This Heat

Example Album: Metal

Location: UK

Years Active: 1976-1983

Style: Metal percussion, tape loops

        This Heat were an experimental art-rock band from London. Most known for their incredible experimental rock album Deceit, which in its own right has elements of early industrial, utilizing tape loops, sound collage, and what could even be some metal sounds very sparsely, though I'm not entirely sure. The focus of this entry however, is the single Metal, which from what I'm aware of was released long after the band had broken up. 

    Metal was apparently recorded on self-constructed metal sculptures outside of their recording studio in 1980. Listening to Metal you will hear beautiful metal percussion and atonal rhythm explorations, stitched together and looped on tape. This recording has a remarkable resemblance to something you'd hear from Z'EV, it sounds deeply ritualistic and hypnotic.

    I'm really curious what was going on in these artists' heads, what their influences were, how connected they were to the early industrial scene in England. Either way, they produced something that sounds purely industrial, and belongs up there with Z'EV and other first wave industrial artists.