# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/weasel-walter
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:48:10.673Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/weasel-walter"
name: "Weasel Walter"
slug: "weasel-walter"
description: "Weasel Walter is an American composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and founder of ugEXPLODE Records. Walter's work has been informed by techniques and traditions of music including Avant-garde, experimental, no wave, free jazz, extreme metal, punk jazz, hardcore punk, noise, new music and \nfree improvisation. He coined the term \"brutal prog\" to describe the aggressively dissonant strain of prog played by groups like his band the Flying Luttenbachers."
tagline: "American composer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WeaselWalter.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1972-05-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.99
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.82394
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8633578/"
    handle:    "nm8633578"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/216186"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "وايسيل والتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_Walter"
    title: "Weasel Walter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_Walter"
    title: "Weasel Walter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_Walter"
    title: "Weasel Walter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_Walter"
    title: "Weasel Walter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/fb81800c-4270-45e8-ba4f-75747f5de736"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2483842"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3058969"
    title: "Weasel Walter"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump