riddlepoison - not within a long shot! Glorious Din were not a very seminal band within Joy Division circles. Whereas this is not a very seminal artist within the synth pop and club music (Soft Cell, etc.), at the time. Therefore, if anything, the kind of dark and gloomy post-punk that Glorious Din (ala Joy Division) and this kind of ilk, are worlds apart from each other, by a long stretch. Whatever remains to be anything in common between the two, is not only of course subjective, but also relatively minor and trivial.
