List of industrial rock bands
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This is a list of notable bands that play Industrial music
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

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  • à;GRUMH...
    À;GRUMH...
    à;GRUMH... was a Belgian EBM/industrial band, founded in 1981 by SΔ3 Evets and JΔ3 Seuqcaj , both from Charleroi, Belgium...

  • Acumen Nation
    Acumen Nation
    Acumen Nation is an industrial rock band based in Chicago, Illinois.-History:Formed in the late 1980s as Acumen by Jason Novak and Ethan Novak , the band released several cassette demos before self-releasing the CD demo "Transmissions from Eville" in 1994. The two along with bassist Greg Lopez put...

  • Aesthetic Perfection
    Aesthetic Perfection
    Aesthetic Perfection is an American electronic-industrial musical project created by Daniel Graves in 2000. The style is reminiscent of many aggrotech, industrial, dance music bands, while also leaning towards other styles such as alternative music....

  • Allerseelen
    Allerseelen
    Allerseelen are the experimental, post-industrial and military pop music works of Austrian musician Gerhard Petak, aka Kadmon. The German name is translated into English as All Souls' Day. Their music is inspired by nature and has a strong philosophical/alchemical context inspired by the writings...

  • Android Lust
    Android Lust
    Android Lust is the industrial solo project of Shikhee, that combines elements of rock, industrial, gothic and classical styles into a blend of music that she describes as "electronic and dark."-History:...

  • Angelspit
    Angelspit
    Angelspit is a cyberpunk band from Sydney, Australia. The band was formed in 2004 by vocalists/synthesists Destroyx and ZooG...

  • Arditi
    Arditi (band)
    Arditi is a Swedish martial industrial and neoclassical band. It consists of Henry Möller of Puissance and Mårten Björkman from black metal bands Algaion and Octinomos. Arditi formed in 2001, deriving their name from the early Italian special forces unit known as the Arditi...

  • Attrition
    Attrition (band)
    Attrition are an electronic music band, formed in Coventry, England in 1980 by Martin Bowes and Julia Niblock. The band emerged from the experimental post-punk scene of the early 1980s and, along with other groups such as Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Einstürzende Neubauten, and In the Nursery, greatly...

  • Aural Vampire
    Aural Vampire
    is a Japanese darkwave music duo consisting of Exo-Chika and Raveman . They hail from Tokyo, Japan and compose mainly darkwave music. Aural Vampire has toured Europe numerous times and been featured in magazines such as Astan Magazine and The Dose...

  • The Axis of Perdition
    The Axis of Perdition
    The Axis of Perdition is a British industrial black metal band, from Middlesbrough. They are signed to Code666 Records.The band rose from the ashes of Minethorn and consists of Tetsuo Unit BRJ and Test Subject MGB The Axis of Perdition is a British industrial black metal band, from Middlesbrough....


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  • Benea Reach
    Benea Reach
    Benea Reach is an extreme metalcore/mathcore band from Oslo, Norway. The band was nominated for a Spellemannsprisen Award in the metal category, and at one time included noted guitarist Christer Espevoll of progressive metal band Extol.-Biography:...

  • Bile
    Bile (band)
    Bile is an industrial metal project based in the New York City, USA area. Although there has been many different members throughout the bands career, Krztoff is the songwriting, recording and conceptual leader...

  • Black Light Burns
    Black Light Burns
    Black Light Burns are a rock band fronted by Wes Borland, of Limp Bizkit. The band's original studio lineup consisted of Borland, Danny Lohner, Josh Eustis and Josh Freese. Their debut album Cruel Melody, was released on June 5, 2007. The band released a covers and b-sides CD/DVD combo package in...

  • Blam Honey
    Blam Honey
    Blam Honey is a Japanese visual kei rock band, formed in 1995 with two members: Tatsuya and Ryonai . Their sound is described as "Industrial with a Gothic Sense". They list NIN, Marilyn Manson and Skinny Puppy as influences.Blam Honey released two albums: Grandiose Delusion and Typical...

  • Blood Axis
    Blood Axis
    Blood Axis is an American Neofolk/Post-industrial band consisting of journalist and author Michael Moynihan, music producer Robert Ferbrache and musician and author Annabel Lee.-Early Blood Axis :...

  • Blue Stahli
    Blue Stahli
    Blue Stahli is a Detroit, Michigan-based Electronic rock project that was created by multi-instrumentalist Bret Autrey.-Bio:After releasing material under the name Voxis, Autrey was approached by FiXT label head Klayton in 2007 to move to Detroit and record in residence at Celldweller Studios...

  • Braindead Soundmachine
    Braindead Soundmachine
    Braindead Soundmachine were an industrial rock band and the brainchild of founding members Cole Coonce, Warren Croyle , and the late Ikky Shivers...

  • Brighter Death Now
    Brighter Death Now
    Brighter Death Now is the artist name under which Roger Karmanik , the founder of the Swedish record label Cold Meat Industry, releases death industrial, power electronics and dark ambient music....


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  • Cabaret Voltaire
    Cabaret Voltaire (band)
    Cabaret Voltaire were a British music group from Sheffield, England.Initially composed of Stephen Mallinder, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson, the group was named after the Cabaret Voltaire, a nightclub in Zürich, Switzerland that was a centre for the early Dada movement.Their earliest performances...

