I feel like if you just play shows with grindcore bands, then you're only going to have grindcore fans.
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"We're all grindcore fans initially, and this is a grindcore band, but we use it as a backboard to blend with other stuff," LaChance says.
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Grindcore is described as a blend of thrash metal and hardcore punk.
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To some, "death metal" and "grindcore" just seem like unapproachable musical styles.
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Why have you chosen grindcore as your means to convey your message?
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We are immigrants and we play grindcore, so let's call it "immigrindcore".
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He's done the Vermin Womb [grindcore project featuring members of CTTOAFF] stuff.
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If dog-fronted grindcore is more your style, might I humbly suggest Caninus?
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Grindcore can be a genre full of call-outs, takedowns and tough guy shit.
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Featuring the winged tempos of Carcass and Celtic Frost, Scum became the blueprint for grindcore.
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But the most bizarre musical endeavor was a poppers-themed grindcore band called Nose Burn.
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We were given three quarters of an hour filled with perfectly orthodox grindcore, nothing more.
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Ball and LaChance were both first exposed to grindcore as kids at all ages shows.
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Last time I visited, it was to see a Virginia grindcore band called Pig Destroyer.
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Like if there was a show with four grindcore bands playing, I'd probably leave halfway through.
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Dahlstrom: There's certainly new challenges—you get grindcore [ laughs], you get stuff that you can't unsee.
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It was heavily based on death metal, thrash/crossover and grindcore coming up in the late 80s.
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Speaking of the political side of things, that's always been a part of grindcore since the beginning.
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Some of my friends developed sounds that went on to become subgenres, like grindcore or crust-punk.
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All the vocals are run through intense layers of processing, landing anywhere from chipmunk house to grindcore.
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The Locust's mish-mash of grindcore, punk, and new wave was not only novel, it was distinctly memorable.
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I think it was originally presented as being short grindcore songs, like Infest, Crossed Out, etc. etc. etc.
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"You see a lot of shows that are half punk/half noise or half grindcore/half metal," Tsori says.
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If you want to see some robots going full bore, and you like metal or grindcore, we're your people.
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One was the Unholy Alliance, which was a wrestling-themed grindcore band full of defined characters and ornate storylines.
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Grindcore is loose, open agression, pure unadultered, raw emotion that goes hand-in-hand with the theme of class warfare.
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Grindcore legends Terrorizer have returned with another full-length salvo, their first since 2012's so-so Hordes of Zombies.
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Many thrash bands from that era dealt with social and political themes as did a lot of the early grindcore bands.
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Of all the offshoots and branches of extreme metal, those in the know say grindcore enjoys the largest following in Nepal.
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There is brutal grindcore blasting in the background and some vintage horror movies selected by the band playing on the restaurant's television.
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They play a caustic, ugly mix of punk, hardcore, and grindcore that never takes itself too seriously—but never lets up, either.
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This is hardcore with a complexity that belies the violence and chaos, bringing in elements from sludge, grindcore, and even black metal.
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In 2017, what could be more relevant than pissed-off, jagged grindcore played by a group of working class, anti-state immigrants?
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Then Pete reached out to me thinking about my Extreme Precautions project, thinking my electronica meets grindcore sounds would complement this collaboration well.
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo is a massive grindcore fan, while UK Shadow Justice Secretary and East Leeds MP Richard Burgon prefers Iron Maiden.
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He also plays guitar in a death metal band called Vajravarah, and before that, used to play in a grindcore band called Bonefvcker.
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We would like to play local shows and start writing a full double album; I don't think any grindcore band has done that.
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That seems to spill over into the album's artwork, which looks way more like a grindcore record that'd be coming out on Earache.
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After five long years—during which quite a lot has happened here in the US of A—beloved grindcore miscreants Phobia have returned!
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Powerviolence, grindcore, fastcore, hardcore, skronky grunge, big fat slabs of grimy rock'n'roll—you'll find all that on this groovy, grinding piece of mayhem.
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Grindcore doesn't fuck around (and neither do those who play it), so I was initially a little afraid of Grindmother, the genre's newest nonconformist.
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One band that has held the torch high for the Taiwanese grind scene for the past ten years is Ashen, the country's grindcore OGs.
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Napalm Death as Grindcore Pioneers Like so many albums that became building blocks for entire genres, Scum is more important than it is enjoyable.
