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<title>Marilyn Manson</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Vampy counterculture icon Marilyn Manson (born Brian Warner) rode to fame on a well orchestrated media blitz centered around his lurid live performances and gleefully remorseless badgering of the Religious Right. Manson's satanic attitudinizing (see his website for an eyeful) and ghoulish Alice Cooper-meets-Anton LaVey persona earned him a large cult following among disaffected teenagers looking to scare the bejesus out of their parental units. Going the road-tested Nine Inch Nails formula of driving Industrial beats and vivisectional lyrics one step further by camping up visually, Manson hit payola with <i>Antichrist Superstar</i> (1996). On this album -- his finest moment -- Manson's evil imp vocals are girded by a bad acid trip assortment of percussive guitar chops, world-gone-wrong samples and dancefloor throb. The glam-dandy follow-up <i>Mechanical Animals</i> (1998) was a concerted effort to crawl from beneath former producer Trent Reznor's long shadow. While the album succeeded on that account, it failed to ignite the frenzied devotion of his fans. Its middle-of-the-road tempos and sanitized textures seemed less a savage indictment of the status quo than a (cringe) bid for respectability.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Nine Inch Nails</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[From the valiant, if naive, industrial pop effort of <i>Pretty Hate Machine</i> to the furious dissatisfaction of <i>Broken</i> to the genuinely troubled <i>Downward Spiral</i>, to the mature devastation of <i>The Fragile</i> Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor has proven to be one of the more vital forces in popular music. Sequestered with his Macintosh, Reznor has perfected the art of projecting personal alienation, self-loathing and bitter betrayal. Reznor is a master of creating tension in silence and releasing it in explosions of industrial aggression. Having survived depression and addiction during the peak of his mid-90s acclaim, Reznor emerged sober and strangely buff with 2005's politically-inspired <i>With Teeth.</i> Never short of ideas or opinions, he continues to be one of the most inspired -- and darkly inspiring -- musicians today.
- Doug Russell]]></description>
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<title>Rob Zombie</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:26:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Rob Zombie's first album, <I>Hellbilly Deluxe</I> sold better in its first week than any White Zombie album had managed to do, Zombie dissolved the group to pursue his solo career full-time. Since then, he has continued to explore his obsessions with horror movie shtick and sci-fi schlock, incorporating these themes into instantly accessible Industrial Metal grinders. Throwing himself utterly into his undead persona, Zombie has emerged as alternative music's premier purveyor of heavy, disco-metal grooves that break down the barricade between the mosh pit and the dance floor.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Sevendust</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sevendust seem to have the ideal primary ingredients for winning any metal lover's heart: aggressive, jagged-edged guitars churning out choppy heavy metal riffs, thunderous bass seething beneath growled, angry vocals and walloping drums that grind like a ten-year-old blender. Even their testosterone-injected, amphetamine-fed cover of Alice Cooper's "School's Out" makes the original seem innocuous by comparison.
- Kali Holloway]]></description>
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<title>Static-X</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:52 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Straight from the factory where they make, um, really heavy metallic things come Static-X, an industrial metal band who wield guitars like lead pipes. Beats punch through songs with the weight of a two-ton pile of compressed ore, while vocals are a low growl meant to scare the bejeezus out of parents world wide.
