What the Fuck is Grind?!
Main Genres
The two most popular genres in the scene are purest, straightforward Grindcore
and sick, pathological Goregrind.
Many Goregrind bands
open their songs with samples from films [usually horror] or autopsy reports
and that as intros. Sub Genres Tiny Genres All above genres often
cross over even further - creating bastard child genres such as Gore Porn
Deathgrind like Holocausto Canibal, Cyber Porno Sludge Noise Goregrind like
Sewer Sludge and bleedin loads of other intermingled genres that'd take ages
to sort out and list properly. A Few Other Points
Of Interest Uncatergorisable Bands If you think we've
missed something off of this page, a genre or a band or somet, please let
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Grindcore
is the umbrella term for more or less all the other genres and sub genres
and what not listed below.
Grindcore was arguably started off by Brummie band Napalm Death way back in
1981. While other bands of this time were more concerned with their hair,
makeup and consumption of ridiculous amounts of drugs and alcohol, Napalm
Death were busy creating deliberately off-time, aggressive, anti continuity
music which blossomed into death metal influenced neo speed insanity. Extremely
distorted guitars, fuzzy bass, very fast drumming and low, guttural bursts
as vokills, all working together to create short, nasty little songs. A kind
of hardcore music that grinds. Grindcore.
When they released their first LP, Scum, Napalm Death were totally oblivious
to the amount of bands they would influence, and the number of sub genres
their music would ultimately create.
Some more recent Grindcore bands who should definitely be checked out are
Pig Destroyer, Brutal Truth, Nasum and Brutality Reigns Supreme 
Goregrind
is the main offshoot of Grindcore, sloppily given birth to by Liverpool band
Carcass. They began life with already solid grind foundations, chiefly thanks
to having Napalm Death axeman Bill Steer among their ranks, playing a much
nastier, much faster and strangely pathological type of Grindcore.
It soon became
known as Goregrind, a fitting title for a genre that would, alongside Grindcore,
spawn countless other bands. Horrible band names, stomach churning lyrical
matter, cover artwork extreme enough to be banned and jarringly heavy music
with effects laden vokills are what make Goregrind popular, but also what
keep it well out of the mainstream.
Besides
Carcass, other bands who had a hand in starting the whole Goregrind movement
are Repulsion, Impetigo, Haemorrhage and Dead Infection.
Other, more recently formed Goregrind bands who are bleedin ace are Regurgitate
[of course], Last Days Of Humanity, Embalmer, Macabre, Oxidised Razor, Neurovisceral
Exhumation, Pathologist and General Surgery
Besides Goregrind,
shiteloads of other genres have been shat out - populated by bands who all
have their own take on the styles of the originators.
Here are
some tiny genres, so called because they are inhabited by very small numbers
of bands. More often than not, the genre name has been coined by the band
themselves, or by some critic or other who has found it difficult to categorise
them.
Er, here's a few other point of interest.
Splatter
Psychotic
Gorecore
Grindgore
Crustcore
Avant Garde
Harsh
Fun
Serial Killers
This bit
is for a few bands who have such variety in their sound that they can't be
defined by any one of the above genres.
Dying Fetus
Intestinal Disgorge
Disgorge
Acid Bath
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