Recommended Noise Rock

About this CD: THE FACTS: Hammerhead - Into The Vortex Released in 1994 on AmRep THE TRACKS: 1. Swallow 2. Starline Locomotive 3. Zesta 4. All This Is Yours 5. Brest 6. Double Negative 7. Empty Angel 8. Galaxy 66 9. Journey totheCenterof Tetnus 4

Intense Noise Rock

What exactly is noise rock? Bascially it is lots of heavy distortion, distorted vocals, big angry drums, and lyrics that could have been written by a serial killer. It is music that fits that dark, far off side of a twisted personality. To some it really sounds like NOISE, to others it is beautiful music. You either completely understand it or you don't.

Essential Noise Rock Record Labels:

Amphetamine Reptile Records - Some of the best on this label are Hammerhea, early Cows, and Today is The Day.
Trance Syndicate Records - Best bands: Crust, Distorted Pony, and Cherubs.
Skin Graft Records - Best bands: Mama Tick, Mount Shasta, and Shorty.
Gasoline Boost - Bands: Big 'N, Shorty.
Choke, Inc. - bands like Milkmine, Jaks - lesser known label, so many of these bands went unnoticed.

Recommended CDs:

 

Vaz - Lie That Matches The Furniture CD
2005 CD

Ex AmRep Hammerhead, 3rd CD.

 

 

Chreubs - Heroine Man
13 Tracks

Awesome Songs like: Baby Huey, Wornout Balls, Coonass.
Great CD cover too! on Trance Syndicate, from 1994.

Shorty - Fresh Breath - CDEP
5 Tracks

Sounds like a really really angry Jesus Lizard. They also released a full CD called Thumb Days - Chris Dodge (Stikky) gave Thumb Days a really bad review in MRR (record is actually very good) and the band took out an interesting retaliation ad in the following issue of MRR (1993). Some people just don't get the Noise Rock - Chris Dodge is a really cool person too, but everyone can't like everything.

Mount Shasta - Put the Creep On
11 Tracks

On Skin Graft Records. Pretty close to the sound of Shorty - Noisy, psychotic and insane. The cover art should just about explain it.

 

 

More Noise Rock bands:

Live Skull - much more mellow compared to Hammerhead or Mount Shasta, but they are often called noise rock.
VAZ - This is Ex-Hammerhead - full intensity noise rock!
Swans - slower sludge rock, not all that noisy, but also called noise rock.
Of Cabbages and Kings - (see Swans)
Sonic Youth - Also called noise rock, but they really don't fit with the regular noise rock bands.
Lung - Three Heads on a Plate - Similar to an AMRep sound. This is their second release, their first one is called Cactii - Cactii is VERY HARD to find. They used to be called CLEAR - they released 1 record called Live Stomach in 1990. Too bad all of this is hard to find.

Other Recommended Noise Rock CDs:

Mount Shasta - Who's the Hottie CD - usually on Amazon for under $3
Mount Shasta - Watch Out CD - worth it for the Tang Dynasty track
Dazzling Killmen - Face of Collapse - slow and WAY OVERPRICED at around $40 used!
Engine Kid - Bear Catching Fish - CD - lesser known, slower heavy, on C/Z
Milkmine - Braille - CD - on Choke Records
Craw - Craw CD - on Choke Records
Jaks - Hollywood Blood Capsules - on Chore Records - An intense jesus lizard type.
Cherubs - Icing CD - very demented cover picture - great pounding angry noise.
BrainBombs - Taste and Power - Genius and Brutality - BlackJack Rec. - PsychoNoise
Head of David - Dustbowl - CD - Another good one that is hard to find. If you do you will end up paying a zillion dollars for it (anything over $18 is a zillion) This may also fit under the psychotic rock section
Terminal Cheesecake - CD I heard things...
Unsane - Had one CD on AmRep

 

So, who did we forget??

Note: we mainly want to list bands from the 80's and 90's.