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means A genre born in the late 1970s that turns mechanical noise, distorted vocals, and abrasive electronics into confrontational music, built to unsettle rather than soothe.

from The name comes straight from Industrial Records, the label founded in 1976 by the group Throbbing Gristle, who literally called their sound 'industrial music for industrial people' — a wink at both factory-line noise and mass-produced culture. The label's dog logo even referenced industrial-scale meat processing, underlining the deliberately bleak, mechanized aesthetic. From there the term spread to describe anyone using clanking rhythms, tape loops, and electronic grind in place of melody.