Curse of the Golden Vampire is currently Justin Broadrick and Kevin Martin. Broadrick was a founding member of seminal thrashers Napalm Death. After leaving the band, he became a member of Head of David before forming, then eventually disbanding, brooding industrialists Godflesh. At the moment he is a member of Techno Animal (alongside Martin) and records under a variety of different names through a number of genres. He has remixed artists as diverse as Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Isis and the Lemonheads.

Kevin Martin is also a bit of a legend of noise-core. He founded and then disbanded God, but not before working with John Zorn, Bill Laswell and AMM. He was once a member of EAR alongside Sonic Boom of Spaceman 3 and Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine. He also founded the Pathological label, which released albums by Lydia Lunch, Casper/Peter Brotzmann, Zeni Geva and Oxbow. Aside from Curse of the Golden Vampire and Techno Animal, his current projects include a ragga/dub project called The Bug and remixing DJ Vadim, Adrian Sherwood and Will Oldham.

Broadrick and Martin met when God and Godflesh toured together. Their shared tastes for musical extremes, abusing electronics and a shared history of being baptised by anarcho punk, led them to form Techno Animal. When T.A. were touring with Alec Empire they collectively gave birth to Curse of the Golden Vampire. The threesome released a self-titled album on Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings in 1998. Broadrick and Martin decided to go it alone and the second COTGV album was recorded. It will be released on Ipecac, a label part owned by long term admirer Mike Patton.

By the time Queens released their third album Songs for the Deaf in 2002 they had arguably become the biggest band in the world. Around this time Nick decided to return to the Mondo Generator project and record their second album A Drug Problem That Never Existed. Teaming up with drummer Brant Bjork (another Kyuss alumni, as well as a former member of Fu Manchu and his own band the Operators), guitarist Dave Catching (QOTSA, earthlings?, Texorcist) and Molly Maguire (earthlings?, Yellow #5), the album was produced by Oliveri with Brad Cook (R.L. Burnside, Vandals, Foo Fighters) and infamous singer/carnival barker/pain in the ass Blag Dhalia of the Dwarves.

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