The earliest performances of kabuki were dancing and song with no significant plot, often disdained as gaudy and cacophonous, but equally lauded as colorful and beautiful.
And of course, like in any cacophonous democracy, their shrill provocation would attract a meaningless reaction from some marginal and peripheral zealot.
They have been described by one writer as some of the heaviest, gloomiest doom/sludge around, distinctly cacophonous, layering feedback pulverizing progressions into a distinctly cacophonous rumble.