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I've spent today revisiting Cave In's discography following Caleb Scofield's untimely death and realised that (much like his other projects Old Man Gloom and Zozobra) there is an occasional but notable noise presence on many albums (i.e., the second half of the track Controlled Mayhem Then Erupts).
The quality of these passages and the fact that other members/affiliates of this band have worked with people like Justin Broadrick and Dominick Fernow tells me it's probably not someone clueless just randomly hammering at a synth for an "atmospheric" outro but a pretty genuine inclusion of noise elements.
It got me thinking about other non-noise/industrial musicians that have successfully used noise elements in a way that didn't just seem like an afterthought- artists like Tom Waits, GY!BE, Full of Hell, spring to mind but I'd like to know if anyone else thinks about this and has any recommendations.
I think there a number of post-rock, post-metal/atmospheric sludge and grindcore bands that fall within this category.
Neurosis's sample and noise heavy interludes from the early '90s onward set a precedent for that style of music to use noise in that fashion. pretty much any band that tried to bite GY!BE style of epic post-rock mixed with tape music and sound collage has some form of "noise" involved in their sound.
Endon is notable for their harsh noise elements, but there's a history of that in grindcore, going back to Discordance Axis (who had MERZBOW helping out here and there), Narcosis (from the UK) and Mortalized (working with Guilty Connector). I'm sure there older examples in grindcore too.
Also you can find total sound overload from the late '60s/early '70s onward in psych rock where it becomes nothing but guitar noise.
I think maybe the better question is what "normal" bands have full-on harsh noise rather than atmospheric or texture noise...
Fair point- I guess I should have clarified that if there are bands out there successfully utilising total noise for certain segments then I'd love to hear it.
I forgot about Narcosis, I was actually in a black metal band with one of their members recently (Cold Fell)
Guess you are not looking for anything Black Metal related?
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on April 23, 2018, 05:25:32 PM
I think there a number of post-rock, post-metal/atmospheric sludge and grindcore bands that fall within this category.
Neurosis's sample and noise heavy interludes from the early '90s onward set a precedent for that style of music to use noise in that fashion. pretty much any band that tried to bite GY!BE style of epic post-rock mixed with tape music and sound collage has some form of "noise" involved in their sound.
Endon is notable for their harsh noise elements, but there's a history of that in grindcore, going back to Discordance Axis (who had MERZBOW helping out here and there), Narcosis (from the UK) and Mortalized (working with Guilty Connector). I'm sure there older examples in grindcore too.
Also you can find total sound overload from the late '60s/early '70s onward in psych rock where it becomes nothing but guitar noise.
I think maybe the better question is what "normal" bands have full-on harsh noise rather than atmospheric or texture noise...
I think it happened earlier than that. I think about something like Sore Throat / Saw Throat's "Inde$troy" album for instance, which has a really industrial feel. It came out in 1989. I also have a few late 80's/early 90's Brazilian noisecore demo tapes in which the bands don't hesitate to use the words "industrial" to qualify their noisecore and while they won't use samples or synths to make harshnoise, their prehistoric recordings and primitive production make them sound quite close to noise at times. It all gets blurry then, haha.
Also, if you've never heard them, you should check Nikudorei from Japan, they had Kenny/Facialmess in their line-up.
This is probably one of my favourite recordings ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4djQ0d_gqA
Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" and Hendrix's solo at Woodstock might be the two more common known examples. I also think the sound Mick Jagger improvised on a Moog for Kenneth Anger's "Invocation of My Demon Brother" as a nice example of pre-Industrial.
The Grateful Dead, in their live sets, were doing a segment (later titled on albums and setlists) called "Feedback". It wasn't just some noisy crap at the end of a song thumbing their noses (think Neil Young with his longwinded, dissonant endings), but it was intentional noise and fucking with sound (later to be known as "Space" and not nearly as aggressive as in the early days). I believe it was as early as 1968, but it wouldn't surprise me to find out it was even 1967. You can hear it officially on Live/Dead, and the Feedback track was recorded 1969-03-02.* There used to be a website where you could look up things exactly like this, but it is gone.
*whoops...Anthem of the Sun bonus tracks, with Feedback present, are from 1968-08-23.
**unrelated, but 68-09-20 sounds a lot like a Muslimgauze release
***speaking of Lou Reed, I bet The Velvet Underground was messing with noise as early as 1966. A few of those New York minimalists probably were. Reed didn't come up with that on his own.
