Pertaining to the more extreme end (but not "noisecore") and not really anything from the "Wolf Eyes" wave of noise circa 2005-2010
For example, a few friends of mine (andy from The Vomit Arsonist, Jim from Deterge) turned me on to Today Is The Day and Unsane, really getting into that kind of post-hardcore-noiserock-mathcore stuff...
Regarding newer bands with that metal-meets-noiserock sound:
- KEN mode - (check out their newest "Venerable", it's a fucking monster)
- For your enjoyment, here's a band I put out on my label years ago before i ended it featuring members of the raw hardcore bands Horrible Creeps and Drug Money from Columbus, Ohio.
Hollow Bones - Crowskins
http://www.mediafire.com/?0gzeudm9wxk
like a really bass-driven Unsane, or a thrashy Swans...
finally, I've been told Keelhaul is worth checking out (they're from my hometown, anyhow) but they seem to be building a following pretty fast... anyone got to hear / see them yet?
This stuff has been on uprise for some years now, hasn't it?
I know that some of my friends have been making great cheap scores of old vinyl releases, in moment when nobody cares, but seems like soon would hit wave of demand. In Finland, THROAT is very good in this rhythmical, obscure tempo/flow changes of stuff.
http://www.ihatethroat.com/
(I recommend to check out the new video too!)
I like the fact that they have more brutal vocals than many noise rock bands. This term is so vague, it can be something from nearly grunge like to noisecore to guitar feedback stuff.. I guess topic was covered a bit among discussions of early Skullflower, Splintered, Playground, rock era Ramleh, etc..
It seems like the Relapse and AmRep style of metal-influenced noise rock is sorta rising (Profound Lore label is really seeing to that), but the scene is currently flooded with a lot of bands that are literally just strumming open chords on a guitar really fast and drumming...that stuff has it's place but a lot of those bands are inspired by the popularity of bands like Sightings or Hair Police - the latter of which are actually pretty great - are a dime a dozen
In terms of DIY "noise rock", Lechuguillas and Dead Peasant Insurance are way worth checking out. Their songs actually seem to have form and structure and aren't just the shred/rinse/repeat of most of the hip no-waver slacker noise rock..
is eyehategod noiserock?
Not sure if you're being serious, but a lot of these bands really seem to carry that kind of "hardcore/sludge" influence, so if you're down with EHG these bands shouldn't be a huge stretch...
it definitely was serious...I always considered EHG as some kind of noiserock but never got into that genre beside that...
CHERUBS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raLXBfAh95I
STICKMEN WITH RAYGUNS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW-BFikPvew&feature=related
BUTCHER COVER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDxc4vqMMDc
RUSTED SHUT - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPe5aJfsodc
THE HOMOPOLICE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r5ebJSUpfI
BILLY BAO - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2VIhWjojZk
just some of my favorites.
Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on April 25, 2011, 11:12:14 PM
In Finland, THROAT is very good in this rhythmical, obscure tempo/flow changes of stuff.
http://www.ihatethroat.com/
(I recommend to check out the new video too!)
Thank you, sir! Throat's new 12" "Licked Inch Fur" is out this week, actually.
As previously mentioned, the term 'noise rock' is pretty vague, ranging from the early 80s bands such as Drunks With Guns, Stick Men with Ray Guns, Big Black etc. to the whole Amphetamine Reptile / Trance Syndicate / early Sub Pop scene of the late 80s/early 90s to all the stuff that's mixing together hundreds of different styles these days. Also, Skullflower, Ramleh, Splintered etc. definitely have a part in the genre as well.
Too many favourites to list really, but some bands I've been spinning lately are Grids, SQRM, Brainbombs, Kittens, Shallow North Dakota, Shorty, Mama Tick, The Catalyst, etc... etc... etc...
I'd say the band Drunkdriver often walks the line between noisy hardcore and noise rock.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Drunkdriver
Their last LP, Self Titled LP was one of my favorites from last year. I'd definitely recommend them. They also did an unusual collaboration with Mattin a few years ago.
Pissed Jeans is good too, a bit more no-wavy, but really reps that early Sub Pop feeling hard (they're on sub pop as of their last album...)
Pissed Jeans is awesome and if you like them, you should check out Grids.
Drunkdriver is great as well!
Two blogs that constantly bring up new (as well as long forgotten) names:
http://www.builtonaweakspot.com/
http://www.shinygreymonotone.com/
Endless Humiliation
Deep Jew
Infarction
Fresh Meat
Trash Dog
City Bones
Starfuckers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOdRxEpM6kE&feature=related)
Bästard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft76zGIp5Rk)
Breach (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMSE3PYoPqs)
16 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWkHglpLmjk&feature=related)
Opaque. The lean closer to Noise than rock, sound-wise, but occasionally have bursts of what could be called music. Usually just two guitarists who sound pretty influenced by the usual chimey-to-distorted-guitar type influences.
There's also Atomized, who I only know of from a release called "Hits Of The 80's" which features "covers" of trash like Do You Really Want To Hurt Me and so forth. Goes from rather Industrial sounding sinister to outright shouting & harshing Noise.
Both of these are English groups. I've always thought the Brits have tended towards a noisier, distortion-over-structure kind of sound with some of their rock bands - it's the country that invented Venom after all. In fact, now that I think about it, a lot of their punk bands seemed to really like sounding like total, flat-out Noise - I recall hearing a live Chaos UK bootleg with no identifiable musical components at all.
Would Ramleh count?
I would count Ramleh in. Of course into same group of Splintered, earlier Skullflower, JFK, etc etc.. This turn of 80's/90's UK sound is pretty much unmatched. Even if appears to be "easy to do", I haven't heard much bands who would actually do it?
