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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[Music/SonicYouth I'm just walkin' around... Your city is a wonder-town...]]"''[[note]]Clockwise from upper-left: Music/{{Flipper}}'s ''Album - Generic Flipper''; Music/BigBlack's ''Atomizer''; Music/LightningBolt's ''[[NonIndicativeName Wonderful Rainbow]]''; Music/SonicYouth's ''Music/DaydreamNation''; Music/DeathFromAbove1979's ''You're A Woman, I'm A Machine''; Music/DinosaurJr's ''You're Living All Over Me''; Music/{{Helmet}}'s ''Strap It On''; Music/ButtholeSurfers' ''[[RefugeInAudacity Locust Abortion Technician]]''; Music/ThePopGroup's ''Y''.[[/note]]]]

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Primary Stylistic Influences:
+ PunkRock, PostPunk, Experimental & AvantGardeMusic
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Secondary Stylistic Influences:
+ ProtoPunk, some bands influenced by KrautRock, {{Industrial}} and/or HeavyMetal
]

Noise Rock (alternately known as "noise punk" or just "noise") is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a genre of rock with a focus on abrasive noise. Noise rockers for the most part have a pronounced fondness for creating ear-bleeding music with the standard rock instrumentation; how important other factors are, such as melody or lyrics, varies from band to band. (Compare, for example, Music/SonicYouth to Music/LightningBolt, Music/{{Boredoms}} to Music/ThePopGroup. The differences in the songwriting department are far more striking than the similarities.) Noise rockers are known for their confrontational performances, unsurprisingly enough.

Noise rock's antecedents can be traced to proto-punk bands like Music/TheVelvetUnderground and Music/TheStooges, [[PostPunk the No Wave scene]], and HardcorePunk. (And that's not even counting all of the bizarre Japanese groups dating back to TheSixties like Music/LesRallizesDenudes, or the [[UnbuiltTrope quirked-out]] pre-Music/SexPistols aberrations like Half-Japanese, which while obscure have made a huge impact on the genre.) The genre as a unified movement emerged in TheEighties and has bubbled underground ever since, with the occasional moment where some band gets really popular. Noise rock was also an influence on {{Shoegazing}}, {{Grindcore}}, IndustrialMetal, [[DoomMetal Drone Doom]], {{Grunge}}, and a few varieties of HardcorePunk and {{Metalcore}}. It also very commonly overlaps with PostHardcore, and most noise rock acts comfortably fit within that genre as well.

Not to be confused with NoisePop, which is something slightly different.
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Bands commonly associated with Noise Rock include:

