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Lordi
Lordi () is a Finnish rock band from Rovaniemi. The band was formed in 1992 by the band's lead singer, songwriter and costume maker Mr Lordi (Tomi Petteri Putaansuu), and are known for wearing monster masks and using horror elements with pyrotechnics during concerts and music videos. The band rose to fame in 2002 with their hit single "Would You Love a Monsterman?", and won the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with their song "Hard Rock Hallelujah".
Sia
Sia Kate Isobelle Furler ( ; born 18 December 1975) is an Australian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Adelaide, she started her career as a singer in the acid jazz band Crisp in the mid-1990s. When Crisp disbanded in 1997, she released her debut studio album, OnlySee, in Australia. Sia moved to London and provided vocals for the English duo Zero 7. She released her second studio album, Healing Is Difficult, in 2001 and her third, Colour the Small One, in 2004.
Pussy Riot
Russian punk-rock collective based in Moscow
Slipknot
American band
Daft Punk
French electronic music band
Alan Walker
Norwegian DJ and music producer
Grace Jones
Jamaican singer, model and actress
Marshmello
Christopher Comstock (born May 19, 1992), known professionally as Marshmello and Dotcom, is an American DJ and record producer. His songs "Silence" (featuring Khalid), "Wolves" (with Selena Gomez), "Friends" (with Anne-Marie), "Happier" (with Bastille), and "Alone" have each received multi-platinum certifications in several countries, and peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. His musical style includes groove-oriented, synth and bass-heavy electronic dance music.
Deadmau5
Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead-mouse", and stylized in all lowercase), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. His musical style mostly includes progressive house and electro house genres, though he also produces and DJs other genres of electronic music, including techno under the alias Testpilot. Zimmerman mostly appears and performs with a custom helmet called the "mau5head". He has received seven Grammy Award nominations and won four Juno Awards for his songs.
Ghost
Swedish musical group; hard rock band
MF DOOM
British-American rapper (1971–2020)
Gims
Gandhi Alimasi Djuna (born 6 May 1986), known professionally as Maître Gims and more recently just Gims (stylized in all caps), is a Congolese singer, rapper, producer, and songwriter. Gims grew up in France and currently lives in France and Morocco. He rose to fame as a member of the hip hop group Sexion d'Assaut and pursued an individual career under the name Maître Gims in 2013. In 2006, he released an extended play, titled Ceux qui dorment les yeux ouverts. During his career he has worked with several international artists such as Sia, Pitbull, Lil Wayne, Stromae, Maluma, Sting, and others
Buckethead
Mr Lordi
Finnish rock musician
Hollywood Undead
American rap rock band
Wes Borland
American musician
Mick Thomson
American guitarist
The Knife
Swedish electronic music duo
Karin Dreijer
Swedish musician
Animal Collective
American experimental pop band
Subwoolfer
Subwoolfer is a British-Norwegian pop trio formed in 2022. Two of the members perform as wolves in black suits with white shirts with distinctive yellow stylized wolf-head masks and yellow gloves and ties and go by the pseudonyms Keith and Jim. The third member, DJ Astronaut joins them on stage in a golden astronaut suit. The wolves' identities were publicly revealed on 4 February 2023 as Ben Adams and Gaute Ormåsen, during the final of ''. After winning , they represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with their debut song "Give That Wolf a Banana". The name of the group is a por
Angerfist
Danny Masseling (born 20 June 1981), better known by his stage name Angerfist, is a Dutch hardcore producer and DJ.
The Residents
American musical group and art collective
Devo
Devo is an American new wave band from Akron, Ohio, formed in 1973. Their classic line-up consisted of two sets of brothers, the Mothersbaughs (Mark and Bob) and the Casales (Gerald and Bob), along with Alan Myers. The band had a No. 14 Billboard chart hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It", the song that gave the band mainstream popularity.
Sido
German rapper
Mr. Bungle
American experimental rock band
Death in June
British musical group; neofolk band
Gwar
Gwar, often stylized as GWAR, is an American heavy metal band formed in Richmond, Virginia, in 1984, composed of and operated by a frequently rotating line-up of musicians, artists, and filmmakers collectively known as Slave Pit Inc.
Angine de Poitrine
Angine de Poitrine is a Canadian rock duo formed in the Chicoutimi borough of Saguenay, Quebec, in 2019. It is composed of two anonymous musicians performing under pseudonyms as guitarist Khn de Poitrine and drummer Klek de Poitrine. They are known for complex, microtonal compositions in the style of math rock and experimental rock, and an absurdist public image, featuring oversized papier-mâché masks and black-and-white polka-dotted costumes.
