What is the first Industrial (any kind of Industrial) artist / band that got you into this genre of music and how did it happen?
I first discovered Wumpscut "by accident" (and what a wonderful accident, might I add! haha) because I downloaded his song Funeral Diner.
So I liked it so much and started to explore other songs by him. But I didn't bother that much.
The band who eventually "took my soul and gave it to Industrial", however, is Psyclon Nine, with the song "Parasitic". I heard it in a video about sub-cultures and a guy told names of some bands (Psyclon Nine, Combichrist, Amduscia). And then in the video appeared Parasitic by Psyclon Nine. The song immediately caught my attention, I found it and became devoted to the band. Then I discovered the rest of the bands. This video was posted by a friend on Facebook, so again, I found it by accident, and I worship the day I found it!
Now I'm totally into this kind of music. It happened in Semptember 2011. Anyway, I already listened to Wumpscut, when I was about 15 (now I'm 19).
I've always listened to metal but, even though I still love it, I find that Industrial music and culture totally completes me, it opened my own world and set it on fire! I am not exaggerating, but this music changed my life in a totally positive way.
What's your story? Wanna share it with the others?
It was Frontline Assembly, ministry ( The early trax and twitch days) and front 242. You seem to be more into the new stuff. I do like Psyclon nine, and Wumpscut as well. I was in elementary school when I first heard Frontline assembly for the first time. It defined my style as a whole.
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What is the band that got you into Industrial music for the first time
Nine Inch Nails back in the days of pre the perfect drug and the fragile, back when they were unquestioned industrial rock.
KMFDM, E.Neubauten, Foetus, Sister Machine Gun, Frontline Assembly, Front 242, Ministry etc etc etc followed suit, before long I was listening to all sorts of industrial music, not just one sub genre. But even back in 1996, I prefered industrial with thick electronics and danceable beats, in other words danceable industrial.
Nowadays, its mostly agrotech I listen too, but never limited to just for very long.
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About Aggrotech. What really defines an industrial kind of band as such? I ask because I was told that Frontline Assembly is more Aggrotech but then there's Combichrist and Suicide commando, which are genuinely aggro but parallel FLA and other bands similar to them.. What's the deal?
Theres Frontline Assembly songs that sound very agrotech, complete with ebm trappings and suitable vocals, with suitable efx. However Frontline Assembly have quite a few different paths in which they head musically, its allways high tech however, Frontline Assembly, if providing thought provoking instrumentals, full on, hard dick agro ebm blusters, angry, cyber drum and bass hits, industrial metal smashfests, or experimental Industrial electronica, multy layered and saturated, whatever path Leeb and crew take, its allways "futuristic". Frontline Assembly are too diverse to simply label as an agrotech band, but you will hear songs like that here and there in their history.
Agrotech is an umbrella in a broader umbrella.
Terror ebm fits into agrotech, like C-lekktor, Amduscia, Suicide Commando, Hocico, stuff like Combichrist with its ebm, tbm and electro clash marriages with occasional powernoize dabblings, also fit into agrotech. Its characterised by being danceable stuff with agressive vocals, punctuated with bleeps and synths and thudding 4 on the floor.
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All of that made prefect sense. I never really described anything as aggro in general as I feel that Industrial in it's pure for and other subgenres have some kind of aggro element going on regardless. When confronted, I was under the impression that aggro had it's own properties apart from other industrial genres... Lol I don't know, I just like what I like, specifics and break downs get me.... You know, aggro.lol
I'm not sure which band was the first but it was either Rammstein (if they count as industrial) or Nine Inch Nails. As a teenager I was mostly into metal. Then these two bands came along and they were unlike anything I've ever heard before. Suicide Commando got me into Aggrotech and I've been hooked on it ever since.
Waaaay back, I must have been 14 when I first heard em: Skinny Puppy.
But I got hooked back into the genre around 18 by Latexxx Teens after joining VF for a girl, which brings me much shame. Now I'm all about powernoise and futurepop, completely unrelated.
And still plenty of old school shit. And I'm starting to dig some neofolk.
I grew up on Christian music like Newsboys and delirious?, but one summer when I was around 14 and just discovering rock music, my uncle got me a copy of The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails and Wisconsin Death Trip by Static X, and that definitely got me started. Eventually I discovered :wumpscut:, Skinny Puppy, and Velvet Acid Christ thru a friend of a friend, and it all bloomed from there. Gotta say tho, my biggest industrial influence, and probably musical influence overall, was Velvet Acid Christ, mostly because they listed their musical influences in the liner notes, and I ate that shit up. That's also how I eventually got into The Cure and rap music. :P
Also, Download.com used to have a great MP3 section, which is where I got a lot of my music, and where I discovered Flesh Eating Foundation and Wolf Eyes. The internet was definitely my biggest influence cuz I didn't have the money to buy whatever, so I downloaded it and bought what I could. Discovering this site also helped a lot, but that's a whole extra 4 or 5 paragraphs, and I'm already rambling :P
One more quick note, I'm not condoning piracy at all here, but the Industrial Legacy compilation torrents were an amazing help in discovering new music of all industrial subgenres. I'd definitely recommend them, but on a try and buy basis, of course.
Kraftwerk - specifically the album "Radioactivity"... the title track of which was so bleak and austere it made some of Throbbing Gristle's output sound positively Kinder Garden like and whimsical.
Also made me want to find out what a vocoder was (I have one now)
VNV probably, which is sad because I've pretty much gone off them now
Moving on from Futurepoppy stuff I'd say Skinny Puppy, it was so weird and nothing like the polished structured pop type music I'd heard before that my little mindthing got exploded
Also Front Line Assembly and Grendel for when I realised the stuff got less pansy.
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What is the band that got you into Industrial music for the first time
skinny puppy it was either "The Choke" or "Harsh stone white". My sister introduced me into them before she started listening to Lady Gaga and all of that crap.
probably nin, or funker vogt. i always listened to the stuff because my friends did, then i started enjoying it, it was spontaneous. great genre, or greatest genre
