Genesis P-Orridge, founding member of cult experimental bands Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, has died, Alternative Press reports. With Throbbing Gristle, Genesis helped pioneer the genre of industrial music. In later life, they became a "body evolutionist", proposing a new gender that was beyond male and female. Boing Boing made an interview with the musician - he talked about dying. Alexis Petridis wrote a lovely obituary describing the musician as a "troubling catalyst who loathed rock yet changed it for ever" by inventing industrial music.

Psychic TV and Coil were vanguard bands that blended ritual magick and creative method. But even their esoteric beliefs bore scant resemblance. This is a split that runs deep - PopMatters analyses the aesthetics and attitudes towards the audience of these two experimental bands.