Extreme Noise Terror
Ipswich, England, United Kingdom
1985–present
- Manic Ears
- Head Eruption
- Discipline
- Vinyl Japan
- Candlelight
- Deathwish
- Earache
- Moshpit Tragedy
- Osmose
- Strange Fruit
- MCR Company
- Farewell
- Low Life
- Willowtip
- Dean Jones
- Ben McCrow
- Ollie Jones
- Dicky Moore
- Michael Hourihan
Biography[edit]
Early years[edit]
Extreme Noise Terror were formed in early 1985 in Ipswich, England, originally consisting of dual vocalists Dean Jones and Phil Vane, guitarist Pete Hurley, bassist Jerry Clay and drummer Darren "Pig Killer" Olley.[2] Prior to ENT, Vane and Hurley had played with Discharge-influenced acts Freestate and Victims of War,[3] whilst Jones had been singing with Raw Noise.[1] Hurley claims that the band name came from an insert for an album by the Dutch band Lärm: "It featured a bandanna-ed hardcore kid with 'Extreme Noise Terror' surrounding him. Those three words summed up exactly what we were aiming at."[3] Aside from Discharge, the band cite as early influences Anti Cimex, Rattus and Antisect, another early proponent of the "one high, one low" vocal approach.[1] ENT signed to the small UK-based indie label Manic Ears after a solitary gig supporting Chaos UK.[3]
Their first release for the label was a split LP with Chaos UK in 1986, entitled Radioactive Earslaughter. Although there were still musical similarities between the two bands, ENT were already beginning to twist hardcore into what would later become known as "grindcore". ENT have however expressed misgivings about the use of the term: