There's a punk thread, a techno thread, a reggae thread, a blues thread, but so far I don't see an industrial thread. I really dig these bands: Ministry (and Alain/Alien's side projects like RevCo or 1,000 Homo DJs) Front 242 Nitzer Ebb Nine Inch Nails KMFDM Psychic TV Throbbing Gristle Einstuertzende Neubaten Spahn Ranch Pailhead Front Line Assembly My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Laibach lots of others. It's been a while, but it was fun to get all dressed in black, spike up my hair, go to an industrial club and dance my ass off all night. So, are there any decent new industrial artists? I don't really know that many.
Great stuff. I love all those aforementioned acts as well as Skinny Puppy and APB. As for new industrial acts, I have no idea. It seems to be a dead genre, even here in Chicago.
You should give Dismantled a listen. They've been touted as the second coming of Front Line Assembly. They have one album out (debut) on Metropolis Records.
How many of these bands have you seen live? I've seen (at least 10 yrs. ago now): Ministry 2 times (the best by far live) Einsturzende Neubauten - quite a unique experience Skinny Puppy KMFDM Nitzer Ebb Swans Sisters of Mercy Front 242 NIN as an opening band MLWTTKK
I've seen Skinny Puppy, Einsturtzende Neubaten (twice in Germany, once in the States), Nitzer Ebb (at the "original" 9:30 Club), Front 242 (again in Germany), a few others that I can't recall right now. Great stuff.
My friend told me a funny (disturbing?) story about a Ministry show he went to. It was right after they released "The Land of Rape & Honey." If you remember their early stuff it was all pretty tame dance/synth music a la New Order. Well, someone forgot to send a memo to a group of Asian kids standing in the front row at the Ritz waiting for the danceable stuff to get going. When Ministry came out on stage and launched into the title track a number of clueless skinheads jumped on stage and Sieg Heiled the crowd (the song has background snippets of "Sieg Heil" and maniacal laughing) and then stage dived. He never saw such a look of horror on a concert-goers face. It would be like one's parents going to the opera and Motorhead showing up instead.
Really? I had been listening to Ministry since '92 and never ever got the chance to see them, so when they finally announced they were coming in like... '96 I was so excited, even shelled out $40 to see them during a time when your typical concert cost $20. probably the most dissapointing concert I've ever been to in my life. They just acted like they didn't want to be up there and so they just got on stage, played their instruments, and walked off stage. Not much of even a light show or anything. Visually very unimpressive. I was never one for the Filth Pig CD to begin with as well. Just noticed on CDnow.com Ministry has put out a couple CD's in the past few years, hmmm.... never noticed. Don't think they could ever beat Psalm 69.
Was never a huge fan of the genre, but liked to mix some in with punk and hardcore when DJing in college back then. Don't know if all of you would consider Alien Sex Fiend in the genre, but some of the other bands mentioned are kinda borderline, too. Nobody mentioned one of the other TG spinoffs, Chris & Cosey. I saw Psychic TV at the Farm in SF in like 1986. Killer show, but a bit short. Jesus walked on water... Genesis P. Orridge is one strange dude. Just watched an old Survival Research Laboratories video from the early 80s with some friends the other day. Had a lot of music by Monty Cazzaza (Factrix). We saw SRL once at an underpass up in SF, but the robots were way louder than the specially composed background noise/music most of the time. I like Ministry, but lump them in more with metal than with industrial.
I remember when Filthpig came out. I was happy..... until i listened to it. haven't bought anything they have realeased after (if they have released anything since!)
Whenever I hear the term "industrial music", I think of this quote: "If you don't like fascism, don't play industrial music, 'cause that's what it's all about, guys." -- Angry fan quoted in the song "Industrial Music Is Fascism" by Consolidated, Play More Music, 1992.
Most fans assumed that Laibach was a group of fascists but others considered their over the top look and German lyrics to be a parody of Nazi Germany. I guess they were purposefully ambiguous.
No doubt. Blows away every hard core, industrial, metal, whatever album in the collection for ferocity and angst. "My favorite weapon.....is the look in your eyes!"
It's sort of a good week for old-school industrial music in Chicago, isn't it? Pigface and My Life With Thrill Kill Kult on Sunday (Metro), and Ministry next Tuesday (Riviera, I think). Later, COZ
Didn't Skinny Puppy attack fascism in Fascist Jock Itch? (What is that, anyway? When a fascist gets jock itch? A particularly oppressive strain of jock itch?) Of course, then you have song titles like Kampfbereit (literally "ready for struggle").
All I listened to in high school was industrial music, but once I went off to college I lost track of most of it. Admittedly this can be attibuted in the differences between the Chicago and Dubuque music scene though. Hard to compete with the Vic, the Metro, and the Aragon Ballroom and shopping at Wax Trax! in the late 80's early 90's for music. Although the "hardcore" Vanilla Ice played in Dubuque and that was a blast. Saw KMFDM and My life with the TKK quite a few times as well as Chicago faves (but not really industrial) Naked Raygun. I have an old Skinny Puppy concert T from 1989 that I just can't get rid of. My favorite concert from back then was Consolidated when they opened up for Meat Beat Manifesto. Nothing gets you in the mood for industrial concerts like images of slaughtered cows and their pre-concert mic work. Hadn't heard much of them until that point but after that they quickly became one of my favorites. For my money the best album I heard was either TKK's "Confessions of a Knife" or Ministy's "A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste." Although "Rabies" with Fascist Jock Itch was good too.