I started getting into this music a few months ago. I still think I'm more deeply invested in 1980s post-punk, but there's a lot of excellent industrial acts out there, many of which get swept under the rug:
Einsturzende Neubauten
23 Skiddoo
Coil
Swans
Savage Republic
Sun City Girls (more psych-folk than anything else but still crazy)
Massacre
The Legendary Pink Dots
I really recommend John Balance (Coil) and his posthumous album The Ape of Naples. Migrated significantly away from the industrial cacophony of Horse Rotorvator and most of it is ambient electronica but it's very well done at that, his best in a long long time.
EDIT: BAH! I totally forgot about Blixa Bargeld, hands-down my favorite industrial songwriter ever. Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T. is an absolute masterpiece and it's completely accessible. Definitely recommended.
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