Industrial Metal Albums

The seventeenth album, which Ministry have named as their last. Cleopatra Records issues it on 30 October 2026.

Ministry's sixteenth album, out on 1 March 2024. It closes on a reading of Fad Gadget's Ricky's Hand.

Rammstein's eighth studio album, from April 2022, an unplanned record made in the gap a postponed tour left.

Fear Factory's tenth studio album, from June 2021. The vocals were recorded in 2017, and it is the last record to carry Burton C. Bell.

Ministry's fifteenth album, out on 1 October 2021. It includes a reading of the Stooges' Search and Destroy.

Code Orange's fourth studio album, from March 2020, built around glitches and noise as much as around riffs.

Rammstein's seventh album, from May 2019: their first in ten years, and certified diamond in Germany.

Ministry's fourteenth album, out on 9 March 2018, and one of the records their own biography names.

Fear Factory's ninth studio album, from August 2015, and the one where Mike Heller played live drums on several songs.

Ministry's thirteenth album, out on 6 September 2013, the year after the death of the guitarist Mike Scaccia.

Fear Factory's eighth studio album, from 2012. The drums are programmed throughout and only Bell and Cazares are credited as members.

Ministry's twelfth album, out on 23 March 2012. Mike Scaccia, who died at the end of that year, plays guitar on it.

Fear Factory's seventh studio album, out in February 2010. Dino Cazares is back after nine years and Gene Hoglan plays the drums.

Killing Joke's thirteenth album, out in September 2010 and the first in twenty-eight years recorded by the original four.

Rammstein's sixth album, out on 16 October 2009. Germany placed it on the index of media harmful to minors, and an edited version followed a month later.

Ministry's eleventh album, out on 18 September 2007. It includes a reading of the Doors' Roadhouse Blues.

Ministry's tenth album, out on 2 May 2006, and one of the records their biography places in its political run.

Fear Factory's sixth studio album, from August 2005 and the last with Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers.

Rammstein's fifth album, from 2005. It includes six songs written for the previous album and left off it.

Fear Factory's fifth studio album, from 2004. It was made without Dino Cazares and reached number thirty on the American Billboard 200, their best placing at the time.

Ministry's ninth album, out on 22 June 2004. Every song but Walrus takes a title beginning with W.

Rammstein's fourth album, released on 27 September 2004. It went to number one in seven countries.

Ministry's eighth album, out on 18 February 2003, and for a long time the last one the bassist Paul Barker played on.

Fear Factory's fourth studio album, from April 2001, and the record that closes the trilogy begun with Demanufacture.

Rammstein's third album, out on 2 April 2001. The sleeve is a photograph of a dead foetus, and it yielded six singles, more than any other Rammstein record.

Ministry's seventh album, out on 8 June 1999. It is the last record they made for Warner Bros.

Nine Inch Nails' third album, issued by Nothing and Interscope in 1999. Twenty-three pieces across two CDs, a good many of them instrumental.

Fear Factory's third album, issued by Roadrunner in 1998. It is a concept record built on "Conception 5", a story written by Burton C. Bell.

Rammstein's second album, released on 22 August 1997. It is the only album entirely in German to be certified platinum by the RIAA.

Strapping Young Lad's second album, issued by Century Media in 1997. It is the first Devin Townsend made with a permanent line-up.

Marilyn Manson's second album, issued by Nothing and Interscope on 8 October 1996. It is a concept record built over eight months in New Orleans.

Ministry's sixth album, out on 30 January 1996. It includes a reading of Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay.

Fear Factory's second album, issued by Roadrunner in 1995. It is built on machine-like repetition and on a voice that moves between roaring and clean singing.

Rammstein's debut album, released in September 1995 on Motor Music by the six players who have been the band ever since.

Nine Inch Nails' second album, out on 8 March 1994. It follows one man's disintegration from end to end, and it was made in a house in Los Angeles turned into a studio.

Fear Factory's debut, issued by Roadrunner in August 1992 and produced by Colin Richardson. Seventeen songs.

Ministry's fifth album, issued by Sire in 1992. Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker produced it, and it was recorded between March 1991 and May 1992.

White Zombie's third album, issued by Geffen in 1992. It leaves the band's punk and noise-rock roots for groove-driven metal, and it is their first record to sell in America.

Godflesh's debut, made by Justin Broadrick and G. C. Green with a drum machine in place of a drummer, and released by Earache Records in 1989.

Ministry's fourth album, out on 14 November 1989, the record that carries Thieves and Burning Inside.

Ministry's third album, out on 11 October 1988, which their own biography credits with redrawing the post-punk axis.

Ministry's second album, out on 12 March 1986, the record their own biography calls the turn to industrial music.

Ministry's debut, issued by Arista in 1983: a record of polished electro-pop.