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===Mainstream success (1990s and 2000s)=== {{multiple image | align = right | image1 = Hellfest2017Ministry 05.jpg | width1 = 150 | image2 = Trent-Reznor 2009.jpg | width2 = 130 | footer = [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]]'s [[Al Jourgensen]] and [[Nine Inch Nails]]' [[Trent Reznor]]}} In the 1990s, industrial music broke into the mainstream. The genre, previously ignored or criticized by music journalists, grew popular with disaffected middle-class youth in suburban and rural areas. By this time, the genre had become broad enough that journalist [[James Greer (writer)|James Greer]] called it "the kind of meaningless catch-all term that new wave once was".<ref name=spin>{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3_7wN22l43MC&pg=PT42|title=Nine Inches of Love|last=Greer|first=Jim|author-link=James Greer (writer)|magazine=[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]|date=March 1992|volume=7|issue=12|pages=36β43}}</ref> A number of acts associated with industrial music achieved commercial success during this period including [[Nine Inch Nails]], [[Marilyn Manson (band)|Marilyn Manson]], [[Rammstein]] and [[Orgy (band)|Orgy]]. {{multiple image | align = right | image1 = Marilyn_Manson_Live_in_Roma_25_july_2017-_44_(cropped).jpg | width1 = 100 | image2 = Orgy American band.jpg | width2 = 160 | image3 = 14-06-08_RiP_Rob_Zombie_4.JPG | width3 = 80 | footer = [[Marilyn Manson]] and [[Marilyn Manson (band)|his band]], [[Orgy (band)|Orgy]], and [[Rob Zombie]] prominently used elements associated with industrial music in their albums. }} Through the 1990s, Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson had several albums and EPs certified platinum by the [[Recording Industry Association of America|Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)]], including Nine Inch Nails' ''[[Broken (Nine Inch Nails EP)|Broken]]'' (1992),{{Certification Cite Ref|title=Broken|artist=Nine Inch Nails|region=United States|type=album}} ''[[The Downward Spiral]]'' (1994){{Certification Cite Ref|title=The Downward Spiral|artist=Nine Inch Nails|type=album|region=United States}} and ''[[The Fragile (Nine Inch Nails album)|The Fragile]]'' (1999){{Certification Cite Ref|title=The Fragile|artist=Nine Inch Nails|type=album|region=United States}}, and Marilyn Manson's ''[[Antichrist Superstar]]'' (1996){{Certification Cite Ref|title=Antichrist Superstar|artist=Marilyn Manson|type=album|region=United States}} and ''[[Mechanical Animals]]'' (1998).{{Certification Cite Ref|title=Mechanical Animals|artist=Marilyn Manson|type=album|region=United States}}
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