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.
Now we are jumping more noisier side of industrial. Even though combining lots of different sound Zak Roberts from Denver, Colorado concentrates anyway more on the extreme side of electronic music. Even going all the way to pure noise and ambient. But there is nice melodies also attached at least partly and also mixing some world music type of elements to the sound makes it more interesting. In some songs I can even hear similarities to Serj Tankian's Serart project. These songs start to get really hypnotic after few minutes. That can't be bad, it's how this kind of music should work. So I have to admit that Cdatakill delivers what it has promised.
Roberts has made made music since mid-90s, but if I've understood correctly Cdatakill was born around Millenium. At least first Black & Red EP is said to be released in 2001. After that Cdatakill has released quite a lot of stuff. Of course many of those are 7"s and 12"s, but he has also released some CD albums lately via Ad Noiseam.
Here's one sample from 2006 released Valentine album.
Cabaret Voltaire has some sort of "legend" sticker attached to them. Band was signed to indie labels more or less all their career that ended in mid-90s. Even though reunion rumors were out there end of the 90s it never happened. They had quite nice chart success even in the UK. In 15 years they released 15 albums, nice amount of compilation (including several after their split-up).
To my taste Cabaret Voltaire is way too "sound of the 80s". I was too young then to actually understand anything about this kind stuff. Their sound describes quite nicely what was going on then. Their career included many different eras though - from postpunk to synthpop and eventually even techno. But still this 80s sound is something that combines everything under one flag.
Here's one sample of that sound. Yashar was released orignally as a single in 1982 via legendary Factory Records.
And then another Fear Factory related artist just after Arkaea. Ascension of the Watchers is a band formed by Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell together with keyboardist John Bechdel whose back catalogue is really impressing at least in industrial metal environment. He's been in Ministry, Fear Factory, Killing Joke, Prong, Murder, Inc. among others. They also added guitarist Edu Messi to the lineup later.
After self released early career EP Iconoclast they've released one album Numinosum throught former Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen's label 13th Planet Records. Numinosum is really ambient influenced album, some might say also gothish. I fell in love with their sound immediately. There's something really catchy in their works. Bell's vocals are also much more cleaner compared to Fear Factory and that just works perfectly with the backgrounds.
Here's one example from that debut album. An animated video for the song Residual Presence.
Hmmmm... Again a Belgian EBM artist. Again "never-heard" about this artist either, the name is interesting though - à;GRUMH... (pronounced: "ah-groom"). Also this band was run by duo and they were active between 1981-91, so resemblance to the previous artist A Split-Second is huge. Music is though little bit different at least. à;GRUMH... is more like electro version of British post punk band of the Eighties. Especially 1989 released A Hard Day's Knight album fits into that definition.
I'm not that fond of this post punk genre, but I have to admit that every once in a while this sounds also really good. This kind of music has suffered quite a bit soundwise lately (80s sound is just 80s sound and at least I've gotten used to little "newer sound") , but at least those later à;GRUMH... releases sounds still surprisingly good. Check out for example this Danger Zone track from A Hard Day's Knight album.
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.