- Kali Holloway]]></description>
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<title>White Zombie</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:26:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rob Cummings and Shauna Reynolds realized their dream of combining tawdry B-movie aesthetics and rock 'n' roll (just as Kiss, the Misfits and the Cramps had before them) by forming White Zombie in 1985. Taking the band's name from a Bela Lugosi movie and changing their own names to Rob Zombie and Sean Yseult, the two recruited a lineup with backgrounds in heavy metal and electronica. <I>La Sexorcisto</I>, their 1992 Geffen debut, offered listeners a bump-and-grind horror show of the occult and borderline blasphemous. White Zombie excelled at turning dance beats into brutal dance beatings interspersed with unbreakable guitar submission holds. <I>Astro Creep: 2000</I> (1995) was this now-defunct band's finest hour -- a vision of sex and technology nearly as apocalyptic as J.G. Ballard's "Crash," while nearly as campy as <I>Mars Attacks</I>. The ramparts dividing Industrial and Metal had again been breached, and adult entertainers everywhere learned to remove their scanty habiliments to a whole new tune.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Filter</title>
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<category>Contemporary Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Although Filter haven't abandoned the Industrial Metal formula that broke them big -- the combination of aggression and catchy riffs continues with songs such as "Welcome to the Fold" -- they offer quite a bit of diversity in their music. "Take A Picture" is dreamy and poppy, opening with acoustic guitars playing a progression that's positively folksy.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Mindless Self Indulgence</title>
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<category>Industrial Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The wild stage antics of Mindless Self Indulgence front man "Urine" caught the attention of Insane Clown Posse and earned the band the opening slot on their 1999-2000 tour. In the studio, MSI race through minute-or-so, industrially mutated hip-hop/metal tunes. Their off-center cover of Method Man's "Bring the Pain" went off like a pipe bomb in the face of new metal, leaving it pocked with shards of burning irony.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Rammstein</title>
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<category>Industrial Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:47:20 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rammstein, the internationally known (and often misunderstood) industrial metallers, formed in 1997 with the intention of making music that was "authentically German." The band has released five albums, found themselves in the middle of several controversies and become famous due to a thoroughly over-the-top live show and music that is danceable yet still heavy metal. The band members themselves describe their music as "dance metal." With growling, "r"-rolling vocals that can only be described as Panzer-riffic, and pulsing, super-charged rhythms, Rammstein tends to frighten people. And you can see why: playing up the homosexual German dancer look of super obscure (and weird) industro-dance pioneers D.A.F., the band appear naked and oiled at almost every opportunity, chase each other around onstage with dildos and exude some strange, comedic uber masculinity. All of this is meant to provoke people and nothing more. Granted, such deeply embedded cues tend to go over the heads of many of the teenagers attracted to the aggressive quality of the music, which is unfortunate. Musically, Rammstein is nothing short of archetypal, with fist-raising vocals and cement-slab beats, while each song hinges on, and is propelled by, an almost obsessive attention to rhyming. Infamously described as "music to invade Poland to."
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Attack Attack</title>
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<category>Metalcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:13:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Ministry</title>
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<category>Industrial Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:26:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite the fact that they started out as a more pop-oriented goth band, Ministry's unspeakably abrasive, endlessly negative music remains pretty much definitive industrial metal. On top of that, we have singer Al Jourgensen to thank for the whole post-apocalyptic biker-cowboy look that led to sales of millions upon millions of full length black leather coats in the early 1990s. But more importantly was when Ministry released their 1988 album, <I>The Land of Rape and Honey</I>, it was clear that the music was genuinely unique in the mainstream and that they had created a sound as powerful and heavy (if not more so) than any alternative or metal band of the period. The band crossed those alternative and metal lines, drawing hordes of fans from each camp and helping along the eventual blurring of those traditionally opposite styles that occurred in the late '80s and early '90s with the onset of grunge rock and alternative metal. Ministry's influence (which can be felt even today in the industrial scene) was both musical and stylistic and the albums they put out during their peak (<I>Land Of Rape And Honey,</I> <I>The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste</I> and <I>Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed & the Way to Suck Eggs</I>) actually stand up over a decade later. The band continues to release albums today and, to its credit, remains as Satanic and sex-obsessed as ever -- an aesthetic Nine Inch Nails may have taken to the top but Ministry invented.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Dope</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Industrial-strength heavy metal with electronic beats and gurgling vocals. This roiling mixture of rap, hard-edged electronica and death metal works best on a cover of the N.W.A. classic "F*ck the Police."]]></description>
