As industrial and industrial-metal made great inroads on the mainstream charts during the late 90s many early pioneers continued to record with little fanfare but a large amount of creativity even if the astounding leaps in technology had largely alt…

Having already gained strong performing and recording experience before they met in 1995 Jean-Luc De Meyer and Marc Heal discovered a tremendous musical synchronicity when they started playing together De Meyer lead vocalist for Front 242 which forme…

It took only two well-received demos for the industrialgrindcore combo In Strict Confidence to land on one of the genres most respected labels Germanys Zoth Ommog Records Dennis Ostermann and Jrg Schelte formed the group in the early 90s playing occa…

Lights of Euphoria is a project headed by Aqualite member and Zoth Ommog AR man Torben Schmidt who handles synthesizers and programming On Euphorias third album 1997s Blood Brothers the Godheads Jimmy Machon contributed all of the vocals Steve Huey …

Having gotten together under the spell of their surrounding techno electronic scene of San Francisco Mike Wells and Cadoo decided to do their own thing by forming Gridlock in 1994 Sighting acts such as Skinny Puppy and Autechre as a major inspiratio…

Zipper Spy was the multimedia project of Bay Area noise artist and sculptor Maria Moran a longtime mainstay of the local music scene whose past projects included creating soundtracks for low-budget horror movies producing area indie bands and even pl…

The electro-industrial three-piece Girls Under Glass formed in 1986 around vocalistguitarist Volker Zacharias along with programmers Hauke Harms and Axel Ermes plus occasional live bandmates Marcus Giltjes on drums and guitarists Mark Wheeler and Raj…

Tool's sophisticated art-metal approach (some regard them as prog-metal) is marked by unrelenting aggression and focused intensity. The band's use of serpentine, syncopated rhythms, and tight staccato guitar riffs topped by singer Maynard James Keena…

Terminal Sect is a New York duo made up of vocalistprogrammer Colin Schwan and guitaristprogrammer Howard Wulkan The bands original purpose was to make music for multimedia presentations involving Schwans sometimes grotesque paintings but gradually e…

The Norwegian industrial band Apoptygma Berzerk is actually one Stephan Groth sometimes known as Grothesk Groth released his first single as Apoptygma Berzerk in 1991 and got his international break with an appearance on the Sex Drugs and EBM compila…

Nivek Ogre was the snarling voice behind Canadas fierce industrialists Skinny Puppy and after their demise in 1995 he was already tinkering around with various music projects Together with producer Mark Walk Pigface Ruby he designed the unit called O…

Seattle-born William Rieflin b September 30 1960 is one of the most respected metalindustrial drummers of the last decade Through his work with Ministry and that bands countless side projects Rieflin has become known as a powerful and original force …

Die Form is chiefly the project of French artist Philippe Fichot who is usually accompanied by singer Eliane P Primarily an industrial band Die Form possess a strong gothic sensibility that is manifested in both the music and in the fetishistic sexua…

Non is essentially the one-man project of noisemonger and provocateur Boyd Rice whose solo work is virtually interchangeable with that released under his Non alias Rices first work originally titled The Black Album consisted of looped bits of girl-gr…

Made up of former members of Hella and At the Drive-In Crime in Choir is a bizarre blend of indie math pop and complicated prog rock Offering very technical complicated takes on alternative rock the band recorded and released its debut album in 2002 …

Tallahassee Floridas Plastic Mastery formed in 1999 when brothers Jeremy Underwood vocals and Nick Underwood drumstrumpet began to assemble simple and lively indie pop gems The band quickly grew into a six-member collective with the addition of Julie…