November 2025 "Industrial Metal Invasion" Playlist - Metal Academy Radio
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/45Xj4PCyW3LavsE8NMtncN
Tracklisting:
1. Eisheilig - "Sturm" from Elysium (2006)
2. Lard - "Volcanus 2000 (We Wipe the World)" from 70's Rock Must Die (2000)
3. Red Harvest - "Hole in Me" from A Greater Darkness (2007) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]
4. Black Magnet - "Better Than Love" from Megamantra (2025)
5. Shadow Domain - "Turbogenerator" from Digital Divide (2018)
6. Klank - "Pentrate" from Numb (2000)
7. Void - "Sulpher City Sickness" from Posthuman (2003)
8. Pitchshifter - "Skin Grip" from Industrial (1991)
9. Awake at Last - "Bloodline" from The Balance (2023)
10. Motionless in White - "Burned at Both Ends II" from Scoring the End of the World (2022)
11. Acumen Nation - "Octavia" from Artifacts: 1990 - 1993 - Volume 1 (2002)
12. Ghostemane - "Crime Time" from Fear Network II (2021)
13. Killing Joke - "Majestic" from Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (2006)
14. Lord of the Lost - "It's a Sin" from Weapons of Mass Seduction (2023)
15. Blue Stahli - "Red Carpet Rush" from Antisleep Vol. 04 (2017) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]
16. Celldweller - "Fadeaway" from Celldweller (2003) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]
17. Circle of Dust - "Nothing Sacred (Blue Stahli Remix)" from Circle of Dust (1995, 2016 remaster) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]
18. AP2 - "The Only Man I Know" from Supsension of Disbelief (2000)
19. The Berzerker - "Lonely World" from Animosity (2007)
20. Static-X - "Run for Your Life" from Project Regeneration, Vol. 2 (2024)
21. Rob Zombie - "Punks and Demons" from Punks and Demons (2025)
22. Flesh Field - "Reckoning" from Voice of the Echo Chamber (2023)
23. CueStack - "Icon" from Diagnosis:Human (2021)
24. Ministry - "TV Song #6" from Moral Hygiene (2021)
25. Psyclon Nine - "You Know What You Are" from INRI (2005)
26. Gothminister - "Raise the Dead" from Utopia (2013) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]
27. Pain - "Feed Us" from Cynic Paradise (2008) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]
28. Neurotech - "Alleviate" from In Remission (2016)
Here are my thoughts on all the selected tracks:
Eisheilig - "Sturm" from Elysium (2006)
3/5. Not really the best start of the playlist, now that I look back at it. Probably because this is the German alt pop-ish genre that is Neue Deutsche Harte. But I enjoy the beautiful bridge at the two and a half minute mark.
Lard - "Volcanus 2000 (We Wipe the World)" from 70's Rock Must Die (2000)
3.5/5. This one has the band's usual industrial rock/metal first introduced in the 1988 Ministry album, tackling those who want to imitate Nine Inch Nails. There are some people who think this kind of sound is stinky garbage, but if you get more to the sound like I am, you might some decent enjoyment.
Red Harvest - "Hole in Me" from A Greater Darkness (2007)
4/5. A great song for me to feel the darkness. Red Harvest haven't made anything since this album, but hopefully they'll return. Unlike their earlier faster works, this song has the slow crawl of Neurosis or death-doom.
Black Magnet - "Better Than Love" from Megamantra (2025)
4.5/5. Quite an underrated banger! It's like a trip back to the 90s industrial rock/metal of bands like Skinny Puppy.
Shadow Domain - "Turbogenerator" from Digital Divide (2018)
4/5. Sybreed vocalist Benjamin Nominet kept himself busy during his main band's hiatus, with temporary side-project Shadow Domain. Man, his vocals shine in the chorus!
Klank - "Penetrate" from Numb (2000)
4.5/5. Klank can really crank things up, with the ability to sound heavy and dance-y at the same time.
Void - "Sulphur City Sickness" from Posthuman (2003)
4/5. Same with this band, minus the brief sludgy intro.
Pitchshifter - "Skin Grip" from Industrial (1991)
4.5/5. This one has some of Pantera's forceful groove, but it's still a pummeling crusher like in Fear Factory's debut album next year.
Awake at Last - "Bloodline" from The Balance (2023)
4/5. A cool track to love for modern alt-/industrial metal.
Motionless in White - "Burned at Both Ends II" from Scoring the End of the World (2022)
4.5/5. The title of this track already lets you know the song sequels are still going on in this Motionless in White album, being a sequel to a song from Infamous. It has really grown into one of my favorites. The lyrics have a more positive theme, "At both ends burned once more, but now I live for something more".
Acumen Nation - "Octavia" from Artifacts: 1990 - 1993 - Volume 1 (2002)
4/5. Acumen Nation has made a compilation of early demo tracks from the early 90s. This one's pretty great though more industrial than metal.
