The New Blockaders

Example Album: Changez Les Blockeurs

Location: UK

Years Active: Early 1980's-present

Style: Industrial, junk metal abuse, harsh noise, sound collage

    The New Blockaders are an industrial and noise artist from the United Kingdom. Starting in the early 80's, they became well known in avant-garde and experimental circles for confrontational live performances and highly-esteemed recordings. Sound collage and noise is a general feature of their work, incorporating elements of scrap metal throughout their discography.

     Changez Les Blockeurs, their first release, is a top-notch example of junk metal abuse and sound collage, stitching together scraping and grinding metal noises with other sounds like dogs barking in an almost-but-not-quite rhythmic fashion. Experiencing this record is feeling the metal noises scrape against your brain, it feels quite visceral. Excellent example of junk metal abuse meeting sound collage.

    I've still yet to fully explore their discography, since it's massive and spans decades, but if you're looking for more like this I highly recommend their split with the legendary Coil and Vortex Campaign, an album called The Melancholy Mad Tenant. A powerful work of sound collage with metal noises throughout.