It's now time for this month's Defunct Local Band Profile! To cap off the first half of 2026 in this series, our latest random selection takes us to a talented and creative early 2020s solo project from a familiar face in the metal community, so here's what you should know!
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Hometown: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Genre: Industrial Metal/Noise Rock
Lineup:
"Lord Unterbiss Von Wigwaus" Boyd Rendell (AlgomA, BeeFMouTH), all instruments
Audio/Video: Boyd put out four digital singles (complete with buyer-exclusive bonus tracks) on Bandcamp in 2021 and 2022 that were compiled into the 2023 compilation album "Bloom Closing", while they factored on the "Pyrolytic Punishment" split with inactive local goregrind solo project Crucify The Whore in 2023, and released one final standalone single, "Diesel On The Steamship I & II" in 2024. Much of Molten Imp's studio catalogue can also be heard on their Soundcloud page and YouTube channel, plus some instrumental electronic performances not directly tied to Molten Imp by name on the latter, though anything posted on their Facebook page (let alone their original Bandcamp page) has long since been taken down. Here's the title track from their second single "Constable Sewage"!
Info/Analysis: Quietly launched in 2019 (shortly after Algoma went inactive) but only going public two years later, Molten Imp are Boyd's most recent musical project, taking things into a far more industrial and post-rock bent than his bands were, while relishing in dark and cryptic social media promotion. A one-time signing to Mike Haggith's MorningStar Records who even experimented with Patreon backing and fan contests, Molten Imp teased the occasional collaboration with other artists, including work with Twistory's Josh Amendola as a songwriter, but a planned live debut at October 2022's Garbageface/No Funeral concert from Dryer Fire did not come to pass. Public updates slowed down by late 2023 as Boyd left Facebook, with June 2024's "Diesel On The Steamship" single being their last public act. I did prefer Boyd's band work for heaviness, but Molten Imp showed a different side of him, with many songs leaning more into electronica and drum-and-bass than metal, though a darker ambiance permeated regardless.
Molten Imp let Boyd stretch with experimental effects, samples, and a lean towards deconstructing the songs on offer. It's hard to explain, but for local bands, the only really equitable one that I can cite is The Realignment Project, and they don't even dabble in extreme metal and harsh vocals. Creative stuff on the whole, so don't bypass Molten Imp, as they have a lot of music that will appeal to a lot of tastes!
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I hope you guys liked this month's Defunct Local Band Profile Series! Things return on or around July 10th when we look at another randomly selected local band of the past, and as fate would have it, we're staying industrial via another solo project, namely local/Winnipeg industrial/classical act Sell This!, so look for that on or around July 10th! That's all for now, but stay tuned for this weekend's concert previews next! Thanks everyone!
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