Ghostemane - "Crime Time" from Fear Network II (2021)
3.5/5. "Free ride right into the next life with next knife I see anywhere near me or in my vicinity. Count down the days!"
Killing Joke - "Majestic" from Hosannas from the Basements of Hell (2006)
4/5. This one is out of this world with majestic guitar force. Enough said!
Lord of the Lost - "It's a Sin" from Weapons of Mass Seduction (2023)
4.5/5. The original Pet Shop Boys single may be an overused pop song, but Lord of the Lost made it more epic, even more than Gamma Ray's cover!
Blue Stahli - "Red Carpet Rush" from Antisleep Vol. 04 (2017)
5/5. This highlight is from Blue Stahli's Antisleep instrumental album series mostly centered around electro-industrial tracks. However, as much as this track tries to go the EDM/house route similar to Avicii and David Guetta, it actually has a similar vein to Neurotech's Evasive, touching in on Deathstars and Turmion Katilot, giving it a somewhat industrial/cyber metal vibe, enough for it to fit well in The Sphere.
Celldweller - "Fadeaway" from Celldweller (2003)
4.5/5. Celldweller's self-titled debut is from a time when the earlier millennials were going to college and jamming out to these kinds of songs. I also didn't start listening to Klayton's projects until when I was, and still am, in my 20s, so a few years before this comment. The best part is throughout the 3rd quarter of the song.
Circle of Dust - "Nothing Sacred (Blue Stahli Remix)" from Circle of Dust (1995, 2016 remaster)
5/5. I absolutely love this Blue Stahli remix. Bret Autrey's futuristic stylings give an already great song more life.
AP2 - "The Only Man I Know" from Supsension of Disbelief (2000)
4.5/5. This one actually takes a break from the industrial metal sound for more of an alt-rock/metal sound that would actually foreshadow 36 Crazyfists' style at that time, and maybe even Bring Me the Horizon's sound in the late 2010s.
The Berzerker - "Lonely World" from Animosity (2007)
5/5. Industrial deathgrind, huh? This I'm actually up for! "A call to god goes unheard, unanswered. Lonely world robs us of your morals and tortures me."
Static-X - "Run for Your Life" from Project Regeneration, Vol. 2 (2024)
4.5/5. RIP Wayne Static. This band has made f***ing killer bangers resurrected from demo sessions as a tribute to him. The best part is the bridge that starts the second half, "IT'S YOUR LAST DAY IN THIS HOLLOW WORLD!!!" I also think really looks back at all the band's earlier albums. Their new lead vocalist Xer0 sounds amazing. Of course, we know he's Edsel Dope from the band Dope, and it seems like he has brought some influences from that band to this one. Also great for an action movie fight!
Rob Zombie - "Punks and Demons" from Punks and Demons (2025)
4/5. Rob Zombie is back again with a heavy punky new single. I must have some serious willpower to prevent myself from joining the "SATAN SATAN" chant-along.
Flesh Field - "Reckoning" from Voice of the Echo Chamber (2023)
3.5/5. Good, but it probably would've been better if the synth-orchestral buildup wasn't so long.
CueStack - "Icon" from Diagnosis:Human (2021)
3/5. This one's more upbeat but still not too great.
Ministry - "TV Song #6" from Moral Hygiene (2021)
3.5/5. "IT. IS. OVER!!!!" Not by a long shot, as we really speed up with a programmed blackened blast-beat all the way through.
Psyclon Nine - "You Know What You Are" from INRI (2005)
4/5. Even though Psyclon Nine was more of an electronic/aggrotech band in their first two albums, their cover of a Ministry track is perhaps the first hint of their later industrial metal sound that would build up in their next two albums and taking full form from Order of the Shadow Act 1 onwards.
Gothminister - "Raise the Dead" from Utopia (2013)
4.5/5. Towards the end of this playlist and its original album is yet another excellent track.
Pain - "Feed Us" from Cynic Paradise (2008)
5/5. When I was a teen, I was listening to symphonic/power metal bands like Nightwish. Hearing this song featuring one of that band's vocalists, Anette Olzon, all these years later, has really made me kick myself for not discovering this song or band earlier. It's just so d*mn cool!
Neurotech - "Alleviate" from In Remission (2016)
4.5/5. A nearly 9-minute epic of electronic enchantment. Though as much as I enjoy that one, it should be said that I'm not feeling the cyber metal touch that I had earlier this year. My interest in bands like Mechina and Neurotech is already fading, now that I'm restoring my interest in the more medieval fantasy side of epicness from symphonic and power metal instead of the sci-fi of epic cyber metal. All I can say is, hello again fantasy, goodbye futuristic.... But I'm still in The Sphere, don't worry.
Pretty good playlist I've made, huh? I recommend this to any industrial metal fan and anyone who isn't into industrial metal but is up to getting into a great start for the genre. Thanks to anyone who have contributed with their own submissions, and I hope the rest of you enjoy it like I've had!