While D.C. music’s notoriety lies in genres such as hardcore and go-go, noise has started to gain more of a foothold in the past decade and even the past year. Five years ago, an artist like Pharmakon would not have drawn more than a skeleton crew of diehards and might have skipped the area entirely for a proposed date on a Sunday night. While certainly not selling out the Black Cat Backstage, Pharmakon drew a diverse audience for a brutally intense aural experience.