Ado
Japanese singer
Scarlxrd
Marius Lucas Antonio Listhrop (born 19 June 1994), known professionally as Scarlxrd (pronounced "Scarlord"), is a British rapper, singer-songwriter, and former YouTuber. He is known for his unique musical style and is considered a pioneer of the trap metal genre, a combination of trap music and heavy metal. Formerly known under his YouTube moniker Mazzi Maz, he began a career in music as the vocalist for nu metal band Myth City before debuting as a rapper under the Scarlxrd name.
Felicia Eriksson
Swedish singer (born 2001)
Blue Man Group
music and theatre organization
Mortiis
Mortiis is an electronic band from Notodden, Norway fronted by Håvard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. The name is a misspelling of the word "mortis", which is the pronunciation used by the band. Mortiis started as the solo project of Ellefsen as a means to convey a story. This aspect was lost over time and Mortiis slowly formed into a band. Ellefsen previously played bass in the black metal band Emperor (1991–1992), prior to forming this project in 1993. The time he spent in his previous band laid the groundworks for mixing black metal elements with various electronic
Sleep Token
British metal band
Gesaffelstein
Mike Lévy (born 24 June 1985), known professionally as Gesaffelstein (), is a French music programmer, DJ, songwriter and producer from Lyon. Often called the "Dark Prince of Techno", he has worked alongside artists such as Lady Gaga, the Weeknd, Daft Punk, Kanye West, A$AP Rocky, Electric Youth, Haim, Miss Kittin, the Hacker, Jean-Michel Jarre, Lil Nas X, Charli XCX, Pharrell Williams and Chuck Ellis. At the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, he won the Grammy Award for Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical for his remix of Gaga's "Abracadabra".
Boris Brejcha
German DJ and music producer
Deuce
American musician
Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead is an American heavy metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in the Cleveland Warehouse District, the band is known for their avant-garde sound and horror film-inspired imagery which features masks and costumes as well as their unique live shows usually performed at smaller venues.
Brujeria
American extreme metal band
The Berzerker
Australian metal band
Man with a Mission
Japanese rock band
Jabbawockeez
The Jabbawockeez is an American hip-hop dance crew that rose to prominence as the winner of the first season of ''America's Best Dance Crew'' in 2008. The group was established in 2003 in San Diego, California, by dancers Kevin "KB" Brewer and Joe Larot. They participated in dance competitions with the idea of striking a balance between dancing to the music, and dancing as an artistic expression.
TISM
TISM ( ; an acronym of This Is Serious Mum) are a seven-piece anonymous alternative rock band, formed in Melbourne, Australia, on 30 December 1982 by vocalist/drummer Humphrey B. Flaubert, bassist/vocalist Jock Cheese and keyboardist/vocalist Eugene de la Hot Croix Bun, with vocalist Ron Hitler-Barassi joining the group the following year. These four members have formed the core of the band since their inception, with the line-up being rounded out by guitarists Leak Van Vlalen (1982–1991), Tokin' Blackman (1991–2004; died 2008) and Vladimir Lenin-McCartney (2022–present), as well as backing vo
The Bloody Beetroots
Italian musician
Cro
German rapper and singer
Teddybears
Swedish band playing alternative rock
ClariS
ClariS is a Japanese pop music group formed in 2009, originally composed of Hokkaido junior high schoolers Clara and Alice. Once a duo, the lineup consisted of the two before Alice's departure in mid-2014, with Karen joining later that year. Following Karen's departure in 2024, Elly and Anna joined Claris in early 2025.
Tobias Forge
Swedish musician
GUT
German grindcore band
Thunderstick
Barry Graham Purkis, more commonly known by his stage name Thunderstick (born 7 December 1954), is an English drummer who wore various masks and used to perform on-stage closed in a cage. He was in the cult-band Samson, with whom his name is most associated.
Mike Candys
Swiss DJ, record producer and composer
Orville Peck
Canadian musician
Three Musicians
set of two similar paintings painted Pablo Picasso in 1921
Beat Crusaders
Japanese band
Asesino
Asesino (Spanish for "assassin" or "murderer") is an American deathgrind supergroup and a side project of Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares. The band has featured members of Brujeria, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Sadistic Intent, Possessed, Ministry, and Static-X.
Crimson Glory
American heavy metal band
The Network
new wave side project of rock band Green Day
BoyWithUke
Carla's Dreams
Moldovan music project