Suggestions
Suggestions
Industrial music starts from experimental music and electronic dance, and industrial metal makes distorted electric guitar a crucial part of it, used for metal riffs by some bands and for harsh, abrasive texture by others. Ministry pushed it into wider view at the end of the 1980s, hammering one riff over and over against samples, electronics and distorted vocals. Nine Inch Nails carried it to a mass audience a few years later, with songs built to be sung and records layered in the studio, and alternative metal picked up those electronics afterwards. Guitars up front make it hit harder than guitar-free industrial music, and the mood stays bleak and angry, with personal frustration at its centre.
Josh Musto of Brooklyn’s Trip Villain sums up their second LP “Dose” as “maximum brutality and maximum danceability”, and the record pulls from thrash, industrial techno, EDM and the city’s electronic underground. Black Magnet, once James Hammontree’s solo project and now a quartet, drew on Godflesh, Nine Inch Nails and Alice in Chains for “Megamantra”, with Sanford Parker engineering and mixing. Philadelphia duo Worst Ones set 1990s hardcore and sludge against the machine grind of industrial music on “Vex”, over noise loops and jagged riffs. Ash Prison, with members of 6th Circle, Child Ov Night and Abstracter, put guitars and vocals over cold sequences, drum machines and bulldozing bass on “Future Torn”.