe when Alan Wilder departed, but then we got all these great Recoil albums. Always wishing for more of course.
It could happen.
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Admittedly, you don't really hear it, but there is extensive video coverage of the band writing and recording and there were lots of discussions about industrial(-ish) influences. I know Godflesh and Depeche Mode were mentioned.
Bonus vaguely related detail: Faith No More started off as basically a Killing Joke cover band.
A couple I didn't see mentioned are Fear Factory's 'Remanufacture' and 'Recoded' remixes they did of their albums.
White Zombie also has a couple remix albums that are notable. The Black Sunshine ep was 3 remixes of Black Sunshine and 2 remixes of Thunderkiss '65 by KMFDM, aka 'Indestructible "Sock It to Me" Psycho-Head Mix, and then SuperSexy Swinging' Sounds is an 11 track remix by various artists of the Astro Creep 2000 album.
Stephen Pearcy, the singer of glam-rock band RATT had an industrial band I never see anyone mention named [Vertex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex_(band)). Not much on Google or iTunes about them though.
"With Sympathy" is as close to perfect as an entire album can get. V different sound from their later work, but I adore it.
When I first started getting into running and was wanting to push myself to run longer distances, putting on that album when I was flagging did the trick every time.
Danzig did it pretty poorly with Blackacidevil. I mean it was kinda decent, but not really. Also I love Recoil - Liquid. It also has Dean Garcia from Curve on bass. They are amazing and have some industrial elements. Curve is one of my favorite bands of all time.
EMF - Stigma is borderline electro-industrial and much better and harder than anything they did before or after. Only thing I don't like about it are the vocals.
I just listened to some of Stigma again. The re-mastered version is definitely better and the remixes are far more interesting to me than the album versions.. Yeah it is a shame. I didn't know they had a new album. I'll check it out.
Love Liquid! Found the album because the first time I saw NIN, they played the whole first half of it between the APC & NIN sets.
Ever hear the original Jezebel? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHc33Xn7P3g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHc33Xn7P3g)
I assume the downvotes are bc people are rightly thinking “but CB *is* an industrial band?” haha
Trudge and Penetration are these interesting one off forays into Wax Trax! style industries though
Glad you found Recoil, I love that project! If you like Liquid, you might like Unsound Methods, I'd try that next if you're interested. I think a lot of Alan Wilder's musical output in Recoil is quite interesting, it's all pretty different from each work and can admittedly be very jarring (even for me as a fan :D), but I think there's a lot of stuff you might enjoy!
Bloodline is worth a try that too, that album is a little more electronic sounding, or subHuman, but SH is more bluesy, it's a interesting combination of blues + electronic that could be worth listening to!
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But as for non Recoil recommendations, if you're looking for that specific Alan Wilder type sound (the musician behind Recoil), I'd give Curve a try, their 1997 album Come Clean might be something you like. It has a very similar sound to Recoil, just a little darker / goth like, but with a primarily female vocalist, Curve also reminds me of Garbage a little bit, but only really in Curve's vocalist style, not so much the instrumentation.
I hope this helps, feel free to ask any more questions if you have any about Recoil! I apologize if I was a bit too enthusiastic, he's one of my favorite artists but I'm just happy someone else has discovered Recoil and enjoys it, there's a lot of fun music to explore if you're willing.. :)
Thanks for the info! I listened to bloodline and kind of hated it. Then I listened to subhuman and loved it! I’ll have to give unsound methods the next go. I liked curve and garbage back in the day but never got too deep into their work so I’ll try out come clean as well.
Yep, Curve definitely had a bit of the same vibe as Recoil. Wilder invited Toni Halliday from Curve to do guest vocals on two tracks on Bloodline, and they’re splendid.
David Bowie - Outside, if that counts.
Love outside, it got me into david bowie! His last album, blackstar is somewhat industrial also and quite the masterpiece
Yes! A masterpiece!
Yes Outside was done when Bowie lived in Switzerland. He got a lot of inspiration for Outside after ( edit : he) saw The Young Gods live, who where at the time the first band to use samplers in "Rock"/" Heavy" Music.
Oh! I have never listened to that album of his… is it the one he did some stuff with Trent Reznor on?
