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Industrial metal
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal groups include Ministry, Godflesh, KMFDM, and Fear Factory. The "one-man-band" Nine...
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Marilyn Manson
Marilyn Manson is an American rock band founded by Brian Warner and Scott Putesky in the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The band advocates nonconformism and iconoclasm, often utilizing controversial imagery and lyrical content. It is difficult to...
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- 1990
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Rammstein
Rammstein (German pronunciation: [ˈʀamʃtaɪ̯n]) is a German rock band from Berlin, formed in 1994. The band consists of members Till Lindemann (lead vocals), Richard Z. Kruspe (lead guitar and backing vocals), Paul H. Landers (rhythm guitar, backing...
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- Jan 1994
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Korn
Korn (often typeset as KoRn, sometimes with a reversed R) is an American metal band from Bakersfield, California, which formed in 1993. The band's catalogue consists of nine consecutive debuts in the top ten of the Billboard 200. To date, Korn has...
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- 1993
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock band, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely...
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- 1989
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Pitchshifter
Pitchshifter are a British metal band from Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Originally known as Pitch Shifter, the band was started by Johnny A. Carter (lead guitar/programming) and Mark Clayden (bass/vocals), with Stuart Toolin (rhythm guitar) and JS...
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- 1989
Atari Teenage Riot
Atari Teenage Riot (abbreviated ATR) was a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fused anarchist, anti-fascist and anti-Nazi views with punk vocals and the newly emerging techno sound called digital hardcore,...
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- Jan 1992
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2000
Trent Reznor
Michael Trent Reznor (born May 17, 1965) is an American songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Founder of the industrial rock musical project known as Nine Inch Nails, he was previously associated with the bands Option 30, Exotic Birds,...
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- May 17, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Prong
Prong is an American heavy metal band formed in 1986. Prong had two independent releases, Primitive Origins and Force Fed. The albums attracted the attention of Epic Records, who signed the trio in 1989. The group disbanded in 1997 after the Rude...
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- 1986
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Static-X
Static-X is an American metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994. They are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released six albums, their most recent being Cult of Static, which was released on March 17, 2009.
The band rose to...
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- 1994
Danzig
Danzig is an American heavy metal band, formed in 1987 in Lodi, New Jersey. The band serves as a musical outlet for singer/composer Glenn Danzig. Danzig can be seen as the third stage in Glenn Danzig's musical career, preceded by the horror punk...
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- 1987
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Glenn Danzig
Glenn Danzig (born Glenn Allen Anzalone on June 23, 1955) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and entrepreneur, and a progenitor of the horror punk subgenre of music. He is the founder of bands the Misfits, Samhain, and Danzig. He also owns...
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- Jun 23, 1955 (age 54 years)
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Powerman 5000
Powerman 5000 (sometimes abbreviated to PM5K) is a Boston-based rock band formed in 1991. Through the span of nearly two decades, the group has released several albums and gained their highest commercial success with 1999's science fiction themed...
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- 1989
Filter
Filter is an alternative rock group formed in 1993 in Cleveland, Ohio by Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang.
Their first album, Short Bus, was released in 1995. The album was commercially successful, and included the hit single...
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- 1993
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Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward was an American industrial rock and alternative rock band. They formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois and began recording in the 1990s.
Christopher Hall and Walter Flakus formed the band Stabbing Westward when they were in college....
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- 1985
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- Feb 9, 2002
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Coal Chamber
Coal Chamber was an American nu metal band from Los Angeles, California. The band formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2003. Former vocalist Dez Fafara and guitarist Meegs Rascon started She's In Pain in 1992. The two decided to create Coal Chamber in...
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- 1995
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- 2003
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Fields of the Nephilim
Fields of the Nephilim are a semi-active English gothic rock/gothic metal band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Whisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright...
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- 1984
Orgy
Orgy is a synth rock band from Bakersfield, California. Orgy describes their music as "death pop".
Orgy was formed in 1996 by vocalist Jay Gordon and guitarist Ryan Shuck, once of Jonathan Davis' original band Sexart, assisting in their eventual...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1994
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a...
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- Oct 31, 1990
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Carl McCoy
Carl Douglas McCoy (born 18 January 1963, Lambeth, London, England) is the frontman for gothic rock band Fields of the Nephilim.
The group formed in the early 1984 and released its first album Dawnrazor, in 1987 following a pair of EPs. The group...
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- Jan 18, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Ministry
Ministry was an American industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. Originally a synthpop outfit, Ministry changed its style to industrial metal in the late 1980s. Ministry found mainstream success in the early 1990s with its...
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- 1981
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Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly (abbreviated FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed...
