7/04/2012

History of EBM Music

By Blaze C. Carwin


The historical past of EBM music is very fascinating. This article will offer you a small history of its early years.

American and Canadian music groups for example Schnitt Acht, Ministry, and Front Line Assembly began to use frequent European EBM elements. They mixed these components with all the roughness of American industrial rock, particularly in the case of Revolting Cocks. Nine Inch Nails continued the particular cross-pollination between EBM and industrial rock resulting in their own album "Pretty Hate Machine" (1989).

At the same time, EBM become popular within the underground club scene, particularly in Europe. In this period the most crucial labels were the particular the German Zoth Ommog, North American Wax Trax, Belgian Play It Again Sam and Antler-Subway! and also the Swedish Energy Rekords. Major artists included And One, Armageddon Dildos, Bigod 20, The Neon Judgement, and Attrition.

Between the early and also the mid 1990s, many EBM artists separate, or perhaps transformed their own musical type, borrowing much more altered industrial elements or perhaps components of rock or metal. The particular album Tyranny For You by EBM pioneers Front 242 initiated the particular end of the particular EBM epoch of the 1980s. Nitzer Ebb, the most important artists, also became an industrial rock band. Without the strength of their figureheads, the particular original electronic body music faded by the mid-1990s.

Electro-industrial

Within the late 1990s and also right after the millennium, Swedish and German groups such as Tyske Ludder and Spetsnaz made EBM music. In the same time period, a number of artists on the European techno scene started incorporating more elements of EBM within their sound. This kind of tendency increased in simultaneous with the emerging electroclash scene and also, as that scene began to fall, numerous artists connected with it, including the Green Velvet, Hacker, DJ Hell and Black Strobe, moved to this kind of techno/EBM crossover style. There has been growing unity in between this particular scene and also the old school EBM scene. Bands and artists have remixed one another. Most notably, Terence Fixmer joined with Nitzer Ebb's Douglas McCarthy to make Fixmer/McCarthy.




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