User:OnBeyondZebrax/sandbox/Industrial metal

By the late 1980s industrial and heavy metal began to fuse into a common genre, with Godflesh and Ministry being key groups. The German band KMFDM was another seminal industrial metal group. In the early years of the 21st century, groups from the black metal scene began to incorporate elements of industrial music. Industrial metal did well in the early 1990s, particularly in North America, with the success of groups such as Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. Industrial metal reached its commercial peak in the latter half of the 1990s groups such as Filter, Orgy, Rammstein, Stabbing Westward, Static-X and White Zombie. When industrial metal climbed the charts of the late 1990s, its sudden popularity was met with negative reactions from the early innovators of industrial music. Industrial metal suffered a critical backlash at the turn of the millennium, and some veteran industrial metal artists began to repudiate the industrial label. Industrial metal's emphasis on transgressive themes led to criticism from American social conservatives.