Industrial (mild and catchy...)

[Seditious]

I'm not looking for something like KMFDM--the songs of theirs I "liked" I really never listened to, they were just too eclectic, too cluttered.

I'm looking for something like new Samael.
Kovenant is nice, but their Dani Filth type vocals annoy me.
In Extremo are cool, normally.
Zeromancer go a little too far toward the emo metalcore side of things for me.
(I get the feeling someone is going to mention Skyclad, not sure why, but I hated these guys last time I heard them)
didn't really like anything on the last Pain album

I'm pretty new to the genre, so nothing is too obvious to suggest.

cheers

 

[Phrozenspite]

Skinny Puppy - check out the mid career stuff for the more harsh "true" industrial, the later stuff has more of an EBM/rock friendly feel but is still decent overall
Nine Inch Nails - early-mid stuff
In Slaughter Natives - Neoclassical/millitant stuff, very epic... i'd say almost like an Industrial Summoning at times
Melek Tha - Martial/ambient, very dark and almost ritualistic music that is at times orchestral and at times bleak like the LLN ambient music

are you interested in Dark Ambient and Harsh Noise/Power Electronics at all or just the more conservative Industrial?
btw I'm going to kill anyone that suggests Psyclon Nine... most unoriginal artist outside of Hip Hop... basically take Puritania by Dimmu Borgir and make a whole album copying it and you have the shit that Psyclon Nine got famous off of

 

[Seditious]

oh shit did I forget to say I hate Nine Inch Nails? I guess I just considered them doomy emo, not industrial.

 

[Seditious]

oh yea, and I hated all the martial/ambient stuff I heard when I was going through the neofolk genre... dunno what that shit would have to do with industrial, though.

 

[A1a23]

How are Nine Inch Nails not industrial?

 

[Seditious]

How are Nine Inch Nails not industrial?

was it not clear that here on this metal forum, with the metal bands I listed, I was looking for Industrial Metal?

...whatever emo industrial drivel NIN are, they're not Metal. shit, they're not even on Metal Archives.

 

[Phrozenspite]

well you should've specified Industrial Metal yes since many people ask for non metal recs here especially if talking by genre name like that... especially given that at least 2 out of the 4 bands you mentioned wouldn't be considered industrial metal, and Samael and Kovenant are usually pretty well laughed at. the new NIN is shit but even though Trent heavily plagiarized it theres no denying that the first few nails releases were solid industrial... Martial i can see why you wouldn't like it going through neo-folk as those two shouldn't really be lumped together even though they seem to be for some reason, it has a lot to do with Industrial though even in the work of Laibach and such...
most obvious things I can recommend would be

Ministry
Aborym
Red Harvest
Phobos
Spektr
The Axis of Perdition
Godflesh

all guaranteed industrial metal with neither element neglected...
don't listen to the retards that will come on here and talk about how ____ is kinda industrial because of electronics or dissonance...

I do have to ask with the bands you listed it almost sounds like you're leaning more towards the goth/ebm influenced acts rather than actual industrial metal since none of those bands have the harsh or experimental textures that you'd find more akin to the aforementioned Noise and Martial(basically... are you looking to dance, or looking for shit that could terrify some people)

if thats the case then
Theatre of Tragedy
Tristania
... all of those bands in that style would probably be more what you're after

 

[Seditious]

is Godflesh really Industrial? said 'Darkwave' on a couple mp3s I checked out, and it didn't sound like the sort of thing I'm after.

Aborym were always just BM to me.

Tristania, as I recall, is some sort of girl-fronted symphonic/power metal.

haven't heard any of the others you noted.

don't even know what EBM is.

 

[Mort Divine]

wow. this topic is one big clusterfuck of failure.

Throbbing Gristle

 

[Phrozenspite]

I'd have suggested TG but he wants industrial metal as he said unfortunately so the pickings are kind of slim.
and yeah Godflesh has a lot of other influences but they're one of the more pure industrial things I mentioned which was why I think you're after something kinda different.

You're right on about early Tristania, but i think in mid-later career stuff they kind of had a dance friendly sound to them.

EBM is a type of music that often goes hand in hand with Industrial Dance, yet its more of a bridgeway between the experimental nature of that and the melodic party-esque nature of most electronic genres

 

[Krilons Resa]

they're not even on Metal Archives.

 

[CF87]

Godflesh
Pitch Shifter(old)
Stabbing Westward
Fear Factory

 

[Seditious]

You're right on about early Tristania, but i think in mid-later career stuff they kind of had a dance friendly sound to them.

EBM is a type of music that often goes hand in hand with Industrial Dance, yet its more of a bridgeway between the experimental nature of that and the melodic party-esque nature of most electronic genres

aah ok. I think I only ever checked out their most popular songs. maybe I'll check out a later album.

I really didn't mind the Samael album which was essentially 'electronic' music, but I wouldn't have called it 'dance music', it was just like the electronic equivalent of neofolk. I like something slow and melodic like that. Doesn't look like there are many bands quite what I'm after, at least under the terms I've been using

thanks for all your efforts.

 

[Avigrus]

Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Strapping Young Lad - City

 

[Seditious]

I should have mentioned earlier, too, when I realized that apparently SYL are industrial, I HATED that pathetic piece of shit album from SYL. just terrible terrible boring music.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

itt Seditious demonstrates how he's 10 years old and a complete failure at music.

gj, that's hard to do in a recommendation topic you make yourself.

 

[TheInsane]

Later Samael is industrially influenced. Some really good stuff there.

 

[Mort Divine]

No they're not!

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

They're electronic influenced, but not industrial influenced.

 

[AchrisK]

Argyle Park - Misguided is an industrial masterpiece. Nobody will check it out, and you will all fail, but oh well.