Tag: Industrial Rock
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Nine Inch Nails ‘Pretty Hate Machine’ (1989)
In the early 1990s, a seismic shift rippled through the music world when the enigmatic Trent Reznor emerged from the industrial underground with a sound that would forever alter the landscape of industrial music. Their debut album Pretty Hate Machine was a visceral exploration of pain, alienation, and existential dread. It blended the mechanical rhythms…
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Knocked Loose ‘You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To’ (2024)
American hardcore music is kind of having a moment as of late, and Knocked Loose’s third album You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To is a good representation of what it’s all about– thick as all hell, with a mixture of post-hardcore screams from mid-aughts heavyweights like Underoath and the rhythm section of industrial metal…
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Garbage ‘Garbage’ (1995)
Garbage’s eponymous debut album is basically the aggregation of everything I love about 90’s alternative rock. It’s weird, it’s dark, it’s heavy, and it’s wildly eclectic. When thematic subject matter pokes around the edges of society and combines with musical arrangements that are created to suit the song vs. a specific style it’s a special…
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