At its birth, the genre of industrial music was different from any other music, and its use of technology and disturbing lyrics and themes to tear apart preconceptions about the necessary rules of musical form supports the suggestion that industrial music is modernist music.
在它诞生时，工业音乐的流派与其他音乐不同，它利用技术和令人不安的歌词和主题来撕裂对音乐形式必要规则的先入之见，这支持了工业音乐是现代主义音乐的建议。