Noise rock

{{short description|Experimental rock music mixed with noise}} {{about|the specific genre|the general application of noise in rock music|Noise in music#Rock music|and|Noise music#Noise rock and no wave}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox music genre | name = Noise rock | native_name = | etymology = | image = | alt = | caption = | stylistic_origins = * Experimental rock * punk rock * noise * minimal * garage rock * krautrock * acid rock * industrial * post-punk * hardcore punk<ref name="quietus">{{cite web|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/19954-noise-rock-1986-big-black-sonic-youth-butthole-surfers|title=The Sound Of Impact: Noise Rock In 1986|first=Noel|last=Gardner|publisher=The Quietus|date=March 30, 2016|access-date=September 30, 2017}}</ref> | cultural_origins = {{circa|Mid-1960s}} to 1980s, New York City, United States | derivatives = *Grunge *post-hardcore * industrial rock * math rock * mathcore * noise pop | subgenres = * Pigfuck * shitgaze | fusiongenres = * Noisecore * noisegrind | regional_scenes = | local_scenes = No wave | other_topics = * Alternative rock * avant-punk * grindcore * post-rock }}

'''Noise rock''' is a subgenre of rock music that originally emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Artists fuse rock music to noise, while utilizing extreme levels of guitar distortion and feedback, primarily through the use of electric guitars.

== Etymology == The term "noise rock" is a portmanteau of "noise" and "rock" music. The earliest known use of the term was on April 25, 1970, in an issue of ''Record World'' by writer John Kornblum, who used the phrase "psychedelic-noise-rock".<ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Kornblum |first=John |date=1970-04-25 |title=The Move to Taos |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/70/RW-1970-04-25.pdf |access-date=14 November 2025 |work=Record World |pages=28}}</ref> On July 22, 1972, writer Nat Freedland published an article in ''Billboard'' magazine which outlined the influence of Germany's krautrock scene on English rock bands. He concluded by asking, "Is America the next step for teutonic noise rock?"<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nCgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22noise+rock%22&pg=PA41 |title=Billboard |date=July 22, 1972 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250825230634/https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nCgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41&dq=%22noise+rock%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNiZG7iaePAxV2Z0EAHZV-LFsQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=%22noise%20rock%22&f=false |archive-date=2025-08-25}}</ref>

== Characteristics == [[File:Flipper 930club.jpg|thumb|Flipper at the 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., 1984]] Noise rock is a term that can refer to two distinct styles,<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2018-02-12 |title=Noise rock: A how-to guide for the perplexed |url=https://toiletovhell.com/noise-rock-a-how-to-guide-for-the-perplexed/ |access-date=2025-07-20 |website=The Toilet Ov Hell |language=en-US}}</ref> each stemming from different influences and stylistic origins. In the early 1980s, music critic Robert Christgau coined the term "pigfuck" to describe Sonic Youth,<ref>{{Cite web |title=25 Years of Goo |url=https://crackmagazine.net/article/lists/25-years-of-goo/ |access-date=2025-07-20 |website=Crack Magazine}}</ref> the label later took a life of its own encompassing artists like Big Black, the Jesus Lizard, Flipper, Cows, Scratch Acid and No Trend who were more rooted in the post-hardcore and post-punk scenes and often associated with labels like Amphetamine Reptile and Touch and Go.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-12 |title=Noise rock: A how-to guide for the perplexed |url=https://toiletovhell.com/noise-rock-a-how-to-guide-for-the-perplexed/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=The Toilet Ov Hell |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="agitreader.com">{{Cite web |title=The Agit Reader • What's the Rumpus? The Pigfuck Top 10 |url=https://www.agitreader.com/news/pigfuck_top_10.html |access-date=2025-07-28 |website=www.agitreader.com}}</ref> The other strain of the genre originated in the late 1960s with more art-based influences, aligning itself with avant-garde music and psychedelic rock, pioneered by bands like the Velvet Underground, Red Krayola,<ref name=":1" /> Les Rallizes Dénudés and later Fushitsusha and Boredoms.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-17 |title=Almost A God: Noise Rock In The Landscape |url=https://zacharylipez.ghost.io/almost-a-god-noise-rock-in-the-landscape/ |access-date=2025-07-20 |website=Abundant Living |language=en}}</ref> Bands like Sonic Youth incorporated both the genre’s punk rooted origins as well as its art-damaged sound, by including the use of alternate tunings and unconventional prepared guitar techniques, such as playing guitar with drumsticks.<ref name="AllMusicNR">{{cite web |title=Noise Rock |url=https://www.allmusic.com/style/noise-rock-ma0000004455 |access-date=March 11, 2017 |website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref name="Osborn2011">{{cite journal |last1=Osborn |first1=Brad |date=October 2011 |title=Understanding Through-Composition in Post-Rock, Math-Metal, and other Post-Millennial Rock Genres* |url=https://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.11.17.3/mto.11.17.3.osborn.html |journal=Music Theory Online |volume=17 |issue=3 |doi=10.30535/mto.17.3.4 |hdl=1808/12360 |doi-access=free |hdl-access=free}}</ref>{{sfn|Blush|2016|p=266}}

