Essential Industrial Metal

Band - Album

KMFDM - Nihil
KMFDM - Angst
Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Static X - Machine
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
White Zombie - Astrocreep: 2000
Rammstein - Sensucht
Ministry
Fear Factory
Powerman 5000
Dope

I'd say Nine Inch Nails but I think they're industrial rock not metal.
 
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Aborym
Dodheimsgard 666 International
Shade Empire
The Kovenant Animatronic
Samael Passage
Red Harvest

I endorse all these, plus...

Havoc Unit - H.I.V+
Mysticum - In the Streams of Inferno
Blacklodge - SolarKult
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Samael - Ceremony of Opposites and Eternal
 
How the fuck could I forget SYL's City? That is album is probably one of the heaviest non-death/black/grind albums I've ever heard, and SYL's best.

Also, kudos to Baroque for recommending the first 2 Static X albums. Fuck the haters, those albums are bad ass.
 
I thought Fear Factory was widely considered one of the quintessential industrial metal bands.
 
Die Krupps - Paradise Now, Odyssey of the Mind and The Final Option (listed in order of most metal)

Also, Optimum Wound Profile are worth checking out.