History Main / IndustrialMetal

* Music/{{AliceCooper}} (Brutal Planet and Dragontown)

* Music/{{N.K.V.D}} (Industial BlackMetal with martial industrial influences)

* Music/{{Mnemic}}

** ''Music/SongsAboutFucking'' (1987)

* Music/{{HEALTH}} (mixed with NoiseRock and EBM in ''SLAVES OF FEAR'')

* Music/SistermachineGun

* Music/TheBirthdayMassacre

* Music/{{Cypecore}} (Also MelodicDeathMetal, although they toned down the Melodeath elements a bit starting on ''Identity'')

* Music/{{HEALTH}} (mixed with NoiseRock annd EBM)

* Music/JulienK (mixed with Synthpop, until their second album where they dropped the industrial and the metal entirely)

* Music/MarilynManson

* Music/NineInchNails (TropeCodifier)

* Music/{{Oomph}}! (TropeMaker and UrExample of Neue Deutsche Härte)

* [[Music/ShiningNorway Shining (Norway)]] (more than a slight case of NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly, 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)

* 3TEETH

* Author & Punisher (also [[DoomMetal drone metal]] and power electronics)

* BILE (Credited as pioneers of the genre during their earliest years.)

* Brand of Sacrifice (Industrial {{Deathcore}})

** Circle of Dust (Klayton's former project before Celldweller, also ChristianMetal up until its return with ''Machines of Our Disgrace'')

* Combichrist (Starting on We Love You. Previous work was Aggrotech.)

* Deceptionist (Industrial TechnicalDeathMetal)

* ''The Young Gods'' (Swiss band around since TheEighties, cited by Music/NineInchNails and Music/{{Ministry}} as an influence)

* AlternativeMetal: there's a lot of overlap between the two genres.
* ConceptAlbum: not at all uncommon, surprisingly. Music/NineInchNails, Music/MarilynManson and Fear Factory have all done more than one album of this type.
* HarshVocals: not universal, but pretty common in the genre, and done a variety of different ways- from DeathMetal style growling to straight-up CarefulWithThatAxe to electronically distorted weirdness.
* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: usually tends towards the darker end of the spectrum here, though some bands (ie Music/{{KMFDM}}) have an evident sense of humor. Though even that tends to be somewhat towards the cynical end of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism...
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: falls all over the upper half of the scale, with 6-8 being typical (9-10 is primarily the domain of DeathMetal and BlackMetal -influenced bands). Some bands drop a bit lower from time to time as well, but not all that often.
* MusicToInvadePolandTo: another (false) accusation thrown at certain bands due to the band in question either being [[AllGermansAreNazis German]] or using totalitarian imagery in a subversive way. Or both, in the case of Music/{{KMFDM}}.
* NuMetal: some bands, like Dope, Orgy, Static-X and Powerman 5000, combine these two genres to some degree. Not surprising, since many NuMetal bands were influenced by IndustrialMetal to begin with.
* {{Sampling}}: very common, and, like in {{Industrial}} Music, more likely to be movies or found sounds than other songs, though the latter has been known to happen from time to time.
* SubduedSection: popularized in this genre by Music/NineInchNails, but common for many other bands in the genre as well.
* TheNewRockAndRoll: a number of bands in the genre got accused by MoralGuardians of being responsible for school shootings, suicides and the like, with Music/MarilynManson being the biggest target of them all.
* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: some bands favor simple riffs and rhythms. Also, solos are rarer than in most other subgenres of HeavyMetal, though not completely unheard of. However, the often dense production makes for an odd variation of this trope, and some bands (Music/NineInchNails, for example) make use of numerous tempo and time changes.
* TropeCodifier: Music/NineInchNails and to some extent Music/MarilynManson and Music/FearFactory; Music/{{Rammstein}} for the Neue Deutsche Härte subgenre.
* TropeMaker: Music/{{Ministry}} and/or Music/{{Godflesh}}; Music/{{Oomph}} for the Neue Deutsch Härte.
* UrExample: Music/KillingJoke, Music/{{Swans}}, Music/BigBlack and The Young Gods can be thought of as this.

* ''Orgy'' (They also border on NuMetal)

* Music/{{Cypecore}} (Also MelodicDeathMetal)

* Music/{{3TEETH}}