What Band Got You Into Industrial?

[DJ Nocker]

No matter what you say, you were not born with a love for all industrial music, so what started the interest?

Be specific! What band, what album, what song even! Which one started the craze for you? Were you one of the many Wax Trax kids that fell for KMFDM? Was it some sappy Synthpop song? Or do you hate the industrial music genre (and sub genres) and are just in it for the fashion?

im bored and want to discuss something, so discuss!

[BloodCupcake]

I think it was really The Birthday Massacre, Psyclon Nine and Dawn Of Ashes. I think the song from The Birthday Massacre was either "Blue" or "Looking Glass", the song from Psyclon Nine was "Parasitic" and the song from Dawn Of Ashes was "Torture Device". I'm still no expert on idustrial and listen to it randomly but that got me into God Module and Combichrist and such. I'm more of a song person in industrial than a die hard of any band but I am really liking God Module and a few other artsits.

[phee]

Back when I was 12.... I had two loves in music.... Tangerine Dream/Steve Roach type stuff..... and Death Metal..... Depeche mode appealed to me an awful lot soon after.... then "The Land Of Rape and Honey" by ministry.... Then Skinny Puppy.... then I WAS HOOKED.

[wormsinwombs]

I'm probably going to be boo'd but nine inch nails: pretty hate machine got me into industrial then I discovered wumpscut: wreath of barbs and then I discovered coil: horse rotovator. There is stuff in between but this seems like the main path.

[Destroit]

No matter what you say, you were not born with a love for all industrial music, so what started the interest?

Speak for yourself, I am ultra l33t.

Speak for yourself, I am ultra l33t.

[Nate Kriepp]

Oh, I guess the first stone in my road to Industrial was Laibach. I was stationed in Germany in the late eighties and I heard Sympathy For The Devil on New Years Eve 1989.

[Troy Spiral (13)]

In 12th grade I was listening to Nitzer Ebb , NIN, Ministry (not "real" industrial apparently or so I was told) and i read some articles about their influences (Kraftwerk, Einsturzende Neubauten, Joy Division, Christian Death) etc, which I do like) and they were talking about Skinny Puppy and such and I sort of "worked backwards" from there. I ended up figuring out (or being told) the difference between "real industrial" and "industrial like" music (apparently, a distinction I still dont care about). I'm really not that big into what I'd call "hardcore industrial" as even though I "like the sound" its really just to my ear, an experimental sound scape usually more than what I think of as a "song" that I like for academic reasons, but not really to listen to over and over again (SP/TG et al). The sort of crossover industrial / dance / goth stuff like NIN/Wumpscut/Das Ich blah blah) was more (and still is) my style. Industrial has always been lets call it goth-leaning , even without me knowing it (and it wasnt necessarily intentional by the artists), I actually never even heard the term "Goth" for years after I had already been listening to what would be called Goth / Industrial / EBM. I'm not sure how I managed that. It wasn't until around 94 (two years after high school) that I heard about "Goth / Industrial Crossover" which, basically , in he article i read in AP magazine, included almost every active "Industrial" band that I knew about.

At least in the circles I used to be in if it wasn't Throbbing Gristle, SPK or SP it wasn't "real industrial", which I used to buy into the musical genre snobbery but now I just view it as an exersize in unnecessary elitism.

Heck i used to have The Velvet Underground & Nico (album) playing over and over again in my car and some guy I used to hang out with (who was into S.P.) said 'what is this nonsense?' after that I kind of decided to just ignore the "its not cool enough" mentality. hah.

Ok i kind of got off on a tangent there.

I think the first song I heard and recognized (after the fact) was Ministry's "Theives" and was really into it, even though it was like another year before I ever actually heard the term "industiral" per se.

[gladcarrot]

It was 1993 and I heard NIN's Wish for the first time, oddly enough during the MTV Music Video Awards. It was played during the "Best Action Sequence" category for the Alien^3 lead furnace scene. I was really intrigued by that song and borrowed Broken and fell in love. A friend lent me Psalm 69 and the Wax Trax 13th Anniversary 3 CD set and I was hooked on industrial from that point forward. I too went backward through history and forced myself to listen to Throbbing Gristle and SPK just so I could really appreciate and understand the genre.

