Description
An umbrella term that covers the bleak, mechanical, unconventional and experimental/sampling-heavy Industrial (1st Wave) music, as well as the music that blended this in other styles and accessible directions (see: Post-Industrial)
Often challenges conventions with its bleak sound, provocative imagery, and unconventional use of noise, electronic devices, and samples.
History
The original Industrial (1st Wave) movement began in 1976 with London band Throbbing Gristle
- Development in British counterculture coincided with Punk Rock, where the harsh and mechanical sound depicted the gloomy and morbid reality of life in the industrial society.
Music evolving from Industrial (1st Wave) that is regarded more accessible is mostly labelled Post-Industrial.
Exemplar
- Prototypical first wave
- First wave evolution into Rock
- Post-industrial
Child genres
Industrial (1st Wave) Post-Industrial
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