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* Music/AcidMothersTemple (Primarily a [[PsychedelicRock Psychedelic]]/SpaceRock band, but NoiseRock has always been an influence on their work).
* Music/ArabOnRadar
* Music/AidsWolf
* Music/BandOfSusans -- Had a strong PostRock streak.
* Music/{{Barkmarket}}
** ''Gimmick''
* Music/BlackFlag -- Hardcore punk meets noise rock, prog rock, avant-garde jazz, and early '70s heavy metal.
* Music/BlackMidi - Mixed with math rock, prog rock, no wave, and probably a dozen other genres.
* Music/{{Boredoms}} -- Earlier albums only; later work is more PsychedelicRock.
* Music/{{Boris}} -- Along with DoomMetal, Stoner Rock, PostRock, Drone, and [[GenreRoulette whatever else they feel like]].
* Music/ButtholeSurfers -- Noise rock's traveling freak show.
* Music/ChildBite
* Music/{{Chrome|Band}} -- Acid Punk grandfathers of IndustrialMetal. At their noisiest and harshest from 1978-1979.
* Music/ComparativeAnatomy -- Two bassists and a drum machine who dress up in animal costumes and delve into noisegrind.
* Music/CopShootCop -- (Also {{Industrial}})
* Music/CouchSlut
* Music/{{Daughters}} - Noise rock with prominent elements of no wave, PostPunk, and {{industrial}}. Their first album is [[{{grindcore}} mathcore]] instead.
** 2018 - ''Music/YouWontGetWhatYouWant''
* Music/DeathFromAbove1979 (combined with DancePunk)
* Music/DinosaurJr -- Perhaps the most accessible of the bunch, bordering on {{Grunge}}. Still, songs like "Don't" really can't be classified as anything but noise rock.
* Music/DriveLikeJehu (also emo)
* Music/{{Drunkdriver}}
* Music/EinsturzendeNeubauten -- Early in their career, pioneered {{Industrial}}.
* Music/{{Flipper}} -- Famous for the batshit insane epic "Sex Bomb", as well as its enormous influence on sludge metal and (especially) grunge.
* Music/{{Foetus}} -- and its many incarnations. Also {{Industrial}}.
* Music/{{Fushitsusha}}
* Music/GillaBand
* Music/GlennBranca -- Mixes this with Modern Classical and AvantGardeMusic
** 1981 - ''Music/TheAscension''
* Music/{{Godflesh}} -- See also IndustrialMetal.
* Music/GuitarWolf
* Music/{{Hanatarash}}
* Music/HappyFlowers
* Music/{{HAWKS}}
* Music/{{HEALTH}} -- One of the more accessible noise rock groups, would later on mix their usual noise rock fare with [[{{Industrial}} EBM]] on ''Death Magic'' and IndustrialMetal on ''Slaves of Fear''.
* Music/{{Hella}} -- A hybrid of noise rock and math rock.
* Music/{{Helmet}} -- Formed by ex-Band of Susans member Page Hamilton. Also counts as AlternativeMetal and PostHardcore.
* Music/{{Hole}} -- ''Music/PrettyOnTheInside'', also some elements of this on ''Music/LiveThroughThis''.
* Music/{{Jawbox}}
* Music/TheJesusLizard
* Music/JohnLennon and Music/YokoOno -- Their first two albums together are early examples of noise rock.
** ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo1TwoVirgins'' (1968)
** ''Music/UnfinishedMusicNo2LifeWithTheLions'' (1969)
* [[Music/KENmode KEN mode]] -- A hybrid of noise rock, metalcore, sludge metal, post-rock, and emo, briefly changed to retro-styled post-hardcore/proto-grunge on ''Success'' before returning to their established style on ''Loved''.
* Music/{{Kittens}} -- Along with influences from CountryMusic and HardcorePunk.
* Music/{{Liars}} -- At first, before they went dance-punk, and then went [[GenreBusting almost everywhere else]].
* Music/LightningBolt
* Music/LiveSkull -- A member of the same NYC scene which gave the world Music/{{Swans}} and Music/SonicYouth, among others.
* Music/MeltBanana -- A female-fronted example, with extreme GenreBusting tendencies.
* Music/MerShoppingMissbrukForStudenter -- A mix of Noise Rock, HarshNoise, {{Industrial}}, and {{Ambient}}.
* Music/{{Mclusky}}
* Music/{{Nirvana}} - Mixed with their usual {{Grunge}} sound on ''Music/InUtero'', and the occasional track outside of it.
* Music/NoAge
* Music/YokoOno
* Music/ThePaperChase
* Music/PinkAndBrown
* Music/APlaceToBuryStrangers
* Music/ThePopGroup -- See also PostPunk, GenreBusting.
* Music/ThePsychicParamount -- Loud, abrasive noise rock mixed with PsychedelicRock.
* Music/PussyGalore
* Music/{{Queenadreena}}
* Music/LesRallizesDenudes
* Music/{{Ramleh}} -- Combined HardRock with {{Industrial}} [[HellIsThatNoise Power Electronics]].
* Music/LouReed
** ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'' (1975)
* Music/TheResidents
** 1976 - ''Music/TheThirdReichNRoll''
** 1979 - ''Music/{{Eskimo}}''
** 1980 - ''Music/TheCommercialAlbum''
* Music/RoyalTrux -- Though they had [[BluesRock bluesy]] tendencies as well.
* Music/{{Satanized}}
* Music/LesSavyFav
* Music/{{Scarling}} -- A [[GenreBusting four-way crash between]] Noise Rock, NoisePop, {{Shoegazing}} and {{Goth}} Rock.
* Music/ScratchAcid
* Music/SkullKontrol
* Music/SonicYouth -- Especially 1981-1985.
* Music/{{Spacemen 3}}
* Music/SteelPoleBathtub
* Music/SteveAlbini, [[RecordProducer recording engineer]], played guitar and/or sang in the following Noise Rock bands:
** Music/BigBlack
*** ''Music/SongsAboutFucking'' (1987)
** Music/{{Rapeman}}
** Music/{{Shellac}}
* Music/StreetSects -- Also {{Industrial}}, plunderphonics and HarshNoise.
* Music/{{Swans}} -- Mainly 1982-1986, with later works predicating PostRock.
** 2012 - ''Music/{{The Seer|Album}}''
** 2014 - ''Music/ToBeKind''
* Music/{{Tad}} (also grunge)
* Music/TodayIsTheDay -- also {{Grindcore}} and AvantGardeMetal.
* Music/{{Totimoshi}}
* Music/{{Unsane}} -- A particularly aggressive group that also counts as PostHardcore.
* Music/{{Unwound}} -- A fusion of this and PostHardcore, they have been hugely influential in both scenes.
* Music/TheVelvetUnderground -- The final tracks of the first two albums, namely "European Son" on the first and "Sister Ray" on the latter are seen as the earliest examples of the genre.
** ''Music/TheVelvetUndergroundAndNico'' (1967)
** ''Music/WhiteLightWhiteHeat'' (1968)
* [[Music/{{Whores}} Whores.]] (some sludge metal and grunge elements on ''Gold'')
* Music/ZeniGeva -- A Japanese group with [[HeavyMetal Metal]] and ProgressiveRock influences.
* Music/JohnZorn
** ''Music/{{Radio}}'' (1993)
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