Nitzer Ebb

804,965 plays (64,120 listeners)

Formed in Chelmsford when main protagonists Douglas McCarthy (vocals) and Bon Harris (drums, programming) were just 15, Nitzer Ebb cut a dynamic swathe through the electronic music and Balaeric beat scenes of the 1980s and 90s. They were electro-punks before the genre even existed, at a time when The Prodigy were not even a gleam in fellow Essex boy Liam Howlett's eye.

Klinik

115,671 plays (11,017 listeners)

Belgian pioneers of ebm and minimalist electro-industrial. Also known as The Klinik. See also dive, sonar, monolith.

Cobalt 60

72,853 plays (6,791 listeners)

Cobalt 60 is a Front 242 side project featuring Front 242's Jean-Luc de Meyer and Dominique Lallement. Cobalt 60 has also done music for the PC games Command and Conquer: Red Alert and Wing Commander: Prophecy (Wing Commander V).

Spetsnaz

363,500 plays (25,758 listeners)

Spetsnaz (russian acronym for Special Forces) is an EBM old school duo, formed in Sweden by Pontus Stålberg and Stefan Nilsson in 2001. They are inspired by pioneering artists like Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Die Krupps, and DAF.

Skinny Puppy

4,600,958 plays (148,985 listeners)

Skinny Puppy is an influential industrial band, formed in 1982 by core members cEvin Key (Kevin Crompton) and Nivek Ogre (ohGr) (Kevin Ogilvie) in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Covenant

3,047,479 plays (110,672 listeners)

There is more than one known artist who once went under the name Covenant: 1. Covenant is a band from Sweden that has furthered electronic body music ("EBM" - pioneered in the 80s by the likes of Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb), futurepop, and synth pop since the early 1990s.

Leæther Strip

528,528 plays (42,216 listeners)

Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project whose influence has been most felt in the electronic body music (EBM), elektro industrial music, and futurepop music genres. It was one of the earliest and most prominent acts on Germany's now defunct Zoth Ommog record label, and has also released music on the American Cleopatra Records and Metropolis Records labels, as well as Germany's Bloodline Records.

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft

465,924 plays (48,520 listeners)

The Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF) is an influential electropunk / Neue Deutsche Welle band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 in Wuppertal, Germany featuring drummer/synth player Robert Görl, vocalist Gabi Delgado-Lopez, guitarist Wolfgang Spelmans, Kurt Dahlke "Pyrolator", Michael Kemner, bassist and bassist/keyboardist/saxophonist Chrislo Haas.