Recent posts tagged industrial
2021
Mutator (Alan Vega)
The first of the posthumous releases from Alan Vega (of Suicide)'s vault, and it's a good 'un.
The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails)
A look back at the most deliberately frustrating album ever made for popular consumption.
2020
The Anatomy Of Addiction (God)
A thunderous fusion of jazz and industrial rock, way out of print but absolutely worth seeking out.
The Process (Skinny Puppy)
"The album that killed Skinny Puppy", an only partly realized concept record about a cult movement, has much to recommend it after 25 years.
2017
IT (Alan Vega)
Alan Vega is dead, and that means there will never be another Suicide album. But it also means there will never be another Alan Vega album, and that matters at least as much to me.
2016
Major Malfunction (Keith Leblanc)
Bonus beats for a world that lives technology rather than just using it.
Power Inc. Vol. 1 + Vol. 2 (Tackhead)
Until we get a Tackhead box set, these two discs will have to do as a source for anthologizing most of the band's best sampler-drum-machine-and-funk moments.
2015
Filth Pig (Ministry)
Tar-caked, blackened, lugubrious, and barbed, the long-lambasted 1996 Ministry album has held up far better than seemed possible.
Trevor Jackson Presents Science Fiction Dancehall Classics (Various Artists)
Lost treasures from the dungeons of the On-U Sound label, unearthed at last.
2014
Liberation and Ecstasy (Vasilisk)
Japan's underground tribal unit didn't record much, but the best of its moments are here in one convenient place.
2013
As The Veneer Of Democracy Starts To Fade (Mark Stewart)
The best bad-sounding record you'll ever hear.
06:21:03:11 UP EVIL (Front 242)
The first ("male") half of Front 242's crowning moment.
Last Rights (Skinny Puppy)
How many soundtracks are needed for the end of the world? One ought to suffice.
The Land of Rape and Honey (Ministry)
The first full flowering of Ministry's foul ferocity, and possibly its best.
Cleanse Fold And Manipulate (Skinny Puppy)
On my first and pivotal encounter with a crucial if terribly-named band.
2009
Crash Injury Trauma (Isolrubin BK)
Most anything with the “dark ambient” or “illbient” labels can be traced back to Brian Williams, aka Lustmørd, even if he’s not all that thrilled with such a descriptor. He’s also managed to balance a career of providing scores and...
