Noism was formed by guitarist Yoshiro Hamazaki and programmer Tomoyuki Akiyama in 1999 in Tokyo, Japan, and from the beginning the band has focused on creating intensely complex and crushing death/grind using programmed drums, ridiculously complicated brain-melting riffs and dissonant mach-10 shredding, which is then chopped up and processed into abstract death blasts that defy physics.

Early on, Noism utilized vocals and bass guitar but as the band continued to develop their unique, glitched-out chop shop of Planet Mu-style beats delivered at truly meth'd levels of chaos fused with sweeping technical death metal, those more "organic" elements were phased out. The band self released a few demos, like 2000's Brutality And Complexity, released songs digitally through the Net, and appeared on the 2006 compilation Drum Machine Gun from Relapse Records, but until 2008, they had yet to put out an official release of their own. When Tomoyuki relocated to the US in 2002, the members of Noism began to compose new music long-distance through file sharing, and finally created their first CD "±".

This twelve-song, twenty-one minute disc is an onslaught of insane, hyper-tech shred/grind/death chaos from Noism, highly recommended to fans of extreme avant-guitar spazz and absurdly technical deathgrind. No hooks, no songs, no linear form for you to latch your mind onto...this is psychotic ultra-shred/blastbeat/glitch annihilation, Orthrelm colliding with Morbid Angel while a stereo playing Venetian Snares and Agoraphobic Nosebleed CDs violently malfunctions.

"±" is presented in a heavy 4-panel gatefold jacket with strange industrial/sheet metal artwork designed by Yoshiro Hamazaki.