Rock branch
Noise rock
Rock › Alternative rock › Noise rock
- Emerged
- 1983
- Origin
- USA
- Subgenres
- None
Alternate tunings, feedback as an instrument and rhythm sections that hit like machinery. The grandfather of sludge.
- Heaviness
- 7
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 3
Key acts
- Sonic Youth
- Big Black
- The Jesus Lizard
- Melvins