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power electronics

Last updated: Wed Jan 08 2025 12:59:03 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Power electronics is an extreme form of noise music characterized by harsh, distorted sounds, aggressive vocals, and confrontational themes that often explore violence, transgression, and psychological intensity. Emerging from industrial music in the 1980s, it strips away conventional song structure in favor of abrasive textures created through feedback, distortion, and electronic manipulation. The genre prioritizes raw emotional impact and provocation over accessibility, creating an intentionally unsettling listening experience.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
96		1979	SPK	Factory 7''	power electronics
20		1980-09	Whitehouse	Birthdeath Experience	power electronics noise
35		1980-11	Whitehouse	Total Sex	power electronics noise	industrial noise # 85
49		1982	Sutcliffe Jügend	We Spit On Their Graves	power electronics
67		1982-03	Whitehouse	New Britain	noise power electronics
77		1982-07	Whitehouse	Psychopathia Sexualis	power electronics
32		1983-05	Hunting Lodge	Will	industrial power electronics
86		1985	Con-Dom	Tesco Disco - Heavy Electronics II	noise power electronics
59		1985-02	Controlled Bleeding	Knees and Bones	noise power electronics
65		1985-02	Whitehouse	Great White Death	noise power electronics
28		1989-12	Genocide Organ	Leichenlinie	noise power electronics	death industrial # 51
78		1991	Genocide Organ	Save Our Slaves	power electronics
68		1993	Haus Arafna	Sex U Mas	power electronics
83		1994-08	Con-Dom	Acts of Faith	dark industrial industrial power electronics	dark industrial # 76
84		1994-08	Con-Dom	Acts of Faith 3"	dark industrial industrial power electronics	dark industrial # 75
61		1995	Les Joyaux de la Princesse	Douce France	martial industrial plunderphonics power electronics	plunderphonics # 18
18		1995-09	Genocide Organ	Mind Control	power electronics
56		1996	Atrax Morgue	Sickness Report	power electronics death industrial noise	death industrial # 31
36		1996-06	Operation Cleansweep	Powerhungry	power electronics
58		1996-06	Operation Cleansweep	Power Hungry	power electronics
41		1996-07-02	Brighter Death Now	Innerwar	power electronics noise	death industrial # 27
46		1997	Naked	Killed by Roses	deconstructed club industrial noise post-industrial power electronics synth punk	deconstructed club # 17 synth punk # 41
85		1997-12	Genocide Organ	Remember	power electronics
23		1998	Brighter Death Now	May All Be Dead	death industrial power electronics noise	industrial noise # 88 death industrial # 89
25		1998	Haus Arafna	Children of God	power electronics	death industrial # 52
21		1998	Whitehouse	Mummy and Daddy	power electronics
55		1998-09-14	Sutcliffe Jügend	When Pornography Is No Longer Enough	power electronics
22		1999	November Növelet	From Heaven on Earth	electronic industrial industrial techno power electronics	industrial techno # 61
45		2000	Brighter Death Now	Obsessis	power electronics dark ambient noise
40		2000-11	IRM	Oedipus Dethroned	power electronics
37		2001	Propergol	Renegade	power electronics noise power noise rhythmic noise	rhythmic noise # 49 power noise # 68
43		2001	Kid Rock	Bad Reputation	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black metal brutal death metal country cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal hard rock harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal hip-hop melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal porngrind post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac rap rock raw black metal rock russian black metal slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal usbm viking metal war metal	nsbm # 2 old school death metal # 3 powerviolence # 9 swedish death metal # 18 nwobhm # 29 slamming brutal death metal # 35 war metal # 36 raw black metal # 37 deathgrind # 39 suicidal black metal # 49 cybergrind # 53 finnish black metal # 57 pagan black metal # 60 harsh noise # 61 rac # 61 depressive suicidal black metal # 62 death n roll # 81 drone metal # 82 usbm # 83 porngrind # 87 gorenoise # 87 russian black metal # 88 hatecore # 89 harsh noise wall # 93
