NOISE ROCK

'Noise rock' is a broadly defined musical genre that developed in the 1980s as an experimental outgrowth of punk rock. Fusing punk rock's attitude with the atonal noise and unconventional song structures of early industrial and noise music, the noise rock introduced a new kind of avant-garde music to the alternative rock landscape. The style is sometimes referred to as "noisecore", though this term can also refer to a variety of fast, distorted hardcore techno music and grindcore.

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History

Time line of notable noise rock performers

Other Bands not listed in the time line

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

Labels

See also

External links

History

Some influences on the early breed of noise rockers were the stark rock and roll of The Velvet Underground (most notably their ''White Light/White Heat'' album), the bluster of the Stooges, San Francisco's Fifty Foot Hose, most expressive examples of krautrock (such bands as Faust), the chaotic free jazz and freak-rock released on the ESP Disk label, and Lou Reed's ''Metal Machine Music''.
The 1980s saw a large amount of noise rock bands to emerge from different scenes in America, notably The Jesus Lizard and Big Black (Chicago), Butthole Surfers and Scratch Acid (Texas), Sonic Youth and The Swans (New York), among many others, including The Cows (Minneapolis), Flipper (San Francisco) and Dinosaur Jr (Massachusetts). Also of note during this era (particularly the early 1980s) is the emergence of No Wave from New York City, a backlash against the New Wave trend of the time.
Later, the sound became associated with Japanese artists such as Boredoms and Melt-Banana, who incorporated the influences from Japanese noise music even further, and occasionally adopted completely chaotic structures creating extremely short, fast "songs" which were marked by blasts of rhythm, screaming, and extremely overloaded guitars.
At around the same time, bands such as Gore Beyond Necropsy and Anal Cunt were developing a similar style which is also often referred to as noisecore or noisegrind. In many cases, although the backgrounds of the bands are different, the "art" influenced noise rock bands and grindcore bands have often collaborated on new music.

Time line of notable noise rock performers

This time line shows the most notable noise rock artists.

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Other Bands not listed in the time line

The following is a list of notable noise rock bands.

1970s

★ Chrome

1980s

★ The Cows

★ Happy Flowers

★ Scratch Acid

★ White Zombie (early albums)

1990s

★ Arab On Radar

★ Coachwhips

★ Cop Shoot Cop

★ Daisy Chainsaw

★ Ex Models

★ melt-banana

★ Mercury Rev (early albums)

★ Skullflower

2000s

★ 18th Dye

★ 2-Up

★ Absolute Null Punkt

★ Acid Mothers Temple

★ Ad Astra Per Aspera

★ AIDS Wolf

★ Airiel

★ An Albatross

★ ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

★ Angeldust

★ Animal Collective

★ Avec-A

★ Bailter Space

★ Bastro

★ Billy Bao

★ Black Eyes

★ Black Pus

★ Boris

★ Chef Menteur

★ Nels Cline

★ Cosmic Psychos

★ The Curtains

★ Dazzling Killmen

★ Destroy All Monsters

★ Aaron Dilloway

★ Ed Hall

★ EVA pod

★ Fat Day

★ Femme Fatale

★ The Flying Luttenbachers

★ Galen

★ Goliath Bird Eater

★ Gorch Fock

★ Green Magnet School

★ Grey Daturas

★ Guitar Wolf

★ Harry Pussy

★ Hair Police

★ Halo of Flies

★ Hella

★ Heroine Sheiks

★ Ho-Ag

★ The Hospitals

★ Ifihadahifi

★ Indian Jewelry

★ Japanther

★ Josetxo Grieta

★ KEN mode

★ Kid commando

★ Kittens

★ Landed

★ The Locust

★ The Mae Shi

★ Magic Dirt

★ Magik Markers

★ Marlene Kuntz

★ The Martini Henry Rifles

★ Mattin

★ Medicine

★ Mika Miko

★ Mindflayer

★ Mínus

★ Nautical Almanac

★ No Doctors

★ Part Chimp

★ Parts & Labor

★ Pink and Brown

★ Plexi

★ Pre

★ Prurient

★ The Psyke Project

★ Psychostick

★ Rosemary Malign

★ Replicator

★ Ruins

★ Scarling.

★ DJ Scotch Egg

★ Gary Smith

★ Steev Mike

★ Technology vs. Horse

★ Today is the Day

★ Tera Melos

★ Unsane

★ Urlaub In Polen

★ US Maple

★ Valina

★ Vile Imbeciles

★ XBXRX

★ Xinlisupreme

★ Xiu Xiu

★ Zeni Geva

Labels

The following is a list of record labels that specialize in noise rock.

★ Amphetamine Reptile Records

★ Bulb Records

★ Ecstatic Peace

★ Gold Standard Labs

★ Hanson Records

★ Homestead Records

★ In The Red Records

★ Ipecac Recordings

★ Load Records

★ Narnack Records

★ Silent Explosion

★ Skin Graft Records

★ SYR

★ Three One G

★ Touch and Go Records

See also

★ Math rock

External links

★ About.com Profile of the Noise Rock Genre – another, slightly different, definition and history of Noise Rock.