Yay for the industrial!
I was 14 when I 'discovered' Skinny Puppy, right around the time of the Last Rights tour, which was my first concert and blew me away.
As for things I like, older FLA is really good, their more recent work is good as well, but more akin in sound to Delerium than Industrial music.
Things have gotten a bit stale, yeah, and I think there could be a couple of reasons for that. One, the popularity of NIN, and two, the now defunct WaxTrax Records kind of got trapped in a sort of self-parody after a while. Still, there are always people making interesting music. Android Lust, I, Parasite and others have all put out really amazing, inventive records lately.
There are some really great sub-genre stuffs too. Powernoise bands like Converter, Antigen Shift, Iszoloscope and Mimetic do some strange, sometimes wonderful, sometimes almost unlistenable things.
EBM is strange, and I often don't get the categorization of some of these bands because they often have completely different sounds. Haujobb does not sound like, have the same structures or even remote sensibilities as say, Die Krupps. Besides, EBM as a whole, borrows more from synth and futurepop at the moment than bands like Front 242 or the new beat artists. Harsh EBM is good as well. Bands like Unter Null, Flesh Field and Stromkern tend to always be interesting.
What do people think about Coldwave? Bands like Christ Analogue, Chemlab, Cyanotic, Clay People or Hate Dept.?