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Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in Notting Hill, London in 1979, whose 'tension music' fused aggressive rhythms with gothic, industrial and metallic weight across landmark records like Night Time (1985) and Pandemonium (1994). Frontman Jaz Coleman's apocalyptic delivery and the band's dense, dubwise heaviness made them a widely cited influence on industrial and alternative acts including Metallica, Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails. Longtime bassist Paul Raven, who joined in 1982, was later briefly recruited for a planned Godflesh US tour that collapsed before it began.

The Malpractice is the Copenhagen project of Danish songwriter Johannes Gammelby (also of I Am Bones and Beta Satan), blending grunge and aggressive rock with pop hooks and noisy synthesizers into what the band calls 'amphetamine reptile punk, sludge and grand, barking hymns' carrying violent, depressive existentialist narratives. The 2010 debut Tectonics (Crunchy Frog Records) drew players from Tiger Tunes, Marybell Katastrophy and Beta Satan and was named a top-ten Danish album of the year by GAFFA. The live lineup adds vocalist Marie Koldkjær Højlund, whose solo work ties the band into Copenhagen's Escho circle.

Human Impact are a New York noise-rock supergroup formed in 2019, welding Chris Spencer's Unsane fury to Jim Coleman's Cop Shoot Cop-derived industrial electronics. The debut lineup added the Swans rhythm section of Chris Pravdica and Phil Puleo; their self-titled debut appeared on Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings in 2020, followed by Gone Dark (2024). By 2024 the rhythm section had turned over to ex-Daughters drummer Jon Syverson and ex-Made Out of Babies bassist Eric Cooper.

Head of David were a Birmingham-area experimental/industrial-metal band formed in 1986 and signed to Blast First, whose abrasive noise-rock was once described as being about as harsh as music can get 'without descending into pure noise.' Their releases include Dustbowl (1988) and Seed State (1991). Justin Broadrick drummed for the group from 1987 to 1989, a stint between his early stretch in Napalm Death and the founding of Godflesh.

Greymachine is an experimental industrial noise project formed in 2006, built around Godflesh and Jesu frontman Justin Broadrick and Isis frontman Aaron Turner, with bassists Dave Cochrane (Head of David) and Diarmuid Dalton (Jesu). Broadrick described it as needing "something black to Jesu's white," pairing crushing beats, dissonant guitar, and harsh electronics. Their debut album Disconnected was produced by Broadrick and released on 4 August 2009 via Turner's label Hydra Head Records.

Chat Pile are an American noise-rock/sludge-metal band from Oklahoma City, formed in 2019, whose members perform under pseudonyms Raygun Busch, Luther Manhole, Stin and Cap'n Ron. Their self-produced 2022 debut God's Country, released on The Flenser, became a surprise breakout, pairing bleak, regionally specific lyrics with abrasive riffing indebted to Big Black. The band followed it with Cool World in 2024.

All Are to Return is a mostly-anonymous two-person industrial doom/noise project (credited only as 'F' and 'N') based in the Netherlands, releasing since 2020 via Tartarus Records. Their records (II, 2021; III, 2024; Limen, 2025) build colossal, FX-drenched noise-scapes from pulsing synths, doom-paced percussion, and screamed vocals, with lyrical/conceptual focus on ecological collapse and climate catastrophe. No gamelan or other Indonesian/Balinese percussion instrumentation was found in any source consulted, despite that being the scouting lead's premise — the confirmed sound is industrial/doom/noise, not gamelan-folk fusion.

Wear Your Wounds is the atmospheric solo-turned-band project of Converge founder and vocalist Jacob Bannon, grown out of years of lo-fi bedroom recordings. Far from Converge's hardcore violence, its 2017 debut WYW (Deathwish Inc., Bannon's own label) is measured and ethereal, evoking Swans, early Pink Floyd, Sparklehorse and Songs: Ohia. Bannon fronts an expanded lineup with guests including Converge's Kurt Ballou, Mike McKenzie, Chris Maggio and Sean Martin.

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Zonal are the British duo of Justin Broadrick (Godflesh) and Kevin Martin (The Bug), a reactivation of their 1990s Techno Animal partnership trading in cavernous bass, cacophonous dub and ear-splitting drone. Their debut album Wrecked was released on Relapse Records on 25 October 2019, with Philadelphia poet-vocalist Moor Mother featured across its first six tracks. The record was mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole) and pairs industrial hip-hop menace with drone-metal weight.

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Author & Punisher is the one-man industrial/drone/doom-metal project of San Diego mechanical engineer Tristan Shone, who performs on custom-designed and hand-fabricated instruments he calls 'Drone Machines' and 'Dub Machines'. Handpicked by Tool to support their 2020 tour, Shone returned the favor on his 2022 Relapse album Krüller: Tool's Danny Carey drums on 'Misery' and bassist Justin Chancellor plays on 'Centurion'. The result pairs monolithic, machine-driven weight with dub space and industrial menace.

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