Editing Industrial music (section)

===Early years===

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ First studio EP or LP albums by early industrial bands
|-
! Band
! Country
!  class="unsortable" |Studio album
! Album date
|-
| [[Throbbing Gristle]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[The Second Annual Report]]''
| 1977
|-
| [[Cabaret Voltaire (band)|Cabaret Voltaire]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[Mix-Up]]''
| 1979
|-
| [[Chrome (band)|Chrome]]
| {{flagicon|United States}}
| ''[[Half Machine Lip Moves]]'''''*'''
| 1979
|-
| [[Nurse With Wound]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[Chance Meeting on a Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella]]''
| 1979
|-
| [[Clock DVA]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[White Souls in Black Suits]]''
| 1980
|-
| [[Killing Joke]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[Killing Joke (1980 album)|Killing Joke]]''
| 1980
|-
| [[Whitehouse (band)|Whitehouse]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[Birthdeath Experience]]''
| 1980
|-
| [[Die Krupps]]
| {{flagicon|West Germany}}
| ''Stahlwerksynfonie''
| 1981
|-
| [[Einstürzende Neubauten]]
| {{flagicon|West Germany}}
| ''[[Kollaps]]''
| 1981
|-
| [[Foetus (band)|Foetus]]
| {{flagicon|Australia}}
| ''[[Deaf (album)|Deaf]]''
| 1981
|-
| [[The Neon Judgement]]
| {{flagicon|Belgium}}
| ''Suffering''
| 1981
|-
| [[Nocturnal Emissions]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''Tissue of Lies''
| 1981
|-
| [[The Residents]]
| {{flagicon|United States}}
| ''[[Mark of the Mole]]'''''*'''
| 1981
|-
| [[SPK (band)|SPK]]
| {{flagicon|Australia}}
| ''[[Information Overload Unit]]''
| 1981
|-
| [[Z'EV]]
| {{flagicon|United States}}
| ''Production and Decay of Spacial Relations''
| 1981
|-
| [[Front 242]]
| {{flagicon|Belgium}}
| ''[[Geography (Front 242 album)|Geography]]''
| 1982
|-
| [[Boyd Rice|NON / Boyd Rice]]
| {{flagicon|United States}}
| ''Physical Evidence''
| 1982
|-
| [[Psychic TV]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[Force the Hand of Chance]]''
| 1982
|-
| [[Sleep Chamber]]
| {{flagicon|United States}}
| ''Speak in Tongues''
| 1982
|-
| [[Zoviet France]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[Garista]]''
| 1982
|-
| [[Attrition (band)|Attrition]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''Action and Reaction''
| 1983
|-
| [[Nitzer Ebb]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''Basic Pain Procedure''
| 1983
|-
| [[Swans (band)|Swans]]
| {{flagicon|United States}}
| ''[[Filth (Swans album)|Filth]]''
| 1983
|-
| [[Coil (band)|Coil]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[How to Destroy Angels (Coil EP)|How to Destroy Angels]]''
| 1984
|-
| [[Current 93]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''[[Nature Unveiled]]''
| 1984
|-
| [[Hanatarash]]
| {{flagicon|Japan}}
| ''Take Back Your Penis!''
| 1984
|-
| [[KMFDM]]
| {{flagicon|West Germany}}
| ''[[Opium (KMFDM album)|Opium]]''
| 1984
|-
| [[Skinny Puppy]]
| {{flagicon|Canada}}
| ''[[Remission (EP)|Remission]]''
| 1984
|-
| [[Test Dept]]
| {{flagicon|United Kingdom}}
| ''Ecstacy Under Duress''
| 1984
|- class="sortbottom"
| colspan=4 style="text-align: center;" | '''*'''earlier albums not industrial 
|}

====Industrial Records====
''Industrial Music for Industrial People'' was originally coined by [[Monte Cazazza]]<ref name="Industrial Records at Brainwashed" /> as the strapline for the record label [[Industrial Records]], founded by British art-provocateurs Throbbing Gristle.<ref name="Kilpatrick, Nancy 2004, p. 86">[[Nancy Kilpatrick|Kilpatrick, Nancy]]. ''The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined''. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004, {{ISBN|0-312-30696-2}}, p. 86.</ref> The first wave of this music appeared with Throbbing Gristle, from London; Cabaret Voltaire, from Sheffield;<ref>''RE/Search'' #6/7, p. 42–49.</ref> and Boyd Rice (recording under the name NON), from the United States.<ref>''RE/Search'' #6/7, p. 50–67.</ref> Throbbing Gristle first performed in 1976,{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|p=224}} and began as the musical offshoot of the [[Kingston upon Hull]]-based [[COUM Transmissions]].<ref name="research pg17">''RE/Search'' #6/7, p. 17.</ref> COUM was initially a psychedelic rock group, but began to describe their work as [[performance art]] in order to obtain grants from the [[Arts Council of Great Britain]].{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|p=226}} COUM was composed of P-Orridge and [[Cosey Fanni Tutti]].{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|p=226}} Beginning in 1972, COUM staged several performances inspired by [[Fluxus]] and [[Viennese Actionism]]. These included various acts of sexual and physical abjection.{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|p=227}} [[Peter Christopherson]], an employee of commercial artists [[Hipgnosis]], joined the group in 1974, with Carter joining the following year.<ref name="research pg17"/>

The group renamed itself Throbbing Gristle in September 1975, their name coming from a northern English slang word for an erection.<ref name="research pg17"/> The group's first public performance, in October 1976, was alongside an exhibit titled ''Prostitution'', which included pornographic photos of Tutti as well as used tampons. Conservative politician [[Nicholas Fairbairn]] declared that "public money is being wasted here to destroy the morality of our society" and blasted the group as "wreckers of civilization."{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|p=229}} The group announced their dissolution in 1981, declaring that their "mission" has been "terminated."{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|p=240}}

====Wax Trax! Records====
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Chicago record label Wax Trax! Records was prominent in the widespread attention industrial music received starting in the early 1980s. The label was started by Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher. The label's first official release was an EP in 1980 entitled ''Immediate Action'' by [[Strike Under]]. The label went on to distribute some of the most prominent names in industrial throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Wax Trax! also distributed industrial releases in the United States for the Belgium record label Play It Again Sam Records, and had opened a North American office dubbed Play It Again Sam U.S.A. as a division of Wax Trax!. Wax Trax! was subsequently purchased by [[TVT Records]] in 1992 who closed the independent Chicago label in 2001. Jim's daughter, Julia Nash, resurrected Wax Trax! Records in 2011 with a 3-day charity event titled Wax Trax! Retrospectacle - 33 1/3 Year Anniversary. Julia officially released new material in 2014 under the Wax Trax! imprint and continues to run the record label from Chicago.