For a little while there, industrial music was looking like a goner. Perhaps not physically, but definitely qualitatively. In recent years, however, there’s been a rising wave of new music that’s true to the roots.
Of the various strains of industrial to see a revival, electronic body music has been a redeeming surprise. The metal sect prevailed after the 1990s heyday until the techno-minded set took over the genre’s corpse. But here we are decades later and here comes EBM straight out of history to mount an underground comeback and restore my faith in humanity.
The latest Orlando EBM contender to emerge is Angel Husk. Though the name is new, the shadowy artist behind it is already known in the electronic scene for experimental IDM act H13NA and ambient noise project Chien Maudit. Now, he’s doubled down on industrial with two recent back-to-back Angel Husk releases dropped within a week of each other.
Besides a new stylistic avenue, Angel Husk is also a notable foray into vocals for a historically instrumental artist. “I had been wanting to start a project with vocals that was more influenced by synth-pop and ’80s-’90s industrial and EBM,” he says. The resulting Angel Husk is an uncanny and well-studied exercise in classic EBM. While he cites Front 242 and Skinny Puppy as core influences, it’s the latter that’s imbued the most DNA.
For one, Angel Husk’s singing could easily pass for Nivek Ogre. Moreover, most of both the A Wolf’s Goodbye LP and the Wolf Brigade EP sounds like lost material from Skinny Puppy’s prime era. The EP’s “Sleeper Cell,” for example, could be a B-side to “Worlock,” and the LP’s “Gasoline Coat” could be an outtake from Cleanse Fold and Manipulate.
But overall, Angel Husk has nailed the vintage formula. The tone menaces, the electronic beats stomp, the synth hooks stab and the samples are ample. From the LP, “Bomb” pounds like late Front 242 and “Solipsis” carries echoes of A Split Second, while the EP’s “Hyperstition” chants and kicks like Nitzer Ebb.
As a bountiful introduction to Angel Husk, A Wolf’s Goodbye and especially the Wolf Brigade EP are good, orthodox works of classic pedigree. It’s revivalist industrial music inspired by the immortal touchstones of the canon. Both collections now stream everywhere.
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This article appears in May 27-June 2, 2026.
