The Rita

The Rita (aka Canadian Sam Mckinlay) essentially pioneered the idea of the “harsh noise wall”: a formless, unwavering monolith of sound that does to power-electronics what Earth did to metal. In recent years, numerous other artists have followed strictly to the guidelines of HNW, whereas McKinlay himself has continually pushed onward, unwilling to plough the same terrain for too long, only content while scratching deeper into the creative recesses of his mind.