Some days, when I wake up in the morning, I need to be slapped directly in the face with a blast of harsh noise. It is simply the only way to get my damn mind right. When I have this hankering, there is nobody better to turn to than the triple-OG of Japanese noise: Merzbow.

On Tsubute Mosaic, the artist’s debut for Modern Obscure Music, a palette of classic Merz-sounds are explored. The record crunches and revs and rumbles and pierces and whistles and clangs and swirls and zaps and splatters. There is a minor dynamic range here, too, that allows the listener a tiny bit of air before getting pummeled again. Fleeting aquatic sounds may or may not relate to the album title.

That this man has spent over 40 years exploring and mastering the shapes of extreme sound—that is a beautiful thing. Come rock with a legend!