I firmly believe that it is not question of sound of aesthetic, but feeling or firm belief that what is being done, matters.
To elaborate little, if you have now guy who spends X amount of money to buy gear that is known to be noise gear. He creates pretty decent replication within genre confinements. It gets loaded to bandcamp, gets few listens. Maybe even physical release, some copies are sold. Even if being satisfied with achievement of creating decent noise, is there presence of almost revolutionary spirit, awareness that what you do matters. Perhaps beyond mere personal enjoyment. And that it is absolutely positive anomaly among generic human interaction/communication?
Revival can mean several things. When you talk about "punk revival", it may be literal definition of revival: an instance of something becoming popular, active, or important again. This can be applied for so trite things like cycle of trend has reached point where playing guitar is cool again.
Other meanings of revival, could be a restoration to life or consciousness, an improvement in the condition, strength. I would say that is what industrial-noise would benefit of. That artists feels what he does matters, plus because it matters, clearly effects his life and decision in a way that "noise" ain't just hobby, but in many ways integrally part of life itself. Which tends to be also by consequence something else than what is the common lifestyle in current society.
How that expression sounds or looks like, is less relevant. Both noise and industrial culture included so vastly different approaches and sounds many didn't even really recognize or feel being part of any "genre" or "movement", even if they clearly appear to be.
I personally feel that there IS and has been going on revival. I feel there is plenty of artists who create works that are really integral to who they are, and how they live, what they try to express. I see it no lesser than visions or creativity of SPK, TG, Merzbow or NON or whatever. They just exists in different time. Those artists would be really good to somehow recognized. So back to trivial "revival", an instance of something becoming popular, active, or important again, let's say like music press would recognize a new name. When experimental sound is recognized, of course it is absolutely great if Masami or Vainio gets press coverage, but what if there would be even one actual music or culture magazine who'd recognize not those obvious veterans but ... lets use Finnish example as I happen to live here, instead memorial of Mika Vainio*, there would be someone writing about Junkyard Shaman! Or Nuori Veri! Or... well I guess you get the point. The fact that many may be asking why in the fuck would music or art magazine need to acknowledge something like that, simply tells how things are. Revival of best things in "industrial culture" is unrecognized, even within noise scene itself. I dare to say. I keep my thumbs up ability to recognize such things will improve.
(*or piece about Lehtisalo, Läjä or Keuhkot, which all are BRILLIANT and always delight to read, but shows how most visible documentation is dragging like decades behind, while creativity is happening NOW)
