the curious who wish to explore this further should be aware that this sounds very similar to early 80s skinny puppy, as heard on records like remission and bites. similarities to newer types of music may exist on various levels, but the similarity to early puppy on this track is total to the point of it being uncanny.
nitzer ebb is also a good place to look
deathtokoalas
not for prurient. nitzer ebb was a kind of dark synth pop, somewhere halfway between depeche mode and inxs.
NempholyErrormoa
technically it was EBM and technically this is EBM too. SP was more intentionally industrial.
deathtokoalas
see, i don't agree with any of that. nitzer ebb wasn't really "industrial music" in any meaningful sense, it just got kind of caught up in it. whether you want to talk about depeche mode or gary numan or even nine inch nails or whatever else, it's more in that category.
puppy did come out of that, but they never existed within it. it was a total rejection of the pop aesthetic; very much anti-music. even the earliest material made very explicit attempts to reject any concept of pop.
i don't hear the slightest bit of nitzer ebb in prurient, not even on this record - which is a lot more conventional than his other material. conversely,the puppy influence is just overwhelming, and clearly quite purposeful. but, i'd lean more towards something like coil or maybe even black flag for further influences, which reach into darker territory rather than pop territory.
ebm is a term that developed in the 90s as a counterweight to idm and is only revisionistly applied to puppy from the 80s.
