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harsh noise wall

Last updated: Wed Oct 22 2025 05:17:31 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)

Description

Harsh noise wall is an extreme form of noise music characterized by dense, unchanging walls of distorted sound that maintain relentless intensity without rhythm or melody. The genre strips noise to its most minimal essence, creating static sonic textures that challenge conventional listening through their oppressive, immersive nature. It emerged from the experimental noise underground as both an artistic statement and endurance test for listeners.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
76		1977	Various Artists	Japanoise	harsh noise harsh noise wall japanoise noise power electronics	japanoise # 44
64		1977	Various Artists	Remains	harsh noise wall noise
40		1994	Unit-M	Unit-M	harsh noise harsh noise wall
18		1996	adipocere	Concrete Verge	harsh noise wall noise
93		2001	Kid Rock	Bad Reputation	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black metal brutal death metal country cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal hard rock harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal hip-hop melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal porngrind post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac rap rock raw black metal rock russian black metal slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal usbm viking metal war metal	nsbm # 2 old school death metal # 3 powerviolence # 9 swedish death metal # 18 nwobhm # 29 slamming brutal death metal # 35 war metal # 36 raw black metal # 37 deathgrind # 39 power electronics # 43 suicidal black metal # 49 cybergrind # 53 finnish black metal # 57 pagan black metal # 60 harsh noise # 61 rac # 61 depressive suicidal black metal # 62 death n roll # 81 drone metal # 82 usbm # 83 gorenoise # 87 porngrind # 87 russian black metal # 88 hatecore # 89
42		2002	Clew of Theseus	Sewer Election / Clew of Theseus	harsh noise wall
58		2004	Black Leather Jesus	Sex In The Name Of God	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
78		2005	Black Leather Jesus	United States Of Persuasion	harsh noise wall
80		2005	The Cherry Point	dark sanctions	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
75		2005-10	The Rita	Anna Christie	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
59		2007-01-11	White Torture	Albtraum O.S.T.	death industrial harsh noise harsh noise wall industrial noise power electronics
81		2007-01	Total Slitting Of Throats	Total Slitting Of Throats	harsh noise harsh noise wall
13		2007-10-19	Worship	2	harsh noise wall noise
49		2007-10-19	Worship	1	harsh noise wall noise
88		2007-12-06	Vomir	Claustration	harsh noise wall
52		2008	Razxca	Tsuudclart	harsh noise harsh noise wall
63		2008	Carl Kruger	Wild Music	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
72		2009-08-15	くらげUFO	凶	harsh noise wall
68		2010	Meatgrinder	First Innocent	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
74		2010	Werewolf Jerusalem	Carnal Violence	harsh noise wall
79		2010	Pollutive Static	NOTHING BUT A FUCKING GRUDGE	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise power electronics
83		2010	Vomir	emesis	harsh noise harsh noise wall
89		2010	North Korea	North Korea	harsh noise wall noise
94		2010	Vomir	Proanomie	harsh noise wall
65		2010-01-25	Serene Ailment	Serene//chancey	harsh noise harsh noise wall improvisation
37		2010-07	Vomir	Le Mur Bruitiste Est Non Programmable, Il A Une Fonction Heuristique: Il Révèle; Il Ne Représente Pas: Il Présente
31		2011	Omphalectoicxanthopsia	Precoitus Thoughts And Wonderings About Certain Abominable Sexual Acts Providing That The Multiple Participants Reach Consent On Vuleioipgyngoncrine Usage , Excessive Hidrisintranormopleiopyel Displacement, Rough Kyphometrectis Scllerostaxiccatabradyanoadipoundings, Day-old Vomit Chewing		gorenoise # 9
