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Kalistan
Artist: Kill Your Speaker
Song: “Wide Awake”

Why it’s popular: Kill Your Speaker was a major band in the Kalistani Noise Alternative scene in the mid 5500s. Noise alternative married the ubiquitous Kalistani Alternative sound, with extremely heavy and guitars that blister the eardrums, massive drums and thick sludgy bass. Some felt that Noise Alternative was the result of thrash metal and crossover metal moving closer to the mainstream. But most chalked the Noise Alternative to a rejection of pop and mass culture sensibilities: Noise Alternative was definitely not "least common denominator" music aimed at mass appeal, but was more designed to alienate the people who celebrated the pabulum of Pop&B music which was predominant directly before Noise's rise.

"Wide Awake" is a great example of the characteristic dynamic of Noise Alternative: the Soft-Loud-Soft-LOUD thrashy alternative that is exclusively guitar driven and eschews electronica, keyboards, and a ton of post processing, but rather values volume and groove.

This song also maintains a nonstandard time signature in many places, contributing influences to what became known as Math Rock as a subgenre of the Art Rock scene in Kaliburg during the next century.

Video:[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oh4pP8LiRE]