A couple days ago I made a post asking for Merzbow recommendations and you guys sent me some great stuff but I was wondering if there are any bands that are similar to Merzbow in sound and style. I got introduced to bands like Sissy Spacek and Pseudocommando the other day through Merzbow and I loved them but I crave more. Any recommendations would be appreciated, please and thank you :).

Hello, I'm new to Merzbow and I'd like some album recommendations, He has a massive discography and I find it hard to settle on an album to listen to because he has so many. I'm a big fan of challenging music so I wanna hear Merzbow's most hard to listen to music. So far I've listened to Eternal Stalker, 1930 and Magnesia Nova. please and thank you :).

Why aren’t all of his albums on Spotify? I’ve looked for dharma, merzzow, and merzbient, but none of them are on Spotify

Everyone talks about the best albums, but in your opinion, which are the worst? I'll start: Music For Bondage 1.

is anyone going? even if it's free it was hard to convince any friends...

Just wondering

Hi everyone im making a playlist of every merzbow song under 6 minutes any help is super appreciated since his discography is huge, everything counts (collabs, interludes, etc), thanks! Ps i still count if its 6:04, 6:38 etc im just drawing the line at 6 min cuz the whole point is for it to be short merzbow songs and that felt like the best line to draw.

Ive seen a picture of merzbow with 2 girls dressed as chickens standing outside a chicken restaurant so many times but ive been searching for it for an hour and havent been able to find it can anyone help me

Ranked only on my enjoyment, I know some opinions here might be horrible for most merz fans

Fonctionnarisation is one of the many "lost" Merzbow albums from the early 80s. During a recent afternoon of scouring the internet for releases that are missing from my collection i found a defunct blogspot that archived college radio broadcasts. A radio station in Chicago peaked my interest because they played quite a lot of experimental music. While looking through their broadcasts I suddenly spotted something unexpected in the tracklist: they played a short excerpt of Fonctionnarisation!

I wrote to the radio station in question and they're gonna check their cassete inventory to see if they still have the full tape. Fingers crossed :)

https://youtu.be/7BYJezXspdQ

So today I took a shot at Pia-Noise by Merzbow and Nicolas Horvath while walking to school and that is what made me truly understand futurism and brutalism, we in the current era live in dissonance, with noise from trucks, cars and construction, to chemical and industrial smells, I never really was this aware of my surroundings, the cold noise filled city, with no emotions but noise. If you have any recommendations that sound similar to this album I'll happily listen to them, thanks for reading.

I have gradually been listening to all the Merzbow in chronological recording order and am currently on 2007. Obviously I'm a big fan. A lot of his output recorded in 2006-2007, however, honestly borders on or is unlistenable to me personally. Lots of piercing frequencies without much payoff, and it's like there's this compression in the mastering during this era that puts a lot of the would-be interesting textures in a washed-out pocket of frequency in the mix. It's too bad because this era started with Turmeric, which is one of my favorites from him. Hoping things start to improve in 2008. I know by 2011 we'll be back in business because I really like Lop Lop and Kamadhenu.

So far my favorites from this era have been F.I.D., Minazo Volume 1, and Eucalypse. Based on my list below, I've only made it through Bloodour so far.

Here's my roughly chronological list of his 06-07 recordings. Which of these do you like the most?

2006

-F.I.D.

-Minazo Volume 1

-Minazo Volume 2

-Metamorphism

-Celebration of the Lizard

-15 August 2006

-27 August 2006

-Synth Destruction

-Electric Dress

-Merzbear

-Rock Dream

-...And The Devil Makes Three

2007

-Eucalypse

-Coma Test

-Coma Berenices

-Live Destruction

-Zophorus

-((Vibra))

-Bloodour

-Yono's Journey

-Peace For Animals

-Here

-Camouflage

-Feedback Yellow Purple

-Higanbana

-Keio Line

I wanted to start with more ambient like music, I know that Merzbient exists but I like to discorver more music with ambiente feel.

import numpy as np from scipy.io import wavfile import scipy.signal as signal

def generate_harsh_noise(duration=10, sample_rate=44100, intensity=1.0, complexity=1.0, pulse_rate=10): # Generate base noise samples = np.random.normal(0, intensity, int(duration * sample_rate))

# Add harsh overtones
for i in range(1, int(5 * complexity)):
    freq = np.random.uniform(100, 10000)
    overtone = np.sin(2 * np.pi * freq * np.arange(len(samples)) / sample_rate)
    samples += intensity * overtone / i

# Add pulsating effect
pulse = (signal.square(2 * np.pi * pulse_rate * np.arange(len(samples)) / sample_rate) + 1) / 2
samples *= pulse

# Distort the signal
samples = np.tanh(complexity * samples)

# Normalize
samples = samples / np.max(np.abs(samples))

return (samples * 32767).astype(np.int16)

Generate 30 seconds of harsh noise

duration = 30 sample_rate = 44100 intensity = 2.0 # Increase for harsher sound complexity = 3.0 # Increase for more layered noise pulse_rate = 15 # Adjust for different pulsating effects

harsh_noise = generate_harsh_noise(duration, sample_rate, intensity, complexity, pulse_rate)

Save as WAV file

wavfile.write('extreme_harsh_noise.wav', sample_rate, harsh_noise)

print("Extreme harsh noise generated and saved as 'extreme_harsh_noise.wav'")