Diamond Black Hearted Boy

Already fairly well known, I still feel the need to bring attention to probably the most unusual and interesting artist today. Sounding like The Residents took a wrong turn at the recording studio and ended up in a room meant for a hip-hop group, and they decided to make the best of it. But they had all managed to sleep with each others girlfriends, so they were all really angry at each other.
Perhaps most interesting in that it would be best classified as old-school industrial noise, the whitest form of music in history, making this seem like awesome-sounding retribution for all the many, many, MANY forms of music that white people have stolen from black people.

Click to download the entire first EP.
Click to see myspace

Classic Bands:Negativland

The fact that you are not currently listening to Negativland as we speak disgusts me. It is a proven fact that they are, in fact, the greatest Industrial Noise band in human history, though they are rarely recognized as Industrial whatsoever seeing as at the time they were prolific, you had to wear leather and eyeliner to be considered Industrial (which is strange, seeing as Wax Trax released very little Industrial music). Brilliant, clever, funny, experimental, and more valuable than your life will ever be.


Method of Torture
Helter Stupid
Aluminum or Glass: The Memo

The Black Bug

Hateful, messy Swedish noise-punk, but this time with relatively clean female vocals. But don't think that by clean vocals that I mean that the singers actually SINGING or anything, oh no! Just that here you can SOMETIMES make out what she's yelling at you. This is music to listen to while you are drunk, and also a robot. A really really angry robot.

Run

blood

Sometimes you get tired of music.

Sometimes hearing things with notes, chords, and (heaven forbid) choruses and verses just gets to be too much for one man to take.

So praise Allah that we have folks like blood (formerly BLOOD!) to just make a bunch of fucking weird noise for far longer than could ever possibly be justified. Yes, blood live in that magical land of industrial music where mysterious beings like Nurse With Wound and Nocturnal Emissions dance in the mist, tempting drifters with their luscious bodies. A place where there is never, ever, EVER a reason to end a song just because you've been going for 30 minutes already. Music like this always makes AMAZING background music for acid trips or folding laundry or whatever, but if you want to put something on to dance then you'll probably just end up awkwardly doing the Charleston in a way totally unrelated to the sounds coming out of your speakers.

snook
wet

Myspace Page

Grave Babies

Hailing from Seattle, as all bands do, Grave Babies are probably the most horror influenced non-shitty band still playing. Their sound is aggressive yet hypnotically beautiful lo-fi gothic punx, and with song titles like "eating babies" and "drugs", these Satan-Worshiping deviants make it clear that they oppose everything GODS America stands for. Keep these guys in your mp3player, but out of your children.
http://www.myspace.com/gravebabies

(pssst-their best track is "blood". It kicks ass.)