  • Celldweller
    Celldweller
    Celldweller is a Detroit, Michigan-based Electronic Rock project that was created by multi-instrumentalist Klayton, former frontman and songwriter of the bands Circle of Dust, Argyle Park, Angeldust . Celldweller's music is multi-faceted, often labeled electronic rock and more commonly being...

  • Cenobita
    Cenobita
    Cenobita is an aggrotech/cyberpunk band based in Mexico City, created in 1994 by Claus Bita and former band member Omar Flo .-History:...

  • Chemlab
    Chemlab
    Chemlab is a coldwave and industrial rock band formed in Washington D.C., USA, in 1989 by Dylan Thomas More, Joe Frank , and Jared Louche . Influenced by the pioneers of the industrial genre, such as Throbbing Gristle, Chemlab mixed experimental sounds with rock and metal, which they dubbed...

  • Chris & Cosey
  • Chrome
    Chrome (band)
    Chrome was an experimental rock group founded in San Francisco, California in 1976.Chrome took part of their inspiration for their rough and sometimes chaotic music from proto punk pioneers like The Stooges. The sound of the group was often coarse and featured heavy elements of feedback and...

  • The Clay People
    The Clay People
    The Clay People is an industrial rock band based in Albany, New York. Singer-programmer Daniel Neet has been the only constant member throughout the band's history, leading the group as its sound has evolved to incorporate gothic, industrial and metal influences...

  • Clock DVA
    Clock DVA
    Clock DVA are an industrial music, post-punk and EBM group from Sheffield, England. The group was formed in 1978, with two members, Adolphus "Adi" Newton and Steven "Judd" Turner. Along with contemporaries Heaven 17, Clock DVA's name was inspired by the Russian-influenced Nadsat of Anthony Burgess'...

  • Coil
    Coil (band)
    Coil were an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as "Jhonn Balance"—and his partner Peter Christopherson, aka "Sleazy". The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be...

  • Collide
  • Combichrist
    CombiChrist
    Combichrist is a Norwegian Aggrotech band formed in 2003 by Norwegian Andy LaPlegua based in Atlanta.-Formation:The first material LaPlegua wrote was a few powernoise/techno crossover tracks under the moniker DRIVE...

  • Controlled Bleeding
    Controlled Bleeding
    Controlled Bleeding is a prolific experimental music group based in Massapequa, New York. The group was founded by Paul Lemos, the group's only consistent member...

  • Crash Worship
    Crash Worship
    Crash Worship or ADRV was a San Diego based experimental-aktionist-industrial-noise performance group formed in 1986. Most renowned for its live shows in which three stand-up percussionists hammered out concussive poly-rhythms to abstract mutated guitar, synthesizers, effects and dualling vocalists...

  • Crocodile Shop
    Crocodile Shop
    Crocodile Shop, , is an electro-industrial, aggrotech, EBM band formed in Berlin, Germany in 1987 by Mick Hale and R. A. Werner.-Background:...

  • Crossbreed
    Crossbreed (band)
    Crossbreed was a six member industrial metal band from Clearwater, Florida, formed in 1996. They were signed with Artemis Records before being dropped from the label in 2003.-Early years:...

  • Current 93
    Current 93
    Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet .-Background:Tibet has been the only constant in the group, though Steven Stapleton has appeared on...

  • Cyanotic
    Cyanotic
    Cyanotic is a Chicago-based industrial rock collective fronted by Sean Payne that formed in 2002 and released its first full-length album in 2005. Cyanotic is known for its genre-blending work, which fuses traditional industrial beats and vocals with drum n bass, sampling and heavy metal to create...


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  • Das Ich
    Das Ich
    Das Ich is a German electronic music group formed in 1989. The group, fronted by Stefan Ackermann and Bruno Kramm, were one of the prominent founders of and contributors to "Neue Deutsche Todeskunst" a musical movement in the early 1990s...

  • Dawn of Ashes
    Dawn Of Ashes
    Dawn of Ashes is an American melodic black metal band with horror based lyrical themes. They first began in 2001 in Los Angeles, California by playing the genres of Harsh EBM/Aggrotech, and in 2005 released a demo album Sacred Fever. Soon after its release they were signed to NoiTekk and then to...

  • DB9D9
    DB9D9
    DB9D9 is an industrial rock band that hails from San Diego, California. Since its inception in 1996, Eric Recourt has been the driving force behind db9d9, the darkwave act best known for its seductively catchy brand of psycho-sexual electro/punk mayhem and downright dangerous live performances....

  • Deadly Apples
    Deadly Apples
    Deadly Apples is a Canadian post-industrial and industrial rock act, founded in 2002 by Alex Martel in Montreal, Quebec. Martel is the only original member of Deadly Apples and serves as its frontman, producer, art director, songwriter and instrumentalist along with bandmates Antoine Lamothe and...

  • Delerium
    Delerium
    Delerium is a band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act, Front Line Assembly...

  • Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode
    Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

  • Death in June
    Death in June
    Death in June are a neofolk group led by English folk musician Douglas Pearce, better known as Douglas P. The band was originally formed in Britain in 1981 as a trio, but after the other members left in 1984 and 1985 to work on other projects, the group became the work of Douglas P. and various...

