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Martial industrial, also known as martial music, is a music genre
Music genre

A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music....
 originating in late 20th century Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. It often borrows musically from classical music, neofolk
Neofolk

Neofolk is a form of folk music-inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles. Neofolk can either be solely acoustic folk music or a blend of acoustic folk instrumentation aided by varieties of accompanying sounds such as pianos, strings and elements of industrial music and experimental music....
, neoclassical
Neoclassical (Dark Wave)

Neoclassical Dark Wave refers to a music genre within the Dark Wave movement. It is characterized by the use of ethereal atmosphere and angelic female voices but also adds strong influences from classical music....
, traditional European marches and from elements of industrial
Industrial music

Industrial music comprises many styles of experimental music, including many forms of electronic music. The term was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists....
 and dark ambient
Dark ambient

Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and Sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music....
.

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

Kadmon is an Austrian musician and writer who records under the name Allerseelen and publishes written material and music under the name Aorta....
, founder of Allerseelen, to describe the direction his music was going at the time, leaning away from an ambient
Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses on the timbre characteristics of sounds, particularly organised or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality....
 sound into something more militaristic
Militarism

File:CaptainJ.R.Jellicoe.jpgMilitarism is the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests....
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Martial industrial, also known as martial music, is a music genre
Music genre

A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music....
 originating in late 20th century Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
. It often borrows musically from classical music, neofolk
Neofolk

Neofolk is a form of folk music-inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles. Neofolk can either be solely acoustic folk music or a blend of acoustic folk instrumentation aided by varieties of accompanying sounds such as pianos, strings and elements of industrial music and experimental music....
, neoclassical
Neoclassical (Dark Wave)

Neoclassical Dark Wave refers to a music genre within the Dark Wave movement. It is characterized by the use of ethereal atmosphere and angelic female voices but also adds strong influences from classical music....
, traditional European marches and from elements of industrial
Industrial music

Industrial music comprises many styles of experimental music, including many forms of electronic music. The term was coined in the mid-1970s to describe Industrial Records artists....
 and dark ambient
Dark ambient

Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music that features foreboding, ominous, or discordant overtones. Dark ambient emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and Sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music....
.

Origins

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

Kadmon is an Austrian musician and writer who records under the name Allerseelen and publishes written material and music under the name Aorta....
, founder of Allerseelen, to describe the direction his music was going at the time, leaning away from an ambient
Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses on the timbre characteristics of sounds, particularly organised or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality....
 sound into something more militaristic
Militarism

File:CaptainJ.R.Jellicoe.jpgMilitarism is the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests....
. It has since been used by other artists such as Dernière Volonté
Dernière Volonté

Derni?re Volont? is the name under which France musician Geoffroy D writes martial music, Neoclassicism , dark ambient and military pop. Throughout his early period, Geoffroy tended to write a fusion of martial music and dark ambient....
 to describe their musical sound. This term is often used in place of martial industrial.

Themes

Themes range from pounding, percussive soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
-like music to rally-worthy dark parade
Parade

A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, float or sometimes large balloons....
 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

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Martial industrial fans range from people very politically active to cultural admirers to uniform fetishists. Due to use of European uniforms
Uniform

File:Porfirio Diaz paint.jpgA uniform is a set of standard clothing worn by members of an organization while participating in that organization's activity....
, 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
Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League is a United States of America based, international non-governmental organization. Describing itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency", the ADL states that it "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects civil rights for all."...
 and sometimes local news agencies, though artists in this genre range from the left (such as Militia
Militia (band)

Militia is a Belgium Industrial music percussion band. It was founded in 1989 by the multi-instrumentalist Frank Gorissen and wind instrument player Jo Billen, after they visited a concert of Con-Dom, a United Kingdom noise musicact....
 and Test Dept.) to the right (such as Von Thronstahl
Von Thronstahl

Von Thronstahl is a German Electronic music, Martial industrial and Neoclassicism band founded in 1995 in music by Josef Maria Klumb....
) 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

  • A Challenge of Honour
    A Challenge of Honour

    A Challenge of Honour is the Netherlands music project of Peter Savelkoul. It is usually classified as martial music, industrial music, ambient music, neofolk music and neoclassical music....
  • Arditi
    Arditi (band)

    Arditi is a Swedish martial industrial and Neoclassical band. It consists of Henry M?ller of Puissance and M?rten Bj?rkman from black metal bands Full Moon Productions and Full Moon Productions....
  • Autopsia
    Autopsia

    Autopsia is an art project dealing with music and visual production. Autopsia gathers authors of different professions in realization of multimedia projects....
  • Arbeit!
    Arbeit!

