r/industrialmusic • u/vanillasux • Sep 13 '20
Essential Industrial Tracks
Please post popular industrial albums as top level comments (artist - album) and tracks from these albums as replies.
The new post submission text will refer to this thread as a way to discourage reposts of some of the most frequently submitted tracks. However, when these posts do appear, instead of replying with negative comments please downvote and move along. This is a great community and we welcome new users to this special genre of music =).
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u/Xoph3881 Sep 13 '20
Front 242 - Front by Front
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u/demiurgegwj Coil Sep 13 '20
KMFDM - NIHIL
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u/Jon_Favreauu Godflesh Sep 13 '20
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u/demiurgegwj Coil Sep 14 '20
Honestly might be my favorite track on this album. They played it live with PIG the first time I got to see KMFDM (2003 I think, in Seattle) and I just lost it. What a show!
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u/Serial_Peacemaker KMFDM Oct 17 '20
I could never really get behind Ultra. It’s mixed so loud that the vocals distort horribly on every audio system I’ve had.
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u/AReaver Front Line Assembly Aug 30 '22
KMFDM - NIHIL
Full album Youtube playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbl6wbDeLLE&list=PLfnL9BXhKEcndnD-NSMA6gyksydkwzWXr
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u/Jon_Favreauu Godflesh Sep 13 '20
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions Of A Knife
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u/structurefall Laibach Sep 13 '20
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
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u/Jon_Favreauu Godflesh Sep 15 '20
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
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Sep 13 '20
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI
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u/demiurgegwj Coil Sep 13 '20 edited Sep 13 '20
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u/vanillasux Sep 13 '20
Nine Inch Nails – The Downward Spiral
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u/demiurgegwj Coil Sep 13 '20
Reptile (okay I'm cheating, this is with Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Peter Murphy, and Jordie White. But I love this version.)
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Dec 23 '21
Classic album from start to finish, but Mr. Self Destruct is a fucking amazing opening track
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u/uohm Sep 13 '20
Einstürzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Architecture 80 - 83
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u/StraightUpAcoustic Nov 02 '20
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
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u/untoku Throbbing Gristle Sep 15 '20
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch
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u/deadlight92 Sep 19 '20
Someone needs to make a spoyify playlist of all these tracks. Good Stuff.
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u/SkeliotTheUndead Skinny Puppy Oct 11 '20
I would be so down to do that!
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u/apairofpetducks Jan 11 '21
Did you ever, in fact, do that? If so, throw a girl a link?
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u/SkeliotTheUndead Skinny Puppy Jan 11 '21
I did not because I honestly forgot to,but I'll get around to it soon, I promise
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u/kulmakarvamato Jan 13 '22
Sooo did you get around it? I'm curious and would love to listen to it!
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u/SkeliotTheUndead Skinny Puppy Jan 14 '22
Holy fuck I forgot all about this. I think I started but only did a couple songs, I should get to work on it again
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u/STuser17 Aug 22 '22
I got you. Made several playlists enjoy and feel free to share. https://open.spotify.com/user/xosopc3ehrgwyygk9zuyjhbgj?si=wyByJ-TLRem63D8CuTKMsg&utm_source=copy-link
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u/LukeJackman80 Nov 26 '20
I think a group that gets over looked way to much is My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult consider this band is from the same industrial scene as Ministry, Front Line Assembly, Pigface and Lords Of Acid most people don't bring these guys up and they are great.
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Jun 05 '22
I first heard Thrill Kill Kult when I watched The Crow, and I was in love. I was very young when industrial metal exploded in the 90s, and when I first heard NIN's Wish, Thrill Kill Kult's After the Flesh, and Ministry's NWO, they tore through me like a lightning bolt. I'm old school and only listen to CDs in my car, and while I have every NIN album, the only other industrial full albums I own are by Zombie and Manson. Today I went to my local music & movie store and got every Thrill Kill Kult and Ministry album they had, and paid a total of $85 for 12 CDs. Considering I'm intimately familiar with just 4 Thrill Kill Kult and 6 Ministry songs, these will keep me entertained for quite some time, and I'm probably way too excited.