38		2001	Whitehouse	Cruise	power electronics
62		2001	A Split Second	Transmix	industrial post-industrial power electronics
80		2001-03-12	Venetian Snares + Speedranch	Making Orange Things	noise	drill n bass # 83
50		2002-09	Prurient	The History of AIDS	power electronics
79		2003	Anenzephalia	Noehaem	dark ambient death industrial noise power electronics	death industrial # 53
7		2003-02-13	Whitehouse	Bird Seed	power electronics
57		2003-03-01	Genocide Organ	Genocide Organ	death industrial noise power electronics	death industrial # 64
75		2003-05-01	Haus Arafna	Butterfly	noise
11		2003-06	Deathpile	G.R.	ambient noise death industrial harsh noise industrial noise noise power electronics	harsh noise # 80 death industrial # 91 industrial noise # 99 ambient noise # 100
70		2004-10-01	Winterkälte	Disturbance	power electronics
82		2004-11-08	Genocide Organ	: In-Konflikt :	noise power electronics
88		2004-12-15	Monolith	15 Seconds	power electronics
100		2005-03	Merzbow	Dust of Dreams	dark ambient harsh noise noise noisecore power electronics psychill	noisecore # 16 harsh noise # 27
69		2005-06	Institut	The Struggle Never Ended	death industrial industrial noise noise power electronics	death industrial # 59 industrial noise # 95
29		2006	Whitehouse	Asceticists 2006	power electronics
66		2006	Maska Genetik	Quarantine	industrial power electronics
73		2006-05-08	Guilty Connector	Beats, Noise and Life		japanoise # 95
19		2006-11	Prurient	Pleasure Ground	power electronics
64		2007	Herz Jühning	Faces	power electronics
47		2007-05-31	Whitehouse	Racket	industrial power electronics
10		2008	Prurient	Cocaine Death	power electronics
89		2008-06-13	STROM.ec	Divine Legions Beyond Psyche	death industrial noise power electronics	death industrial # 47
9		2009	Various Artists	Cars Original Soundtrack (English Version)	death industrial power electronics	death industrial # 95
90		2009-04-28	Consumer Electronics	Crowd Pleaser	industrial noise power electronics
91		2009-07-09	Herz Jühning	Miasma	power electronics
13		2009-08	Cold Cave	Cremations	darkwave death industrial electronic electronica noise power electronics synthpop	death industrial # 90
52		2010-04-27	Total Abuse	Mutt	hardcore noise power electronics
14		2010-12-01	Haus Arafna	You	industrial power electronics
87		2011	Cremation Lily	Funeral Home	industrial noise power electronics
95		2011	Maska Genetik	Strada	industrial power electronics
39		2011-05-01	Haus Arafna	New York Rhapsody	power electronics
72		2011-05	Genocide Organ	Under-Kontrakt	power electronics
26		2011-10-25	Prurient	Time's Arrow	industrial noise power electronics
30		2011-12-05	Om Unit	Transport	electro house power electronics
74		2012-02-29	Luomuhappo	Pallit ja Sielu	breakbeat breaks glitch new age new wave power electronics
24		2012-08-01	Farrah Abraham	My Teenage Dream Ended	brostep electropop hyperpop pop	brostep # 84
6		2013-04-30	The Body	Ascending a Mountain of Heavy Light	avant-garde metal drone metal power electronics	drone metal # 17 avant-garde metal # 67
53		2014-02-28	Genocide Organ	KwaZulu-NaTaL	power electronics
92		2014-07-08	Alter Der Ruine	I Will Remember It All Differently	ambient noise dark electro death industrial harsh noise industrial noise post-industrial power electronics power noise synthpop	harsh noise # 33 death industrial # 46 power noise # 49 ambient noise # 85
