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Spencer Sunshine’s essay for The Quietist on the ties between nihilistic counter cultural figures and neo-nazi terrorism is essential but uncomfortable reading. Sunshine's book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege goes into far more detail, and is
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Tapeworm was the great alternative/industrial supergroup that never was. It began in the mid-to-late 1990s as a Nine Inch Nails side project, a place for ideas that didn't quite fit the standard NIN MO, and an opportunity for live members Danny Lohner and Charlie Clouser
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Industrial music has long been a rather masculine genre. But women have always been a part of industrial music. Here are a few who contributed in the early days of the genre's development, before the Wax Trax era, when "industrial" generally meant Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret
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This is an excerpt from my work-in-progress murder mystery novel Good People Do Bad Things. In this scene, the narrator Miles is a journalist interviewing Orion, the former front-man of the defunct 1990s industrial rock band Servitor. The conversation has turned to magic and the occult. -- “Are
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I feel like Alexander Reed’s book on industrial music, Assimilate, explained my whole life to me. Reed writes that industrial music recognizes that “we’re born into a hierarchical network of control systems from which it’s our impossible duty to escape.” That intuition could explain my interest not
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The first two Ministry albums I heard were With Sympathy and Filth Pig. I can’t remember which one I got first, but they sounded completely different not just from each other, but from what I expected Ministry to sound like. I expected something like Skinny Puppy or Nine Inch