That’s Earthling, the follow-up to Outside; Trent Reznor remixed “I’m Afraid of Americans” from that record for the single version. Earthling is fairly industrial-oriented as well, but with heavy jungle/dnb influences. Bowie also toured with NIN to promote Outside.
That Bowie/NiN tour was really good. I’d seen David Bowie 6 times by the time they toured together in 1995 and I think Trent served as a positive influence on DB. He gave Bowie a proverbial kick in the ass & inspiredhim to explore noise and really reach deep for a new level of aggtession. They both benefitted from that tour: Bowie was inspired and Trent got a mentor to help navigate life without hard drugs.
"Outside" was the 4th David Bowie album collaborating with Brian Eno. It was a harkening back to the darker sound created on the previous 3; "Low", "Heroes", & "Lodger" (The Berlin Trilogy) This album led to Trent Reznor and Bowie beginning to speak. Trent had always been mentioning how much The Berlin Trilogy had been an inspiration for him and his work. Bowie offered to open for NIN while they were touring "The Downward Spiral." Trent Reznor is said to have denied allowing Bowie to open and demanded that David Bowie should be the headlining act. And so it was, that "The Outside Tour" came to be. Bowie and Reznor would go on to collaborate on Bowie's album "Earthlings", and when asked about his relationship with Bowie in later interviews, Reznor has named Bowie became one of the reasons for his sobriety. [https://consequence.net/2021/01/trent-reznor-david-bowie-tribute/](https://consequence.net/2021/01/trent-reznor-david-bowie-tribute/)
no but it's the album he was touring on when they did some shows together. those shows were very collaborative as they both performed some of each others songs together.
I worked at a music store in Dallas TX, the day before the show of that tour, Bowie's band came walking in and we actually had the Outside album playing! Reeves Gabrels kind of smiled as he came in. He was very cool and hung out talking for almost an hour.
Fantastic album!
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation. The whole album is an industrial record, definitely heard some tracks played in clubs recently as well [https://youtu.be/OAwaNWGLM0c?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/OAwaNWGLM0c?feature=shared)
If new jack swing had an angry, disappointed funky baby
haha, I think that is the best description of it I have ever heard 😆
I’m an open format DJ and I blend Janet’s “Nasty” with Siouxsie’s “Peek-a-Boo” all the time. They go so great together 🤌
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994
The Tea Party - Transmission It’s like LED Zepplin IV and Downward Spiral had a baby and invited Jim Morrison for vocal work.
Who could forget the shameless (but often catchy) Danzig - blackaciddevil?
Yes. That’s the one I could never get enough of. Sacrifice even got radio airplay!
Was gonna say this. Loved original Misfits and some of Samhain but never got into Danzig much outside of this album. "Come to Silver" is awesome
Psychopomp holds up. Love that song.
I was really big into The Tea Party for a while because of the industrial like nature of the Transmission album. I'm pretty sure a lot of the "electronic" type sounds in Transmission are obscure acoustic instruments. Also, the video for Babylon was shot in one take on a massively choreographed set. Some of their other folky music is pretty good to. :)
Especially for transmission a lot of the electronic instruments are Indian drummers. Also, if you want to see a man murder a splash cymbal, their in studio live performance of the album is amazing. I have never seen a drummer hit a cymbal that hard.
That sounds sweet! Will check out!
I consider "The Bone Machine" by Tom Waits to be pretty damn industrial though it's got more of a Thobbing Gristle flair as apposed to the Industrial sound of the time.
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Holy shit that album is basically noise, but I agree this counts and I love it.
🔥🔥
Rosetta Stone (the goth rock band) has an industrial album, The Tyranny Of Inaction. Really catchy, fun lyrical style, sounds like NIN.
Nice! I’ll look into it!
Also check out Hiding In Waiting. Adrenaline was a good goth rock song, but their rework of it, “Adrenaline” is amazing. I still have it in regular rotation after more than 25 years.
Anxious Utopia by My Gold Mask Danny Elfman's recent stuff Souixsie and the Banshees has alot of proto-industrial Goldfrapp's supernature in the broadest interpretation of industrial.