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<title>Powerman 5000</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:47:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dark overtones and machine rhythms overshadow this experimental Industrial/Goth Rock band with songs from the food court.]]></description>
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<title>Fear Factory</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:54:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Fear Factory obliterated the barriers that once divided Disco dance floors from concert hall mosh pits. One of the first really heavy metal acts to combine low, detonating power chords and Industrial dance beat rigor, these L.A. "rivetheads" set an example for countless acts to follow. Often following up their releases with dance-intensive remix albums on which various Industrial artists and DJ's were invited to appear, their willingness to experiment shook up a genre that had long since calcified into formal repetitiveness and inbred influences. Though later releases found the band leaning in a more melodic direction, they always retained the deep sonic wallop and grinding beats for which they're famous.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Puscifer</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:55:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>KMFDM</title>
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<category>Industrial</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Creating an unyielding audio assault since a multimedia performance in 1984, Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid (No Pity for the Majority) have taken dance track tactics to their extremes. A crushing synthesis of hip-hop beats and Industrial percussion is used as a concrete foundation for sinister instrumentation. Guitar riffs as dark and violent as Slayer's more hellish moments are strung tightly from oppressive washes of heavy synths. What separates KMFDM from most other Industrial Dance groups is their radical political content. Terrorizing, distorted vocals and spoken word sample arrangements posit that their position <I>Is a Drug Against War</I>.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Stabbing Westward</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 5 Oct 2009 10:16:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The happily-named Stabbing Westward began as a little known industrial-rock band based in Chicago -- the Liverpool of the genre -- in 1985. Though it took several years, the Christopher Hall-fronted outfit eventually signed to Columbia, whose roster had recently become more adventurous after a fallow period. The band's first album, 1993's <I>Ungod</I>, did little business, but they attracted a larger audience with their sophomore effort, <I>Wither Blister Burn and Peel</I> (1996), when the video for "What Do I Have to Do" scored Buzz Bin rotation on MTV. <I>Wither</I> went gold; perhaps even better, the briefly reformed Sex Pistols invited Stabbing Westward to open on their U.S. tour.<br><br>
The early American pioneers of industrial dance-rock music probably never imagined that a popularized version of their sound would be a commercial radio favorite within a decade (any more than the likes of the Replacements and the Pixies could have expected to find themselves echoed back in Kurt Cobain's voice 24 hours a day). But audiences can be fickle, and Stabbing Westward soon numbered among the many minor successes of the post-Cobain alt-rock bonanza. When a third album, <I>Darkest Days</I>, appeared in 1998, all ears seemed to be on the lite-pop likes of Matchbox 20, and the record failed to go gold. After being dropped by Columbia, the group issued its next, self-titled long-player on large indie Koch Records. The band broke up before issuing a fifth album. Interestingly, though, Columbia found the band bankable enough to be worthy of an entry in its <I>Essential</I> series, usually reserved for the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Bruce Springsteen. With the band members scattered, who knows what it means. But fans may find it worthwhile to stay tuned.
- Jaan Uhelszki]]></description>
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<title>VNV Nation</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:46:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Slick, club-oriented electronic tracks teeter on the elusive boundary between Euro-Trance and Darkwave. Thin melodies and dreary lyrics slide hopelessly over a sea of dark, shimmering synths like remnants from an oil spill off the coast of Greenland. A festival of gloom for those who find beauty in the dark.]]></description>
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<title>Orgy</title>
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<category>Industrial Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Heavy Alternative Metal riffs get a dose of melodic sensibility from a strong lead singer. Orgy has worked with members of Korn to forge their sound, which adds a taste of electronica to their sledgehammer guitars and pounding digi-drumming.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Machine Head</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Machine Head have made a name for themselves as being one of the most brutal-sounding bands of the '90s. When they came on the scene in the early to mid-1990s, their rhythms were of near-Industrial intensity, and their guitars were as explosive as if they were blasting for mineral resources. As the '90s progressed, so did their sound, as they became no less intense, but focused their energy toward more complex song structures. Machine Head could hardly be called Prog, but their aggressive stance evolved as they incorporated groove-oriented sounds and a more percussive, rap style of vocals, maintaining their positions at the crest of Metal's latest stylistic wave.]]></description>