I once read in a book about Pink Floyd that in their early days they'd play student's parties where they'd drug up and just lay on the feedback layers. And now that I'm thinking about it, The Who's famous destruction of their instruments at the end of their sets, which led to a cacophony of electric and acoustic sources creating junk noise. Also comes to mind Cronos of Venom's live bass solos, which were always just pure noise sets.
Quote from: Andrew McIntosh on April 24, 2018, 02:47:54 AM
I once read in a book about Pink Floyd that in their early days they'd play student's parties where they'd drug up and just lay on the feedback layers.
Pink Floyd knew (about)/were inspired by AMM in the early days.
Always interested in this kind of thing from a live perspective. Love the stories about My Bloody Valentine turning even the monitors toward the audience during shows to murder them with volume. Especially awesome when you consider the root of their sound is something very lush and beautiful. LOVE when something like that takes on a violent quality live simply because of extreme volume.
Personally less interested in what happens when someone who knows and likes noise applies it to their rock band, even though it's always nice to hear an unexpected person name check Incapacitants or get an underground band opening for them. See Sonic Youth etc
Quote from: monotome on April 23, 2018, 10:35:27 PM
Guess you are not looking for anything Black Metal related?
I suppose there are probably a fair amount of black metal bands which have proper noise tracks. generally when I think black metal I think dark ambient interludes rather than full on noise, but thinking on it I could come up with the following bands:
Akitsa
Aryan Kampf 88
Flooded Church of Asmodeus (at least the demo cassette)
Ildjarn (depends on what you see as noise)
Reptile Womb
Ride for Revenge
There are probably a few other bands related to Hospital Productions and Bestial Burst that would fit into this category although it almost feels like cheating since a lot of the artists are actively involved in the noise and black metal camps.
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on April 23, 2018, 05:25:32 PM
Neurosis's sample and noise heavy interludes from the early '90s onward set a precedent for that style of music to use noise in that fashion. pretty much any band that tried to bite GY!BE style of epic post-rock mixed with tape music and sound collage has some form of "noise" involved in their sound.
This is definitely a good example. Saw those guys live something like 8 years ago and there was one member doing just noise and sample stuff. Pretty nice beating and hammering on sampler, synth and so on, pretty high in the mix at times. Maybe also add stuff like THIS WILL DESTROY YOU to that list?
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on April 25, 2018, 04:33:12 PM
Quote from: monotome on April 23, 2018, 10:35:27 PM
Guess you are not looking for anything Black Metal related?
I suppose there are probably a fair amount of black metal bands which have proper noise tracks. generally when I think black metal I think dark ambient interludes rather than full on noise, but thinking on it I could come up with the following bands:
Akitsa
Aryan Kampf 88
Flooded Church of Asmodeus (at least the demo cassette)
Ildjarn (depends on what you see as noise)
Reptile Womb
Ride for Revenge
There are probably a few other bands related to Hospital Productions and Bestial Burst that would fit into this category although it almost feels like cheating since a lot of the artists are actively involved in the noise and black metal camps.
I would also add
Nyogthaeblisz
Ululatum Tollunt
Tetragrammacide
When speaking of BM with Noise we must set a line on what is considered Noise or not. If we speak about noisy BM, ultra raw BM and all that, is it really Noise or "just" noisy? I ear a lot of noise in BM stuff for the rawness but not that much Noise as we expect in the Noise scene.
That's definitly something that interests me. Specially if mixed together in the music and not used only as intros and such.
Nyogthaeblisz, Tetragrammacide and Reptile Womb all use noise as intros/outros but also incorporate noise into their sounds.
Nyogthaeblisz - Apex Satanist is a good example of them mixing noise elements in the songs
a total surpriser is schlager singer ville leinonen and his non-music album "camp crystal lake"
https://www.discogs.com/Ville-Leinonen-Camp-Crystal-Lake/master/503205
dude makes mega slimy and annoying finnish soap pop but this album is totally different since it has mostly creepy field / stalker recordings and lofi hums and crackles of emptiness, really hard to find anything wrong with this, even in the light of his other stuff
gotta add: has some stelzer / pbk flavors of contemplative recording/manipulization
Quote from: pentd on May 08, 2018, 05:47:28 PM
a total surpriser is schlager singer ville leinonen and his non-music album "camp crystal lake"
https://www.discogs.com/Ville-Leinonen-Camp-Crystal-Lake/master/503205
dude makes mega slimy and annoying finnish soap pop but this album is totally different since it has mostly creepy field / stalker recordings and lofi hums and crackles of emptiness, really hard to find anything wrong with this, even in the light of his other stuff
gotta add: has some stelzer / pbk flavors of contemplative recording/manipulization
gotta 2nd that recommendation!
admittedly wouldn't even know about the record if Pentti didn't hook me up years ago..
