Noisecore strips extreme music down to its most chaotic essence—short, violent bursts of distortion, feedback, and rhythmic disintegration that often last mere seconds. Emerging in the late 1980s as a radical offshoot of hardcore punk and grindcore, it abandons traditional song structures entirely, embracing pure sonic assault. Where grindcore retains traces of death metal's riffing and blast beats, noisecore obliterates those conventions, prioritizing texture and intensity over coherence. Bands like Anal Cunt and The Gerogerigegege pushed boundaries with unlistenable brevity and confrontational absurdity, while acts such as Melt-Banana and The Locust injected spastic energy and sardonic theatrics. Unlike the hypnotic drones of pure noise or the controlled aggression of noise rock's grooves, noisecore thrives on fragmentation—math-like complexity collides with punk immediacy in a whirlwind of screaming electronics, mangled guitars, and hyperkinetic drumming.
This is music designed to provoke, alienate, and exhilarate simultaneously. Noisecore's raw confrontation makes it a proving ground for sonic extremity, influencing everything from harsh noise walls to experimental hip-hop's abrasive edges. It's the sound of total creative anarchism—messy, uncompromising, and utterly alive. If you crave music that shatters expectations and rewrites the rulebook with every convulsive second, noisecore demands your attention.
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| #76 | ByS.O.B. | Released:1986 | hardcore punknoisecore | ||
| #86 | ByFear of God | Released:1988 | noisecore | ||
| #65 | ByDoom | Released:1989-01-01 | |||
| #37 | ByThe Gerogerigegege | Released:1990 | |||
| #52 | ByThe Gerogerigegege | Released:1991 | |||
| #72 | ByExtreme Noise Terror | Released:1992 | |||
| #42 | ByToday Is The Day | Released:1993-04 | |||
| #21 | ByBoredoms | Released:1993-10-10 | noisecoreavant-prog | ||
| #11 | ByThe Gerogerigegege | Released:1993 | |||
| #68 | ByAnal Cunt | Released:1994-02-01 | |||
| #40 | ByBoredoms | Released:1994-07-25 | |||
| #90 | ByDeadguy | Released:1994 | |||
| #85 | ByAnal Cunt | Released:1995-03-07 | grindcorenoisecore | ||
| #29 | ByUnsane | Released:1995-09-15 | |||
| #56 | ByConverge | Released:1995 | |||
| #32 | ByMelt-Banana | Released:1996-05-21 | |||
| #92 | ByDestroy 2 | Released:1996 | |||
| #16 | ByToday Is The Day | Released:1997-09-23 | |||
| #57 | ByNaked City | Released:1997 | |||
| #75 | ByCattle Decapitation | Released:1997 | |||
| #62 | ByPainkiller | Released:1998-09-02 | noisecore | ||
| #20 | ByThe Locust | Released:1998-09 | |||
| #14 | ByMelt-Banana | Released:1998-10-27 | |||
| #77 | ByCoalesce | Released:1998 | |||
| #53 | ByCombatwoundedveteran | Released:1999-07 | |||
| #79 | ByAnal Cunt | Released:1999-11-09 | |||
| #89 | ByPainkiller | Released:2001-01-01 | |||
| #63 | ByBurnt By The Sun | Released:2001-01-26 | |||
| #28 | ByThe Locust | Released:2001-10-02 | |||
| #46 | ByAnal Cunt | Released:2001 | grindcorenoisecore | ||
| #91 | ByMinus | Released:2002-01-07 | noisecore | ||
| #88 | ByKnut | Released:2002-03-19 | |||
| #8 | ByDaughters | Released:2002-08-26 | |||
| #45 | ByToday Is The Day | Released:2002-09-03 | |||
| #31 | ByBreather Resist | Released:2003-03-25 | |||
| #5 | ByThe Locust | Released:2003-06-23 | |||
| #4 | ByMelt-Banana | Released:2003-07-01 | |||
| #7 | ByAn Albatross | Released:2003-08-12 | |||