15		2011-03-31	Jake Vida	Collections 1	harsh noise wall
6		2011-05-25	Morpheus Lunae	Rauschen	alternative ambient dark ambient dark electronic deep ambient drone drone ambient electronic electronica experimental noise harsh noise harsh noise wall industrial noise lo-fi noise soundscape	experimental noise # 10 dark electronic # 17
82		2011-05-28	Dead Body Collection	Chromosomal Abnormality	harsh noise wall
36		2012-03-04	Sophina La Kitty	Harsh Noise Kitty	harsh noise wall
24		2013	Various Artists	Video Nasties	harsh noise wall
86		2013-05-23	The Rita	Dark Angled Eyebrow	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
77		2013-06-18	Svartvit	Feuillemort	harsh noise wall
47		2013-11-15	Oliver Tate	Vancouver	electronic harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
60		2013-11-19	Merzbow	Kookaburra	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
5		2013-12-01	Razxca	Merhoslopt	harsh noise harsh noise wall
56		2014	Richard Ramirez	Keep Your Eyes on Him	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
19		2014-01-01	Razxca	Fiinfyorp	harsh noise harsh noise wall
21		2014-01-03	Razxca	Falkogremeh	harsh noise harsh noise wall
14		2014-04-26	GROZNY 93	Osetia Południowa '08	drone harsh noise wall
87		2014-07-11	Vomir	Vomir	harsh noise wall
95		2014-07-22	Jason Aldean	Burnin' It Down	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal world yacht rock	swedish death metal # 4 power electronics # 5 pagan metal # 6 drone metal # 7 gothic metal # 24 technical death metal # 25 doom metal # 36 groove metal # 47 deathcore # 48 plugg # 57 post-grunge # 64 post-metal # 66 nsbm # 72 atmospheric black metal # 75 brutal death metal # 80 goregrind # 83 viking metal # 83 phonk # 85 symphonic black metal # 85 grindcore # 86 rac # 87 old school death metal # 90 blackened death metal # 90 depressive black metal # 91 nwobhm # 91 gorenoise # 92 war metal # 92 nightcore # 92 avant-garde metal # 92 yacht rock # 93 brutal deathcore # 93 world # 93 true norwegian black metal # 93 deathgrind # 94 harsh noise # 94 melodic black metal # 94 blackened crust # 95 powerviolence # 95 funeral doom metal # 95 raw black metal # 95 death doom metal # 96 pagan black metal # 96 cybergrind # 96 porngrind # 96 death n roll # 96 hatecore # 96 russian black metal # 97 norwegian black metal # 97 finnish black metal # 97 slamming brutal death metal # 97 suicidal black metal # 97 black death metal # 97 nerdcore # 97 depressive suicidal black metal # 97 usbm # 97
17		2014-08-05	Panic	Bang Bang	harsh noise harsh noise wall
8		2014-11-01	Razxca	Fourier Transform	harsh noise wall
22		2014-11-01	Razxca	Pontryagin Duality	harsh noise wall
23		2015-02-09	Ethyl Snowman	Surfin' Wild	harsh noise wall
92		2015-09-10	光の緒	Untitled	harsh noise wall
33		2015-12-13	Oliver Tate	Venice	dark ambient drone drone ambient electronic harsh noise wall noise
16		2016-01-28	Panic	Baby I	harsh noise harsh noise wall
41		2016-01-28	Panic	Break Free	harsh noise harsh noise wall
26		2016-03-15	Jisatsu Sākuru	自殺サークル	harsh noise wall noise
50		2016-07-15	Kosmodrom	Destination Moon	electronic harsh noise wall
73		2016-07-15	Shurayuki-hime	In The Beginning, Woman Was The Sun
35		2017	Volcanic Queen	Innocence of Those Who Perished	ambient dark ambient drone dungeon synth field recordings harsh noise wall industrial noise techno
61		2017	Silence ((O))))	นิทราแห่งจักรวาล	harsh noise wall
44		2017-01-27	Razxca	Aquabeliopac	harsh noise harsh noise wall
27		2017-02-06	Necrotik Fissure	Ravished by Gargantuan Anxiety	harsh noise wall
12		2017-04-07	Skum	conspiracy of silence	harsh noise wall raw black metal
57		2017-04-09	Shurayuki-hime	勿忘草	harsh noise wall
46		2017-04-18	Uior	Moment	harsh noise wall
48		2017-06-05	Prostitutes Of The 19th Century	The Dawn Of Sleaze	electronic harsh noise harsh noise wall
