Black Noise (FM album)

Black Noise
Original CBC edition cover
Studio album by FM
Released	1978
Recorded	1977
Studio	Sounds Interchange, Toronto
Genre	Jazz fusion space rock progressive rock
Length	40:26
Label	CBC, Visa, Passport, Now See Hear
Producer	FM and Keith Whiting
FM chronology
Black Noise (1978) Direct to Disc (1978)
Alternative covers
Cover by Paul Till used on all editions from 1978 onward

Black Noise is the debut studio album by Canadian progressive rock group FM. Released in a limited edition by CBC in early 1978, it didn't receive widespread release until later that year when GRT/Passport Records did a full release of the album that shot up the Canadian record charts fueled by the hit single "Phasors on Stun". The B-side was the instrumental song "Slaughter in Robot Village". A second single was released, "Journey", with the B-side, "Hours". It didn't sell as well, and barely charted.

In 2015, Rolling Stone released its list of 50 of the Greatest Progressive Rock Albums of All Time, and Black Noise made the list at number forty eight (#48).^[1]