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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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Top Releases

#76
Leave Me Alone
ByS.O.B.Released:1986
hardcore punknoisecore
#86
Fear of God
ByFear of GodReleased:1988
noisecore
#65
Total Doom
ByDoomReleased:1989-01-01
crustgrindcorenoisecore
#37
Tokyo Anal Dynamite
ByThe GerogerigegegeReleased:1990
#52
Senzuri Power Up
ByThe GerogerigegegeReleased:1991
#72
Phonophobia
ByExtreme Noise TerrorReleased:1992
#42
Supernova
ByToday Is The DayReleased:1993-04
#21
Wow2
ByBoredomsReleased:1993-10-10
noisecoreavant-prog
#11
Yellow Trash Bazooka
ByThe GerogerigegegeReleased:1993
#68
Everyone Should Be Killed
ByAnal CuntReleased:1994-02-01
grindcorenoisenoisecore
#40
Chocolate Synthesizer
ByBoredomsReleased:1994-07-25
#90
Work Ethic ep
ByDeadguyReleased:1994
#85
Top 40 Hits
ByAnal CuntReleased:1995-03-07
grindcorenoisecore
#29
Scattered, Smothered & Covered
ByUnsaneReleased:1995-09-15
#56
Caring and Killing
ByConvergeReleased:1995
#32
Scratch or Stitch
ByMelt-BananaReleased:1996-05-21
#92
We Are Voice & Rhythm Only
ByDestroy 2Released:1996
#16
Temple of the Morning Star
ByToday Is The DayReleased:1997-09-23
#57
Torture Garden
ByNaked CityReleased:1997
#75
Ten Torments of the Damned
ByCattle DecapitationReleased:1997
#62
Guts of a Virgin / Buried Secrets
ByPainkillerReleased:1998-09-02
noisecore
#20
The Locust
ByThe LocustReleased:1998-09
#14
Charlie
ByMelt-BananaReleased:1998-10-27
noise rocknoisecorenoise
#77
002: A Safe Place
ByCoalesceReleased:1998
#53
I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos
ByCombatwoundedveteranReleased:1999-07
#79
It Just Gets Worse
ByAnal CuntReleased:1999-11-09
#89
Execution Ground
ByPainkillerReleased:2001-01-01
#63
Burnt By the Sun
ByBurnt By The SunReleased:2001-01-26
#28
Flight of the Wounded Locust
ByThe LocustReleased:2001-10-02
hardcorescreamonoisecore
#46
Defenders of the Hate
ByAnal CuntReleased:2001
grindcorenoisecore
#91
Jesus Christ Bobby
ByMinusReleased:2002-01-07
noisecore
#88
Challenger
ByKnutReleased:2002-03-19
#8
Daughters
ByDaughtersReleased:2002-08-26
#45
Sadness Will Prevail
ByToday Is The DayReleased:2002-09-03
#31
Only in the Morning
ByBreather ResistReleased:2003-03-25
#5
Plague Soundscapes
ByThe LocustReleased:2003-06-23
#4
Cell-Scape
ByMelt-BananaReleased:2003-07-01
noise rocknoisenoisecore
#7
We Are The Lazer Viking
ByAn AlbatrossReleased:2003-08-12
#13
Canada Songs
ByDaughtersReleased:2003-08-12
#24
Put on Your Rosy Red Glasses
ByThe Number Twelve Looks Like YouReleased:2003
#93
The Iron Point
ByNoxagtReleased:2004-02-17
#39
Cult Classic
ByScarletReleased:2004-03-09
#38
Staple Tape Worms On My Penis
ByPassenger of ShitReleased:2004-05-00
#73
Call Me Armageddon
ByThe Power & the GloryReleased:2004-06-01
#3
You Fail Me
ByConvergeReleased:2004-09-20
#55
All Is Lost...All Is Lost...All Is Yet To Be Found
ByTower of RomeReleased:2004-11-16
#99
Food Product
ByHentai Cum DungeonReleased:2004
noisecore
#74
Love in the Fascist Brothel
ByThe Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel TowerReleased:2005-02-15
#10
Safety Second, Body Last
ByThe LocustReleased:2005-03-22
#36
Sixth in Sixes
