 Industrial metal reached its commercial zenith in the latter half of the 1990s – according to the RIAA databases , its top @-@ selling artists sold around 17 @.@ 5 million units combined . Records by major industrial metal artists routinely debuted on the top spots of the Billboard 200 chart : Fear Factory 's Obsolete ( No. 1 ) , Rob Zombie 's <unk> Deluxe ( No. 5 ) , Marilyn Manson 's Antichrist Superstar ( No. 3 ) , and Nine Inch Nails ' The Fragile ( No. 1 ) . A number of industrial metal albums performed well on Billboard 's Heatseekers chart : Filter 's Short Bus ( No. 3 ) , <unk> Westward 's Wither Blister Burn + Peel ( No. 1 ) , Rammstein 's <unk> ( No. 2 ) , Orgy 's <unk> ( No. 1 ) , and Static @-@ X 's Wisconsin Death Trip ( No. 1 ) . 
