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ambient industrial

Last updated: Sun Oct 26 2025 05:17:10 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Ambient industrial blends the atmospheric textures of ambient music with the harsh, mechanical sounds of industrial music, creating dark, immersive soundscapes that evoke dystopian or post-apocalyptic moods. It emerged from the experimental music scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, drawing on themes of alienation, technology, and psychological tension. The sound typically features droning synths, distorted samples, metallic percussion, and unsettling audio collages that prioritize mood over traditional song structure.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
50		1981	M.B.	Symphony For A Genocide	ambient ambient industrial industrial noise
62		1982	Attrition	Death House	ambient industrial dark ambient industrial
96		1982	Cosey Fanni Tutti	Time to Tell	ambient industrial
13		1987	Various Artists	Field Mass (version 1)	noise ambient industrial dark ambient dark industrial	dark industrial # 15
6		1989	STRAFE FÜR REBELLION	Vögel	ambient industrial industrial post-industrial
45		1990	John Watermann	Ambiguity	ambient industrial ambient noise experimental noise industrial noise	ambient noise # 58 industrial noise # 77 experimental noise # 89
54		1993	Asche	non apocalypse	ambient industrial ambient noise harsh noise industrial post-industrial	ambient noise # 64
63		1993	Die Sonne Satan	Fac-Totum	ambient industrial dark ambient industrial italiano ritual ambient ritual industrial	ritual industrial # 24 italiano # 41
69		1996	Battery	Distance	ambient industrial cyberpunk darkwave industrial noise
67		1997	SAT Stoicizmo	Mah 2	ambient ambient industrial electronic industrial industrial noise noise	industrial noise # 87
11		1997	Vortex	Krtrima Sprha	ambient industrial
46		1997	Monolith	Compressed Form	ambient industrial industrial techno power noise rhythmic noise
44		1998-12-05	Vladimír Hirsch	Sense Geometry	electronic dark ambient ambient industrial
37		1999	Function	Sandwell District	ambient industrial deep techno	deep techno # 20
42		1999-01	Coil	Astral Disaster	ambient
90		2000	Cisfinitum	Landschaft	ambient industrial ambient noise dark ambient drone ambient harsh noise industrial post-industrial	harsh noise # 52 drone ambient # 71 ambient noise # 89
68		2000	Leakh	The Wreckoming	ambient industrial industrial post-industrial
7		2001	Zygote (CZ)	Geometrie nevědomí	electronic dark ambient dark industrial	dark industrial # 42
52		2001	Chris Carter	Electronic Ambient Remixes Three	ambient industrial
87		2001-02-04	Michelle Branch	The Spirit Room	pop
26		2002	C.O.T.A	Marches and meditations	ambient industrial tribal industrial	tribal industrial # 16
27		2002	C.O.T.A.	Marches and meditations	ambient industrial tribal industrial	tribal industrial # 17
89		2002-11-26	Nordvargr	Awaken	ambient industrial dark ambient
77		2003-02-07	Male Or Female	Invented Scenes	ambient ambient industrial ambient noise breakbeat dark ambient downtempo ebm industrial industrial rock new beat soundscape	soundscape # 3 new beat # 66 ambient noise # 79
31		2003-02-07	Male Or Female	Naked	acoustic ambient ambient industrial industrial
59		2003-06-24	Michelle Branch	Hotel Paper	pop
34		2004	Aetherius	The Inevitability of Pain (and the stupidity of those who don't expect it)	alternative dance alternative electronic ambient ambient electronic ambient electronica ambient industrial ambient pop ambient techno canada chillout dance dark ambient downtempo easy listening ebm electro electronic electronica ethereal idm indie electronic indietronica industrial instrumental new age noise piano piano ambient post-industrial psychill steampunk strings synthpop toronto	steampunk # 5 ambient electronic # 14 toronto # 19 alternative electronic # 52 ambient electronica # 65
72		2004	Ain Soph	Prima dell'Aurora	ambient industrial industrial ritual ambient tribal ambient	tribal ambient # 51
53		2004	His Divine Grace	Eurydice	ambient industrial dark ambient drone industrial post-industrial
92		2005-06-25	Mind Necrosis Factor	Entropy	dark ambient electronica noise industrial ambient ambient electronica ambient industrial ambient noise dark electro dark industrial drum and bass electro-industrial idm industrial noise post-industrial power noise rhythmic noise ritual industrial soundtrack	ritual industrial # 6 rhythmic noise # 63 power noise # 72 dark industrial # 86 ambient noise # 92 industrial noise # 97 ambient electronica # 97
