industrial music essay

Industrial Music Rock and roll is dead.. In the late eighties and early nineties alternative music tried to save rock and roll, but it was too big of a category.. Every alternative band

Industrial Music

Rock and roll is dead It's a fact During the eighties romp of techno

and fashion bands, people forgot all about it In the late

eighties and early

nineties alternative music tried to save rock and roll, but it was too big of a

category If a band didn't sing country or rap, they were

considered

alternative Every alternative band had their own idea of music, and it all

spread apart, running farther away from rock Finally, when alternative became

more defined and broke off into categories, one specific type of alternative

offspring, industrial music, made the best attempt in a decade to revive the

long forgotten era of rock and roll The only problem with this new rock is

that it was angered from being forgotten for over a decade and now it's back,

filled with angst and hatred Industrial music has weaved rock and roll with

evil and misery

The founder and leader of the industrial revolution is the band Nine Inch

Nails Most people do not classify Nine Inch Nails as a band though The

writer, producer, lead vocalist, keyboarder and guitarist of the band is Trent

Reznor For the past two years, Trent has been the artist of the year in Spin

magazine and NIN has been the number two band of the year In

1994, Nine Inch

Nails was announced MTV's band of the year This was a great honor because MTV

spends most of it's time with rap and hip-hop When NIN's first album came out

in 1989, it was mostly rock and roll with a techno twist,

containing songs full

of depressing, suicidal lyrics Then as the next two albums arose, Trent

became more evil with his music, using machines and pretty much anything he

could find that would make his music sound angered and irritated This hard,

twisted music, backed up by words of pure hatred started the industrial ball

rolling

One band that has tried to lighten up industrial just a tad is KMFDM, a

German industrial band The band name stands for Klein Mitlied Fuhr Das

Merhiet, which is Little pity for the tyranny Instead of using the suicidal,

evil lyrics, KMFDM has used their music as more of a

philosophical

communication They sing about how screwed up they think the world is and how

much we are controlled by people we didn't know existed The lyrics may sound

depressing still, but the music is a little more upbeat KMFDM

got rid of the

tortured machine sounds and added horns and synthesizers, making the music

sound more digital and less like grinding gears Doing this, KMFDM was able to

appeal to a larger group

After the invasion of rap and hip-hop, rock and roll was never the same,

and when it tried to make a comeback, it exploded into numerous little musical

categories, all with rock components, but none with the same hard flare of the

original But now, rock and roll is back, and it's mad as hell Industrial is

the closest thing to rock that we have, just a little more

demented Now that

people are getting bored of the same old pointless rap songs, all

of the little

alternative categories are getting looked into more seriously and industrial

music is thriving, creating a new future for the once destroyed rock and roll