TripleAkuma is the third in a series of essential live documents from Merzbow. The stage and the studio are not the same place, and Merzbow has an acute understanding of this juxtaposition. Whilst the sheer density of the music might be maintained across both spheres, the live experience of Merzbow is truly something that exists […]

…What can, after all, be said about Masami Akita’s ultra-strident tessellations of sound — where total control masquerades as abject chaos, where extreme volume is a dare to lean in a little closer — that hasn’t already been uttered? Across the last half-century, he has become the metonym of harsh noise while also existing far […]