Well-worn style, but the songs are catchy and accessible and stick in your head.
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Category: Industrial
As the head of Emily Kaye lay upon the coals, the dead eyes opened.
Scissorgun: Scream If You Wanna Go Faster (2025).
Industrial rock in the ’90s style, where it’s not sure if it’s going rock’n’roll or nascent techno.
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Records: ANS Electronic Music (1969), Attrition (2024, 2025).
Reissued Soviet synthesizers and a triumphant return for old-school industrials.
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Robert Görl and Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Nur Noch Einer (2021).
Görl pulled out a pile of old DAF tapes for inspiration, wrote new words, and released one final DAF album.
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Bedless Bones: Sublime Malaise; After Malaise (2019, 2020, 2023).
The vocals waft, but they waft on top of a beat and you can dance to it.
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Massenhysterie: Hausfrauengelüste (2019).
More fun than deep, but it’s pretty good and I enjoyed it.
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Schkeuditzer Kreuz: Isolated and Alone (2021).
Punk rock in early hardcore style through industrial electronics.
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Delerium: Signs (2023).
Signs is an extremely pleasant listen.
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Shelf-reading at Bandcamp: Industrial — Leæther Strip, Metal Heart, Master Boot Record, Pertubator (2022, 2023).
Yeeeeeahhhh that’s the 2nd floor of Slimelight GOOD STUFF, y’all.
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Pop Will Eat Itself, Sept 10 Corner Hotel
It made perfect sense of course, that a thirtieth-anniversary tour would perform.
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Records: P.H.O.B.O.S. (2021), The Birthday Massacre (2022).
Is this thing on? Have a couple of records.
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Records: Rhys Fulber, Poppy (2021).
Old industrial musician from way back makes a new album during lockdown; android pop star turns grunge rocker.
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Ministry: Moral Hygiene (2021).
Frankly, I’m most surprised Al Jourgensen is still alive. Good luck to him.
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Snog: Lullabies for the Lithium Age (2020).
Snog have embodied the virtue of consistency for the past thirty years.
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Severed Heads: get the late-period albums while you can.
Art is ephemeral. The text changes out from under you. Particularly when the text is a Severed Heads album.
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Solar Fake: Enjoy Dystopia; Masked (2021).
A pretty good slab of extruded Solar Fake product.
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Records: Statiqbloom, AC/DC (2020).
A good new thing and an old new thing.
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Links: Virtual Reality still useless, why vinyl was bad, the Problem with Music gets tha roni, Nile Rodgers.
Here in the plague, I’m bored enough to write about music again, for my beloved audience of about a hundred. How are you all?
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And One totally aren’t into QAnon and Trump, you guys. A hacker done it and run away.
Because in this cancelled year of our Lord twenty-twenty, you just can’t outdo real life.
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Records: This Frilly Ape (2019), Amelia Arsenic (2020).
Yeah, need more abrasive bleepy shit.
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Records: Nero Bellum, Am I Dead Yet?, O.R.k. (2019).
Mary Byker being precisely the right amount of too clever for his own good is a pleasing surprise when clearing down the review pile.
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Records: Cortez (2018), Statiqbloom, various goths (2019).
The review pile is full of alternative buttrock industrial.
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Severed Heads: If I’ve Told You Once I’ve Told You A 1,000 Times (1987).
From the cellulose nitrate days of music video.
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Boy Harsher: Careful (2019).
Darkwave disco. I’ve been hanging out for this one, and I’m thoroughly delighted. You will be too.
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Gary Numan: Savage (Songs from A Broken World) (2017).
For those most familiar with the classic synth-pop Gary Numan, this will be quite different. For those who have followed Numan in the past thirty years this is not a surprise.
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Links: Bauhaus, WFMU Free Music Archive saved, post-punk indie labels, Pete Shelley’s XL-1 videos, Boy Harsher.
What’s important to understand about entertainment from the 60s or 70s or 80s is that the entire audience is lead-poisoned, poisoning their kids with lead, pumping drugs cut with industrial solvents bought outside their kids’ schools, which are also poisoning the kids with lead.
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Records: Nora Roy, Laibach (2018).
An indie singer-songwriter and the return of an old favourite with a slab of excellence.
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Records: Frog, Keen On Keys, Metal Disco (2018).
Metal Disco is today’s pleasant surprise winner.
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Records: Dew, Irk, Transmaniacon featuring Lydia Lunch and Maya Berlin (2018).
Dew and Irk are both remarkable finds and produce the correct horrible racket, though the loved one compared Irk to a sack of hammers falling down stairs.
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Records: Nosound, Trash Deity, a Cabaret Voltaire tribute (2018).
Popular US industrial music has always tended less Throbbing Gristle and more alternative buttrock.
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