Old projects where I was involved, JUNKDROME in mid 90's, was highly influenced by bands above. And then this same idea transformed into project AM (not to be confused with many bands with same name). Junkdrome included T.Eiskonen known from Futile Existence and nowadays Dead In The Water. AM = Aspa/Mattila. I don't know if samples of any tapes or vinyl is online, but CD's was never made.
This was mentioned in playlist, but I'll copy/paste here:
HEBOSAGIL "Ura" tape
tape version of new full length. Should this be mentioned in Noise Rock topic? Maybe. Not exactly noise rock, not exactly sludge, not exactly hardcore or metal.. What it this? I don't know. Wild rehearsal sound quality, with obscure finnish lyrics, very well made and talented riffing. Good musicianship all over. Some has described this like fuzzy and grim mix of Unsane and Radiopuhelimet. Why not! http://www.hebosagil.com/ - Listen streaming sample from the site.
The Dead C anyone?
Quote from: nidding on April 28, 2011, 01:25:15 PM
The Dead C anyone?
Sure! Kind of always thought of them being in the same ambiguous genre as Sonic Youth, but then again, both bands could most likely be described as noise rock?
Quote from: slugpace on April 26, 2011, 09:46:44 PM
...Trance Syndicate...
That's the cue for mentioning Pain Teens, who in my opinion forged a unique blend of psych/punk/rock and noise/industrial/tape experimentation. Very, very underrated band.
Harry Pussy, best 90's noise rock band, no way...
Sightings (especially their Load era)
RUNNING from Chicago
Air Conditioning (their Weakness album is abrasive as fuck)
Aufgehoben, more experimental stuff
Lightning Bolt
some Heavy Winged stuff
Zeni Geva...
i think people overstate the noiserock element of Zeni Geva. definitely a lot of dissonance and percussive riffing, but they are fundamentally a death metal band and the riffs on songs like "Death Blows" and "Burn your flesh out" wouldn't sound out of place on Mental Funeral. great band though!
Although known as an anarchist punk band, Flux of Pink Indians second album, "The Fucking Cunts Treats Us Like Pricks", was a far less structured record than previous recordings, essentially a noise punk rock album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FS4KVTBQzY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWLav31t1c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sylk4fARuag
Cromagnon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8jOhqOsouM&feature=related) anyone?
Sightings are a great, great band.
Some recent favourites of mine:
Shit & Shine - English/Texas drum-heavy filth
White Mice - of course!
Royak Trux - awesome!
One of my absolute favorite new Noise Rock artists would be the highly underrated and highly unknown band Polyurethane. The cassette is really short but fucking awesome. Luckily the band finally posted some stuff online, here is their live set:
Pt. I - http://vimeo.com/24038775
Pt. II - http://vimeo.com/24038857
from finlandia with no love:
INSULT - http://insult.fi/
FUN - noisecorewalze.com
BAXTER STOCKMAN - http://sideffectrecords.net/
FORKBOY - no www, cos they split 10+ yrs ago, tight as fuck amrep dirt, anthology CD in the works
and loosely related: CAN CAN HEADS and WEEPIKES. both started aeons ago, CCH still running...
Quote from: slugpace on April 26, 2011, 09:46:44 PM
SQRM
Youth attack has been putting out some quality stuff recently. SQRM, Taylor Bow, Raw nerve, Salvation...highly recommended.
Does anybody know a project that mixed noisy guitar and violent drum machine named Elisabet Hertz (or Herz).
They released a couple of very intense 7"s in the early 90's, but I never knew more than this.
I no longer posses these records but I remember the first one to be very very intense.
Weird thing about the first 7" was that it featured a leaflet from a pseudo-Satanist group although they had a punk/alternative image.
Quote from: pentd on May 24, 2011, 05:04:40 AM
from finlandia with no love:
BAXTER STOCKMAN - http://sideffectrecords.net/
cheers, pentti. and yes, ZERO love. here's an up-to-date new BS website: http://www.baxterstockman.com (http://www.baxterstockman.com)
check out my band DRUNK IN HELL if your're into brainbombs, kilslug, etc
htpp://www.myspace.com/drunkinhell
Apart of the already mentioned Brainbombs, The Dead C... the Australian dudes Grey Daturas are one of the bests on this genre imo.
Quote from: pentd on May 24, 2011, 05:04:40 AM
and loosely related: CAN CAN HEADS and WEEPIKES. both started aeons ago, CCH still running...
Nice to know that Can Can Heads is still around. I have their "Headcracking Lifestyle" CD. It just came to my hands with some trade, a couple years ago, and I thought it was a nice surprise.
Do they have some other record released?
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on April 26, 2011, 10:25:53 PM
I'd say the band Drunkdriver often walks the line between noisy hardcore and noise rock.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Drunkdriver
Their last LP, Self Titled LP was one of my favorites from last year. I'd definitely recommend them. They also did an unusual collaboration with Mattin a few years ago.
Easily my favorite of the batch as well!
The collab with Mattin is fucking incredible. The B side is merciless.....pummeling drums and guitars with an extremely high pitched frequent slowly fading in for 6 minutes? So good.
You guys should check out A Radio With Guts podcast, I play stuff like that all the time along with other weird and needed to hear music.
Check it out, http://www.todbroadcasting.com/a-radio-with-guts/
I post a new show every week, and all of these are downloadable as well.
Kind of a blanket-term, so the topic is open to personal interpretation...recently i've just been listening to all of my old Butthole Surfers, Jesus Lizard, Birthday Party, Brainbombs...stuff like this is pretty "top of the pile" but still essential for my initial exposure to noisy shit, aside from the standard hc/punk i was listening to as a youngster...any general thoughts, recomendations, personal favorites etc? I'd like to dig deeper.....cheers.
