Music like Violent Work of Art

Violent Work of Art (VWOA) is a Swedish industrial metal band that combines metalcore with trance music.

Violent Work of Art was formed in 1993 and played metalcore under the name Red Alert. The band soon changed their name to Violent Work of Art, Anders Gyllensten (guitars) and Wincent Ek (guitars) joined.

In 1994 they recorded the demo, titled "Aggressive", and sent it to various record labels, trying to get a record deal. In 1995 they released another demo, titled "Hard". In 1996 Download Records signed the band and they released Breeding Dance which contained all the songs on the Aggressive and Hard albums.

The band lost their record deal with Download Records when the owner of the label committed suicide and the label was put out of business. In 1998 the band changed their musical style, and member line-up, and started to play Industrial Metal Music. They released their drummer and began using a Drum Machine. VWOA did a cover of AC/DC's song "Hells Bells", which was featured on the album A Salute To AC/DC, released by Tribute Records, which brought them a fair share of publicity. Another noteworthy cover they made was of Ozzy Osbourne's song "Bark at the Moon". In 1999 they released Promo '99, their first demo with their new style, and in 2000 they released Promo 2000. They remained unsigned by a label during this period. Violent Work Of Art gained a lot of notoriety from countries like France, U.S. and Germany by uploading their songs at Mp3.com, which was later transformed by Cnet into more of a commercial music website.