How to Tell Noise Artists Apart
How to Tell Noise Artists Apart
Merzbow: Nothing makes sense, yet *everything* makes sense.
Masonna: Screaming about Vaginas or something idek
Whitehouse: Edgy dads yelling about fucked up sex over WASP drones
Consumer Electronics: When the Mr. is tired of telling you how worthless you are, the Mrs. will finish the job. (Update: Not anymore!)
Hijokaidan: Music so loud you have to piss on stage to enjoy it.
The Gerogerigegege: ????????????????? vacuum cleaner sex ????????????????????????
Suckdog: This is a big, beautiful fucking mess made by two wild girls and a cassette recorder.
Master/Slave Relationship: Sounds like something you would hear playing in a grimy torture chamber.
Hanatarash: OH GOD EVERYTHING IS BEING BULLDOZED GET ME OUT OF HERE
The Haters: OH GOD EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE GET ME OUT OF HERE
Ramleh: Songs are lush and ambient; you almost forget this is a noise project
Sutcliffe Jugend: Surprisingly melodic songs about serial killers and Nazis.
Genocide Organ: This might be about Nazis. I don’t know. The beats slap regardless.
Haus Araf na: This is definitely about Nazis, but like, how awful they were. The synth lead slaps so fucking hard regardless.
Brighter Death Now: You’re wincing the entire time you’re hearing the lyrics.
Deathpile: Every song is about a serial killer; every word is barked out like an angry, scornful god
Atrax Morgue: Paraphilia time! What turns me on? Everything! What makes me want to die? Everything!
The Rita:OUCH MY EARS OUCH MY BRAIN OUCH OUCH OUCH
Wolf Eyes: They look like garage rock dads but sound like a freight train derailing in a village full of small children.
Aaron Dilloway: Sounds like warped cassette tapes haunted by all the ghosts in a city morgue
Prurient: I am TINY and I am HORNY and I am ANGRY ABOUT BEING TINY AND HORNY.
Alberich: You’re dancing to the beats but feeling slightly uneasy over the guy in sunglasses and a trench coat screaming at you.
Justice Yeldham: There’s probably blood spatter on whatever you ordered, and that adds extra “oomph” to the audio.
Dreamcrusher: GENDER IS OVER AND I’M GOING TO SCREAM ABOUT IT UNTIL YOU ACCEPT IT
Puce Mary: Movie soundtrack samples with poems about sex and/or death.
Croatian Amor: Pretty sure this guy wasn’t hugged enough as a child.
Author & Punisher: Okay, this is really fucking cool. Look at all those homemade instruments. Listen to that super melodic hook. Damn son.
Pharmakon: Loud noises, even louder screeching, every song is about bodies falling apart.
Trepaneringsritualen: Pagan lyrics growled out by a man that looks like an actual real Viking
Moor Mother: Hip Hop and noise had a baby and it’s full of justifiable rage
Lingua Ignota: She’s singing in Latin, she’s making weird faces, OH GOD THIS IS TERRIFYING, OH GOD wait a minute never mind she’s playing banjo now