I am thoroughly sick of my faster-paced music collection and need new stuff. I mostly listen to ebm or industrial kinda stuff for exercise (walking or running). Here’s some of the bands I currently work out to: Older stuff by Covenant Combichrist/Panzer AG/ Icon of Coil Ministry KMFDM (lots of that) Culture Kultur Sisters of Mercy The only thing I’m not sick of is Daft Punk. I don’t think I can ever get sick of them.
This list assumes you're just sick of the bands themselves and not industrial kinda stuff in general. Just be aware my tastes here trend more towards industrial/techno metal than genuine or proto-industrial or anything, so there may be more growling/screaming than you'd care to hear, but all of these bands deliver a faster paced type of music that inspires me to exercise (although maybe with a track or two per album being an exception here and there). All of it is infused with industrial elements, to varying degrees: If you listen to KMFDM you're probably already familiar with Tim Skold. This is an older Skold band, Shotgun Messiah. Shotgun Messiah: Violent New Breed (This was more of a Skold solo album with the SM name. Ignore their other albums, different genre completely (80s hair metal.)) Enemy In Me Violent New Breed Come Down Jihad Static-X: Various Push It Love Dump Monster Violent Work of Art: Various Wasted Happy With My Pain Reasons to Hate The bands below tend more towards the metal side things, with the industrialness of their music varying on a song-by-song & album-by-album basis: Strapping Young Lad: Various Detox Almost Again City (full album link) Fear Factory: Various Demanufacture (full album link) Obsolete (full album link) Sybreed: Various Posthuman Manifesto Red Nova Ignition Take the Red Pill
Thank you, kerzain! You're awesome. I'll go through all those tonight. I do like industrial metal type stuff, and no I'm not sick of the genre, just the same songs I've been listening to for... years.
Some of their stuff is great for working out, and some of it's terrible for that purpose. I do have some tracks on my workout playlist...
I tend to pick a track I really like for working out - Combichrist is good stuff there - and base a Spotify/Pandora station on it.
kerzain: my favorite band of the bunch has got to be Violent Work of Art, but I like most of it. the more metal-y stuff is a little too metal for me, but the first three bands? going on my playlist. Thanks again!
There's a scarcity of faster tempo electronica-infused industrial in my music library, with the closest being the Spawn soundtrack in its entirety, of all things: Example monstrosity: Metallica & DJ Spooky Other, slower, bands I listen to spring to mind (Stabbing Westward, Die Krupps etc), but their music doesn't really energize the listener. One of the problems I have with trying to find faster paced music is that "faster paced" tends to result in angrier and more aggressive music.
I worked out to that soundtrack on cassette for years. Some outstanding tracks there. EDIT: SwitchKnitter There is a track by a - I dunno what you'd call them, drum and bass maybe? - band Konkrete Symphony called Psycho Killer that I've always liked to workout with. I'm at work so I cant post a good link. The best part is it features vocal samples from Mickey Rourke. Leftfield and Africa Bambaataa did a track called Afrika Shox that is awesome for cardio. WARNING the Video for that song is equal parts stunning and heartbreaking. I would recommend just listening to the song before watching the video as it will probably affect how you view it as a viable workout song. EDIT EDIT Updated the Afrika Shox link to one that hasn't been removed. There is no Chris Cunningham video associated with it.
For me, angry music is best workout music. Nothing makes me want to push myself more than things that bring out the anger in me (with the additional hopefully healthy side effect that it blows off some steam and there is less bottled-up anger inside). Broadly speaking, this includes early punk rock, harder metal, high speed electronic, and gangster rap. My list includes: Tool (the anger albums: Opiate, Undertow, and Aenima) System of a Down Rage Against the Machine Fields of the Nephilim Cancer Bats Anti-flag Suicidal Tendencies Circle Jerks Disturbed NWA (the earlier stuff) Rosetta Stone Lords of Acid Subhumans If I get into more progressive metal (later Tool, Isis, etc) or more gothic (Sisters of Mercy, Nosferatu, etc) or less angry punk/metal (Green Day, Ramones) then I start thinking rather than acting and it takes down the energy of my workout. Sometimes that could be an advantage I guess like if you're doing a sustained spin workout or something, but if you (or I) are really just trying to wreck it for a half hour, I need the speed man.
