Lob of Lemmings
Danish industrial/progressive thrash outfit active in the early 1990s, known for bizarre stage costuming, thick facial makeup, and outrageous live shows that made them an unlikely precursor to Marilyn Manson and Slipknot. Their sole full-length, Just Human (1993, TBA Records), fused Godflesh-style industrial mechanization with dense polyrhythmic 'chugga-chugga' riffing that a Metal Archives review describes as predating Meshuggah's Destroy, Erase, Improve by two years. The band split up shortly after release, leaving only a 1992 demo and the one album behind.
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MEMBERS
- Roar Skan Olsenvocals
- Kasper Rasmussenbass
- Emil Landgreendrums
- Mikkel Ørnebergguitar
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- Tool-verseEI 16ToolTechnicalTheatrical
Tool is an American progressive metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1990, meshing dark underground metal with the ambition of art rock into multi-sectioned, layered songs built on odd time signatures and lengthy instrumental passages. The classic lineup pairs vocalist Maynard James Keenan and guitarist Adam Jones with drummer Danny Carey and, since 1995, bassist Justin Chancellor, who replaced founding bassist Paul D'Amour. Across albums from Undertow (1993) through Ænima, Lateralus, 10,000 Days, and Fear Inoculum (2019), the band cultivated an almost mythic reputation for cryptic, cerebral heaviness. Keenan splits his time with A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, while Carey moonlights in the fusion outfit Volto!.
- ZornEI 15BucketheadTechnicalTheatrical
Buckethead (Brian Patrick Carroll) is an American guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area, famous for performing in a white mask and a KFC bucket and for one of the most prolific solo discographies in music, numbering hundreds of albums. His playing spans thrash, fingerpicking, slap and avant-improv, and he conceives much of his output as soundtracks for rides at his imaginary amusement park, Bucketheadland. He released his 1992 debut on John Zorn's Avant label and that same year became the guitarist of Bill Laswell's supergroup Praxis.
- UnaffiliatedEI 8Shaolin Death SquadTechnicalTheatrical
Shaolin Death Squad are a theatrical progressive/avant-garde metal band from Denton, Texas, formed around 2001-2002, performing under kung-fu-themed stage personas. Their sound is dynamic prog metal with lead vocalist The White Swan frequently compared to Mike Patton, across releases including Intelligent Design (2006) and a 2024 self-titled record on Soman Records.
- UnaffiliatedEI 17Real LoudTechnicalTheatricalDrone
Real Loud is a New York sextet billed as an 'antiphonal chamber metal' ensemble, staging mirrored pairs of electric bass, guitar and drums across the stage for four commissioned premieres on its 2021 self-titled debut (New Focus Recordings). The record spans Meshuggah-inspired mixed-meter riffing, no-wave-tinged fervor and two more ambient, spatialized pieces built from ringing harmonics and hollow echo. It reads as contemporary-classical composers writing idiomatically for a metal band's instrumentation.
- Bay Area / SGMEI 10Free Salamander ExhibitTechnicalTheatrical
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- UnaffiliatedEI 10Aberrant VascularTheatricalTechnical
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- Norwegian avant-blackEI 13Age of SilenceTechnicalTheatrical
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- UnaffiliatedEI 10Oh.TechnicalTheatrical
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Giant Robot was the short-lived mid-1990s trio built around guitarist Buckethead, drummer Bryan 'Brain' Mantia, and keyboardist/producer Pete Scaturro, releasing one self-titled album on the Japanese NTT label in 1996 before Brain's departure broke up the group. The record is a virtuosic, sample-strewn instrumental record splicing film dialogue into dense guitar shredding, with absurdist song titles signaling its jam-session, prank-prone character. It sits adjacent to Buckethead's vast solo catalog but stands as its own band credit -- distinct from the same-titled 1994 Sony Japan Buckethead SOLO album that shares its name and caused the scout's identity confusion.