Today We Are All Demons

Aggrotech is a harsh, club-focused offshoot of electro-industrial and EBM characterized by distorted vocals, pounding four-on-the-floor beats, and dark, dystopian themes. Typical tempos sit around 130–150 BPM, with aggressive kick drums, sidechained bass, and sawtooth or FM leads that cut through dense mixes. Production favors saturation, bitcrushing, and heavy compression, yielding a gritty, confrontational sheen. Vocals are commonly shouted or snarled and then processed with distortion, formant shifting, and delay, matching lyrical topics such as cyberpunk paranoia, violence, body horror, and societal collapse. While intensely percussive and minimal in harmony, the genre often borrows trance-like builds and anthemic hooks to maximize dancefloor impact. Visually and culturally, aggrotech is tied to the European goth/industrial club circuit, with militaristic, cyber-goth, and apocalyptic aesthetics appearing in stagewear, artwork, and live presentation.

Electro is an early 1980s machine-funk style built around drum machines (especially the Roland TR-808), sequenced basslines, and a futuristic, robotic aesthetic. It emphasizes syncopated rhythms, sparse arrangements, and timbres drawn from analog and early digital synthesizers. Vocals, when present, are often delivered via vocoder or rap-style chants, reinforcing a sci‑fi, cyborg persona. Electro’s grooves powered breakdance culture, and its sonic palette—crisp 808 kicks, snappy snares, dry claps, cowbells, and squelchy bass—became foundational to later techno and bass music.

Rock is a broad family of popular music centered on amplified instruments, a strong backbeat, and song forms that foreground riffs, choruses, and anthemic hooks. Emerging from mid‑20th‑century American styles like rhythm & blues, country, and gospel-inflected rock and roll, rock quickly expanded in scope—absorbing folk, blues, and psychedelic ideas—while shaping global youth culture. Core sonic markers include electric guitar (often overdriven), electric bass, drum kit emphasizing beats 2 and 4, and emotive lead vocals. Rock songs commonly use verse–chorus structures, blues-derived harmony, and memorable melodic motifs, ranging from intimate ballads to high‑energy, stadium‑sized performances.

Electronic is a broad umbrella genre defined by the primary use of electronically generated or electronically processed sound. It encompasses music made with synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, computers, and studio/tape techniques, as well as electroacoustic manipulation of recorded or synthetic sources. The genre ranges from academic and experimental traditions to popular and dance-oriented forms. While its sonic palette is rooted in electricity and circuitry, its aesthetics span minimal and textural explorations, structured song forms, and beat-driven club permutations. Electronic emphasizes sound design, timbre, and studio-as-instrument practices as much as melody and harmony.