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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

工业金属

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gōngyè jīnsh属

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Industrial metal/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl ˈmɛt.əl/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"工业金属音乐结合了电子音效和重吉他。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A genre of heavy metal music that incorporates elements of industrial music, electronic music, synthesized beats, and heavily distorted guitars.

    "The concert featured a pioneer band of the industrial metal scene, combining mechanical rhythms with aggressive guitar riffs."
  2. 2

    Music characterized by themes of alienation, dystopian futures, and technological automation delivered through a heavy rock instrumentation.

    "His playlist consists mostly of 1990s industrial metal with dark, atmospheric synthesizers."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'industrial', derived from the Latin 'industria' (diligence, activity) via French, referring to mechanized manufacturing, and 'metal', originating from the Greek 'metallon' (mine, quarry, metal), which later came to denote heavy metal music genres. Coined in the late 1980s, the term merges the abrasive, repetitive soundscapes of industrial music with the heavy guitar riffs and structures of heavy metal.

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