  • Desolation Yes
    Desolation Yes
    Desolation Yes! are a Scottish/Slovakian experimental music band, formed in Glasgow, in 2004. They are currently with Neon Tetra Records and their debut double A-side single Templeton/Instinct was released on 10 December 2007. Future Pop was released as a free download on Monday 29 September 2008...

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  • Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
    Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
    Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft or D.A.F. is an influential German electropunk/NDW band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López , Robert Görl , Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke , Michael Kemner and Wolfgang Spelmans...

  • Devilution
    Devilution
    Devilution is a song by High on Fire in their album Blessed Black Wings.The song was featured on the soundtrack of the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.The song has its own music video.- References :Blessed Black Wings...

  • Diatribe
    Diatribe (band)
    Diatribe was an Industrial rock group from San Jose, California which was active in the 1990s. They had a sound similar to 16 Volt and Chemlab, integrating synthesizers and vocal samples with more traditional rock instruments...

  • Die Form
    Die Form
    Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977-78. The name 'Die Form' means ' form/shape' in German, like the Bauhaus diary and is a play on the English homonym 'deformed' and on the French homonym 'difforme' ....

  • Die Kur
    Die Kur
    Die Kur is an industrial metal band based in London UK. Formed in 1999 the band has released three official albums "From Dark " , "The Fall of The Empire" and "ERA " .-Origins :...

  • Die Krupps
    Die Krupps
    Die Krupps is a German industrial rock/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf.-History:Their initial sound throughout the 1980s combined synthesizers with metallic percussion...

  • Die Warzau
    Die Warzau
    Die Warzau was an industrial music band formed in 1987 by performance artists Jim Marcus and Van Christie.-History:...

  • Dope Stars Inc.
    Dope Stars Inc.
    Dope Stars Inc. is an alternative and industrial rock band formed in Rome, Italy in late 2002, though the band was not officially formed until 2003. The band was founded by Victor Love, Darin Yevonde, Grace Khold and Brian Wolfram. They have four albums and three EPs released, with the latest being...

  • Doubting Thomas
    Doubting Thomas (band)
    Doubting Thomas is an industrial band formed by two members of Skinny Puppy: cEvin Key and the late Dwayne Goettel. It is considered a Skinny Puppy side project. The band shares its name with an American roots band, to whom they have no relation....

  • Download
    Download (band)
    Download is an electronic music group formed by Dwayne Goettel and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy in 1994. The initial lineup also included Off & Gone's Phil Western and Mark Spybey of Dead Voices on Air, but has since been particularly fluid, with Key and Western being the only constant members...

  • Dragonfly
    Dragonfly
    A dragonfly is a winged insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera . It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, and an elongated body...

  • dreDDup
    DreDDup
    dreDDup is a Serbian industrial rock/crossover band.-History:dreDDup was formed in 1997 in Novi Sad. The band's first official release was Abnormal Waltz from 1998, the soundtrack for the movie Noir that was never finished...


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  • Ego
    EGO
    See also Egoism Ego is a Latin word meaning "I", cognate with the Greek "Εγώ " meaning "I", often used in English to mean the "self", "identity" or other related concepts.It may also refer to:...

  • Ehron VonAllen
    Ehron VonAllen
    Ehron VonAllen is a dark style synth-pop act based in Dallas, Texas. Born Aaron Christopher Allen in 1980, VonAllen began music in a small town of 4,000 in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas during the mid 1990s. Delving deep into the gothic scene, VonAllen tried to emulate his favorite music such as Depeche...

  • Einstürzende Neubauten
    Einstürzende Neubauten
    Einstürzende Neubauten is a German post-industrial band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld , Alexander Hacke , N.U...

  • Emigrate
    Emigrate
    Emigrate is a heavy metal band based in New York, led by Richard Z. Kruspe, the lead guitarist of the German band Rammstein.-History:Kruspe started the band in 2005, when Rammstein decided to take a year off from touring and recording...

  • Esplendor Geometrico
    Esplendor Geometrico
    Esplendor Geométrico is a Spanish industrial band. The band was formed in the early 1980s by Arturo Lanz, Gabriel Riaza, and Juan Carlos Sastre, who had all been members of El Aviador Dro Y Sus Obreros Especializados. They took the name "Geometric Splendor" from Geometric and Mechanical Splendor...

  • Eve of Destiny
    Eve of Destiny
    Eve of Destiny is a Japanese industrial rock band founded in 1999 by Haruhiko Ash . For a long time, Eve of Destiny was a solo project of Ash, with not much real activity, but this changed in 2002, after guitarist Közi of Malice Mizer fame joined and they started to tour outside Japan on a regular...


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  • Fad Gadget
    Fad Gadget
    Fad Gadget is the stage name of Francis John Tovey , a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both New Wave and early Industrial music....

  • Faderhead
    Faderhead
    Faderhead is a German electronic music producer from Hamburg, Germany.-History:After releasing the track "The Protagonist" as a one-off compilation entry on the Advanced Electronics Vol. 3, Faderhead received a deal with Accession Records/Indigo to release his debut album FH1 in 2006...

  • Fear and the Nervous System
    Fear and the Nervous System
    Fear and the Nervous System is an experimental/industrial rock band formed by Korn guitarist James Shaffer.-History:In early 2008, Korn guitarist James "Munky" Shaffer announced plans to release a new project entitled Fear and the Nervous System. The record was said to be released in late 2008,...

