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Artifact

The name Artifact is currently used by two bands and one jazz quartet, and an electronic musician: 1) Ken Vandermark - reeds
Johannes Bauer - trombone
Thomas Lehn - analogue synthesizer
Paal Nilssen-Love - drums 2) Artifact is a industrial/goth metal band from the city of Stavanger on the west coast of Norway, formed in late 2002. After a rough start and a l series of line-up changes, the band settled on their line-up in late 2004 when vocalist Tor Arne Fassotte of Unpure and This Negative Karma joined the band.

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Threat Signal

Threat Signal arose from the filthy, industrialized east end of Hamilton, ON Canada, in late 2003. A detuned, syncopated, melodic metal machine, Threat Signal combines the complexity of Bay Area and European thrash, with a more contemporary groove metal sound involving technical rhythms, and musical passages. Before the band had played a single live show, their home recordings generated significant interest online.

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Deathstars

Deathstars is an industrial metal band formed in Sweden in January 2000. The current lineup consists primarily of members from Swordmaster, a black metal project that has former members of Dissection, and Ophthalamia. The band currently consists of Whiplasher Bernadotte (lead vocals), Nightmare Industries (guitar and keyboards), Skinny Disco (bass guitar, backing vocals), Bone W Machine (drums) and Cat Casino (guitar). They have released three full length studio albums.
Formation, Synthetic Generation (2000-2003)

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Rocket To Memphis

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

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MDM

MDM (martyr diabolos martyr) is a three-piece electronic band from Niagara Falls Ontario, Canada, that combines elements of Electronica, Alternative Metal and Industrial. To date, they have released two full-length cassettes: Traumatia Dire in 1995 and Vampires of the Western World in 1996 as well as three full length CD's entitled Afloat on the River Styx in 1998, Dawn of a New Order in 2000 and Unified State of Aggression in 2003.

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Emperor

Emperor is an influential Norwegian band that represents a synth laden, progressive yet brutally aggressive and chaotic part of the genre, something quite different from the minimalism of other originators of the Norwegian sound (e.g. Darkthrone). The band was formed around the core members Samoth (Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen) and Ihsahn (Vegard Sverre Tveitan) of the band Thou Shalt Suffer and bass player Mortiis (Håvard Ellefsen) in Notodden, Norway, 1992.

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Wayne Static

Wayne Static (real name Wayne Richard Wells, born on November 4, 1965) is an American musician who was born in Muskegon, Michigan, and is currently the singer, guitarist, and programmer for the Industrial band Static-X. His hometown is Shelby, Michigan and he graduated from Western Michigan University. Before Static-X, he worked as an asparagus picker. Wayne is also a vegetarian because he opposes animal captivity.

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Saints of Eden

Following his departure from UK band Nefilim, Cian Houchin went on to form Saints Of Eden.
SOE have released four albums, The Other Side, Proteus, Overload and the NEW ALBUM FORBIDDEN PLEASURE.
The current band members are:
* Cian Houchin (vocals)
* Ross Anderson (guitar)
* Andy Kendle (bass guitar)
* Flow (drums)
* Dave XM (guitar 2)

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