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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.

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Ill Niño

Ill Niño (stylized as ill niño) is an American metal band formed in Union City, New Jersey, in 1998 by drummer and percussionist Dave Chavarri. They have released seven studio albums, two EPs and one compilation album, totaling in over 1.3 million worldwide album sales.

Ill Niño was formed as El Niño by former Pro-Pain drummer David "Dave" Chavarri in May 1998. He enlisted Merauder vocalist Jorge Rosado, guitarist Daniel Gomez and bassist Christian Machado and took on the position of drummer and percussionist himself. With this line-up, the band released a self-titled EP. Gomez left the band soon after the EP's release, with a variety of guitarists filling in his spot. Among them were future fulltime member Marc Rizzo, Scott Roberts of Biohazard and Derek Sykes of Demolition Hammer. Sykes also appears on the compilation album Métalo, released by Grita! Records in June 1999. By this time, the band had already renamed to Ill Niño. However, just a month later, the band was put on hold due to Chavarri taking over Roy Mayorga's duties in Soulfly on the Bring Da Shit Tour. After two months on tour, Chavarri decided to reform his old band, now with Machado on lead vocals and joined by guitarists Marc Rizzo and Jardel Paisante, bassist Lazaro Pina and Roger Vasquez on additional percussions. In this formation, the band's first release was a self-titled EP in 2000. They received exposure via the New Jersey metal college radio station WSOU and opened for bands like Kittie, Soulfly and Snapcase. Subsequently, the band was signed by Roadrunner Records.