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One-man industrial stoner/doom project from Ghent, Belgium, constructed from bass, drums, and samples since 2020. Releases like "Destitute" and "Pillage" deliver stripped-down, minimalist stoner doom through a solo approach.
Swiss industrial black metal duo from Lausanne, led by Bornyhake, active since 1998 and performing in French. Their catalog spanning over two decades blends cold, harsh black metal with synthetic and electronic layers, including the 2025 album "Renaitre de ses Fanges" and numerous prior releases.
Stockholm-based industrial metal act active since 2019, fusing mechanical rhythms and electronic textures with heavy guitar distortion. Their cold, precise sound channels the genre's tradition of merging human aggression with machine-like efficiency.
Relentless Industrial Metal from Austin.
Avant-garde industrial/post-black metal trio from Nancy, active since 2016, blending black metal with jazz, acid-jazz, and breakcore electronics. Their album Religare fuses Asian cultural influences with sounds inspired by Igorrr, Miles Davis, and Deafheaven, featuring organic and electronic instrumentation in equal measure.
BVDLVD (pronounced 'Badlad') is a UK solo artist who emerged from the British trap metal scene, self-producing and self-directing all of his material. Signing to MOVES Recordings in 2019, he released Lunatic (2020), a record blending industrial metal, drill, grime, drum and bass, and punk into a distinctly abrasive hybrid. His 2026 album PRESENCE continues his trajectory as one of the more uncompromising figures in the genre.
Poughkeepsie death/black metal act C.A.I.N. — the acronym standing for "Christ Aborted in Nativity" — formed in 2000 and released material independently before splitting up.
Minneapolis project fusing black metal's cold atmosphere with gothic metal's melodic darkness and industrial metal's mechanical, synthetic textures into a multi-layered sound reflecting the upper Midwest.
Death-grind-industrial hybrid from Sundsvall on the Norrland coast, active since 2013. Cavevomit delivers a chaotic blend of extreme subgenres from central northern Sweden.
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