Dadabots
United States · last active 2024
Dadabots is the Boston-based duo of CJ Carr and Zack Zukowski, who began building neural-network music generators at MIT's Music Hack Day in 2012, training models directly on extreme-metal source albums to generate derivative works and a long-running 24/7 livestream. An unconventional candidate — a generative-AI project rather than a conventional band — but its documented use of specific atlas bands' music as direct training material creates real, citable relationships.
SCORE PROFILE
Accent numbers counted towards the index. Hover an axis — or hold it on a phone — for what it means.
WHY THOSE SCORES
- Death 6 — Core catalog is neural-network death metal trained directly on Meshuggah's Nothing and Archspire's discography.
- Black 5 — Coditany of Timeness is a neural reproduction of Krallice's black metal album Diotima.
- Glitch 8 — Entire output is defined by AI audio artifacts, warped/stuttering passages, algorithmic breakdown.
- Ambient 3 — Long-form generative livestreams produce textural, spatial passages between more structured sections.
MEMBERS
- CJ Carrprogramming / neural network design
- Zack Zukowskiprogramming / neural network design
CONNECTIONS
- Dillinger Escape Planpath →
'Calculating Calculating Infinity' (2017) is a neural network trained on The Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Calculating Infinity.' source ↗
- Krallicesatellitepath →
'Coditany of Timeness' (2017) is a SampleRNN neural network trained on Krallice's 'Diotima'; the Bandcamp release explicitly states 'Krallice approves.' source ↗
- Meshuggahpath →
'Inorganimate' (2017) is a neural network trained on raw audio from Meshuggah's album 'Nothing.' source ↗
FURTHER LISTENING
Nearest score profiles in the atlas.
- UnaffiliatedEI 20Vessel of IniquityDeathGlitchBlack
The solo vehicle of British multi-instrumentalist A. White, Vessel of Iniquity builds an oppressive catalogue of black/death metal fused with industrial noise, drum machines, and power-electronics-style sound design, citing Coil and Godflesh alongside Mayhem and Napalm Death as touchstones. Signed to Sentient Ruin Laboratories (with European releases via Xenoglossy Productions), the project favors a druggy, atmosphere-first sound closer to Gnaw Their Tongues than to melodic black metal. 2022's The Path Unseen introduced eight-string guitars, pushing the sound lower and more oppressive still.
- UnaffiliatedEI 12KakofoniumGlitchBlackDeath
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- UnaffiliatedEI 13BiesyDeathBlackGlitch
Biesy is a Kraków trio formed in 2014 around guitarist/bassist PR, joined by vocalist Stawrogin (also of Odraza, Totenmesse) and drummer MP (also of Outre), taking their concept from Dostoevsky's Demons and the alienation of urban life. Their 2017 debut Noc Lekkich Obyczajów (Third Eye Temple) delivers dissonant, disjointed black/death riffing compared to Ulcerate, Deathspell Omega, Immolation and Gorguts. The 2020 follow-up Transsatanizm (Godz ov War Productions) pushed further into avant-garde territory, layering industrial synths and looping electro beats over blackened riffs, described by reviewers as 'avangardish, industrial-infused post-rock/post-black.'
- UnaffiliatedEI 8SADWRISTGlitchBlackTechnical
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 19Void (UK)GlitchBlackTechnical
Void is a UK avant-garde/fringe metal project active since 1999, built around founding member and guitarist/vocalist Matt Jarman. Press consistently bills the band as 'avant-garde metal pioneers,' fusing black, death and industrial metal with noise, electronica and post-metal songwriting, citing touchstones from Dødheimsgard and Emperor to Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares. The current lineup grew directly out of Dødheimsgard's 2019 'Void Dancers' tour, and features musicians who also play in Dødheimsgard and Doedsmaghird. Their fourth album, Jadjow (2023, Brucia Records), was co-written by that touring lineup.
- UnaffiliatedEI 11Fear FactoryGlitchDeathTechnical
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).
- UnaffiliatedEI 10SconsacrataGlitchBlackTechnical
Solo industrial black/death metal project of Charlie Davis (also vocalist/bassist of sludge band Beggar and of the punk project Wasted Death), based in London, England. Debut album Paroxysms (2022) fuses grinding, blast-beat black metal with mechanized industrial-dub textures, deliberate 'inhuman' digital glitches, and ritualistic chant-like vocal passages, drawing conceptually on Philip K. Dick's VALIS and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.
- Blackgaze / avant-blackEI 25Cloak of AlteringGlitchBlackTechnical
Cloak of Altering is the avant-garde black metal solo alias of Dutch multi-instrumentalist Maurice "Mories" de Jong, begun in 2011 as a continuation of his earlier black metal band Ophiuchus and run alongside his other projects Gnaw Their Tongues, De Magia Veterum, Aderlating and Seirom. Where De Magia Veterum is his straight black-metal outlet, Cloak of Altering fuses 'mutated symphonic black metal' with breakcore-derived electronics and industrial noise, inviting comparisons to Blut Aus Nord and An Axis of Perdition. Albums such as Plague Beasts (2014) and Manifestation (2015), released via Crucial Blast, circle cosmic and occult themes across sprawling, drone-heavy tracks.
- UnaffiliatedEI 11Light DwellerDeathBlackTechnical
Light Dweller is the solo dissonant death/black metal project of Cameron Boesch, based in Phoenix, Arizona, who writes, performs, records, mixes and masters every release himself. Since the 2018 EP 'Nullity of Light,' the project has moved from Immolation/Incantation-indebted death metal through Ulcerate/Krallice-style angularity, culminating in 2025's 'The Subjugate' (released via Avantgarde Music's death-metal imprint Unorthodox Emanations), which reviewers describe as adding a 'glitchy, percussive pulse' to its bleak, blackened atmosphere. Boesch also regularly turns up alongside other one-person underground acts on split releases, most recently 2025's 'Illusory Dissolvents.'
- UnaffiliatedEI 16DoedsmaghirdGlitchBlackTechnical
Doedsmaghird is an avant-garde/industrial black metal project formed in 2022 by Yusaf 'Vicotnik' Parvez of Dodheimsgard - its name a literal anagram of its parent band - with fellow Dodheimsgard guitarist Camille Giraudeau co-writing the material. Debut album Omniverse Consciousness (Peaceville, 2024) pushes Dodheimsgard's electronic and industrial tendencies further still, layering glitchy synth textures, samples, and choirs over blasting black metal, and has been described by press as Dodheimsgard's 'more grim and malevolent twin.'