Daniel Dumile is a British born American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM (now simply known as "DOOM") , where the "MF" stood for "Metal Face"/"Metal Fingers". He has also been known as Viktor Vaughn, Zev Love X, King Geedorah, Metal Fingers, and the Supervillain. He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse) and Madvillain (with Madlib).
Doom's first commercial breakthrough came in 2004, with the album Madvillainy together with producer Madlib under the group name Madvillain. Released by Stones Throw Records, the album was a critical and commercial success. MF Doom was seen by mainstream audiences for the first time as Madvillain received publicity and acclaim in publications such as Rolling Stone, New York Times, The New Yorker, and Spin. A video for "All Caps" and a four-date U.S. tour followed the release of Madvillainy. Additional videos for "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Accordion," both directed by Andrew Gura, were released on the DVDs Stones Throw 101 and "Stones Throw 102: In Living the True Gods," respectively.
In the same year, MF Doom's second solo album MM..Food was released by the Minnesota-based label Rhymesayers Entertainment. As Viktor Vaughn (another play on Doctor Doom, whose "real name" is Victor von Doom) he has released two albums Vaudeville Villain & Venomous Villain (also called VV2). Another alias MF Doom has taken character as, is a three-headed space monster called King Geedorah, which plays on the name by the Godzilla monster "King Ghidorah". In the disguise of this alien figure, he's done the album Take Me to Your Leader where he mainly plays the role as a producer only appearing on a couple of songs.