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<title>Lords of Acid</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:18:05 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lords of Acid leave little to the imagination. Their sex-obsessed, aural cheesecake dance cuts are a sweat-covered blend of pumping dance beats, industrial noise, and kitschy, S&M-themed lyrics. Songs like, "Rough Sex," and, "Spank My Booty," laugh in the face of subtlety.]]></description>
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<title>Coal Chamber</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[To shock viewers into listening to (and ultimately purchasing) their music, Coal Chamber's MTV-friendly approach falls back on the Grand Guignol video style of artists like Tool, Trent Reznor and Marilyn Manson. Though not as scary or interesting as their videos, Coal Chamber's application of industrial solvents to disemboweling metal chops takes musical aggression to a novel extreme. Singer Dez Fafara sounds absolutely demonic -- the perfect cartoon voiceover for a village-destroying dragon -- while the rest of the band immolates their instruments in savage, sonic rites of pure mayhem.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Front 242</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:09:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As a seminal Industrial Dance band, Front 242 effortlessly merge beats, noise, melody and aggression, creating some of the most potent "electronic body music" to ever possess manic club-goers. Emerging from Belgium in the early 1980s, the group is a cross between experimental, groundbreaking acts such as Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle and tame, Pop Dance-oriented outfit Depeche Mode. What other Industrial band has a vocalist who shouts out the diva line "Now start to move and dance" with the tone of a Teutonic drill sergeant as a wall of percussion and minor key synth lines pounds out? Front 242 get away with it, because they make good dance music while still retaining power, solid song structure and intriguing synth sounds and samples. Their biggest hit, "Headhunter," is a prime example of this: the vocalist barks out aggressive, possibly homoerotic lyrics as the drums and synths charge ahead, keyboards and noises weaving in and out and coalescing at the chorus to create one of the most memorable and sweat-inducing anthems in the genre.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Skinny Puppy</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Listening to Skinny Puppy is a nightmare experience; many will find themselves right at home there. <I>Bites</I> and <I>Remission</I>, their first two efforts, were stunning accomplishments for their time, and their edges still cut today. Drawing on the influences of Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle and Suicide, Ogre and cEVIN Key used synthesizers to extract beats that sucked backwards, notes that mapped themselves onto multidimensional sound grids, dehumanized "ghost in the machine" voices, and other etiolated audio oddities. With the production assistance of David Ogilvie, the band positioned itself at the fore of Industrial music's avant-garde and held that spot until their 1996 farewell release <I>The Process</I>. They pioneered the use of sampling to create a seamless fabric of hysteria as evidenced on <I>Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse</I> and <I>Cleanse Fold & Manipulate</I> -- dense palimpsests of cybernetic sounds and smash-and-grab samples that ranged from campy to overtly political. As the band matured, their material became increasingly personalized, outlining their battles with drugs and depression. <I>Too Dark Park</I> is particularly tough going, but may eventually be considered their masterpiece.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Revolver1010</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:01:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Apoptygma Berzerk</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Apoptygma Berzerk is the nom de guerre of Norwegian techno-goth Stephan Groth. Since the early 1990s, his songs have infiltrated the play lists of edgier dancefloors catering to Goth, Industrial, and fetish club-goers. The music of A.B. obliterates the semi-permeable lines of demarcation that once divided these scenes. If Skinny Puppy had been asked to remix Depeche Mode's <I>Black Celebration</I>, the end result may have been equally oppressive -- though without entirely abandoning a pop orientation. Fans' fervor for Apoptygma Berzerk, however, has less to do with the gloomy pallor of Groth's lyrics and more to do with his penchant for throbbing, irresistible beats. It's no small feat figuring out how to inspire sulky, black-bedizened club-crawlers to shrug off their pestilential gloom and pound the dancefloor in ecstatic unison; but if you're daring enough to venture out to your local Goth club, you can see it happening all the time -- thanks to Apoptygma Berzerk.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Prong</title>
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<category>Industrial Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:54 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Prong must be recognized as the progenitors of a martial style of Metal denuded of anything bluesy, grooving or fluid. Emerging from New York's Thrash scene with the scrappy <I>Primitive Origins</I> mini-LP (1987) , Prong quickly learned to tighten the screws on their sound, using drum machines and sampling. By the time <I>Cleansing</I> was released in 1994, the band was giving free reign to Industrial beats. Their rigid, succinct guitars are struck rather than strummed, and imperial marching beats sound (and often are) programmed rather than played. Their final albums beg remixing for futuristic combat video games.