From the video transcript, looks like they're saying:
- Ministry - The land of rape and honey
- Front 242 - Front by front
- My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a knife
- KMFDM - Naive
- Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2025
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Solid list, but I'd probably have gone with something earlier by Skinny Puppy and maybe added Front Line Assembly - Caustic Grip or another FLA album as well. And yeah, the lack of NIN is glaring since that was probably the gateway drug for a lot of people with Pretty Hate Machine and Broken.
I can't really argue with the choices, especially since it's limited to a 3 year window.
Edit: I'd swap out KMFDM for Streetcleaner by Godflesh. Controversial, I know 😏
I like Streetcleaner a ton, but no way I'd take KMFDM off the list for that if we're trying to limit it to 5.
Streetcleaner definitely leans more into the metal side than industrial.
For me, it's both an industrial and metal album.
I know "what is industrial?" gets debated a lot, and while the instrumentation on Streetcleaner is very standard for a metal band (give or take the drum machine), I think the production, structure and composition lean heavily towards industrial. I can hear a lot of similarity to Test Dept. or SPK in it.
Yeah, it's hard to disagree esp. because I think he says he's holding off NIN for a separate set of recommendations. In general, it's worth remembering that he's recommending albums for vinyl record fans. If I were to recommend resources for someone to "get into" industrial, I'd suggest twitch streamers of discord channels or discussion groups or at least social media posters bc it's much better to have a community of people you can interact with.
Yeah the only other point I have about this list is it's very Wax Trax!-centric. That's not a bad thing, but other labels existed.