(Depending how strictly we talk of "industrial", but if its used in wider umbrella that contains also noise, power electronics etc..)
In a way, since I always had absolutely love/hate relationship with "metal", I kind of agree in a way that it feels likely, that if someone says to me there is metalhead making for example... "black noise", I tend to be highly skeptical. There is a idea, what it really is, when metalheads make noise.
I think there was discussion in WCN podcast topic after Jason Crumer episode. Crumer concluded that metalheads ruined the noise. His thesis was that Relapse doing Merzbow stuff turned harsh noise into... predictable garbage? However, when listening vast amount of podcasts of american harsh noiser's it seemed that there was prodominantly hardcore people who made the types of noise Crumer was skeptical of?
Who are noise guys who listen metal, who are metal guys who listen noise. Or same as makers, is another question. I tend to have also slight skepticism towards for example Black Metal made by "noise dudes". As example: I'll take some boneheaded east european BM any time over neatly done distorted raw boutique BM.
But, and that might fairly large but: when you actually know something about makers, suddenly these all mentioned ideas may look strange. I know few nuggets of information about Finnish noise and Finnish metal, and when you look at it in light of examples, could throw few example:
Will Over Matter, long history of metal bands, since 90's. These days most notable Ride For Revenge
Contortus, long history in BM, as visual artists, listener and also vocalist in band
Totenslaut, I was blown away by his recent material that made into CD on FA. It's done by Satanic Warmaster.
KSNK, ABSOLUTE KEY, AMEK-MAJ, MOGAO, GENETIC WOUNDS, TEMPLE OF TIERMES, UL.TH.Nekrolatria, BLUTLEUCHTE, CLOAMA/STROM.EC, VANHALA, AEOGA, ARKTAU EOS, and so on and on... they all have played, or currently do play in (black) metal bands too. If you go into route of not demanding actually playing in a band, but that you just listen and own metal records. You may ask KERÄNEN, MOOZZHEAD,... well, I guess you can pretty much at this point realize where this is going? haha.. So in other words, it may be difficult to find people who would not be into metal, even if they do not consider themselves as "metalheads".
Of course, one could debate that this is reason why Finn noise sucks ass. That is one perspective, but I would think it probably would be so for some other reasons, not that it would sound like Puissance, or you'd automatically know what are the backgrounds of these people. I would guess that you could also make list of guys who have played in hardcore punk bands, and it would be big list of artists too.
If I look around the world, couple names to drop could be AMES SANGLANTES (Akitsa), Niellerade Fallibilisthorstar (Woods of Infinity), Ash Pool (Prurient), and so on... You could check TAINT, ALFARMANIA or TRERIKSRÖSET and wonder if their passion to brutal metal has made their noise better or worse? Hard to estimate!?
So, the hypothesis thrown in opening message, I get it, and I feel similar natural skepticism. I have this odd caution to think, that as soon as there is blend of industrial and metal, it means more likely NIN + Dimmu Borgir, not BDN + Darkthrone. Would latter be better, who knows, but there is very big difference in spirit and easthetics to begin with.
But, when remember that the same reasons I have love/hate relation ship with metal, the things I hate made bad mix with noise - elements I love, they fit 1:1 into noise, without looking or sounding typically metal at all.
