Essay Archive - Industrial Music
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....
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