I have a hard time defining it, but I'd say it's a genre of electronic music with punk/post-punk roots. It usually has a harshness/noisy quality to it.
It's pre-electronic music. People started looping noises of heavy machinery in with music. Throbbing Gristle is the earliest instance I know of industrial music.
Later industrial is basically hard electronic, as synthesizers got better and less 70s/80s synth sounding. Coil/Front 242/Front Line Assembly/Skinny Puppy are all good examples of second wave industrial.
what even is industrial music?
I have a hard time defining it, but I'd say it's a genre of electronic music with punk/post-punk roots. It usually has a harshness/noisy quality to it.
It's pre-electronic music. People started looping noises of heavy machinery in with music. Throbbing Gristle is the earliest instance I know of industrial music.
Later industrial is basically hard electronic, as synthesizers got better and less 70s/80s synth sounding. Coil/Front 242/Front Line Assembly/Skinny Puppy are all good examples of second wave industrial.