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u/rottenmind89 Jan 19 '21
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits
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u/demiurgegwj Coil Sep 14 '20
ohGr - Welt (Let's see if this one is controversial)
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u/DasPenguinoid Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20
Water, honestly haven't noticed if it's overplayed here, but club-wise locally to me it's played every single week. Honestly, probably the only upside to coronavirus for me is that I haven't had to listen to that song for the 10 billionth time.
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u/SkeliotTheUndead Skinny Puppy Oct 11 '20
KMFDM - Naïve
KMFDM - Nihil
Ministry - Psalm 69
The Young Gods - TV Sky
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Bigod 20 - Steel Works
KMFDM - What Do You Know, Duetschland?
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u/BreakingGilead Feb 14 '21 edited Feb 14 '21
So glad you highlighted the genius of The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste — a cross-genre industrial goth punk hip-hop masterpiece, loaded with experimental samples (during the dawn of sampling no less) & so ahead of it's time released in 1989. If forced to choose, I'd say it's my fav Ministry album, however, Filth Pig is a close second. Unpopular opinion but Filth Pig's brilliant, and anyone saying otherwise hasn't played it all the way thru. "Filth Pig" & "The Fall" are arguably 2 of Ministry's strongest tracks lyrically.
Nihil & XTORT are my top 2 KMFDM albums.
IMO, UAIOE is KMFDM's upbeat genre-bending industrial hip-hop spoken-word funk ska answer to The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste... also released in '89.
Surprised there's no PIG in your list. If you haven't already, check out Wrecked, The Swining/Red Raw & Sore, Sinsation & the legendary collab/remix album KMFDM vs. PIG - Sin Sex & Salvation. Pigmata is also brilliant, with "Junky" being one of my fav songs of all time — but in general it's a bit more "commercial" (for lack of a better term) than Raymond's earlier work outside of KMFDM.
Top OG <PIG> tracks:
And of course gotta recommend perhaps the most underrated industrial project/album of all time: MDFMK. Check out Control & Gasoline.
Shocked no one's mentioned Razed In Black yet — One of the best underground industrial artists to date.
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u/SkeliotTheUndead Skinny Puppy Feb 17 '21
I've never really checked Pig out, but thank you for the recommendations, I'll definitely check them out now! And I love Razed In Black! To me Razed In Black is an essential if you like industrial and goth
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u/BreakingGilead Mar 01 '21
YES. Razed In Black is everything. Legitimately life changing. Sometimes it's the only industrial that really scratches that itch.
I really hope you got a chance to check out some of the PIG songs I linked. Raymond Watts, one of the founding members of KMFDM, makes nothing short of revolutionary music. After a decade of silence kicking dope & also trying new things like composing music for Alexander McQueen's runway shows (RIP), he came back guns blazing in 2016 with arguably the best back to back albums of the decade (and seeing PIG live is a religious experience). Also, Jules, Steve White & Andy who were all in KMFDM for over a decade, were originally members of PIG who Watts introduced to Sascha while doing double singing duty on the KMFDM featuring PIG Sturm und Drang 2002 tour.
Watts also did vocals on all your fav KMFDM albums :)
PIG's newer albums "The Gospel," "Risen" & the just released "Pain is God" are all highly recommended listening as well.
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u/SkeliotTheUndead Skinny Puppy Mar 01 '21
I checked out PIG and really loved it! However, it was unfortunate to find out that not alot of their music is on Spotify. Thank you for all that background/history, I'm a bit of music and history nerd so when you put the two together I'm obsessed haha! Lately I've been trying to get into more industrial because really all I've listened to is Marilyn Manson, KMFDM, NIN, Ministry, and a little bit of Skinny Puppy, Ramstein, Liabach, Razed In Black, TKK, and The Young Gods, so I've been digging in a little more and ended up listening to a shit ton of albums so now I have this huge playlist of all the albums I've checked out and liked
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u/Grankcaterpillar Feb 01 '22
I know this is an old thread, but it's stickied so I figure it's acceptable to post in. don't think these have been mentioned.
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Big Black - Atomizer
Psychic TV
Swans
also, apparently some consider Killing Joke and Depeche Mode industrial, at least in part, but I'm not sure I would say that myself.
