Rock Atlas

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
  1. #042 Sonic Youth

    New York noise-rock pillars who connected the underground to the mainstream.

     United States · 1980s
  2. #315 The Birthday Party

    Cave's pre-Bad-Seeds outfit, post-punk's most violent, theatrical band.

     Australia · 1980s
  3. #338 Death from Above 1979

    Toronto bass-and-drums duo of distorted dance-punk.

     Canada · 2010s
  4. #436 Butthole Surfers

    Texas chaos-rock band whose live shows were 80s underground legend.

     United States · 1990s
  5. #437 Big Black

    Steve Albini's drum-machine-and-knives noise-rock trio.

     United States · 1980s
  6. #438 Shellac

    Chicago Albini-led trio of meticulous, mathy noise rock.

     United States · 2000s
  7. #498 Boredoms

    Osaka noise-rock collective central to Japan's underground.

     Japan · 1990s