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| The Best Industrial Albums
Yeah, I'm a 90s wanker, so I'm pretty thick on the commercial industrial game, but here are rrrmy favorite industrial albums. | | 1 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile
The Fragile is abrasive, soft, angry, calm, atmospheric and emotional. And
somehow it all feels cohesive. One of the best albums ever, in fact. | | 2 |  | Depeche Mode
Violator
Depeche Mode is a borderline industrial band, they're mostly electropop; but I
think Depeche Mode got dark, depressed, and noisy enough to qualify on
Violator. | | 3 |  | Nine Inch Nails
Pretty Hate Machine
Pretty Hate Machine is the epitome of late-80s Wax Trax industrial, heavy,
angsty, and thick on the synthpop. | | 4 |  | Coil
Horse Rotorvator
Coil somehow twisted the industrial that Christopherson helped developed into
an oddly psychedelic, nearly post-rock affair. | | 5 |  | Ministry
Psalm 69
Riding the wave of gritty, heavy mainstream industrial metal, Ministry swooped
in and offered a much heavier version of Nine Inch Nails for the industrial
purists, Psalm 69 was this sound defined. | | 6 |  | Skinny Puppy
Too Dark Park
There's nothing like rolling down the windows and playing Convulsion, and
watching the dumbfounded looks of people as you pass by. Too Dark Park is
just...creepy. | | 7 |  | Nine Inch Nails
The Downward Spiral
The Downward Spiral's concept, intertwined with Trent's emotional angst, and
the noisy production somehow became a massive commercial success. Unlike
PHM which was a bit commercial, TDS twisted the mainstream to it's own
sound. | | 8 |  | VAST
Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Jon Crosby was a bit too late to the mainstream industrial game, but he sure
closed it out in style with the choirs, the NIN-aping electronics, and the best
vocals in the genre. | | 9 |  | Angelspit
Krankhaus
Angelspit hate you, and everyone else in the world. They're a bunch of the
stereotypical weird, bondage-loving, violence-enjoying German people portrayed on TV. And
they make some damn good music that, literally, exudes anger. | | 10 |  | Front Line Assembly
Tactical Neural Implant
Yeah, FLA sounds a bit too much like the Wax Trax/synthpop/Terminator soundtrack
era, but not many bands did sampling and rhythm better than FLA did on this
album. The Chemical Brothers owe their sound to FLA. | | 11 |  | Ministry
The Land of Rape and Honey
Industrial metal began here. | | 12 |  | Front 242
Front by Front
Headhunter has nearly 2,000,000 views on YouTube. And Front 242 is pretty
traditional late 80s industrial. That should be a testament to how good this band was. They were abrasive, but
danceable. Precursor to KMFDM. | | 13 |  | KMFDM
Angst
Before Angst, KMFDM sounded like a really bad EBM band. After Angst, they
became the premiere EBM industrial band. | | 14 |  | Nitzer Ebb
That Total Age
Nitzer Ebb's That Total Age, heavy on actual human vocals (even if they just
chant), brought a definite need of humanity into the industrial genre. | | 15 |  | Pig
Sinsation
What if Marilyn Manson was more abrasive? | |
DominionMM1
04.30.11 | List is false, as there's no mention of Godflesh's 'Streetcleaner', the supreme industrial album. | rjmunthe
04.30.11 | Hahahaha, I hate Godflesh | Hyperion1001
04.30.11 | No Godflesh is a travesty. | pizzamachine
04.30.11 | 9 is soooooo goooood. I mean soooooooo gooooooood. | DominionMM1
04.30.11 | You kats is krazay! | ConsiderPhlebas
04.30.11 | I used to hate this genre but NIN have really caught my attention recently | anarchistfish
04.30.11 | Needs Rammstein | Departures
04.30.11 | Angelspit lol | Acanthus
04.30.11 | Fuck yeah for 8, I loved VAST and that album to death all last year! Otherwise list isn't bad, but has too much NIN for my taste. | Relinquished
04.30.11 | where the fuck is Godflesh | rjmunthe
04.30.11 | I love NIN, hahaha. My favorite band, probably.
Godflesh sucks balls. | eternium
04.30.11 | Godflesh [999] | Josh D.
04.30.11 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNW8sW31oZc&feature=related | bloc
04.30.11 | At first I was like "2 wtf" but I kinda get what you're saying. | aok
04.30.11 | I absolutely adore #4, and I don't even care for industrial stuff generally. Let's give Coil some more love Sputnik! | Piglet
05.01.11 | Pig!
Fuck yeah
| eggsvonsatan
05.01.11 | Most industrial junkies probably wouldn't call NIN industrial. Just sayin' | eggsvonsatan
05.01.11 | But the Fragile is probably my favorite album ever, industrial or not. | Hyperion1001
05.01.11 | Most industrial junkies would have had Godflesh | Blindsided
05.01.11 | List lacks Throbbing Gristle and Foetus. | rjmunthe
05.02.11 | If PHM & TDS aren't industrial, then there is no industrial. Just sayin'. | omnipanzer
05.02.11 | needs more early Klute
and fuck some Godflesh.
| Blindsided
05.02.11 | If NIN isn't industrial what is it?
Tween pop? | eggsvonsatan
05.02.11 | NIN could be industrial rock or industrial metal, but I don't think its pure industrial. | rjmunthe
05.03.11 | The only true "industrial" band would be TG, then. | Blindsided
05.03.11 | industrial rock and industrial metal are industrial you moron.
I'm an industrial junkie and I call NIN industrial I wouldn't call them anything else and no other self respecting industrial listener would either. | rjmunthe
05.03.11 | ^^yes | KevinKC
02.23.15 | I can't describe the feeling I have when I see so many people revering "The fragile" when I think the double album is unlistenably bad at 90%. And I love 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15 (doesn't know the rest). Plus, Angelspit don't "hate you," they just happen to have smart lyrics. | ButteryBiscuitBass
02.23.15 | Classic Hep | EoinCofa
08.07.22 | Nostalgia. Some goodies here | pizzamachine
08.07.22 | Still a great list m/ |
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