Have you read through this thread yet?
http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=1250.0 (http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=1250.0)
Brainbombs sideproject No Balls. Sex Dwarf. Rectal Hygienics
Huge fan of AmRep scene/ sound
MELVINS: discography spans genres, but they are the kings
Hammerhead: every record is worth owning, into the vortex is my favorite
Vaz: 2/3 of hammerhead, noise rock w a a gothic bend
Halo of Flies: really more like lo fi garage, but definitive
Today is the Day: temple of the morning star and in the eyes of god are incredible, but early AmRep stuff like supernova and willpower are way more experimental/ noise
Unsane: their early work w/ the drummer Charlie ( rip) is just unparalleled
Cherubs: cover of Dreaming by Blondie best cover ever
Janitor Joe: later project Gnomes of Zurich interesting too
I've been listening to these records for over a decade, never tire of it
The best NoiseRock for me always meant sludged out bass ( rat or big muff) and buried vox
Rare to see it done well today. A New England band called White Suns ( I think) gets it right
Burmese.
Not quite 'noise rock', but I've always thought that Finnish hardcore band Sekunda sounds much more like overspeeded noise rock than hardcore punk in all their glorious chaotic sloppiness.
other bands not mentioned i would like to add and of course recommend to the fullest extent:
arab on radar (OF COURSE) http://youtu.be/Tbq0JKt01is (http://youtu.be/Tbq0JKt01is) and their 'reformed' project doomsday student http://youtu.be/OYazwU5reWk (http://youtu.be/OYazwU5reWk)
divorce (uk): http://youtu.be/5fYSt6kUdFo (http://youtu.be/5fYSt6kUdFo)
a.h. kraken (fr): http://youtu.be/N0cL0Ym8vqA (http://youtu.be/N0cL0Ym8vqA)
sister fucker: http://www.mediafire.com/download/7lysn2d41e02wc4/Sister+F%2Ack%2Ar+-+A+Commitment+To+Excellence.rar[/url (http://www.mediafire.com/download/7lysn2d41e02wc4/Sister+F%2Ack%2Ar+-+A+Commitment+To+Excellence.rar%5B/url)
stillsuit: members of sister fucker http://stillsuit.bandcamp.com/ (http://stillsuit.bandcamp.com/)
mansion: http://mmansionn.bandcamp.com/ (http://mmansionn.bandcamp.com/)
Quote from: IanDB on May 09, 2011, 02:38:46 AM
i think people overstate the noiserock element of Zeni Geva. definitely a lot of dissonance and percussive riffing, but they are fundamentally a death metal band ...
Agreed. People do overstate the noise element in ZG. But Death Metal? Check your ears. Zeni Geva are fundamentally a progressive/psychedelic rock band w/ roots closer to Geddy Lee's Rush than anything from the world of metal...
Some of the suggestions here are plain cranky: The Jesus Lizard?! I'd be hard pressed to name a rock act w/ a cleaner sound. Scratch Acid? Maybe - but JL? No.
Bastro, Big'N, Bitch Magnet, Mount Shasta, Dazzling Killmen (Skingraft Records are as reliable as Trance Syndicate).
Caspar Brötzmann can be awesomely noisy (w/ his curious jazz rock sensibility) - but he doesn't quite rock all the boxes for me.
As listened to SPLINTERED parapraxis LP again today, yes, still unmatched. RUSTED SHUT are unmatched when it comes to be fucked up Texas gutterjunks. Love their REHAB album. Cannot forget meeting them, haha.
I'm in a band called Makakakarooma. We are barely coherent and quite a lot incompetent. One chord forever. Got some stuff coming soon, sounding not a million miles from this:
https://youtu.be/qQqROTsBwlA (https://youtu.be/qQqROTsBwlA)
Quote from: Human Larvae on September 03, 2014, 12:24:39 PM
Rectal Hygienics
I'm real picky about this shit, but this band hits home line no one's business. That first LP makes me feel like I need to go to a free clinic....
I haven't really dug into the second one as much, but I like what I've heard. I bought it right away but I haven't felt the urge to give it more than a few cursory spins.
Trumans Water (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPsuvI9bzLs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPsuvI9bzLs))
Sister Iodene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7uOi-Timnc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7uOi-Timnc))
Art Of Burning Water (more HC/metal orientated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouWN1Vxkvig (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouWN1Vxkvig))
Raspberry Bulbs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbzwspqGvHs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbzwspqGvHs))
older I'm Being Good (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCWh1_Tn4iA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCWh1_Tn4iA))
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H3fGeWwhcQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H3fGeWwhcQ))
Have to concede with Rectal Hygienics, both albums sound strong and sick. A lovely sense of personal despair and self-hatred with some solid sounding riffs.
Raspberry Bulbs tend to shit me, on the other hand. Apart from having an appalling band name, the new album sounds like they want to be Rudimentary Peni. Personally, I'll take the original any time over Raspberry Bulbs. I always thought Bone Awl was over-rated.
Try this (https://homelessrecords.bandcamp.com/album/aloha). Fucked up, miserable sounding noise/scum rock from down here.
Hmm, I bought Nature Tries Again and RB Tries again on tape when they came out, but they didn't really grab me. That's sample posted was pretty cool though, I can definitely dig on the Rudimentary Peni influences.
I'll have to check this out a little more.....
back in the 1990's as a young lad of the northwest I was introduced to such bands as Barkmarket and Chavez by folks I met from the midwest and were told that was noise for them.
