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Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of crust punk, most commonly associated with death metal, a very different though similarly extreme style of music. Hardcore Punk is a subgenre of Punk Rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s. ... Crusty redirects here. ... D-beat is a drum beat, specifically a fast rock beat unique to hardcore punk, especially in its UK and European variants. ... Thrashcore is an extremely fast subgenre of punk rock and saw its beginnings after the beginnings of hardcore punk in the early 1980s. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... A sunburst-colored Fender Precision Bass The electric bass guitar (or electric bass[1][2]; pronounced , as in base) is a bass stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers (either by plucking, slapping, popping, or tapping) or using a pick. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... Death growl, also known as growled vocals, harsh vocals, death vocals, pig vocals, throating, death grunts, unclean vocals, Cookie Monster vocals[1], or simply growling, is a vocalization style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal music genre, but also used in a variety of other heavy metal subgenres. ... Underground music is music which has developed a cult following, independent of commercial success. ... Power violence or powerviolence is a sub-genre of grindcore that tends to refocus its musical energies on the original crust punk and hardcore punk, that had created the genre (grindcore) in the first place, as contrasted to the modern grindcore variants that have become increasingly associated with death... Goregrind, also known as grindgore, is a subgenre of grindcore, which is related to music styles such as death metal, thrash metal, and crust punk. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ... Extreme metal is an umbrella term, somewhat loosely defined, for a variety of heavy metal subgenres developed since the 1980s. ... Crusty redirects here. ... This article is about the musical genre. ...

Grindcore is characterized by: heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, with crust punk-influenced riffing; hardcore punk and thrash metal drumming, with many bands focusing on blast beats; songs rarely lasting more than two minutes and often seconds long; vocals which consist of growls and higher-pitched screams, similar to those found in black metal or hardcore punk. Lyrical concepts range from social and political issues to gore to humor. Crusty redirects here. ... Riff is also an alternate spelling of Rif, a region of Morocco. ... Hardcore Punk is a subgenre of Punk Rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s. ... Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by high speed riffing and aggression. ... Blast beats are the torrents of alternating snare and bass drums which increase the speed, density, and percussiveness of death metal, black metal and grindcore. ... A minute is a unit of time equal to 1/60th of an hour and to 60 seconds. ... This article is about the unit of time. ... Death growl, also known as growled vocals, harsh vocals, death vocals, pig vocals, throating, death grunts, unclean vocals, Cookie Monster vocals[1], or simply growling, is a vocalization style usually employed by vocalists of the death metal music genre, but also used in a variety of other heavy metal subgenres. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... Hardcore Punk is a subgenre of Punk Rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s. ...

Historical roots and influences

The genre was developed during the mid-1980s in the United Kingdom by bands such as Napalm Death and Sore Throat, the name "grindcore" being coined by Napalm Death's drummer, Mick Harris. When asked about coming up with the term, Harris replied: The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... Napalm Death are a grindcore/death metal band from Birmingham, England. ... Sore Throat were a British noisegrind band, credited with contributing to the creation of that genre. ... Mick Harris (full name: Michael John Harris) is a British musician. ...

"Grindcore came from 'grind', which was the only word I could use to describe Swans after buying their first record in '84. Then with this new hardcore movement that started to really blossom in '85, I thought 'grind' really fit because of the speed so I started to call it grindcore."^[1]

Many of the earliest grindcore bands were featured on the Earache Records compilation, Grind Crusher. Swans were an influential American rock, experimental, folk and post-industrial band active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. ... Earache Records is a heavy metal-orientated record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme music by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records, in the period 1988-1992. ... A compilation album is an album (music or spoken-word) featuring tracks from one or multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources (such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes. ... Grind Crusher is a CD released by Combat/Earache Records in 1990 showcasing the labels hardest of hardcore bands. ...

The genre, however, is considered a progression of hardcore punk^[2] and, for some reviewers, this genre is also influenced by thrash and death metal^[3]. Groups such as the UK's Discharge and Amebix and the US-based Siege, Lärm, and Repulsion were influential. Post punk, such as Killing Joke and Joy Division, was also cited as an influence on early Napalm Death, the latter cited on the dvd side to the re-release of Scum. Hardcore Punk is a subgenre of Punk Rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s. ... Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by high speed riffing and aggression. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... Discharge is an influential punk and metal band formed in the UK in 1977, whose music is characterized by a heavy, distorted, and grinding guitar-driven sound and anti-melodic shouted or screamed vocals, with lyrics on anarchist and pacifist themes. ... Amebix, formed in England in 1978 as The Band with No Name, were a band that many consider to have started the sub genre crust punk. ... Siege was a thrashcore group formed in 1983 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. ... Lärm were a Dutch thrashcore/grindcore band formed in 1981, formed under the name Total Chaoz. Lärm pioneered what would later be called power violence, along with bands Heresy and Siege. ... Repulsion were an early death metal/grindcore band from Flint, MI. Their innovations were significant to the development of the death metal, black metal, and grindcore genres. ... Post-punk was a popular musical movement beginning at the end of the 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid 1970s. ... This article is about the musical group. ... This article is about the band. ...

