
“Industrial, like every genre of music, is inhabited by artistic entities that organize into a recognizable strata, a king’s court of tiers or castes.
There are, of course, the monarchs, the godfathers - those alchemists who first threw reason to the wind, distilled disparate ethers, and brought something new into the world, or who at least codified the messy experiments of others and tended it through the years as a shepherd does his flock. These giants have progeny, those who were influenced by the first wave and added to the noise, fleshed out the constructs, gave volume to the movement - each finding their unique corner of the court to occupy, not achieving the raw creation of entirely new sounds but at least divining new iterations of a theme, carrying the genre beyond the scope of their fathers just a bit more, each time.”
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