[phee]

Heh I guess I could say the first "year" I got into industrial in some form would have been 1989.

[DJ Nocker]

I'm probably going to be boo'd but nine inch nails: pretty hate machine got me into industrial then I discovered wumpscut: wreath of barbs and then I discovered coil: horse rotovator. There is stuff in between but this seems like the main path.

Your young, not as big a deal. Besides, im more of a snobb when it comes to the difference between goth and industrial then what is industrial in general.

[Simon Bar Sinister]

Skinny Puppy's Remission back in '84. Smothered Hope actually got some radio play back then, and they sounded like nothing else.

Edited June 1, 2011 by Simon Bar Sinister

[Destroit]

In junior high, I listened to stuff like Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and various metal bands because I didn't know anything else dark existed at that point in my life. There was a boy in my grade who was kind of in the same boat, but was more I guess "rocker" and less dark about it, listening to stuff like Deftones and all that. Basically, he had all the fashion but didn't really listen to legit industrial bands or anything of that nature. He had an older brother, who was in the high school at the time, and HE...well honestly he frightened the shit out of me, he was intimidating, I thought he was super-evil at the time. In later years, I've come to find out he's one of the nicest people I've ever known and still run into him at CC occasionally, so it's silly to think now that I used to be afraid of him then. I would walk outside after school and my classmate's older brother would be hanging out there with 2-3 other high school kids waiting for him to get off school, so I would glance at the bands on their shirts because for some reason I considered these kids to be more legit than anyone in my grade. I was the only overtly obsessively dark kid in my whole school, I craved it and sought it out with no prior influence or real reason to do so, and so I gravitated toward his brother's group because their presence was ominous. "Skinny Puppy" was one of many bands on one of their shirts that stood out to me, and I pirated whatever I could of theirs off places like Limewire and Kazaa back when they existed. The scattered jarring noise of it all just sort of did something to me, it was like getting high off noise . And I guess I've been strung-out on it ever since.

In junior high, I listened to stuff like Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and various metal bands because I didn't know anything else dark existed at that point in my life. There was a boy in my grade who was kind of in the same boat, but was more I guess "rocker" and less dark about it, listening to stuff like Deftones and all that. Basically, he had all the fashion but didn't really listen to legit industrial bands or anything of that nature. He had an older brother, who was in the high school at the time, and HE...well honestly he frightened the shit out of me, he was intimidating, I thought he was super-evil at the time. In later years, I've come to find out he's one of the nicest people I've ever known and still run into him at CC occasionally, so it's silly to think now that I used to be afraid of him then. I would walk outside after school and my classmate's older brother would be hanging out there with 2-3 other high school kids waiting for him to get off school, so I would glance at the bands on their shirts because for some reason I considered these kids to be more legit than anyone in my grade. I was the only overtly obsessively dark kid in my whole school, I craved it and sought it out with no prior influence or real reason to do so, and so I gravitated toward his brother's group because their presence was ominous. "Skinny Puppy" was one of many bands on one of their shirts that stood out to me, and I pirated whatever I could of theirs off places like Limewire and Kazaa back when they existed. The scattered jarring noise of it all just sort of did something to me, it was like getting high off noise . And I guess I've been strung-out on it ever since.

Edited June 1, 2011 by Chernobyl

[Raev]

No matter what you say, you were not born with a love for all industrial music, so what started the interest?

Be specific! What band, what album, what song even! Which one started the craze for you? Were you one of the many Wax Trax kids that fell for KMFDM? Was it some sappy Synthpop song? Or do you hate the industrial music genre (and sub genres) and are just in it for the fashion?

im bored and want to discuss something, so discuss!

