🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

インダストリアル・ロック

Native Script:日本語

Pronunciation / Transliteration: indasutoriaru rokku

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Industrial rock/ɪnˈdʌs.tri.əl rɒk/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"インダストリアル・ロックは機械音を取り入れた音楽ジャンルです。"

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As noun
  1. 1

    A genre of rock music that combines elements of industrial music, electronic music, and punk rock, characterized by distorted guitars, synthesizers, and mechanical percussion.

    "The band is considered a pioneer of the industrial rock movement in the early nineties."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'industrial', derived from Latin 'industria' (diligence, activity) and popularized in the context of industrial music aesthetics in the late 1970s, with 'rock', referring to rock and roll music. It emerged in the mid-1980s as bands began fusing harsh, mechanical electronic sounds and factory noise with traditional rock instrumentation.

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