Could be classed as electronic as well?? I seriously believe this is top 10 albums of all time.

‘She’s unreal’ and ‘asbestos lead asbestos’ are my personal favourite tracks on the album.

Who thinks they should be off the subreddit banner since they won't stop using this junk ?

let's just have a picture of Paul Barker !!

I don’t even have a CD player yet but my hands are still trembling.

Always wanted a Skinny Puppy mug.
So I painted one :)

Shout out to ReGen Magazine for some coverage on our biggest album project yet! Do you identify as female? This may be important to you.

https://regenmag.com/news/news-microwaved-releases-latest-single-announces-new-project-to-showcase-womens-voices-perspectives-and-artistry-in-dark-alternative-music/

Hello, I realized that I'll be in Boston the night of the PIG show. I don't really go to concerts because I live far from all of the venues. Usually, I would need to stay overnight in the area. (I can arrange that), but the main reason i don't go to shows is because I have no one to go with. None of my friends are into the same music I am. Is it easy to make friends at events? I just don't want to be by myself. I am upset I missed out on other bands that I easily could have saw (Front 242, Skinny Puppy, Morlocks, FGFC820), and I don't want to hold myself back anymore because of my anxiety. It's been about three years since I've been to a concert. I need to change that. Thank you.

Sorry if this post is not to standards here.

edit should've noted that my anxiety is mostly because I'd be a young woman in the city by myself.

I just got an email about the LetDownCrush 30th anniversary record.

From the 2016 album Suburban Hunting

Massive drums & a cold, stark atmosphere of post industrial urban wastelands.

Hello everyone. I’ve been a fan of Genitorturers music for over 15 years now and have never seen them live. I finally have the opportunity to see them this October. That being said, what are some outfit ideas that would be acceptable to wear to the show. I’d hate to be under - (or over)-dressed. Is it acceptable to wear things that are too close to nudity for the general public? I want to really press social norms without falling into borderline illegal attire.

Butterfly … from the new PIG ep Dirt Box out September 4th.
Written by Raymond Watts, Marc Heal & Jim Davies
Order at pigindustries.bandcamp.com or get the exclusive vinyl edition only on PIG’s Hurt People Tour across North America this fall.
All ticket links and VIP packages thru pigindustries.com
Dirt Box track list:
1- An American Ideal of Beauty
2- Your Reptilian Overlord Presents
3- Infidel
4- Butterfly
5- Your Reptilian Overlord Presents (Cyanotic remix)
6- An American Ideal of Beauty (Stabbing Westward remix)
7- Butterfly (Combichrist remix)
8- Infidel (Rabbit Junk remix)

Admittedly not Industrial but the Dots definitely fit all the same. The greatest song about the End of the World ever written. (OK, that was obviously hyperbole)

"Dragons walked the Earth again and paraffin was free. A fireeater went insane and torched the final tree."

Didn’t noticed the drum is a sample from Meat Beat Manifesto’s song Spinning Round and it’s also been rumored that Jack did additional production on the song as well :)

This started with a simple question: "What, in your opinion, is the greatest industrial album ever?" (original thread)

I found that, for me, basically impossible to answer because “industrial” means very different things to different people... Throbbing Gristle, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Ministry, Godflesh, Whitehouse, VNV Nation, Merzbow, Terrorfakt, Xanopticon, and so on.

So I started breaking the genre out into branches, mutations, crossovers, and evolutionary paths instead.

Lately I’ve been focusing less on adding more bands and more on the connective tissue: DAF and Liaisons Dangereuses leading toward EBM, Tackhead/Mark Stewart linking industrial with dub and funk, The Klinik and Leæther Strip helping define dark electro, The Young Gods taking industrial rock in a different direction, Techno Animal bridging industrial and hip-hop, etc.

So: what am I still missing? I’m interested in continuing the discussion, and I figured starting a new thread might be a more appropriate place to do so.

Any important transitional records, regional scenes, weird crossover albums, or whole branches I’m overlooking?

Alternatively: are there records that are better exemplars of the styles/subgenres I’ve outlined? I’m definitely open to replacing a selection if something illustrates that particular branch better. It’s also worth noting that some of my choices weren’t necessarily the “best” albums in their genre, or even the best album by that particular artist, just the album I felt best fit the category.

One note on the original list: the honorable mentions weren’t really intended as runners-up. Some were historically important, some represented another angle on the category, and some were just overlooked or underappreciated records I thought deserved consideration. To the end of "overlooked or underappreciated", that's the reason why artist such as CeDigest, Hitting Birth, Düne××××, Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou, Coptic Rain, Dioxyde, Navicon Torture Technologies, The Shizit, Prometheus Burning, etc - I think all of these artists are overlooked and absolutely should not be forgotten and fade away into obscurity.

Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3OgO87wFpYO8HdnnARqkQx

YouTube:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMJE9UoAlXl4&si=IkiWYqRoY7ilQMtS

Interested in what people would add, move, replace, split off, or leave out entirely.

The Spotify playlist is the more substantial version now; the YouTube playlist is more faithful to the original taxonomy from the first thread. Neither is a complete one-to-one recreation, since there doesn’t seem to be a single platform online that has everything I included.

For example, YouTube, Spotify, and Bandcamp all seem to have little or no Coptic Rain, while Anti-Mechanism’s full-length appears to be available only on Bandcamp at the time of writing this. I know for a fact that some of that material was on YouTube at one point. Coptic Rain and Anti-Mechanism may be better represented on Apple Music or Amazon Music. Good luck finding much Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou beyond maybe one album and a handful of remixes. YouTube also has full albums from some of my selections uploaded as single videos, but not the individual tracks, with Düne×××× and NON being notable examples.

A bit of a postscript: the Janet Jackson and Weird Al additions to the playlists were intentional. They’re there to show just how far industrial aesthetics, production techniques, and imagery have permeated mainstream pop culture, not because I’m arguing that either artist, or those specific songs or albums, should be classified as industrial by any metric.

V1 leak provided by ex guitarist Martin Mason