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Doolhof (Dutch for 'maze') is an experimental collaboration between Aaron Turner (Sumac, Old Man Gloom, ex-Isis) on guitars and effects, Will Brooks a.k.a. MC dälek of dälek on vocals and electronics, and Belgian audio-visual artist Dennis Tyfus on vocals, tapes and effects. Recorded live at Roadburn Festival 2019 in Tilburg and released by Turner's SIGE Records in 2020, it fuses abstract hip-hop, drone, ambient and noise into immersive, texture-focused long-form pieces.

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Incapacitants are a foundational Japanese noise duo formed in Osaka in 1981 by Toshiji Mikawa as a solo offshoot from Hijokaidan. After relocating to Tokyo, Mikawa was joined by Fumio Kosakai (also of C.C.C.C.) to form the enduring duo, whose stated aim is 'pure' noise free of musical intention or human idea, built from feedback, vocals and electronics. Alongside Merzbow and Hijokaidan, they are pillars of the 1980s Japanoise movement.

KK Null (Kazuyuki Kishino, b. 1961, Tokyo) is a prolific Japanese noise and experimental musician — composer, guitarist, vocalist and electronicist — who founded the progressive-hardcore trio Zeni Geva and the project Absolut Null Punkt, and has released well over 100 albums. His solo electronics moved onto Neurot Recordings with Atomik Disorder (2003) and Oxygen Flash (2009). He has collaborated widely, with named partners including Merzbow, Keiji Haino, James Plotkin, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Jim O'Rourke and Boredoms' Seiichi Yamamoto.

Merzbow is the project of Japanese musician Masami Akita, the most prolific and definitive figure in harsh noise, working in distortion, feedback, synthesizers and homemade noisemakers since the late 1970s. His vast collaborative discography connects him deep into this atlas: he has recorded with Boris continuously since 1997 (Megatone, Gensho, 2R0I2P0), mixed the tracks "O)))Bow 1/2" on Sunn O)))'s Flight of the Behemoth (2002), and later performed live with Sunn O))) at Tokyo's Earthdom in 2007. His early-career work also included collaborations with KK Null.

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Zonal are the British duo of Justin Broadrick (Godflesh) and Kevin Martin (The Bug), a reactivation of their 1990s Techno Animal partnership trading in cavernous bass, cacophonous dub and ear-splitting drone. Their debut album Wrecked was released on Relapse Records on 25 October 2019, with Philadelphia poet-vocalist Moor Mother featured across its first six tracks. The record was mastered by Stefan Betke (Pole) and pairs industrial hip-hop menace with drone-metal weight.

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North Carolina solo producer (Roxanne Jonas Radclyffe) whose December 2024 album VIRLGOID pairs maximalist, self-mixed/mastered production with metal riffing and a fragmented trans-vigilante narrative concept; RateYourMusic tags the record Avant-Garde Metal/Post-Metal, and her own Bandcamp genre tags span deathstep, drone metal, industrial metal, nu metal and "metamodernism." One of dozens of aliased projects in a prolific, DIY internet-native discography.

House of Hayduk is the solo/collective vehicle of Düreforsög guitarist Mads Heldtberg. Its 2012 debut City of Quartz (Koolarrow Records) is an instrumental record built from analogue synthesizers, dub-inflected bass and free-form percussion, evoking a Blade Runner-style dystopia (the title nods to Mike Davis's book on Los Angeles). Faith No More bassist Billy Gould performs on the record, alongside This Heat's Charles Hayward.

Hijokaidan are a foundational Japanese noise/free-improvisation group formed in 1979, the project of guitarist Jojo Hiroshige, who also runs Osaka's legendary Alchemy Records. With a lineup that has swelled from two to fourteen members, they pioneered Japanoise as an anti-music of chaotic feedback and notoriously destructive live performances. Regulars include Hiroshige's wife Junko and electronics player Toshiji Mikawa.

Bastard Noise is an American noise/powerviolence project founded in 1991 in Los Angeles by Eric Wood, Henry Barnes, and W.T. Nelson as a sister project to Man Is the Bastard; Wood has been its sole constant member since Man Is the Bastard's 1997 breakup. The project builds harsh-noise walls of feedback, crackling electronics, and low synth drones under guttural vocals, with Wood collaborating live and on record with artists including Merzbow and Keiji Haino. The band favors physical releases over streaming/digital distribution.

Jazkamer (also spelled Jazzkammer) was the Bergen, Norway noise/drone duo of John Hegre and Lasse Marhaug, active 1998–2012 across 25 albums of tape manipulation, field recording, and concrete-music noise. Their 2006 concept album Metal Music Machine (and a 2010 sequel) reimagined Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music, drafting Enslaved's Ivar Bjørnson and Iver Sandøy into the sessions.