My first recorded group was a band called Fahrenheit 451. I still do things with a few of the members from that group from time to time, tribute albums and things, and Cleopatara has been kind enough to re-issus some of the songs we did back then on compilations and stuff. After that, I was in Executive Slacks, they're no longer together. For a lot of people, it's kind of a natural progression. I can't say it's everybody, because I can't speak for everybody, but it seems to be a lot of people do get into goth first and then go into industrial when it gets tired.
Some people hang with both at the same time.
I was in a goth group that had keyboards, synthesizers and a stand-up percussion player, so we weren't an ordianry goth group although we sounded like one. I joined that group in 1987, so I kind of just fell into it. I didnt' know too much about industrial music at the time and here were these guys who had no bass player, a stand-up drummer, a guitar player and a keyboard player, who programmed all the bass and played samples and whatnot live. So I kind of just fell into industrial music, it wasn't a conscious effort on my end. I guess the connection is that they both deal in dark sounds, for the lack of a better term, so the transition isn't that big of a transititon.