I had already gotten into Antioch Arrow, Clikatat Ikatowi, Heroin, Swing Kids, Universal Order of Armageddon (still in my mind an insanely great band), The VSS, Rye Coalition, etc And those bands changed everything between my relationship to my guitar and sounded amazing, especially for the time period (massive grunge NW)
I still have most of all of those precious records in my collection. To me that was noise early to mid-1990's
Just put Oxbow's 'Let me be a woman' out of my shelves. Haven't listen to it for almost 20 years, I think. Still like it a lot. Especially 'Gal' and '1000' (first song I ever heard from Oxbow). I remember being really impressed when I saw them live back in 1996. Eugene Robinson, dressed only in white pants, destroying the microphone stand, cursing and spitting all over the place.
Oxbow has always been kind of hit and miss for me, every now and then I've tried giving them a new chance, but just don't seem to get into them. It's been a while since I've listened to them, so maybe I should give them one more try.
To plug my own shit here, Throat's new mini-album "Short Circuit" is out now on Kaos Kontrol/Reptilian Records. CD/digital is available already and the vinyl will arrive in about a week:
https://ihatethroat.bandcamp.com/album/short-circuit-2
Quote from: slugpace on June 20, 2015, 11:35:49 AMTo plug my own shit here, Throat's new mini-album "Short Circuit" is out now on Kaos Kontrol/Reptilian Records. CD/digital is available already and the vinyl will arrive in about a week:
https://ihatethroat.bandcamp.com/album/short-circuit-2
Looking forward to the vinyl. Throat = bestest!
Oxbow is immense. The Narcotic Story and An Evil Heat are among the most powerful albums I've ever heard.
One of those rare bands where there's no one member who's just treading water and keeping up with the others, everyone involved gives it their all.
US Maple's another favorite. The album Talker in particular is a major achievement, stuck somewhere between Beefheart and The Jesus Lizard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrTV7eP3Id8
Shorty, the band that preceded US Maple, is also pretty great although a lot closer to the standard hardcore-derived AmRep/Touch & Go sound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StCXJA5kw5c
HEBOSAGIL this is really good!
Quote from: marcel.kluza on June 24, 2015, 01:04:42 PM
HEBOSAGIL this is really good!
Hell yes! They have a new album coming this autumn, not necessarily as "rocking" stuff as the last two records, but still heavy and ominous sound. Spent the first week of June listening to the new stuff live every night, excellent stuff.
U.S. Maple and especially Shorty gets the thumbs up from me!
if not mentioned already, Headbutt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_a5-RxVYvw
Quote from: slugpace on June 24, 2015, 01:30:19 PM
Shorty gets the thumbs up from me!
Absolutely. Shorty were superb. As were Big'N.
I'm a big fan of No Trend. Like Drunkdriver, straddling the fence between noise and hc. The vocals are pure hate.
https://youtu.be/PmIZ05TxBSo (https://youtu.be/PmIZ05TxBSo)
Just released the debut tape of a new Finnish band, Sleiveen Hostess. Might appeal to people into the filthier side of noise rock: Brainbombs, Drunkdriver, Rectal Hygienics etc...
http://kaoskontrol.bandcamp.com/album/sleiveen-hostess
Always liked Unsane since I first heard "Urge to kill" in the early nineties and followed their releases- sometimes with more, sometimes with less attention.
In a couple days I will see them live for the first time. What to expect? Anyone already heard the new album "Sterilize"?
Intensive Care from Toronto (ex-Column of Heaven, The Endless Blockade, Ride At Dawn, etc). First tape is basically power electronics done as a noise rock band.
https://survivalistdeathcult.bandcamp.com/album/pay-pig
The other releases are on this Bandcamp as well.
I saw that Brainbombs had already been mentioned -my very favouritiest band
How about Rectal Hygenics?
https://fuckrectalhygienics.bandcamp.com/album/even-the-flies-wont-touch-you
Menstruation Sisters?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_kEZonjtY
or
Bloated Subhumans?
https://bloatedsubhumans.bandcamp.com/
Ah yes! I remember getting into White Suns a few years ago. They have new album out that I have yet to hear
Also anybody here ever listen to Vomir's side projects?
https://decimationsociale.bandcamp.com/album/romprai-etron-montpellier-anal-parasite
total fucking scum rock
also this one, which is guitar, hnw and spoken word
https://decimationsociale.bandcamp.com/album/falot-a-pouk-est-bien-l-live-espace-b
For me this is the greatest 'noise rock' album ever made. Questionable politics, messy discography, obnoxious personalities all round, but not much sounds this wild and untamed - Missing Foundation, 1933 Your House Is Mine LP (released 1988) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZdzF23LIXU
I havent seen U.S. Maple mentioned who are, in my opinion, the greatest noise rock band. Also Melt-Banana, Arab on Radar, Butthole Surfers...James Chance and the Contortions are a lot of fun. Most of the early No wave stuff is pretty good. I suppose no wave would fall under the "noise rock" banner. Skin Graft records have done an excellent job releasing worthwhile noise rock/no wave material over the last 25 years
some of the releases on noiseville-unholy swill,abu nidal, crackhouse etc from 80's with possible addition of various 'scum rock' and other comp bands of roir tapes.
'skullfuck' by walkingeeds in uk
Quote from: chume on November 05, 2017, 02:23:48 AM
I havent seen U.S. Maple mentioned who are, in my opinion, the greatest noise rock band. Also Melt-Banana, Arab on Radar, Butthole Surfers...James Chance and the Contortions are a lot of fun. Most of the early No wave stuff is pretty good. I suppose no wave would fall under the "noise rock" banner. Skin Graft records have done an excellent job releasing worthwhile noise rock/no wave material over the last 25 years
Yeah, in the 90s I was a big fan of all the Skin Graft stuff - Shorty, U.S. Maple, Dazzling Killmen, Lake of Dracula, Melt Banana, Zeni Geva's Nai-Ha, The Flying Luttenbachers, ... Don' know much of the releases of 2000s, except maybe some Aids Wolf records.