  • Feindflug
    Feindflug
    ' , is a controversial German electro-industrial band founded in 1995. Translated, the name means "attack-raid" or literally "foe-flight" ; it corresponds in military use to the French/English word "sortie".- Style and themes :...

  • Filter
    Filter (band)
    Filter is a rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland by singer Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang. Filter has released five studio albums, the most recent being The Trouble with Angels, which was released on August 17, 2010....

  • Flesh Field
    Flesh Field
    Flesh Field was an electronic/industrial band formed in 1996 by Ian Ross in Columbus, Ohio. The name Flesh Field is an unofficial term Ian Ross came up with to describe the psychological defense mechanisms of rape victims.-History:...

  • Foetus
    Foetus (band)
    Foetus is the primary musical outlet of industrial music pioneer J. G. Thirlwell. Until 1995 the band underwent various name changes, all including the word foetus. Monikers adopted at different times include Foetus Under Glass, You've Got Foetus On Your Breath and Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel...

  • Forgotten Sunrise
    Forgotten Sunrise
    Forgotten Sunrise is an Estonian industrial rock band founded in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Their sound has been compared to a mixture of Dead Can Dance, David Lynch, Katatonia, Celtic Frost and Clock DVA.-1992–1994:...


  • Freak XXI
    Freak XXI
    Freak XXI is a Spanish industrial band. To date they have published 4 releases; El anfitrión, Semihumanos, Música Ordenada, and Re-Cycle, which was self published. They sing their songs in both Spanish and recently, English...

  • Front 242
    Front 242
    Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. They are known for being the premier pioneer of electronic body music and as a major influence on the electronic and industrial music genres.-Formation:...

  • Front Line Assembly
    Front Line Assembly
    Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...

  • Funker Vogt
    Funker Vogt
    Funker Vogt is a German electronic music project with an aggressive style, formed by vocalist Jens Kästel and programmer Gerrit Thomas in 1995. Other members of the band are keyboardist/manager Bjorn Bottcher, live guitarist Frank Schweigert and lyricist Kai Schmidt...


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  • Gary Numan
    Gary Numan
    Gary Numan is an English singer, composer, and musician, most widely known for his chart-topping 1979 hits "Are 'Friends' Electric?" and "Cars". His signature sound consisted of heavy synthesizer hooks fed through guitar effects pedals.Numan is considered a pioneer of commercial electronic music...

  • Genitorturers
    Genitorturers
    The Genitorturers are an industrial metal/industrial rock band from the United States, with influences extending into the 1990s hardcore punk and electronic music. They proclaim themselves to be "The World's Sexiest Rock Band".-History:...

  • Genocide Organ
    Genocide Organ
    Genocide Organ is a German death industrial group that formed in 1986. Almost all of their records are out of print except for Genocide Organ 虐殺機関, a reissue of Leichenlinie, and In-Konflikt, all three available from Tesco Organisation...

  • God Lives Underwater
    God Lives Underwater
    God Lives Underwater was an industrial rock band from rural Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania , formed in 1993 by band members David Reilly and Jeff Turzo. God Lives Underwater was originally signed to American Recordings after being discovered by Rick Rubin, who subsequently produced the band's first...

  • God Module
    God Module
    God Module is a United States-based Dark Electronic band founded in Orlando, Florida in 1999, relocating to western Washington in 2006. The band is currently signed to Metropolis Records in the U.S. and Out of Line Music in Germany. God Module's founding members were Jasyn Bangert and Andrew Ramirez...

  • Godhead
    Godhead (band)
    Godhead, occasionally typeset as gODHEAD, is an American alternative rock/metal band from Washington, D.C.. They are most often credited with being the only band signed to musician Marilyn Manson's short-lived vanity label, Posthuman Records.-History:...

  • GPKism
    GPKism
    GPKism is a gothic/industrial unit formed in 2007. It was originally the solo project of GPK , while Kiwamu joined later that year. Both GPK and Kiwamu compose music for this project...

  • Grauzone
    Grauzone
    Grauzone was a band from Berne, Switzerland active in the early 80s.-History:At the end of 1979 Marco Repetto and GT left the punk band Glueams, to form together with Martin Eicher a new band called Grauzone. Martin had already supported Glueams on their single mental...

  • Gravity Euphonic
    Gravity Euphonic
    Gravity Euphonic is an electronic/industrial rock band from the Fort Worth, TX area. The band plays a significant role in the underground industrial scene by breaking away from the typical sounds of EBM and Industrial metal...

  • Gravity Kills
    Gravity Kills
    Gravity Kills is an American industrial rock band from Jefferson City, Missouri. Their music was described by one critic as "a blending of eerie industrial rock with a pop-infused melodic chorus and a bit of hard-core head banging."...

  • Greater Than One
  • Grendel
    Grendel
    Grendel is one of three antagonists, along with Grendel's mother and the dragon, in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf . Grendel is usually depicted as a monster, though this is the subject of scholarly debate. In the poem, Grendel is feared by all but Beowulf.-Story:The poem Beowulf is contained in...

