Container 90: working class aggro.
Industrial music is often tagged as being angry or aggressive, but what does that actually mean? How does aggression manifest in different sub-genres? How do dancing, gender, and lyrics factor in? All these big questions plus some discussion of the ongoing Ministry debacle on this week’s episode of We Have A Technical! You can rate and subscribe on iTunes, Google Play Music, or download directly or stream from Spotify or the widget down below.
Good call making the connection between rockabilly (or at least Psychobilly) and modern European EBM. In the early days of EBM the psychobilly and EBM fans where I was (UK) got on pretty well. Some of the psychobillies saw EBM very much as “like us, but weird”
That said, DBS got there first…
It’s such an obvious and yet hugely relatable point you made that as a kid looking for an emotional outlet metal did not feel necessarily resonant as a genre. This made me recall the exact same feeling when mid 90’s NIN became my getaway into industrial for that very reason. I suppose in many scene variations this basic notion of aggression and angst channeled into the momentum of the music is relevant still. Not a bad thing in the slightest…
Great show, I loved this discussion.