- Old-School Industrial, Electronic Music, Synth Punk
- Post-Punk and Italo Disco
EBM is a Sub-Genre of Industrial music that focuses on hard, danceable beats. Often employs totalitarian or militaristic imagery. While early Industrial was extremely avant-garde, by the mid-eighties there was a wave of more accessible Industrial music with danceable rhythms. Some bands like Skinny Puppy did this in a very Synth-Pop-like style, only Darker and Edgier. One Belgian band, Front 242, created a style that was very sparse and minimal, with a focus on futuristic and dystopian imagery. They called this Electronic Body Music, or EBM, making them the Trope Namers. Later, British band Nitzer Ebb took this style and turned up the militarism, combined it with ample Soviet imagery, and performed with lyrics that were more barked commands than sung vocals. This would be the model for most EBM to come. Nowadays EBM has evolved, split, or influenced many styles of Industrial music to the point where instead of implying a specific style its often used as a name for any danceable industrial. A movement in Sweden of bands trying to emulate the old-school late 80s/early 90s sound has sprung up, with bands like Sturm Cafe and Spetsnaz.
Examples:
- à;GRUMH...
- And One (Early albums only; later work is Futurepop)
- Armageddon Dildos
- A Split-Second
- Auto Aggression
- BiGod20
- Borghesia
- Cabaret Voltaire (Their mid-period work was one of the Trope Makers; later became House Music)
- Chris And Cosey
- ClockDVA (On later albums)
- The Crystalline Effect
- D.A.F. (Trope Makers and possible Ur-Example)
- DIVE!! (Noisier than most, an influence on Power Noise)
- Die Krupps (Early work; later on, they were Trope Makers for Neue Deutsche Härte)
- Die Warzau
- Front 242 (Perhaps the definitive EBM group and the Trope Namer as well)
- KMFDM (Later work is Industrial Metal, but their early works fall here)
- Laibach (Their later albums combine this with Martial)
- Liasons Dangerouses (Ur-Example, arguably)
- Ministry (On Twitch and the contemporaneous singles only- early work was Synth-Pop, later work Industrial Metal)
- The Neon Judgement (Also Synth-Pop and New Wave Music)
- Nitzer Ebb
- Orange Sector (New-ish band, old style)
- Portion Control (Trope Maker, alongside D.A.F.)
- Pouppee Fabrikk
- Schnitt Acht
- Spetsnaz (Like Orange Sector, a new band playing classic EBM)
- Vomito Negro