  • The Grey Wolves
    The Grey Wolves
    The Grey Wolves are a British Industrial music group. They were formed in 1985 by Dave Padbury and Trevor Ward.-History:The band has been credited with pioneering the 'death industrial' subgenre in industrial music. Their work has also been described as 'dark ambient' and as 'power electronics'...

  • Guniw Tools
    Guniw Tools
    Guniw Tools began in 1989 as Tomo Furukawa's creative outlet called Guniw that incorporated artwork and music, becoming what it’s known as today after Jake joined the band in 1992. Asaki joined the group as a support guitarist several years later, but was made an official member after gaining...


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  • Head of David
    Head of David
    Head of David was a noise rock/stoner band of the late 1980s that featured vocalist Stephen R. Burroughs and ex-Napalm Death member Justin Broadrick ....

  • Hell on Earth
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • Hit Me
    Hit Me
    Hit Me may represent:* Hit Me by Groove Coverage* Hit Me, a game on the gameshow, The Price is Right, see List of The Price Is Right pricing games* Hit Me, a 2010 short film starring Scott Porter-See also:Not to be confused with...

  • Hocico
    Hocico
    - History :The duo was officially formed in 1993 by Erik Garcia a.k.a Erk Aicrag and Oscar Mayorga a.k.a. Racso Agroyam , but both cousins had been experimenting with electronic music, mixing industrial and EBM, since they were fifteen years old. Their music can be described as electro-industrial...


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  • Icon of Coil
    Icon of Coil
    Icon of Coil is a Norwegian electronic music band. The band was established as a solo project in 1997 by Andy LaPlegua who was joined by former Sector 9 bandmate Sebastian Komor to perform live. With the release of Shallow Nation, the band's first single, Komor joined full-time. In 2000, Christian...

  • In Strict Confidence
    In Strict Confidence
    In Strict Confidence is a German electro-industrial band. Formed in 1989/1990, they were known as Seal of Secrecy until 1992. In Strict Confidence has been signed to several record labels, including Metropolis Records and WTII Records.-History:...

  • In the Nursery
    In The Nursery
    In the Nursery are a neo-classical/martial electronica band, known for their cinematic sound. The duo has provided soundtracks to a variety of TV programmes and films, and is known for its rescoring of silent films.- Career :...

  • Informatik
    Informatik
    Informatik formerly known as Informätik is an electro-industrial/futurepop duo from Boston that was formed in the 1990s and is represented by Metropolis Records in the US and Dependent Records in Europe. Band members currently reside in San Francisco area...

  • Innerpartysystem
    InnerPartySystem
    Innerpartysystem is an American electronic rock band. The group consists of Patrick Nissley, Jared Piccone and Kris Barman. The band is also well known for their live performance lighting largely by Andrew Nissley and videos directed by Stephen Penta....

  • Insurge
    Insurge
    Insurge, commonly typeset iNsuRge, were a political industrial rock band based in Sydney, Australia . The band was founded in 1993 by singer / guitarist Chris Dubrow formerly of Soulscraper...

  • Intermix
    Intermix (band)
    Intermix was a musical band in the 1990s, made of Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber.Unlike their other projects , Intermix showed somewhat more of a techno music influence, while Delerium was more mellow like ambient music, and FLA had a very industrial music style.On the first two albums Intermix sounded...


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  • Kidneythieves
    Kidneythieves
    Kidneythieves is an American alternative and industrial rock band led by Free Dominguez and Bruce Somers . Also present in the band are Chris Schleyer , Christian Dorris , and Sean Sellers .- History :...

  • Killing Joke
    Killing Joke
    Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England; other sources report the band formed in early 1979.Related news articles: Founding members Jaz Coleman and Geordie Walker have been the only constant members.A key influence on industrial rock,...

  • Killer
    Killer
    A killer is someone or something that kills, such as a murderer.Killer may also refer to:-Games:*Killer , a multi-player pocket billiards game* Killer , a climbing card game related to tien len...

  • King
    King
    - Centers of population :* King, Ontario, CanadaIn USA:* King, Indiana* King, North Carolina* King, Lincoln County, Wisconsin* King, Waupaca County, Wisconsin* King County, Washington- Moving-image works :Television:...

  • Klinik
    Klinik
    Klinik, , is an industrial music band from Belgium, originally formed around 1982 by electro-synthpop practitioner Marc Verhaeghen, who is the only constant member.-History:...

  • KMFDM
    KMFDM
    KMFDM is an industrial band led by German multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project...

  • Koil
    Koil (band)
    Koil is an Indonesian rock band. Formed in Bandung, West Java in 1993 by singer J.A Verdijantoro , his brother, guitarist Donnijantoro , and two of their friends bassist/guitarist Ibrahim Nasution and drummer Leon Ray Legoh ....

  • Kommissar Hjuler
    Kommissar Hjuler
    Kommissar Hjuler works as a sound recordist in the field of Noise and Post-industrial music, visual artist and film maker at Flensburg, a town on the German border with Denmark. He often works together with his wife Mama Baer as Kommissar Hjuler und Frau. As self-taught artist he began making...

  • Kreuzweg Ost
    Kreuzweg Ost
    Kreuzweg Ost is a darkwave/martial industrial project founded by Michael Gregor and Martin Schirenc. The music is a blend of world war-related samples and loops with booming sounds and instrumental pieces. There are no vocals; instead, the predominant samples are arranged so that they take the...