Sonic Youth are the only noise rock band to achieve commercial success with the single "''100%''" from their album "''Dirty''" reaching #4 on the US charts<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-17 |title=Almost A God: Noise Rock In The Landscape |url=https://zacharylipez.ghost.io/almost-a-god-noise-rock-in-the-landscape/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=Abundant Living |language=en}}</ref> with frontman Thurston Moore<ref name="Sisario20043">{{cite web |last1=Sisario |first1=Ben |date=December 2, 2004 |title=The Art of Noise |url=http://www.spin.com/2004/12/art-noise/ |website=Spin}}</ref> stating: {{cquote|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. }}Additionally, the no wave scene helped further develop the sound of noise rock, with the compilation album "''No New York''" serving as a pivotal influence. Subsequently, bands like Sonic Youth and Swans, emerged out of the scene as key noise rock artists, drawing inspiration from no wave composers Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rhys Chatham, Nonpop New Music Composer |url=https://kalvos.org/chatham.html |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=kalvos.org}}</ref>

Noise rock fuses rock to noise, merging extreme levels of guitar distortion, electronic effects, atonality, improvisation, and white noise with that of traditional rock music instrumentation.

While noise rock has never had any wide mainstream popularity, the raw, distorted and feedback-intensive sound of some noise rock bands had an influence on shoegaze, which enjoyed some popularity in the 90s, especially in the UK, and grunge, the most commercially successful with Nirvana's final studio album In Utero produced by Steve Albini and generally taking influences from bands like Big Black, Wipers, the Pixies, Dinosaur Jr.<ref>{{Cite web |author1=Tom Poak |date=2022-06-01 |title=Kurt Cobain asked Dinosaur Jr's J. Mascis to join Nirvana – twice! |url=https://www.loudersound.com/news/kurt-cobain-asked-dinosaur-jrs-j-mascis-to-join-nirvana-twice |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=louder |language=en}}</ref> and the Jesus Lizard. The Butthole Surfers' mix of punk, heavy metal and noise rock was a major influence, particularly on the early work of Soundgarden.<ref>{{cite book |last=Azerrad |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Azerrad |title=Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 |publisher=Little, Brown |year=2001 |pages=439}}</ref> Other influential acts were Wisconsin's Killdozer, Chicago's Big Black, and San Francisco's Flipper.

