Black Meat featuring To Live and Shave in LA frontman Tom Smith, a minimalist metal-scraping-metal surgery with magickal glam lounge haiku (blackmeat.org). Ohio noise babe Leslie Keffer's scorched-earth performance from her hands and knees (lesliekeffer.com).
Being in the audience for Sword Heaven's guttural, half-techno/half-caveman show was like being caught in the tide (myspace.com/swordheaven).
Kevin Shields played Omnichord and modified video editor, spitting out rounds of tornado rumble sprinkled with shards of rainbow (deathbombarc.com).
Squeally, rat-brained, nomadic terrorizers Byron House, who inspired the scariest mosh pit of the festival (cephiastreat.com).
French noise opera performer Costes, whose violent, sex-driven antics never fail to instigate screams of terror (costes.org).