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  • Laibach
    Laibach (band)
    Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia . Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984...

  • Left Spine Down
    Left Spine Down
    Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada, Left Spine Down is a band that plays what they call "cyberpunk," a mixture of electronica, metal, punk, and drum & bass....

  • Les Joyaux De La Princesse
    Les Joyaux De La Princesse
    Les Joyaux De La Princesse is a French industrial band, founded in 1986 by Erik Konofal. The musical style is a mixture of ambient and neo-classical, often utilizing samples from original works in tandem with French chansons, operatic works, and historical speeches...

  • Leæther Strip
    Leæther Strip
    Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project founded on January 13, 1988 by Claus Larsen. Its influence has been most felt in the electronic body music and electro-industrial genres. Perhaps to a certain extent, it may have influenced various film score productions. Leæther Strip was one of the...

  • Lights of Euphoria
    Lights of Euphoria
    Lights of Euphoria is a music group from Germany. The group was originally intended as a single song project, but remained together after the success of their first song, "Subjection".-Discography:* Violent World * Brainstorm...

  • Luftwaffe
    Luftwaffe (band)
    Luftwaffe is a martial, neofolk and post-industrial music group from Chicago, USA.-History:The group was conceived of in 1997 by founding members b9 InViD and j1 StatiK, as they were introduced by a mutual friend and quickly became friends due to a common interest in the music of Boyd Rice and...


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  • Machines of Loving Grace
    Machines of Loving Grace
    Machines of Loving Grace was an industrial rock band from Tucson, Arizona.Named for a Richard Brautigan poem, they formed in 1989. The original lineup consisted of Scott Benzel , Stuart Kupers , and Mike Fisher , with Brad Kemp added shortly thereafter...

  • The Mad Capsule Markets
    The Mad Capsule Markets
    The Mad Capsule Markets were a Japanese band that formed in 1990 and were active until 2006...

  • Makine
  • Manufacture
  • Marilyn Manson
    Marilyn Manson (band)
    Marilyn Manson is an American metal band from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Formed in 1989 by Brian Warner and Scott Putesky, the group was originally named Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids with their uniquely theatrical performances gathering a local cult following in the early '90s. This attention...

  • MC 900 Foot Jesus
  • MDFMK
    MDFMK
    MDFMK was an industrial rock band formed by two members of KMFDM, Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold. Lucia Cifarelli, formerly of the band Drill, later rounded out the trio.-History:...

  • Meat Beat Manifesto
    Meat Beat Manifesto
    Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK...

  • Mindless Self Indulgence
    Mindless Self Indulgence
    Mindless Self Indulgence is an American musical group formed in New York in 1997. Their music has a mixed style including rap, punk rock, alternative rock, electronica, techno and industrial...

  • Ministry
    Ministry (band)
    Ministry is an American industrial metal band founded by lead singer Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its most successful album Psalm 69: The Way to...

  • Mortal
    Mortal (band)
    Mortal was a Christian industrial/dance band fronted by Jerome Fontamillas and Jyro Xhan. Both members went on to found the alternative rock group Fold Zandura, and for a time were members of both bands simultaneously...

  • Mortiis
    Mortiis
    Mortiis is a band from Notodden, Norway fronted by Håvard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. The name is a misspelling of the word 'mortis', which is the pronunciation used by the band. However, Mortiis started as the solo project of Ellefsen as a means to convey a story...

  • My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
    My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult
    My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult is an American electronic industrial rock band originally based out of Chicago, Illinois.-History:...


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  • The Neon Judgement
    The Neon Judgement
    The Neon Judgement is a Belgian new wave band.The band was started in Leuven in 1981 by Dirk Da Davo and TB Frank.On the 21st of August 1985, the band opened a new alternative music festival, named Pukkelpop...

  • Neon Synthesis
  • N17
  • Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

  • Nitzer Ebb
    Nitzer Ebb
    Nitzer Ebb is a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris , Douglas McCarthy , and David Gooday .-Band name:...

  • The Newlydeads
    The Newlydeads
    The Newlydeads were an industrial rock band founded by Faster Pussycat singer Taime Downe.At one time or another, The Newlydeads also featured Taime Downe's current Faster Pussycat bandmates: guitarist Xristian Simon, bassist Danny Nordahl, and drummer Chad Stewart...

  • No-Big-Silence
    No-Big-Silence
    No-Big-Silence , originally known as Aggressor, is an Industrial metal/rock band from Estonia.-Early years as Aggressor :...

  • Noisuf-X
  • Numb
    Numb
    Numb may refer to:* Having deficient psychological or physical sensation* NUMB , a human gene* Numb , a 2007 film starring Matthew Perry* Northwestern University Wildcat Marching Band, or NUMB...

  • Nurse With Wound
    Nurse with Wound
    Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak...


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  • Pailhead
    Pailhead
    Pailhead was a short-lived side project of the industrial metal band Ministry, which featured Ian MacKaye on vocals...

  • Pain
  • Pankow
    Pankow (Italian band)
    Pankow is an Italian/German Electronic & EBM band, formed in 1979 and headed by Maurizio Fasolo. In its early days, the songs were in German , with singer Alex Spalck. Like the East German band of the same name, Pankow was named after the Pankow district of Berlin...

