Merzbow

Merzbow and Keiji Haino (Kikuri) at Supersonic 2 years ago. I attended this.

When I think of Noise music, I think of Merzbow (real name Masami Akita). He is at the forefront of the genre pioneering and pushing the limitations constantly ever since he started recording in 1980. A full discography of his work simply does not exist because of the extensive amount of recordings he has made.

His music is generally, particularly in recent times, is extremely harsh which goes back to his inspirations from death metal and grindcore bands of the late 80's/early 90's, as well as psychedelic music he listened to in his youth. Merzbow's distict style includes distortion, feedback, noise from various synthesizers and noise machines. Of late, he has become interested in animal rights creating music using samples from different animals. Some recording examples of these are Merzbird and Merzbear.


Yellow Hyper Balls from "Pulse Demon"