History Music / Whitehouse

* DreamTeam: Their established lineups aside, Andrew [=McKenzie=] (of the Hafler Trio) was known to join them in concert, and [[Music/Current93 David Tibet]] and Music/SteveAlbini are credited as co-writers to some songs.

* ShoutOut: The band name and occasional use of the [[Film/AClockworkOrange Timepiece]] font is inspired by a pornographic magazine that did the same.

Whitehouse was an electronic music group formed by William Bennett that is seen as the TropeMaker and TropeNamer of what is known as [[HarshNoise power electronics]]. The ''modus operandi'' as stated by Bennett was "creating a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission," and indeed, much of their catalog consists of walls of loud, white or pink noise, synthesizers distorted to the extant that they wouldn't generate any notes resembling music, and screamed vocals depicting violence, rape, {{serial killer}}s, [[TheOldestProfession prostitution]], SelfHarm, and child abuse. They took their name from the infamous MoralGuardian Mary Whitehouse, as well as a pornographic publication of the same name.

* MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: A solid 11.
* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: A ''very'' solid 11-that is, when they bother with the scale at all-most of their work is [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale too harsh to even register]].

* DreamTeam: Their established lineups aside, Andrew [=McKenzie=] (of the Hafler Trio) was known to join them in concert, and [[Music/Current93 David Tibet]] and [[Music/BigBlack Steve Albini]] are credited as co-writers to some songs.
* EmbeddedPrecursor - some Cut Hands releases feature select percussive 2000s-era Whitehouse instrumentals completely unchanged from their initial release.
* InsistentTerminology - Almost always used "live action" over more common terms such as concert, show, gig, etc.
* LoudnessWar - particularly the later, digtally produced records. That said, the albums before the digital era are still mixed lower than most contemporary pop music. [[FridgeHorror Compare a track like "Torture Chamber" to a Katy Perry song...]]
* MadnessMantra - "FACE THE FEAST OF POWDER! FACE THE FEAST OF POWDER!"

* SeparatedByACommonLanguage - Uses the word cunt a lot and they're from England, so this fuels much of their accusations of misogyny. Of course, in some cases, that's their express intent...
* ShoutOut - The band name and occasional use of the [[Film/AClockworkOrange Timepiece]] font is inspired by a pornographic magazine that did the same.

* StartMyOwn - Philip Best's Consumer Electronics and Kevin Tomkins' Sutcliffe Jügend; are the two most prominent--they both had records distributed by Bennett's labels, Come Organization and Susan Lawly.
* StepUpToTheMicrophone - Often Best or Tomkins would do vocals on a song here and there during live actions until Best's studio vox debut on Quality Time's "Just Like a Cunt". Cruise and Bird Seed featured more and more vocals from Best until by the end he was contributing more vocals in the studio than Bennett.
* SurprisinglyGentleSong - "Cut Hands Has The Solution" which is a simple beat played under Best and Bennett's rants.

* TokenEvilTeammate - Peter Sotos; to quote Weirdest Band In The World: "Where Bennett, Best and even the rather intense Tomkins seem to be drawn to gruesome subject matter mainly for its shock value, Sotos seems genuinely, pathologically obsessed with it."
* WalkingShirtlessScene - Bennett and Phillip Best frequently take their shirts off during live performances.

Whitehouse was an electronic music group formed by William Bennett that is seen as the TropeMaker and TropeNamer of what is known as [[HarshNoise power electronics]]. The ''modus operandi'' as stated by Bennett was "creating a sound that could bludgeon an audience into submission," and indeed, much of their catalog consists of walls of loud, white or pink noise, synthesizers distorted to the extant that they wouldn't generate any notes resembling music, and screamed vocals depicting violence, rape, serial killers, prostitution, self-harm, and child abuse. They took their name from the infamous MoralGuardian Mary Whitehouse, as well as a pornographic publication of the same name.

* WalkingShirtlessScene - Bennett and Phillip Best frequently take their shirts off during live performances.