==History==

===Forerunners === {{See also|Guitar feedback|Garage rock|Acid rock|Proto-punk}}During the mid-to late 1960s, the use of guitar feedback and distortion in rock music was becoming further incorporated by garage and acid rock bands, with its predominance being primarily pioneered by artists such as the Who, the Yardbirds, the Monks,<ref>Shaw, Thomas Edward and Anita Klemke. ''Black Monk Time: A Book About the Monks''. Reno: Carson Street Publishing, 1995.</ref> Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground, Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead whose guitar playing and techniques were beginning to border on "noise".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Venutti |first=Isabella |date=2023-02-06 |title=A history of feedback on rock records |url=https://mixdownmag.com.au/features/a-history-of-feedback-on-rock-records/ |access-date=2025-08-01 |website=Mixdown Magazine |language=en-AU}}</ref> On April 25, 1970, writer John Kornblum in an issue of ''Record World'', stated:<ref name=":8" /> {{Blockquote|text=In the waning days of the San Francisco rock scene not everybody who remained after the "flower people" fled were into shooting speed and watching teeny acid freaks. Friends still into making music began to realize it was about time to move on and get as far away from what had become super-commercialized psychedelic-noise-rock.}}[[File:Velvet_Underground_WLWH_publicity_photo.jpg|alt=A black-and-white picture of the Velvet Underground, with band member Morrison's hands directing to a vinyl copy of the record|thumb|A publicity photo of the Velvet Underground holding a copy of ''White Light/White Heat'' {{circa|1968}}.]] In 1968, the Velvet Underground released ''White Light/White Heat'', which was later widely recognized as the first noise rock album, with ''Spin'' magazine deeming it the genre's "ur-text".<ref name="Treblezine">{{cite web |last1=Terich |first1=Jeff |date=February 25, 2013 |title=Hold On To Your Genre : Noise Rock |url=http://www.treblezine.com/hold-on-to-your-genre-noise-rock/ |access-date=March 29, 2021 |website=Treblezine}}</ref><ref name="gross2">{{cite journal |last1=Gross |first1=Joe |date=April 2007 |title=Essentials: Noise Rock |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuTSBJnG06YC&pg=PA94 |journal=Spin |volume=23 |issue=4}}</ref> Guitarist Lou Reed drew influence from free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman, incorporating feedback as well as a discordant atonal approach to electric guitar, which was expanded upon from their previous release ''The Velvet Underground & Nico''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Shteamer |first=Hank |date=2019-05-22 |title=Flashback: Ornette Coleman Sums Up Solitude on 'Lonely Woman' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ornette-coleman-lonely-woman-lou-reed-837918/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref>

Although, some contemporaneous underground experimental and psychedelic rock groups were later recognized by music critics as early pioneers of what would become noise rock such as Red Krayola,<ref name=":1">{{Citation |title=The Parable of Arable Land - The Red Crayola, ... {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-parable-of-arable-land-mw0000274607 |access-date=2025-08-17 |language=en}}</ref> Michael Yonkers,<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last=Dazed |date=2014-09-21 |title=Sounding off: Michael Yonkers |url=https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/21723/1/sounding-off-michael-yonkers |access-date=2025-07-30 |website=Dazed |language=en}}</ref> Cromagnon,<ref>{{Citation |title=Orgasm - Cromagnon {{!}} Album {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/orgasm-mw0000619006 |access-date=2025-07-20 |language=en}}</ref> Pärson Sound, the Godz,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Breznikar |first=Klemen |date=2022-12-20 |title=Jeffrey Wengrofsky {{!}} Interview {{!}} Here to Eternity with The Godz |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2022/12/jeffrey-wengrofsky-interview-here-to-eternity-with-the-godz.html |access-date=2025-07-20 |website=It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> the Ethix, the Sperm and Nihilist Spasm Band.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-06 |title=How the Nihilist Spasm Band invented noise rock |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/nihilist-spasm-band-noise-rock/ |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>Unterberger, Richie (1998). ''Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll: Psychedelic Unknowns, Mad Geniuses, Punk Pioneers, Lo-Fi Mavericks & More''</ref> Most notable of these artists would be Les Rallizes Denudés, formed in Kyoto, Japan in 1967, who drew inspiration from the Velvet Underground's ''White Light/White Heat'', and later influenced several artists in the early Japanese noise and acid rock scene.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-09-22 |title=Heavier Than A Death In The Family: The Noisy World Of Les Rallizes Dénudés |url=https://businessandarts.net/blog/heavier-than-a-death-in-the-family-the-noisy-world-of-les-rallizes-dnuds |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=Business & Arts |language=en-US}}</ref>

Additionally, U.S. experimental music groups would also prove influential, such as the Residents who released a noisy version of "Satisfaction" in 1976,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Canty |first=Ian |date=2017-10-13 |title=The Residents: 80 Aching Orphans - Album Review |url=https://louderthanwar.com/the-residents-80-aching-orphans-album-review/ |access-date=2025-07-31 |website=Louder Than War |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The 30 Best Noise-Rock Songs - Stereogum |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2023335/best-noise-rock-songs/lists/ultimate-playlist/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124200440/https://www.stereogum.com/2023335/best-noise-rock-songs/lists/ultimate-playlist/ |archive-date=2020-11-24 |access-date=2025-07-31 |website=www.stereogum.com |date=November 28, 2018 |language=en}}</ref> and Half Japanese, whose 1977 EP ''Calling All Girls'' later influenced Sonic Youth and Kurt Cobain.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quietus |first=The |date=2023-03-22 |title=Love Songs And Monster Songs: Jad Fair's Favourite Albums |url=https://thequietus.com/interviews/bakers-dozen/jad-fair-half-japanese-bakers-dozen/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=The Quietus |language=en-GB}}</ref>

