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| 2 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 3 | + {{Industrial}}, Modern Art, AvantGardeMusic, Experimental Rock |
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| 6 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 7 | + Free Jazz, HeavyMetal, HardcorePunk, Postmodern Art, others |
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| 10 | [[TitleDrop Harsh Noise]] is a subgenre of Noise Music. Now what, you may ask, separates Harsh Noise from regular noise? [[SerialEscalation It is a question of degree.]] Where noise music at large uses any number of non-musical sounds or textures to achieve a particular musical effect, the effect intended by Harsh Noise is most often a visceral one: To overwhelm the listener with sound, either through [[SensoryAbuse pain]] or [[ThePowerOfRock ecstasy]]. To that end, Harsh Noise musicians use sounds at the extremes of frequency and volume, often densely layering and arranging any number of abrasive sounds. |
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| 12 | At its root, Harsh Noise can be seen as a kind of offshoot of some of the later trends (particularly Power Electronics) in the first wave of {{Industrial}} back in TheSeventies; one notable precursor would be Music/ThrobbingGristle's 1978 track "Walls of Sound", a collage consisting of several live improvisations that the band had done layered on top of each other. Other precedents include Music/LouReed's ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'' and the synthesiser and guitar improvisations of Japanese free musician Keiji Haino, who later became a Harsh Noise performer himself. (Indeed, many of the most well-known names in this noise subgenre and others come from Japan, leading to the jocular term [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanoise "Japanoise"]]—which, funnily enough, [[BilingualBonus is the same pun in both languages]].) |
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| 14 | Though Harsh Noise remains mostly an underground niche for obvious reasons, some artists, such as Merzbow have found a certain degree of success among indie crowds, in no small part due to their influence upon and collaborations with more popular artists, such as Music/SonicYouth. It's also popular among grindcore and powerviolence, and to a lesser extent, BlackMetal fans due to the ''extremely'' heavy influence that it had on a lot of early acts. |
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| 16 | !!Artists include: |
| 17 | [[index]] |
| 18 | * Music/ChinoAmobi (mixed with AlternativeRAndB and {{Industrial}}) |
| 19 | * Music/TheBeverlyQuartet (mixed with {{Jazz}}) |
| 20 | ** 2020 - ''Music/TheShapeOfMashupsToCome'' |
| 21 | * Creator/{{Chriddof}} |
| 22 | * Music/{{clipping}} (mixed with AlternativeHipHop) |
| 23 | * Music/{{Deathpile}} |
| 24 | * Music/{{Dreamcrusher}} |
| 25 | * Music/{{Endon}} (also AvantGardeMetal with traces of mathcore) |
| 26 | * Music/EmilBeaulieau |
| 27 | * Music/TheGerogerigegege |
| 28 | * Music/{{Grunt}} |
| 29 | * Music/{{Hanatarash}} |
| 30 | * Music/{{Hijokaidan}} |
| 31 | * Music/{{Incapacitants}} (arguable TropeMaker) |
| 32 | * Music/IncudinePesante |
| 33 | * Music/KazumotoEndo |
| 34 | * Music/KeijiHaino |
| 35 | * Music/KevinDrumm |
| 36 | * Music/{{KKNull}} |
| 37 | * Music/KyleDennis |
| 38 | * Music/LudovicaCorsini |
| 39 | * Music/{{Masonna}} |
| 40 | * Music/MeltBanana |
| 41 | * Music/{{Merzbow}} (TropeCodifier and GenrePopularizer) |
| 42 | * Music/TheMSBR |
| 43 | * Music/PassengerOfShit, under a series of aliases and as part of supergroup Rancid Shit Wank |
| 44 | * Music/{{Prurient}} |
| 45 | * Music/PlasticBonerBand |
| 46 | * Music/RichardRamirez |
| 47 | * Music/TheRita (also considered a TropeCodifier) |
| 48 | * Music/WatashiNoKoko: Mostly on their SelfTitledAlbum, shows up sporadically elsewhere. |
| 49 | * Music/{{Whitehouse}} |
| 50 | * Music/YamatsukaEye |
| 51 | * Music/{{Severslvt}} |
| 52 | [[/index]] |
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