I really can't stand most music by the band Ween (aside from some older and more experimental material) but this track right here is too good. It's full of feedback and tape distortion, heavily effected and angry ranting vocals. Almost sounds like an indie bands playful attempt at making power electronics (there's even jokes about this in the comments)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSh7nNqOA0
There's also a great lo-fi pop / art rock group named Cindy Lee who have some songs that are just all out noise tantrums. Here's one of my favorite tracks by them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfLhVucym6U
GISM's incorporation of noise on M.A.N. is something that always stuck out when I was younger. Great album and the noise elements are utilized in a way that adds substance to the inhuman character of the music rather than just used for filler.
In genuflection to my younger self, I just got hold of the recently released double vinyl re-issue of Hilt / The Flu, Patsy: A Collection Of Absolute Insanity, early cEvin Key / Alan Nelson project. Hilt at their most experimental were capable of just about anything, some of it quite noisy, but good part of the more widely available material is very radio friendly, even danceable. So I'd still call them, at heart, non-noise artists with a fan-base more inclined toward industrial disco. Still I was surprised at just how noisy the above collection of insanity gets. Call it over-the-top shambolic layered garage rock with heaps of hefty distortion and random weirdness, straight up rocking tracks quickly devolving into phone-sex digression.
There are no samples online, yet, but here's an early example of Hilt / The Flu. Starts off almost garage rock-y, then is blasted through with layers of harsh distortion. I like that it gets noisier as the track progresses. I'd read once that the recording itself dates from the late 70s Key / Nelson punk band, so actually a pre-Hilt, pre-Flu-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovJac0fBoI
The overdriven fuzz textures used on the guitar and organ tracks in the Velvet Underground's "Sister Ray" and "I Heard Her Call My Name" off White Light/White Heat were essential in shifting my preferences from notes and tones to pure sound. They still sound impressively crunchy and saturated even since finding The Rita, M.O., and Dead Body Love. I know there are likely "better" examples but that's more or less where it started for me.
Quote from: vegasfountain on May 09, 2018, 12:06:34 AM
I really can't stand most music by the band Ween (aside from some older and more experimental material) but this track right here is too good. It's full of feedback and tape distortion, heavily effected and angry ranting vocals. Almost sounds like an indie bands playful attempt at making power electronics (there's even jokes about this in the comments)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivSh7nNqOA0
I always had a soft spot for Ween and now I know why. Good to know Ween can knock out a more interesting PE track than a lot of PE artists.
Daft Punk.
https://youtu.be/JI5noh4OyXc?t=294
a couple that had an influence on me when first heard many years ago as it was disharmonious and at the time was basically 'noise' to me... until i got used to it anyways. these stuck out to me...
Chrome █ Half Machine Lips Move (album) ▬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZfGrdRcTyc
Rudimentary Peni █ Cacophony (album) ▬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL-sX36SJvc
Guitar Wolf █ Jet Generation (album) ▬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUabO1cZ1zo
Velvet Underground - Black Angel Of Death Song ▬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU4G_8VYlOQ
Legendary Stardust Cowboy - Paralyzed ▬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viK3i0fRDRs
Hasil Adkins - She Said ▬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLka7gxpivw
Cows (anything live from these guys goes into chaos usually) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4mKRm9rSLU
I will stop now as this will go on forever. The term 'noise' being relative may make you scoff at these but either way they are all good stuff, 'noise' or not. This counts as making an effort. ☻
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on April 25, 2018, 04:33:12 PM
Quote from: monotome on April 23, 2018, 10:35:27 PM
Guess you are not looking for anything Black Metal related?
I suppose there are probably a fair amount of black metal bands which have proper noise tracks. generally when I think black metal I think dark ambient interludes rather than full on noise, but thinking on it I could come up with the following bands:
Akitsa
Aryan Kampf 88
Flooded Church of Asmodeus (at least the demo cassette)
Ildjarn (depends on what you see as noise)
Reptile Womb
Ride for Revenge
There are probably a few other bands related to Hospital Productions and Bestial Burst that would fit into this category although it almost feels like cheating since a lot of the artists are actively involved in the noise and black metal camps.
Also some Abruptum albums!