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Though located in NY, Hanzel Und Gretyl sing their trance/commercial tracks mainly in German. After developing in the ashes of other Big Apple commercial bands — using a lineup including programmer and guitarist Lupia, vocalist Vas Kallas, bassist Ginger Loaf of bread and drummer Pat Wolff — Hanzel Und Gretyl …

Arguably, the market leaders (plus some would say founders) from the industrial metal movement are Ministry, led simply by frontman/guitarist/producer Al Jourgensen. Created in Havana, Cuba, on Oct 7, 1959, Jourgensen and his family members ultimately relocated to america — 1st in Denver CO, before settling in Chicago, IL. In …

Armageddon Dildos, a slang name for intercontinental ballistic missiles, can be an industrial rock and roll duo from Germany comprising Uwe Kanka (vocals) and Dirk Krause (synthesizer). They created the group in Kassel, Germany, in 1988, and released their debut recording, That’s Armageddon, in Germany in 1991. This is accompanied …

Before practically introducing industrial music to CCM, Jyro and Jerome formed the band Mortal Desire in 1988 with Wilson Peralta and Ray Tongpo. The group released a demonstration cassette, but afterwards shortened the name and lowered Peralta and Tongpo. Mortal’s initial album, Lusis, made an appearance in 1992 for the …

Abrasive, intense, and antagonistic, Britain’s Throbbing Gristle pioneered commercial music; exploring loss of life, mutilation, fascism, and degradation amid a thunderous cacophony of mechanised sound, tape loops, extremist anti-melodies, and bludgeoning is better than, the group’s ethnic terrorism — the “wreckers of civilization,” one tabloid known as them — elevated …

Another branch in the rather large and twisted family members tree that Ministry spawned, Acid Equine was a one-off single cooperation between Ministry’s Al Jourgensen (Ministry side task nickname these times: Alien Doggie Star), Chris Connelly (Gallopin’ Scorpionsaddlebutt), Expenses Rieflin (Biff), and Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder and Richard H. Kirk …

A co-employee of London experimentalists Nurse With Wound as well as the wife of this outfit’s Steven Stapleton, vocalist Chrystal Belle Scrodd (actual name: Diane Rogerson) released The Inevitable Chrystal Belle Scrodd Record in 1985 about United Dairies. Another recording, Belle de Jour, implemented the next season. In 1987, Scrodd …

Along with Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle, Germany’s Einstürzende Neubauten (“collapsing brand-new buildings”) helped pioneer commercial music with an avant-garde mixture of white-noise guitar drones, vocals verging for the unlistenable sometimes, and a clanging, rhythmic din made by a percussion section comprising construction materials, power tools, and different metallic objects. …

New Yorker Jeff Bruce became thinking about commercial music when he noticed the first Group of Dirt album in 1992; it prompted him to begin with tinkering with keyboards and encoding, and in 1994, he documented “Subsidize” for the Artcore compilation on Teeth and Nail Information. After adding punk guitarist …

While it began with Charleroi, Belgium, the industrial duo ? ;GRUMH… drew mainly through the so-called digital body of music of groupings like SPK, Entrance 242, and Skinny Pup, but also threw in a few Throbbing Gristle-style experimentalism every once in awhile. ? ;GRUMH… contains the nearly as obscurely called …