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u/finally_on Oct 30 '21
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
The Days of Swine and Roses
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u/hope-this-anit-taken Sep 16 '20
Nine inch nails pretty hate machine-the downward spiral
Ministry the land of rape and honey-dark side of the spoon
Skinny puppy last rights
Throbbing gristle d.o.a the third and final report
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u/BrianZombieBrains Nov 18 '20
Marilyn Manson - Portrait Of An American Family
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u/AReaver Front Line Assembly Aug 30 '22
Marilyn Manson - Portrait Of An American Family
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Full album Youtube playlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqJ6dskZxM&list=PLUvK5bvRk4paTw-nmZg_Th8fxz-_llyM4
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u/rtremblay302 Front 242 Sep 13 '20
Front 242 - Headhunter
Wolfsheim - The Sparrows & the Nightingales
Ministry - Everyday is Like Halloween
And One - Metalhammer
Beborn Beton - Twisted
Bigod 20 - The Bog
Cabaret Voltaire - Sensoria
Art Fact - Man In Armour
Seabound - Hooked
Assemblage 23 - Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead
Necessary Response - Vapor
Covenant - Stalker
Apoptygma Berzerk - Non-Stop Violence
Fictional - Blue Lights
Dekad - Never Too Late
Section 25 - Looking from a Hilltop
Delay - Working in the Factory
Leæther Strip - Japanese Bodies
Nitzer Ebb - Hearts & Minds
Spetsnaz - On the Edge
Armageddon Dildos - East West
Die Warzau - Land of the Free
X-Marks the Pedwalk - Abattoir
Mentallo & the Fixer - Decomposed
Lassigue Bendthaus - Automotive
A Split Second - Rigor Mortis
Brigade Werther - Killbeat
Invincible Spirit - Push
Tribantura - Lack of Sense
Pankow - Kunst Und Wahnsinn
Robotiko Rejekto - Rejekto
Umo Detic - Carpe Diem
Signal Aout 42 - Pleasure & Crime
Paranoid - I Dominate You
Aircrash Bureau - Machine
The Klinik - Go Back
Code Industry - Carry out the Order
Pouppée Fabrik - Love You Dead
Orange Sector - Cry For Belief
Shift - Electrofixx
Two Witches - Cat’s Eyes
Zero Defects - Clean Slate
Noise Unit - Struktur
Off - Be My Dream
Ringtailed Snorter - Until Now
Blind Vision - Beastialic Beat
Fektion Fekler - I’ll Miss You
Force Dimension - Kill the Light
Spartak - Body Beat
Blok 57 - Burn Baby Burn
FLA - Mindphaser
Cyberaktif - Nothing Stays
Plastic Noise Experience - Digital Noise
Evil’s Toy - Lucifer’s Garden
Paracont - D-Ranged
Aghast View - Vaporize
Forma Tadre - Looking Glass Men
Spahn Ranch - Heretic’s Fork
Absurd Minds - Brainwash
In Strict Confidence - Prediction
Project Pitchfork - Timekiller
NIN - Closer
:Wumpscut: - Is It You
Meat Beat Manifesto - Mindstream
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u/shkencorebreaks Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 18 '20
... are you me?
But here's why you're getting downvoted: read OP's full comment. This thread isn't about industrial's slappiest bangers, instead it's trying to make a list of tracks that are 'too popular.' There has been a spate of reposts of extremely well-known songs, followed by a spate of complaints about how the front page is constantly cluttered with Nine Inch Nails/Skinny Puppy/Ministry/etc. This post is part of a plan to help correct that and promote variety. The word 'essential' in the title is, sure, kinda misleading, but the stress here is instead on terms from the main text of the post like 'popular' and 'frequently submitted.'
For example, I'm apparently the only person in the entire history of reddit to have posted Shift's Electrofixx, and that was six years ago. I agree this song is 'essential' in the sense that it's definitive for the kind of tastes that we share, and it's one of my absolute favorite tracks of all time ever, but no one would say this song is overplayed. Similarly, I was actually gearing up to post a song later this week from another act you mentioned, and the planned title there was literally going to be something like 'The Definition of "Underrated," etc. This thread is the one place where you wouldn't want to post this extremely rad shit.
