Industrial (1976): Industrial was born in Sheffield and London between 1975 and 1980, when Throbbing Gristle founded Industrial Records and treated the studio as a factory and…
EBM (1981): Electronic Body Music: Belgium and Germany between 1983 and 1989 militarize synth pop, square sequenced basslines, chanted shouts, disciplined pounding. Front…
New Beat (1982): New beat was a Belgian accident from 1987: a DJ played an EBM record at 33 RPM instead of 45, and the resulting slowness became a style in its own right. New…
Electro-Industrial (1990): Electro-industrial is the studio-driven hardening of EBM at the end of the 1980s: denser structures, film dialogue samples, dark pads and layered production…
Dark Electro (1992): Dark electro is the European school of the 1990s that pushed electro-industrial music toward horror: whispered, saturated vocals, icy minor-key melodies, and…
Aggrotech (2002): Aggrotech is the dancefloor hardening of dark electro in the 2000s: shouted, vocoder-processed vocals, club-ready kicks, minor-key trance melodies and…
Futurepop (2000): Futurepop is the melodic turn the electro industrial scene took around the year 2000: trance style song structures, clearly sung choruses, and a dark,…
Techno Body Music (2015): Techno body music is the return of EBM inside the body of techno, forged in Berlin during the 2010s: distorted sequenced basslines inherited from DAF and…
Coldwave (1982): France and Belgium between 1979 and 1984 answered English post-punk with poorer means and a drier kind of gloom: cheap drum machines, basslines pushed to the…
Darkwave (1985): Darkwave is the dark, synthetic side of 1980s European new wave: deep vocals, funereal pads and black romanticism, sitting somewhere between guitar-driven…
Neue Deutsche Haerte (1997): Neue Deutsche Harte: 1990s Germany welded industrial metal to declaimed German lyrics, low tuned guitars over electronic sequences, and a deep, spoken vocal…
Power Electronics (1983): The fully embraced extremity of noise: feedback, treated screams, hostile frequencies, and deliberately unbearable subject matter. Whitehouse named the genre…
Rhythmic Noise (1994): Noise brought to heel: massive distortion organised into danceable rhythms, crushed four on the floor beats, textures of scrap metal. Esplendor Geometrico…
Industrial Rock (1989): The American fusion of the 1990s: industrial vocabulary poured into the rock song format, sampled guitars, drum machines and stadium choruses. Nine Inch Nails…
