Oh, I didn't mean to recommend those bands. I wouldn't push Apoptygma Berzerk to anyone.
Let me name a few bands you might like, though. I don't like all of these outfits myself, but none of them are dirt-horrible.
Front 242 is an early electronic dance group which had ties to the industrial movement. They're great fun, and their song Headhunter is loved, played, remixed and covered so much that even those who love it get tired of it. They coined the term "Electronic Body Music," although EBM has since become a label for music that I consider to be by and large total garbage.
Hanzel und Gretyl take the "industrial metal" sound used by groups like Ministry and KMFDM to new heights of ridiculousness, paring it down to nothing but relentless sampled guitar riffs, electronic drums, staccato samples of things like sirens, and dorky pseudo-German lyrics - most notably, "FUKKEN! ÜBER! DEATH! PARTY!" They also sound just a tad like that crappy nu-metal I listened to in middle school, at least at times. I think they're kind of stupid, but hey, at least they're having fun.
Blam Honey is a Japanese visual kei duo, blending industrial and "industrial rock" influences with an intense, sculpted melodic electronic landscape - at times ambient, at times insistently rhythmic. Genuinely good stuff.
Skinny Puppy is a flagship of the post-industrial landscape, worshiped by "gothic industrial" kids who wear New Rock boots and like to stomp as a form of dancing. I don't care for them much, but they're inarguably very, very popular, and extremely influential. Lots of "goth" people who don't listen to goth music love Skinny Puppy. Hey, who am I to argue?
SPK started as an actual industrial band, making fabulous and jarring noisy atmospherics, and then suddenly decided to join the early, industrial-influenced electronic dance movement, joining ranks with Front 242. I prefer their initial stuff, of course, but their dance material is undeniably infectious and enjoyable, and includes early examples of drumming on pipes and other makeshift items.
Babyland, speaking of drumming on pipes, had a venerable 20-year run playing "electronic junk punk." Emotional, angry, fabulously unsubtle lyrics (one of the albums is called "You Suck ->-bleeped-<-"), with influences from industrial, punk, post-punk and electronic dance music. Apart from said drumming on found and assembled metal objects, shows included showering sparks on the crowd. I went to their last show; it was a great show.
Ministry is another one of those groups, like KMFDM, which one uses to point out to normals obsessed with Rammstein that "hey, you know, they didn't really invent that sound." They started as a post-punkish new wave band, hilariously - see early song Halloween. They've been milking the chugging-guitars-with-electronics thing for so long now, it's become almost impossible for them to come out with anything original. Nonetheless, a venerable old cow of the "industrial metal" (or American coldwave, or whatever you want to call it) meme.
Ehh, I have to finish my essay for school. I hope that tides you over.
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