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At the top lie the various permutations of extreme metal like black metal, death metal, doom metal, and grindcore—the more underground, the better.
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None of this is remotely shocking if you've seen a grindcore film, if you've seen Saw or Hostel or even have read something slightly gory.
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Mentally Murdered would be Dorrian's last recording with Napalm Death, and when Greenway entered, it allowed the band to ditch grindcore without a second thought.
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Here, Napalm Death offers up a masterful piece of modern grindcore, writing songs that, from a compositional standpoint, are entirely alien from their early days.
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This Belgian outfit peddles total fucking audio destruction, whirling together manic crust punk with serrated grindcore into a satisfyingly toxic mass of fast, ugly aggression.
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Pornogrind is an offshoot of goregrind and grindcore music; the lyrics discuss -- oftentimes in extremely graphic and violent ways -- pornographic and sexual themes, Walton said.
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Strom also works as a party promoter and organizer, co-curating Bump & Grindcore, a monthly "r&b sex jams dance party" taking place at Chicago's Beauty Bar.
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After hearing just a minute of the EP it probably won't surprise the listener to learn that the artist also plays in a grindcore band called Cicada.
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She also plays at Bump and Grindcore: an R&B Sex Jams Dance Party, which takes place on the last Friday of every month at Beauty Bar.
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The dance producers mentioned above come from an array of locations and these days it's possible to find grindcore acts in virtually every corner of the planet.
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I thought, how cool would it be to have a band blockaded in this room during a throbbing grindcore live performance with bass coming through the walls?
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Gadget instantly catapulted themselves to being one of the best acts of the festival, playing breakneck grindcore with the same casual efficiency as a drunk scarfing a kebab.
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Their searing anticapitalist grindcore is a top-notch new entry into the genre's proudly state-hating canon, complete with wildly unhinged vocals, murderous grooves, and seriously headbangable riffs.
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"When I picked the band up from the airport, Ombat [the vocalist for grindcore outfit Tengkorak] was so nervous that he couldn't say anything to Barney," he recalled.
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Here are a few other things I've been digging this week, including a new track from grindcore OGs Terrorizer and an album premiere from Philly metalcore upstarts Downtrodder.
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Josh Martin, the guitarist of a grindcore band, passed away at age 45 after falling from an escalator at a Rhode Island shopping mall on Monday, May 30, 2018.
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What sets this scene apart is its synthesis of avant-garde music with antagonistic performances at the volume and intensity of metal genres such as grindcore, thrash, and death.
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While we know little about Skull Vomit himself, his SoundCloud page is populated with mostly with grindcore productions as well as an entire playlist devoted to bizarre prank calls.
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Indeed, Yasuko Onuki's high-pitched vocals are virtually the opposite of the deep grindcore "cookie monster" growl, although, as Bullen has already identified, such extremes can go full circle.
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After nearly 10 years, Wake is still a grindcore band at heart, but they've never been afraid to fold in other elements, and Misery Rites is thankfully no exception.
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This Geneva hardcore/grindcore outfit achieved cult status in the late 90s and early 00s with albums like Eyesore (20183), Ecce Lex (2002) and the acoustic Hysteron-Proteron (2004).
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And though they'd all share similar influences, those bands took Saetia's suggestion that hardcore could be both destructive and thoughtful but twisted it into something that bordered on grindcore.
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With three of the four, my opener of "What drew you to my profile, was it my love for the grindcore metal band Anal Cunt?" didn't really catch on.
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" He does have one reservation, however: "You might get someone who's into, like, grindcore, and they meet someone who's into, like, doom, and they won't get along at all.
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The man — who was later identified as Josh Martin, a veteran guitarist from the Massachusetts grindcore scene, by Pitchfork — fell from Providence Place Mall's second floor around 10:45 p.m.
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Grindcore and politics go together like peanut butter and chocolate; sure, you can enjoy one without the other, but they're far more powerful when swirled together by a steady hand.
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Drawing from a strong crust punk background, the band also incorporates elements of death metal, black metal, and grindcore, swirling it all together into a cohesive, poison-tipped aural assault.
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The band are rounded by Keegan Kelly on bass and that all important synth man Beau Beasley, who swapped singing in grindcore bands for doing a good John Lord impression.
