This episode dives into the story behind five essential Industrial Albums from 1988 and 1990 you NEED in your collection. This video is the first in a series on the genre Industrial I’m planning, discussing the albums and as a proud member of the Vinyl Community, showing off and unboxing my Vinyl! Let’s go!
Do you agree, who would you add or remove?
I can’t really argue with the choices, especially since it’s limited to a 3 year window.
Edit: I’d swap out KMFDM for Streetcleaner by Godflesh. Controversial, I know 😏
Streetcleaner definitely leans more into the metal side than industrial.
For me, it’s both an industrial and metal album.
I know “what is industrial?” gets debated a lot, and while the instrumentation on Streetcleaner is very standard for a metal band (give or take the drum machine), I think the production, structure and composition lean heavily towards industrial. I can hear a lot of similarity to Test Dept. or SPK in it.
I like Streetcleaner a ton, but no way I’d take KMFDM off the list for that if we’re trying to limit it to 5.
Yeah, it’s hard to disagree esp. because I think he says he’s holding off NIN for a separate set of recommendations. In general, it’s worth remembering that he’s recommending albums for vinyl record fans. If I were to recommend resources for someone to “get into” industrial, I’d suggest twitch streamers of discord channels or discussion groups or at least social media posters bc it’s much better to have a community of people you can interact with.
Yeah the only other point I have about this list is it’s very Wax Trax!-centric. That’s not a bad thing, but other labels existed.