Iconic Rockers Who Went '90s Industrial (Danzig, David Bowie, W.A.S.P., Rob Halford)

[@MadSciRexieFi]

Thanks for watching everyone! I agree, I should have given Bowie's Outside a mention. I wanted to give the look to the Reznor infused NINdustrial single from Earthling instead... but therefore as a loophole got Danzig the first nod. Let it be known, Bowie went there first! He's such a savvy duke. Additionally, I'm Afraid of Americans was a leftover from Outside, and Eno is a producer for the entire Outside album, whereas he isn't for the rest of Earthling. Both Outside and Earthling rule and are worth the jam.

[@jasonmalstrom1043]

Interestingly "I'm Afraid of Americans" was originally recorded during the Outside sessions, and the original version can be heard on the Show Girls sound track.

[@hairy_cornflake]

I was going to comment about Outside sounding a bit more industrial, even if not really it does have a more Reznor sound and it's when both artists toured together. Man I'm so jealous of people who got to attend these shows!

[@SJO2112]

Bowie's 1995 Outside predated Earthing. It featured The Hearts Filthy Lesson and should have had a mention here. From an old school Bowie fan i think its one of his best songs (and a fantastic video).

[@KamenSentaiMetalHero]

Bowie's 1995 album 1. Outside is more industrial than Earthling and predates the Danzig example.

[@itookallthenames]

I remember that Danzig video coming on at night in 1997 and we laughed our heads off

[@mikewilson3581]

I laughed when I first saw his knockout footage.

[@princebloodgrave8097]

Bowie's album before Earthling was also Industrial, Outside is/was classified as industrial. :D

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

Yeah. Earthling isn't even influenced by industrial, more by the UK drum&bass scene.

[@louisduarte8763]

"I'm Afraid of Americans" is still a banger. And Weird Al parodying NIN-style industrial is still hilarious.

[@johnchedsey1306]

I am grateful my best friend at the time talked me into going to see NIN/Bowie on that amazing tour. Bowie was absolutely amazing. I still feel bad for all the NIN-heads who left when Bowie's set started. They really deprived themselves of a legand.

[@JesusGomez-ob2qt]

The thought of anyone walking out on DAVID BOWIE is insane. Bet they regret it till this day

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

You forgot Mötley Crüe's 'Generation Swine' and Alice Cooper's 'Brutal Planet'. Then there's Gary Numan's 'Pure' which is a case of reaching the same point from the opposite direction: an electronic artist who added heavy guitars to sound more like NIN (who recorded a cover of his in the same exact period). Moby also did the same thing with 'Animal Rights'. I'm sure there's more, but they don't come to mind right now.

[@quentinbringthenumetalchil5125]

It’s funny how I was watching your Thrash Bands That Went Nu and Glam Era Pantera videos last night and was wondering what you were going to upload next. I’m loving these documentaries that examine certain areas and periods that bands had to go through or were in. Keep up the great work!

[@rabit818]

Bowie Reznor 90s tour is incredible. Very good take on industrial.

[@mayhemcbs]

DANZIG mentioned Skinny Puppy a band he listened back into the 1980s

[@justsomedude5727]

Alice Cooper's Brutal Planet too

[@careful...Icarus]

Halford's 2wo lp is brilliant. His voice is perfect for industrial. Given a couple more lps he could've really explored corners of his voice that he never could in Priest. Oh well,he went back to the safe paycheck. Danzig's voice at this point however was becoming as crackly as a broken synth thru a distortion pedal. Too many years of screaming at the top of his lungs.

[@mikewilson3581]

Throbbing Gristle was doing it in the 70's. Killing Joke in the early 80's.

[@judsonsnell]

Honorable mention goes to that guy from Faster Pussycat who jumped on the mechanized angst-train.

[@spiderjerusalem100]

I really like your videos, there aren't that many decent channels focusing on rock and metal which have something interesting to say. Keep it up!

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

Throbbing Gristle is the oldest Industrial band I know of The First Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle (1975) is their oldest record that I know of.

[@nimhard]

I adore Danzig, Bowie and Rob Halford industrial phases. Awesome video.

[@rafael_3372]

How has your channel not blown up yet?

[@obelix703]

Taime Down from Faster Pussycat actually made a good goth/industrial-inspired record under the band name “The Newlydeads.” Check it out if you haven’t already.

