Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- Industrial rock post-punk experimental rock post-industrial noise rock post-hardcore noise
- Cultural origins
- Late 1970s to early 1980s; United States, United Kingdom, Germany
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- rock music
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
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- topic's main category
- Category:Industrial rock
- inception
- 1976-01-01
- Commons category
- Industrial rock
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Encyclopedic overview
Industrial rock is a fusion genre that fuses industrial music and rock music. Originally emerging in the late 1970s to early 1980s, pioneered by artists such as Chrome, Killing Joke, Swans, Big Black and Skinny Puppy, the movement was further proliferated in the late 1980s by Wax Trax! Records in Chicago, with artists like Front 242, Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, and Sister Machine Gun.
Subsequently, the movement would lead to the emergence of genre fusions and subgenres like electro-industrial, industrial metal, martial industrial, industrial hip-hop, industrial dance and industrial techno. By the 1990s, broader industrial music genres were made accessible to mainstream audiences through the popularity of acts such as Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Rammstein, Marilyn Manson, all of whom released platinum-selling records.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “industrial rock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.