If anyone can listen to Pretty Hate Machine followed by A Deeper Kind of Slumber and still deny a direct influence, you need to get some prescription Q-tips, the kind that bore holes.
Anyhow fuck off, I'm so tired of people coming into threads of bands they hate and spouting off multiple times about it. You don't like it? Good, either piss off or say "they suck" and be done with it. I swear, if I posted my feelings on 98% of the shit discussed on this forum my postcount would be triple.