I thought I would start up a thread on this, its not a hugely appreciated sub-genre but there are some incredible bands waving the flag for it.
Starting with the obvious, I have stated many times Fear Factory as one of my favourite bands outside my love for Doom and Goth Rock. Raymond Herrera is an absolute android, he is one of the most precise drummers around, he sounds like a drum machine. During the Cazares era the two of them created an absolute mechanic man-machine lock-step. On the Concrete song of the said album Herrera opens fire with about 300 kicks in 17 seconds, shortly followed up with mexican grindcore styled vocals and riffs. While Fear Factory have gone downhill and many people see them as Cars, Soul of a New Machine and Concrete are two utterly brutal death/grind/industrial albums.
A short list of other bands I like, Thrashier ministry, Mnemic and Red Harvest pop to mind but there are lots of other great Industrial Metal bands outside of the more mainstream trash which can hardly be considered metal at all like The Deathstars, Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails and even Marilyon Manson, bands which no true metalhead should really accept as being metal.
Starting with the obvious, I have stated many times Fear Factory as one of my favourite bands outside my love for Doom and Goth Rock. Raymond Herrera is an absolute android, he is one of the most precise drummers around, he sounds like a drum machine. During the Cazares era the two of them created an absolute mechanic man-machine lock-step. On the Concrete song of the said album Herrera opens fire with about 300 kicks in 17 seconds, shortly followed up with mexican grindcore styled vocals and riffs. While Fear Factory have gone downhill and many people see them as Cars, Soul of a New Machine and Concrete are two utterly brutal death/grind/industrial albums.
A short list of other bands I like, Thrashier ministry, Mnemic and Red Harvest pop to mind but there are lots of other great Industrial Metal bands outside of the more mainstream trash which can hardly be considered metal at all like The Deathstars, Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails and even Marilyon Manson, bands which no true metalhead should really accept as being metal.
