You've Got Foetus On Your Breath, Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel, Foetus Interruptus, Foetus Uber Alles, Foetus Inc - all these titles are actually the pseudonym of one person: Australian émigré Jim Thirlwell, alias Jim Foetus and Clint Ruin. After fo…

The German industrial dance act KMFDM were one of the first bands to recognize the link between the mechanical ferocity of industrial music and the unrelenting rhythms of the dance floor. Although they formed in Germany in 1984, they soon made a name…

Though Chicago's Ministry is known as the archetypal industrial rock band, they actually started out as a dour synth-funk outfit before founder Alain Jourgensen really ratcheted up the noise and the gloom on 1988's THE LAND OF RAPE & HONEY. In so doi…

The electro-industrial duo formed by Kevin Gould and Richard McKinlay Electro Assassin debuted in 1991 with an album for the German Hyperium label Jamming the Voice of the Universe After one additional album the partners moved to Britains Cyber-Tec R…

“Headed by singer/songwriter lionel Cohen, the band's technology-rich hard sound sounds something like a cross between Nine Inch Nails and Love and Rockets. The tunes feature heavy synthesizers, crazy guitars, and an even heavier rock beat...and voca…

Pigface is an industrial music collective directed by remixerproducerdrummer Martin Atkins who prior to forming the group in 1990 had lent his talents to such outfits as Public Image Ltd Ministry Nine Inch Nails and Killing Joke as well as heading hi…

Despite helping to create the industrial rock genre and being cited as an important influence by many, when similarly styled units began infiltrating the mainstream during the early 90s, for reasons unknown, Front Line Assembly never truly managed to…

Cologne-bred Berlin-based Patric C aka EC8OR is one of the most prolific of the younger generation of digital hardcore artists combining hardcore breakbeat and gabber techno with elements of punk rock speed metal and experimental noise Recording and …

Originally the solo project of composersinger dA Sebasstian Seattles Kill Switch Klick became one of the Northwests leading industrial crossover bands Sebasstian began Kill Switch Klick in 1991 and added drummerpercussionist Mike Ditmore the followin…

Basically the one-man studio project of Eric Powell with other members added mostly for live shows 16 Volt combines the two main thrusts of 90s industrial music -- electronics and guitars -- in surprisingly equal amounts on several albums for Re-cons…

Plastic Noise Experience was launched in 1989 by Claus Kruse synths vocals and Sm Kalwa synths The industrial-dance duo recorded a debut Transmission for the Gothic Art label and was then signed to Kk Records which released the second album 196 Degre…

Electronic / Industrial / Dance

4tune8´s sound could be described as "nu metal meets elektro pop" - influenced by artists like: linkin park, depeche mode, paradise lost, sisters of mercy, celldweller, the crystal method, the prodigy, fluke, rammstein, him, apoptygma berzerk, kraftw…

This UK trio comprising Ann Shenton, Stephen Clayton and Barry Smith (aka Barry 7), produce a disconcerting fusion of electronica and lo-fi rock which they dub avant hard. Smith's background included work as a DJ on pirate station Radio Stalin in Pra…

Phallus Dei are a German industrial band tinged with dark Gothic romanticism on the one hand and a trashy fascination with sex and violence on the other The band released its first homemade cassette in Germany in 1988 over the years they built up a f…

The multi-racial multi-gender industrial duo known as Decoded Feedback was formed in 1993 by Italian vocalist Marco Biagiotti and Canadian programmer Yone Dudas After self-releasing their 1993 debut and 1994s Elektrokute the duo signed a contract in …

An electronic-body-music duo with updated electronics and a more aggressive style Funker Vogt was formed by vocalist Jens Kastel and programmer Gerrit Thomas they took the name Funker Vogt from a radio-operator friend The duo appeared on several comp…

This UK experimental/industrial band comprised Paul Jamrozy (b. 3 March 1959), Graham Cunnington (b. 23 August 1960), Alistair Adams (b. 5 October 1959), Tony Cudlip (b. 9 September 1959) and Gus Ferguson. Originally forming in 1982 as a loose collec…

Before Nine Inch Nails, electronic-based rock was often considered devoid of feeling and danger. Leader Trent Reznor merged synths with tortured vocals/lyrics, distorted guitar, and repetitive, slamming rhythms into an unpredictable amalgam, helping …

Germany's art-noise outfit Einsturzende Neubauten was one of the first bands that could legitimately be called "industrial." Their albums and performances from the early 1980s were marked by the use of scrap metal, broken glass, and various power too…

Following the breakup of industrial giants KMFDM in 1999 members Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold got together in a new project logically called MDFMK they added a female vocalist in the person of Lucia Cifarelli formerly of the band Drill MDFMKs self-…

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