Frownland

Merzbow with Balasz Pandi the drummer adds a death metal element that's really amazing. The Cuts Deeper album is really good too.

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The Batlord

Oh, nice. What are some of the most intense harsh noise/wall noise albums that are actually good?

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grindy

One of the best.
There are actually rhythms and samples, but it just makes the overall harshness sound even harsher.

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A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

grindy

Now I'm actually listening to those two simultaneously. Pretty fun.

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A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

Frownland

Do you have a starting point for that? I started it and I see what you're saying, but we might be experiencing two very different things.

Well, I don't call Metal Machine Music a masterpiece for no reason. I think that you in particular would love White Suns. Ultra aggressive and chaotic noise rock madness.



Keiji Haino is the man of course. He has a super massive discography that spans 200 times the genres and instruments that I can even name. Good albums to check out by him as far as noise goes, Milky Way, I Said, This Is the Son of Nihilism and Watashe Dake (the live tracks at the end of the album, especially the 30 minute one. It's goddamned incredible). He's been a huge inspiration on me.



Power electronics are really awesome for intense noise music. It stereotypically uses Nazi aesthetics and **** so you'd probably love researching the genre. Even though they're very different, Maurizio Bianchi is right up there with Whitehouse as one of the baddest mother****ers of the genre (in a good way).



Here's a list of other great noise albums
Pharmakon Bestial Burden
Borbetomagus - Barbed Wire Maggots
Masonna - Ejaculation Generator
Prurient - Unknown Rains
Hanatarash - Hanatarash 3
Incapacitants - Default Standard
The Gerogerigegege - Instruments Disorder
Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind

Mondo has a lot of great noise under his Trouble Salad and Indentured Servant monikers too. There's a lot of noisy Jesus the Carpenter as well.

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The Batlord

Flavours of Entanglement is secretly Alanis' best album. I love Jagged Little Pill, but it's still post-grunge lite for girls, as opposed to a full-on pop album with banger after banger, while not being constrained by the instrumentation of post-grunge lite for girls, and having a darker edge that makes it its own thing. I need to listen to it way more, cause it might actually be a top 10 pop album.

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Best use of cheesy nu metal guitar ever? Maybe, but all I know is that this is one hell of a banging (aggressive even?) pop song that might even flirt with art pop. I might have stepped back a little on all my praise for Flavours of Entanglement, as the second half isn't as good as the first, but Alanis albums are usually bogged down with at least some filler, and the **** that is good is pop royalty.

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Terrapin_Station

Jack Bruce - Things We Like - 1970 - Polydor-Atco

"Sam Enchanted Dick"



It says 1968 on the video, by the way, because it was recorded in 1968, but it was released in 1970.

Blank.

You know what i just realized? That the only Alanis Morrisete song I know is "you oughta know." I should change that.

Terrapin_Station

I listen mostly via album shuffle lately, so that's why this is coming up again already:

My Morning Jacket - The Tennessee Fire - 1999 - Darla

I also pick the song to post here randomly, by the way.

"If All Else Fails"