What Is Industrial Music?
industrial fans, though a growing number of fans reject any guitar-based or rock-oriented industrial music as being "true" industrial.
In the end, from all of this, what can be understood is that industrial music is not just one kind of music. The music is not JUST noise or electronics. One CAN characterize industrial as having electronics, but so does techno, which is very removed from the tone of industrial.
Industrial, as is obvious from the name itself, should have the quality of industrial-noise, something grinding to its sound. But moreso is the idea that it is a comment on our modern society. Above all things is a commentary, a social perspective being displayed. A disillusionment with our society and a desire to change things.
Industrial always has been and always will be the true music of rebellion, the ideals that the hippies failed at, to point out society's ills and man's folly, to deride religion, and to defy oppression of any kind...
Or maybe that's giving it too much credit.
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