  • Peace, Love and Pitbulls
  • PIG
    PIG (band)
    Raymond Watts is the founding and sole member of the post-industrial music project PIG, sometimes written as '....

  • Pigface
    Pigface
    Pigface is an industrial rock supergroup formed in 1990 by Martin Atkins and William Rieflin.-History:Pigface was formed from Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste tour, which produced the In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up live album and video. For the tour, Al Jourgensen brought...

  • Pitchshifter
    Pitchshifter (band)
    Pitchshifter are a British five-piece electronic-metal band from Nottingham, United Kingdom formed in 1989. The band was started by bassist and vocalist Mark Clayden, lead guitarist and programmer Johnny A...

  • Psyclon Nine
    Psyclon Nine
    Psyclon Nine is a musical group formed in 2000 in the San Francisco Bay Area. While their early efforts are generally categorized as aggrotech, their more recent material has incorporated a disparate set of musical and aesthetic influences, notably industrial metal. The group took a hiatus at the...

  • Puscifer
    Puscifer
    Puscifer is a side project of Maynard James Keenan from the bands Tool and A Perfect Circle. As Keenan is the only permanent member and he considers the project to be his "creative subconscious", Puscifer could also be considered a pseudonym for his solo work....


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  • Rabbit Junk
    Rabbit Junk
    Rabbit Junk is a Seattle based digital hardcore band, that formed in 2004 by former Shizit frontman JP Anderson. Taking influences from such diverse music genres such as hip hop, black metal and new wave, JP has called this sound "Hardclash" -History:...

  • Razed in Black
    Razed in Black
    Razed in Black is an gothic electronic music act created by Romell Regulacion and is supported in live performances by band members Chris Nelson and Raj Kapololu....

  • Rammstein
    Rammstein
    Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann , Richard Z. Kruspe , Paul H. Landers , Oliver "Ollie" Riedel , Christoph "Doom" Schneider and Christian "Flake" Lorenz...

  • The Retrosic
    The Retrosic
    -History:The Retrosic project was born in April 2001 with the release of the debut Prophecy. The Retrosic's second release, Messa da Requiem, reached the top of the Deutsche Alternative Charts in 2002, and was named "Album of the Year" by the Dutch Alternative Charts.The Retrosic's third album God...

  • Revolting Cocks
    Revolting Cocks
    Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, is an American–Belgian industrial rock band and sometime supergroup that began as a musical side-project for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc Van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry.-History:...

  • Boyd Rice
    Boyd Rice
    Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...

  • Rorschach Test
    Rorschach Test (band)
    Rorschach Test was an American industrial band from Denver, Colorado, formed by James Baker after he was expelled from the church. Baker was a young priest based in Denver until being defrocked in the early 1990s for his allegedly heretical questioning of church doctrine. Unsure of his next move,...

  • Rotersand
    Rotersand
    Rotersand is a German electronic music act, formed in September 2002 by musician/producer Gun and singer Rascal with dance music producer/DJ Krischan J.E. Wesenberg joining them shortly after...

  • Rx
    Rx (band)
    ℞ or Rx was a one-off side project by Skinny Puppy band member Nivek Ogre, in collaboration with Invisible Records founder Martin Atkins. The project was originally called Ritalin, but the name was changed for legal reasons....


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  • SCH
    SCH (band)
    SCH is the musical and artistic project and band of Senad Hadžimusić, who is better known by his nickname Teno. Formed in the early-eighties in Sarajevo, the band has had an intensive creative and live existence...

  • Scream Machine
  • Sektor 304
    Sektor 304
    Sektor 304 is an industrial band from Porto, Portugal formed in 2007. Sektor 304 took part in the Bracara Extreme Fest 2010 Portuguese music festival, and their track "Body Hammer" was featured on the 84th edition of Terrorizer Magazine's Fear Candy CD series, which was included with the...

  • Shihad
    Shihad
    Shihad is a New Zealand hard/alternative rock band, currently based in Melbourne, Australia. During Shihad's recording career, they have produced four number-one studio albums and three top-ten singles in their home country of New Zealand....

  • Silence
    Silence
    Silence is the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication, even in media other than speech....

  • Sister Machine Gun
    Sister Machine Gun
    -The early years:Sister Machine Gun was formed by Chris Randall and Guilherme Machado in New York City. They performed at New Jersey's Pipeline, and New York's Limelight. The band went on a short hiatus after Chris Randall joined KMFDM's tour as a stage technician. After the tour, Randall left...

  • Skinny Puppy
    Skinny Puppy
    Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial musical group, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982. The group is widely considered to be the founders of the electro-industrial genre....

  • Tim Skold
    Tim Skold
    Tim Sköld is a multi-instrumentalist who, in addition to producing solo work, has also collaborated with multiple musical groups including Shotgun Messiah, KMFDM and Marilyn Manson.-Early life:...

  • Snake River Conspiracy
    Snake River Conspiracy
    -Former members:*Martina Axén *Bobby Hewitt *Neil Taylor *Eric Hendrikx *Fab Fernandez *Tobey Torres *Mitch Doran...

  • Snog
    Snog
    Snog is a band formed by Australian musician David Thrussell, along with fellow art school friends, Tim McGrath and Julia Bourke, in 1989. The band's music is a fusion of many different styles, including industrial, techno, ambient, experimental, funk and even some of the social commentary of...