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- 1986
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Troll
Troll is a Norwegian black metal band. It was founded in 1992, when 14-year-old Stian Arnesen aka "Nagash" started writing music with Glaurung and Fafnir. When Glaurung and Fafnir left the project, Nagash continued Troll as a solo project and...
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- 1992
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Dir en grey
Dir en grey (ディル・アン・グレイ, Diru An Gurei) is a Japanese band formed in 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. As of 2008, they have recorded seven full-length records and while the group's lineup has remained...
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- Feb 1997
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Knorkator
Knorkator was a German band from Berlin that combined heavy metal with comical elements. They proclaimed themselves to be "Germany's most band in the world" (German: "Deutschlands meiste Band der Welt"), as the title "The best band in the world" was...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1994
Tanzwut
Tanzwut (German pronunciation: [ˈtantsvuːt]) is a German Neue Deutsche Härte and medieval metal band composed of members from the folk band Corvus Corax.
Their name is the German term for "dancing mania", but is directly translated with "dance-rage"...
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- 1996
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Wayne Static
Wayne Static (born Wayne Richard Wells, November 4, 1965 in Muskegon, Michigan, USA) is an American musician, and the lead vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and programmer for the industrial metal band Static-X.
Static grew up in Shelby, Michigan...
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- Nov 4, 1965 (age 44 years)
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KMFDM
KMFDM is a German industrial rock band led by founding member Sascha Konietzko. They have sold over 2 million records worldwide.
KMFDM was founded in Germany on February 29, 1984 as a joint effort between Konietzko and German painter/multi-media...
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- 1984
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Revolting Cocks
Revolting Cocks, also known as RevCo, is an American Belgian industrial rock band that began as a musical side-project for Richard 23 of Front 242, Luc Van Acker, and Al Jourgensen of Ministry.
The group was founded by Richard 23 and Luc Van Acker...
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- 1985
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Killing Joke
Killing Joke are an English post-punk rock band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England. (Several sources state that they formed in early 1979.) Founding members Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards) and Geordie Walker (guitars) have been...
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- 1979
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Andrew W.K.
Andrew W.K. (born Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier) (May 9, 1979) is an entertainer and rock musician from the United States.
Andrew W.K. was born in Stanford, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At age 4, he began learning classical piano...
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- May 9, 1979
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- May 9, 1979
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OSI
OSI is an American progressive experimental supergroup formed by Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos in 2003. The name refers to the short-lived US government agency Office of Strategic Influence which was established shortly after 9/11 to...
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- 2003
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Devin Townsend
Devin Garret Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2006 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist...
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- May 5, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Mindless Self Indulgence
Mindless Self Indulgence (commonly referred to as MSI or as Mindless) is an American band formed in New York in 1997. Their music has a mixed style including punk rock, electronica, hip-hop, and industrial. Their name comes from the CD Mindless Self...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Jonathan Davis
Jonathan Houseman Davis (born January 18, 1971) is the lead vocalist and frontman for the Nu Metal band Korn. As well as being Korn's lead singer, he has also recorded and played drums, guitar, and bagpipes in many of Korn's albums. Davis was ranked...
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- Jan 18, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Die Form
Die Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977-78. The name 'Die Form' means '(the) form/shape' in German, like the Bauhaus diary and is a play on the English homonym 'deformed' and on the French homonym 'difforme' (without...
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- 1977
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Samael
Samael is a heavy metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland.
Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are an early 2nd Wave black...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Apr 1987
Theatre of Tragedy
Theatre of Tragedy is a Norwegian band from Stavanger, originally assembled in 1992 and best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre. The band made use of contrasting vocals - male bass...
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- 1993
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Jeordie White
Jeordie Osbourne White (born June 20, 1971), formerly known by his pseudonym Twiggy Ramirez (derived from Twiggy, a fashion icon, and Richard Ramirez, a convicted serial killer) now known simply as Twiggy, is an American musician and currently a...
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- Jun 20, 1971 (age 38 years)
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Econoline Crush
Econoline Crush is a band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada formed in 1992. Originally formed in Seattle, they eventually moved back to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They have released four studio albums and have had notable singles like ...
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- 2003
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The Mad Capsule Markets
The Mad Capsule Markets (originally known as The Mad Capsule Market's) were a Japanese band that formed in 1990 and were active until 2006. The band became known for their experimental style of music, which focused on the fusion of electronic music...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1985
Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1995. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, Heavy as a Really...
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- 1995
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Godflesh
Godflesh is an English industrial metal band from Birmingham, England. They formed in 1988 by Justin K. Broadrick (guitar, vocals, and programming) and G. C. Green (bass) and disbanded in 2002. Godflesh's innovative music is widely regarded as a...
