--- title: "Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network" description: "## Death Metal" date: "2019-04-19" modified: "2019-04-19" authors: - name: "Jon Christian" job_title: "Executive Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/brutal-death-metal-neural-network" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" tags: - "artificial intelligence" - "death metal" - "music" - "the digest" --- # Listen to Brutal Death Metal Made by a Neural Network ![A neural network is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars and bellowing vocals of death metal — and livestreaming it.]() *\Image: Tag Hartman-Simkins\* ## Death Metal In a project called "Relentless Doppelganger," a neural network is grinding out the blast beats, super-distorted guitars, and bellowing vocals of death metal. The best part of all: it's streaming its brutal creations 24 hours a day on YouTube — an intriguing and public example of AI that's now able to generate convincing imitations of human art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNNmBtNcccE ## Dadabots The neural network is the work of Dadabots, a research duo that experiments with creating music using artificial intelligence tools. Th**e** death metal project, which they trained using tracks by death metal band Archspire, is the first that they've livestreamed instead of releasing as an album, and the change in format had everything to do with the quality of the neural network's output. In Dadabots' previous experiments, which dabbled in [black metal and Beatles-inspired tracks](), only about 5 percent of the AI-generated tracks were usable, co-creator CJ Carr told Futurism, and the programmers had to curate it. "The remarkable part is the high quality-to-shit ratio," Carr told Futurism of this new project. "Here, we livestream 100 percent of it," he said. "Zero curation necessary." ## Black Metal Part of the success of "Relentless Doppelganger," Carr suspects, is the relentless speed of Archspire's songs. "It seems the faster the blast beats, the more stable the music," he told Futurism. "Archspire is insanely fast." **READ MORE:** [This YouTube Channel Streams AI-Generated Death Metal 24/7]() \[*Motherboard*\] **More on AI-generated music:** [*Expert: AI-Generated Music Is A “Total Legal Clusterf\*ck”*]() ## Author I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()