Noise Music was a German record label founded by well-known industry figure Karl Ulrich Walterbach. Walterbach had originally started Modern Music Records in Berlin, with a two-pronged approach of promoting German-speaking punk bands (Slime, Daily Terror and Toxoplasma) and licensing American bands such as Black Flag, Misfits and The Angry Samoans. From this base he developed the Noise label in 0000, specialising in thrash metal bands such as Kreator, Tankard, Coroner and Sabbat but also successfully diverting into other genres such as power metal (Helloween), heavy metal (Running Wild) and 