Electro-industrial

Electro-industrial
Stylistic origins
  • EBM
  • post-industrial
Cultural originsEarly 1980s; Belgium, Canada, France, and Germany
Derivative forms
Other topics
  • Industrial metal
  • IDM
  • rivethead
  • post-industrial music developments

Electro-industrial is a subgenre of post-industrial music that emerged in the early 1980s. It was originally pioneered by acts such as Front 242, Cabaret Voltaire, Front Line Assembly, Klinik, Numb, as well as groups from Canada and the Benelux.

Other influential acts included Canadian band Skinny Puppy, who signed to label Nettwerk, which served as a central hub that helped proliferate the style. By the early 1990s, electro-industrial spawned the dark electro genre, and later the aggrotech offshoot. The fan base for the style is linked to the rivethead subculture.[1]

  1. ^ Interview with Axel Machens, Vendetta Music, 23 April 2007. [1] Access date: 23 December 2008.
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