Finally got around to listening to the Merzbow Venereology album you posted, I quite like that!

Albums and musical forms such as that are interesting cause again, it seems highly unlikely that a person would listen to it, but if something is happening that captures your attention, even the strangest stuff can keep you listening.  It's not a million miles from that pummeling track of ildjarn's in that respect, there's something interersting hidden in the static.  With the ildjarn track it's a strange atmosphere where you never really know if somethings going to happen, and with the Merzbow album it's like something already has happened, and you're subjected to the aftermath.