5		2014-07-22	Jason Aldean	Burnin' It Down	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal world yacht rock	swedish death metal # 4 pagan metal # 6 drone metal # 7 gothic metal # 24 technical death metal # 25 doom metal # 36 groove metal # 47 deathcore # 48 plugg # 57 post-grunge # 64 post-metal # 66 nsbm # 72 atmospheric black metal # 75 brutal death metal # 80 goregrind # 83 viking metal # 83 phonk # 85 symphonic black metal # 85 grindcore # 86 rac # 87 blackened death metal # 90 old school death metal # 90 depressive black metal # 91 nwobhm # 91 gorenoise # 92 war metal # 92 avant-garde metal # 92 nightcore # 92 true norwegian black metal # 93 world # 93 brutal deathcore # 93 yacht rock # 93 melodic black metal # 94 harsh noise # 94 deathgrind # 94 funeral doom metal # 95 raw black metal # 95 harsh noise wall # 95 powerviolence # 95 blackened crust # 95 death doom metal # 96 death n roll # 96 pagan black metal # 96 hatecore # 96 cybergrind # 96 porngrind # 96 usbm # 97 finnish black metal # 97 nerdcore # 97 slamming brutal death metal # 97 russian black metal # 97 black death metal # 97 suicidal black metal # 97 norwegian black metal # 97 depressive suicidal black metal # 97
16		2014-10-13	Whitehouse	Birdseed	power electronics
8		2014-10-14	Pharmakon	Bestial Burden	dark ambient industrial noise power electronics	noise # 5 dark ambient # 78 death industrial # 84
17		2014-10-20	Consumer Electronics	Estuary English	power electronics
51		2015-03-28	Karjalan Sissit	...Want You Dead	dark ambient death industrial finnish industrial power electronics suomi	suomi # 61 death industrial # 65
42		2015-03-30	Damien Dubrovnik	Vegas Fountain	death industrial electronic industrial noise power electronics	death industrial # 73
94		2015-10-28	Ansome	The White Horse	industrial power electronics techno
27		2016-09-16	Street Sects	End Position	electro-industrial noise rock synth punk	noise rock # 23 synth punk # 74 electro-industrial # 85
76		2016-11-18	Lana Del Rabies	In the End I Am a Beast	death industrial noise pop power electronics rhythmic noise shoegaze witch house	rhythmic noise # 30 death industrial # 55
15		2017-02-14	LINGUA IGNOTA	LET THE EVIL OF HIS OWN LIPS COVER HIM	chamber pop death industrial feminist power electronics	death industrial # 88 feminist # 91
60		2017-06-16	White Suns	Psychic Drift	power electronics
33		2017-09-30	Trepaneringsritualen	Kainskult	black ambient black noise death industrial power electronics power noise rhythmic noise ritual ambient ritual industrial	ritual industrial # 3 rhythmic noise # 77 ritual ambient # 77 death industrial # 82 power noise # 82 black noise # 92 black ambient # 95
34		2018-03-23	Lana Del Rabies	Shadow World	darkwave death industrial power electronics rhythmic noise witch house	rhythmic noise # 75 death industrial # 81
81		2018-06-08	Uniform & The Body	Mental Wounds Not Healing	drone metal industrial metal noise power electronics
12		2018-08-17	Uniform	The Long Walk	cyberpunk hardcore punk industrial metal industrial rock noise rock power electronics thrash metal	cyberpunk # 77
31		2018-12-21	The Empire Line	1312	ambient power electronics techno
48		2019-02-14	Uboa	The Origin of My Depression	death industrial dark ambient harsh noise	dark ambient # 80 harsh noise # 93 musique concrete # 98 death industrial # 100
54		2019-02-25	Schacke	Welcome To The Pleasure Dome	dark ambient noise power electronics techno
71		2019-03-26	goreshit	tower block knife crime	death industrial harsh noise power electronics rhythmic noise speedcore	rhythmic noise # 36 harsh noise # 43 speedcore # 55 death industrial # 57
3		2019-10-10	Sam Hunt	Kinfolks	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 2 pagan metal # 2 drone metal # 3 heavy metal # 3 technical death metal # 6 progressive metal # 14 nu metal # 19 thrash metal # 26 metal # 36 melodic death metal # 42 black metal # 50 death metal # 66 groove metal # 71 gothic metal # 72 plugg # 75 deathcore # 78 nsbm # 79 doom metal # 80 post-grunge # 81 post-metal # 87 brutal death metal # 87 goregrind # 88 phonk # 89 rac # 90 old school death metal # 92 symphonic black metal # 92 atmospheric black metal # 93 viking metal # 94 nwobhm # 94 blackened death metal # 94 gorenoise # 94 nightcore # 95 grindcore # 95 brutal deathcore # 96 war metal # 96 true norwegian black metal # 96 harsh noise # 96 deathgrind # 96 harsh noise wall # 97 depressive black metal # 97 raw black metal # 97 skinhead # 97 yacht rock # 97 hatecore # 98 avant-garde metal # 98 powerviolence # 98 pagan black metal # 98 cybergrind # 98 blackened crust # 98 melodic black metal # 98 slamming brutal death metal # 99 finnish black metal # 99 suicidal black metal # 99 depressive suicidal black metal # 99 death doom metal # 99 usbm # 99 funeral doom metal # 99 nerdcore # 99 russian black metal # 99 norwegian black metal # 99 death n roll # 99 porngrind # 99 black death metal # 99
