(1) Q - A four piece rock band from London, UK
(2) Q - A four piece rock band from Springfield, USA
(3) Q - A synth-pop band later renamed to SSQ, US
(4) Q - An alternative rock quartet from Bratislava, Slovakia
(5) Q - The solo project of Quinnes Parker, one of the members of American R&B quartet 112
(6) Q - A German hip hop/experimental producer and artist
(7) Q - A Lithuanian hip hop artist
(8) Q - A Maltese pop group
1. Lucia Cifarelli is currently a vocalist for the industrial music group KMFDM. She has previously been a member of the bands MDFMK and Drill. She performed on Drill's self-titled release Drill, the MDFMK album, MDFMK as well as the KMFDM albums Attak, WWIII, Hau Ruck, Tohuvabohu, Blitz, and WTF?!. She also has a solo release called From the Land of Volcanos under the moniker "Lucia". In January of 2006 Lucia was featured in the magazine Revolver as one of the hottest women in contemporary music. In July 2005 she married bandmate, Sascha Konietzko.
Skillet is an American rock band formed in Nashville, Tennessee, consisting of all Christian members. Skillet formed in 1996 with two members: John Cooper, former vocalist for Tennessee progressive rock band Seraph, and Ken Steorts, former guitarist for Urgent Cry. The two bands met through touring together, but those bands disbanded soon after, so John and Ken's pastor encouraged them to form their own band as a side-project.
Formed in 2003 in Geneva, Switzerland by guitar player Drop and singer Benjamin, Sybreed was created to reflect their mutual tastes for metal and industrial music, with conceptual contents revolving around social misery, everyday alienation and the decay of the modern way of life in general. Later, they began work on material for their first album SLAVE DESIGN which was released in 2004, and then performed around the US to unleash the album's electronic violence on stage.
ROCKET TO MEMPHIS are an awesome five piece band from Perth, Australia, who play cool, swampy, voodoo rock 'n' roll! It's kinda Crampsy but with female vocals and hell-catchy songs. Their debut release, in June 2007, is The Swampwater Shuffle EP, and features six killer toons. Their website is: myspace.com/rockettomemphis
Shihad are a four-piece band from New Zealand, comprising Jon Toogood (guitar/vocals), Tom Larkin (drums), Karl Kippenberger (bass) and Phil Knight (guitar). Their style is best described as "hard rock", although they were described as "metal" in their formative years. Shihad were formed in 1988 in Wellington, New Zealand. They were briefly known between 2002-2004 as "Pacifier". During this time the band was attempting to break into the US market and it was decided that Shihad sounded too much like the arabic word 'jihad', thus the name change. Their major albums and EPs include:
GOTHMINISTER was formed by Bjørn Alexander Brem in Norway, in 1999. In 2000 joined the keyboarder Halfface, followed by the guitarist Machine and Dementia aka the photographer Sandra Jensen (who developed the art direction of the band). GOTHMINISTER released the debut album “Gothic Electronic Anthems” in 2003 and got fantastic critics in both German and international press, and Metal Hammer UK headlines read “the undead are reborn”. GOTHMINISTER have had several successful club singles, and on top the hit “Angel” which entered the top 10 Deutsche Alternative Charts.
Blacklodge is producing Industrial Black Metal, at the crossroads of innovative audacity in extreme music creation and rigorous research in dark psychedelic mysticism Original pulse
Insanity/Suicide/Hell Mutation emerging from an underground black metal band called Faust (1994-1998), Blacklodge started first as a one man band and released 2 demos.
Saint Vincent was then joined by Silence and Diam's from his former band.
Death By Electro Giants were formed in 2006 in Newcastle upon Tyne and consist of Steven Ordinaire- vocals/keys/programming & Dan Thujone- backing vocals/guitars and Chris Deadlock - Bass guitar. They could be best described as 'industrial metal' though there are a lot of influences in their music that deny them such a rigid definition. Death By Electro Giants have also been described as being, 'unique, not to be missed and refreshingly original.