After spending around 10 years trying to find out what kind of music I really like, I realized that industrial related music most often interest me. But still I don't know THAT MANY bands actually involved in this genre. So here's my adventure in industrial world.
Bahntier is an Italian trio originally founded 1999. The founder of the group is Stefano Rossello, who was the sole member also in the beginning. After a year Filippo Corradin and Justin Bennett (live drummer for Skinny Puppy) joined the group. They are signed to Rustblade which is an Italian independent label run by Stefano Rossello.
I don't quite get what Bahntier tries to achieve. Backgrounds are way too simple to create any real atmosphere, vocals are really bland and arrangements really unsurprising. Maybe they try to catch some noise atmosphere, but I've to say this is quite boring. At least based on 2005 released Revulsive.
Another Finnish band to this list also. I'm familiar with the Apples of Iduns work already earlier. Never really got the good touch to this though. There's not that many industrial bands in Finland, but overall the quality is quite high. Apples of Idun just released their second album last year and it has received quite nice feedback and I anyway have to admit also that this is not bad at all. That final "hook" ís just missing still, maybe every once and awhile they are a bit too 80s for my taste.
Apples of Iduns combination of dark landscapes, occasional distorted guitars, "symphonic" backgrounds and unfortunately maybe little too cliche samples creates quite nice sound. And they do know how to vary their sound to keep everything interesting.
Here's the video track, The Bang, of their latest Disaster Art release.
I've had some plans to get to know to EBM (aka electronic body music) also quite some time. I've never had real understanding what the hell is this genre about. That electronic body music is not giving any hints to me at least. But another term used to describe this same thing opens many doors. Industrial dance, now I get it. So in practice I've listened a lot of EBM without knowing it.
Next band found from Spotify is Belgian A Split-Second, a duo by Marc Ickx and Peter Bonne. They split up 1991 and Ickx continued on it's own with A Split-Second..But anyway since 2000 this group is more or less featured only in compilations. One remix album, called Transmix, found from Spotify has been released in 2001 containing duos songs between 1986-1991 remixed Nicolas Mansy and Chrismar Chayel. I have to say I like this quite a lot. Even though I like more harsh sound, this is anyway really catchy stuff. Those originals versions are actually even better than these little more blnd remixes.
Original version of their second single Rigor Mortis which is available also in Youtube is actually really good.
I'm a music enthusiast from Finland. Have been running a music web magazine Noise.fi around ten years. As described in that "header" text also, just trying to find out more what kind of music I really like. I've come to conclusion that industrial-kinda music is my thing, but don't know the genre enough well. So now trying to find more and more bands which I can test. And here's my results, just my opinions (sometimes even really fast verdicts).
I'll try many different styles of industrial related bands. Goth, metal, electro, pop, ebm, ambient, rock and even hip hop (I think hip hop is not that far from this industrial anyway, listen to Dälek if you disagree). So anything will go if it's even remotely attached to industrial.
Please recommend new bands if you don't see your favourite on the list yet.
