Big Black was an Independent noise rock band founded in Evanston, Illinois, United States, that was active between 1982 and 1987. They were headed by singer, lyricist, guitarist, and co-songwriter
Steve Albini. They have been classified as
post-hardcore/
noise rock, and were a formative influence on
industrial rock, but the band members have always described the band as solidly
punk rock; in the notes for
Pigpile, a live recording of their final London performance, Albini explicitly describes Big Black as punk. They sought and found little mainstream success, but the group's pil…
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