Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic body music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. During their most active period (effectively ending in 1993 with the albums 06:21:03:11 UP EVIL and 05:22:09:12 OFF) they were influential to many industrial and electronic artists, coining the term electronic body music (EBM) to describe their music. History The origin of Front 242 should be understood within the rise of industrial music, which originated in England in 1975 with the first performances of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle. These revolutionary groups introduced elements of style later taken up by Front 242 such as electronic instrumentation, overwhelming percussion often with found objects, and looped samples of found soundbites. Going back earlier, these innovations can be seen as an extension of the work of William S.
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The sun went down and the ground started sort of grinding
A blinding light tore across the sky
A cyclone swept the landscape out and left it completely flattened out
And several twirls of smoke unfolded like gigantic flowers
The way the morning broke was quite unusual x4
I should have wakened up at once
but this was no concern of mine
so I kept on dreaming
My eyes roamed over the burning ruins
In less time than it takes to tell x3
And I felt like
And I felt like being numbed, x2
I felt like mesmerized
The way the morning broke was quite unusual
More than words can say