97		2020-07-10	Evicshen	Hair Birth	harsh noise industrial noise power electronics	harsh noise # 30
99		2020-07-18	Atrax Morgue	WOUNDFUCKER	dark ambient death industrial noise power electronics	death industrial # 43
98		2020-10-12	Genocide Organ	In Konflikt	industrial noise power electronics
93		2020-11-12	Grim	Folk Music	industrial noise power electronics
4		2022-06-23	Sam Hunt	Water Under The Bridge	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 3 drone metal # 4 pagan metal # 4 black metal # 4 death metal # 16 technical death metal # 21 gothic metal # 38 doom metal # 44 groove metal # 56 deathcore # 56 plugg # 64 post-metal # 72 post-grunge # 73 nsbm # 73 atmospheric black metal # 79 brutal death metal # 83 goregrind # 84 viking metal # 85 phonk # 88 symphonic black metal # 88 rac # 88 grindcore # 90 old school death metal # 91 blackened death metal # 91 nwobhm # 92 depressive black metal # 92 gorenoise # 93 war metal # 93 brutal deathcore # 94 true norwegian black metal # 94 yacht rock # 94 nightcore # 94 harsh noise # 95 avant-garde metal # 95 deathgrind # 95 raw black metal # 96 harsh noise wall # 96 skinhead # 96 funeral doom metal # 96 blackened crust # 96 death doom metal # 97 pagan black metal # 97 powerviolence # 97 cybergrind # 97 death n roll # 97 melodic black metal # 97 hatecore # 97 russian black metal # 98 norwegian black metal # 98 porngrind # 98 slamming brutal death metal # 98 black death metal # 98 finnish black metal # 98 suicidal black metal # 98 depressive suicidal black metal # 98 usbm # 98 nerdcore # 98
63		2022-10-21	Persher	Man With The Magic Soap	noise rock power electronics sludge metal
2		2023-03-10	Sam Hunt	Outskirts	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore country pop cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore neoclassical darkwave nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 1 pagan metal # 1 drone metal # 2 technical death metal # 3 metalcore # 19 progressive metal # 39 nu metal # 40 heavy metal # 45 thrash metal # 53 metal # 59 melodic death metal # 66 black metal # 72 nsbm # 80 plugg # 81 groove metal # 82 death metal # 83 deathcore # 85 post-grunge # 87 country pop # 89 goregrind # 89 gothic metal # 90 brutal death metal # 90 doom metal # 92 rac # 92 post-metal # 93 phonk # 94 old school death metal # 94 symphonic black metal # 95 gorenoise # 95 nightcore # 96 brutal deathcore # 97 grindcore # 97 deathgrind # 97 harsh noise # 97 true norwegian black metal # 97 viking metal # 98 yacht rock # 98 harsh noise wall # 98 skinhead # 98 nwobhm # 98 blackened death metal # 98 war metal # 98 raw black metal # 98 hatecore # 99 pagan black metal # 99 cybergrind # 99 slamming brutal death metal # 100 nerdcore # 100 blackened crust # 100 russian black metal # 100 black death metal # 100 porngrind # 100 atmospheric black metal # 100 depressive suicidal black metal # 100 death doom metal # 100 usbm # 100 powerviolence # 100 norwegian black metal # 100 neoclassical darkwave # 100 death n roll # 100 avant-garde metal # 100 melodic black metal # 100 suicidal black metal # 100 funeral doom metal # 100 depressive black metal # 100 finnish black metal # 100
1		2024-01-18	Benson Boone	Beautiful Things	black noise brutal death metal cybergrind goregrind gorenoise harsh noise no wave nsbm pagan black metal power electronics power noise rac skinhead	goregrind # 100 black noise # 100 pagan black metal # 100 skinhead # 100 nsbm # 100 cybergrind # 100 harsh noise # 100 brutal death metal # 100 gorenoise # 100 rac # 100 power noise # 100 no wave # 100
44		2024-10-04	Pharmakon	Maggot Mass	avant-garde metal death industrial power electronics	death industrial # 71

Related genres

• noise
• industrial
• harsh noise
• death industrial
• dark ambient
• electronic
• ambient
• drone
• rhythmic noise
• post-industrial