How are you?
Following the last week, I am going to start my 73rd
lecture.
The topic for this week is “Industrial Rock/Metal”,
the 12th and last topic of “The History of Rock”.
This lecture is a summary of the contents of “73.
History of Rock Music: 12. Industrial Rock/Metal” introduced on December 23,
2016.
Industrial rock is a music genre that is a mixture of
industrial music and a specific sub-genre of rock, and is often used without
distinction from Industrial metal genre. The early fusion of industrial music
and rock was attempted by a few post-punk groups, including Chrome, Killing
Joke and Swans.
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| Killing Joke |
Industrial rock artists use electronic musical
instruments such as synthesizers, sequencers, samplers, and drum machines along
with electric guitars, drums, and bass, which are common rock playing
instruments. Guitars generally use heavy distortion, and bass guitar and drum
sounds are actual playing, or replaced by electronic musical instruments or
computers. Industrial rock also uses mechanical or industrial sounds, and this
sound composition was pioneered by artists such as SPK and Einstürzende
Neubauten in the early 1980s.
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| Einstürzende Neubauten |
Cromagnon, an experimental music group in the '60s, is
regarded as one of the bands that helped predict the birth of industrial rock,
and their song "Caledonia" attracted attention as
"pre-industrial stomp".
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| Cromagnon |
The artists who have contributed greatly to bringing
this genre into the mainstream include Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.
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| Nine Inch Nails |
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| Marilyn Manson |
Industrial Metal uses repetitive metal guitar riffs,
sampling, synthesizers or sequencers and distortion, and representative
industrial metal groups include Ministry and Godflesh.
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| Godflesh |
In the late 1980s, with Godflesh's same title album
and Ministry's album "The Land of Rape and Honey" as leaders,
industrial music and heavy metal began to be mixed into one common genre, and
as a result, industrial metal was born.
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| Godflesh, Godflesh (1988) |
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| The Land of Rape and Honey, Ministry (1988) |
Industrial metal was particularly popular in North America in the early 1990s and became the first commercial genre in 1992, when Nine Inch Nails' album “Broken” and Ministry's album “Psalm 69” recorded platinum in the US. Following the success of Nine Inch Nails in this genre, Marilyn Manson gained popularity, but their behaviors against conventions in their live performances caused more controversy than their music.
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| Broken, Nine Inch Nails (1992) |
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| Psalm 69, Ministry (1992) |
Industrial
metal reached its peak commercially in the second half of the 1990s, but in the
21st century, it faced great difficulties due to social backlash. Accordingly,
many industrial metal groups tried to change their sounds by mixing hip-hop or
electronic music, and as a result, the band such as Powerman 5000 is sometimes
referred to as nu metal band as well as industrial metal band.
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| Powerman 5000 |
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