Almost as prolific as Om Kalsoum and more dissonant than an avalanche of windowpanes, Masami Akita's Merzbow has become the most well-known name in Japanese Noise. Moving beyond Lou Reed's groundbreaking Metal Machine Music and Whitehouse's Euro-aggression, he creates lightening storms of sound with incredible complexity. He looks to sources like Free Jazz for inspiration for his patently "free" sounds. Couching his music in the extreme eros of S&M and B&D imagery, he directs listening to a visceral level, where being a docile receptacle for sound is no longer possible. Merzbow must be listened to actively. Perhaps defensively.

1930	AMLUX	BARIKEN	BATZTOUTAI WITH MATERIAL GADGETS
BLACK BONE PART 5	CIRCLES PART 1 AND 2	DAY OF SEALS	DHARMA
DOOR OPEN AT 8 AM	FROG+	HOUJOUE	IKEBUKURO DADA
LAST OF THE ANALOG SESSIO	LIVE MAGNETISM	MASCHINENSTIL	MERZBEAT
MERZBIRD	MERZBUDDHA	MERZBUTA	MERZUTA
MERZZOW	MUSIC FOR BONDAGE PERFORMANCES 2	PULSE DEMON	RATTUS RATTUS
SCUMTRON	SCUMTRON-A TRIBUTE TO MERZBOW	SCUMTRON: TRIBUTE TO MERZBOW	SENMAIDA
SHA MO 3000	TAMAGO	TASTE OF...	TAUROMACHINE
VENEREOLOGY	YOSHINOTSUNE	Merzbox	Ikebana: Merzbow's Amlux Rebuilt, Reused & Recycled
Akasha Gulva	Ecobondage	Chant 2	Age of 369
Antimonument	Houjoue (disc 6)	Houjoue (disc 5)	Houjoue (disc 4)
Houjoue (disc 3)	Houjoue (disc 2)	Houjoue (disc 1)	The Ten Foot Square Hut
Electric Salad	Aqua Necromancer	Music for Bondage Performance	Music for Bondage Performance 2
24 Hours: A Day of Seals (disc 1)	24 Hours: A Day of Seals (disc 2)	24 Hours: A Day of Seals (disc 3)	24 Hours: A Day of Seals (disc 4)
Puroland	Fantail	Frog+ (disc 1)	Frog+ (disc 2)
A Taste of...	Frog: Remixed and Revisited (disc 1)	Frog: Remixed and Revisited (disc 2)	SCSI Duck
Great American Nude (live in U.S.A. 1990) / Crash for Hi-Fi	Batztoutai With Material Gadgets (disc 1: In to the Void of Record Archeive)	Green Wheels	Spiral Honey
Oersted	Rainbow Electronics 2	Rainbow Electronics	Pinkream
Space Metalizer	Hybrid Noisebloom	New Takamagahara	Noisembryo: Psycho-Analytic Study of Coital Noise Posture
Turmeric	Bloody Sea	Cloud Cock 00 Grand	Maschienstil
Batztoutai With Material Gadgets (disc 2: Loop Panic Limited)	Minazo, Volume 1	Paradise Pachinko	Minazo, Volume 2
Electroknots	Last of Analog Sessions (disc 1: Catapillar)	Last of Analog Sessions (disc 2: Medamaya)	Last of Analog Sessions (disc 3: Springharp)
Mercurated	Coma Berenices	Tint	Black Bone, Part 5
Metalvelodrome (disc 1)	Metalvelodrome (disc 2)	Metalvelodrome (disc 3)	Metalvelodrome (disc 4)
Mort Aux Vaches: Locomotive Breath	Decomposition (disc 1: Decomposition 001)	Decomposition (disc 2: Decomposition 002)	Timehunter
Merzbox Sampler	Vibractance	Merzbear	Live Destruction at No Fun 2007
Zophorus	Higanbana	Peace for Animals	Eucalypse
Dolphin Sonar	Protean World	Dead Leaves	Arijigoku
Magnesia Nova	Tombo	Hodosan	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 1: Suzume
13 Japanese Birds, Volume 2: Fukurou	Somei...	Artificial Invagination	Electro Magnetic Unit
Electroploitation	Flare Gun	Happenings 1000 Years Time Ago	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 3: Yurikamome
13 Japanese Birds, Volume 6: Kamo	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 7: Kujakubato	Shirasagi: 13 Japanese Birds, Part 11	Don't Steal My Goat
Collapse 12 Floors	Metal Mad Man	F.I.D.	Psychorazer
Marmo	Fukurou: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 2	Suzume: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 1	Yurikamome: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 3
Karasu: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 4	Uzura: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 5	Kamo: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 6	Kujakubato: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 7
Kokuchou: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 8	Hiyodori: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 9	Niwatori: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 10	Shirasagi: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 11
Tsubame: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 12	Chabo: 13 Japanese Birds Pt. 13	天鵞絨の鳥	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 4: Karasu
13 Japanese Birds, Volume 5: Uzura	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 8: Kokuchou	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 9: Hiyodori	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 10: Niwatori
13 Japanese Birds, Volume 11: Shirasagi	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 12: Tsubame	13 Japanese Birds, Volume 13: Chabo	Tentacle
Bastard Noise	Batztoutai with Material Gadgets I: Into the Void of Record Archieve	Normal Music