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| stylistic_origins = {{hlist|[[Industrial music|Industrial]]<ref name="Kilpatrick">[[Nancy Kilpatrick]]. ''The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined''. New York: [[St. Martin's Press|St. Martin's Griffin]], 2004, {{ISBN|0-312-30696-2}}.</ref>|[[synth-punk]]<ref name=hillveld>Hillegonda C Rietveld (1998) ''This Is Our House: House Music, Cultural Spaces and Technologies'' Aldershot: Ashgate. {{ISBN|978-1-85742-242-9}}</ref>|[[post-punk]]<ref>Keunen, Gert (2002). ''Pop!: een halve eeuw beweging''. Lannoo Uitgeverij, {{ISBN|9789020948714}}, p.&nbsp;206. Quote: "[W]as de zogenaamde electronic body music, een Belgische postpunkvariant[.]"</ref>|[[synth-pop]]<ref name=Fact>{{cite web |last1=B |first1=Daniel |title=A Beginner's Guide to EBM |url=https://www.factmag.com/2012/05/24/a-beginners-guide-to-ebm/amp/ |website=FACT |date=24 May 2012 |access-date=11 May 2019}}</ref> |[[krautrock]]<ref name="Adelt181" />|[[Krautrock#Kosmische Musik|Berlin school]]<ref name=Fact />|[[electro- (music)|electro]]|[[disco]]<ref name="Bloomsbury">{{cite book |last1=Horn|first1=David |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=9781501326103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKc0DwAAQBAJ}}</ref>|[[electronic dance music]]<ref name="SeanAlbiez" />}}

'''Electronic body music''' ('''EBM''') is a genre of [[electronic music]] that combines elements of [[industrial music]] and [[synth-punk]] with elements of [[dance music]]. It developed in the early 1980s in [[Western Europe]], as an outgrowth of both the [[Punk rock|punk]] and the [[industrial music]] cultures.<ref>Eva Fischer: ''Audio-visuelle Tendenzen. Entwicklungen in der Visualisierung elektronischer Musik und in der Clubkultur.'' Universität Wien, 2009, p.&nbsp;18.</ref> It combines sequenced repetitive basslines, programmed [[dance music]] rhythms, and mostly undistorted vocals and [[Military order (instruction)|command-like]] shouts with confrontational or provocative themes.<ref name="SeanAlbiez">{{cite book |author-last=Albiez|author-first=Sean |chapter=Electronic Body Music |editor-last1=Horn|editor-first1=David |editor-last2=Shepherd|editor-first2=John |editor-last3=Prato|editor-first3=Paolo |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=9781501326103 |pages=222–223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKc0DwAAQBAJ}}</ref>

In the late 1990s and after the millennium, Belgian, Swedish and German artists such as [[Ionic Vision]], [[Tyske Ludder]], and [[Spetsnaz (band)|Spetsnaz]]<ref name="SeanAlbiez" /> had reactivated the style. Based on this revival, Sweden and East Germany then became the centre of the movement<ref>{{cite book |author-last=Shuker|author-first=Roy |chapter=Gothic Rock |editor-last1=Horn|editor-first1=David |editor-last2=Shepherd|editor-first2=John |editor-last3=Prato|editor-first3=Paolo |title=Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11 |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=9781501326103 |pages=341 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKc0DwAAQBAJ}}</ref> spawning a variety of newcomers such as [[Dupont (band)|Dupont]], Proceed, and Sequenz-E. Primarily as a counteracting force against the expanding [[futurepop]] scene,<ref name="Vorndran">Daniela Vorndran: [https://www.reflectionsofdarkness.com/artists-p-t-bandinfo-61/848-spetsnaz Spetsnaz], ''Reflections of Darkness: A Dark Music webzine'', 6 March 2006.</ref> these artists followed a neo-traditionalistic path, often referred to as "old school EBM".<ref name="Kaul" />