Btw. - Unsane were really good, I liked it.
New band featuring members of Brainbombs/No Balls, Skull Defects, Union Carbide Productions and apparently others; Orchestra Of Constant Distress; playing the hardest most monotonous directionless noise rock I've ever heard (there's a sample track on Bandcamp). I can hardly effing wait!!
Dogpile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rC_znk59HQ&feature=youtu.be
"Black Fag" full-length:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSjKzOKYBaw
I think Sotos mentions them in an interview. Now I know why.
How about this excellent specimen?
https://nunmusik.bandcamp.com/track/murder-slum
(NUN)
Άshtray horribly retarded noise rock for country music fans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9wEX30S65A
Quote from: Deadpriest on October 26, 2017, 07:43:33 PM
How about Rectal Hygenics?
https://fuckrectalhygienics.bandcamp.com/album/even-the-flies-wont-touch-you
Best.
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on February 10, 2018, 02:30:31 AM
Dogpile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rC_znk59HQ&feature=youtu.be
"Black Fag" full-length:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSjKzOKYBaw
I think Sotos mentions them in an interview. Now I know why.
Heyyy... takes me back a bit. These guys got a lot of college radio play in my town, along with some of the precursors like Die Screaming... damn, can't find a single youtube except this very ill-representative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U8rf2V9ewY
...which does exceedingly ill justice. Stuff I recall had lots more layered, heavily distorted, blarring guitar. Ah, well.
I posted some random stupidities on an old post punk goth no wave thread, guess Black Fag made its rounds.
http://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=3588.msg31421#msg31421
Quote from: Deadpriest on February 11, 2018, 11:26:44 PM
How about this excellent specimen?
https://nunmusik.bandcamp.com/track/murder-slum
(NUN)
Good call, I like that.
https://blacktraitor.bandcamp.com/album/hate-your-life-and-live-it
moar and is good
Black Traitor
Goddamn if those are riffs that don't rumble into infinity.
Quote from: cr on November 10, 2017, 09:35:45 PM
Zeni Geva's Nai-Ha
Bingo. We got there in the end. IMO the greatest rock band on the planet (along w/ the Jesus Lizard).
The Skingraft LP split w/ the Albini / Geva hybrid was fine, but not a patch on Freedom Bondage on Alternative Tentacles. Shame the pressing and mastering were so fucking awful.
Roll over Zeni Geva: TWIN STUMPS
ZG rolled over some year ago, alas, and have become a poor pastiche of who they once were. Out is Eito and his ferocious drumming to be replaced by the chap who drummed or still drums for Ruins (technically excellent, but the limp-wrested jazz sensibility simply doesn't work: he won't or cannot hit the drums hard enough and there is no sense at all that he is driving the sound - a shameful position for a drummer to adopt). Gone is Tabata, and his curious, if not impenetrable, seering solo's. Null being the only constant member left and the only guitar in the outfit.
I could've cried (when after 25 years of trying) I finally saw them live ...
Anyone have a 'definitive' Brainbombs record? By that I mean one that encapsulates their sound well and ideally has no filler. Haven't really traversed their discography but been listening to the Singles Collection and I like it very much.
Quote from: Neanderthal on April 10, 2018, 07:36:20 AM
Anyone have a 'definitive' Brainbombs record? By that I mean one that encapsulates their sound well and ideally has no filler. Haven't really traversed their discography but been listening to the Singles Collection and I like it very much.
Their first album (Burning Hell) has the darkest riffs and I believe a lot of their best tracks (Burning Hell, Danny Was a Street Whore, Urge to kills and Tired and Bloody)
On each of their albums they have very different distortion on the guitars and here they are the least 'noise rock' which I quite like in context.
Certainly my favourite album of theirs I don't know if it is their definitive though, I think with the variety in sound all you can really say is it's their darkest.
Quote from: Neanderthal on April 10, 2018, 07:36:20 AM
Anyone have a 'definitive' Brainbombs record? By that I mean one that encapsulates their sound well and ideally has no filler. Haven't really traversed their discography but been listening to the Singles Collection and I like it very much.
the second LP
Genius and Burtality, Taste and Power is imho the best album the band did. heavy vibes of a more demented stooges slow jam. highlight tracks for me are graveyard kitchen, right side of hell & fuckmurder
Quote from: Neanderthal on April 10, 2018, 07:36:20 AM
Anyone have a 'definitive' Brainbombs record? By that I mean one that encapsulates their sound well and ideally has no filler. Haven't really traversed their discography but been listening to the Singles Collection and I like it very much.
"Obey" and "Fucking Mess" are the ones I return to the most..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pjmP-FmcRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7TVpAsu9hU
both singles collections are essential, imo.
i'd say their best material is obey overall, but other than that you can't go wrong with burning hell/genius and brutality - taste and power/urge to kill/fucking mess/singles collection. it's hard to pick an overall definitive album because each album has its own identity
Thanks everyone!
I keep coming back to the most recent output by Sister Iodine, "Venom"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woPYCdZ_v9Y
A bit of self-promotion if you don't mind: https://luuranko.bandcamp.com/releases (https://luuranko.bandcamp.com/releases)
Quote from: Eris/Ostia on May 13, 2018, 06:28:24 PM
A bit of self-promotion if you don't mind: https://luuranko.bandcamp.com/releases (https://luuranko.bandcamp.com/releases)
Whoa! This one was really great, actually. I'd say it has lots of surf rock in there as well as the no wave / post-punk influences. I particularly love the bass, and the production is perfectly fit. I'd say this might be my favourite 2018 release this far, ha! Is there a physical release? Is this your first? What is your contribution? So many questions.
