Rock and roll is dead. It's a fact. During the eighties romp of techno and
fashion bands, people forgot all about it. In the late eighties and early
nineties alternative music tried to save rock and roll, but it was too big of a
category. If a band didn't sing country or rap, they were considered
alternative. Every alternative band had their own idea of music, and it
allspread apart, running farther away from rock. Finally, when alternative
becamemore defined and broke off into categories, one specific type of
alternativeoffspring, industrial music, made the best attempt in a decade
to revive the longforgotten era of rock and roll. The only problem with this
new rock is that it wasangered from being forgotten for over a decade
and now it's back, filled with angstand hatred. Industrialmusic has
weaved rock and roll with evil and misery. The founder and leader of
the industrial revolution is the band Nine Inch Nails. Most people do not
classify Nine Inch Nails as a band though. The writer, producer, lead
vocalist, keyboarder and guitarist of the band is Trent Reznor. For the
past two years, Trent has been the artist of the year in Spin magazine
and NIN has been the number two band of the year. In1994, Nine Inch
Nails was announced MTV's band of the year. This was a great honor
because MTV spends most of it's time with rap and hip-hop. When NIN's
first album came out in 1989, it was mostly rock and roll with a techno
twist, containing songs full of depressing, suicidal lyrics. Then as the next
two albums arose, Trent became more evil with his music, using
machines and pretty much anything he could find that would make his
music sound angered and irritated. This hard, twisted music, backed up
by words ofpure hatred started the industrial ball rolling. One band
that has tried to lighten up industrial just a tad is KMFDM,aGerman
industrial band. The band name stands for Klein Mitlied Fuhr Das
Merhiet, which is Little pity for the tyranny. Instead of using the suicidal,
evil lyrics, KMFDM has used their music as more of a philosophical
communication. They sing about how screwed up they think the world is
and how much we are controlled by people we didn't know existed. The
lyrics may sound depressing still, but the music is a little more upbeat.
KMFDM got rid of the tortured machine sounds and added horns and
synthesizers, making the music sound more digital and less like grinding
gears. Doing this, KMFDM was able to appeal to a larger group. After
the invasion of rap and hip-hop, rock and roll was never thesame, and
when it tried to make a comeback, it exploded into numerouslittle musical
categories, all with rock components, but none with the samehard flare of
the original. But now, rock and roll is back, and it's mad ashell. Industrial
is the closest thing to rock that we have, just a little moredemented. Now
that people are getting bored of the same old pointless rapsongs, all of
the little alternative categories are getting looked into moreseriously and
industrial music is thriving, creating a new future for the oncedestroyed
rock and roll.
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weaved rock and roll with evil and misery. The founder and leader of
the industrial revolution is the. with his music, using
machines and pretty much anything he could find that would make his
music sound angered and irritated. This hard, twisted music, backed