Looking for junk metal abuse

[Natalia]

Hello friends.

A friend of mine and I are currently putting together the Scrap Metal Archive, a project intended to document artists and musicians who utilize scrap metals, power tools, machinery, and other industrial components in their music. This is firmly rooted in industrial music, though we look at other genres as well. We are both fetishists of the sounds of metal-on-metal, and find it difficult to find artists with the sound we are obsessed with. Included artists in the archive range from metal percussion (like Test Dept. or Z'EV), dark ambient, to harsh noise made from junk metal abuse, and more.

I'm more familiar with metal percussion, so I was looking for more artists in the harsh noise end of things, preferably artists who feature it as a big part of their sound. Artists that come to mind for me in this style are Hal Hutchinson or Scrap Metal Music as an example. We've already got a bunch down in a list, but I'd like for this section of the archive to be pretty expansive.

Anything you suggest here greatly helps our efforts in consolidating this style of music and noise, as well as making it easier for metal fetishists to find more artists, new and old. To make this easier I'd appreciate if people suggested an album along with the artist that best represents their scrap metal sound.

Thank you!

[Molena]

the haters and the new blockaders are the first to spring to mind but to be honest so many noise peeps utilize bits of metal.

[murmur]

Mania (eg Miserable Disposition), Corral Shut (Ramshackle), Aprapat (Nude Scraps), Lee Counts (S.A.N.S. Sessions), Knurl, Scald Hymn (Balming Mechanism), some Sewer Election (eg Antarktis), Body Collector (Acidic Dread) are some examples

[D345]

the new boyfriends
ahola & silander

[Scream & Writhe]

XAH - https://scrapmetalnoise.blogspot.com/

[Capers]

Asking for (harsh) noise artists using scrap metal isn't too far from asking for a list of artists using DOD pedals. This list could be endless if you're generous. A list of noise artists who not once used scrap metal would be rather short though.
I'm not deriding the OPs request - it's not a bad idea! - but some narrowing down of what is to be included in this archive/list would help!

[Natalia]

Asking for (harsh) noise artists using scrap metal isn't too far from asking for a list of artists using DOD pedals. This list could be endless if you're generous. A list of noise artists who not once used scrap metal would be rather short though.
I'm not deriding the OPs request - it's not a bad idea! - but some narrowing down of what is to be included in this archive/list would help!

I appreciate the feedback here, I guess there's a preference for overt metal noises like Hal Hutchinson or The New Blockaders, though I understand the line can get very thin. There are some artists who use metal sounds as a source but it's blown-out to the point where the metal sound is unrecognizable. We're open to including artists like that as well, but we're after that metallic sound especially.

EDIT: I'd also like to thank everyone for the incredible recommendations so far!

[xIncorruptibleCorpse777x]

Knurl
Diaphragmatic

[murmur]

Nobuo Yamada/ARTBREAKHOTEL (eg Incomplete Garden) is a different but really cool example. He builds junk metal dynamic sculptures and records them.

[Namahs]

Weiches Loche

[Natalia]

Weiches Loche

Weiches Loch are one of the best in the game right now, though they're squarely in the metal percussion side of things. Cool to see them mentioned, though!

[insolent]

Yol. Pretty much every solo release (and some collaborations) utilise scrap/junk metal in some form, from a fork scraping a piece of tin to a bastard file down the side of a galvanized mop bucket. Not to forget the Poundshop Gamelan

Poundshop Gamelan

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https://yolnoise.bandcamp.com/

[junkyardshaman]

Weiches Loche

Weiches Loch are one of the best in the game right now, though they're squarely in the metal percussion side of things. Cool to see them mentioned, though!

Well, current Japanese ones; Kaoganai, Linekraft, and both Sano Atsushi and nulkvarcent from Weiches Loch pretty much use junk metal while performing solo, me too of course. We were once joking about the fact that all in all in Japan there might be max 20 people who use junk metal percussion as a main instrument, and 3 of us live within 300 meters of each other in the same neighborhood.

[Residual / RT]

Lots of junk metal abuse on both of my releases:

https://satatuhatta.bandcamp.com/album/ ... ade-future

https://satatuhatta.bandcamp.com/album/forcing-the-end