https://youtu.be/wUSq9yzzPjU?si=iMXNY1OXKGu1MkM2

i've discovered industrial music recently (KMFDM, acucrack and chemlab only) and chemlab has been my favorite among them all,

however i've seen a lot of people criticizing their oxidizer album, making jokes about skipping it... and i don't understand why? some tracks really spoke to me like force quit or black snake voodoo hiss

burnout and suture still are my fav albums though, but i'd really like to have your opinions on why oxidizer isnt a good album, or why some people are criticizing it, maybe the reason why i dont understand is because i dont really know the genre or the artist...

thanks in advance!

1. Nu Country Command

2. Please A Single Repair?

3. Box With A Screen 2: Electric Boogaloo

4. Marvel Good Person

5. Some Dude With A Beard In The Sky Constructed An Automobile

6. Really, Crows Are Terrified Of This?

7. Song (nice)

8. Withering

9. Holy

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THOUGHT EXPERIMENT

I was thinking about trends in recorded music over time and the current (perhaps finally cresting) wave of mega-stardom for Taylor Swift. I was considering the musicians and performers that commanded the world. Beatles, Michael Jackson, etc. And going back to the earliest days of radio and 7” 45 RPM pop hits.

And my question to this group, as a thought experiment, is:

What if industrial —and for that matter Gothic and darkwave and postpunk and the ilk— had become and even remained incredibly popular?

No doubt, I am very happy if I am somewhere in the world and I hear Cabaret Voltaire, or Skinny Puppy. I might chance across a reference to Throbbing Gristle somewhere. The Cure and Siouxsie certainly penetrated the mainstream. Ministry was nominated for Grammys. NIN is a soundtrack machine now. Thrill Kill Kult is touring the US and selling out their (low 775 copies) RSD 2024 release which is being flipped for more than $100.

But what if everywhere you went, like pop music in supermarkets and department stores, you heard dark and industrial. Or even gentler out there music like Coil goes to at times. And all your other favorites: Hula, Front242, Front Line Assembly, Illusion of Safety, Nurse With Wound, SPK, Clock DVA…

Is it possible that some of us would be turned off by the glut of this music that was so special to us? If we are older (45+) would we never have gotten into it in the first place because it was everywhere?

Is it only this special because it is hard to come by? Meaning it’s hard to bump into this music in public. It’s something that we share like a secret handshake with others who are deeply into these increasingly unknown-to-most bands.

Or would we be much happier all the time? Walking around the world hearing the things we would’ve been playing privately on our headphones.

(I’m also trying to imagine a world where nothing but doom, drone, sludge, and black metal is playing all the time…)

im a little in love with her, shes very 2014 in the best way imaginable. very poppy but very techy and hardcore even somehow

This is real.

Just 3 little things (thinks ?) 1- thanks for this sub. I discover many bands/sounds 2 - sorry. I like Skinny Puppy / The process 3 - Kraftwerk ?