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Cultural origins | Early 1980s, Europe and North America |
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Industrial dance music is a North American alternative term for electronic body music and electro-industrial music. Fans, who are associated with this music scene, refer to themselves as rivetheads.
In general, "industrial dance" is characterized by its "electronic beats, symphonic keyboard lines, pile-driver rhythms, angst-ridden or sampled vocals, and cyberpunk imagery".
Since the mid-1980s, the term "industrial dance" has been used to describe the music of Cabaret Voltaire (early 1980s), early Die Krupps,Portion Control,The Neon Judgement,Clock DVA,Nitzer Ebb,Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly,Front 242,Ministry (mid-1980s era),KMFDM,Yeht Mae,Meat Beat Manifesto, Manufacture,Nine Inch Nails,My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult,Leæther Strip or early Spahn Ranch.
In March 1989, SPIN magazine presented a two-paged article about the industrial dance movement in Canada and the US.