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Originally Posted by Above
I used to work for an Industrial music magazine. Real industrial is truly dead now.
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Are you saying you killed it by working at the magazine?
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Originally Posted by Above
That said, Chemlab, Skinny Puppy and 16 Volt will always be great to me. Also, I think you can call "Industrial Rock" music just Industrial without mislabeling it, as it has the fucking name in it.
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To be honest, I like that stuff more than true industrial and always have. But I don't buy the argument about naming the style. It would be inaccurate to call rap metal simply "rap" because, well, rap and rap metal are two very different things, even though one was an influence on the other. Another example is baroque pop. Nobody calls the Beatles "baroque music". Why? Because they didn't play the same type of music as Bach even though they were certainly influenced by that style. Same with industrial rock. As I said before though, the really puzzling thing is how, starting in the 90s, "industrial" came to be used to describe so many bands that don't even seem particularly
influenced by actual industrial music.