ByxbxrxReleased:2005-09-13
#9
Hypermagic Mountain
ByLightning BoltReleased:2005-10-18
#25
The DNA Will Have Its Say
BySome GirlsReleased:2005
grindcorenoisecore
#22
Heaven's Pregnant Teens
BySome GirlsReleased:2006-01-24
#49
Cape Of Hate
ByGenghis TronReleased:2006-02-26
noisecorecybergrind
#2
In Vogue
ByDrop Dead, GorgeousReleased:2006-05-02
#96
Shred Earthship
ByZach Hill and Mick BarrReleased:2006-05-06
#84
Noxagt
ByNoxagtReleased:2006-05-30
noise rocknoisecore
#94
Blessphemy (of the Peace-Beast Feastgiver and the Bear-Warp Kumite)
ByAn AlbatrossReleased:2006-06-27
#17
Hell Songs
ByDaughtersReleased:2006-08-08
mathcoremetalnoisecore
#12
No Heroes
ByConvergeReleased:2006-10-23
#6
New Erections
ByThe LocustReleased:2007-03-20
#70
The Politics of Cruelty
ByGay For Johnny DeppReleased:2007-05-15
#44
Axis of Eden
ByToday Is The DayReleased:2007-09-18
#48
Salt and Passage
ByCoalesceReleased:2007-09
hardcorenoisecore
#100
Worldwide Kawaii Genocide
ByMokushiReleased:2008-03-24
noisecore
#78
I Swear
ByInhale ExhaleReleased:2008-06-10
#61
You'll Never Play This Town Again
ByHarry PussyReleased:2008-11-04
noisecore
#87
This Is Not an Erect, All-Red Neon Body
ByCombatwoundedveteranReleased:2009-04-23
#54
Danza 3: The Series of Unfortunate Events
ByThe Tony Danza Tapdance ExtravaganzaReleased:2010-07-06
#27
Long Live
ByThe ChariotReleased:2010-11-22
#83
Birds And Microscopes And Bottles Of Elixirs And Raw Steak And A Bunch Of Songs
ByNorma JeanReleased:2010-11-22
mathcorenoisecore
#82
Cut And Run
ByChild AbuseReleased:2010
#97
Lun Yurn
ByBurmeseReleased:2011-04-15
noisecore
#35
Wearing Out Our Welcome
ByAnal CuntReleased:2011
#80
Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs
ByThe LocustReleased:2012-07-24
#26
One Wing
ByThe ChariotReleased:2012-08-28
#23
Oblivion Hunter
ByLightning BoltReleased:2012-09-25
#18
Fetch
ByMelt-BananaReleased:2013-10-01
#60
Freaked With Jet
BySissy SpacekReleased:2015-04-15
noisecore
#1
Always Faithful
ByJarhead FertilizerReleased:2015-08-24
#71
Saturdaynight Big Cock Salaryman
ByThe GerogerigegegeReleased:2016
#19
Trumpeting Ecstasy
ByFull of HellReleased:2017-05-05
#66
Hatred
ByFriendshipReleased:2017-06-07
#34
The Children Are Watching
Bymeth.Released:2017-07-15
#58
Rituals
ByRolo TomassiReleased:2017-10-30
noisecore
#59
I Love You
Bymeth.Released:2018-03-26
noisecorescreamogrindcore
#95
BOY MEETS GIRL
ByEndonReleased:2018-09-05
grindcorenoisenoisecore
#98
そして、精液 / 収束します
ByMoreruReleased:2018-10-25
#33
Mother of Red Light
Bymeth.Released:2019-08-23
#30
Gmail and the Restraining Orders
ByDeath GripsReleased:2019
#81
Undressing
ByHomeWrecker.Released:2020-03-04
#50
Made In Silence
BySilencerReleased:2020-04-01
noisecore
#43
NEGRO
Bypink siifuReleased:2020-04-08
#51
Shaping The Random
ByShoraReleased:2021-05-03
#47
山田花子
ByMoreruReleased:2022-03-30
noisecorenoisenoise rock
#41
Maldita Burrice
ByBurrice PrecoceReleased:2022-05-20
#67
Faecalibrium
ByPassenger of ShitReleased:2022-06-18
#69
Mercy
ByAngel Of SuicideReleased:2022-09-27
noisecore
#15
Cärlös
ByMalditos Jovens do ReggaeReleased:2022-10-10
grindcorenoisecore
#64
The Sin of Human Frailty
ByEndReleased:2023-10-27

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