Full of Hell & Merzbow is a collaborative studio album between the American punk band Full of Hell and the Japanese noise artist Merzbow. The album was released on November 24, 2014 through Profound Lore Records. The CD version of the album was also packaged with a five-song, 35-minute bonus disc titled Sister Fawn that was described as an "extension" of Full of Hell & Merzbow; it was later released in a digital format as well.

The album received mixed reviews from music critics, with many praising the collaboration between the two artists, however some noted that Merzbow's part in the album was minimal, and only apparent and successful on the album's two longer tracks toward the end: "High Fells" and "Ljudget Av Gud".

We wanted to do a t-shirt as a tribute, just a Full of Hell rip off of the Pulse Demon album art. So we hit up Balazs to see if it was cool, and Masami was cool with it and wanted us to send him one. And from that point came the direct idea of doing a split, Masami wanted to do a split with us. Then soon after he changed his mind and it should just be a collaboration.

At a live performance in New York headlined by Phobia, the members of Full of Hell, who were opening at the show, ran into Merzbow's live drummer Balázs Pándi, who was there to see Phobia. After the show, the band kept in contact with Pándi, who would send them albums he thought they should listen to; the relationship evolved into Pándi becoming their indirect contact with Merzbow frontman Akita Masami, which continued throughout the creation of Full of Hell & Merzbow. Full of Hell vocalist Dylan Walker said, "The communication was definitely minimal with Masami. I don't think he speaks a lot of English, so I think Balázs [Pándi] has been really helpful for him." Full of Hell asked Pándi if they could have permission from Masami to release a shirt paying tribute to the cover art of Merzbow's 1996 album Pulse Demon. In Masami's response, he proposed the idea of doing a split album, but later changed his mind and decided he wanted to do a collaboration album instead.

Merzbow sent the members of Full of Hell approximately 45 minutes of material for them to do with what they saw fit, and had very minimal contact with Masami during the writing and recording process. Knowing that some fans and critics wouldn't like the finished product, Full of Hell focused their attention on making an album Masami and Balázs would be proud of, and ultimately spent over a year working with the material. Walker said he specifically was inspired how Jamie Saft used Merzbow's source material on his 2006 album Merzdub. On Saft's album, Walker said: "it was so soothing, and it was so cool that he'd be able to warp Merzbow into this new sonic territory; it was a dub album, but like a dub album in space. We hoped that we could achieve something similar by warping Merzbow into our kind of sound. And Masami was really happy with how it turned out so, y'know, naysayers be damned!"

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