Industrial
The best industrial albums:
Since there are a lot of purists out there: This list includes albums that are directly associated with, or otherwise immediately influenced by, the original industrial music circle in London, Throbbing Gristle. None of the albums on this list would exist without the artistic efforts of that group.
| # | Artist | Album | Year |
| 1. | Foetus Interruptus | Thaw | 1988 |
| 2. | Nurse with Wound | The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion | 1985 |
| 3. | Nine Inch Nails | The Downward Spiral | 1994 |
| 4. | Suicide | Suicide | 1977 |
| 5. | Throbbing Gristle | 20 Jazz Funk Greats | 1979 |
| 6. | Pere Ubu | The Modern Dance | 1978 |
| 7. | Swans | Cop | 1984 |
| 8. | Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel | Nail | 1985 |
| 9. | Chrome | Half Machine Lip Moves | 1979 |
| 10. | Psychic TV | Dreams Less Sweet | 1983 |
| 11. | Coil | Love's Secret Domain | 1991 |
| 12. | Nurse with Wound | Thunder Perfect Mind | 1992 |
| 13. | Current 93 | Dogs Blood Rising | 1984 |
| 14. | Einstürzende Neubauten | Kollaps | 1981 |
| 15. | SPK | Leichenschrei | 1982 |
| 16. | Merzbow | Music for Bondage Performance | 1991 |
| 17. | Cabaret Voltaire | Red Mecca | 1981 |
| 18. | Non | God and Beast | 1997 |
| 19. | Big Black | Songs About Fucking | 1987 |
| 20. | Cop Shoot Cop | Consumer Revolt | 1990 |
| 21. | Rome | Flowers from Exile | 2005 |
| 22. | Swans | Public Castration Is a Good Idea | 1986 |
| 23. | Coil | Scatology | 1984 |