Music Sound

Martial music/military pop
Stylistic origins:	Neoclassical Marches Industrial Post-industrial Dark ambient
Cultural origins:	Late 20th century, Europe
Typical instruments:	Military band instrumentation Synthesizer Drum machine Sequencer
Mainstream popularity:	Minor
Subgenres
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Martial music, also known as military pop and martial industrial, is a music genre originating in late 20th century Europe. It often borrows musically from classical music, neofolk, neoclassical, traditional European marches and from elements of industrial and dark ambient.

Contents 1 Origins 2 Themes 3 Culture 4 Related genres 4.1 Neofolk Music 5 See also 5.1 Artists 5.2 Related subjects 6 External links 6.1 Artists 6.2 Record labels / Distributors 6.3 Webzines

Origins

The genre name military pop was coined by the Austrian musician Gerhard, founder of Allerseelen, to describe the direction his music was going at the time, leaning away from an ambient sound into something more militaristic. It has since been used by other artists such as Dernière Volonté to describe their musical sound. This term is often used in place of martial music or martial industrial.

Themes

Themes range from pounding, percussive soundtrack-like music to rally-worthy dark parade music to cabaret appropriate sexually-charged carnal declarations to mournful marches. Essentially, anything that could be made with traditional European martial instrumentation relating to the artists within this genre could be considered a part of this musical movement.

Culture

Dernière Volonté live in 2003.

Martial music fans range from people very politically active to cultural admirers to uniform fetishists. Due to use of European uniforms, this is sometimes misunderstood as being a means of expression of a single, unified political tendency by Antifa, groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and sometimes local news agencies, though artists in this genre range from the left (such as Militia) to the right (such as Von Thronstahl) to completely apolitical.

Related genres

Neofolk Music

The work of some neofolk music artists sometimes has musical and thematic elements in common with Martial Music and developed very close to it. Many artists that could be classified as a part of this field regularly work with, could be classified as a part of or play shows with artists of this musical movement in particular.

See also

Artists

Allerseelen
A Challenge of Honour
Autopsia
Blood Axis
Death In June
Der Blutharsch
Dernière Volonté
In Slaughter Natives
Laibach - Inclusion refers to earlier material, prior to the release of Opus Dei
Les Joyaux De La Princesse
Life toward twilight
Puissance
Toroidh
Von Thronstahl

Related subjects

• Military band

External links

Artists

• Arditi
• Autopsia
• Clear Stream Temple
• Dawn And Dusk Entwined
• Dead Man's Hill
• Der Feuerkreiner
• Die Macht
• Die Weisse Rose
• H.E.R.R.
• Karjalan Sissit
• Leger Des Heils
• Les affres de la mort
• Levoi Pravoi
• Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio
• Predella Avant
• Wappenbund

Record labels / Distributors

Many of these labels are also distributors.

• Athanor - FRANCE
• Cold Spring - UK
• Cold Meat Industry - SWEDEN
• Eternal Soul - GERMANY
• Equilibrium Music - PORTUGAL
• Fluttering Dragon - POLAND
• HauRuck! - AUSTRIA
• L.O.K.I. Foundation / Power & Steel - GERMANY
• Neuropa Records - BELGIUM
• Slaughter In Art - FRANCE
• Skuld - GERMANY
• Svartvintras Productions - SWEDEN
• Strange Fortune - USA
• Tesco Organisation - GERMANY
• Tesco USA - USA
• WKN - AUSTRIA
• War Office Propaganda - POLAND

Webzines

• Achtung Baby! - RUSSIA
• Apostazja - POLAND
• Dagaz Music - PORTUGAL
• compulsion - ENGLAND
• Exoteric - ITALY
• Feindesland - GERMANY
• Flux Europa - ENGLAND
• Funeral Procession - NETHERLANDS
• Heathen Harvest - USA
• Heimdallr - SWITZERLAND
• :Ikonen: - GERMANY
• Judas Kiss - ENGLAND
• Lichttaufe.com - GERMANY
• Monas.nl - NETHERLANDS
• neo-form.de - GERMANY
• Occidental Congress - ITALY
• Raunend - ITALY
• Seidr - RUSSIA
• Soleilnoir - SWITZERLAND
• Sonorités Obscures - FRANCE
• Synthesis - ENGLAND