Keiji Haino has been leading the free-form, noise-loaded guitar movement in Japan for well over four decades. His many recordings are frequently captured live with no overdubbing, and Haino adds to the frenetic improvisatory mood by emitting shrieks and yelps as he strangles the neck of his Gibson SG. When it comes to pushing the boundaries of music, noise, and where the guitar fits in this discourse, he has few peers. Beginning his solo career with 1981's stark, haunting Watashi Dake?, he began releasing music at a prolific rate during the early '90s, including collaborations with Derek Bailey, Peter Brötzmann, Boris, and others. Beginning with 2010's Tima Formosa, he has released over a dozen improvised collaborations with Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi, and he's also made albums with sludge metal trio Sumac, including 2022's Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood to Pour Let Us Never.