    Arbeit! is a France one-man music project led by Greg L. Its first album Zum einem neuen Licht was released on July 14, 2007 on the American label ....
  • Blood Axis
    Blood Axis

    Blood Axis is the name under which journalist and author Michael Moynihan and musician and author Annabel Lee compose and release music....
  • Boyd Rice
    Boyd Rice

    Boyd Blake Rice is an United States experimental sound artist under the monicker of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard Magazine. Modern Drunkard Magazine Onli...
  • Dead Man's Hill
    Dead man's hill

    Dead Man's Hill is an Electronic music, death industrial, Martial music, Neo-classical metal and Post-industrial band founded in 1998 in music by Bart Piette, originally with the name "The Klinik And The Mortuary"....
  • Death In June
  • Der Blutharsch
    Der Blutharsch

    Der Blutharsch is the primary musical project of Austrian musician Albin Julius....
  • Dernière Volonté
    Dernière Volonté

    Derni?re Volont? is the name under which France musician Geoffroy D writes martial music, Neoclassicism , dark ambient and military pop. Throughout his early period, Geoffroy tended to write a fusion of martial music and dark ambient....
  • H.E.R.R.
    H.E.R.R.

    H.E.R.R. is a Dutch people / England band that was founded in 2002 by Michiel Spap? . Other core members are Miklos Hoffer and, from the second album onwards, Troy Southgate ....
  • Hieronymus Bosch
  • In the Nursery
    In The Nursery

    In The Nursery is a Neoclassical /Martial music electronica band, known for their cinematic sound. As a result, the duo has provided soundtracks to a variety of TV programmes and films, and is known for its rescoring of silent films....
  • Kreuzweg Ost
    Kreuzweg Ost

    Kreuzweg Ost is a darkwave/martial industrial project founded by Michael Gregor and Martin Schirenc. The music is a blend of world war-related sampling and loops with booming sounds and instrumental pieces....
  • Laibach
    Laibach (band)

    Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music music group, strongly associated with industrial music, martial music, and Neoclassical musical styles....
  • Les Joyaux De La Princesse
    Les Joyaux De La Princesse

    Les Joyaux De La Princesse is a cult France one-man band operating in the Industrial music network. Some of his releases are in the heavy industrial-noise vein, while other contains melancholic and sad music for organ and piano mixed with historical French speeches....
  • Life Toward Twilight
    Life Toward Twilight

    Life Toward Twilight is a dark ambient, post-industrial project from Detroit, Michigan. Life Toward Twilight's sound explores genres such as martial music and Neoclassicism , with a heavy presence of ambience and Drone ....
  • Luftwaffe
    Luftwaffe (band)

    Luftwaffe is a martial music, neofolk and post-industrial music group from Chicago, USA....
  • Militia
    Militia (band)

    Militia is a Belgium Industrial music percussion band. It was founded in 1989 by the multi-instrumentalist Frank Gorissen and wind instrument player Jo Billen, after they visited a concert of Con-Dom, a United Kingdom noise musicact....
  • Puissance
    Puissance (band)

    Puissance is a Sweden martial music Neoclassical music group consisting of members Henry M?ller and Frederik S?derlund....
  • Rome
    Rome (band)

    Rome is an "apocalyptic martial folk" act founded in November 2005 as a main output for the songs of Jerome Reuter, Luxembourg. In early 2006 Rome was signed to Cold Meat Industry record label....
  • Sophia
    Sophia

    Sophia is a female name derived from the Greek word for "wisdom." It may also refer to:Spiritual* Sophia , the Greek word for "wisdom", a theological concept in Hellenistic religions...
  • Test Dept
    Test Dept

    Test Dept were an industrial music band formed in New Cross, London, by unemployed musicians from Glasgow, Scotland, where the band later re-located....
     — their martial period was circa 1985-1990.
  • The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud
    The Moon lay hidden beneath a Cloud

    The Moon lay hidden beneath a Cloud was an Austrian musical duo composed of Albin Julius and Alzbeth. Their music reflected their deep fascination with myriad aspects of European Middle Ages including ritual, clerical chants and the daily experience of the peasantry....
  • Toroidh
    Toroidh

    Toroidh is a martial music project by Sweden musician Nordvargr . Bjorkk has described it as a continuation of Folkstorm, his previous project....
  • Triarii
    Triarii

    Triarii were spearmen in the Structural history of the Roman military#Manipular legion . They were the oldest and among the wealthiest men in the army, and could afford good quality equipment....
  • Von Thronstahl
    Von Thronstahl

    Von Thronstahl is a German Electronic music, Martial industrial and Neoclassicism band founded in 1995 in music by Josef Maria Klumb....
  • Westwind
    Westwind (band)

    Westwind is a musical project from the French post-industrial scene, created by Kris G . It mixes influences from musics such as Martial industrial, Post-industrial , Dark ambient, Neofolk and Neoclassical music....


Related subjects

  • Military band
    Military band

    File:Band Trooping the Colour, 16th June 2007.jpgA military band is a group of personnel that perform musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces....
  • March music


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