While punk rock was always supposed to be about pushing the envelope, few post-punk bands seemed willing to go quite so far to creatively confront their audience as Big Black. The group's guitars alternately sliced like a machete and ground like a dentist's drill, creating a groundbreaking and monolithic dissonance in the process. Their use of a... [+] Read More

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One of the twisted giants of Japan's noise scene, Juntaro Yamanouchi's Gerogerigegege has been working out his particular obsessions with a flood of releases since his debut in 1985. In Japanese, Gerogerigegege is onomatopoeia for simultaneously vomiting and expelling diarrhea, and the sound of Yamanouchi's work often sounds like this played on... [+] Read More

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Extreme noise artist Masonna (Maso Yamazaki) has been active at the forefront of Japanese underground since 1987. Mixing noise and vocals, Masonna had released over ten recordings by the late '90s, including Super Compact Disc and Ejaculation Generator on Japanese label Alchemy and Frequency LSD on Canada's Alien8 Recordings. He also recorded... [+] Read More

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Maurizio Bianchi has been one of the most difficult artists to follow in the industrial scene. Making his homegrown brand of experimental electronica since 1979, Bianchi has released countless limited-edition tapes and live bootlegs. Several of these albums were collected for re-release in the late '90s, although even these CDs have been nearly... [+] Read More

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