It's noise rock week on the Quietus. Here is a primer for those that don't know and a reminder for those that do with contributions from John Calvert, Kate Hennessy, John Doran, Sharon O'Connell, Daniel Dylan Wray, Matt Ridout, Noel Gardner, Kevin McCaighy, Rory Gibb, Dustin Krcatovich, Jeremy Allen, Sean Kitching, Joe Banks, JR Moores, Matt Evans, Kiran Acharya, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Tony F Wilson and Dale Sawa Berning
Glasgow noise-rock quartet Divorce make a hellish, high-frequency no wave racket. With their self-titled debut recently released, they speak to Kevin Mccaighy about touring, spontaneity, and why noise for noise's sake isn't good enough
Dopethrone, says Dan 'The Doom' Franklin, is the greatest album ever recorded; so great in fact that it splintered the band that created it. But one person was standing in the wings, with resurrection on her mind. Jus Oborn and Liz Buckingham discuss the 25-year legacy of Electric Wizard's most notorious album