| #13 | ByDaughters | Released:2003-08-12 | |||
| #24 | ByThe Number Twelve Looks Like You | Released:2003 | |||
| #93 | ByNoxagt | Released:2004-02-17 | |||
| #39 | ByScarlet | Released:2004-03-09 | |||
| #38 | ByPassenger of Shit | Released:2004-05-00 | |||
| #73 | ByThe Power & the Glory | Released:2004-06-01 | |||
| #3 | ByConverge | Released:2004-09-20 | |||
| #55 | ByTower of Rome | Released:2004-11-16 | |||
| #99 | ByHentai Cum Dungeon | Released:2004 | noisecore | ||
| #74 | ByThe Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower | Released:2005-02-15 | |||
| #10 | ByThe Locust | Released:2005-03-22 | |||
| #36 | Byxbxrx | Released:2005-09-13 | |||
| #9 | ByLightning Bolt | Released:2005-10-18 | |||
| #25 | BySome Girls | Released:2005 | grindcorenoisecore | ||
| #22 | BySome Girls | Released:2006-01-24 | |||
| #49 | ByGenghis Tron | Released:2006-02-26 | noisecorecybergrind | ||
| #2 | ByDrop Dead, Gorgeous | Released:2006-05-02 | |||
| #96 | ByZach Hill and Mick Barr | Released:2006-05-06 | |||
| #84 | ByNoxagt | Released:2006-05-30 | noise rocknoisecore | ||
| #94 | ByAn Albatross | Released:2006-06-27 | |||
| #17 | ByDaughters | Released:2006-08-08 | |||
| #12 | ByConverge | Released:2006-10-23 | |||
| #6 | ByThe Locust | Released:2007-03-20 | |||
| #70 | ByGay For Johnny Depp | Released:2007-05-15 | |||
| #44 | ByToday Is The Day | Released:2007-09-18 | |||
| #48 | ByCoalesce | Released:2007-09 | hardcorenoisecore | ||
| #100 | ByMokushi | Released:2008-03-24 | noisecore | ||
| #78 | ByInhale Exhale | Released:2008-06-10 | |||
| #61 | ByHarry Pussy | Released:2008-11-04 | noisecore | ||
| #87 | ByCombatwoundedveteran | Released:2009-04-23 | |||
| #54 | ByThe Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza | Released:2010-07-06 | |||
| #27 | ByThe Chariot | Released:2010-11-22 | |||
| #83 | ByNorma Jean | Released:2010-11-22 | mathcorenoisecore | ||
| #82 | ByChild Abuse | Released:2010 | |||
| #97 | ByBurmese | Released:2011-04-15 | noisecore | ||
| #35 | ByAnal Cunt | Released:2011 | |||
| #80 | ByThe Locust | Released:2012-07-24 | |||
| #26 | ByThe Chariot | Released:2012-08-28 | |||
| #23 | ByLightning Bolt | Released:2012-09-25 | |||
| #18 | ByMelt-Banana | Released:2013-10-01 | |||
| #60 | BySissy Spacek | Released:2015-04-15 | noisecore | ||
| #1 | ByJarhead Fertilizer | Released:2015-08-24 | |||
| #71 | ByThe Gerogerigegege | Released:2016 | |||
| #19 | ByFull of Hell | Released:2017-05-05 | |||
| #66 | ByFriendship | Released:2017-06-07 | |||
| #34 | Bymeth. | Released:2017-07-15 | |||
| #58 | ByRolo Tomassi | Released:2017-10-30 | noisecore | ||
| #59 | Bymeth. | Released:2018-03-26 | |||
| #95 | ByEndon | Released:2018-09-05 | |||
| #98 | ByMoreru | Released:2018-10-25 | |||
| #33 | Bymeth. | Released:2019-08-23 | |||
| #30 | ByDeath Grips | Released:2019 | |||
| #81 | ByHomeWrecker. | Released:2020-03-04 | |||
| #50 | BySilencer | Released:2020-04-01 | noisecore | ||
| #43 | Bypink siifu | Released:2020-04-08 | |||
| #51 | ByShora | Released:2021-05-03 | |||
| #47 | ByMoreru | Released:2022-03-30 | |||
| #41 | ByBurrice Precoce | Released:2022-05-20 | |||
| #67 | ByPassenger of Shit | Released:2022-06-18 | |||
| #69 | ByAngel Of Suicide | Released:2022-09-27 | noisecore | ||
| #15 | ByMalditos Jovens do Reggae | Released:2022-10-10 | grindcorenoisecore | ||
| #64 | ByEnd | Released:2023-10-27 |