Post-industrial

"Post-industrial" is a term used to refer to a grouping of music genres related to the original usage of the term Industrial Music by Industrial Records through either influence or direct involvement, such as power noise, power electronics, technoid, types of experimental music and dark ambient. The usage of the term differs to that of alternative electronic as it also includes genres which use traditional instrumentation accompanied by experimental electronic instrumentation such as neofolk and martial music.

Where industrial music was largely defined by the group Throbbing Gristle and the Industrial Records label, a considerable strain of post-industrial arguably begins with the post-Throbbing Gristle project Psychic TV in the early 1980's, and ideas hatched at that time. A number of key post-industrial music projects directly spun off early Psychic TV, or were closely connected or influenced, by PTV and/or by its associated religious network Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth.