The Underground in China: Metal, Punk, Hardcore and Noise, 2013-2021.

In 2013, Ryan Dyer arrived in China with little idea of what lay beneath the surface of its music scene. Within a week, he found himself at an underground show featuring the band Rectal Wench. That night opened the door to a world few outsiders ever see.

Over the next eight years, Dyer travelled across Beijing, Tianjin, Suzhou, and Shanghai, documenting the country's explosive punk and metal underground. Armed with a camera and a journalist's curiosity, he attended hundreds of shows, capturi...