Track Of The Day - The Sphere Edition

Industrial sludge metal from Rennes, France.

Ground-breaking industrial metal from Seattle, USA.

Meaty & muscular industrial metal from Notting Hill, England.

Slow doomy industrial metal from one of the pioneering forces of the genre:

Continuing my Godflesh review journey after the Merciless EP, the grand finale of Selfless is the ultimate industrial metal epic:

Modern hardcore industrial metal at its best:

Slow doomy industrial metal from one of the pioneering forces of the genre:

This industrial doom metal monster from my late teenage years is absolutely my track of the day.

Stunningly executed dark ambient from this Norwegian industrial black metal project.

Industrial metalcore from Pittsburgh, USA.

Blazing epic techno-metal fire, as a sneak peek for the July Sphere industrial metal playlist premiering on Friday:

Loving this dark breakbeat-driven industrial metal track from Heaven Pierce Her's 2020 "ULTRAKILL: INFINITE HYPERDEATH" video game soundtrack this morning.

Sneak peek for the August Sphere monthly playlist premiering next week, a killer swansong from Burton C. Bell in his final album with Fear Factory before leaving the band during production:

Swedish cyber metal.

Industrial metal's perfect "Big Bang" moment:

Sanity Allergy is slightly weaker than Slab's debut with the only highlights for me being a couple upbeat tracks like this one:

An excellent loopy instrumental trip of early industrial metal:

Hardcore-speed industrial metal from the founder of Ministry and the ex-vocalist of Dead Kennedys:

A couple more highlight tracks from the early industrial metal era of the late 80s:

The terrifying beautiful bonus track in the original edition of Hands of Ash happens to be the best. Such a shame it's not on Spotify... For anyone looking for a heavy mix of Nine Inch Nails, Godflesh, and SLAB!:

A couple highlights from the pinnacle of KMFDM's career:

The former of which can be heard in the Martin Lawrence/Will Smith film Bad Boys (throughout the first minute of this video):

In a Discord server that I'm in, someone recommended a few songs from Nine Inch Nails from the album The Downward Spiral, and even though that album is basically atmospheric industrial rock, those few songs are metal bangers that I believe have potential in The Sphere:

If any of you are up to explore a bit of industrial rock/metal and/or the heavier side of Nine Inch Nails, please give those songs a listen and see if you agree with me about whether or not they can be considered Sphere tracks. I might even add one of them to one of my monthly Sphere playlists...

Here's another song from The Downward Spiral that I think sounds metal, this one from the deluxe edition:

Some more fantastic bands I've discovered and listened through, thanks to the songs included in the playlists that I've assembled, along with separate discoveries, from the futuristic industrial/groove metal of Mnemic:

To the goth-influenced industrial metal of Gothminister:

Along with the dark blackened industrial rock/metal of Psyclon Nine:

And finally, Klayton's pre-Celldweller project Circle of Dust:

The only remix I like from that Dawn of Ashes EP, for those curious to hear what Psyclon Nine with Therion symphonics would sound like: