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Charles Hayward
Charles Hayward
British musician
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Fred Frith
Fred Frith
English musician, composer and improvisor
2
Skeleton Crew
Skeleton Crew
American experimental rock and jazz group
3
Tom Cora
Tom Cora
American cellist and composer
4
Death Ambient
Death Ambient
American experimental and ambient music trio
5
Material
Material
American band led by Bill Laswell
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Fred Frith Trio
Fred Frith Trio
American experimental music and free improvising group
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Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
American musician
8
Painkiller
Painkiller
band
9
The Golden Palominos
The Golden Palominos
American alternative rock band
10
Tim Hodgkinson
Tim Hodgkinson
English experimental music composer and performer
11
Chris Cutler
Chris Cutler
English percussionist, composer, lyricist and music theorist
12
Ikue Mori
Ikue Mori
Japanese drummer
13
Michiyo Yagi
Michiyo Yagi
Japanese musician
14
Maybe Monday
Maybe Monday
American experimental music group
15
William Winant
William Winant
American percussionist
16
Henry Cow
Henry Cow
English avant-rock group
17
Kato Hideki
Kato Hideki
Japanese musician
18
John Zorn
John Zorn
American composer, saxophonist and bandleader
19
Fred Lonberg-Holm
Fred Lonberg-Holm
American musician
20
Wu Fei
Wu Fei
Chinese singer
21
Bob Ostertag
Bob Ostertag
American musician
22
Carla Kihlstedt
Carla Kihlstedt
American violinist, singer and composer
23
Guy Klucevsek
Guy Klucevsek
American musician
24
Henry Kaiser
Henry Kaiser
American guitarist, film director, and scientific diver
25
Joey Baron
Joey Baron
American avant-garde jazz drummer
26
Zeena Parkins
Zeena Parkins
American musician
27
Chris Brown
Chris Brown
American composer, pianist and electronic musician
28
Hans Reichel
Hans Reichel
German improvisational guitarist, experimental luthier, inventor, and type designer
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Little Feat
Little Feat
American band
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Alvin Curran
Alvin Curran
American musician and composer
31
Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
British guitarist
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Wayne Horvitz
Wayne Horvitz
American musician
33
Ronald Shannon Jackson
Ronald Shannon Jackson
American drummer
34
John Russell
John Russell
English guitarist
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American experimental rock band
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Members, past and present

Massacre was founded in 1980 in New York City by guitarist Fred Frith, bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher as an improvising and experimental rock band. They performed live for just over a year and recorded a studio album, Killing Time (1981). Frith and Laswell reformed Massacre in 1998 with drummer Charles Hayward, and released four more albums, Funny Valentine (1998), Meltdown (2001), Lonely Heart (2007) and Love Me Tender (2013). The last three albums were recorded live, the first in London, and the others at European festivals between 1999 and 2008.

The BBC described Massacre as "an unholy union of The Shadows, Captain Beefheart, Derek Bailey and Funkadelic".