New album by Bummer is out. My favorite currently active noise rock band (along with Throat and Drunk Dad) at the moment. https://bummerkc.bandcamp.com/album/holy-terror
Quote from: j-han on September 02, 2018, 09:57:18 AM
Quote from: Eris/Ostia on May 13, 2018, 06:28:24 PM
A bit of self-promotion if you don't mind: https://luuranko.bandcamp.com/releases (https://luuranko.bandcamp.com/releases)
Whoa! This one was really great, actually. I'd say it has lots of surf rock in there as well as the no wave / post-punk influences. I particularly love the bass, and the production is perfectly fit. I'd say this might be my favourite 2018 release this far, ha! Is there a physical release? Is this your first? What is your contribution? So many questions.
Thank you for your kind words! There's no physical release of the demo and it is indeed our first. We have studio booked in November for recording an EP that will be released in physical format.
Quote from: Eris/Ostia on September 03, 2018, 07:26:41 AM
Quote from: j-han on September 02, 2018, 09:57:18 AM
Quote from: Eris/Ostia on May 13, 2018, 06:28:24 PM
A bit of self-promotion if you don't mind: https://luuranko.bandcamp.com/releases (https://luuranko.bandcamp.com/releases)
Whoa! This one was really great, actually. I'd say it has lots of surf rock in there as well as the no wave / post-punk influences. I particularly love the bass, and the production is perfectly fit. I'd say this might be my favourite 2018 release this far, ha! Is there a physical release? Is this your first? What is your contribution? So many questions.
Thank you for your kind words! There's no physical release of the demo and it is indeed our first. We have studio booked in November for recording an EP that will be released in physical format.
Will try to remember to have a look out for it at the end of the year then. Sweet!
I wish you good luck with everything
Quote from: Decrepitude on September 02, 2018, 02:14:07 PM
along with Throat
New
THROAT album is very good!
I have yet to get the CD/LP, but been listening it online for few times, and band has taken into new realms of innovations. I think more of oddity, more noise, more abstraction, more experimental edge to it. Yet, hard hitting noise rock nevertheless!
I like how experimental elements like metal junk bashing and strange effects blend into songs that border nearly "pop" ballad approach. Throat goes easily from Swans type of bounding brutality to more rocking material, to melancholic tunes. Certainly recommended! Also for those who may not always check noiserock albums:
https://ihatethroat.bandcamp.com/album/bareback-3
New Spear Flowers stuff online. Noiserock from Finland:
https://spearflowers.bandcamp.com/album/heat-ep
Keep forgetting for ages we recorded this back in the day. https://cementimental.bandcamp.com/album/transpose-jam-20th-june-2003
We probably should have continued this into an actual band. Or genre for that matter. Kuso-prog?
Drunks With Guns.
They appear to have popped up again in 2018, wonder if there's more to come in regards to shows or new music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehI2S_guYq4
Surprised to see no mention of Uniform (ex-Drunkdriver) from NYC or Daughters (I like their latest album a lot). The latter was ex-members of As the Sun Sets and played that screamo/grind stuff from the late 90's and early 2000's. They came back after being away for nine years and dropped a great album called "You Won't Get What You Want" on Ipecac. It's meant to be listened to in its entirety. Check it out here:
https://daughters.bandcamp.com/album/you-wont-get-what-you-want
https://aagoo.bandcamp.com/album/zulus-ii
Quote from: treebeard on March 10, 2019, 07:16:22 AM
Surprised to see no mention of Uniform (ex-Drunkdriver) from NYC or Daughters (I like their latest album a lot). The latter was ex-members of As the Sun Sets and played that screamo/grind stuff from the late 90's and early 2000's. They came back after being away for nine years and dropped a great album called "You Won't Get What You Want" on Ipecac. It's meant to be listened to in its entirety. Check it out here:
https://daughters.bandcamp.com/album/you-wont-get-what-you-want
As someone who worships the Drunkdrive S/T LP I can't explain why I haven't taken the dive with Uniform but I keep ignoring them. I think part of it may be I just assume I'll be unable to avoid comparing them to Drunkdriver and be disappointed as a result. And also it might be that they're on Sacred Bones which I have mixed feelings about as a label.
I feel like Uniform tick all the boxes "on paper" and I should be picking up their albums and then I stream a little and I'm just not interested.
Spencer from Full of Hell is in a noise rock band called Eye Flys and that seems to be something that I'm pretty into from what I've heard
Everyone loves the last Daughters album but I thought it's kinda ok-not-great-good-job-feels-safe .
Sign me up on the "Uniform tick all the boxes but I just can't seen to enjoy it".
And you are crazy, The Body is awesome, the vocals are fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J89_cO2teM
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on July 25, 2019, 09:29:03 PMit might be that they're on Sacred Bones which I have mixed feelings about as a label.
i have several, and i like them all, but i groan every time i purchase a record on sacred bones.
What's so bad about Sacred Bones? They did that killer Vex reissue, those sick Killed by Deathrock comps, Pharmakon, John Carpenter LPs.... I think there's probably a lot on there I have no interest in though but I like some of their stuff.....
their visual aesthetic, specifically putting release and label info all over the goddamn cover drives me nuts. the rest of it is just a feeling that some Brooklyn hipster is selling me on perfectly marketed swill to appeal to my "terminally unique" tastes.... except it's not swill and they put out a lot of good records. it just feels wrong each time. probably just envy, elitism and insecurity all wrapped into some tiny whispering voice in my head. does that make any sense?