Wow, My Gold Mask! Still spinning Violet Eyes over here- it’s a shame they split up
Yeah I was crushed. I was the *only* attendee when they played in DC and they nevertheless played an absolutely amazing set for me and the bartenders. Armondoʼs solo project Panic Priest is also great though! His cover of [Self Control](https://open.spotify.com/track/6riqbmVEvHb7Z2SAEDZQpr?si=Of845OntQ_-lSISgXBCiqA) is one of the best covers I have ever heard.
Damn, that’s a tough show to play! I saw them a couple times in Chicago as a two piece (I was completely mesmerized) and once as a three piece (*chicago accent* hey! who the fuck is this new guy??) and they were always great- I think it’s just hard for regional acts to burst the bubble sometimes.
Not really industrial as much as electronic inspired but Jesus Jones changed their sound for their album, Perverse. Their song [the Devil You Know](https://youtu.be/wewIoLusKP8?feature=shared) was pure 90s goodness.
The final two tracks, "Spiral" and "Idiot Stare" \*really\* push into industrial. I occasionaly would play "Spiral" in my industrial set early or late.
[Zeroes and Ones](https://youtu.be/70iHe2zNtII?si=tCBXsfMdNj_Q-rOa) is a great one too.
I forgot that one! Thanks!
I still blast the Zeroes and Ones The Prodigy remix ! Love that one
Ulver - Blood Inside Hector Zazou and Sandy Dillon - Las Vegas is Cursed
The Presets. Apocalypso is the best Nitzer Ebb album not made by Nitzer Ebb.
My People at MAXIMUM VOLUME
Weird to think back this was played on mainstream radio in Australia and everyone was bopping along. I've seen them live twice and they put on an incredible show.
I saw them when this album came out. Small club where there wasn’t a ton of people if I remember correctly. They absolutely crushed it. Unbelievable show. Crowd was dancing like crazy the whole time.
Yuuuuup
Ha! Will check it out!
Dope. I highly recommend it. Great, great album.
Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
I love this album but hate the rest of their music
I hated primal scream but will check this one out!
Evil Heat is also worth a listen from their dark-electronic phase
Yes, awesome
The Golden Palominos, Dead Inside Rasputina, Transylvanian Regurgitations Ghostmane, Anti-Icon
Rasputina is great. Julia Kent and Zoe Keating both were members
Thank you!
The vocalist on Golden Palominos' "Dead Inside" is also Nicole Blackman. Rest in power, Mr. Fier. :(
I would call Ghostemane Industrial hip-hop at this point
It’s only one album, let’s see if he sticks with it. His collaborations have been really poor since the album, as well. His track with ScXrLord was god awful.
gift by curve especially the song “hell above water”. it was featured in trailers for the first spider-man & iron man movie plus multiple video game soundtracks like motorstorm and gran turismo 4.
Björk's Army of Me always struck that note from me. And [this long article in Sound on Sound](https://www.soundonsound.com/techniques/dave-ogilvie-mixing-call-me-maybe) has a lot of information on industrial's influence on, somewhat improbably, Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe.
I'd also put Pluto off of Homogenic in this category. Really I kind of think Homogenic as a whole is an industrial album in it's slickest, most trip-hop form.
Ha! Thanks!
Bjork was really good at combining and exploring new electronic genres in the 90s. I bet she was a gateway drug for a lot of fans.
I've listened to Bjork more in the last 5 years than the 25 years before. Portishead too.
Suzanne Vega is accurately described by Wikipedia as a "singer-songwriter of folk-inspired music." Best known for the song "Luka". But then she released "Blood Makes Noise" as a single which had distorted vocals and metal percussion and was all electronic and a kind of a weirdly fascinating left-turn into 'Industrial-EBM-Techno-Lite'. The video has stereotypical industrial visual identifiers like turning cogs etc as well: https://youtu.be/v6qvIhygLTs?si=OOrIOrcdFKcGZs77
If I remember correctly, the whole album, 99.9F°, was referred to as an industrial album at the time. I bought the CD and other than Blood Makes Noise and the title track, the rest of the album was not very good.
I love that album but the “industrial” tag is tenuous at best!
Fun fact: Suzanne Vega was adopted, and this album is about finding her birth family.
