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Noise rock is a subgenre of rock music that originally emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Artists fuse rock music to Noise music, while utilizing extreme levels of guitar distortion and feedback, primarily through the use of .
Notable acts include Sonic Youth, Big Black, Swans, Flipper, Cows, Scratch Acid, No Trend and the Jesus Lizard.
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 with frontman Thurston Moore stating: 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.
Noise rock fuses Rock music to noise, merging extreme levels of guitar distortion, electronic effects, atonality, improvisation, and white noise with that of traditional Rock band.
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. and the Jesus Lizard. Butthole Surfers' mix of Punk rock, heavy metal and noise rock was a major influence, particularly on the early work of Soundgarden. Other influential acts were Wisconsin's Killdozer, Chicago's Big Black, and San Francisco's Flipper.
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, Michael Yonkers, Cromagnon, Parson Sound, the Godz, the Ethix, Pekka Airaksinen and Nihilist Spasm Band.Unterberger, Richie (1998). Unknown Legends of Rock 'n' Roll: Psychedelic Unknowns, Mad Geniuses, Punk Pioneers, Lo-Fi Mavericks & More 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 Japanoise and acid rock scene.
Additionally, U.S. experimental music groups would also prove influential, such as the Residents who released a noisy version of "Satisfaction" in 1976, and Half Japanese, whose 1977 EP Calling All Girls later influenced Sonic Youth and Kurt Cobain.
By the late 1970s, 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, as well as Art punk group MX-80 Sound who influenced Steve Albini and Sonic Youth. However, most notable of these artists were Nick Cave's the Birthday Party, who inspired by the Pop Group, went on to influence "a generation of US noise-rock groups, from Sonic Youth to Big Black and the Jesus Lizard". Other influences include This Heat, Swell Maps, Wire, the Fall and Pere Ubu. In addition, "Weird Noise E.P." the British DIY culture 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."Albini, Steve. (September - October 1984). "Tired of Ugy Fat ?". Matter a (10). He said that Ron Asheton of the Stooges "made squealy death noise feedback" on "Iggy Pop's monstruous songs". 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". Albini also said that Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd had this "ability to make an excruciating noise come out of his guitar". 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, other bands who were not featured on the compilation such as Theoretical Girls, Suicide, the Notekillers, Rudolph Grey, Glenn Branca and Jack Ruby were also influential to the scene.'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. Subsequently, Robert Chrisgau would coin the term "pigfuck" which later became associated with many of the prominent noise rock bands during this period. 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 and Unsane. The Quietus retrospectively described 1986 as one of the most formative years for extreme music genres like noise rock.
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." 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, such as Fushitsusha, EX-Girl, Destroy 2 and Space Streakings. Notable noise rock bands that emerged in the early 2000s were Daughters, Japandroids, METZ, the Goslings and Death from Above 1979. As well as poppier acts such as Pissed Jeans, Dope Body and Karp.]]
Subsequently, bands like Sprain and Chat Pile would later follow, gaining prominence as noise rock groups.
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