Executive Slacks “Nausea” 1985. Fundamental Records. Philly-area industrial/goth band active in the 1980′s (their Facebook page lists their genre as “Loud”). One reviewer describes them as “thrusting, driving madness from the bleeding edge of proto-industrial music.” Definitely hypnotic but not the relaxing-take-a-nice-little-nap hypnotic, more of the bang-my-head-against-the-wall-in-a-dark-room kind of hypnosis/psychosis.

This is a newer acquisition to the Vault and until now I hadn’t really heard of these guys –  I didn’t listen to a ton of industrial music in the 80′s but this is more along the lines of the dark-heavy-brutal style of Nitzer Ebb than the more synth-pop orientated industrial style of Depeche Mode. Good example of ES’s style is the title track “Nausea” and “Spiders” (I really like that track a lot)