Industrial Zen is a studio album recorded by English jazz musician John McLaughlin in 2006.

He collaborated with various musicians for the project, such as vocalist Shankar Mahadevan, saxophonist Bill Evans, and tabla player Zakir Hussain.

After completing Thieves and Poets in 2003, McLaughlin began work on Industrial Zen, which was considered a much "more aggressive and sonically ambitious" album than the former.

[3] He opens the album with "For Jaco", an upbeat track that combines the use of drums and saxophones; "newcomer" drummers Gary Husband and Mark Mondesir performed on the song, which features an electric bass and was described as "energetic" by one reviewer.

[5][6] Track two, "New Blues Old Bruise", features "sampled chorus effects" on its vocals created and a "moody" production that was compared to the works of English rock band Pink Floyd.

[5] A passionate song with "shifting moods", tabla player Zakir Hussain appears alongside Ada Rovatti who plays the saxophone.

[5] The album closes with "Mother Nature", a song with Mahadevan's "keening vocals" and an "electronic revolving ostinato".

John Kelman from All About Jazz called the album a "perfect confluence of [McLaughlin's] divergent interests".

He also thought that the album was proof that despite the criticism for McLaughlin's "occasionally unsuccessful aspirations", he is able to "show that his eyes and ears remain fully open".

[4] David R. Adler, writing for JazzTimes, found McLaughlin to be "in good form" on Industrial Zen.