Industrial Metal

[gabalgabow]

Cool topic!

MONOTREMATA from Usa plays a cool mix of early Godflesh and doom.
http://www.myspace.com/monotremata

There's an english band called CONCRETE LUNG, I have their MCD and it sounds like old indus metal with the right atmosphere... Cool!
http://www.myspace.com/concretelung

LAIBACH also had their industrial metal moments.

[Infirmary]

I did a release on my label for a local band called "The Latter", it's definitely new and lies in such a broad genre as what could be considered "industrial metal".
Here's how I describe it:

"Electro-organic industrial rock sludge metal with: tight riffing, intelligent drum programming, grooves, and composition that changes suddenly and rides for just the right amount of time when necessary.
There is a sickened viral mood.
It's very catchy but the sun doesn't shine...
Smoothly-produced distorted anguish from these virtually unknown and obsessive Midwest artists who are making a form of music that exists outside the boundary of "scenes"

I have a few copies left before I repress, here's two samples of what it sounds like:
http://soundcloud.com/enemata/the-latter-excerpt-1
http://soundcloud.com/enemata/the-latter-excerpt-2

Sat in on one of their practices recently and they pull that off live very well as a four-piece with programmed drums.

[tiny_tove]

Iugula-Thor "the wheel of process" 12" is one of my all time favorite "industrial-metal" recordings.
If you have only heard the bands PE works (Bloodlust, Jinx, many compialtions), or noise works (GROSS, OEC,..) give still try to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSewVsIVeJY
Unfortunately just the a-side. It combines the atmosphere of religious spiritual music, "CMI" era dark ambient, with sepultura sampling (hah!) industrial metal assaults. It's more industrial than it is metal, but with vocal style and heavy metal guitars in mix, perfect in my opinion.  "industrial metal" is much more audible in the b-side hits "Propeller Sodom Lucifer" and "Pigskull Loudspeaker"!
One quite similar track can be found on nearly perfect Tesco release "Assholes", which seems always to be available for cheap (Finnish can check out 2nd hand bin on Sarvilevyt!), but I rate it high!

I think Iugula-Thor would require topic of its own. Band with pretty long history, with plenty of diversity in their discography, and majority of it - unique!

apparently they are back.

anyway in Italy there is this excellent book I may have already mentioned industrialrevolution-gr.blogspot.com

It gives a wide perspective of the genre from day one until NIn and metal related parts, with a strong focus on them, although not betraying the "canons" and giving plenty of space to GO, Boyd rice, DPI, etc.

It is more an introduction to the genre than a book aimed to experts, but it is realistic, serios and has the guts to deal with several uncorrect projects that usually make liberals cringe.

[Stridulum]

anyway in Italy there is this excellent book I may have already mentioned http://italy.indymedia.org/

Depla, you gave the wrong link! ;)

http://retaliation.splinder.com/

Thanks for spreading the word, much appreciated.

[tiny_tove]

lol. I was checking Chris Knight's article on the London revolt's aftermath and got lost

anyway the site I intended to publish is this

http://industrialrevolution-gr.blogspot.com

[martialgodmask]

Do Halo count? Definition of their sound seems to vary whoever I speak to.

Great band anyway, for what it's worth.

[pentd]

what... no young gods and/or treponem pal mentioned?!

edit-- haha this old treponem pal "aggravation" album that i havent listened to since 199x sounds more like voivod now than anything industrial. also on yutube some newer stuff pretty embarassing... but this old stuff is ok! still, i seem to remember records from late 80's / early 90's that had some impact, but now they sound mostly annoying. these kinda sounds eventually pushed me away from "industrial" stuff, left me in the dark until recent times

edit 2--- aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa what the fukkk is this the same young gods that released l'eau rouge holy shitski.

ok i give up, this sucks monkey ass. credits to skin chamber and treponem pal's debut. fuck this shit

[Bloated Slutbag]

This probably belongs in the post mortem thread, but mention of Iugula-Thor jogged my memory:

Crawl/Child
http://urbantheories.blogspot.com/2011/08/crawlchild-self-titled-principles-of.html

I`ve dropped this name more than a few times over the years, to little apparent notice. Their self-titled debut is definitely more industrial than metal, and it`s also heavy as all fuck. Proper songs, averaging four minutes, verse chorus all that, but all swansesque slomo metal percussive brutality and mechanized industrial atmos. Very angry sounding young men.

