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Monastat 7 was a Cheyenne, Wyoming grindcore trio whose 1993/94 debut 'Now Available Without A Prescription' — produced by Dan Lilker of Brutal Truth and reissued on Relapse — paired technical cybergrind riffing with heavy sampling, comedy/rap interludes and skits (a track built around a grocery-store clerk's price-check announcement over the PA). The lineup leaned into avant-garde instrumentation for a 1993 grind band, with Henkaboo E. Boltz credited on guitar, programming AND violin alongside Dr. Stat3's bass/keyboards. A 1995 follow-up EP, 'Operatic Genitalia Of 7 Bowel Movements,' continued the project on the same Japanese DIY label, Lost Frog Productions.

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Bologna Violenta is the noise/electrogrind project of Treviso violinist and multi-instrumentalist Nicola Manzan, founded in 2005. Early releases built distorted guitar, strings and electronic drums around samples from 1970s Italian poliziottesco cinema; the project expanded into a duo in 2015 with drummer Alessandro Vagnoni and later shifted toward violin-led arrangements on Cortina (2017) and Bancarotta Morale (2020), with 2026's OBLOMOVISMO returning to its cybergrind roots. Manzan has also worked as a sideman for Baustelle and Il Teatro degli Orrori and collaborated with J. Randall of Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

A UK extreme-metal collaboration led by Wildhearts frontman Ginger Wildheart with Scott Lee Andrews (Exit International) and drummer Denzel, functioning as a revolving-door supergroup anchored by Napalm Death's Shane Embury. The double debut The Frankenstein Effect / Error 500 (2013) folds in Merzbow noise and Mark E. Smith spoken-word, veering from melodic pop-metal hooks into industrial noise-grind chaos. Error 500 was released on Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings.

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Phantomsmasher is a glitch-grind / digital-hardcore project led by guitarist James Plotkin, previously known as Atomsmasher, that fuses grindcore with electronic noise and cut-up programming. The trio of Plotkin (guitar, bass, electronics), vocalist DJ Speedranch, and drummer Dave Witte released their self-titled album on Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings on August 19, 2002. Plotkin is a prolific experimentalist also known for OLD, Khanate, Khlyst, Jodis, and Scorn.

Patau is a Boston, Massachusetts noise/industrial project self-described as 'experimental electronic hardcore techno industrial metal noise,' with Rate Your Music tagging it Avant-Garde Metal, Power Noise, and Experimental. Releases include Krrrenž (2018) and Not One, Not Some, Not All (2021), delivered with confrontational, anti-capitalist framing.

Tub Ring is an experimental rock band formed in Chicago in 1992 and built around the enduring core duo of vocalist Kevin Gibson and keyboardist Rob Kleiner. Their frenetic, hairpin genre-swerving sound — colliding punk, new wave, noise, funk and electronics under sci-fi and cosmological lyrics — earned them a reputation as a kind of Midwestern Mr. Bungle, a comparison sealed when Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance produced their 2001 debut Drake Equation. Their concept-driven album titles (Drake Equation, Fermi Paradox, Zoo Hypothesis, The Great Filter) riff on theories about extraterrestrial life.

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Melt-Banana is a Japanese noise-rock band formed in Tokyo in 1992, built around vocalist Yasuko Onuki's rapid-fire, high-pitched yelp and guitarist Ichiro Agata's surgical, effects-drenched noise assault. Blurring grindcore velocity with electronic glitch, pop hooks and pure sound-sculpture, they became one of the defining bands of a new Japanese hardcore, finding a bigger audience abroad than at home. John Zorn captured them for his Tzadik label on the 1998 live album MxBx 1998/13,000 Miles at Light Velocity, and their relentless touring saw them open for Mr. Bungle, the Melvins, Fantômas and Tool.

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Sectlinefor is an NYC/London duo of Jared (vocals) and Piton (guitar, production, drum machine) making deliberately genre-shredding 'cinematic rock' that collides alternative/psychedelic metal, hardcore-ish punk energy, hip-hop-inflected interludes, and glitchy 80s/90s electronica. Formed in 2015 and solidified as a two-piece by 2018, they're compared to Faith No More, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Deftones, Devin Townsend, and early Ministry; their pandemic-era third album Kissing Strangers During an Outbreak (2021) leans hardest into disturbing, comedic, boundary-smashing songwriting.

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Today Is the Day is an American noise-rock and experimental-metal band led by guitarist/vocalist and producer Steve Austin, formed in Nashville in the early 1990s. Blending grindcore, hardcore and avant-garde metal with heavy sampling and unhinged, erratic arrangements, the group became a touchstone for the noisecore and mathcore underground. Their 1999 Relapse album In the Eyes of God featured a young rhythm section of bassist Bill Kelliher and drummer Brann Dailor, both formerly of Lethargy, who soon left to co-found Mastodon.

Inferno Sci-Fi Grind'n'Roll was an Italian grindcore/mathcore band from Rome, active 2002-2012, founded by five friends with disparate musical influences. Signed to Subsound Records, their sound mixed distorted, metallic grind/mathcore riffing with 'electro-noise sonorities' and unexpected quieter 'roots'-inflected passages, wrapped in sci-fi/pop-culture conceptual song titles.