Noise Metal

Hiraki – Stumbling Through The Walls Review

By Akerblogger on April 6, 2021 in Reviews, Noise Metal, Post-Metal, Punk, 24 comments

“Synths are the future. It’s only logical now that the guitar, an antique device used by nostalgic, decrepit moshers in back-alley dive bars, is disowned. The guitar is dead. Long live the synth. Long live, especially, synthpunk and noise rock which, in the wake of that new, hip arcade game Cyberpunk 2077, is the in thing. In the satellite station of Aarhaus, Denmark – 166 cosmomiles north-east of Copenhagen – a young band by the name of Hiraki corrupt data by producing an abyssal synth-punk noise that takes influence from the likes of Daughters, Street Sects, and The Body.” Wall-E-core.

Crowhurst and Gavin Bryars – Incoherent American Narrative Review

By Emya on February 1, 2020 in 2020, Ambient, American Metal, Experimental Metal, Noise, Prophecy Productions, Reviews, Ambient, Noise Metal, 17 comments

“Not knowing what to expect from Crowhurst and Gavin Bryars’s new album Incoherent American Narrative, I snuggled into a corner of my couch with a piping hot mug of mint tea at my side and put on my Sennheisers. Now that I have experienced the album more than a handful of times, the idea that keeps coming to mind is that of a sound collage. Sound collages, like their visual counterparts, are compositions created from “gluing” together various, oftentimes disparate, sound pieces. Incoherent American Narrative fits that description to a T.” Art and crafts.

Gnaw Their Tongues & Crowhurst: Burning Ad Infinitum: A Collaboration Review

By Master of Muppets on September 5, 2018 in 2018, Ambient Metal, American Metal, Crown and Throne Ltd., Dutch Metal, Experimental Metal, Reviews, Experimental Metal, Noise Metal, 99 comments

“In many ways, this collaboration makes perfect sense. The lo-fi, chaotic-noise aesthetic of Gnaw Their Tongues is a very natural direction for the experimental drone of Crowhurst to wander off to, and vice versa. Given the prolific nature of Gnaw Their Tongues’s Maurice de Jong and Crowhurst mastermind Jay Gambit, it’s also pretty much par for the course that these two noise mongers eventually crossed paths and left some tracks in their wake.” Gnawed and miserable.

Among The Rocks And Roots – Raga Review

By Roquentin on March 5, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Avante Garde, Doom Metal, Drone, Noise, PTP, Reviews, Doom Metal, Drone, Noise, Noise Metal, Sludge Metal, 44 comments

“Music as ‘just entertainment’ is a solipsistic and fairly recent notion. Throughout the history of humankind, various forms of music have instead been tightly woven into the communities that birthed them, shaping and steering social bonds. Even if this fact has been conveniently hidden in the deepest crevices of our collective memories, helped by capitalism’s commodification of art, music as a concept outside the ludic and academically autotelic still exists in the cultures of indigenous people like the Tuvans. Their shamans perform songs primarily to heal and such music becomes a bridge between the spiritual and the physical. Richmond duo Among The Rocks And Roots are one of those rare contemporary groups which successfully tap into that subliminal, metaphysical source and simultaneously reach somewhere beyond their own ids.” Id Rock.

Marriage + Cancer – Marriage + Cancer Review

By Treble Yell on February 11, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Post-metal, Reviews, Self Sabotage Records, Noise Metal, Post-Metal, 0 comments

“Many cite Meantime as the apple of their eye from Helmet but it’s the 1994 follow up, Betty, that brought the New Yorkers to my attention and with it delivered a slab of feedback and odd-time signatures that I never grow tired of. The plunging chords and staccato drums are perfectly balanced against Page Hamilton’s wry vocal delivery, a seismic yet focused payload of anti-establishment vitriol that takes hold of your spine and yanks it through your bowels. Meantime and Betty’s influence was partly responsible for the establishment of the alternative and post-metal scenes and to this day still inspires bands to pick up the axe, none more so thanMarriage + Cancer.” Strap it on?

BIG|BRAVE – Ardor Review

By Roquentin on September 15, 2017 in 2017, Canadian Metal, Doom Metal, Drone, Experimental Metal, Post-metal, Post-Rock, Reviews, Southern Lord, Doom Metal, Experimental Metal, Noise Metal, Post-Metal, 52 comments

“Ardor, the third full-length by Montrealers BIG|BRAVE opens with a sustained, unending riff. As it reverberates eerily, it suggests that the trio picked up right where they left off with their sophomore release Au De La, veering even further into fields of textures and sparse instrumentation. Their signature sound is a combination of elements from multiple genres and idioms, from post-rock to drone, shaped into an experimental, caustic, and often hermetic concoction.” Bliss in the abyss.

Mutation – Mutation III: Dark Black Review

By El Cuervo on July 8, 2017 in 2017, English Metal, Grind, Noise, Punk, Reviews, Undergroove Records, Noise Metal, Punk, 20 comments

“Ginger Wildheart has had an interesting career. Achieving mild commercial success with the pop/rock band The Wildhearts, he’s expanded his repertoire to include “power pop” (Hey! Hello!), folk music (,b>Ghost in the Tanglewood) and latterly a noise rock and metal project (Mutation).” Jack of all trades, Wildheart of some.

The Black Scorpio Underground – Necrochasm Review

By Madam X on October 22, 2016 in 2016, Ambient Metal, American Metal, Avante Garde, Black Metal, Husk Records, Industrial Metal, Prison Tatt Records, Reviews, Ambient Metal, Black Metal, Industrial Metal, Noise Metal, 16 comments

“There are some albums that scream out for a review… Opeth’s Sorceress was certainly in no danger of being overlooked. We toyed with you a little, made you wait, but it was on the cards you’d get a review – eventually. The Black Scorpio Underground’s Necrochasm will never be one of those “sought-after” albums. In fact, it’s tough to even mention these two bands in the same review, purely because they’re complete opposites.” Scary has a sound.

Boris with Merzbow – Gensho Review

By Roquentin on March 17, 2016 in Avante Garde, Doom Metal, Drone, Japanese Metal, Relapse, Reviews, Noise Metal, Shoegaze, 15 comments

“To write about Gensho, the latest in a 15 years long series of collaborations between illustrious Japanese experimental metal, rock, and everything in-between trio Boris and legendary noise musician Merzbow (alias Masami Akita), is to write about three different records: a Boris shoegaze-cum-drone meditation, a Merzbow harsh noise attack, and a mammothian combination of the two.” What’s with guys who like drone and writing run on sentences, anyway?

Tetragrammacide – Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Antistructural Formulae Review

By Grymm on November 10, 2015 in 2015, Black Metal, Iron Bonehead Productions, Reviews, Black Metal, Noise Metal, 97 comments

“I like to think, two years into my writing gig here at Angry Metal Guy, that I would have a pretty solid idea as to how to approach a review at any given time. Listen to an album over and over, look up band’s page, throw together some lofty or detrimental words, give it a number, and *BOOM!* Pictures, publish, print, next. But there will come a time when a band puts out an album where you’re perplexed as to how to approach, grade, or even talk about it.” From India with hate.