23		2005-12	Coil	The Ape of Naples	electronic	post-industrial # 51 dark ambient # 81
19		2006	Aghiatrias	Ethos	dark ambient	dark industrial # 5
58		2006	Formication	Redux	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient electronica
86		2006-04-18	Infetu	Simulacra	ambient industrial dark ambient
57		2006-05	Camp Z	s/t (First Album)	ambient industrial industrial post-punk
80		2007-03-16	Vladimír Hirsch	Concert Industriel Pour Orgue	ambient industrial contemporary classical industrial organ czech	organ # 29
93		2007-04-02	Throbbing Gristle	Part Two - The Endless Not	ambient industrial dark jazz deep and dark industrial	dark jazz # 48 deep and dark # 82
91		2007-04-02	Throbbing Gristle	Part Two: The Endless Not	ambient industrial
78		2007-09-01	Vromb	Sous Hypnose	ambient industrial dark ambient dark electronic post-industrial	dark electronic # 90
32		2007-09-23	Sigillum S	23/20	ambient industrial
75		2007-11-08	skin contact	The Fine Line	ambient industrial dark electronic techno-industrial	techno-industrial # 65 dark electronic # 89
84		2008	Bad Sector	Storage Disk 2	ambient industrial ambient trance glitch post-industrial	ambient trance # 71
8		2008	Luminar Ax	Optem Spectris	dark ambient post-industrial
17		2008	Stielhandgranate	Herr General Ist Nicht Kaput ! - SINGLE [2008]	ambient industrial
83		2008	Position Parallèle	Position Parallèle	ambient industrial dark electro electronic french industrial minimal synth
74		2008-01-19	Forma Tadre	The Music of Erich Zann	ambient ambient industrial
55		2008-03-02	Nine Inch Nails	Ghosts I-IV	ambient instrumental industrial	industrial # 7 ambient # 11 instrumental # 44
48		2008-03-21	skin contact	Pleasure, Pain, and Distraction		techno-industrial # 30 dark electronic # 74
9		2008-05-01	Cercueil	Ghost Got Taosted	ambient industrial industrial post-industrial
85		2008-05-26	Mind Necrosis Factor	Morphogenesis	dark ambient idm industrial post-industrial rhythmic noise ritual industrial ambient ambient electronica ambient industrial ambient noise dark electro dark industrial drum and bass electro-industrial electronica industrial noise noise power noise soundtrack	ritual industrial # 9 rhythmic noise # 60 power noise # 62 dark industrial # 80 ambient noise # 87 ambient electronica # 92 industrial noise # 94
66		2008-09-15	Camp Z	Our World To Come EP	ambient industrial industrial post-punk
65		2008-10	Cisfinitum	Nevmenosis	ambient industrial harsh noise industrial post-industrial
64		2009-03-31	Eldar	Sapere Aude	ambient industrial dark ambient martial industrial post-industrial
18		2009-04-14	Ashley Mayhem	The Sound Theory	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient electronic electronica idm industrial noise techno
40		2009-05-03	Unmorph	The Intangible Coherence	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drum and bass industrial soul
25		2009-05-30	The Large	Cabaret Obscure	ambient industrial industrial post-industrial
5		2009-07-07	Ashley Mayhem	Jet Pilot	ambient ambient industrial electronic electronica idm industrial post-industrial
12		2009-07-10	The Large	Лестница (Stairs)	ambient industrial industrial post-industrial
22		2009-09-23	The Peach Tree	For Marie	alternative ambient ambient industrial electronic electronica idm instrumental melbourne soundscape	melbourne # 67
49		2010	Theologian	The Further I Get From Your Star, the Less Light I Feel On My Face
14		2010-01-01	Hoyland	Dance of the Twilight Stars	ambient industrial industrial post-industrial
79		2010-04-21	Asche	the easter island phenomenon	ambient industrial industrial hardcore technoid	technoid # 79 industrial hardcore # 82
10		2010-06-07	Her Ethic	The Machine / neXus	darkwave diy industrial post-industrial	dark industrial # 12
60		2011-01	Cercueil	Erostrate	ambient industrial dark industrial french industrial post-industrial	dark industrial # 61
98		2011-08-26	Diary of Dreams	Ego:X	ambient industrial darkwave
41		2011-08	Occurrences in Rain	Influence of Outside Systems	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone
43		2011-08	Occurrences in Rain	Memories Suspended - Falling	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone
28		2012-03-01	Occurrences in Rain	Shadows In The Field Of Flowers	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone
