Martial industrial

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Martial industrial, also known as 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.

Origins

The genre name military pop was coined by the Austrian musician Gerhard Petak, 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

Related subjects

• Military band
• March music

External links

Record labels / Distributors

Many of these labels are also distributors.

• Athanor - 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
• Noctis Cultus Media Group / Smarter Records - USA
• Rage In Eden Records - POLAND
• Sigil Music - SPAIN
• Skuld - GERMANY
• SkullLine - GERMANY
• Steelwork Maschine - FRANCE
• 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
• Repugnant Ambient - PERU
• Exoteric - ITALY
• Feindesland - GERMANY
• Flux Europa - ENGLAND
• Funeral Procession - NETHERLANDS
• Heathen Harvest - USA
• Heimdallr - SWITZERLAND
• Gangleri - musicreviews - NETHERLANDS
• :Ikonen: - GERMANY
• IRONFLAME.de - GERMANY
• Judas Kiss - ENGLAND
• Lichttaufe.com - GERMANY
• neo-form.de - GERMANY
• Occidental Congress - ITALY
• Raunend - ITALY
• Seidr - RUSSIA
• Soleilnoir - SWITZERLAND
• Sonorités Obscures - FRANCE

Radiostations

• Paganik Radio
• RADIO INFERNO - AUSTRIA
• Last FM