Rising from the depressed, downtrodden, and deteriorating city of Cleveland, OH, the bands' first single almost instantly catapulted Filter to the top of the mainstream charts. Though a majority of the successful acts of this style relied heavily on computer-based sounds, in the mid-1990's, a band arrived that was able to take this uniquely aggressive sound and merge it in an uncanny way with the sounds of hardcore. The so-called 'industrial' sound took this aggressive, in-your-face approach, and made it far darker, giving it a rhythm and mood like nothing else.

From early influences like Black Sabbath to the hardcore innovations of Fugazi and Black Flag, the more aggressive styles of music kept branching off into different areas, and as the 1980's began to wind down, a new sound was emerging. The history of music is scattered with countless bands who attempted to deliver heavy or hardcore style music, but only ended up coming off as silly due to either sounding too much like a band that came earlier, or simply falling into one of the many traps that made them come off as 'trying too hard.' Obviously though, within this haystack of bands that missed the point, there are a handful of needles that kept the genres moving forward. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN (will open in new tab)Īcross every genre and every era of music, there is perhaps no more difficult a line to walk than that between 'heavy' and cliché.

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