Electronic body music is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of industrial music and synth-punk with elements of dance music. It developed in the early 1980s in Western Europe, as an ou
Belgian EBM group Front 242.
German proto-EBM band DAF created the "muscles & machines" image – the basic concept of electronic body music.
Spetsnaz live at E-tropolis festival, Oberhausen, 2015.
Nitzer Ebb are an English EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris, Douglas McCarthy, and David Gooday. The band was originally named La Comédie De La Mort but soon discar
Electronic body music
…for 'electronic body music', a term which only really came into use when the Brits and Belgians stepped into the 'sequencer business' with bands like Nitzer Ebb and Front 242. There you could find that sound again, where it was catchily picked up and labelled. In our days all these terms didn't exist, not…
Nitzer Ebb Concert in Los Angeles, October 2019. Left to Right: David Gooday, Simon Granger, Bon Harris and Douglas McCarthy
Nitzer Ebb performing in 2011