Electro-industrial (also called electro (German Elektro (not to be confused with the sub-genre of dance music)) is a musical genre that arose in the 1980s mainly in Canada and the Benelux countries as a result of the mutual influence of EBM and other post-industrial genres and developed in the late 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. In addition to the directness of the musical structures inherited from EBM, and the methods of constructing compositions taken from classical industrial, electro-industrial is characterized by the presence of deep, multi-layered and false sound. The pioneers in this genre are considered to be the Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly groups. In the 1990s, the directions of the dark electro and agrotec branched off from the genre. The fan base of this genre is tightly connected with the cyber-ready subculture.