47		2012-03-18	Occurrences in Rain	Climbing Ladders Into Falling Objects	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone
88		2012-05-28	Forward Strategy Group	Labour Division	ambient industrial dark ambient dub techno industrial minimal techno
95		2012-06	Vatican Shadow	September Cell	ambient industrial industrial
35		2012-08-24	Dronny Darko	Fundamental Differences	ambient industrial dark industrial industrial post-industrial	dark industrial # 48
16		2012-10-13	Dronny Darko	Remixing The Void	ambient industrial dark electro industrial post-industrial
99		2012-10-31	Treha Sektori	Endessiah	ambient industrial dark ambient ritual ambient	ritual ambient # 93
30		2012-11-24	Kaztalien	Feral Field	ambient ambient industrial industrial post-industrial ritual industrial	ritual industrial # 51
24		2012-12-10	Somnaviolentus	Awakening	ambient industrial dark ambient industrial
39		2012-12-16	Occurrences in Rain	Remembrance Music	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone
70		2013-02-25	Kerridge	Waiting For Love 1-4	ambient industrial industrial martial industrial noise post-industrial
97		2013-03-04	Function	Incubation	ambient industrial industrial techno techno	industrial techno # 68
1		2013-03-09	The Elderbranch Campaign	Sonology Of The Ground	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone sound collage soundscape
2		2013-05-28	The Elderbranch Campaign	Aural Histories Of The Jovian Survey - Book III	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone soundscape space ambient
3		2013-05-28	The Elderbranch Campaign	Aural Histories Of The Jovian Survey - Book II	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone soundscape
76		2013-06-17	Central Industrial	Tuned to a Dead Channel	ambient industrial psybient
38		2013-06-25	Occurrences in Rain	Lamentations For Fading Occurrences	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone soundscape
71		2013-11-14	400ppm	Non Nocere	ambient industrial industrial techno
36		2014-01-17	12 Frozen Radios	Signals in Isolation	ambient ambient industrial dark ambient drone soundscape
73		2014-05-26	Desiderii Marginis	Thaw	ambient industrial dark ambient
15		2014-08-05	Michael Idehall	SOL	ambient industrial power electronics tribal industrial
21		2014-08-31	Glossata	Moss & Ivory	ambient industrial ambient trance ethereal wave psybient	ambient trance # 32
81		2014-11-18	Dronny Darko	Outer Tehom	ambient industrial dark industrial industrial post-industrial	dark industrial # 72
56		2015-05	100Blumen	Under Siege	ambient industrial electronic industrial punk rock
94		2020-02-14	Not My God	Not My God	aggrotech ambient industrial dark ambient dark electro dark electronic ebm electro-industrial harsh ebm industrial metal industrial rock	aggrotech # 75 harsh ebm # 87 dark electronic # 98
100		2020-11-27	Coil	Пособие для начинающих: Глас Сéребра	ambient industrial dark ambient post-industrial	post-industrial # 73
82		2021-10-15	Not My God	SIMULACRA	ambient industrial dark ambient dark electro dark electronic electro-industrial industrial metal industrial rock trip-hop witch house	dark electronic # 93
20			At Risk Reset	Upsurge EP	ambient ambient industrial electro electronic icelandic industrial welsh	welsh # 12
29			GreenGender	Pre-Birth EP	alternative alternative lounge ambient ambient industrial ambient trance breakbeat breaks chillout dark ambient dark electro downtempo electro electronic electronica glitch idm instrumental lounge minimal techno post-rock psychill san francisco spiritual usa	ambient trance # 38
33			At Risk Reset	Atomic Number 24	acoustic ambient ambient industrial electro electronic icelandic industrial rock welsh	welsh # 27
51			Unmorph	One Point	ambient ambient industrial breakcore dark industrial drum and bass electronic electronica industrial	dark industrial # 56
61			GreenGender	The Affluenza EP	alternative alternative lounge ambient ambient industrial ambient trance breakbeat breaks chillout dark ambient dark electro downtempo electro electronic electronica glitch idm industrial instrumental lounge minimal techno post-rock psychill san francisco spiritual usa	san francisco # 21 ambient trance # 48
4			Kalt See	Kalt See-Melancolie Ethylique	ambient industrial industrial post-industrial

Related genres

• industrial
• ambient
• dark ambient
• electronic
• post-industrial
• drone
• noise
• electronica
• soundscape
• idm