Genre
Noise Rock
7 bands in the Top 500 carry Noise Rock as a primary or secondary tag.
- 7 bands
- 1980s dominant era
- 4 countries
- #042 Sonic Youth
New York noise-rock pillars who connected the underground to the mainstream.
- #315 The Birthday Party
Cave's pre-Bad-Seeds outfit, post-punk's most violent, theatrical band.
- #338 Death from Above 1979
Toronto bass-and-drums duo of distorted dance-punk.
- #436 Butthole Surfers
Texas chaos-rock band whose live shows were 80s underground legend.
- #437 Big Black
Steve Albini's drum-machine-and-knives noise-rock trio.
- #438 Shellac
Chicago Albini-led trio of meticulous, mathy noise rock.
- #498 Boredoms
Osaka noise-rock collective central to Japan's underground.