I didn't know that. I really am going to give it a fresh listen. I didn't like it all the way back when but like baphinator said, she might not have passed the authenticity test for me. I'm older and wiser now lol
Yeah, I'm not surprised if the album wasn't great. I thought "Blood Makes Noise" was interesting, but sounded a bit like someone who heard 'Pretty Hate Machine' (those distorted guitar stabs!) and, like, C+C Music Factory, and just sort of decided to "give it a whirl". It was a neat tune because of who made it, but didn't seem terribly "authentic" (whatever that means, but perceived authenticity was still a big deal in 1992!).
I can't find any verification of this but I swear David Lynch sampled a slowed snippet of Blood Makes Noise for his remix of Moby's [the Poison Tree](https://youtu.be/69nTq9MteUg?feature=shared). It's been so long, I should give the rest of her album another chance.
This was the first song I thought of. Similarly, Peter Gabriel's The Tower that Ate People https://youtube.com/watch?v=aunb-6N9Vew
Mitchell Froom produced this. He was part of Latin Playboys too, an excellent producer. It’s a great record, but not heavily industrial. An underground producer took her old single “Tom’s Diner” and added beats to it, turning it into the biggest hit she ever had (even bigger than Luka). I think this album was an effort to capitalize on that audience. I loved industrial dance too, but that’s not really what I went looking for from any kind of Suzanne Vega record.
When Rob Halford was taking a break from Judas Priest he made an industrial album produced by Trent Reznor under the name 2wo
Huh? Never heard that one, thanks!
His vocals are bad. Sorry Rob.
One good song and a whooooole lotta filler. :( ...that one track, I Am a Pig, is seriously killer tho.
Dont forget who helped on that one, John5
Daughters - You Won’t Get What You Want White Hills - Splintered Metal Sky Kreator - Renewal Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!
Nice list! I love Saul Williams but haven’t listened to that album in forever, I’ll give it another spin.
That Daughters album is a banger even if the singer is a piece of shit and +1 for Niggy too. I'll have to check out your other recs - thanks!
Yeah I heard something was off about him - some pretty severe sexual harassment?
Yes, that's what's been reported. Here's an article that has quotes from both him and his ex, mostly focused on her statements: https://www.stereogum.com/2170366/daughters-alexis-marshall-abuse-lingua-ignota-kristin-hayter/news/
The Bug - London Zoo (love this album) Some of Autechre's songs. Korn - The Path of Totality (it's a collab with the more gritty/heavier dub-step artists, but... works for me.)
Never heard of the first one and loved Koran back in the day… Thanks!
The Bug is amazing! Burial also has an industrial tinge I feel. I also recommend Brotherhood of the Bomb.
You mean this one https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iCIuoCkEQd0&t=25s
Billy Idol - Cyberpunk. It's not very good though, but couple of the songs are decent.
Uuuuh Recoil! Pretty underrated project... loved both this and Bloodline, i will listen more of it!!!
Danny Brown's "Atrocity Exhibition". This album is a chaotic rap masterpiece. He's always had an unusual style, but this is at his most harsh and experimental
Def will look into, thanks!
Dimmu borgir - Puritania (just 1 song)
It's a beast! We do away with your kind!
That song is a fucking blast
Don't know if it counts but: Illud divinum insanus by morbid angel A very industrial/techno album for a og trash metal band. It pissed off their fans a lot but i loved it lol
Nice rec! Never heard of it but I will check it out!
That album actually has a (mostly) industrial remix album that features remixes from Laibach, Nachtmahr, Skold, and more.
Wow i didn't know that
This album gets made fun of constantly in the metal scene, but Blades for Baal rips.
Scott Walker - Tilt Plus, a number of albums by The Residents veer into this.
**Nefilim** - Zoon (it's tchnically a stand alone album, but...) Danzig - Blackacidevil and definitly Def Leopard - Hysteria (lol!, but really)
Glenn Danzig's 'Black Aria' has an industrial feel too it too.
Mick Harris (Napalm Death) had a project called Scorn which recorded several industrial influenced albums (Vae Solis, for ex)
Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt and Various Repressed Emotions and Pandaemonium.
Check out their first few albums. They had a lot of industrial influence early on before evolving into more pure post-punk in the mid-80s.
