Quote from: RyanWreck on January 11, 2012, 09:00:59 PM
most of you were brought into Industrial/Noise/PE through Metal.
This is something I've always found interesting. Although I was Metal in the Eighties and punk in the Nineties I didn't actually get into Noise/PE/etc. through those genres but came to it more independently, and at first I didn't make any real link. Yet, there is some kind of crossover, at least in terms of intensity and intent. I'd be more interested in knowing if and how people see a connection.
I'd think the more obvious connection would be between punk and Industrial. Both have similar roots - one thinks of SPK and Einstürzende Neubauten. But that was a couple of generations ago. When I interviewed a few people involved in Noise/PE I found it very common for them to have a background in hardcore/grindcore/Metal before coming to Noise, due to what they perceived as a similarity in feeling. I'd assume that would be the case for many others.
As far as favourites are concerned - Venom's albums up to Possessed, Voi Void's first three albums, Metallica's Ride The Lightning and Master Of Puppets, Warfare, Kreator, Destruction, Sodom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Motorhead from the old school. Immortal, Emperor, Limbonic Art from the first wave of BM. Blut Aus Nord, Deathspell Omega, Leviathan, Xasthur from the more recent waves of BM.
(PS - Motorhead are an interesting proposition. It's been written before, and I agree, that they don't so much make good albums as good songs. It's not easy to put down which is one of their better albums for that reason although Ace Of Spades and Inferno are definitely impossible to ignore. Regardless, they wear the crown - even if they don't actually identify as a Metal band. I suppose when you're Motorhead you can do what the fuck you want).