Brobdingnagian
Brobdingnagian is a long-running, identity-undisclosed US Midwest project splitting the difference between black metal and harsh noise, its bio-less Bandcamp catalogue running from 2008's 'TortureStainedDisaster' through 2023's 'unwell_tiresome.' Early releases lean on power-electronics and digital-hardcore/grindcore blasts; later work drifts toward collage-like industrial pounding. A scarce 2013 cassette paired the project with noise act Toil in a limited-edition split.
SCORE PROFILE
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WHY THOSE SCORES
- Hardcore 4 — Scaruffi's history-of-rock bio notes early material incorporated 'power electronics, digital hardcore, and grindcore elements.'
- Black 5 — Consistently tagged black metal / black noise across Bandcamp, Sputnikmusic, and Internet Archive listings.
- Glitch 6 — Style built on 'free-form dissonant electronics' and digital-hardcore/power-electronics production techniques per the Scaruffi review.
- Drone 4 — Multiple releases (e.g. 'Backpfeifengesicht,' 'unwell_tiresome') are tagged harsh noise / black noise wall on Bandcamp.
FURTHER LISTENING
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- UnaffiliatedEI 11Occulted Death StanceGlitchBlackHardcore
Occulted Death Stance is the central sonic-ritual vehicle of English outsider collective Anti-Social Kultur England (A.S.K.E.), fusing raw black metal with power-noise electronics, industrial abrasion, and oi-punk snarl across a steady stream of cassette and vinyl releases (Feathered Serpent, Crush Your Enemies, Wake & Hate). The music favors confrontational noise-collage and ritualistic atmosphere over conventional song structure. It reads less like death metal and more like black metal's junk-electronics/noise fringe.
- UnaffiliatedEI 9ÄgakäkenGlitchBlackDrone
Ägakäken is a one-person Estonian black metal/experimental project helmed by SÜBÜR (guitar, vocals, synths, percussion). Its 2022 EP "BlÄkk VVärkk" mixes black metal with harsh noise, noise rock, and post-rock textures across short, abrasive tracks, some under 30 seconds. Other 2021–2022 releases include "DEMO 2021," "AxLxBxUxM," and "Seksiori Indrek."
- Dissonant tech-deathEI 20White MothGlitchBlackHardcore
White Moth is a one-off 2010 studio collective assembled by Pyramids' R. Loren, splicing black-metal guitar churn, digital-hardcore breakbeats, no-wave saxophone, and musique-concrete textures into a single dense suite. The guest roster (Colin Marston, Sam Hillmer, Alec Empire, Lydia Lunch, Dälek, Christoph Heemann, Jacob Kirkegaard) reads like a cross-section of the American and European experimental underground rather than a touring band. It sits closer to a curated art-collaboration than a genre act, but its metal-guitar/electronics collision earns its avant-garde-metal chart placement.
- UnaffiliatedEI 8SADWRISTGlitchBlack
SADWRIST is a French solo artist and self-described pioneer of the 'trashwave' aesthetic, fusing harsh noise, witch-house, djent, black metal, and trap into dense, glitch-riddled tracks. Song and album titles are rendered almost entirely in stylized Unicode symbols, extending the project's noisy, deliberately unstable identity into its visual presentation as much as its sound.
- UnaffiliatedEI 20GriiimGlitchBlackDrone
Griiim is the solo project of Paris-based visual artist and musician Maxime 'MT' Taccardi (also the sole member of atlas act K.F.R.), fusing atmospheric black metal with trap, trip-hop, industrial noise, and power electronics. Angry Metal Guy describes 2019 debut Pope Art as 'an eerie concoction of trap, trip-hop, industrial, noise and black metal' where 'true-blue riffs surface only once' and guitars mostly function to 'simulate droning dives and oppressive noise' under 'phat beats.' RateYourMusic and Discogs tag the record Avant-Garde Metal / Atmospheric Black Metal, and it features guest vocalists Meyhna'ch (Mutiilation) and O (Obskuritatem), released via Purity Through Fire.
- UnaffiliatedEI 14OphiuchusBlackDroneGlitch
Ophiuchus was the second of Maurice 'Mories' de Jong's black metal aliases (after Astral), active from the mid-1990s until 2011 out of Drachten/Smallingerland. Its raw, bass-driven demo material — built around a bass guitar in place of an electric guitar, per the project's own liner notes — was Mories' first attempt at fusing black metal with electronic/avant-garde textures, a template he carried in parallel into Gnaw Their Tongues and then directly into Cloak of Altering once Ophiuchus wound down.
- UnaffiliatedEI 19Bastard NoiseGlitchDroneHardcore
Bastard Noise is an American noise/powerviolence project founded in 1991 in Los Angeles by Eric Wood, Henry Barnes, and W.T. Nelson as a sister project to Man Is the Bastard; Wood has been its sole constant member since Man Is the Bastard's 1997 breakup. The project builds harsh-noise walls of feedback, crackling electronics, and low synth drones under guttural vocals, with Wood collaborating live and on record with artists including Merzbow and Keiji Haino. The band favors physical releases over streaming/digital distribution.
- UnaffiliatedEI 8Rotting HeavenBlackGlitch
Rotting Heaven was a black metal band from Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Oblast, Russia, active 2008–2017, part of a small local scene that also produced Neon Scaffold and VTTA. Their sound has been described as classical, icy black metal contaminated with caustic electronic effects in the Mysticum lineage, closing out with a 2017 split with Wolok before disbanding.
- UnaffiliatedEI 18Kwade DroesBlackGlitchHardcore
Kwade Droes is an anonymous Dutch black metal act from Gelderland, releasing through Ván Records since a 2017 debut EP. Reviewers describe the project as lo-fi Darkthrone-style black metal collided with a 'stoned free jazz ensemble,' built from tremolo riffs, sampled radio static, and demonic chorales. The band guards its members' identities closely.
- UnaffiliatedEI 12KakofoniumGlitchBlackHardcore
Kakofonium is a Poznań, Poland black metal project wrapped in an elaborate original mythology about 'Cybertemplars' who chose black metal as their weapon in a cosmic 'Final Crusade.' Musically it fuses raw/experimental black metal with cybergrind, synth-punk and dungeon-synth textures, self-described as 'cyber-blackened-death-metal.' It's DIY tape/bandcamp culture at its most conceptually unhinged.