Your way in
Industrial metal 1988
Metal riffs over programmed drums, samples and synths. Mechanical by design.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- USA / Germany
- Tempo
- 100-140 bpm
- Song length
- 4-6 min
- Written about
- Control and its systems, Media, Religion as machinery, The body against the machine
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Industrial metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 6 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 2 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, melody 1 out of 4. Industrial metal ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. 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
- 1The one to put on first
Godflesh, Streetcleaner 1989
Godflesh - Streetcleaner. It sounds like an industrial city collapsing, which is the subject.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
The first is Industrial metal's own entry point. After it come Industrial metal'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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Industrial rock 100%
Guitars over programmed drums, sampling and factory noise. The bridge to industrial metal.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Industrial metal.
The way into Industrial rock -
Post-hardcore 98%
Hardcore that allows itself dynamics, empty space and irregular structures. Emo, screamo and mathcore all branch off from here.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Industrial metal.
The way into Post-hardcore
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 4.
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.