MARTIAL INDUSTRIAL

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'Martial industrial', also known as 'military pop' and 'martial music', is a music genre originating in late 20th century Europe. It often borrows musically from classical music, neofolk, neoclassical, traditional European marches and from elements of industrial and dark ambient.

Contents

Origins

Themes

Culture

Related genres

Neofolk

See also

Artists

Related subjects

External links

Record labels / Distributors

Webzines

Radiostations

Origins

The genre name ''military pop'' was coined by the Austrian musician Gerhard, founder of Allerseelen, to describe the direction his music was going at the time, leaning away from an ambient sound into something more militaristic. It has since been used by other artists such as Dernière Volonté to describe their musical sound. This term is often used in place of ''martial industrial''.

Themes

Themes range from pounding, percussive soundtrack-like music to rally-worthy dark parade music to cabaret appropriate sexually-charged carnal declarations to mournful marches. Essentially, anything that could be made with traditional European martial instrumentation relating to the artists within this genre could be considered a part of this musical movement.

Culture

Martial industrial fans range from people very politically active to cultural admirers to uniform fetishists. Due to use of European uniforms, this is sometimes misunderstood as being a means of expression of a single, unified political tendency by Antifa, groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and sometimes local news agencies, though artists in this genre range from the left (such as Militia and Test Dept.) to the right (such as Von Thronstahl) to completely apolitical.

Related genres

Neofolk

The work of some neofolk music artists sometimes has musical and thematic elements in common with Martial industrial and developed very close to it. Many artists that could be classified as a part of this field regularly work with, could be classified as a part of or play shows with artists of this musical movement in particular.

See also

Artists

★ A Challenge of Honour

★ Allerseelen

★ Autopsia

★ Blood Axis

★ Dead Man's Hill

★ Death In June

★ Der Blutharsch

★ Dernière Volonté

★ Heiliges Licht

★ H.E.R.R.

★ In the Nursery — ''most notably Sense''

★ Kreuzweg Ost

★ Laibach

★ Les Joyaux De La Princesse

★ Life's Decay

★ Life Toward Twilight

★ Puissance

★ Sophia

★ Test Dept — ''their martial period was circa 1985-1990.''

★ The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud

★ Toroidh

★ Turbund Sturmwerk

★ Von Thronstahl

★ Westwind

Related subjects

★ Military band

★ March music

External links

Record labels / Distributors

''Many of these labels are also distributors.''

★ Athanor - FRANCE

★ Autre Que - FRANCE

★ Divine Comedy Records - FRANCE

★ Cold Spring - UK

★ Cold Meat Industry - SWEDEN

★ Cyclic Law - CANADA

★ Eternal Soul - GERMANY

★ Equilibrium Music - PORTUGAL

★ Fluttering Dragon - POLAND

★ HauRuck! - AUSTRIA

★ L.O.K.I. Foundation / Power & Steel - GERMANY

★ Neuropa Records - BELGIUM

★ Sigil Music - SPAIN

★ Slaughter In Art - FRANCE

★ Skuld - GERMANY

★ Steelwork Maschine - FRANCE

★ Svartvintras Productions - SWEDEN

★ Strange Fortune - USA

★ Tesco Organisation - GERMANY

★ Tesco USA - USA

★ War Office Propaganda - POLAND

★ WKN - AUSTRIA

Webzines

★ Achtung Baby! - RUSSIA

★ Apostazja - POLAND

★ Brokendolls - FRANCE

★ Dagaz Music - PORTUGAL

★ compulsion - ENGLAND

★ Exoteric - ITALY

★ Feindesland - GERMANY

★ Flux Europa - ENGLAND

★ Funeral Procession - NETHERLANDS

★ Heathen Harvest - USA

★ Heimdallr - SWITZERLAND

★ :Ikonen: - GERMANY

★ IRONFLAME.de - GERMANY

★ Judas Kiss - ENGLAND

★ Lichttaufe.com - GERMANY

★ Monas.nl - NETHERLANDS

★ neo-form.de - GERMANY

★ Occidental Congress - ITALY

★ Raunend - ITALY

★ Seidr - RUSSIA

★ Soleilnoir - SWITZERLAND

★ Sonorités Obscures - FRANCE

Radiostations

★ RADIO INFERNO - AUSTRIA

★ Last FM