What makes a song “industrial?” It’s a question we’ve often pondered this past week at Consequence throughout our ongoing celebration of the genre. Harsh and liberal use of distortion; the ...

It's time to count down the Top 25 Industrial Rock + Metal Bands! With so many different styles to pull from within the genre, this was one of our more difficult list in regards to the ranking ...

Industrial-metal vets Stabbing Westward are on a comeback trail that’s taking them straight to Orlando. The band has announced dates for their Dead and Gone spring tour and Orlando will be the host of ...

In 2020, Oklahoma City musician James Hammontree released his first full-length as Black Magnet. Hallucination Scene uses all the best parts of 90s industrial metal—even the radio-friendly sounds—to ...

When Lou Reed released Metal Machine Music in 1975, many people were confused. Many more were upset, feeling that they were tricked or cheated somehow. The album was Reed’s foray into avant-garde ...

Not unlike GWAR, members of Cleveland-based electro-industrial-monster-metal band Mushroomhead lurk behind frightening costumes and junior-high-worthy pseudonyms (Jeffrey Nothing, Skinny, Gravy, and ...

As with many of the genres we've so far spotlighted for our long-running “Don't Know Shit” series, were we sub-genre snobs and ever so slightly insane, we could take “industrial” music and chop it up ...

In early 1990s Central Florida, the Genitorturers were a band that went all in on the S&M thematics that most industrial bands only flirted with at the time, with the group’s leader/dominatrix Gen ...