[@blaukmunke5377]

Maybe not as explicitly as these, but King Crimson’s Thrak or Oingo Boingo’s Boingo (1994) sorta fit this energy to me

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

'Thrak' just sounds like an evolution of what that lineup of KC had done in the 80s. It's darker and harder at times, but not necessarily Reznor-like, even tho Adrian Belew did play on The Downward Spiral. 'Boingo'... It sounds very 90s and crazy but not industrial in any way. OB were a wacky new wave band to begin with. That record is pretty coherent with their other material, it doesn't even have that many electronics on it. Plus it came out the same year as TDS. By the way, have you heard Elfman's recent (non-soundtrack) stuff? It's wicked good, especially the remix album! Reznor even collaborated on a song.

[@KamenSentaiMetalHero]

I was about to mention King Crimson.

[@MorwenWhyte]

I was thinking about "Germs" from the very beginning believing it wasn't going to be in the list since it's a parody... and then I reached the honourable mention at the ending of the video. I'm fulfilled.

[@jef_hel]

Saw Bowie on the Earthling tour. It was not with NiN tho', and that's for the better... so Bowie just played a medium-sized venue in Montreal. So there I was, just 20 feet away from Bowie himself, apparently really enjoying himself in a super set reworked in this jungley style. Perfect moment. A true highlight in my life.

[@keithfulkerson]

That Danzig song sounded decent, but the video was fucking repellant with the strobing. I really dig that 2wo song, and need to check out the rest of that album.

[@OrgaNik_Music]

Those flashing effects were used a lot in the nineties rendering several music videos completely unwatchable. I don't know what they were thinking.

[@fuckgoogle8661]

I like the 2wo album. I really wanted a sequel, I was convinced it would be better.

[@TemploSagital]

Excelent albums!!! Totally underrated

[@Rescoase]

Can't believe Danzig lifted from NIN.

[@biancachristie]

Awww . . . I missed NIN and Bowie too and I kick myself thinking about it to this day. I got to see him before and after, but those shows are kinda legendary now, and it would have been kind of a hoot to hear the little NIN heads going, "Hey, Bowie's covering Nirvana" when he played The Man Who Sold the World. (also, arguably, Black Star actually made one last switch, stylistically--there's so much urgency in that album and it really stands out from other late-model Bowie. What an exit . . . Damn I still miss him).

[@vettii]

these videos are so fun

[@user-ge8yn4ql4i]

Always nice to have something new to rediscover

[@solucian]

Killing Joke did it in 1980!

[@mikewilson3581]

Absolutely.

[@newforestpixie5297]

I only heard Nine Inch Nails a year or two ago ( live off the grid a bit ) but the music I heard immediately reminded me of “ I’ll meet you in Poland baby “ by scraping foetus off the wheel from Hole 1985.

[@PorcelainPorcupine]

I was worried how you were going to handle this especially when it came to Bowie. I feel silly for worrying.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

He fucked it up, tbh

[@kkupsky6321]

Hey Richard Patrick is more than a nails expat. He’s also the t1000s brother. Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid

[@ManXBearXPigX]

I know they weren't a big name in the day but the band Shotgun Messiah is a great example of transitioning from Glam to Industrial and are my favorite band for that era. Their first album was total glam with songs like Shout It Out. Then their second album got a little harder with songs like Heartbreak Blvd. Third Album, Violent New Breed, goes full industrial and every song on that album is great. Check out I'm A Gun and Monkey Needs.

[@thisdyingsoul76]

Alice Cooper had a few albums with an industrial flavour in the late 90's and early 2000's also.

[@themeltdownz8901]

Alice cooper also did a couple albums in the industrial style

[@KJB484]

I am loving these videos. Regardless of the how much they may have ripped off NIN and Reznor, the Industrial Music of the musicians are pretty cool. However, I see just as much Ministry in this music!

[@anecdoteskywalker]

Your videos are on point dude thanks for putting in the effort

[@brycedownpitch]

In major defense of W.A.S.P, they sounded the least like NIN from a style standpoint out of, not only those mentioned in this video, but out of anyone that hopped on the NIN-bandwagon at the time. KFD sounded like it was written as a regular W.A.S.P. album with more distortion and more keyboards.

[@trevorsflatroundspun-vinyl9803]

Without sounding like an elitist, with the 2wo album, you got mostly everything correct (which is A LOT better than most times I see people talk about that album). Yes, Dave Ogilvie was part of the production. But, Bob Marlene was the main producer of that album. Bob would later do Alice Cooper's Brutal Planet and Tony Iommi's all-star solo album, IOMMI. Both having that 90s accessible electronic drum sound. Enough of me on my soapbox! I did enjoy the video!