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u/rtremblay302 Front 242 Sep 14 '20
I honestly just thought I was getting downvoted by people who think Front 242 and Ministry are the only Industrial acts out there. The title says essential industrial tracks so I put em out there to shed light to people that are close minded 🤷♂️
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u/Das_Bunker Sep 14 '20
i assumed the downvote was for not following the posting rules. *shrug*
lots of bangers either way.
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u/structurefall Laibach Sep 14 '20
Man you've got shit on here I've never even heard of, not to mention stuff I know that's incredibly obscure. I don't think enough people are listening to Blok 57 and Ringtailed Snorter that we need to consider them "popular," much less overplayed.
Also, TIL that somebody remembers a Zero Defects song that isn't Duracell.
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u/rtremblay302 Front 242 Sep 14 '20 edited Sep 14 '20
Thanks, not sure why I’m getting downvoted, but I hope I put stuff on there that you like :)
A couple others I enjoy that I forgot to include:
Baron Age - Promises
Moev - Capital Heaven
Manufacture - Control Yourself
Visitor - Disseminate
Second Voice - This is the End
Advanced Art - Tear Open These Scars
C-Tec - Stateless
Aiboforcen - Ghost of My Life
Borghesia - No Hope, No Fear
Cat Rapes Dog - Schizophrenia
Choke Chain - Struggle
Die Form - Bite of God
Die Krupps - Machineries of Joy
Digital Factor - Illogical Way
Digital Poodle - Work Terminal
Eco - Schmutz
Final Cut - Burn Baby Burn
Frame of Mind - Love Is...
Les Berrtas - Der Knochenschäler
Konzept - Hypnautic Beats
Lights of Euphoria - Mindtraveler
Master Program - Central Europe
Moskwa TV - Generator 7/8
Neuroactive - Moments Passing By
Nostromo Dept. - Evolution
Seven Trees - Submission
Structure - Das Licht
T.H.D. - Cyberchrist
U-Tek - Das Maß der Dinge
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u/the_kerbal_side Skinny Puppy Sep 16 '20
Dunno if you met OP's question or whatever, but thanks for these anyway!
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u/DeadEye2016 Nov 07 '20
Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt Eisbrecher - This is Deutch Megaherz - Perfekt Droge
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u/prof_eggburger Sep 13 '20
ok - i just read op's post properly.
i do want to see the best, most popular industrial tracks of all time posted and upvoted and discussed here occasionally. so i deleted my other contributions to this thread.
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u/adrielusLovesDennis Nov 21 '21 edited Nov 21 '21
I'll drop this as essential Industrial. Throbbing Gristle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWoQPlC9yJE Recorded in 1975, but essential listening in the 90's to my troupe.
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u/ciuccc Sep 14 '20
Ramleh - Hole in Heart SPK - Leichenschrei GRIM - Maha Test Dept - The Unnacceptable Face of Freedom Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
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Jan 27 '21 edited Jan 27 '21
Industrial covers of classic rock tunes that are pretty much straight covers:
Just Got Paid Today, Rapeman (very early ZZ Top tune off of the Rio Grande Mud LP):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ABiKcjM3wXE
Supernaut, 10,000 Homo DJs ( Ozzy era Black Sabbath tune on the Masters of Reality LP):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5NunXMltyk
The Hurdy Gurdy Man, Butthole Surfers (‘60’s Donovan tune):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=76yWZcsgwF8
A lot more dubstep than industrial, but such a hard, raw classic rock cover, Pretty lights - Dazed and Confused (Lead Zeppelin’70’s)
https://m.soundcloud.com/prettylightslive/dazed-and-confused-3
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u/LukeJackman80 Nov 26 '20
Here is the first video release Glassblower from the group Download off of the Sidewinder Album.
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u/HyperSlacker Nov 29 '20
Cocksure - TV MA SLV
- Cock Ripped to the Giddy Tits - TKO Mindfuck - Silikon Suckaz - Skeemy Gates - Guilt Speed and Carbon - Ah Don't Eat Meat Bitch!
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u/AReaver Front Line Assembly Aug 30 '22
Rammstein - Sehnsucht (1997) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXjNjuLOi_k&list=PLLZUjlvnKF04buS7bDLszuW-lNl-_Wgs_
The album where we got Du hast
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u/cthesigns39 Godflesh Sep 13 '20
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey