History Music / Front242

* [[ExcitedShowTitle Excited Band Name!]]: фронта! 242

* RefrainFromAssuming: It's "Welcome to Paradise", not "Hey Poor".

* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Tyranny (For You)'' largely dispensed with the sardonic sense of humor that had pervaded much of their previous work, and overall displayed a darker, harder-edged, and more ominous sound that was more in line with 90's industrial. As a whole, Front 242 can be considered a Darker And Edgier successor to electronic groups that came before them, such as Music/Kraftwerk and Fad Gadget.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually in the 4-5 realm, with the odd song dropping below that (especially their early, SynthPop-ish material) and a decent amount of ''06:21:03:11 Up Evil'' and ''05:22:09:12 Off'' making it to a 6, and also a few occasional songs, such as "Headhunter", which go up to a 7.

* HarshVocals: Christine "99" Kowalski on the ''05:22:09:12 Off'' album. In recent years, primary vocalist Jean-Luc De Meyer tends to affect a more harsh vocal delivery for live sets, as opposed to the more cold, detached style he favored in previous decades.

* HarshVocals: Christine "99" Kowalski on the ''05:22:09:12 Off'' album.

Their CrowningMomentOfAwesome is generally considered to be their song ''Headhunter'' off their album ''Front By Front''. ''Headhunter'' is also their SignatureSong.

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'''Front 242''' is a Belgian EBM band and the TropeNamer (but not the TropeCodifier) for Electronic Body Music: this term was coined for their 1984 album ''No Comment''.

Their style, EBM, is a subgenre of {{Industrial}} that resembles the DarkerAndEdgier cousin of SynthPop. "DarkerAndEdgier Music/{{Kraftwerk}}" is a good description. The music itself is punk-like, aggressive and danceable ElectronicMusic with mostly conventional (verse-bridge-chorus) song structures.

* [[YouAreNumberSix You Are Number Twenty-Three]]: Richard 23 (a.k.a. Richard Jonckheere).

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: both [[GratuitousRussian Russian]] and [[GratuitousGerman German]]. "фронта!" [[note]]Front![[/note]] is somewhere in a lot of their graphic design work, and the songs "Kampfbereit" and "Im Rhythmus Bleiben" are in German.

** They also have a few songs of their own that go into the 7-8 minute range- "Commando Mix", " "Masterhit (Parts 1 & 2)" and "Junkdrome" are all good examples.

* SpellingSong: "Until Death Us Do Part"

* VoiceClipSong: "Welcome to Paradise" and "Angst". Incidentally, both sample ranting preachers.

* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: "Circling Overland" describes a dystopia where surveillance drones rule the skies. [[HarsherInHindsight Remind you of what the US DHS is doing today?]]
* EpicRocking: 'Not Bleeding Red'' by Nothing But Noise, an ambient side project of Music/{{Front 242}}, is a total of 96 minutes, and two of the tracks clock over 18 minutes in length.
** They also have a few songs of their own that go into the 7-8 minute range- "Commando Mix", " "Master Hit (Parts 1 & 2)" and "Junkdrome" are all good examples.

* NonAppearingTitle: The majority of their tracks follow this trope. Notable exceptions: "Special Forces", "Don't Crash", "GVDT", "Never Stop".

Front 242 is a Belgian EBM band and the TropeNamer (but not the TropeCodifier) for Electronic Body Music: this term was coined for their 1984 album ''No Comment''.

* SurrealMusicVideo: "Headhunter" and "Tragedy (For You)".

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually in the 4-5 realm, with the odd song dropping below that (especially their early, SynthPop-ish material) and a decent amount of ''06:21:03:11 Up Evil'' and ''05:22:09:12 Off'' making it to a 6.

* They also have a few songs of their own that go into the 7-8 minute range- "Commando Mix", " "Master Hit (Parts 1 & 2)" and "Junkdrome" are all good examples.

* RefrainFromAssuming: it's "Welcome to Paradise", not "Hey Poor".

* {{Sampling}}: used in almost every song.

* NonAppearingTitle: The majority of their tracks follow this trope. Notable exceptions: "Special Forces", "Don't Crash", "Never Stop".

* NonAppearingTitle: The majority of their tracks follow this trope. Notable exceptions: "Special Forces", "Felines", "Never Stop".

* [[YouAreNumberSix You Are Number Twenty-Three]]: Richard Jonckheere's StageName is Richard 23.

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Front 242 member Richard 23 was a founding member of Revolting Cocks alongside {{Ministry}}'s Al Jourgensen.