Pulse Demon

by Merzbow

Pulse Demon cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 28 May 1996
  • Label: Release Entertainment
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:13:20
  • Community rating: 2.46/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Widely considered a definitive monument of extreme music, 'Pulse Demon' is a terrifying, overwhelmingly dense wall of harsh noise. Masami Akita utilizes pure analog feedback and heavily distorted synthesizer loops to engineer a chaotic, aggressive, and highly dissonant instrumental assault.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, instrumental, dissonant, avant-garde, atonal

Tracklist

  1. Woodpecker No. 1 (6:43)
  2. Woodpecker No. 2 (3:37)
  3. Spiral Blast (4:30)
  4. My Station Rock (4:54)
  5. Ultra Marine Blues (11:29)
  6. Tokyo Times Ten (11:08)
  7. Yellow Hyper Balls (24:53)
  8. Worms Plastic Earthbound (6:03)

Credits

  • Merzbow - primary artist
  • Colour Climax - artwork [visual by], task artwork
  • Masami Akita - composed by, performer [metals], electronics [noise electronics, audio generator, shortwave], synthesizer [ems], tape [tapes], voice
  • Bill Yurkiewicz - mastered by, mastering
  • Dave Shirk - mastered by, mastering

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