Nitzer Ebb

Example Album: That Total Age

Location: UK

Years Active: 1982-present

Style: EBM, scrap metal and industrial accents

        Nitzer Ebb are a British EBM band formed in 1982. They are known as one of the original EBM bands to help develop the style for what it would become. Nitzer Ebb's sound is largely based on intense, heavy dance-oriented rhythms, using drum machines and performed drum pads, intended to evoke physicality, muscles, and sweat. It's on their debut LP That Total Age, a classic in the EBM genre as a whole, where they use scrap metal sounds as accents to their pummelling dance beats. The song "Join In The Chant," probably their most recognizable track, features some intense rhythmic clanging which accentuates the physicality of the song.

    Nitzer Ebb are still performing and touring to this day.