The Essential Rivethead Dictionary

[The Essential Rivethead Dictionary]

Anger: The only true rivethead emotion

Army Surplus: The best place to go clothes shopping

Black: The only good colour

Boots: Heavy things you wear on your feet with trousers tucked in; used for kicking or stomping and intimidating the "normal" people

Computer supplies: Rivethead jewellery/accessories

Dance music: The sound of a washing machine blended with the noise of an old steam train going full throttle

Dancing: Stomping

DIY supplies: Rivethead jewellery

EBM: Synthpop trying to pass itself off as industrial

Elitism: The state of thinking that Nine Inch Nails are sellouts and therefore shit

God: Genesis P Orridge

Goggles: Protective eye shields worn to stop you being blinded by: daylight; bright colours; ravers' neon hair; other rivetheads getting a little over enthusiastic whilst dancing

Goths: Whiny people who really want to be rivetheads but have too much emotion

Hippies: Inferior life forms

IDM/Intelligent Dance Music: Music that can't actually be danced to unless you're a robot. Sometimes enjoyed by some rivetheads.

Industrial: The only good form of music; is characterised by noise, distorted vocals and the absence of a decent tune

Industrial rock: Music claiming to be industrial but is actually industrial that has been adopted by mainstream artists and corrupted by the addition of conventional instruments (such as guitars) and a tune, thus generally making it crap and not industrial

Industrial metal: Ministry (possibly...)

Music: Noise

Noise: Music

Powernoise: Noise by a different name

Rave: Skinny Puppy's producer

Ravers: Inferior life forms

Rivethead: Member of the subculture created around a shared interest in industrial music; individuals have a tendency towards being angry, wearing boots and existing in a permanant state of elitism.

Scrapyard: A good place to find musical instruments and/or furniture

Stomp: The action of raising and lowering one's foot, especially on the heads of ravers and hippies with industrial music playing in the background.

Stomping: Dancing

Sunglasses: See "goggles"

Trenchcoat: A long coat worn to make you look really cool

Washing machine: a good musical instrument

[Other terms that you might be confused about]

Guitar: A musical instrument, played by moving the fingers over the strings to produce sound

Mainstream: Easily accessible, popular and enjoyed by millions of people. May refer to music, films, TV, clothing fashions, etc

Neon: Bright colours e.g. barbie pink, flourescent yellow, bright blue or green

Pastels: pretty pale colours e.g. pale pink, powder blue, mint green

Pop music: happy, chirpy music with melody and lyrics about love and cute things like bunnies and puppies (not skinny ones); pop stars have been known to sell millions of copies of their CDs

Shoes: Like boots, but smaller and not so good for stomping with

Tune: the catchy part of pop music that gets stuck in your head after you hear it and eventually drives you insane

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