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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.

KK Null (Kazuyuki Kishino, b. 1961, Tokyo) is a prolific Japanese noise and experimental musician — composer, guitarist, vocalist and electronicist — who founded the progressive-hardcore trio Zeni Geva and the project Absolut Null Punkt, and has released well over 100 albums. His solo electronics moved onto Neurot Recordings with Atomik Disorder (2003) and Oxygen Flash (2009). He has collaborated widely, with named partners including Merzbow, Keiji Haino, James Plotkin, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Jim O'Rourke and Boredoms' Seiichi Yamamoto.

Boredoms are an Osaka experimental group whose founding vocalist Yamantaka (Yamatsuka) Eye moved from harsh, dissonant noise-punk toward repetitive psychedelic rock, ambient soundscapes and cosmic tribal drumming across records like Super æ (1998) and Vision Creation Newsun (1999). Of Japan's noise underground they were the most gleefully chaotic, weaving sampler abuse, noise and humor into a maximalist ritual. Eye's connection to this atlas runs through John Zorn: he served as guest vocalist for Naked City, screaming across the miniatures of Torture Garden (1990).

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Ikd-sj is a Japanese avant-garde/nu/alternative metal act based in Tokyo, active since the 2000s with releases including The Mortuary (2006), World's End Fruit Basket (2009), Eternal Vacation (2016) and 死んだ雪白中毒者にキスを (2023). Reviewers describe a genre-hopping sound fusing post-hardcore, noise rock, industrial textures, shoegaze haze and djent-adjacent riffing under trance-like harsh vocals. The project has stayed active into 2025 with new singles.

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Patau is a Boston, Massachusetts noise/industrial project self-described as 'experimental electronic hardcore techno industrial metal noise,' with Rate Your Music tagging it Avant-Garde Metal, Power Noise, and Experimental. Releases include Krrrenž (2018) and Not One, Not Some, Not All (2021), delivered with confrontational, anti-capitalist framing.

Human Impact are a New York noise-rock supergroup formed in 2019, welding Chris Spencer's Unsane fury to Jim Coleman's Cop Shoot Cop-derived industrial electronics. The debut lineup added the Swans rhythm section of Chris Pravdica and Phil Puleo; their self-titled debut appeared on Mike Patton's Ipecac Recordings in 2020, followed by Gone Dark (2024). By 2024 the rhythm section had turned over to ex-Daughters drummer Jon Syverson and ex-Made Out of Babies bassist Eric Cooper.

Zonal are the British duo of Justin Broadrick (Godflesh) and Kevin Martin (The Bug), a reactivation of their 1990s Techno Animal partnership trading in cavernous bass, cacophonous dub and ear-splitting drone. Their debut album Wrecked was released on Relapse Records on 25 October 2019, with Philadelphia poet-vocalist Moor Mother featured across its first six tracks. The record was mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole) and pairs industrial hip-hop menace with drone-metal weight.

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KLoAK are a Danish speed metal/noise/experimental band from Billund, formed 1998, fronted by Anders Jørgen Mogensen — one of Escho's co-founders, alongside Düreforsög drummer Andreas Hauer-Jensen. The band became friends with and supported Düreforsög on tour, and Düreforsög's Nis Bysted and Boris Schiøler both guest on KLoAK recordings.

Greymachine is an experimental industrial noise project formed in 2006, built around Godflesh and Jesu frontman Justin Broadrick and Isis frontman Aaron Turner, with bassists Dave Cochrane (Head of David) and Diarmuid Dalton (Jesu). Broadrick described it as needing "something black to Jesu's white," pairing crushing beats, dissonant guitar, and harsh electronics. Their debut album Disconnected was produced by Broadrick and released on 4 August 2009 via Turner's label Hydra Head Records.

Nine Inch Nails is Trent Reznor's industrial rock project, running from Pretty Hate Machine (1989) through The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, With Teeth, Hesitation Marks and Bad Witch. Atticus Ross joined as an official co-member in 2016 after years as Reznor's key collaborator and co-composer on their film scores. The catalog is built on layered, distorted programming and guitar — "industrial-strength noise over a pop framework" — distinct from the ambient instrumental Ghosts series the band also releases under its own name.