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• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, NiN and industrial in general has many elements in common with it…

  I dunno, its less … orthodox, in time signatures, than basically all NiN I can remember listening to, with the exception of Ghosts.

  Ghosts has a lot more just… weird timings, but they’re also paired with melodies and chords that are dissonant or off in some way…

  Not much of Ghosts is high tempo, ‘action-y’, and HL2’s melodies are actually not as odd and dissonant, they’re more conventional, just often played with unconventional instruments/synths.

  And, NiN’s drumming, cymbals and such is usually nowhere near as frantic.

  … Maybe I just don’t have a wide enough industrial palette, and I guess maybe yeah, ‘HL2 style’ is best described as a subgenre of industrial?

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  • FE80@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    NiN did the soundtrack to Quake.

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    • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      An of course their logo was on the ammo crates for the nail gun. Because if you have an automatic nail gun, nine inch nails make the perfect ammo. You’re not going to kill shamblers with 23ga pin nails.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, there is no denying that NiN and industrial in general was… running through the blood of the late 90s / early 00s FPS pioneers.

      Heck, not even just FPS:

      Frank ‘Motherfucking’ Klepacki.

      … who the fuck comes up with both Hell March… and IndustroFunk?

      He just like invented a subgenre, as a song.

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  • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So like… MDFMK maybe?

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    • motruck@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      KMFDM, better than the best.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re good at this.

      Yeah, actually, this is pretty close, if you had these guys make ‘instrumentals’, no lyrics songs.

      Like if you took all of the differing elements, and patterns of maybe 3 of their songs, and essentially remixed them into one song, stripped out the vocals… that would approximately be pretty close to a good deal of HL2 songs.

      Maybe increase the range of effects and synths used a bit, but yeah, this is pretty close.

      I guess the main difference left that I can think of is that… a lot of this kind of 90s/00s industrial, it will be built kind of around a guitar riff, like the distored/noise guitar is kind of the foundation, the thing that is basically always there, keeping the tempo, driving the song.

      But a lot of HL2 songs will… kind of swap this idea: The driving melody is synthetic, the guitar is used for the occasional/repeated kind of bits of flavor.

      … I feel like I don’t music theory to know the right words, lol.

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      • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oohh oh oh… Check out “The Algorithm”

        I think that might be the closest to what you are looking for that I can think of. It’s a little metal on the drums, but it’s got way more synth lead stuff.

        While a bit different from what your asking for, you should also check out Master Boot Record - it’s a bit more chip tune metal. It’s fun though

        I think you were asking about the genre of music, and I don’t have an answer for you off the top of my head, but if you want to go on the journey of electronic music genres and sub genres and sub sub genres and learn about types of music and artists you might like, strap on your ear goggles and head on over to Ishkur’s guide to electronic music:music.ishkur.com

        I have lost hours of my life there before.

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