The 100 Greatest Industrial Artists

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  1. CRITERIA:

  2. • This list includes artists of all industrial-related musical styles: industrial, martial industrial, power noise, electro-industrial, death industrial, electronic body music, industrial rock, coldwave, industrial metal, and Neue Deutsche Härte.

  3. • Artist rankings are based on impact, influence, and popularity.


  4. Nine Inch Nails
  5. Ministry
  6. Throbbing Gristle
  7. Cabaret Voltaire
  8. Skinny Puppy
  9. Front 242
  10. Einstürzende Neubauten
  11. KMFDM
  12. Nitzer Ebb
  13. Suicide
  14. Coil
  15. D.A.F.
  16. Killing Joke
  17. Front Line Assembly
  18. Marilyn Manson
  19. Test Dept.
  20. Rammstein
  21. Monte Cazazza
  22. Foetus
  23. Meat Beat Manifesto
  24. This Heat
  25. Rob Zombie
  26. Whitehouse
  27. Chrome
  28. Fear Factory
  29. Die Krupps
  30. Clock DVA
  31. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
  32. Boyd Rice (NON)
  33. Godflesh
  34. Swans
  35. Z'EV
  36. Renegade Soundwave
  37. Current 93
  38. Filter
  39. Lustmord
  40. SPK
  41. Nurse with Wound
  42. Psychic TV
  43. Controlled Bleeding
  44. Stabbing Westward
  45. Young Gods
  46. Pigface
  47. Laibach
  48. :wumpscut:
  49. Gravity Kills
  50. Leæther Strip
  51. Severed Heads
  52. Haujobb
  53. Portion Control
  54. Revolting Cocks
  55. Legendary Pink Dots
  56. Zoviet France
  57. Chris & Cosey
  58. Hafler Trio
  59. 23 Skidoo
  60. Pitchshifter
  61. Tackhead
  62. VNV Nation
  63. Nocturnal Emissions
  64. Chemlab
  65. Die Warzau
  66. Electric Hellfire Club
  67. The Neon Judgement
  68. Static-X
  69. A Split Second
  70. Funker Vogt
  71. Mindless Self Indulgence
  72. Death in June
  73. Powerman 5000
  74. Attrition
  75. Chris Connelly
  76. Lords of Acid
  77. The Grey Wolves
  78. Orgy
  79. Lab Report
  80. Combichrist
  81. Sister Machine Gun
  82. Armageddon Dildos
  83. Leather Nun
  84. X-Marks the Pedwalk
  85. Bile
  86. Pig
  87. Machines of Loving Grace
  88. Gary Clail
  89. And One
  90. 16 Volt
  91. Maurizio Bianchi
  92. Cubanate
  93. Lilith
  94. Download
  95. à;GRUMH...
  96. Bigod 20
  97. Dope
  98. Velvet Acid Christ
  99. Deutsch Nepal
  100. Gridlock
  101. Black Lung
  102. Dive
  103. Esplendor Geometrico
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Honorable Mentions:
* In addition to other notable industrial artists, this list includes proto-industrial artists, noise artists, and electronic-rock artists sometimes associated with the style.


1000 Homo DJs
Absolute Body Control
Acid Horse
Acumen
Adrenalin Junkies
Agonoize
Android Lust
Angels & Agony
Angelspit
Apoptygma Berzerk
Apparatus
Arcane Device
Assemblage 23
Aube
Axiome
Ayria
Babyland
Battery
Bauhaus
Big Black
Birmingham 6
Birthday Massacre
Blok 57
Blutengel
Boredoms
Brighter Death Now
Brise-Glace
British Electric Foundation
Bypass Unit
Cable Regime
Can
Celldweller
Christ Analogue
Circus Of Pain
Clawfinger
Clay People, The
Cobalt 60
Collide
Colony 5
Converter
Cop Shoot Cop
Covenant
Cranioclast
Crash Worship
Cyberaktif
Das Ich
Dead Voices On Air
Deathstars
Decoded Feedback
Delta 9
Diary Of Dreams
Diatribe
Die Form
Digital Poodle
Dilate
Disciples Of Annihilation
Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy
Distorted Pony
Dope Stars Inc.
Doubting Thomas
Drown
Drunk Tank
Eisbrecher
Emilie Autumn
Ethyl Meatplow
Excessive Force
Evil Mothers
Fahrenheit 451
Faust
Feindflug
Final
Final Cut, The
Flesh Field
Gary Numan
Gate
Genesis P-Orridge
Gitane Demone
God Module
Gothminister
Grendel
Hanatarash
Hanzel Und Gretyl
Hate Dept.
Hilt
Hocico
Hybryds
I:Scintilla
Icon Of Coil
Illusion Of Safety
Imminent
In Strict Confidence
Incapacitants
Ivoux
Jesus On Extasy
Kidneythieves
Kill Switch... Klick
Killing Floor
Kim Cascone (PGR)
Klinik
Klute
Konstruktivists
Kraftwerk
Lard
Lead Into Gold
Lights Of Euphoria
Luc Van Acker
Luxt
Megaherz
Mentallo & The Fixer
Merzbow
Metabolist
Milk Cult
Missing Foundation
Moev
Mortiis
Mussolini Headkick
Nachtmahr
Neu!
Neurosis
Neuroticfish
Noisex
Noise Unit
Non-Aggression Pact
Null
Numb
ohGr
Oomph!
Optimum Wound Profile
Organum
Pablo's Eye
Pailhead
Pain
Pain Teens
Pankow
Panzer AG
Penal Colony
Porcelain And The Tramps
Pere Ubu
Pleasure Elite, The
Pressurehed
Prodigy, The
Project Pitchfork
Psychopomps
Psychotica
Psyclon Nine
PTP
Pulcher Femina
Purr Machine
Puscifer
Razed In Black
Saul Williams
Scanner
Scar Tissue
Scorn
Sheep On Drugs
Sielwolf
Six Finger Satellite
Skin Chamber
Skrew
SMP
Society Burning
Sol Invictus
Spahn Ranch
Steel Pole Bath Tub
Suicide Commando
Swamp Terrorists
Switchblade Symphony
Synæsthesia
Tactical Sekt
Tanzwut
Tear Garden, The
Techno Animal
Templebeat
Terminal Sect
Terrorfakt
Treponem Pal
Tribes Of Neurot
Turmion Kätilöt
Type O Negative
Unheilig
Unit:187
Unter Null
VAST
Vomito Negro
William S. Burroughs
Xingu Hill
Xorcist
Zeromancer
Zombie Girl