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| 9 albums - Best Classic EBM Albums, As Decreed by
I wrote a review of Die Robo Sapeins' new album, and did some research-listening into the roots of EBM.These albums are from the hay-day of classic EBM: The decade of 1980. I only chose the bands; Sputnik users chose the rest. For example, I went to the Nitzer Ebb page and reported their album "Belief" because it currently has an average rating of 4, as opposed to That Total Age, which rated 3.8. I restricted it to the decade of 1980: Front 242's Tyranny for You has the same rating as Official Version, but was released in 1991. (And really it's not as EBM as their older releases. The transition to a more general Electro-Industrial was evident). I included NIN as a contrast.
Comment at me if I missed any bands and I'll add them. A lot of bands I found on Wikipedia are so obscure that not even Sputnikmusic has them, which is a rare finding in my experience. But I can enter them manually. | | 1 |  | Die Krupps
Volle Kraft Voraus!
1982. Rating 3.1. Twelve votes | | 2 |  | Klinik
Plague
1987. Rating 3.8. Five votes | | 3 |  | Portion Control
With Mixed Emotion
- 1982. Rating 4. One Vote. Not currently available on Spotify.
- Runner-up: I Staggered Mentally, 1982, 3.9, five votes | | 4 |  | Nitzer Ebb
Belief
1989. Rating 4. Nineteen votes | | 5 |  | Front 242
Official Version
- 1987. Rating 4.1. Thirty-six votes. Not currently available on Spotify.
- Runner up: Front By Front. 1988. Rating 4. One-hudered votes. | | 6 |  | Ministry
Twitch
- 1986. Rating 3.3. 245 votes.
- Ministry showed the most dramatic evolution of these bands, starting "With Sympathy" as straight-up Synthpop, then moving to EBM on this album, changing some more, and finally ending up more-or-less as a variety of thash metal. | | 7 |  | Cabaret Voltaire
Micro-Phonies
- 1984. Rating 4. Fifty-five votes
- See comments on SPK below | | 8 |  | SPK
Leichenschrei
- 1982. Rating: 4.2. Eighty-Seven votes.
- SPK and Cabaret Voltaire both started their journeys as what purists call "true" Industrial bands, along with other classics like Throbbing Gristle. Unlike this last band, these two later evolved into a variety of EBM. | | 9 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine
- 1989. Rating 4. 2,677 votes.
- This album represents the hybridization taking place in the genre around 1990. It contains numerous Metal and Rock elements not found on the other albums on this list, for example on the songs "Head Like a Hole" and "The Only Time." However, tracks 6 and 7, "Kinda I Want To" and "Sin," are thoroughly Electro-Industrial, "Sin" containing an especially strong EBM in flavor. | |
ArsMoriendi
10.30.22 | Twitch by Ministry, their only EBM album has 245 vote and 3.3 rating
Cabaret Voltaire's Micro-Phonies has 55 votes and a 4 rating
That's the EBM I know lol | kildare
10.30.22 | You're right! Ministry and Cabaret Voltaire.Missed them. I was relying on Wikipedia's EBM article for bands I didn't know, like Portion Control and Klinik; that article compared Cabaret Voltaire to Throbbing Gristle and them. But Voltaire changed their sound later to EBM. I'll add them in. Give a shout if you think of any others. And thanks for the data. |
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