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Originally Posted by acousticrock87
And that's really what it comes down to with Merzbow. He makes sense if you look at him as a musical expression of violence, and I can stand him for about 10 minutes with that in mind, but after a while it either gets boring or it puts me on edge and I need to turn it off. With artists like Haino, it comes in waves so I can genuinely enjoy it for long periods of time. It's good in moderation but it takes a certain kind of disposition to face it head-on.
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to my mind merzbow isn't violent at all, more meditative. when i saw him live i left feeling positively uplifted, to put it mildly.