=== 1970s–1980s: Origins === {{See also|Post-punk|No wave|Post-hardcore}}[[File:Sonic Youth (1987 Monica Dee portrait).jpg|thumb|left|alt=|Sonic Youth in a publicity photo issued by SST to promote their fourth album, ''Sister'' (1987). Left to right: Shelley, Ranaldo, Moore, Gordon]]

During the late 1970s to early 1980s, the term "noise rock" became associated with an offshoot of punk groups that showcased an increasingly abrasive approach which merged extreme levels of atonality, distortion, and guitar feedback with traditional rock music instrumentation.<ref name="Treblezine" /> The advent of punk rock and post-punk, inspired bands in adopting a more abrasive approach to rock music, some of these early artists included San Francisco's influential acid-punk band Chrome,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-19 |title=A Guide to Chrome's Dark, Dense Discography |url=https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/chrome-album-guide |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=Bandcamp Daily}}</ref> as well as art-punk group MX-80 Sound who influenced Steve Albini<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-12 |title=byNWR {{!}} LONG DISTANCE INFORMATION |url=https://www.bynwr.com/articles/long-distance-information |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112234944/https://www.bynwr.com/articles/long-distance-information |archive-date=November 12, 2019 |access-date=2024-06-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Breznikar |first=Klemen |date=2022-12-26 |title=MX-80 Sound {{!}} Interview {{!}} "Velvet Underground meets Ornette Coleman" |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2022/12/mx-80-sound-interview.html |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> and Sonic Youth.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Kevin L. |date=2015-11-28 |title=MX-80 Recapture Their Sound: SF's Noisy Art-Rockers Talk Old Days, New LP {{!}} KQED |url=https://www.kqed.org/arts/11115041/mx-80-recapture-their-sound-sfs-noisy-art-rockers-talk-old-days-new-lp |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=www.kqed.org |language=en}}</ref> However, most notable of these artists were Nick Cave's the Birthday Party, who, inspired by the Pop Group,<ref>{{Cite news |last1=O'Hagan |first1=Sean |last2=O’Hagan |first2=Sean |date=2010-09-14 |title=The Pop Group: still blazing a trail that makes rock look conservative |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2010/sep/14/pop-group |access-date=2024-06-15 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> went on to influence "a generation of US noise-rock groups, from Sonic Youth to Big Black and the Jesus Lizard".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stafford |first=Andrew |date=2023-10-25 |title=The Birthday Party: the danger, drugs and rancour behind Nick Cave's post-punk band |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/26/the-birthday-party-the-danger-drugs-and-rancour-behind-nick-caves-post-punk-band |access-date=2024-06-14 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Other influences include This Heat,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Currin |first=Grayson |date=2020-10-21 |title=Understanding The Impossibly Far-Reaching Influence Of This Heat |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/08/21/904291487/understanding-the-impossibly-far-reaching-influence-of-this-heat |access-date=2024-06-14 |website=NPR}}</ref> Swell Maps, Wire, the Fall and Pere Ubu.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-07-09 |title=PERE UBU @ RICH MIX, LONDON – Post-Punk Music |url=https://postpunk.co.uk/pere-ubu-rich-mix-london |access-date=2024-06-15 |language=en-GB}}</ref> In addition, "Weird Noise E.P." the British DIY punk various artists 7" single released in 1979 was the earliest noise rock compilation album.

Guitarist Steve Albini of noise rock band Big Black stated in 1984 in an article that "good noise is like orgasm". He commented: "Anybody can play notes. There's no trick. What is a trick and a good one is to make a guitar do things that don't sound like a guitar at all. The point here is stretching the boundaries."<ref name="matter">Albini, Steve. (September - October 1984). "Tired of Ugy Fat ?". ''Matter [a Music Magazine]'' (10).</ref> He said that Ron Asheton of the Stooges "made squealy death noise feedback" on "Iggy's monstruous songs".<ref name="matter" /> Albini also mentioned John McKay of Siouxsie and the Banshees, saying: "''The Scream'' is notable for a couple of things: only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player got all that pointless noise to stick together as songs".<ref name="matter" /> Albini also said that Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd had this "ability to make an excruciating noise come out of his guitar".<ref name="matter" /> Additionally, Andy Gill of Gang of Four would incorporate drawn-out abrasive guitar feedback on their song "Love Like Anthrax".

