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Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989, widely credited as pioneers of the style for fusing death-metal growls and machine-gun riffing with clean vocals, synthesizers and electronic sampling. Their sound centers on Raymond Herrera's machine-precise drumming and Dino Cazares' staccato, down-tuned riffing, colored by Rhys Fulber's keyboards; breakthrough album Demanufacture (1995) wrapped this in a Terminator-inspired man-versus-machine concept, and its 1997 companion Remanufacture reworked the record entirely into electronica. Gene Hoglan drummed for the band from 2009 to 2012, appearing on Mechanize (2010).

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Noism is a Tokyo duo — guitarist Yoshiro Hamazaki and programmer Tomoyuki Akiyama — active since 1999, built around brutally complex, glitched-out programmed-drum death/grind instrumentals. Rather than a live drummer, Akiyama chops and resplices machine-gun drum programming into rhythms that verge on IDM/breakcore, layered under Hamazaki's dissonant, shredding riffs. Their sole full-length, ± (2008, Crucial Blast), followed a run of demos and a Relapse compilation appearance, and stands as one of the more literal 'glitch' bridges between deathgrind and electronic music.

Strapping Young Lad is Devin Townsend's industrial/thrash/death metal band, active 1994–2007 with a stable lineup of Townsend, guitarist Jed Simon, bassist Byron Stroud and drummer Gene Hoglan (also of Dark Angel, Death, Testament). Built on polyrhythmic riffing and blast beats, the band is best known for a hyper-dense, multitracked "wall of sound" production style critics compared to Phil Spector and Frank Zappa, drawing on the harsh industrial/noise lineage of Foetus and White Noise. City (1997) was the critical breakthrough; The New Black (2006) leaned back into the band's tongue-in-cheek black humor before their 2007 disbandment.

Disfiguring the Goddess is the long-running solo vehicle of Cameron Argon — better known as dubstep producer Big Chocolate — who writes, produces, and performs everything himself, fusing brutal slam/deathcore with dubstep-derived electronic programming. It's less a scene band than an outsider hybrid: extreme-metal viciousness filtered through EDM production instincts, with lyrical fixations on cosmic horror and video games. Nearly two decades of self-released and Seek & Strike-backed output (Circle of Nine through 2026's Bloom) have made it one of underground death metal's more idiosyncratic solo-project success stories.

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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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Zone Eater is the sample-based 'slug metal / dethwave' solo project of Alex Koenig — better known for his vaporwave-adjacent Nmesh project — active since 2015 and based in Louisville, Kentucky. Its debut EP Triangle Island (2015) chops death metal and grindcore samples into chaotic collages, described by Darkfloor Sound as 'a raucous, intense ride of sonics and slurred samples.' Koenig has since released a two-hour collaborative double album with San Francisco's Sea of Dogs on the CHAMBER 38 cassette label.

Sete Star Sept are a Tokyo noisecore/noisegrind duo formed in 2004 by drummer Kiyasu (ex-The Endless Blockade), now comprising Kae (bass, vocals) and Kiyasu (drums). Gerogerigegege-influenced and staggeringly prolific with well over 180 releases, they trade in short bursts of blasting chaos and pure noise. Relentless tourers, they have crisscrossed the global grind/noise underground via countless split records.

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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Intestinal Disgorge is a noisegrind/brutal death metal project from San Antonio, Texas, running since 1996 and centered on member "R" (drums, guitars, bass, electronics, additional vocals). Starting as a straightforward goregrind act, the project shifted in the 2010s toward a self-described "Absurd DeathNoiseGrind"/"GlitchGrind" sound that runs power electronics, cut-up production, harsh noise and cybergrind through brutal death-grind songwriting, with one reviewer likening it to "a Grindcore version of Gnaw Their Tongues." The band's extensive discography of albums, EPs, splits and demos is released through Meat 5000 Records.

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.