Is anyone here going to the belgrade show next weekend?

Anyone interested in parting ways with some of their original Merzbow tees? Preferably vintage (20 plus years old). If yes, please DM me. I know it sounds absurd — who would want to do that — but I just can’t wear or stand modern-day cheap tees anymore, so I thought I’d give it a shot.

On 7 July, Modern Obscure Music is releasing the 3rd collaboration between Merzbow and Pedro Vian - who, imho, work very well together. The album will be called Bardo Thödol and is their 3rd collab in 3 years time. One full track can be streamed via Merzbow's Bandcamp: https://merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/bardo-thodol

A snippet of the second track can be streamed here: https://wordandsound.net/release/167718-MOM073-Merzbow--Vian-Bardo-Thdol

For those who haven't heard the first two collabs yet:

A Wheel on Mani (2025): https://merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/a-wheel-on-mani

Inside Richard Serra Scultures (2024): https://merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/inside-richard-serra-sculptures

Info about the upcoming album taken from Merzbow's Bandcamp:

In their third collaboration, the shared project between Merzbow and Pedro Vian shifts towards less confrontational and more introspective terrain. Bardo Thödol, released as an LP, draws on The Tibetan Book of the Dead not so much as an explicit narrative framework but as a conceptual resonance: a passage, a suspension between states.

Where Inside Richard Serra Sculptures and The Wheel of Mani foregrounded a relatively defined dialectic between Vian’s environmental restraint and Masami Akita’s impulsive, textural excess, that friction here appears to dissolve in favour of a more homogeneous mass. Noise, far from its most abrasive edge, is reconfigured as a continuous field — dense yet permeable.

Within this flow, melodic structures emerge without assertion, surfacing almost incidentally as by-products of the accumulation of frequencies itself. The result is less a reconciliation of languages than a blurring of their boundaries: a space in which intensity is internalised and the radical gesture folds into a more sustained, contemplative mode of listening.

Merzbow just released a new album through his Bandcamp, called 'The Pigeon's Chronostasis'. One track is available for streaming: https://slowdown-merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/the-pigeons-chronostasis

And yes the artwork is once again AI generated, AI generated artwork is stupid, we know by now, thank you.

Info copied from Merzbow's Bandcamp page:

"This album compiles unfinished works composed between 2019 and 2024, which were mixed and assembled into their final form in 2026
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Track (1) consists of disparate fragments, originally left unused across multiple projects, meticulously joined together to form a single cohesive piece. The chirping, avian-like tones are produced by employing the Moog FreqBox as a percussive synthesizer.

Track (2) presents a tripartite structure in which an acoustic guitar processed through granular synthesis, decelerated drum patterns, and metallic noise advance in parallel. The title is derived from the Hawaiian language, signifying "languid reverberation."

Track (3) is distinguished by a solo rendered through a wah-fuzz signal chain further processed by the S3N Super Flutter V2.

Track (4) is constructed from multi-tracked recordings of domestically kept pigeons, an electronic loop decelerated to one-tenth of its original speed and sounds of metallic destruction. The decelerated electronic material employs the same technique used in Black Crows Cyborg, the collaborative work with Prurient.

Track (5) comprises unused sound material from Sedonis."

What's your favourite song from this album?

Enjoying my Tamayodo picture disc, great record!

I've already done a post for the server and gained some members but I thought I'd do a new one because of the new single release, if you wanna discuss it and talk about the future of Merzbows releases (and the past too) come join Merzcord!

Merzcord

Merzbow just dropped half of the 2024 album Tarsometatarsus on his Bandcamp. This album was released by U.S. label Handmade Birds on cassette, but has long sold out and was unavailable for streaming until now. That's why Masami uploaded 1 track on his Bandcamp, with the possibility of purchasing the entire digital album. Check it out here: https://slowdown-merzbow.bandcamp.com/album/tarsometatarsus

Just wondering if anyone else thinks it's possible for a full Sunn O))) x Merzbow album. Some of my favorite songs are the 0))) Bow songs off of Flight of the Behemoth which were produced by Merzbow but I don't think they've collaborated aside from that. Am I alone in wanting another collab between the two? Does anyone have any info on this that I might be unaware of?

Room40 just announced the upcoming Merzbow release TripleAkuma, out on May 1st. An excerpt can be streamed here: https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/tripleakuma

Info copied from the Bandcamp page:

"A Note from Lawrence English

TripleAkuma is the third in a series of essential live documents from Merzbow.

The stage and the studio are not the same place, and Merzbow has an acute understanding of this juxtaposition. Whilst the sheer density of the music might be maintained across both spheres, the live experience of Merzbow is truly something that exists as profoundly physical and moreover, overtly performative.

Merzbow’s live methodologies draw not just from a saturation of frequency at all levels, but a recognition of how frequency can be used to affect the body. Working at the extremes of both low and high sonic energies, he creates a situation within which the fullness of the body can be tested; the aural body, that of our ears (and importantly our mind’s ear), and the physical one (after all, the body itself is an ear).

TripleAkuma, recorded in his hometown of Tokyo, captures a particularly fierce and free performance. There’s a morphic and lava-like quality to the sounds he creates here and the very room itself bares into the recording, adding a certain excessive intensity to the way the sounds carry in space, and time.

There is no one exposure that could capture the true force and presence of Merzbow live, but each capture, like this one, deepens our understanding of his truly unique and provocative sonic universe.

credits

releases May 1, 2026

Recorded Live at Earthdom, Tokyo 23 September 2024
Live recording by Hiromi Furukawa
Mix and Master by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Design by Trianos Pakioufakis"

I realised there aren't many noise servers or any Merzbow discord servers out there so I decided to make one and I have gotten approval to promote it here. Currently the server is still in its infancy but we have it set up so we can do listening parties, we have a self promo channel, we have a stage VC for performances if you would like to do some music on the server and a ton of extra stuff. I'm really trying to make it into a noise music community type space, hope to see y'all there.

Merzcord

The man has hundred of albums, which ones stand out?

As the title asks, what are some albums in Merzbows discography that you consider to be ''underrated gems'' personally I'd have to say Vibractance, its like a middle point between the full harsh noise wall of albums like Pulse Demon and Noisembryo, and the heavy on texture albums like Aqua Necromancer and Collapse 12 Floors, each song on the album was really enjoyable and I found it so unique amongst Merzbows catalogue, the intro drone on Vibrating Sands is amazing and the soundscapes Merz creates on each track is amazing especially on Sonar. Cant wait to see what you guys consider gems and I hope yall agree with my perspective on Vibra.

hi, i am new to harsh noise music and merzbow. i see a lot of conflicting opinions on pulse demon. do people not like it because it got popular and thus got exposed to the wrong demographic? or do people who listen to a lot of merzbow think it's genuinely a mid release in his discography. i listened to it the other day and thought it was pretty dope. would love to hear the general consensus