Your way in
Industrial rock 1982
Guitars over programmed drums, sampling and factory noise. The bridge to industrial metal.
- Heaviness
- 6
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- UK / USA
- Tempo
- 110-150 bpm
- Song length
- 3.5-6 min
- Written about
- Control, Self-destruction, Religion and power, The body as a machine
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Industrial rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1982 | 48% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 6 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 90% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, era 1, melody 1 out of 5. Industrial rock leads the next by 4 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures 1979
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures. Martin Hannett's production is half the record.
- 2The one to put on first
Nine Inch Nails, The Downward Spiral 1994
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral. Recorded, not at all by chance, in a house with a grim history.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Post-punk, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Industrial rock's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Post-hardcore 85%
Hardcore that allows itself dynamics, empty space and irregular structures. Emo, screamo and mathcore all branch off from here.
4 steps from Industrial rock, meeting it only at Punk rock.
The way into Post-hardcore -
Industrial metal 85%
Metal riffs over programmed drums, samples and synths. Mechanical by design.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Industrial rock.
The way into Industrial metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 5.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 5.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.