Smegma

If you're not familiar, Smegma have been lurking in sewers and radioactive muck since 1973.  Beginning as part of the Los Angeles free music society, Smegma was notorious enough in its early stages to be included on the legendary Nurse With Wound list.  To this day, Smegma has collaborated with a lot of today's highest profiles in noise, including Merzbow, Wolf Eyes, and was even featured on the cover of Wire magazine in 2006.
- Nat Roe, on WFMU's Beware of the Blog, 6/3/09