- Synth-rock
- Ambient
- Industrial rock
- Electronic music
- Experimental rock
- Alternative rock
- Electro-rock
- Abstract
- Experimentalism
Comment: I have always experienced a bit discomfort while stumbling upon the term "industrial rock" which is obviously a different case in comparison to "old school industrial", and "post-industrial". It is like an unfitting, unnecessary addition to the natural chain of the last mentioned ones given that free intention being adeptly exploited and wide sonic areas being craftily occupied. Industrial rock, on the contrary, seems like a bloody determined case to come up with some annoying configuration and channelize ideas in a way which might be in contradiction regarding the old school/the dawn of DIY cassette culture and new sonic radicals. In a word, a playful, provocative element got eradicated with a sort of embarrassing pathos through bloated guitars and unsavoury synth sounds (if to compare it to average delicacy of post-punk). In the mid-noughties NIN/Reznor had made some steps aside by releasing a couple of albums for free download and demonstrating sonorously some deviation from the usual sonic backbone. More experiments with dodges into abstract electronica/ambient (999,999, Corona Radiata), and obsessively staring yet ultimately panoramic rock outputs (The Four of Us are Dying). That's great due to the premiss and progressive path of the compositions. The rest of the 10-track issue is just industrial rock by numbers. That`s fine but not as suggestive as more experimental and hypnotic Ghost I-IV used to have.
