industrial

Abrasive, machine-driven music that began with Throbbing Gristle's Industrial Records in mid-1970s Britain, alongside Cabaret Voltaire and SPK. Its dancefloor strain arrived through Front 242, Ministry, KMFDM and Nine Inch Nails in the 1980s, and its club descendants — EBM, darkwave, industrial techno — still anchor goth and body-music nights.