Category: industrial

13 August 2026 / industrial

Sunswarm – Those Who Do Not Build Must Burn

English industrial duo, Sunswarm, know their music can be dismissed as bedroom noodling or taken seriously as art that breaks rules and innovates. Much of modern industrial follows the former,…

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24 November 2025 / Dark

Your Inland Empire – Your Inland Empire

Thompson Twins changed their name to Babble in 1993 to move away from their synth-pop identity. Seldom does this happen in rock or metal with the most notable exception being…

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16 November 2025 / industrial

Black Cross Hotel – Songs for Switches

What do you get when you cross a post-metal band with one of the most successful industrial metal groups of the 1990s? It sounds like a formulaic joke, but members…

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11 August 2025 / industrial

Black Magnet – Megamantra

Oklahoma industrial metal crew, Black Magnet, started as the solo project of James Hammontree and experienced a rapid rise to the forefront of the underground after the release of their…

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26 July 2025 / Dark

Phantom Heir – Fragile Immortals

International collaborators, Angel Eduardo and Redouane Aouameur, have a clear division of labour. The former handles the lyrics and clean vocals, and the latter pens the words for his harsh…

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25 July 2025 / industrial

Digital Negative – Intersect

Does anything have more promise than industrial music and yet so little to show for it? We could be asking this question in 1995 or 2025, but the genre and…

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7 June 2025 / industrial

Youth Code – Yours, With Malice

Los Angeles duo, Youth Code, are one of the few artists to receive praise for reviving the industrial/EBM music of the late 1980s that never achieved its full potential. Tours…

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31 May 2025 / Experimental

Meatwound – Macho

Meatwound are not sure what they are beyond four musicians generating noise and aggression. That’s not a negative, either. Now on their fourth album, they release their latest effort via…

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11 May 2025 / Experimental

Operation Suffocate – Feudal Age

Turn up the pressure of the shower faucet and rinse the gunge from your tumble dryer filter. Now, imagine a musical soundtrack to this mind-numbing but necessary task. Florida industrial…

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7 April 2025 / industrial

Derision Cult – Mercenary Notes, Pt. 2

Derision Cult base their musical operations in Chicago, the city that spawned industrial metal thanks to Ministry. You can also make the case for Birmingham (England) due to the impact…

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