In an article about noise rock, ''Spin'' wrote that the US compilation album ''No New York'', produced by Brian Eno and released in 1978 was an important document of the late '70s New York no wave scene that acted as an influence to bands like Sonic Youth and Swans. It featured several songs of Lydia Lunch's first band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks along with material of other groups Mars, DNA and James Chance and the Contortions,<ref name="gross2"/> other bands who were not featured on the compilation such as Theoretical Girls, Suicide, the Notekillers, Red Transistor, the Static and Jack Ruby<ref>{{Cite news |last=Moore |first=Thurston |date=2014-04-25 |title=Thurston Moore on Jack Ruby: the forgotten heroes of pre-punk |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/25/thurston-moore-on-jack-ruby-the-forgotten-heroes-of-pre-punk |access-date=2024-06-15 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> were also influential to the scene.[[File:Big_Black_(1986).jpg|thumb|Big Black at Chicago's Union Station in 1986; left to right: Riley, Albini, and Durango]] During the 1980s, Big Black, Sonic Youth and Swans were the leading figures of noise rock with Sonic Youth becoming the first noise rock band to get signed by a major label in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |last=Escobedo Shepherd |first=Julianne |date=November 19, 2005 |title=Sonic Youth |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/6199-sonic-youth/ |access-date=March 29, 2021 |publisher=Pitchfork}}</ref> Subsequently, Robert Chrisgau would coin the term "pigfuck" which later became associated with many of the prominent noise rock bands during this period.<ref name=":7" /> Other influential groups were Scratch Acid, Oxbow, Barkmarket, Pussy Galore, the Dead C and No Trend. Noise rock bands like Ruins and Bitch Magnet began drawing influences from math rock. Subsequently, Japan would also contribute with influential bands such as High Rise, Boredoms, Zeni Geva and Mainliner. Later notable bands of the noise rock scene included Cows, Brainbombs, Steve Albini's Rapeman, Season to Risk<ref>{{cite web |title=Dig Me Out 505: Season to Risk - in a Perfect World |url=https://www.digmeoutpodcast.com/episode/505-in-a-perfect-world-by-season-to-risk |access-date=March 15, 2023 |archive-date=November 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241103123726/https://www.digmeoutpodcast.com/episode/505-in-a-perfect-world-by-season-to-risk |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Unsane.<ref>{{cite web |date=March 29, 2016 |title=Quietus Writers' Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/19929-the-best-noise-rock-albums-reviewed |access-date=March 29, 2021 |publisher=The Quietus}}</ref> ''The Quietus'' retrospectively described 1986 as one of the most formative years for extreme music genres like noise rock.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Quietus |first=The |date=2016-03-30 |title=The Sound Of Impact: Noise Rock In 1986 |url=https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/anniversary/noise-rock-1986-big-black-sonic-youth-butthole-surfers/ |access-date=2025-08-17 |website=The Quietus |language=en-GB}}</ref>

=== 1990s–2000s === alt=Lightning Bolt Live (2005) at the Southgate House|thumb|Lightning Bolt Live (2005) at the Southgate House|left Subsequently, as genres like post-hardcore developed into the early 1990s, noise rock bands such as Mclusky, U.S. Maple, Polvo, Unwound, Drive Like Jehu, Today Is the Day and Cherubs began further incorporating these influences into the noise rock genre whilst bands like Helmet infused influences indebted to heavy metal, and most notably Brainiac who merged post-hardcore with synth-punk. Steve Albini formed the influential noise rock band Shellac in 1992, further proliferating the genre, while the Jesus Lizard emerged in the early 1990s as a "leading noise rock band" in the American scene with their "willfully abrasive and atonal" style.<ref name="all2">{{cite web |author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas |title=The Jesus Lizard – AllMusic |url=https://allmusic.com/artist/the-jesus-lizard-p13331 |access-date=September 5, 2012 |website=AllMusic}}</ref>

