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Nov 6, 2019 · The new doc, whose title is a play on the line spoken by Sean Connery in the 1987 Crime Drama The Untouchables, takes a deeper and more encompassing look at Chicago’s prominent role in the development of industrial music throughout the 1980s and ’90s.
- Nine Inch Nails — “Closer”
- Ministry — “Just One Fix”
- Skinny Puppy — “Spasmolytic”
- Front Line Assembly —“Mindphaser”
- Revolting Cocks — “(Let’S Get) Physical”
- My Life with The Thrill Kill Kult — “Sex on Wheelz (Cool World Mix)”
- KMFDM — “Juke Joint Jezebel”
- Machines of Loving Grace — “Butterfly Wings”
- White Zombie — “More Human Than Human”
- Front 242 — “Rhythm of Time”
Everything surrounding Nine Inch Nails’ majestic 1994 release, The Downward Spiral,was seemingly stamped “zero commercial potential.” And then it sold 4 million records in America alone and became an industrial-rock classic.Here Trent Reznor knocked down the wall of guitars and created a stack of vintage-synth grooves that ended up in high rotation...
Let’s face it: Everybody on this list owes something to Ministry’s Al Jourgensen. The multi-instrumentalist/producer practically invented the genre, destroying guitars, studio monitors and minds in the process. 1992’s Psalm 69is loaded with tracks that will turn any hipster dance club into an abattoir. On this high-powered riff-fest with a lesson (...
The unit helmed by charismatic frontman Nivek Ogre and synthetic genius cEVIN Key weren’t big on high BPMs. Most of the time, Skinny Puppy were always seeking a slow-motion apocalypse. But this frantic track from 1990’s Too Dark Parkfelt more like amphetamine jitters than the kind of doom that was their stock in trade. Like Ministry, Skinny Puppy h...
Front Line Assembly’s sixth album, 1992’s Tactical Neural Implant, has received praise from the oddest quarters. This writer once heard it blasting out of Godflesh’s touring rental van. Much weirder, though, is the time a label rep reached out to programmer Rhys Fulber to create tracks for Britney Spears. (He passed on it and decided to do mixes fo...
The legendary Ministry-adjacent supergroup banged out a murderous version of Olivia Newton-John’s 1981 hit. Well, the publishers of the song weren’t pleased. A version with different lyrics made it onto the ba...
Led by the brain trust of frontman Groovie Mann (Frank Nardiello) and synth-op Buzz McCoy (Marston Daley), My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult never met a taboo they didn’t want to smash. Sex, drugs and industrial rock ’n’ roll was their stock in trade. This sleazy track (from their 1994 release Sexplosion!) ended up on the soundtrack to the adult an...
In 1990, Hamburg, Germany’s KMFDM got on the greater i-rock radar with the single “Godlike,” which sampled Slayer’s “Angel Of Death.” But “Juke Joint Jezebel” is a sonic pinnacle for the outfit founded by multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko. It’s the First Church Of Rivethead Culture: The alternating vocals of Jennifer Ginsberg and Raymond “Pig”...
While we were waiting for Reznor to get that second full-length out, a couple of bands came in to fill in the void. Admittedly, most of them were uninspired. Not Machines Of Loving Grace. Tucson, Arizona’s entry in the industrial-rock sweepstakes had some great songs and an aesthetic that was accessible. That was considered anathema in a genre that...
Industrial-rock purists may bristle at the inclusion of this 1995 White Zombie mega-hit. But this one still grooves harder than the entire nü-metal scene that soon followed. Rob Zombie growls the motto of the replicant factory from the movie Blade Runneras the synths and slide guitar drive the track. The legend goes that once Zombie and producer Te...
This acclaimed Belgian unit were another cornerstone act on the legendary Wax Trax! label. While bands with guitars brought the “rock” suffix to industrial, Front 242 doubled down on the synths and vocal samples instead. “Rhythm Of Time” comes from their 1991 major-label debut, Tyranny (ForYou),and it still brings the fear without any strings attac...
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Nov 6, 2019 · Records documentary comes a broader look at Chicago’s role in the development of industrial music in the 1980s and ’90s, a film that backers are hoping fans of the genre can help get completed via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
Jul 20, 2023 · In this documentary I explore how these bands changed the music industry forever. We’ll look at Janes Addiction, Beastie Boys, Blur, Marilyn Manson , The Prodigy and more – all from Lollapalooza to Woodstock 94 and everything in between!
- Pierre Schaeffer – “Etude aux chemins de fer” (1948) As World War II drew to a close, the radio and recording studios of France afforded Pierre Schaffer a unique opportunity to intersect his interests in sonic art and science.
- Cromagnon – “Caledonia” (1969) Pounding drums, radio wave static, sampled orchestral music, fuzz guitar, bagpipes(!) and something approaching a black metal vocal hiss—in 1969 there was essentially no frame of reference for this combination of sounds, certainly not one so heavy and intense.
- Suicide – “Frankie Teardrop” (1977) Although not an industrial band per se, the proto-electronic darkness of Suicide’s “Frankie Teardrop” is a template for early Industrial music, its experimental leanings and harrowing intensity.
- Throbbing Gristle – “Hamburger Lady” (1978) Formed out of performance art troupe COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle coined the term “industrial” but they didn’t limit what that entailed, their early recordings ranging from noise to sound collage, disco, synth-laden kosmische and exotica.
Aug 8, 2020 · Our video of i-rock songs from the ’90s pays homage to the units that were pushing themselves (and their hearing) to new extremities. Discussions of musical movements from different eras...
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Oct 29, 2021 · These next 35 music documentaries include the staple originals as well as newcomers who have taken the art into a completely new direction. 1. Gimme Shelter (1970) An absolute classic rock documentary, Gimme Shelter follows The Rolling Stones on the last leg of their United States tour in 1969.