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Suicide Commando</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:25:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Founded by Johan Van Roy in 1986, Suicide Commando remained a cassette-based project until the early '90s when Van Roy began infrequently to issue cold, often minimalist, Industrial Dance tracks on vinyl and CD. Suicide Commando has always moved fluidly between traditional EBM -- with lush, Numan-esque analog synthlines and crisp percussion -- and the harsher elements of bilious, European Techno/Noise. Dissonant vocals (an entrenched Industrial cliché) are actually quite effective and nasty in Suicide Commando's work; words drag across your eardrums like rusty razors etching out bleak, impressionistic poetry about bodily horrors and existential angst.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Das Ich</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Revolting Cocks</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:36:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the mid-1980s, when harsh, angular dance beats were coiling around unrepentant noise as Industrial music, Revolting Cocks created a muddy mess of what was often quite polished by others. Their approach to alienated dance beats, forceful basslines and vocal belligerence is a loosely assembled mess of aggression. The combined talents of Al Jourgensen (Ministry), Luc Van Acker and Richard 23 (Front 242) created some of the most confrontational music Wax Trax! Records had seen. Later work with artists William Rieflin, Chris Connelly, Paul Barker and others contributed to their sound as they incorporated everything from rap to thick, almost Metal Guitar approaches. Their legendary status is justified. Few bands have ever created a sound so nasty.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:19:44 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As post-House beats crack against the floor like a whip against your back, a soundtrack of High Camp pageantry consumes your ears with fetish club anthems. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult is a fearful phenomenon of decadence, drugs, Satan and nightclub excesses. Dense layers of slithering synth lines and sinister samples flood the mix with haunting, abject sounds that foreshadow a bad trip. The hedonistic pleasures of their psychedelic dance rhythms are eerily offset by dark, foreboding sounds that might be swelling out of the same recesses of your subconscious mind where your nightmares wait until you sleep.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Assemblage 23</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Combichrist</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Gravity Kills</title>
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<category>Industrial Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:09:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A punishing, overdriven hip-hop beat sets metal riffs and spacey psychedelic echoes in motion. Includes nods to militant Industrial execution and slick, radio-ready production.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Blaqk Audio</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:13:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not simply content as punk-pop stars and chart-toppers with their band AFI, Davey Havok and Jade Puget formed Blaqk Audio to experiment in a whole new genre --electronica. After years of putting off the project, the two finally had time off from touring with AFI to write and record Blaqk Audio's 2007 debut album,<i>CexCells</i>. With Havok in charge of lyrics and vocals and Puget behind the synths and software, the two dabble in a wide range of sounds, from dark-rooted industrial dance and EBM (Electronic Body Movement) to four-on-the-floor house, synth pop, goth and even downtempo. Producer Dave Bascombe, who has worked with Depeche Mode, Tears for Fears and Erasure, helped give the album a distinctive '80s touch with influences like Ministry and Front 242 shining through.
- Stephanie Benson]]></description>
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<title>Snake River Conspiracy</title>
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<category>Electronica/Dance</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Kittie</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[All-girl Metal band from Canada brings together throbbing dance beats, samples, and super heavy, aggressive guitar sounds. The half-sung, half-chanted vocals are appropriately snotty.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Spindrift</title>
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<category>Plunderphonic</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:19:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[These guys sound like they broke into Negativland's studio and burned a CD-R of their own. Progressivemetalcyberexperimentalindustrial sounds that could only come from hands that once held 20-sided dice and lead figurines.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Meat Beat Manifesto</title>
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<category>Alt Dance</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:59:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Genre-transgressing electronic duo who some have labeled Industrial, some have dubbed Techno, and others have identified as Beats & Breaks pioneers. Hip-hop and Dub influences have also left a heavy impress on the band's technologically overwrought sound.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Oomph</title>
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<category>Industrial Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:25:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Collide</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:09:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Collide is an L.A. duo use white-hot industrial synth beats to solder together Goth atmospheres and chunky metal guitar riffs. Wafting, siren vocals slither through the air, calling fetish night disco goers to their own wet, sensuous, irresistible doom against the jagged rocks of crushing beats and grinds.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Covenant (Techno)</title>
