/r/noiserock
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For those with less restrictive definitions of noise music, you may wish to peek NoiseFuck or InsaneCore
Noise Rock
Noise rock (also known as noise punk) describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.
Style
Noise Rock is a term that has been used to encompass a wide range of bands which favour dissonance, wild feedback and extreme distortion in the context of Rock music. Noise Rock is an outgrowth of punk rock, while the style was predicted by such 1960s Proto-Punk bands as the The Velvet Underground, Monks and The Godz, Noise Rock came into its own in the 1980s. Cult musician Thurston Moore has said that
“Noise has taken the place of punk rock, People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it."
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I really like aggressive noisy bare bones guitar like drive like jehu, at the drive in, and fugazi. Anytime I’ve had a teacher they didn’t really like the same stuff so I was wondering if anyone had recommendations. It’s just tricky learning a lot of this stuff by ear and tabs don’t help much cuz a lot of ‘em suck.
I play bass in Muscle Vest (relevant to this group) and Ishtar Terra (a little less relevant to this group).
My appetite for noise is insatiable, so if anybody's looking for bassist in London send me a message!
FIRST FULL LENGTH FROM MONTREAL BAND PNOOM
FFO: UNWOUND, METZ, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, WIRE
I recently came across a project by a Russian musician, listened to it and was surprised to say the least. It sounds quite avant-garde and original. Have you heard of this? What do you think? It's hard to tell from the music what it is, there's a mix of indie rock and noise and metal even present at times.
hey y'all
looking for some recs for some dancey noise rock!! I love math rock, dance punk, indie dance, and noise rock, and I'm looking for bands that incorporate some or all of those elements into their music.
atm my absolute fav is gilla band, especially their most recent album Most Normal (2022), and here's some others I love:
shellac, death from above 1979, model/actriz, metz, protomartyr, ditz, melvins, xiu xiu, Mandy, Indiana, squid, black midi, lingua ignota, unwound, brainiac, health, ghostmane, holy fuck.
thanks :)<3
let’s post our favorite FUTURIANS songs here : )
I also love Rusted Shut
What are your picks?
How does your list compare to mine? Any great noise rock albums released in 2024 that I'm missing entirely? Anything coming out in December?
Angular a.f.
Always Wrong may be the most destructive Wolf Eyes record. Right up there with Burned Mind and Human Animal for their best works imo
All the cool old folks know.
for reference i currently use hesh amc's and i listen to shellac,brainbomb,the gerogerigegege,rapeman,big black,new brutalism,and sprain. im looking for headphones that are bassy,raise up the feedback and make i feel like your being beat in by the drums
greatly appreciate any and all reccommendations
Krang! was an old band hailing from Rhode Island in the late 90's as an early love child of the Fort Thunder collective. It had a lovely mix of post-hardcore and noise rock energy, which when combined with overtones and amateurish recording tickles my ears perfectly. It only had a shelf life of roughly a year, and their output was low, with roughly a dozen songs in total. Despite this, I love the music with a burning passion. Is there anything else like it? The original members have gone on to bigger and different things (John Dwyer went on to start Coachwhips and later Osees, Jeff Rosenberg had a stint doing even noisier rock with Dwyer before drumming for Lavender Diamond and having his own lengthy solo career, Brian Gibson has been playing with Brian Chippendale as Lightning Bolt since before Krang even began, and Josiah Webb is doing some shoegaze-y stuff that doesn't really interest me as much as the others), so they're a dead end. However, I chatted with John after an Osees show in October. He signed a copy of the book they named the band after (wasn't lying when I said "burning passion") and gave me some info about the band. He was really surprised.
Physical copies of their music are practically nonexistent, and I don't have Jeff or the guys from Olneyville Sound's phone numbers (yet), but there is a bandcamp (probably set up by Jeff, according to John) with all known recordings of the band.
Here's some YouTube uploads of all 3 albums off the bandcamp page. The first two are my uploads, but the last one is definitely their best work in my opinion.
https://youtu.be/GM_0xhFbj6s?si=VO2US9iqZQRkgWtr
These albums to me are very very noise rock adjacent, it’s post punk too but many of the songs just sound like straight up noise rock. Is it only me who holds this belief cuz I never hear these albums mentioned in noise rock conversations ever. Would I be talking out of my ass to say these albums kind of helped pave the way to what noise rock is now? I feel like these are maybe influential albums to the genre but I never hear it discussed. Also side note, better than anything the Sex Pistols ever did.