Many of these early bands were seen by their contemporaries as part of the anarcho-punk/crust punk and hardcore punk scenes, as many anarcho-punk and peace punk bands in England and hardcore punk bands in the United States had already incorporated elements of metal into their music. Many of these early bands were, and still are, obscure. For instance, the thrashcore band Siege only released one do-it-yourself demo, entitled Drop Dead, and Repulsion was posthumously exposed to the world in 1989 through the album Horrified, which was released in Europe through Carcass-owned Necrosis Records, despite having originally been recorded in June of 1986. The anarchy symbol commonly used by anarcho-punks Anarcho-punk (sometimes known as peace-punk) is a subgenre of the punk rock movement consisting of groups and bands promoting specifically anarchist ideas. ... Crusty redirects here. ... Hardcore Punk is a subgenre of Punk Rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s. ... The anarchy symbol commonly used by anarcho-punks Anarcho-punk (sometimes known as peace-punk) is a subgenre of the punk rock movement consisting of groups and bands promoting specifically anarchist ideas. ... Heavy metal redirects here. ... Thrashcore is an extremely fast subgenre of punk rock and saw its beginnings after the beginnings of hardcore punk in the early 1980s. ... Siege was a thrashcore group formed in 1983 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. ... The DIY punk ethic refers to the idea of doing it yourself, i. ... Repulsion were an early death metal/grindcore band from Flint, MI. Their innovations were significant to the development of the death metal, black metal, and grindcore genres. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Carcass were a British band formed by Napalm Death guitarist Bill Steer together with drummer Ken Owen in 1985. ...

Microsongs

One well-known characteristic of grindcore and related genres is the microsong; songs lasting seconds. Clocking in at just over one second long, the Napalm Death song "You Suffer" is often credited as being the shortest song ever. In 2001, the Guinness Book Of World Records awarded Brutal Truth the record for "Shortest Music Video" for 1994's "Collateral Damage." However, others, such as the Cripple Bastards on their demo 94 Flashback di un Massacro and Agoraphobic Nosebleed on their 3" CD/10" LP Altered States of America, have taken this aesthetic to even greater extremes. Altered States of America contains 100 songs, with song length ranging from four seconds to, at most, one minute, adding up to a total play time of 21:44. North American band Anal Cunt, has recorded their 5643 Song EP, an EP which contains 5643 songs in less than 15 minutes by way of creative multitracking and recording processes. You Suffer is a song by the British grindcore band Napalm Death. ... The Guinness Book of Records (or in recent editions Guinness World Records, and in previous US editions Guinness Book of World Records) is a book published annually, containing an internationally recognized collection of superlatives: both in terms of human achievement and the extrema of the natural world. ... Brutal Truth is a New York City-based deathgrind band that was formed in 1990 by ex-Anthrax and Nuclear Assault bassist Dan Lilker. ... Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses is the debut full length album by New York City deathgrind band Brutal Truth. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Agoraphobic Nosebleed (abbreviated as ANb) is a grindcore band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. ... Altered States of America is a 100-song mini CD released by the band Agoraphobic Nosebleed. ... North American redirects here. ... Anal Cunt is a band from Arlington, Massachusetts that has been categorized as noise, hardcore, grindcore, and shock rock, as their style has changed much since their original formation. ... The 5643 Song EP is a vinyl 7” by the band Anal Cunt, recorded and released in 1989. ...

Subgenres

Crustgrind

Crustgrind is a grindcore / crust punk fusion genre. It is typified by a less frequent use of blast beats and metallic riffing than other forms of grindcore, but harsher vocals than most crust punk. Examples include Disrupt, recent Phobia, and early Extreme Noise Terror. Crusty redirects here. ... A Fusion genre is a music genre that fuses two or more other musical genres. ... Blast beats are drum beats consisting of torrents of alternating snare and bass drums which increase the speed, density, and percussiveness of death metal, black metal and grindcore. ... Crusty redirects here. ... Disrupt was a grindcore-influenced crust punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. ... Phobia are a highly infuential grindcore (or most recently, deathgrind) band from Orange County, California. ... Extreme Noise Terror (often abbreviated to ENT) is a crust, grindcore, and deathgrind band originally from Ipswich, England. ...