I discovered KMFDM and Nitzer Ebb at about the same time (1992ish, with the help of my best friends older cousin and her room mates) and was intrigued, because it was different from everything I had heard up until that point. I was then given a copy of "A mind is a terrible thing to taste" and "Psalm 69". Next I was introduced to Alien Sex Fiend a very short time later in the same summer. At this point, I was informed that this music that was becoming a full blown fascination was called "industrial" so I started seeking out all forms of industrial that I could. I remember going to a store in Dearborn Heights called "Repeat the Beat" and hitting their industrial section (which wasn't very big) and buying just about everything I could and throwing myself into it.

Around 1994 I was in full swing with it, buying anything with the Wax Trax!/TVT labels to it (which, had some hits and misses). I was also buying anything off of the Cleopatra label, mostly by mail order. A lot of my musical expansion happened during these time periods. Admittedly, by 1999 I had gotten bored with the genre because it didn't seem like it was doing anything new and exciting anymore, it all started to seem like more of the same.

I stopped buying music and listening to music altogether until around 2005. Around them I started wondering whatever happened to that genre I had so fallen in love with. Curious, I joined a yahoo group about industrial and became interwebz friends with a rivet head who suggested a long list of newer bands to check out. I did so, found that the genre had evolved at some point when I wasn't looking and had a new sound to it. Some of the children of industrial I really loved, some I didn't care for. Either way though, it showed me something I was ignorant to.

It evolves, it inspires, it changes, it does something *different*...and that's what drew me to it in the first place. My love affair is very much intact to this day.

Edited June 2, 2011 by Raev

[DJ Nocker]

It evolves, it inspires, it changes, it does something *different*...and that's what drew me to it in the first place. My love affair is very much intact to this day.

Well said!

[Strange]

So what got me into industrial, well CombiChrist is so great but their song "All Pain is gone" and it's so good i request it all the time at City but they never play it, the beat of the song gets me dancing.

[emmymau]

Simultaneous loanings of Ministry's "Land of Rape & Honey" and Skinny Puppy's "Rabies" some time around 1990, if memory serves. I remember buying "Too Dark Park" on cassette (twice--man it was annoying when those things wore out). In fact, I think I eventually only graduated to buying CDs because stuff like 16 Volt and Frontline Assembly weren't available on cassette. Such a Luddite, I was back then.

[killyosaur]

Hmm, I started with Ministry (who I learned about as a result of a side project collaboration between Al Jourgensen amd Jello Biafra called Lard) and Skinny Puppy, heard of a couple of other bands but never really got into Industrial other than a passing interest until about 2 years ago when I ran into some DJ I know from work, goes by Same or Saint or something But a bit more seriously, really was DJ Saint who introduced me to the wider world of modern Industrial and all the greatness therein.

[DJ Saint]

Hmm, I started with Ministry (who I learned about as a result of a side project collaboration between Al Jourgensen amd Jello Biafra called Lard) and Skinny Puppy, heard of a couple of other bands but never really got into Industrial other than a passing interest until about 2 years ago when I ran into some DJ I know from work, goes by Same or Saint or something But a bit more seriously, really was DJ Saint who introduced me to the wider world of modern Industrial and all the greatness therein.

definitely not the same as other DJ's and sometimes not so much a Saint either

Glad I could introduce you to some tunes along the way and you sir have thrown some cool punk music my way too! (Thanks)

[DarkVampire]

I really don't listen to industrial but NIN and Fear Factory (Some say they are industrial) opened the door for me.

[james]

i got started on NIN and then i stumbled on kmfdm and it went from there but i love it now i'm getting in to skinny puppy and Ministry and more.... but i'm in to a lot of punk

Edited August 17, 2011 by james

[Destroit]

i got started on NIN and then i stumbled on kmfdm and it went from there but i love it now i'm getting in to skinny puppy and Ministry and more.... but i'm in to a lot of punk

You're one of those people that makes me think punk still has a tiny pulse .

[DJ Nocker]

You're one of those people that makes me think punk still has a tiny pulse .

I just find most straight up punk to be sloppily made and boring, which I know is supposed to be part of the appeal, but not my thing for the most part.

[DJDeadbeat]

I wanna say it was "Land of Rape and Honey" by Ministry.

[james]

yep punk still lives in my hart.. but i like a lot of music