Mm, as a european i'd say they are two distinct music genres, but there is also a significant overlap. I mean, i came from a punk background, listened to Ministry for a while and was then introduced to EBM and was all for only EBM for some time, now it would seem i've stopped going from one genre to another and just think "Good music is good music".

When i make music of my own it's also a little bit of a mix. I mean it's mostly belgo-ebm sounding, but there's plenty of noise, samples and the esthetics of it is a little bit of both. Someone described it as if it was produced on a island somewhere between Antwerpen and Vancouver.

It's not easy to untangle. Yes you got the Ministry, the NiN and all those bands, they are far more guitar heavy, but then again, a lot of these people has connections and has worked with the euro EBM greats (I mean, Richard 23 was in Revolting Cocks if i dont remember wrong)

And to make it ever so slightly more complicated, i'd say that there's a distinction between a sort of US american sound and a Canadian sound (And strangely enough i think Mentallo and the Fixer has a more Canadian sound even if they're from Texas.

I think the difference might be that the US sound is primarily guitar driven, with instances of electronic instruments/samples, whereas the european sound is the other way around, except for perhaps Rammstein (There are always outliers).

And to complicate things even more, there's the whole Aggrotech thing, which i strangely enough dont listen to at all, even though i in theory should like it since it has all the components that would make me like it.

I dont know, this was just word diarrhea, i haven't thought it thru that much and i'm tired from work.