IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1980S AND BEYOND, INDUSTRIAL MUSIC’S STORY IS less about devising an ultramodern war against authority itself and instead about how that long-planned campaign took shape once it spread to people who might have wanted something other than revolution. Having looked up close at industrial music’s politics, warts and all, we can now step back into the timeline with a better understanding of the relationship between radical music, those whom it seeks to liberate, and those whom it overlooks.