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Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- Experimental rock punk rock noise minimal garage rock krautrock acid rock industrial post-punk hardcore punk
- Cultural origins
- c. Mid-1960s to 1980s, New York City , United States
- Derivative forms
- Grunge post-hardcore industrial rock math rock mathcore noise pop
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- rock music
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Image
- Albini-Trainer-3.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Noise rock
- inception
- 1977-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview
Noise rock is a subgenre of rock music that originally emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Artists fuse rock music to noise, while utilizing extreme levels of guitar distortion and feedback, primarily through the use of electric guitars.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “noise rock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.