Throbbing Gristle

United Kingdom, 1975–2010

The founders of industrial music — Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter. Industrial Records, 'entertainment through pain', and the sound of the factory floor as art.

Influenced by

• The Velvet Underground
• Karlheinz Stockhausen

Influenced

• Laibach
• Coil
• SPK
• Current 93
• Merzbow
• Whitehouse
• Lustmord
• Nine Inch Nails