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To borrow an old cliché: it's hard as Nails, though in this case I mean the grindcore band, who have become my standard for leaden heaviness over the past few years.
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Tracks like "War in the Name of Peace" through "Violator/Violated" effortlessly cross their Infest and Weekend Nachos influences with the streetwise ferocity of metallic hardcore-meets-grindcore blasts and stomps.
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All the performing acts—punk rock clowns, genderfuck burlesque, a radical anarchist grindcore band, a noise wizard—hailed from either the punk house where she lived or the dungeon where she worked.
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Polish death metal legends Vader headlined Kathmandu's Silence Fest II the following year, while Birmingham grindcore lifers Napalm Death and another Polish death metal mainstay, Decapitated, would follow in the ensuing years.
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Multi-instrumentalist Mick Kenney takes riffs that are at times reminiscent of black metal and at other times grindcore, and juxtaposes them with electronic elements culled from industrial, gabber, and other genres.
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Pornogrind is a subgenre of a fast and extreme kind of heavy metal called grindcore, which is known for its mostly dark, satirical themes of sexual violence and gore delivered for shock value.
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For over 20 years, Anal Cunt existed for the sole purpose of being as deliberately offensive as possible, relying heavily on scathing grindcore and lyrical themes of homophobia, racism, misogyny, and general shitbaggery.
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You have Dobber and Beau who were in the grindcore scene, and there's Anthony who is a Masters level jazz guitarist and so everyone's underpinning this as far as their own personal preference.
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After what felt like an intolerably long hiatus, one of the most promising new grindcore bands of the new millennium, Wormrot, is finally poised to release their third full-length since 2011's Dirge.
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On Monday, a popular death metal and grindcore meme page posted a message to and from the community referencing the Dayton attacks and confirming that the shooter was a member of the Menstrual Munchies.
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His drumming career spans nearly 30 years, and in that time he's blasted his way through countless releases and genres that range from death metal and powerviolence through to sludge, grindcore, and noise rock.
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Raising the stakes with a 60-minute double LP of grindcore that will not bore you with twists and turns and spices and double the drums (a concept stolen from Moralized and Completed Exposition).
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"There's a new energy here," said Mike Barone, the owner of Grindcore House, a vegan coffee spot in South Philadelphia, famously an Italian neighborhood that's undergone a restaurant renaissance near the grand Passyunk fountain.
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They whip together an unpredictable blend of grindcore, noise rock, hardcore, black metal, and screamo, with an emphasis on intricate, emotive songwriting and crackling atmosphere—standout track "Kytra" is a perfect example of both.
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Zombie's 1998 solo debut Hellbilly Deluxe might have gotten me into metal, but once I broke into extreme sub-genres like black metal, death metal, and grindcore, I considered myself too good for it.
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Steve's band Assück became a defining grindcore act, and B.'s band The End of the Century Party was finding its space alongside contemporaries like Palatka and In/Humanity (which B. also played in).
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Anaal Nathrakh fuses an unholy combination of black metal, death metal and industrial metal with grindcore into a horrific concoction that is probably entirely indecipherable to all but the most weathered veterans of heavy music.
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There are scanned pages from an Arabic dictionary, recorded recitations of Quran verses, a photo of the Dalai Lama and even a song by a Japanese band of the earsplitting heavy-metal style known as grindcore.
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The future that the band built on The Locust would eventually catch up with them, though, as it soon became less strange to hear hardcore and grindcore bands using keyboards and synthesizers as part of their attack.
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The admin says most of the conversation used to revolve around "grindcore" and death metal, but music is rarely discussed anymore and the post volume, the mod explains, is about 43 percent of what it once was.
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He started a label on Myspace first that functioned as a home for all his many experiments, including his beats, a grindcore band he was a part of, and anything else that fit within his wide-ranging interests.
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He built the ten-room boutique rehearsal studio from the ground up with master carpenter and grindcore icon Kevin Sharp, and both he and Sanders are involved in maintaining the space (according to Sanders, he's "the toilet guy").
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In 2019, Starr founded We The Independent, a merchandising company that sells hard-left sloganeering, like those aforementioned UNIONIZE shirts, or a graphic tee featuring a zombified Starr under the words EAT THE RICH in a grindcore font.