Intrestingly, their lastfm site tags them "power electronics" and lists "similar artists" like Keloid Schematics, Einleitungszeit, Iugula-Thor, and Grunt!

http://www.last.fm/music/Crawl%252FChild

But the only Crawl/Child recording I`ve got that sounds anything like power electronics is a live-in-radio-studio session I pulled off  the airwaves waaay back, where the percussion is totally enveloped by shrieking knife sharpeners and distant metal percussion. (Probably what they`d sound like if you jack up the background sounds and filter out the percussives, actually). I remember the radio host kept making a big deal out of the fact that they apparently hailed from Pontypool, Ontario; aka Buttfuck, Nowhere. But I think I can dig where he was at. I like to imagine there are angry young lads like this in every other backwater laying form to industrial waste. (Crawl/Child apparently performed live banging the hell out of gas canisters which only later were found to still contain gas! Could`ve made for quite the "explosive" performance...)

EDIT Listening now to Purge The Guilt from the self titled tape and the shit's so distorted as to practically resemble HNW.

EDIT EDIT It should be noted that the follow-up disc Principles Of Exclusion is a far cry from (and methinks far inferior to) the debut tape. Much faster, and bursting with raw energy, the high gain heavily distorted grindcore vibe is cranked to the max at the expense of all the dense texture and deft arrangement that makes the tape such a rare gem.

The gent who posted the above Crawl/Child also gives us Scald here:

http://urbantheories.blogspot.com/2011/08/scald-drowning-in-solitude.html

Definitely more the metal than industrial voice here, but I do appreciate the raw brutality on display. Beats the fuck out of, say, Skin Chamber. Good shit.

[P-K]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSewVsIVeJY
Unfortunately just the a-side.  "industrial metal" is much more audible in the b-side hits "Propeller Sodom Lucifer" and "Pigskull Loudspeaker"!

here we go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSkT-RvFyBM
full Slayer worship at 8:00  .....great 12"......if you dig that, check the Forced Flesh cd.

[Bloated Slutbag]

Dissecting Table - 1st 4 CD albums incl. Dead Zone

If that would include "Music For Performance: Dead Body And Me" I'd be forced to chime in - IF by "metal" we mean layers upon layers of mechanized metals pounding away a la Vivenza. There are a lot of great tracks scattered here and there throughout the DT discog, but this was the closest Mr Tsuji ever got to a completely solid album; achieved primarily by cutting out all that cheeseball EBM ding-a-ling, going straight for dense atmospheric pummeling. (I've further customized my own copy by snipping the ding-a-ling book-ends off of track 3, relegating the album to almost classic spheres.) Unfortunately, the genius buried in all subsequent work suffers severely from the debilitating effects of tourette's. It just doesn't seem fair that this was a one-off dating back to '95; it's so much better than anything else he's ever done. Closes most fittingly with an elongated bit of metal-thunk'd ambient "Orgasm".

[andy vomit]

Do Halo count? Definition of their sound seems to vary whoever I speak to.

Great band anyway, for what it's worth.

i'd say so.  they're less structured (ie, 100% improvised) than say, godflesh or skin chamber, but i think they fit in. 

amazing band, by the way.  i wish they'd do another full length.