[@taigawoods6526]

Great channel, love your stuff. Ty

[@jaymz010]

I LOVED Voyeurs by 2wo - My all time favourite Rob Halford side project. If I had Jeff Bezos money, I’d lock Halford & John5 in the studio & pay them to record me a follow-up... ....Only me, coz I think I was the only one who bought that album 😆

[@Nunya.Bidness]

Funny how you said some people thought Halford sounded like Perry Ferrell, I was having that same thought while listening to that track you had running in the background.

[@Soul74]

Subscribed. I loved your Prog/New Wave video too.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

So, you talk about Bowie's "industrial" 90s and NO MENTION OF 'OUTSIDE'??? Dude, that's the industrial album, not Earthling. It's got some seriously moody dark songs and was produced by Eno. The album version of Hallo Spaceboy is like, the most NIN-like track David ever did, even more than the 'muricans remix.

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

According to Manson, David Ogilvie didn't really do much on Antichrist. He did produce like 80% of Skinny Puppy's discography tho, was even briefly an official member.

[@jmd76family]

Throbbing Gristle started the term industrial.

[@T.d.Mack74]

I love electronic music NIN EBM you name it.

[@birchwwolf]

Bowie's late 90s were odd. 1995's 1.Outside was heavily influenced by Scott Walker's 1980s delve into proto-Swans territory, but the album came out daubled in rivethead grease, starting with industrial pop single "The Hearts Filthy Lesson". You got the deets on 1997's Earthling down, it's a drum and bass album with a Reznor remix as a single. The album version of "I'm Afraid of Americans" is more of a bricolage of Skinny Puppy clipped percussion and KISS stadium guitars. Album cut "Seven Years in Tibet" starts with "Closer" drums but immediately adds dreamy guitar and saxophone. Right after the NIN tour he nearly went adult contemporary for 1999's "hours..." and idk what to say about that one.

[@HippieCzar]

Blackstar sounds new - nods back to the old but the base sound is not anything Bowie has done before

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

Depeche Mode did Industrial Music for awhile.

[@dustydraffen1828]

Love the 2wo album! And Doro Pesh also went kind of industrial rock on her love me in black album, check out "do you like it"

[@themadmattster9647]

WASP is the best on the list since it’s just a basic normal W.A.S.P album just with electronics and Bowie the most honest

[@hamupinhere]

It should be noted that Danzig's original idea for Danzig was to go industrial immediately after Samhain, but Rick Rubin was behind pushing them toward the mainstream hard rock/blues rock thing. Glenn was listening to a lot of Alien Sex Fiend, Godflesh and wanted more of that instead of what came out on Danzig I through IV. But unfortunately, by the time he separated from Def American and he had free artistic reign, industrial rock was already kinda getting corny. For some reason, the cool thing in industrial at the time was to try as hard as you can to be "sexy".

[@fredricclack7137]

2WO Totally ROB! 🤬⚒️

[@fredricclack7137]

Gravity Kills ⚒️🪨

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

Don't forget Susan Vega.

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

Did Peter Murphy ever do an Industrial song?

[@DragonflyII]

David Bowie formed the alternative rock group TIN MACHINE in the late 80's which included some industrial elements, long before NIN released their debit album. You are giving way too much credit to NIN here. Inaccurate.

[@StormWildSpace]

oh my god! Seizure warning for the danzig video

[@jasonjerusalem]

Gary Numan also did something NINish in the 90s, if I'm not mistaken.

[@birchwwolf]

STROBE WARNING 2:01 - 2:44

[@ght_1]

What about king crimson

[@braidenandethan9172]

I was wondering when you would post again

[@brotherkellymatthewbarnes8882]

KFD hmm KMFDM (translated into English No Mercy For The: Mediocre (or) Masses.

[@jcoverpass]

How in the fuck did you not include The Newlydeads?

[@MaskedManiacReviews]

Godflesh is better than anything named in this entire video. Yet not mentioned.

[@superhomsar2112]

I love WASP but Blackie constantly rips off his own material, so that about tracks

[@VuotoPneumaNN]

Also I can't believe he didn't mention that the "fuck like a beast" guy was now ripping off the "fuck you like an animal" guy. Musta been afraid of demonetization. 😄