Black Magnet - Megamantra (2025)

Black Magnet is no more a one-man band and is now a quartet, but the music on their third album Magamantra itself didn't change much, their industrial metal still sounds heavily influenced by industrial metal from the 90' and especially, and maybe even more than previously, by NIN and Marilyn Manson. In fact it's a good time travel machine taking us back to 1996, and it would be a good companion to the Trent Reznor produced Antichrist Superstar MM album. Overall it is quite nice, I enjoy the trip!

 

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Black Magnet - Body Prophecy (2022)

Black Magnet released an excellent first album two years ago (Hallucination Scene), with strong NIN and Godflesh influences. Now James Hammontree (the man behind Black Magnet) is back with a second album called Body Prophecy, also excellent, also influenced by NIN and Godflesh (there's even a  good Justin K. Broderick remix of one of the song). What's new is that there's also definitely a Marilyn Manson influence (think Antichrist Superstar and Holy Wood) in a few songs, and why not?  Black Magnet doesn't score much on the originality, but as long as the albums are this good, that's fine for me...

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Black Magnet - Hallucination Scene (2020)

Really impressive first album from Black Magnet (James Hammontree from Oklahoma), Hallucination Scene reminds industrial metal rooted int he 90', maybe especially NIN (Pretty Hate Machine as well as The Downward Spiral), but also Killing Joke. The album is so good that I'm adding it to my list of favourite industrial music released in 2020.

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Best of 2020 : industrial music

 Here's a short list of what I liked the more in industrial music in 2020. Click to go to the review. And feel free to say what you feel is missing in comment.

Industrial metal

5RVLN5 - The Black Mark

Black Magnet - Hallucination Scene 

Uniform - Shame

Industrial tech

Dark Machine Nation - Hail of Iron

Frett - The World as a Hologram

Retrograde Youth - Mass Asphyxia