Avant-Garde

There are several bands under the name Smegma: a noise/free music band currently based Portland, OR., a German skinhead band which called their style of music "Schrammel Oi!", a Dutch grindcore band who shared a split EP with Agathocles in 1991, and more. The picture is Portland's version of Smegma. The songs are (obviously) mostly not. Smegma is an American experimental noise group formed in Pasadena, California in 1973 by Ju Suk Reet Meate and several others and is currently based in Portland, Oregon.

Spawn of Possession is a technical death metal band from Sweden, which consists of Dennis R

Mats Gustafsson (born 1964 in Umeå) is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He first came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with Christian Munthe (started in 1986) and the band Gush (started in 1988). He has later played widely with musicians such as Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Paul Lovens, Barry Guy and Derek Bailey. Since the early 1990s, Mats Gustafsson has been a regular visitor to the U.S.

Luca Turilli's Rhapsody is the name of the new band of the Italian composer Luca Turilli due to the friendly split between Luca Turilli and Alex Starpoli (main composers of the bands Rhapsody and Rhapsody of Fire). The addition of Luca's name before Rhapsody is due to the same legal reasons of the past not allowing him to use the word Rhapsody alone. The first album Ascending To Infinity would be released in late june 2012. Discography:
- Ascending To Infinity (2012) Line up:
- Luca Turilli (guitars and keyboards)