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Originally Posted by Unrelenting
Industrial is kind of a strange genre.It's been turned into an umbrella term with genres that aren't really industrial: like EBM, and acts like Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails. Any group that uses a laptop with fat saw synthesizers and computerized drums can be called industrial nowadays. A friend of mine said Tom Waits is closer to industrial than a lot of groups that get called it now.
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I would say your friend is right. It's one of the most mis-used genre names out there. The weirdest thing is that most of the characteristics that people mistakenly associate with industrial (like the ones you described above) have nothing to do with what true industrial sounds like.