History Main / IndustrialMetal

* Music/TwentyDeadFlowerChildren

* Music/GunsNRoses (on Chinese Democracy surprisingly enough, mixed with traditional styled HardRock)
** 2008 - ''Music/ChineseDemocracy''

* Music/KillingJoke (UrExample)

* Music/{{Mortiis}} (After being dark ambient, and then borderline SynthPop)

* [[Music/ShiningNorway Shining (Norway)]] (more than a slight case of GenreBusting, as they also incorporate elements of ProgressiveMetal, BlackMetal, fusion jazz, and numerous other styles. ''Blackjazz'' marks the point where their material becomes consistently metal-oriented; before that, most of their material was acoustic jazz or progressive rock, although their live shows had always incorporated quite a lot of metal influence)

* [[Music/DevinTownsend Strapping Young Lad]] (Industrial [[DeathMetal death/thrash metal]])

Oh, the music, right. Well, industrial metal is a fusion of industrial music and metal. It's characterised by frequent use of samples, synthesizers and keyboards, and repetitive guitar riffs. Vocals are often distorted, and drum machines are sometimes used. There are two main styles of industrial metal: one with a greater emphasis on ''industrial'' with slightly less guitars and a more prominent use of keyboards, synths and drum machines -- good examples being Nine Inch Nails, Angelspit and KMFDM; and one with a greater emphasis on ''metal'', which is far-and-away the most common type of this genre -- with good examples being Fear Factory, Marilyn Manson and Godflesh.

* Music/{{Angelspit}}

* Music/{{Swans}} (Possible UrExample)

%%* UrExample: Music/KillingJoke, Music/{{Swans}}, Music/BigBlack and The Young Gods can be thought of as this.

* Music/{{Backxwash}} (early material is strictly industrial hip-hop, but she began crossing over with industrial metal starting with ''God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It'')

* Music/TheBirthdayMassacre (their heavier songs border on this, usually DarkWave and GothRock)
* Music/BlackLightBurns (Wes Borland's post-Music/LimpBizkit project, and generally better-received)

* Music/BigBlack (another possible UrExample)
** 1987 - ''Music/SongsAboutFucking''

* Music/BringMeTheHorizon (on ''POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR'', mixed with {{Metalcore}} and NuMetal)

* Music/{{Korn}} (''See You On the Other Side'' primarily; also NuMetal)

* Music/MindlessSelfIndulgence

* Music/StabbingWestward (Industrial AlternativeMetal)

* Music/DavidBowie (decided to take a stab at this with 1995's ''Music/{{Outside}}'', see in particular "The Hearts Filthy Lesson" and the original version of "Hallo Spaceboy")

* Music/DieKrupps (Their work in the 90s especially- their early work was [[Music/{{Industrial}} EBM]])

* Music/FrontLineAssembly (typically {{Industrial}} (although they usually have one or two songs with metal guitar on each album) but their ''Millennium'' album is IndustrialMetal)

* Music/{{KMFDM}}
** Music/{{MDFMK}}

And so, industrial became massively popular. One band, Music/MarilynManson and the Spooky Kids, opened for Nine Inch Nails and, thanks to Trent Reznor's mentorship (if that's a word), dropped the "and the Spooky Kids" bit and basically stuck with the name of its frontman. Thanks to that, people confuse the band with the guy. Initially, Marilyn Manson were (we're talking about the band here) very popular amongst goths, but in recent times have become a joke within the goth scene.

* Music/AliceCooper (Brutal Planet and Dragontown)

** 1998 - ''Music/MechanicalAnimals''

In recent times, industrial seems to have fallen out of favour. Nine Inch Nails is/are moving in entirely different directions, Manson recently got implicated for domestic abuse, Ministry broke up for a few years, so on and so forth. Only Rammstein seem to be that popular anymore. Newer bands seem to be moving towards the upgraded version of Electronic Body Music: Aggro EBM / Hellectro, unless they go in a [[FollowTheLeader similar direction as Rammstein]] ([[OlderThanTheyThink though it was actually Oomph! that created Rammstein's style]]) into the sub-genre of ''Neue Deutsche Härte'' ("New German Loudness")[[note]]named as a ShoutOut to the genre that in the late Seventies spawned the seminal Industrial group [[Music/EinsturzendeNeubauten Einstürzende Neubauten]], ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Deutsche_Welle Neue Deutsche Welle]]''[[/note]] with bands such as Eisbrecher, Megaherz and ASP leading the way. This genre also seems to be the go-to genre for GothicMetal and BlackMetal acts to change to when they undergo a GenreShift, like Music/TheatreOfTragedy, Music/TheKovenant and to an extent Music/CradleOfFilth eventually did. Other bands, mostly falling under the {{metalcore}} banner - most prominently Music/BringMeTheHorizon, Crossfaith, Music/CodeOrange, and Music/MotionlessInWhite - have dabbled with the genre in some form.

* Music/{{HEALTH}} (mixed with NoiseRock and EBM in ''VOL. 4: SLAVES OF FEAR'')
* Music/TheILYS (basically Music/DeathGrips [[TheBandMinusTheFace sans MC Ride]])

** 1992 - ''Music/{{Broken}}''

* [[Music/AuthorAndPunisher Author & Punisher]] (also [[DoomMetal drone metal]], death industrial and traditional industrial)

* Music/{{Hardwiya}} (mixed with [[{{Dubstep}} brostep and deathstep]])

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ79Vri6CV8 Hardwiya - Wrath]]

* Music/{{Hardwiya}} (mixed with [[{{Dubstep}} deathstep]])

* Music/AzureEmote (side project of Monstrosity singer Mike Hrubovcak; has DeathMetal, BlacMetal, and AvantGardeMetal in the mix)

In recent times, industrial seems to have fallen out of favour. Nine Inch Nails is/are moving in entirely different directions, Manson recently got implicated for domestic abuse, Ministry broke up for a few years, so on and so forth. Only Rammstein seem to be that popular anymore. Newer bands seem to be moving towards the upgraded version of Electronic Body Music: Aggro EBM / Hellectro, unless they go in a [[FollowTheLeader similar direction as Rammstein]] ([[OlderThanTheyThink though it was actually Oomph! that created Rammstein's style]]) into the sub-genre of ''Neue Deutsche Härte'' ("New German Loudness")[[note]]named as a ShoutOut to the genre that in the late Seventies spawned the seminal Industrial group [[Music/EinsturzendeNeubauten Einstürzende Neubauten]], ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Deutsche_Welle Neue Deutsche Welle]]''[[/note]] with bands such as Eisbrecher, Megaherz and ASP leading the way. This genre also seems to be the go-to genre for GothicMetal and BlackMetal acts to change to when they undergo a GenreShift, like Music/TheatreOfTragedy, Music/TheKovenant and to an extent Music/CradleOfFilth eventually did. Other bands, mostly falling under the {{metalcore}} banner - like Music/BringMeTheHorizon, Crossfaith, and Music/MotionlessInWhite - have dabbled with the genre in some form.