Pop/techno rock

[Militia]

So what do you think of it?

Just to clarify, I'm talking about bands like Gorillaz, Korn, Prince (or the artist formerly known as).

Yay or nay?

 

[The Devil's Steed]

It sucks.

 

[Decollated Pariah]

Head Automatica is decent, but Daryl Palumbo is better in Glassjaw and Dan the Automator is better when working with rappers such as Del the Funky Homosapien (Dan and Del were both in The Gorillaz, but were far better in Deltron 3030, a rap / techno album).

 

[Iron_slayer]

I thought this was gonna be about decent techno eg. KMFDM, :wumpscut:, Apoptygma Berserk, I was wrong

 

[sonofhendrix13]

I've never actually heard of "techno rock" but I do know that Gorillaz, Korn and Prince suck.

 

[LuminousAether]

KMFDM would be industrial rock, :Wumpscut: is hard ebm, and Apoptgyma Berzerk is ebm. NONE are techno.

 

[Birkenau]

Eh...Kraftwerk?

 

[Taliesin Stormheller]

It's not rock at all, it's 100% pop.

 

[sretawmada]

Yeah, Kraftwerk counts as techno (although they did start out with pop sensibilities in a kautrock kinda fashion, the plot thickens). Defining "techno" can be as hard as defining metal. There's so many bloody sub-genres of techno that one man's hard house is another's tech-trance. Or something.

But classifying "techno-rock"? Where to begin? Would Panic DHH, The Shizit etc count as techno-rock? Basically big, industrial-metal kinda guitars with everything else being electronic & screamed vokills? Or am I thinking of a different genre or just Ministry?