[icepick method]

Dissecting Table - 1st 4 CD albums incl. Dead Zone

If that would include "Music For Performance: Dead Body And Me" I'd be forced to chime in - IF by "metal" we mean layers upon layers of mechanized metals pounding away a la Vivenza. There are a lot of great tracks scattered here and there throughout the DT discog, but this was the closest Mr Tsuji ever got to a completely solid album; achieved primarily by cutting out all that cheeseball EBM ding-a-ling, going straight for dense atmospheric pummeling. (I've further customized my own copy by snipping the ding-a-ling book-ends off of track 3, relegating the album to almost classic spheres.) Unfortunately, the genius buried in all subsequent work suffers severely from the debilitating effects of tourette's. It just doesn't seem fair that this was a one-off dating back to '95; it's so much better than anything else he's ever done. Closes most fittingly with an elongated bit of metal-thunk'd ambient "Orgasm".

lol, shows how much opinions differ, Music For Performance is one of my least favorite albums from his pre-cdr days. Too much ambient.  I love all the cheeseball ebm drumming. I think of it more like japanese festival teiko drumming if you replaced all their traditional instruments with oil barrels.
Zeno was most correct on page 1 with Groping In The Dark. I've heard a couple people compare that album to The Berzerker. Though like with much of his other work i'm not even sure it's all guitar. He seems to use harsh synth tones and static to perform the same function as a guitar.


Another japanese band worth mentioning is Der Eisenrost. Literally Tetsuo:TIM with more guitars.
http://youtu.be/wTEc1X5kgKE


Would Nunwhore Commando qualify or is that more digi-goregrind? there's Cyanotic, more in the Ministry/ebm vein.

[Bloated Slutbag]

["Music For Performance: Dead Body And Me"] was the closest Mr Tsuji ever got to a completely solid album; achieved primarily by cutting out all that cheeseball EBM ding-a-ling, going straight for dense atmospheric pummeling.

Music For Performance is one of my least favorite albums from his pre-cdr days. Too much ambient.  I love all the cheeseball ebm drumming.

Oh I do too, but it tends to detract in the above-solidified from a quite tense, and otherwise all-pervasive, atmos. I'd count Mr Tsuji and I as kindred in our spirited worship of The (early) Klinik. The man has got a sense of humor and is seldom afraid to show it. Best joke ever: the only thing he ever does for his hero's label is also the least Klinik-esque (though possibly taking cues from Dive...) The closing ambient "Orgasm" is an obvious reference to the frantic masturbating session which immediately followed invitation to "release" on Dirk.

[Bloated Slutbag]

Mention also ought to be made here of Sink Manhattan

http://freedomhasnobounds.com/?p=484

As far as Discogs knows, SM've got but one lp to their credit. My introduction was their few tracks contributed to RRRecords' first Testament compilation lp (itself absolutely essential solely for the locked SBOTHI grooves, but I digress)

There's a wonderful (fairly harsh) noise tape compilation from the late 90's called Factory Rock, but I think a truer representation of the title would be Sink Manhattan. Basically good ol' hard-driven rock 'n roll augmented with steel on steel and spring coil; plus a brilliant vocalist who sounds like a retarded stuttering refugee from Drunks With Guns. I'd surmise they recorded in an abandoned warehouse, after getting evicted from their basement lab-hole, and just mic'd whatever was on hand. Actually not far from some early Swans - or better, the early Feotus touring group, immortalized as Foetus Corruptus; which is basically Swans with Thirlwell subbing for Gira.

[Bloated Slutbag]

All this mention of Halo, Godflesh, Skin Chamber etc makes me want to indulge a favorite (if now largely defunct) passtime: slooooowing the shit the fuck down. That is to say,

Make it right.

This went and still goes without saying when playing back early Swans vinyl. At 33 rpm, the classic "Young God" is Heaviness Incarnate. Though probably my favorite is a slowed down Gira delivering "I Crawled", especially when the demented voice starts crooning "My faaa-thuuurrrr.." Hilarious. Disturbing. Perfect. Needless to say, the same rule applies to all the abovementioned.

Make it right.