Quote from: ConcreteMascara on August 02, 2019, 05:17:53 PM
their visual aesthetic, specifically putting release and label info all over the goddamn cover drives me nuts. the rest of it is just a feeling that some Brooklyn hipster is selling me on perfectly marketed swill to appeal to my "terminally unique" tastes.... except it's not swill and they put out a lot of good records. it just feels wrong each time. probably just envy, elitism and insecurity all wrapped into some tiny whispering voice in my head. does that make any sense?
Oh totally. That makes sense. My only caveat for stuff like that is is the guys like, a rapist or something like that....
Trying to think back on what my first exposure to 'noise rock' bands & I'm guessing it was Big Black. Their work still holds up pretty damn good today. Lovely subject matter, as well.
Also, Butthole Surfers as they were pretty noisy live with the two drummers, lots of droning feedback and effects on the vocals. Way more fucked up than the fucked up records.
Kilslug, too, but they're more sludge n' shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETG9xtJxxNY
Quote from: bitewerksMTB on August 03, 2019, 02:57:27 AM
Trying to think back on what my first exposure to 'noise rock' bands & I'm guessing it was Big Black. Their work still holds up pretty damn good today. Lovely subject matter, as well.
I guess they were my first exposure, too. The Pig Pile CD just blew me away back then. Was a bit too young to know their records from the 80's, but after listening to Pig Pile I tried to get them all. Only some weeks ago I bought most of them on vinyl again.
And after Big Black or at the same time I think I discovered Unsane (The Singles 89-92 CD), and then various AmRep records like the Dope-Guns-'N-Fucking In The Streets CD compilations with nice bands like Today is the Day or Love 666. Still like them all.
Probably Big Black and Butthole Surfers were the first ones for me too, and old Swans and Unsane came right after. It took me some years then to became obsessed with the "genre" (such a loose denomination but whatever). Flipper I probably listened before BB but I was too young and dumb to notice it's geniality, it all came together with Brainbombs and Cows.
The AmpRep catalogue is mandatory and there is a great documentary of it (The Color of Noise) with bands like God Bullies, Lubricated Goat and the aforementioned Cows, Unsane...
DEAF KIDS from Brazil mixes noise rock with crust/hardcore and they signed with Neurot recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiE2ITQ8a6Q (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiE2ITQ8a6Q)
They are cool.
Harry Pussy
How 'bout some classic noise rock?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDFFzZRIcQI
https://kugikano.bandcamp.com/album/stumble-futile-burial
Quote from: Nyodene D on April 25, 2011, 10:43:03 PM
For example, a few friends of mine (andy from The Vomit Arsonist, Jim from Deterge) turned me on to Today Is The Day and Unsane, really getting into that kind of post-hardcore-noiserock-mathcore stuff...
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned them yet but Brainbombs for sure. Some of Heroine Shieks get's pretty noise as well. NoBalls would be a nice one. If you enjoy Unsane you should give Cutthroats9 a try as it has some of the members of Unsane if I am not mistaken. If you don't mind it being a little punky there is an amazing band called NO (absolute nightmare to search for due to the name but if you toss in the album title it helps, look for "NO - Treating people like they don't exist". I'm sure there will be a ton more that come to mind the second I walk away from this post but hopefully all of the above bands haven't already been mentioned and you get a chance to give them a listen.
Upsidedowncross . Also apologies for my sloppy post above. Only the first line is a quotation, the rest is my actual response.
Quote from: Hatefukk on January 22, 2020, 03:12:19 AM
Upsidedowncross . Also apologies for my sloppy post above. Only the first line is a quotation, the rest is my actual response.
I waaaannnaaa haaaaaaaaaaang, on an upsideee doowwwwn cross!!
Brainbombs have a new record for pre-order on Skrammel. I'll wait until a digital version is out, but I'd expect nothing less than another instance of genius and brutality.
I think it's not exactly fitting to this topic, but as it was released by AmRep: I am just listening to Helios Creed: Kiss to the brain CD. It has been years since the last time. Maybe at the moment I can blame the mood I'm in, but I must admit, I'm a little bit disappointed. I had better memories of this.
I was considering mentioning Helios on this thread - especially the great CHROME (when Helios and Damon were involved). The repetitive idiom of "some are better than others" really apply to H's output. I'd really have to sit down and listen to some of them again, but the ones worth checking out would be (in my opinion at least) are
X-Rated Fairy Tales,
Superior Catholic Finger and
The Last Laugh. As for Chrome - really, any of the records H and Damon did up until The Chronicles / Raining Milk are all great and essential listening. If you had to find
one to start out with,
Half Machine Lip Moves. Fun fact: Brainbombs did a cover of a song off of that album!
Quote from: cr on January 31, 2020, 06:00:02 PM
I think it's not exactly fitting to this topic, but as it was released by AmRep: I am just listening to Helios Creed: Kiss to the brain CD. It has been years since the last time. Maybe at the moment I can blame the mood I'm in, but I must admit, I'm a little bit disappointed. I had better memories of this.
Quote from: Lazrs3 on February 22, 2019, 04:58:58 PM
Drunks With Guns.
Just listened to the DWG 7" I have. Great stuff. Now scanning this topic for similar stuff.
Some band I like that weren't mentioned here:
- Terminal Cheesecake
- Killdozer
- Rapeman
- Head Of David
Killdozer are great although i'm not sure that I would put them in the noise rock category. In fact I'm not sure WHAT category I would put them into. Sleazy, noisy, pro-farmer punk rock maybe?
