A dark industrial soundtrack for sprawling concrete cityscapes and looming mechanical infrastructure; The Industrial End is a curated playlist of dark & downbeat industrial techno and rhythmic noise for the factory floor.
This year’s edition features tracks selected from 9 releases, plus some shortlisted items, photographs, and notes, all collected and curated over the past year to invoke The Industrial End 2025.
Featured Releases
Closure
by Codex Empire on Savage Dispensary
Big, menacing and mechanical. This new album from Codex Empire was released earlier this summer, and is a brick of solid concrete rhythms. Driving & distorted industrial techno, piston-punch rhythmic noise, and sinister dark industrial textures.
Featured Tracks:
- Track 4, “Deed of Demission” – Big hitter. Heavy duty, pounding industrial techno. A relentless, pummeling kick drives a piston-powered noise machine.
- Track 3, “Leather and Prunella” – Urgent, menacing, mechanical.
- Track 1, “Drop Cull” – Shuddering, haunted dark industrial machinery.
- Track 7, “The Sinister Supporter” – Dramatic sweeps over a sinister rhythm.
Ceremony
by Nigh/T\mare on Forbidden Teachings
This cavernous, cinematic, and layered dark industrial EP from Nigh/T\mare was originally released in 2022 on Forbidden Teachings, and it’s been back in my rotation. I feel like it represents a pure distilate of what The Industrial End is supposed to sound like, so I pulled it again for this edition of the playlist.
Featured Tracks:
- Track 3, “Chaos Theory” – Furious, shuddering, mechanical. Massive dark industrial rhythmic noise, barreling through a cavernous void.
- Track 2, “Primitive” – Dense, layered, powerful poly-rhythmic percussion descends through an immersive and tense atmosphere.
Thunder Roll
by Elizar Mel on Depth Request
Heavy & huge mechanical monsters, dark industrial + broken beat unfolding across a tense and textured sonic landscape.
Featured Tracks:
- Track 1, “Thunder Roll” – Fantastic, kinetic & energetic. A 10-ton mechanical breakbeat monster, slowly unfolding, stalking under a heavy & sinister dark industrial atmosphere.
- Track 2, “Punji Stake” – Menacing, churning & hissing. Reinforced, slow-rolling, dark industrial techno.
Theory
by Cervello Elettronico on HANDS Productions
Longtime favorite HANDS Productions delivers a slab of heavy industrial techno & powernoise from LA‘s Cervello Elettronico. Raw, mechanical rhythmic noise, pummeling distorted dance, and industrial techno.
Featured Tracks:
- Track 5, “Dream” – Heavy duty, distorted. Factory floor powernoise and pounding industrial techno.
- Track 3, “Occams Razor” – Distorted dance, raw industrial techno, rumbling machine music.
- Track 2, “Bill Gates (Statiqbloom Remix)” – Downbeat & buzzy harsh electro and rhythmic noise.
SPLIT#4
by Elements of Joy + Stave on Pi Electronics
A stacked split EP from Stave and Elements of Joy, featuring hypnotic dark techno, atmospheric industrial, and raw rhythmic noise.
Featured Tracks:
- Track 2, Elements of Joy’s “A Matter of Distress” – Dark and hypnotic industrial techno. Big, ripping, raw-bassline rhythmic noise.
- Track 6, Stave’s “Capital, Selves” – Cloaked in smoke and subdued. Hazy, mechanical and meandering ambient industrial techno.
Metaphysical Trauma
by Tensal on Void+1 Recordings
Mid-tempo, diesel powered machine prayer. Dark, heavy-industry techno.
Featured Track:
- Track 2, “Uneducated Nation (Original Mix)” – Hypnotic and pummeling. Twisting, tense, and turbulent mechanical techno.
47044
by Pause on 47
Several different styles of dark and industrial music on this, the 44th release from the 47 label, including industrial techno, ambient industrial, and industrial breaks.
Featured Track:
- Track 1, “Dark Matter” – Shadowy and atmospheric. Minimal, hypnotic mechanical techno.
Rituals of Pleasure
by Punshukunshu on X-IMG
A release stacked with cinematic dark industrial techno, distorted dance, and EBM. Rituals of Pleasure features this track for the factory floor:
Featured Track:
- Track 5, “Deconstruction” – Desolate & dystopian dark industrial.
Chipping In
by Asphodel on Vumantra
Featuring the first cut from this 2-track dark industrial single.
Featured Track:
- Track 1, “Cyberpsychosis” – Big, pounding, mechanical rhythmic noise.
Shortlisted
R4
by Black Sites on Tresor Records
Featured Track:
- Track 7, “II” – Murky broken beat, rolled with percolating analogue industrial IDM.
Belt To Blender
by Heimstatt Yipotash on HANDS Productions
Featured Track:
- Track 3, “Cargo 200” – Raw, rough cut, churning industrial that rolls up into some ripping rhythmic noise.
Hostile Responses & Provocations 3
V/A on Depth Request
Featured Tracks:
- Track 6, “Incoherent” by Ryuji Takeuchi – Deep, pounding powernoise percussion.
- Track 7, “Bound” by The Undertaker’s Tapes – Scratchy and sinister vocal rhythmic noise.
The Industrial End
These photos were taken in and around Greenpoint’s industrial waterfront in November 2025.
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