The songs’ bass pummels the speakers, while all the other elements seem to be a strain test on the listener’s ears. Godflesh’s “Streetcleaner” proved them all wrong. Metal bands must’ve thought playing drums and guitar well was the only way to achieve unbearing heaviness. And the band’s leader, Al Jourgensen, has not looked back since. “Stigmata” is a particularly apt taster for the album. Ministry, a group that had started their careers playing synth-pop, brought it to its logical extreme. Bands like Swans or The Cure had created the “darker than everything else” aesthetic. To be fair, the idea of creating a metal and industrial rock hybrid was hanging in the air.īands like Throbbing Gristle or Einstürzende Neubauten had shown what could happen when avant-garde art and building equipment used as instruments could be brought together. Besides all of this, it featured a relatively seductive tone. It was dark, menacing, and sounded heavier than most thrash bands, the titans of heavy music at the time. “The Land of Rape and Honey” was the album that launched a thousand Ministry imitators.
Ministry – “The Land of Rape and Honey” (1988) That is why today I’m dressing up for doomsday, scouting abandoned factories nearby, and ranking the 10 best industrial metal albums of all time. Even more surprisingly, some of the genre’s most famous names are some of modern rock’s biggest attractions. Many industrial metal bands managed to carve a long artistic path, avoiding self-repetition. The best industrial metal albums often feature harsh guitar tones, robotic rhythms, and post-apocalyptic doom & gloom feel about them. Industrial metal added a new layer of heaviness to the rock formats of the 1980s.
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