Industrial/EBM (and related genres)

[NeuraltNätverk]

It's about all I listen to these days. Briefly industrial music emerged around the late 70s / early 80s out of earlier experimental and electronic music, for instance, Kraftwerk (who started out with a lot of very strange noisy material before they started going all synthpop). EBM (electronic body music) then is a fusion of industrial and electronic dance music. It has a more easily identified beat although the two genres share a lot in common otherwise, to the point that it's sort of splitting hairs to distinguish them sometimes.

I recognize that this forum is pretty much PG, perhaps PG-13, so I'm going to rein in what I post here. Industrial tends to center around provocative, deviant or even revolting themes (war, fascism, horror, civil unrest, machinery, sadomasochism, etc.) so I will be limited in what can I post but I can whet your appetite:

Skinny Puppy - Tin Omen

Abrasive but pretty clean. This era of Skinny Puppy is very representative of a raw, sample-laden sound of the 80s that's become my favorite.