The force is strong with noise rock.

What’s so good about noise rock? Well, it’s dissonant, heavy as fuck, and full of tongue in cheek sardonic humour. Expertly straddling comedy and earnestness, the genre has been on the go for well over thirty years at this stage, and includes luminaries such as Big Black, The Jesus Lizard, Big Business, and WHORES. Despite its age, the genre is still going extremely strong, with bands popping up left, right and centre and a dedicated fanbase that is nearly as enthusiastic as the shoegaze fans. Those people are nuts.

We love noise rock here at Overblown, so we sat down and made a list of ten bands that are really boiling our cabbages at the moment. Make sure to comment and tell us how awesome/atrocious our list is and suggest bands we missed.