After a decade and a half of putting up with being a countercultural punchline, industrial music's found itself unexpectedly back in fashion in 2013, thanks not only to the legions of Tumblr users exploring and reviving a quintessentially 90s brand of goth-industrial identity but because of its obvious influence on what could very easily go down as the most influential album of the year. As a longtime fan of people howling over combative drum machines and short-circuiting electronic noise, I heartily applaud this turn of events.…
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