Todd Smith (Dog Fashion Disco)

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Todd Smith, born in 1976 in Rockville, Maryland, was the lead singer and songwriter for the multi-genre metal band Dog Fashion Disco. Smith contributed vocal and guitar work to the album The Exotic Sounds of the Alter Boys by the Ohio-based band The Alter Boys, an experimental funk metal band featuring Ryan Dunn of the show Jackass.

On February 18, 2007 Todd Smith started a musical project called Polkadot Cadaver, announced shortly after the break-up of Dog Fashion Disco. In the December 2006 break-up notice on the Dog Fashion Disco MySpace account, Smith makes an allusion to the potential future of his career as a musician, citing "John Ensminger and I will be recording a demo to shop in February and that will determine if he and I venture into another band."

During the extant of Todd Smith's work as a vocalist, his singing ability encompassed a range styles of comparable to Mike Patton, including a high falsetto, lounge-style singing, and death metal vocals, often incorporating all three into single songs. Smith's lyrical content possesses an uncanny tendency towards morbidity and twistedness, with frequent references to subjects such as murder, suicide, mutilation, drug use and sexual perversion.