Later on in the 1990s, the term "noise punk" began developing with the band Lightning Bolt serving as key players in the 2000s noise punk scene in Providence, Rhode Island centered around the Fort Thunder art music venue, although Brian Gibson, the band's bassist, is dismissive of the noise punk label, stating "I hate, hate, hate the category "noise-punk" I really don't like being labeled with two words that have so much baggage. It's gross."<ref name="Sisario20043"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Labaan |title=Lightning Bolt: Interview with the Brians |url=http://web.mac.com/labann/Ri_Arts_Review/Bolt_on_Bolt.html |access-date=April 11, 2009}}{{dead link|date=November 2016|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Other noise punk artists include Arab on Radar, Liars, Boris, the Flying Luttenbachers, Zs, Laddio Bolocko, Hella, Royal Trux and Harry Pussy. In Japan, notable noise rock bands began to emerge out of the Japanoise scene, such as Fushitsusha, EX-Girl, Destroy 2 and Space Streakings. Notable noise rock bands that emerged in the early 2000s were A Place to Bury Strangers, Daughters, Japandroids, METZ, the Goslings and Death from Above 1979. As well as poppier acts such as Pissed Jeans, Dope Body and Karp.<ref name=":0" />[[File:Chat_Pile_Roadburn.png|thumb|Chat Pile performing at 2023 Roadburn Festival]]

=== 2010s–2020s === During the early 2010s, noise rock artists such as Gilla Band, Whores and Mannequin Pussy emerged onto the scene. London's Windmill scene pioneers Black Midi's debut album was referred to as noise rock by ''Rolling Stone''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Dolan |first=Jon |date=2020-02-06 |title=Black Midi: Meet England's Hot New Noise-Rock Weirdos |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/black-midi-schlagenheim-interview-947251/ |access-date=2025-07-20 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2018, Daughters released ''You Won't Get What You Want'', which became a critically acclaimed noise rock album.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gadbois |first=Drew |date=2020-03-23 |title=What I'm Listening To: 'You Won't Get What You Want' by Daughters |url=https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/music/what-im-listening-you-wont-get-what-you-want-daughters/ |access-date=2025-07-26 |website=The Michigan Daily |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Mastering Reinvention: Daughters On 'You Won't Get What You Want' |url=https://newnoisemagazine.com/interviews/mastering-reinvention-daughters-wont-what-want/ |access-date=2025-07-26 |website=New Noise Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Edwardspublished |first=Briony |date=2018-10-26 |title=Daughters' track-by-track guide to new album You Won't Get What You Want |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/daughters-track-by-track-guide-to-new-album-you-wont-get-what-you-want |access-date=2025-07-26 |website=Louder |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Ian |title=Daughters: You Won't Get What You Want |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/daughters-you-wont-get-what-you-want/ |access-date=2025-07-26 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref>

Subsequently, bands like Sprain<ref>{{Cite web |last=McKenna |first=Joe |date=2023-09-18 |title=Sprain – "The Lamb as Effigy" |url=https://everythingisnoise.net/reviews/sprain-the-lamb-as-effigy/ |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=Everything Is Noise |language=en-US}}</ref> and Chat Pile<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Kelly |first1=Kim |title='Being alive is kind of painful': the bleak vision of noise rockers Chat Pile {{!}} Pop and rock {{!}} The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/11/chat-pile-band-metal-interview-cool-world-gods-country |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=amp.theguardian.com |date=October 11, 2024 }}</ref> would later follow, gaining prominence as noise rock groups.

== Related genres ==

=== Pigfuck === '''Pigfuck''' is a noise rock microgenre coined by music critic Robert Christgau in the early 1980s,<ref name="agitreader.com"/> the term was originally used to describe the caustic sounds of emerging noise rock band Sonic Youth (similar to another term he coined "skronk" as a descriptor for jagged and noisy guitar music).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Martin |first=Ian |date=2014-10-21 |title=You say proto-this, I say post-that, let's call the whole thing 'skronk' |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/10/21/music/say-proto-say-post-lets-call-whole-thing-skronk/ |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=The Japan Times |language=en}}</ref> Later taking on a life of its own, pigfuck became associated with the sounds of post-hardcore adjacent bands like Big Black, Butthole Surfers, Cows, Scratch Acid, No Trend and Flipper as well as artists on labels such as Touch and Go Records and Amphetamine Reptile Records.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2018-02-12 |title=Noise rock: A how-to guide for the perplexed |url=https://toiletovhell.com/noise-rock-a-how-to-guide-for-the-perplexed/ |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=The Toilet Ov Hell |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Noisecore === {{Main|Noisecore}}

