You guys might like to check out the early bands signed by TVT in the 80's.
I have a CD set from them called Black Box with most of the people they first signed.......it's worth listening to,and most of the songs still stand the test of time.

Wow.

I cannot believe that the bands Fear Factory, Marilyn Manson, Deftones, Napalm Death and Gwar were all mentioned in a thread about industrial rock bands. I wouldn't put any of those in an industrial metal thread.

Amazing.

So much educating to be done, I swear.

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I also saw someone put Machine Head on here...you may aswell add Metallica on here. Jesus.

too many sub genres......it used to be just, rock, r&b, blues, jazz. it was a simpler time way back when. LOL

Look up Marilyn Manson. It's classified as Industrial. And just for the hell of it.....

Metallica:D

I don't know where you get industrial out of Alternative/Shock...but whatever.

The only Manson album that could even be considered industrial is "Mechanical Animals". But not even the whole album can be called that.

I really don't think Manson is industrial either. It's much more accurate to call him glam rock. The only ties Manson has to industrial music at all are the (infrequently used) distorted vocals and minimal keyboards. That's it. If you listen to something like Front Line Assembly, a true industrial band, you will see that Manson is far from it.

I got really into Nine Inch Nails latley. thats industrial right?

its all just rock and roll ...

NIN is all u need and i hope hes nice to his fans in concert...that would suck ass if he wasnt.

Well frist Naplam death were part of the hardcore movement,then after there "Scum" lp they became part of a newer movement called "Grindcore"(frist song is on crass lp).Gwar are a called art rock or theatre rock for the type of shows they put on,metal-punk fused you can say.Fear factory are influneced buy industrial music buy there sound ,no power cords here.Are they industrial?I say yes,due to the crossover that a few bands have done with a hard edge sound.