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Vomitatrix is a Jupiter, Florida-based noisecore/acid-grind project whose self-titled debut (July 2022) was recorded in Austin, TX and mixed by drummer Weasel Walter. The band bills itself as building on the legacy of Morbid Florist, delivering ten tracks of abrasive, dada-tinged grindcore. The lineup pairs Weasel Walter (also founder/leader of The Flying Luttenbachers) with bassist Tim Dahl (Child Abuse, Lydia Lunch Retrovirus), guitarist Rick Eye, and vocalist Gyna Bootleg.

The Dillinger Escape Plan was an American mathcore band formed in 1997 in Morris Plains, New Jersey, evolving from the hardcore band Arcane. Founded and anchored throughout by guitarist Ben Weinman, the group fused hardcore intensity, technical metal precision and jarring time changes across landmark releases including Calculating Infinity (1999), Miss Machine (2004), Ire Works (2007), One of Us Is the Killer (2013) and Dissociation (2016). After original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis departed, Greg Puciato fronted the band from 2001 until its disbandment in December 2017. The band reunited in 2023 to mark the 25th anniversary of their debut.

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Frontierer are a transatlantic project — Pedram Valiani writing in Edinburgh, Chad Kapper screaming in the USA — who built mathcore out of material the genre normally keeps at the door. The riffs are Dillinger-shaped and the meters never settle, but the tone is the point: whammy-pedal sirens, digitally mangled guitars, and interludes of what Heavy Blog Is Heavy called 'filthy glitch-ridden drum and bass' and 'twisted and glitchy electronica'. The same review names them 'a furious nexus point between mathcore, noise, sludge and glitch electronica', which is about as close to a genre as they get. Where their peers use electronics as an intro or an outro, Frontierer run the guitars themselves through the broken-machine treatment until riff and glitch stop being separable — the band's own phrase for it is 'Transatlantic Noise Terror'.

Psyopus was an American mathcore band from Rochester, New York, formed in 2002 and led by guitarist Christopher "Arpmandude" Arp, the only constant member throughout its history. Known for Arp's unorthodox, extremely technical guitar work, the band fused controlled noise, jazz influences and abrupt melodic precision across dark thematic material. They released three studio albums: Ideas of Reference (2004), Our Puzzling Encounters Considered (2007) and Odd Senses (2009), the latter two through Black Market Activities / Metal Blade Records. The group went on hiatus in 2010 and briefly reunited in 2012.

SikTh are a British progressive/technical metal band formed in Watford, Hertfordshire in 1999, known for their dual-vocalist attack, dissonant mathcore-adjacent riffing, and unorthodox compositions. They are widely cited as pioneers of the djent and tech-metal movement, breaking through with their debut album The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild (2003), followed by Death of a Dead Day (2006) and, after a reunion, The Future in Whose Eyes? (2017).

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Converge is an American band formed in 1990 in Salem, Massachusetts by vocalist/visual artist Jacob Bannon and guitarist/producer Kurt Ballou, and are pioneers of metalcore and its subgenre mathcore. Their fourth album, Jane Doe (2001), recorded when the classic four-piece lineup solidified with bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller, is a landmark of the genre. Guitarist Kurt Ballou runs GodCity Studio, making him one of heavy music's most prolific producers, while Bannon founded the label Deathwish Inc. in 1999. In 2021 the band released Bloodmoon: I, a collaboration with singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe.

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Fawn Limbs are a transatlantic mathcore/deathgrind project formed in 2018 by guitarist-vocalist Eeli Helin and drummer Lee Fisher (ex-Psyopus, Commit Suicide), later joined by bassist Samuel Smith (Artificial Brain). Their catalog fuses grind tempos, mathcore's unusual time signatures, and noisy electronics, and their 2023 collaborative LP Vestigial Spectra with drone/doom act Nadja pushed the project into sustained-drone and abrasive-ambient territory. Drummer Lee Fisher's stint in Psyopus (2004-2005) is a direct, sourced tie into the mathcore cluster already on the atlas.

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Behold... The Arctopus is an American instrumental metal band from Brooklyn, New York City, formed in 2001 by guitarists Colin Marston and Mike Lerner. Their technical, dissonant style draws on both metal and 20th-century classical music, built around Marston's 12-string Warr guitar (which spans bass and guitar range and is played by tapping) alongside a conventional electric guitar and drums. The band released the full-lengths Skullgrid (2007) and Horrorscension (2012), with a rotating drum chair over the years.

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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.

Whourkr was a Paris-based experimental death metal/grindcore project active 2005-2013, the vehicle where Gautier Serre (Igorrr) first fused blast-beat death metal with breakcore and glitch editing on guitars and programming. Vocalists cycled through the lineup: Laurent Lunoir (who records solo as Öxxö Xööx, 2005-2007), Yann Coppier as -i snor (2007-2011), and Mulk (2011-2013). Reviewers describe Concrete (2008) as throwing 'death metal, grindcore, jazz, opera, glitch, and breakcore into a meat grinder,' with blastbeats processed to resemble 'ten CDs all skipping simultaneously.' The project is widely regarded as the direct prototype for Serre's better-known solo project Igorrr.

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