At the same time, I also think there's some foggy middle-ground between the two.
Oh, definitely agreed, and one provides the structural framework for the other to thrive.
The goth and industrial scenes here are pretty inseparable, but there's no far-right element. If I had to categorize the unfortunate politics, I'd say that it skews libertarian a bit, but that's because most of the people in the scene seem to work in IT. Well, and a lot have the bullied loner thing going on. Most of the goth/industrial people I know are lefties, but that's a factor of me picking friends more on politics than on music.
There's such a huge variety of industrial music that it barely qualifies as a genre, IMO. I prefer the avant-garde noise stuff over EBM (the one glaring exception being VNV Nation), which also tends to be the most political.
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Date: 2013-12-17 12:43 am (UTC)Oh, definitely agreed, and one provides the structural framework for the other to thrive.
The goth and industrial scenes here are pretty inseparable, but there's no far-right element. If I had to categorize the unfortunate politics, I'd say that it skews libertarian a bit, but that's because most of the people in the scene seem to work in IT. Well, and a lot have the bullied loner thing going on. Most of the goth/industrial people I know are lefties, but that's a factor of me picking friends more on politics than on music.
There's such a huge variety of industrial music that it barely qualifies as a genre, IMO. I prefer the avant-garde noise stuff over EBM (the one glaring exception being VNV Nation), which also tends to be the most political.