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From $110 for a weekend pass; from $60 for single day According to the co-founder Melissa Auf der Maur, the eclectic nature of Soundscape (which can range "from grindcore to poetry") is largely dictated by the venue.
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However, few South Korean bands have tackled political commentary quite like Bamseom Pirates, who spent years protesting both South and North Korea's societies and governments through aggressively satirical grindcore, and became a frequent presence at protests during their career.
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I didn't meet any other girls who liked the same music as I did until I got to high school, and as I got deeper into death metal and grindcore, I was still the odd person out most of the time.
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They remain a massive name in mainstream rock, but I won't pretend to be well-versed in the band's newer material; by the time 2003's Meteora dropped, I'd gravitated towards the harsher, less emotive sounds of grindcore and death metal.
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Massachusetts grindcore band Trap Them is getting their largest bump in visibility this week thanks to the fact that lead vocalist Ryan McKenney apparently broke both feet in a leap from a speaker cabinet Saturday night and finished the band's set.
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"Nepal's extreme music scene started from the end of 90s when Ugrakarma introduced themselves in Kathmandu and Suicide Theory in Hetauda," says Visha Rai, extreme metal promoter in Kathmandu and front man of now defunct Nepalese grindcore band Wakk Thuu.
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"Nepal's extreme music scene started from the end of 22012s when Ugrakarma introduced themselves in Kathmandu and Suicide Theory in Hetauda," says Visha Rai, extreme metal promoter in Kathmandu and front man of now defunct Nepalese grindcore band Wakk Thuu.
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It was in this landscape that vocalist J.R. Hayes and guitarist Scott Hull would form Pig Destroyer, a band that took what they'd each done in Enemy Soil and Agoraphobic Nosebleed, respectively, and cooked up their own chaotic brand of grindcore.
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To reclaim the "grinding" part of the grindcore sound, Godflesh they drew on Broadrick's experience playing guitar for an early version of Napalm Death, then incorporated a drum machine and minimal, punishing instrumentation to expand on the vocabulary of the post punk scene.
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Wentz was a big name in hardcore, performing in bands like Birthright and Racetraitor, the latter of which Hurley was also in; and Stump was a drummer in grindcore band Xgrinding processX, while Trohman's primary project was heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things.
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Deny the Cross isn't straight up grind, of course, but is rather locked in a too-close-to-call race for dominance that pits grindcore against classic powerviolence and stirs up enough punk stomp and dirty grooves to keep your head bobbing.
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By now, hopefully you know that east coast grindcore kings Full of Hell and Oregon based doomlords The Body have come together for an collaborative record titled One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache, which drops next week on March 25.
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After defining grindcore on their first two albums, the introduction of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway and guitarists Mitch Harris and Jesse Pintado, along with bassist Shane Embury, saw Napalm Death move away from their classic sound as soon as they perfected it.
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Grindcore—especially with gale-force drummer Dave Witte behind the kit and current and past members of Spazz, Black Army Jacket, Agents Of Satan, Municipal Waste, and Discordance Axis holding court before him (to be fair, Witte accounts for the majority of those namedrops).
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Oryx's latest effort follows 2014's Widowmaker LP, and pairs them with Arizona's Languish on a full-length split LP. While the former stick to shades of stoner-friendly desert sludge, Languish's take on doom is cut from crustier (abnd more grindcore-heavy) cloth.
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We each had a subgenre we really had to write about (thrash for me, death and grindcore for Axl) and a subgenre the other one had to cover because we didn't really give a flying fuck about it (glam for me, nu metal for Axl).
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While 2000's Enemy of the Music Business, 2002's Order of the Leech, and 2005's The Code is Red…Long Live the Code, were returns to a more aggressive sound, grindcore had evolved past Napalm Death in their years away from the style.
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It's weird because all of the other bands who used to play there were all these crusty, grindcore bands, so we were playing with Venom Prison and Dawn Ray'd and all these really heavy bands and going on in pink spandex, playing Basement Jaxx covers.
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High Cost (formerly known as Septic Rot) spew out punk- and powerviolence-flecked grindcore that's as gritty and unforgiving as the Brooklyn gutter they crawled out of, and this self-titled demo (out this week on Tridoid Records) marks their first recorded foray under the new moniker.
