In general, noise and industrial artists often explore the darker side of humanity in order to bring understanding to that side of modern life. “Devour” can be understood as a pathological form of consumption, that, taken to extremes can be destructive to individuals and those around them. It’s like when Skinny Puppy has a video with seeming animal cruelty, it’s a statement against experimenting on animals or a video about the Iran Iraq war… or when Laibach wears military uniforms and does martial sounding covers of pop songs, they are implicitly drawing connections between authoritarianism and the role pop music plays in creating a more compliant population…
Not for everyone, obviously, but industrial music has always rested at the nexus between the extreme end of the performance art movement and punk rock. They often trade in extreme imagery in order to get their audience to think a bit deeper about the extremes that capitalism can bring about.
