A hybrid genre created by combining - wait for it - Industrial and Heavy Metal. The genre is characterized by electronics-heavy production, including looped, distorted guitar riffs, distorted vocals, drum machines, and relatively heavy use of keyboards and sampling. The genre was pioneered in the late 1980s by Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM, and rose to prominence in the 1990s with massive successes like Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, White Zombie, and Marilyn Manson. Essentially died after that, with most modern bands in the genre (having no interest in electronic music) attempting to imitate the "death metal" sound found in Godflesh's Streetcleaner and Fear Factory's Demanufacture without understanding what makes those albums great, and failing spectacularly. One is extremely hard-pressed to name any good industrial metal bands formed after the '90s.

Industrial metal is often the source of endless online arguments about the definitions of "industrial" and "metal", usually instigated by people who only listen to one (or neither) of those genres but want to appear more knowledgeable about music than they actually are.

Not to be confused with Industrial Rock.

KMFDM, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Handzul und Gretel, Fear Factory, and Rammstein are industrial metal bands.

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Electro-industrialism

Aesthetic in which industrial characteristics define electronic interfaces

Sega's arcade games contain generous motifs of electro-industrialism

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industrial sized bag of douche

adjective

1. a very large douche bag (bag of douche), hence "industrial"

2. Someone who is an idiot, or really lame.

3. Used as a diss

my brother is such an industrial sized bag of douche

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Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk

A genre of music created by Mindless Self Indulgence. It's considered a parody of many other bands making overly specific genres and/or trying to be innovative with their genres.

guy1:"What's you're favorite genre"?
guy2:"Melodic death metal, groove metal, happy hardcore...y'know. You?"
guy1:"Industrial jungle pussy punk"
guy2:"I've never heard of that, what bands play that?"
guy1"MSI
guy2:"huh?"
guy1:"Mindless Self Indulgence, jeez"

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Down Bad Industrial Complex

The resultant scenario of a man cyclically downloading tinder, meeting a woman, getting ghosted, redownloading tinder and so on...

> Man, this girl from tinder blocked me again
>> Third time this week?
> 3 different women, 5th time just with this girl. Looks like I’m stuck in the down bad industrial complex

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fauxstalgia

Faux nostalgia. Faking old things in an attempt to recapture the feeling of times gone past, especially of technology that has passed.

Hipstamatic pictures, just like the vinyl-static added to digital recordings, is prime fauxstalgia

fauxstalgia by scotte61 December 16, 2010

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pajama casual

Pajama casual is a term used when working from home and preparing for a video conference. All business above the waist and your pajama pants down below.

We have a Zoom meeting in a few minutes and I’ll probably go pajama casual.

pajama casual by jrod-knows March 31, 2020

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