  • Soman
    Soman
    Soman, or GD , is an extremely toxic chemical substance. It is a nerve agent, interfering with normal functioning of the mammalian nervous system by inhibiting the cholinesterase enzyme. As a chemical weapon, it is classified as a weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations according to UN...

  • Spahn Ranch
    Spahn Ranch (band)
    Spahn Ranch was an electro-industrial group from Los Angeles. Active from 1992 to 2000, the band was well known in a sub-genre of industrial music for its fusion of electronic dance, industrial and gothic music.-History:...

  • SPK
    SPK (band)
    SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer.-History:...

  • Stabbing Westward
    Stabbing Westward
    Stabbing Westward was an American industrial rock and alternative rock band. They formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois and began recording in the 1990s. The band announced a dissolution in 2002.- Early years :...

  • Stiff Valentine
    Stiff Valentine
    Based in Vancouver, BC, Canada; Stiff Valentine is a Canadian rock band. They play a unique style of hard rock mixed with industrial, techno, metal and punk elements....

  • Suicide
    Suicide (band)
    Suicide is an American electronic protopunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1970 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo....

  • Suicide Commando
    Suicide Commando
    Suicide Commando is a Belgian electro-industrial act created by Johan van Roy in 1986.- History :Johan van Roy, Suicide Commando's only member, began experimenting with electronic music in 1986. Three years later he released his first tape under the moniker Suicide Commando, and made an appearance...

  • Swamp Terrorists
    Swamp Terrorists
    The Swamp Terrorists are a Swiss electro-industrial music group that was started in the late 1980s by synthesizer programmer STR, and vocalist Ane Hebeisen , , who met at a Strangler/Tierstein show.Their music is harsh pounding electro mixed with grinding metal guitar riffs The Swamp Terrorists...

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  • Synchro Nine Factor
    Synchro Nine Factor
    Synchro Nine Factor is a rock, alternative and Industrial band from Atlanta, Georgia signed to Doogah Music. Synchro Nine Factor has performed extensively throughout the Southeast and has shared drugs with their fellow bandmates Chemlab, Sister Machine Gun, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult,...


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  • Tactical Sekt
    Tactical Sekt
    Tactical Sekt is an electro-industrial band formed in 2002. They use distorted vocals, EBM beats, and sampling. -History:Tactical Sekt was conceived by Anthony Mather in 2002 to 2003. Mather had experience with electro-industrial music in his former band, Aslan Faction...

  • Tanzwut
    Tanzwut
    Tanzwut is a German Neue Deutsche Härte and medieval metal band which originated as a sideproject of Corvus Corax-members.- History :Their name is the German term for "dancing mania", but is directly translated with "dance-rage". Tanzwut are known for their heavy use of bagpipes, an unusual...

  • Test Dept
    Test Dept
    Test Dept were an industrial music group from London, one of the most important and influential early industrial music acts. Their approach was marked by a strong commitment to radical socialist politics.-History:...

  • Throbbing Gristle
    Throbbing Gristle
    Throbbing Gristle were an English industrial, avant-garde music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions...

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  • Vampire State Building
    Vampire State Building
    Vampyre State Building was an industrial band from Norway with an experimental flair which existed for three years. Their eccentric live show consisted of rubber fetish outfits, video graphics, avant-garde antics and ballet dancers,...

  • Velvet Acid Christ
    Velvet Acid Christ
    Velvet Acid Christ is an electro-industrial band based in Denver, Colorado. The band was formed in 1990, gaining limited popularity in Europe's underground nightclub scene during the mid-1990s before expanding into other markets in the goth and industrial subcultures...

  • Videodrone
    Videodrone
    Cradle of Thorns is a five piece industrial rock band from Bakersfield California, USA. The band put out one record as Videodrone on Korn's Elementree Records as well three albums under their original name. One was independently released, and other two were released by Triple X Records...

  • VNV Nation
    VNV Nation
    VNV Nation are a British/Irish electronic music band originally from Dublin, Ireland and Essex, United Kingdom and now based in Hamburg, Germany. They combine elements of electro-industrial, trance, synthpop and electronic body music . The members are Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson...

  • Vomito Negro
    Vomito Negro (band)
    Vomito Negro is a Belgian industrial band formed in 1983. The name is Latin for "black vomit", a phenomenon that arises in the last stage of the disease yellow fever, when the patient throws up his putrefied intestines and ultimately dies.-History:...


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  • Westwind
    Westwind (band)
    Westwind is a musical project from the French post-industrial scene, created by Kris G . It mixes influences from musics such as Martial industrial, Post-industrial, Dark ambient, Neofolk and Neoclassical music....

  • Whitehouse
    Whitehouse (band)
    Whitehouse are a pioneering English power electronics band formed in 1980, largely credited for the founding of the power electronics subgenre.-History and personnel:...

  • Wolfsheim
    Wolfsheim (band)
    Wolfsheim was a synthpop band from Hamburg, Germany that consisted of Markus Reinhardt and Peter Heppner. Although never officially disbanded, Wolfsheim has been inactive since 2005 due to a dispute between the two members, which even led to trials in 2007 and 2008 that forbade either member to...

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