Cybergrind

Cybergrind is a form of grindcore influenced by electronic music in that, alongside the instruments used in ordinary grindcore, it uses computer-generated sounds, synthesized instruments and/or drum machines. Electronic drums are often used to attain very high beats per minute rates not ordinarily possible with a human drummer on a physical kit. Agoraphobic Nosebleed are most often credited with coining the term, and are popularly associated with cybergrind. Additionally, cybergrind can be associated with breakcore and noisecore artists such as Hecate. For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine Drum machines are sequencers with a synthesizer, sampler, and/or a sample playback (rompler) component that is tailored to imitate the sounds of drums and other percussion instruments. ... Beats per minute (bpm) is a unit typically used as either a measure of tempo in music, or a measure of ones heart rate. ... Agoraphobic Nosebleed (abbreviated as ANb) is a grindcore band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. ... Breakcore is a genre of electronic dance music which uses rearranged, cut-up breakbeats to create extreme sounds. ... Noisecore may refer to: This shouldnt be a disambiguation as it is its own genre Noisegrind Noise Rock A style of Hardcore Techno Category: ... Hecate is the performing name of American/Austrian Hardcore/Breakcore producer Rachael Kozak, currently living in Basel, Switzerland. ...

Deathgrind

Main article: Deathgrind

Deathgrind is a grindcore/death metal hybrid, often with a focus on the technicality of death metal and intensity of grindcore. Assück, Brutal Truth, Pig Destroyer, recent Napalm Death and later Nasum fall into this category. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Assück was an American grindcore band from St. ... Brutal Truth is a New York City-based deathgrind band that was formed in 1990 by ex-Anthrax and Nuclear Assault bassist Dan Lilker. ... Pig Destroyer is a Virginian Grindcore band. ... Napalm Death are a grindcore/death metal band from Birmingham, England. ... Nasum (pronounced Nah-sum) was a Swedish political grindcore and deathgrind band that was formed in 1992 by Anders Jakobson (guitar) and Rickard Alriksson (drums/vocals), two former members of the goregrind band Necrony. ...

Goregrind

Main article: Goregrind

Goregrind is a form of grindcore characterized by pitchshifted vocals, riffing influenced by late '80s death metal, and explicitly gruesome, gory lyrical themes. Early Carcass and Regurgitate are the most well-known goregrind groups. Goregrind, also known as grindgore, is a subgenre of grindcore, which is related to music styles such as death metal, thrash metal, and crust punk. ... In music, pitchshifted vocals are vocals that have been altered by a Pitch shifter to be lower than the human capacity. ... Carcass were a British band formed by Napalm Death guitarist Bill Steer together with drummer Ken Owen in 1985. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ...

Noisegrind

Noisegrind is a grindcore subgenre with an emphasis on noise and/or speed rather than musicianship. Other features include feedback, out of tune or improvised instruments, and poor production. Examples of noisegrind bands include: early Anal Cunt, Gore Beyond Necropsy, Fear of God,and some material from The Gerogerigegege. Anal Cunt is a band from Arlington, Massachusetts that has been categorized as noise, hardcore, grindcore, and shock rock, as their style has changed much since their original formation. ... // Gore Beyond Necropsy (GBN) formed in 1989 in Hadano-City, Kanagawa,Japan. ... Fear of God, often abbreviated to F.O.G., is a Swiss grindcore band who were active in the mid-80s. ... Gero 30 (left) and Juntaro Yamanouchi The Gerogerigegege (Japanese; ザ・ゲロゲリゲゲゲ) is a music project created in 1985 in Shinjuku, Tokyo by Juntaro Yamanouchi (山ノ内純太郎), who runs and maintains the Vis A Vis record label in Japan. ...

Pornogrind

Grindcore characterized by extreme sexual themes, vocals that range from pitchshifted growls to absurdly high-pitched screams, and groove-based riffing. Pornogrind bands include GUT and early Cock and Ball Torture. Gut (also GUT and G.U.T.) is a German grindcore band, often credited as the fathers of pornogrind, and known for their over-the-top vocals and morbid, porn obsessed imagery. ... This article is about the German band. ...

Literature

• Albert Mudrian, Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore (Feral House) ISBN 978-1-932595-04-8

Albert Mudrian is the author of Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore, a book detailing the evolution of the extreme musical genres, published in September 2004 by Feral House. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

See also

• Extreme metal
• Extreme music
• List of grindcore bands
• List of deathgrind bands

Extreme metal is an umbrella term, somewhat loosely defined, for a variety of heavy metal subgenres developed since the 1980s. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Notable record labels

• Earache Records
• Razorback Records
• Relapse Records
• Profane Existence Records

Earache Records is a heavy metal-orientated record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme music by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records, in the period 1988-1992. ... Razorback Records is a metal record label based in Farmingville, NY. They specialize in a brand of gory, thrash-infused death metal with overt horror themes that has become synonymous with the label itself. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Profane Existence Records is a record label, which deals mostly with Anarcho-Punk, and Crust Punk. ...

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