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And before I get nailed to the meme cross in the skr*mz boards on genre technicalities, let me offer the disclaimer that I might expand the malleable "screamo" umbrella to encompass powerviolence, grindcore, emoviolence, and whatever other dumb signifiers get attached to generally unmoshable hardcore.
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Winter 2016 is shaping up to be a golden age for thinking-person's grindcore, with new records from Graf Orlock and Magrudergrind, Full of Hell's collaboration with split-fiends The Body, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed's foray into doomy sludge all incoming over the next couple of months.
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Legendary Mexican-American metalheads Brujeria formed at a party in 1989 when Juan Brujo, Faith No More's Billy Gould, and Dino "El Asesino" Cazares (who formed Fear Factory around the same time) decided to start a grindcore band that better reflected and represented the Latino community.
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The whole playlist is a who's who of dope death and/or grindcore bangers, and provides an excellent soundtrack to whatever activity you may be into—whether you're bathing in the blood of your enemies or just trying to get home without disemboweling anyone on the subway.
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In addition to serving seasonal cream cheeses with a side of metal on the sound system, Grindcore is a meeting place for animal rights groups and a hangout for straight-edge vegans who eschew not just eating animals and animal products but also drugs, alcohol and smoking.
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Though Harris was instrumental in establishing the band's sound, as well as that of grindcore itself, his nickname of the "Human Tornado" was always apt, and on Harmony Corruption, his penchant for never settling into a beat made the album chaotic in an unflattering, jumbled way.
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This hot-blooded Iowa grindcore crew shares a spiritual (and musical) bond with other relentlessly creative grind bands like Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Iron Lung, and Cloud Rat, so it makes a ton of sense that they're currently out on tour with the latter (take a detour and come to NYC, pretty please?).
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Happily, that extra polish hasn't done much to mute Chepang's raw fury or their penchant for swirling together the most jagged shards of powerviolence, crust punk, noise, grindcore—and even shades of a noise rock influence that yields a few unexpectedly groovy moments (see "Sojho Lato Pasu" for an example).
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Victoria Scalisi's vocals bridged a gap between grindcore, punk, doom and sludge in a way that few singers could hope to do, precisely because she didn't give a thought to bending to the conventions of genre so much as tearing holes in them to bludgeon DAMAD audience and/or general listenership as directly as possible.
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I continued to revel in the harmonic dazzle on display and religiously memorize Ensiferum lyrics, but I increasingly found myself drawn towards harsher, less accessible sounds—in part because I was sick of seeing my taste dismissed, but more importantly, because it was ultimately raw black metal and grindcore that made the greatest impact on me.
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A slew of acts across the metal and hardcore spectrum — including the Vancouver grindcore act Mass Grave, New England's self-described "extreme doom" band Come to Grief, Quebec's Saccage and Brooklyn's own Mutilation Rites — will hold court at this underground-music bar for the weekend, cranking out music that will delight fans who like it loud, cathartic and anarchic.saintvitusbar.
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The band, which formed outside of Liverpool in 1985, helped lay the groundwork for grindcore (see also: Bill's time in Napalm Death over its first two albums), death metal, and the use of gore as a lyrical and artistic motif, which means that even if you don't know their music, the bulk of the metal bands you love certainly do.
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After several splits, EPs, and a few full-lengths—including 83's acclaimed Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow—of screaming his guts out about "social issues, political issues and shit like that," Ball took a different direction for the Canadian grindcore band's latest effort and pointed his scathing lyrics at his own battles with depression, addiction, and isolation.
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You'd only need to invest two seconds' worth of listening time to the sizzling stoner licks on Marijannah's new self-titled album to immediately start drawing comparisons to fuzzy elder gods Sleep, Goatsnake, or Acid King—which makes it all the more unexpected to find that the people behind it spend most of their time peeling faces and cracking bones as part of Singapore's premier grindcore battalion, Wormrot.
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It took a lot to tear me away from it, but once it came time to listen to the new joint from NJ/NY hardcore punks Death Vacation, I happily hung those Norwegian OGs out to dry and dove headfirst into Bones Grow Cold, the quartet's new 43-song EP. Death Vacation's snarling, vitriolic take on hardcore is firmly rooted in grindcore and crust—punk to the bone, but far beyond basic, especially when vocalist Michelle Mancuso sinks her teeth into a verse.
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