industrial music

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Etymology[edit]

The style was introduced by the record label Industrial Records (formed in 1976).

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industrial music (uncountable)

  1. A noisy, experimental genre of music with transgressive themes.
    • 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
      One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.

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