Merzbow

Merzbow Announces 18-LP 'Merzbient' Vinyl Reissue Box Set

PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2012

Back in 2010, prolific Japanese noise artist Merzbow (aka Masami Akita) released the sprawling 12-CD collection Merzbient, which gathered a...

Merzbow

Empress Theatre, Moncton NB May 25

PUBLISHED May 26, 2011

Merzbow's namesake, German artist Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau installation, may at first appear to have little in common with the music. Watc...

Merzbow

Dolphin Sonar

PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2008

It is generally assumed that animals do not experience dread, or the crippling fear of impending death. Japanese animal activist and noise...

Merzbow

Live Destruction At No Fun 2007

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2008

How does one review a Merzbow album? Either you know what you’re getting into or you don’t. Forty-one minutes and 28 seconds of Masami Akit...

Merzbow

Kathedral, Toronto ON — September 20, 2002

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

For those who wished to court deafness via high-pitched abrasive sounds, this bill featured various local noise acts, capped off by the sta...

Merzbow

Merzbeat

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

At the behest of a friend, the big bad daddy of noise, Masami Akita, has released a beat album that out schools anything the drill'n'bass b...

Merzbow

Dharma

PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2002

Four tracks of eardrum-wrecking, speaker-rattling noise that will send your stereo well into the red, if not blow the speakers outright. Me...

Merzbow

Door Open at 8 a.m.

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 1999

The journey begins with a feedback drenched "intro" that develops into two sequential collages of heavily processed white noise. Increasing...