Nitzer Ebb - Family Man

What this video is

Released in September 1991 as a single from Nitzer Ebb's fourth studio album Ebbhead — co-produced by Depeche Mode's Alan Wilder and Flood on Mute/Geffen Records — 'Family Man' arrived at a transitional inflection point for EBM. The genre, which Nitzer Ebb had helped codify from Chelmsford, Essex since 1982, was beginning its mainstream crossover dissolution; Front 242's Tyranny For You (also 1991) is widely…

Why it matters

As a primary co-founder of British EBM alongside Front 242 and DAF, Nitzer Ebb's visual output is essential primary documentation of the genre's aesthetic vocabulary — militaristic physicality, aggressive kinetic editing, and dark industrial staging. 'Family Man' captures the genre at its…

The director

English musician and video director (b. UK). Recorded as A.C. Marias — a Wire-affiliated project on Mute Records — throughout the 1980s, collaborating with Wire members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis. Conway dissolved A.C. Marias around 1990 and transitioned…