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Okay, so more about my "finding goth" period.
I had watched The Crow as a child and pretty much thought that the whole scene didn't extend beyond the soundtrack, which by the way, doesn't have so much "goth" music as just really good music across different genres.
When I say "goth" music, I mean anything involving death rock, dark wave, some new wave, and industrial. Industrial has defining lines, but those lines are different depending on who you're talking to. I know some people who are absolute purists about industrial and insist that "true" industrial is done with actual industrial/improvised instruments with only a little synthesis. Others say that any dark-themed music with synthesizers can be considered industrial, like KMFDM or Ministry.
I personally consider Nine Inch Nails to still be industrial, even though it's very heavy on instrumental. I like the instrumental quality of NIN, but I've heard a lot more "industrial-sounding" music over the years, and many of my peers disagree that it is industrial at all.
On the topic of "what is industrial music?," I know a few people who are really into the cybergoth scene. They count aggrotech (a form of EDM) as industrial music. I personally like aggrotech a lot. Projects like VNV Nation, System Syn, and Suicide Commando are awesome, and even I can consider aggrotech to be industrial. There are others who will disagree with this notion, for sure.
I detest elitism. For a while, I had this idea that if I found a goth scene, I would be free of petty behavior. It exists in the goth scene as prominently as any other, but I've seen more elitism among goths than any other social construct. Not a day goes by where I don't read about who's a poser for listening to what music. Crap like, "That girl thinks she's a goth because she listens to Combichrist. What a poser," permeates so many forums. I say let people listen to what they want. When I hear "There's no accounting for taste," I usually hear it as a negative, but it's neither positive nor negative. It just is. There's no accounting for taste. Deal with it. But I ramble. Here's more music.