'''Noisecore''' is a subgenre of hardcore punk and noise music which emerged in the mid-1980s. Notable acts include Melt-Banana, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Fat Day and the Gerogerigegege.<ref name=":02">{{cite web |date=12 April 2023 |title=Noisecore and what it is |url=https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/articles/features/noisecore_and_what_it_is-42329 |access-date=16 June 2025 |website=Ultimate-Guitar.com |quote=“Noisecore is a term normally attributed to fast, aggressive, lo fi and often incomprehensibly noisy hardcore or grindcore with extremely short tracks.”}}</ref>

=== Shitgaze === {{Main|Shitgaze}}

'''Shitgaze''' is an early internet microgenre coined<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sherburne |first=Philip |date=2021-10-07 |title=25 Microgenres That (Briefly) Defined the Last 25 Years |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/microgenres-25th-anniversary/ |access-date=2025-07-20 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref> in the early 2000s by the Midwestern rock band Psychedelic Horseshit who pioneered a brand of noise rock they dubbed "shitgaze". Notable acts include the Hospitals, No Age,<ref>{{Cite web |title=No Age : Everything In Between |url=https://qromag.com/no_age_everything_in_between/ |access-date=2024-06-15 |website=QRO Magazine |date=November 11, 2010 |language=en-US}}</ref> Times New Viking,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mallett |first=Whitney |date=2008-11-10 |title=When a band and another band love each other very much |url=https://www.mcgilldaily.com/2008/11/when_a_band_and_another_band_love_each_other_very_much/ |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=The McGill Daily |language=en-US}}</ref> early Wavves, Grave Babies, Sic Alps,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=NME |date=2012-09-07 |title=Sic Alps - 'Sic Alps' |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews-various-artists-13653-324367 |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=NME |language=en-GB}}</ref> Vivian Girls,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Colly |first=Joe |title=Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13395-everything-goes-wrong/ |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref> Sealings, early Best Coast,<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last1=Interviews |first1=Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & |last2=Murray |first2=Robin |date=2010-06-09 |title=Best Coast Confirm Debut Album |url=https://www.clashmusic.mtcserver.com/news/best-coast-confirm-debut-album/ |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews |language=en-GB |archive-date=August 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816213428/https://www.clashmusic.mtcserver.com/news/best-coast-confirm-debut-album/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Best Coast: Where the Boys Are {{!}} Records |url=https://cokemachineglow.com/records/bestcoast-wheretheboysare-2009/ |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=Cokemachineglow}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Best Coast's Sophomore LP to Be Produced by Jon Brion │ Exclaim! |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/best_coasts_sophomore_lp_to_be_produced_by_jon_brion |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=Best Coast's Sophomore LP to Be Produced by Jon Brion │ Exclaim! |language=en}}</ref> Meth Teeth, Pink Reason, the Bitters, Eat Skull and P.H.F.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oliver |first=Henry |date=2018-12-21 |title=The definitive, very best New Zealand music of 2018 |url=https://thespinoff.co.nz/partner/21-12-2018/the-definitive-very-best-new-zealand-music-of-2018 |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=The Spinoff |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=I Miss Shitgaze, Man |url=https://floodmagazine.com/141620/i-miss-shitgaze-man/ |access-date=2025-07-20 |website=FLOOD |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-03-12 |title=Psychedelic Horseshit destroy shitgaze |url=https://imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/psychedelic-horseshit-destroy-s |access-date=2025-07-22 |website=IMPOSE Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

==See also== * List of noise rock bands * List of noise musicians

==References== {{reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book|last=Blush|first=Steven|author-link=Steven Blush|title=New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezTpDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA266|year=2016|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-250-08361-6}} * {{cite book|last=Felix|first=Stanford|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide Music Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ_Ql1fOCuwC&pg=PT172|year=2010|publisher=DK Publishing|isbn=978-1-101-19809-4}} * {{cite book |last=Hunt |first=Jeremy |title=From Chaos to Ambiguity: A Theology of Noise Rock |publisher=Pickwick Publications |year=2024 |isbn=979-8385204014}}

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