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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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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.

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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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.

Gigantic Brain is a Virginia-based cybergrind project started by John Brown in the early 2000s as one-man, drum-machine-powered electronic grindcore, later expanded into a duo with producer/multi-instrumentalist Mastin Simmons in 2012. Wikipedia credits it as 'one of the original pioneers of the cybergrind subgenre,' with a catalog running from chaotic, densely layered electronic grind (The Invasion Discography, 2004) toward the industrial/doom/ambient-leaning textures of the 2016 self-titled album. Released mostly through Razorback Records and Grindcore Karaoke, with absurdist lyrical themes layered over extremely dense production.

Nailbomb was an industrial-thrash side project formed in 1993 by Max Cavalera, then frontman of Sepultura, and English musician Alex Newport of Fudge Tunnel, welding grinding industrial metal and thrash to crust punk and sludge. Their lone studio album, Point Blank (Roadrunner, 1994), was cut largely by the duo with session help from Sepultura bandmates Igor Cavalera (drums) and Andreas Kisser (guitar) plus Fear Factory's Dino Cazares. The band played only a warm-up show and a set at the 1995 Dynamo Open Air Festival, documented on the live album Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide, before disbanding; its harsh, sample-laced attack became a cult touchstone of 90s extreme metal.

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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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Bologna Violenta is the noise/electrogrind project of Treviso violinist and multi-instrumentalist Nicola Manzan, founded in 2005. Early releases built distorted guitar, strings and electronic drums around samples from 1970s Italian poliziottesco cinema; the project expanded into a duo in 2015 with drummer Alessandro Vagnoni and later shifted toward violin-led arrangements on Cortina (2017) and Bancarotta Morale (2020), with 2026's OBLOMOVISMO returning to its cybergrind roots. Manzan has also worked as a sideman for Baustelle and Il Teatro degli Orrori and collaborated with J. Randall of Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

Containor is a Queens, New York experimental/noise trio pairing death-metal extremity with electronics: John Longstreth (Origin) on drums, warr guitar, practice pad and guitar trigger, John DeBlase on synth/computer/casio, and Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts, Dysrhythmia) on synth drums, metronome, fake bass, keys, casio, plus editing/mixing/mastering. Released the 'ASSHOLE' EP (2018) and 'DISEASE CUBE: REMOTELY CONTROLLED' (2021), both leaning into blast-driven, electronically mangled noise rather than straight metal songcraft.

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.