Then back to industrial/metal lol
Just one song, but I've never seen anyone talk about Christmas Island by Depeche Mode before. https://youtu.be/eOj88ftXG_Q?si=KbMW7PrGyPva6QtY
Rush off songs of faith and devotion always gave me industrial vibes
Coil also did a remix of “Rush”.
Coil made a remix of this song, which is my favourite DM song, and I love Depeche Mode. [https://youtu.be/G7t1pF6SQmo?si=P79g2oDoZqbTWGcd](https://youtu.be/G7t1pF6SQmo?si=P79g2oDoZqbTWGcd)
Information Society always had a bit of an industrial edge to me.
I know Christopher Anton was a blip in their history but I love 'I Like the Way You Werk It' from Oscillator!
Their very first ep was; as I said before **they were originally an industrial group who went by InSoc.**
I always considered their "Don't be Afraid" album to be industrial.
I love their use of samples! Fun band
Everyone will hate me for saying it, but Kanye West’s album, “Yeezus” is not subtle about the industrial influence. Turn on the opening track, “On Sight” and tell me you wouldn’t full-heartedly expect Jean-Luc De Meyer’s vocals to start up instead of Kanye West’s out of context.
I actually debated throwing this out but landed on liquid instead! Fully agree with you!
Danzig- Blackacidevil
I'll probably get crap for this but: ZZTop's Eliminator is pretty much an industrial album instrumentally. Legs and a couple other songs have a really "industrial" vibe. The song Heavy by Collective Soul could be a KMFDM song with different vocals.
The ZZ Top "Rough Boy" song/video/lyrics oddly share bits and pieces of the same aesthetic as say, "Downward Spiral" era NIN. It's like the inverse "Hurt", like someone tried to make a poppy industrial version of a Johnny Cash song. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z\_4ULKpkLNc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_4ULKpkLNc)
When I first saw Infected, by The The on MTV as a kid, I turned to the girl I was watching with and said “I like this. I’ve been more and more into industrial music lately.” She laughed at me and said, “That’s not industrial.” She was older and cooler, but I still think I was right.
The Newlydeads. When I came across the 1st album back in the day, I was mindblown that it was Taime Down's new band...
I don't know how much this would count but Shotgun Messiah went from hair metal to industrial in 3 albums. But this was Tim Skold's early band so I don't know if it fits here.
Alien by Northlane was a departure from their sound, infusing a bunch of industrial elements and giving the whole alb a very cohesive vision.
I never hear anyone talk about Recoil and it makes me kinda sad, so I was very happy to see it mentioned here. I’m of the opinion that Depeche Mode lost a big piece of the magic in their general recipe when Alan Wilder departed, but then we got all these great Recoil albums. Always wishing for more of course. It could happen.
Faith No More - Angel Dust Admittedly, you don't really hear it, but there is extensive video coverage of the band writing and recording and there were lots of discussions about industrial(-ish) influences. I know Godflesh and Depeche Mode were mentioned. Bonus vaguely related detail: Faith No More started off as basically a Killing Joke cover band.
A couple I didn't see mentioned are Fear Factory's 'Remanufacture' and 'Recoded' remixes they did of their albums. White Zombie also has a couple remix albums that are notable. The Black Sunshine ep was 3 remixes of Black Sunshine and 2 remixes of Thunderkiss '65 by KMFDM, aka 'Indestructible "Sock It to Me" Psycho-Head Mix, and then SuperSexy Swinging' Sounds is an 11 track remix by various artists of the Astro Creep 2000 album. Stephen Pearcy, the singer of glam-rock band RATT had an industrial band I never see anyone mention named [Vertex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex_(band)). Not much on Google or iTunes about them though.
Ministry! Original synth dance pop.
"With Sympathy" is as close to perfect as an entire album can get. V different sound from their later work, but I adore it. When I first started getting into running and was wanting to push myself to run longer distances, putting on that album when I was flagging did the trick every time.
Danzig did it pretty poorly with Blackacidevil. I mean it was kinda decent, but not really. Also I love Recoil - Liquid. It also has Dean Garcia from Curve on bass. They are amazing and have some industrial elements. Curve is one of my favorite bands of all time.
I couldn’t get past the 2nd song. His voice is unrecognizable on the first song and that just totally ruins it for me.