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<category>Techno</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 10:45:22 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Razed in Black</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Razed in Black</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[The endeavor of Hawaiian resident Romell, Razed in Black evokes the emotional dark side of sound. Since the mid-1990s, they have contributed to countless compilations, remixes and soundtracks to Hollywood and adult films and video games in addition to their three full-length releases. They generate overwhelmingly aggressive Coldwave with tense riffs and violent dance electronics that easily decay into fearsome ambient horrors. With countless artists creating guitar/dance beat crossover on the gothic side, Razed in Black are a godsend. Their production is seamless and their intensity is honest and unrelenting.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Front Line Assembly</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The mid-1980s saw a great convergence of cool, synth-driven dance music infused with the dark menace of Industrial, and Front Line Assembly were one of the brightest sparks at this collision. They evoke politically barbed cynicism with found spoken word samples and harrowing, distorted vocals that sound like the clarion call of Armageddon. Synths emit sharp tones that evoke anxiety, piercing peaceful, passive listening through the diaphragm; dance beats roll into the mix, offering bleak, hedonist pleasure. Front Line Assembly's sinister Electro simultaneously embraces musical technology while distrusting the promise of innovation and progress.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Funker Vogt</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Updating the sounds of EBM in the latter half of the 1990s, Funker Vogt escalated German Industrial's alienated, rhythmic tensions to an aggressive, almost abusive sound. Electro and Techno rhythms are used as instruments of discipline to keep rushing arrangements well-ordered, but Funker Vogt's melodic/noise trajectories show no restraint. Cold blue pads wrap around jagged, ripping melodies before giving way to cascades of analog waveforms that flood your ears like a symphony. Like a cybernetic drill sergeant, vocals are issued like spewing acid that burns on contact.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Sister Machine Gun</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:52:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Spitting venomous vocals, Chris Randall fronts these Wax Trax! veterans through harsh, broken dance rhythms and biting guitars smeared with soot. Their terrain is dark and jagged, not far from harm's way.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Nitzer Ebb</title>
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<category>Industrial</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:55:37 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Overseer</title>
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<category>Techno</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:39:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>:wumpscut:</title>
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<category>Industrial Dance</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:49:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rudy Ratzinger's :wumpscut: is both the dictionary definition and the Platonic ideal of 1990s Industrial. His music is the bridge between the sounds of Front Line Assembly and the tech-noise of artists on Ant-Zen. He throws scrap metal EBM beats into keyboard dissonance that spews like lava. Rhythms run a straight line through dark, claustrophobic tunnels of circus melody parodies, seismically unstable pads and droning noise. Though :W: is rarely very complex, his tracks top you with their intensity; they are unrelentingly violent and push you to your pain threshold. As they pull you deeper and deeper into their unique horrors, Ratzinger's commanding voice rises up and screams of death and despair, but you cannot tell if he is cackling with amusement or shrieking in terror.]]></description>
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<title>Throbbing Gristle</title>
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<category>Industrial</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The world of Throbbing Gristle is a large and complex one and any sort of concise description is necessarily an injustice to their art and legacy. The quartet of Genesis P-Orrige (later of Psychic TV), Peter Christopherson (later of Coil), Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter (both later of Chris and Cosey) created a great deal of noise (as music and in the press) with aggressive performances and media manipulations, but the debt we owe to them is the birth of Industrial music -- so named after their independent label Industrial Records. Though they are always given lip service for their important role in music history, their music is so challenging that even today it is greatly under-appreciated for its brilliance. Disgusted with rock music, they mishandled their guitars to produce intense dissonance, and created their own electronic instruments. Genesis' processed vocals and Cosey's trumpet produced a clarion call to psychic subversion. Their music was intentionally abrupt and abrasive, subversive and subliminal. They were more likely to use monotony for its psychological effects than melody for its emotional value. They used electronic noise as a compositional element and the most minimal rhythm programming as hypnosis. But for all their aural violence, their music was most akin to the Disco pulse of Giorgio Moroder or the electronic adventurousness of early Tangerine Dream than any Punk or Prog experiments. Their sound had no equal until they inspired artists like Monte Cazazza and Cabaret Voltaire to create similar sounds -- the beginning of Industrial music as a genre. Through time, many artists created a much watered-down, tamer version of their electronic cacophony with a much wider public appeal. Even people who appreciate Throbbing Gristle rarely claim to "like" their music. Art of this intensity is not for everyone.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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