RZR | RZRecords - An Extremely Independent Music Collective

So you clicked on something called "Harsh Noise Wall" and now you're here, either because you're genuinely curious, someone dared you, or you've already heard it and need someone to explain why you can't stop listening to an unbroken wall of static for forty-five minutes. Welcome. You're in the right place. This is not going to be a short article, and that is entirely appropriate, because Harsh Noise Wall, HNW, to those of us who use the abbreviation unironically, is a genre that rewards patience, obsession, and a willingness to sit inside a sound that most people would describe as "is that a broken appliance?" It is not a broken appliance. It is art. Probably. What Is Harsh Noise Wall? Let's start at the beginning, which in HNW terms means starting with a wall. Literally. Harsh Noise Wall is a subgenre of noise music characterized by a sustained, largely unchanging mass of sound, feedback, distortion, static, white noise, blown-out electroni...