Black Wigger from Norway:
https://kugikano.bandcamp.com/album/the-perfect-tan-bad-pet-shop
Funny this got bumped - I've been jamming Butthole Surfers all day, definitely not "noise rock" in the traditional sense but I love that super weird type of shit. Then I default to Beefheart/Yoko Ono for super weird rock music.
I don't think I saw them mentioned previously but there was also '90s Los Angeles band SLUG with Damion Romero on bass. In addition to releasing a number of records and going on a bunch of tours, they played many of the shows (which I would guess they actually set up) for the touring Japanese noise artists that came through LA during that time.
Here's some good video recorded of them at the legendary Jabberjaw: https://youtu.be/l80fQJl8h3w (https://youtu.be/l80fQJl8h3w)
In case someone's interested in hearing noise rock and proper noise collide, this is coming out in September:
https://www.special-interests.net/forum/index.php?topic=10876.0
New noise rock from Oulu, Finland. Tapes out in about a month.
https://stiltsnoise.bandcamp.com/releases
https://youtu.be/42mJTkQkrHY
Bigbody and Snakehead: https://kugikano.bandcamp.com
That Bigbody was quite good, but I'm also really digging the Iron Drugs, Sleiveen Hostess and all of the Witchface releases. Very good stuff, thanks for sharing.
^Thanks. Black Wigger fucks the dead: https://soundcloud.com/born-f-mental/black-wigger-if-i-cant-fuck-the-living-im-gonna-fuck-the-dead
Quote from: pureterror on April 25, 2020, 08:35:57 AM
I don't think I saw them mentioned previously but there was also '90s Los Angeles band SLUG with Damion Romero on bass. In addition to releasing a number of records and going on a bunch of tours, they played many of the shows (which I would guess they actually set up) for the touring Japanese noise artists that came through LA during that time.
Here's some good video recorded of them at the legendary Jabberjaw: https://youtu.be/l80fQJl8h3w (https://youtu.be/l80fQJl8h3w)
Slug was fantastic. I always forget about them for some reason.
A couple of Lightning Bolt shows
Lightning Bolt live at North 6 (Brooklyn, NY) 2002 [Full Set]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwCMqQX64-s
Lightning Bolt live at the Rhode Island School Of Design 2015 [Full Set]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8U9T3jBV6s
Was listening to the Kilslug - Necktie Party 7" today. Great one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Eb6DrUwSg
Catholic - self-flagellation
Happily stumbled upon this two-piece fronted by the man behind the JSH noise project. This has been scratching an itch particularly well lately. Foundation of punk and sludge with great energy and attitude.
https://catholic.bandcamp.com/album/self-flagellation
Clockcleaner, Coughs, Dreamdecay, Happy Flowers, Nice Guy (both of them), YBO², early White Zombie, Tongue Party, Spectres, Oozing Wound, Rainbow Grave, Bummer, Child Abuse, Exhalants, Heavy Lungs, Tar, Duh, Phlegm, Ted Bundy's Volkswagen, Plainfield, Couch Slut, Chat Pile, Thing, Elephant Rifle
FIXED is Foreign Body's full length from earlier this month. We're based out of Brooklyn, NYC and play a mix of bass-driven, old-school noise rock. Mixed and mastered by Matt Ibarra (Rectal Hygienics/mattxibarra), the album is a filth-laden celebration of decay and self hate.
FIXED is dedicated to the impossible races of two-backed beasts, breeding terrible, self-shattering realizations and the flowering rot that gives offal its stink. It is dedicated to all contemptible obsessions and subsequent perversities.
BC: https://foreignbodynyc.bandcamp.com/album/fixed
Album: https://youtu.be/aV1OGN9CqiA
Quote from: state_of_exception on March 25, 2023, 04:11:28 AM
FIXED is Foreign Body's full length from earlier this month. We're based out of Brooklyn, NYC and play a mix of bass-driven, old-school noise rock. Mixed and mastered by Matt Ibarra (Rectal Hygienics/mattxibarra), the album is a filth-laden celebration of decay and self hate.
FIXED is dedicated to the impossible races of two-backed beasts, breeding terrible, self-shattering realizations and the flowering rot that gives offal its stink. It is dedicated to all contemptible obsessions and subsequent perversities.
BC: https://foreignbodynyc.bandcamp.com/album/fixed
Album: https://youtu.be/aV1OGN9CqiA
Really good album! Physical release in the works?
Quote from: Fistfuck Masonanie on March 25, 2023, 03:31:31 PM
Really good album! Physical release in the works?
Thanks for the support! We're really happy with how it turned out. God willing the album will see a proper physical release sometime this year, but at the moment we're still looking for a label.
Does anybody know of the cool noise rock band GASENETA (ガセネタ) ? I listened to their few releases and i really like them a lot. I know Yamazaki's other band Taco (5) which i also enjoy a lot, maybe even more than gaseneta. I sadly dont see many people mentioning them, probably due to their few releases. I would love to see new things by them or new pictures maybe
The Gerogerigegege is not itself Noise Rock per se, but this track sure as shit is. Couldn't care less if it's already been posted here. I fucking love how the "solos" just overtake the rest of it in the mix. This should be a template.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGNTx6SrrE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZGNTx6SrrE)
SUNFLARE from Portugal, propably no more active, but I remember enjoying their albums. PSF-ish psychedelic-fuzz vibe (High Rise, Mainliner):
https://sunflare.bandcamp.com/album/young-love
Probably already been mentioned but Neutral are good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EA14pKVXls (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EA14pKVXls)
They might not always be that noisey but since it's Dan from Sewer Election you should pay attention.
That Sunflare band reminded me of High Rise -
https://highrise.bandcamp.com/album/high-rise-ii (https://highrise.bandcamp.com/album/high-rise-ii)