NTS regular Merzbow has been hosting a show since 18 February 2022. Merzbow hosted a guest show on 21 January 2020. Merzbow has been played on NTS over 40 times, featured on 46 episodes and was first played on 23 October 2014.

Merzbow (メルツバウ) is an experimental music project created in Tokyo in 1979 under the direction of musician Masami Akita (秋田昌美). Since 1979, Akita has formed two record labels and has contributed releases to numerous independent record labels. As well as being a prolific artist, he has also written a number of books and has been the editor of several magazines in Japan. He…