Industrial metal that's experimental, technical or progressive

First Post December 15, 2024 12:21 PM

This combo aside from Kong I haven't seen, so if anyone has cutting edge examples of industrial metal that really tries to push the conventions of the style that'd be awesome. From personal experience industrial metal seems to be the most underrated metal style, so more visibility would be greatly appericated (not just RYM boards that are hard to follow if you look into all the influences for various styles like Post industrial, EBM, Dark Electro, Aggrotech, Electro industrial, at that point the influences just get lost)

December 15, 2024 12:43 PM

Welcome to Metal Academy, MiNd KeYs! The more progressive and boundary-pushing industrial metal releases that I've experienced are the ones that cross over between The Infinite and The Sphere clans. Those include:

Dødheimsgard - Supervillain Outcast

OLD - Lo Flux Tube 

OLD - The Musical Dimensions of Sleastak

Strapping Young Lad - The New Black

Voivod - Phobos (although I consider it much more progressive than industrial)

If you would also like post-industrial metal (as in a combination of post-metal and industrial metal), I might also add:

Corrections House - Last City Zero

Godflesh - Post Self

Red Harvest - HyBreed

And I don't know if you like the more underrated and overlooked cyber metal subgenre, but if you do, I would also recommend Mechina's Acheron, a journey through epic cinematic progressive cyber metal.

Please feel free to check out those releases and hope they match what you're looking for. Enjoy!

December 15, 2024 12:57 PM

Oh thanks man I know the black metal industrial hybrids and Voivod. Corrections House is something I haven't heard of. I have seen Mechina on RYM and I almost finished Voivod's discography, but it'd be cool if there was a band that was like Skinny puppy if they played metal, but I failed to find it. At least I got that giant industrial iceberg and the supergroup Pigface to look forward to checking out, my backlog of music never ends ; )

December 15, 2024 02:28 PM

it'd be cool if there was a band that was like Skinny puppy if they played metal, but I failed to find it.

Quoted MiNd KeYs

How about Front Line Assembly's Millennium? The band was formed by ex-Skinny Puppy member Bill Leeb, and Millennium is the most metal album in their discography.

December 15, 2024 11:52 PM

Probably not fitting your Skinny Puppy thing, but Bloodstar fits as an experimental band. Sort of Celtic Frost if they did Industrial Metal kind of thing. (...but bear in mind I'm hardly someone usually listening to Industrial Metal)