Throbbing Gristle released several studio and live albums—including
D.o.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle
(1978),
20 Jazz Funk Greats
(1979), and
Heathen Earth
(1980)—on their own record label
Industrial Records
, building a reputation with their
transgressive
and confrontational aesthetics; they included the extensive use of disturbing visual imagery, such as ironic
fascist
and
Nazi
symbolism and
pornography
, as well as that of noise and sound manipulation influenced by the works of Burroughs and
Brion Gysin
.