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- 1988
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- 2002
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Kevin Moore
Chroma Key is the name under which ex-Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore records. Although primarily a solo project, several other musicians have recorded as part of Chroma Key such as bassist Joey Vera, drummer Mark Zonder, and guitarist Jason...
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- May 26, 1967 (age 42 years)
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L'Âme Immortelle
L' Âme Immortelle (French: the immortal soul) is an Austrian band. Many of L'Âme Immortelle's songs feature melancholy or lovelorn lyrics in German or English, and juxtaposed harsh male and emotional female vocals. Current work has moved away from...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1996
Faster Pussycat
Faster Pussycat is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1986.
The group was most successful during the late 1980s with their self-titled debut album and their 1989 gold album Wake Me When It's Over.
Faster Pussycat was...
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Frank Klepacki
Frank Klepacki (born May 25, 1974) is an American musician, video game music composer and sound director best known for his work on the Command & Conquer series. Having learned to play drums as a child, he joined Westwood Studios as a composer when...
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- May 25, 1974 (age 35 years)
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The Kovenant
The Kovenant is a Norwegian band from Halden which has evolved from black metal to an industrial metal sound on more recent albums. The band originally formed as Covenant in 1992, but were forced to change their name to The Kovenant due to a dispute...
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- 1993
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Subway to Sally
Subway to Sally was founded in Potsdam, Germany, in the early 1990s. It is a rock band with clear folk and medieval influences, later also with gothic and metal elements added to the mix. With their continuous inclusion of oriental sounds and...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Richard Kruspe-Bernstein
Richard Zven Kruspe (born 24 June 1967) is a German musician and the lead guitarist of the German rock band Rammstein, as well as the leader of the band Emigrate. He also used to be named "Bernstein", after his South African ex-wife Caron Bernstein....
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- Jun 24, 1967 (age 42 years)
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Till Lindemann
Till Lindemann (born 4 January 1963) is a German musician and poet who is the frontman and lead vocalist for the German rock band Rammstein.
Lindemann was born in Leipzig, East Germany, but he grew up in the village of Wendisch-Rambow near Schwerin ...
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- Jan 4, 1963 (age 47 years)
Emigrate
Emigrate is a rock band based in New York, led by Richard Z. Kruspe, the lead guitarist of the German band Rammstein.
Kruspe started the band in 2005, when Rammstein decided to take a year off from touring and recording. In many interviews, Kruspe...
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Mnemic
Mnemic (pronounced /ˈniːmɨk/) (also typed as MNE|\ )IC) is a Danish industrial metal band, formed in Aalborg, Denmark in 1998. Their music has been described as a fusion between metalcore, melodic death metal, industrial metal and progressive metal,...
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Clawfinger
Clawfinger is a rap metal band from Sweden and was one of the earliest bands to adopt this sound. Clawfinger is known for aggressive but melodic music and tackling political and anti-racist themes in their songs.
The band's origin dates back to the...
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Maynard James Keenan
Maynard James Keenan (born James Herbert Keenan on April 17, 1964) is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, winemaker, and actor. Originally from Ohio, Keenan spent his high school and college years in Michigan. After...
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- Apr 17, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Nefilim
The Nefilim (or simply Nefilim) was a Carl McCoy project formed after the disbanding of Fields of the Nephilim.
The Nefilim featured McCoy on vocals, Paul Miles on guitar, Simon Rippin on drums and Cian Houchin on bass. Rippin and Miles would later...
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Anders Colsefini
Andrew Rouw (born 1972), also known as Anders Colsefini, is an American musician known as the former vocalist of Slipknot and Painface.
In his youth, Rouw performed in local bands including Inveigh Catharsis, Vexx, and Zeromind. Following the...
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- 1972 (age 38 years)
Scorn
Scorn is an English electronic music project. The group was formed in the early 1990s as a side project of former Napalm Death members Mick Harris and Nic Bullen (the latter as one of the founding members of the band in 1981). Bullen left the group...
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Lard
Lard is a hardcore punk/Industrial band founded in 1988 as a side project by Jello Biafra (vocals), Al Jourgensen (guitar), Paul Barker (bass), and Jeff Ward (drums). Biafra is perhaps best known as the former frontman of the punk rock band Dead...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1988
Cubanate
Cubanate is a crossover band from London, founded in 1992 by Marc Heal and Graham Rayner with Phil Barry and Steve Etheridge. The group became well-known known for its early fusion of distorted metal guitars, and techno percussion (later...
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- 1992
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- 1998
Trollheim's Grott
Trollheim's Grott is a black metal band from Finland. The band was formed in Kuopio, Finland, in 1997 by Troll N. Together with his brother Spellgoth they formed the concept of the Troll Syndicate, which are the main subjects of their lyrics, which...
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- 1997
