What are 25 essential releases of a genre? - The Sphere edition
So I decided to start this fun project suggested by Sonny, which is to create a list of 25 essential releases for a clan's main genre and collaborate with other site members who know the genre and its releases well enough to help out with improving the list. It basically covers releases that are considered by many to be an essential and influential part of the genre's ongoing development. Of course, this isn't really a favorites list. I haven't even heard a few of these releases, but I know from different sources how influential people consider them to be, and I might check those albums out sometime. To make sure each band gets the spotlight equally and each year in the age of the genre's development is acknowledged, I limited the list to one release per artist and one release per year. Here's the original list of essential industrial metal releases that I came up with, in chronological order:
1. Godflesh - Streetcleaner (1989)
2. Lard - The Last Temptation of Reid (1990)
3. Old - Lo Flux Tube (1991)
4. Ministry - ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ [Psalm 69] (1992)
5. Front Line Assembly - Millennium (1994)
6. Fear Factory - Demanufacture (1995)
7. Samael - Passage (1996)
8. Strapping Young Lad - City (1997)
9. Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe (1998)
10. The Kovenant - Animatronic (1999)
11. Rammstein - Mutter (2001)
12. Red Harvest - Sick Transit Gloria Mundi (2002)
13. Killing Joke - Killing Joke (2003)
14. Sybreed - Slave Design (2004)
15. Deathstars - Termination Bliss (2006)
16. Greymachine - Disconnected (2009)
17. Pain - You Only Live Twice (2011)
18. Corrections House - Last City Zero (2013)
19. Lindemann - Skills in Pills (2015)
20. Motionless in White - Graveyard Shift (2017)
21. Author & Punisher - Beastland (2018)
22. Uniform & The Body - Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back (2019)
23. Code Orange - Underneath (2020)
24. Architects - The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit (2022)
25. HEALTH - Rat Wars (2023)
Any suggestions and contributions to this list are welcome. This is a collaborative project after all. Discuss!
The 2003 self-titled Killing Joke is more popular.
Good suggestion, Rex! I've just added it in to replace their Hosannas album.
A playlist I've made with my favorite songs from those essential releases: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1la4JNdjrAXncqO9Szn2u7