45		2017-09-01	Harsh Noise Movement	Split	harsh noise wall noise
25		2017-10-25	Moon eclipse	Remnants of Ancient Civilizations	harsh noise wall
38		2018-02-22	Soul Assault	Lurid Tar Onto Your Skin	field recordings harsh noise harsh noise wall noise power electronics sound collage
1		2018-05-14	ソウル タタキ	Feedback of Shudders	field recordings harsh noise wall noise
3		2018-10-10	Flagellatio Orgasmus	Recycled	harsh noise wall
34		2018-10-21	Tales About Digits	Unprepared for the Storm	ambient drone harsh noise wall
32		2018-11-04	Photos of Osho	Osho speaks on Meditation	harsh noise wall
84		2019	Impermanence	Deterioration is a Lonely Business	harsh noise wall
28		2019-01-14	Emerld	The Serpant	drone harsh noise wall
91		2019-07-12	Prurient	Garden Of The Mutilated Paratroopers	harsh noise wall
97		2019-10-10	Sam Hunt	Kinfolks	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	pagan metal # 2 swedish death metal # 2 drone metal # 3 power electronics # 3 heavy metal # 3 technical death metal # 6 progressive metal # 15 nu metal # 19 thrash metal # 26 metal # 36 melodic death metal # 42 black metal # 50 death metal # 66 groove metal # 71 gothic metal # 72 plugg # 75 deathcore # 78 nsbm # 79 doom metal # 80 post-grunge # 81 post-metal # 87 brutal death metal # 87 goregrind # 88 phonk # 89 rac # 90 old school death metal # 92 symphonic black metal # 92 atmospheric black metal # 93 nwobhm # 94 viking metal # 94 blackened death metal # 94 gorenoise # 94 grindcore # 95 nightcore # 95 brutal deathcore # 96 deathgrind # 96 war metal # 96 harsh noise # 96 true norwegian black metal # 96 yacht rock # 97 raw black metal # 97 skinhead # 97 depressive black metal # 97 hatecore # 98 avant-garde metal # 98 powerviolence # 98 pagan black metal # 98 cybergrind # 98 blackened crust # 98 melodic black metal # 98 slamming brutal death metal # 99 finnish black metal # 99 suicidal black metal # 99 depressive suicidal black metal # 99 death doom metal # 99 usbm # 99 funeral doom metal # 99 nerdcore # 99 russian black metal # 99 norwegian black metal # 99 death n roll # 99 porngrind # 99 black death metal # 99
71		2019-10-31	The Rita	weimar whores	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
43		2019-11-22	Hana Haruna	Beatz	harsh noise wall
53		2019-11-25	Star of Creation	Winter Voyager	drone harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
20		2020	Frenchsex	Frenchsex	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
51		2020-03-30	Serene Ailment and Mutations	Serene / Mutations	death industrial drone ethereal harsh noise wall lgbt power electronics sampling
66		2020-05-31	屋上のスキマ　白いソラ	A Sonographic Model Of Coordinated (Non-)Harmonious (Non-)Harmonic Stasis: A Systemic Aural Inquiry Into Permutational Paradoxes	harsh noise wall
29		2021-08-23	̵͎͚̲͛ ̶̡̒́̉ ̴̛̯̞̳̾͝ ̸͓͍̍͒͘ ̷̩͇͈͖͝ ̴̜̺̤̰͒̄ ̴̨̡̯̭̿ ̶̨̩͕̀͊͘ ̶͔̆͒ ̴̰̈́͛	̶͈̻̔ ̴̰̘̍͊ ̶̓͜ ̸̼͎͊͘ ̴̺͒ ̵̯̦̌͆ ̴̦̤́ ̴̝̺͂͐ ̴̨͉͐ ̷̭̂͝ ̵̟̆ ̴̮̗̽ ̸͖̳͗ ̷̧͗̀ ̸̢̆ͅ ̶͕͖͌ ̵̡̀̈́ ̶̩̣͊̀ ̵̬̃͘ ̶̼͠	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise vaporwave
67		2021-09-21	Genophobic Perversion	Seismic Cerebral Collapse	goregrind gorenoise harsh noise wall noise	gorenoise # 35
70		2021-10-08	EMCECRPAM	Versatil Intuicion Homofoba	harsh noise harsh noise wall mexico
4		2022	Frenchsex	Passage à l’âge Adulte	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
9		2022	Werewolf Jerusalem	Mania	harsh noise wall noise
2		2022-01-04	zan'nin'na	001	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
30		2022-03-13	Worship	3	harsh noise wall noise