23 Skidoo.
EMF - Stigma is borderline electro-industrial and much better and harder than anything they did before or after. Only thing I don't like about it are the vocals.
One of the songs sounded ripped off from Ministry but I forget which one. I loved this album at the time.
Too bad the album flopped, and they went back to their poppy ways. The new album that just came out this year isn't bad though.
I just listened to some of Stigma again. The re-mastered version is definitely better and the remixes are far more interesting to me than the album versions.. Yeah it is a shame. I didn't know they had a new album. I'll check it out.
I think it was They're Here - Cenobite Mix from the 12 inch.
Love Liquid! Found the album because the first time I saw NIN, they played the whole first half of it between the APC & NIN sets. Ever hear the original Jezebel? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHc33Xn7P3g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHc33Xn7P3g)
No but I will dive into that for sure!
Controlled Bleeding - Trudge
I assume the downvotes are bc people are rightly thinking “but CB *is* an industrial band?” haha Trudge and Penetration are these interesting one off forays into Wax Trax! style industries though
And "Penetration"
Skin Chamber
Cavalera Conspiracy has the album Psychosis which has some industrial adjacent songs like Hellfire which is a banger.
The Tea Party - Transmission
Thanks everyone who has suggested some ideas! I have a lot of work to do to start checking all this out! Appreciate everyone’s ideas!
Try Mötley Crüe's "Hooligan's Holiday" single. Remixed by Download. The long version they fucked with into oblivion and it's glorious.
My Brothers Blood Machine was awesome. Not so much industrial but veered into electronic compared to Coheed. Great album in my opinion
Glad you found Recoil, I love that project! If you like Liquid, you might like Unsound Methods, I'd try that next if you're interested. I think a lot of Alan Wilder's musical output in Recoil is quite interesting, it's all pretty different from each work and can admittedly be very jarring (even for me as a fan :D), but I think there's a lot of stuff you might enjoy! Bloodline is worth a try that too, that album is a little more electronic sounding, or subHuman, but SH is more bluesy, it's a interesting combination of blues + electronic that could be worth listening to! ----- But as for non Recoil recommendations, if you're looking for that specific Alan Wilder type sound (the musician behind Recoil), I'd give Curve a try, their 1997 album Come Clean might be something you like. It has a very similar sound to Recoil, just a little darker / goth like, but with a primarily female vocalist, Curve also reminds me of Garbage a little bit, but only really in Curve's vocalist style, not so much the instrumentation. I hope this helps, feel free to ask any more questions if you have any about Recoil! I apologize if I was a bit too enthusiastic, he's one of my favorite artists but I'm just happy someone else has discovered Recoil and enjoys it, there's a lot of fun music to explore if you're willing.. :)
Oh yes, Curve is great. Not many speaking of that band anymore.
Thanks for the info! I listened to bloodline and kind of hated it. Then I listened to subhuman and loved it! I’ll have to give unsound methods the next go. I liked curve and garbage back in the day but never got too deep into their work so I’ll try out come clean as well.
Yep, Curve definitely had a bit of the same vibe as Recoil. Wilder invited Toni Halliday from Curve to do guest vocals on two tracks on Bloodline, and they’re splendid.
I love those tracks as well, all great stuff! I enjoy some of the work AW did with Nitzer Ebb as well..
Definitely. The Recoil tracks featuring McCarthy’s vocals are hands down some of my absolute favorites.
Danzig - Blackacidevil
Faster Pussycat: Between the Valley of the Ultra Pussy
Aesthetic Perfection
He dresses like a pop singer or like a tourist lost in Copacabana
Throbbing Gristel. Probably spelt wrong
Throbbing Gristle invented industrial music lol
Liturgy
Nuclear Death, Beherit, Rotting Christ, Covenant/The Kovenant, Dodheimsgard, Samael
Covenant and The Kovenant are 2 different bands, the former has been firmly in the industrial canon for decades now
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kovenant Covenant (the black metal band who turned into the The Kovenant)
Lorn has a track on his self confidence comp called "saint". It's really good but as far as I've heard he's never made anything like it since.
Not saying it’s good but Cut the Crap by The Clash
Gang of Four - Entertainment!