I'm quite confident that popularity of raw and harsh stuff will create answer with the opposite.
I remember when there was lots of raw harsh noise, what suddenly was replaced by some popularity to dynamic hi-fi harsh noise. There was moment when death industrial and dark ambient reigned strong. And always some wave get replaced by others.
There was that Hospital Productions compilation "like frog...." LP+7" which was aimed to be response to all the dominating popularity of "clean" and "hi-fi" noise, but when it was delayed long enough, you could view it as document of currently peaking lo-fi crude filth noise. And nowadays it would seem to be alternative to make for example compilation of progressive, ambitiously experimental, boundaries pushing PE/noise?
I think something like Brethren, is new. Listening his 10" or for example track on Audial Decimation compilation CD, it's like PE in song form, being very noisy, but with actual verse / chorus -style of compositions and structures. Something you pretty much never hear.
Strom.ec went their most progressive mode on their 3rd album that came this year. You can vaguely file it under PE, but it is just so much more. Cloama is always pushing boundaries. Like Cloama/Blutleuchte tape on Freak Animal it is their LEAST experimental collaboration (there is 3 or 4 of them) and still it managed to sound unlike anyone else. The other releases go further. Bands like Human Larvae or Xiphoid Dementia, these both CD's I would also recommend to anyone looking for more than just fierce noisy PE. They blend in many influences and create quite ambitious albums, which is not just tracks thrown after eachother, but thought out albums.