96		2022-06-23	Sam Hunt	Water Under The Bridge	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 3 black metal # 4 power electronics # 4 drone metal # 4 pagan metal # 4 death metal # 16 technical death metal # 21 gothic metal # 38 doom metal # 44 groove metal # 56 deathcore # 56 plugg # 64 post-metal # 72 nsbm # 73 post-grunge # 73 atmospheric black metal # 79 brutal death metal # 83 goregrind # 84 viking metal # 85 rac # 88 phonk # 88 symphonic black metal # 88 grindcore # 90 old school death metal # 91 blackened death metal # 91 depressive black metal # 92 nwobhm # 92 gorenoise # 93 war metal # 93 brutal deathcore # 94 nightcore # 94 yacht rock # 94 true norwegian black metal # 94 harsh noise # 95 avant-garde metal # 95 deathgrind # 95 funeral doom metal # 96 raw black metal # 96 blackened crust # 96 skinhead # 96 cybergrind # 97 melodic black metal # 97 powerviolence # 97 pagan black metal # 97 hatecore # 97 death n roll # 97 death doom metal # 97 depressive suicidal black metal # 98 suicidal black metal # 98 slamming brutal death metal # 98 black death metal # 98 nerdcore # 98 finnish black metal # 98 usbm # 98 norwegian black metal # 98 porngrind # 98 russian black metal # 98
11		2022-10-25	Катакомбная Церковь	Пасха 93	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
98		2023-03-10	Sam Hunt	Outskirts	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore country pop cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore neoclassical darkwave nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 1 pagan metal # 1 power electronics # 2 drone metal # 2 technical death metal # 3 metalcore # 19 progressive metal # 40 nu metal # 40 heavy metal # 45 thrash metal # 53 metal # 59 melodic death metal # 66 black metal # 72 nsbm # 80 plugg # 81 groove metal # 82 death metal # 83 deathcore # 85 post-grunge # 87 country pop # 89 goregrind # 89 brutal death metal # 90 gothic metal # 90 doom metal # 92 rac # 92 post-metal # 93 old school death metal # 94 phonk # 94 gorenoise # 95 symphonic black metal # 95 nightcore # 96 deathgrind # 97 harsh noise # 97 true norwegian black metal # 97 grindcore # 97 brutal deathcore # 97 raw black metal # 98 skinhead # 98 viking metal # 98 nwobhm # 98 yacht rock # 98 blackened death metal # 98 war metal # 98 pagan black metal # 99 hatecore # 99 cybergrind # 99 slamming brutal death metal # 100 depressive black metal # 100 avant-garde metal # 100 death n roll # 100 blackened crust # 100 black death metal # 100 powerviolence # 100 nerdcore # 100 depressive suicidal black metal # 100 death doom metal # 100 usbm # 100 russian black metal # 100 norwegian black metal # 100 neoclassical darkwave # 100 atmospheric black metal # 100 melodic black metal # 100 suicidal black metal # 100 porngrind # 100 funeral doom metal # 100 finnish black metal # 100
100		2023-06-16	David Kushner	Daylight	goregrind harsh noise harsh noise wall nsbm	nsbm # 96 goregrind # 99 harsh noise # 99
39		2023-07-29	Prolapsed Catholic	We Are Protected by Divinity	harsh noise wall noise power electronics
55		2023-08-10	0M01D3*J3W37RYYY	harsh noises and gummies vol.1	harsh noise wall noise
54		2023-10-12	fzx	Loner	ambient breakbeat breakcore harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
62		2024-02-18	WorkerBee	The Angel That Loves to Hurt Itself	harsh noise wall noise
85		2024-11-15	Bottom Surgery	XBXSX	cybergrind deathgrind electronic grindcore harsh noise wall hyperpop noisegrind sasscore	noisegrind # 81
10			Tom MacDonald feat. Ben Shapiro	FACTS	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	death n roll # 10
99			Hanumankind	Big Dawgs	brutal death metal deathgrind goregrind gorenoise grindcore harsh noise harsh noise wall nsbm raw black metal true norwegian black metal unblack metal	nsbm # 89 brutal death metal # 95 goregrind # 95 true norwegian black metal # 98 harsh noise # 98 gorenoise # 98 deathgrind # 99 grindcore # 99 raw black metal # 99 unblack metal # 100
7			Catholic Symmetry	Catholic Symmetry	noise power electronics harsh noise harsh noise wall
69			Meatgrinder	FEAR INTO THE HEART OF THE VICTIM	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise
90			Wormhole HNW	Hypnos	harsh noise harsh noise wall noise

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