Throbbing Gristle

British music group

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In industrial music
Coined by British postpunk experimentalists Throbbing Gristle, the term industrial simultaneously evoked the genre’s bleak, dystopian worldview and its harsh, assaultive sound (“muzak for the death factories,” as Throbbing Gristle put it). Believing that punk’s revolution could be realized only by severing its roots in traditional rock, industrial bands deployed…
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