Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a fusion genre that fuses industrial music and rock music. Originally emerging in the late 1970s to early 1980s pioneered by artists such as American bands Chrome, Swans and Big Black, England's Killing Joke, and Canadian outfit Skinny Puppy, the movement was further proliferated in the late 1980s by Wax Trax! Records in the US city of Chicago, with artists such as Front 242, Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, and Sister Machine Gun.

Subsequently, the movement would lead to the emergence of genre fusions and subgenres electro-industrial, industrial metal, martial industrial, industrial hip-hop, industrial dance and industrial techno. By the 1990s, broader industrial music genres were made accessible to mainstream audiences through the popularity of acts such as Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Rammstein and Marilyn Manson, all of whom released platinum-selling records.