grindcore
Sign in to saveGrindcore is an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from abrasive-sounding musical styles, such as thrashcore, crust punk, hardcore punk, extreme metal, and industrial. Grindcore is considered a more noise-filled style of hardcore punk while using hardcore's trademark characteristics such as heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, grinding overdriven bass, high-speed tempo, blast beats, and vocals which consist of growls, shouts and high-pitched shrieks. Early groups such as England's Napalm Death are credited with laying t
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Grindcore
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Mid-1980s, England
- Music genre.fusiongenres
- Deathgrind goregrind pornogrind
- Music genre.regional_scenes
- Brazil United Kingdom
- Music genre.local_scenes
- Birmingham
- Music genre.other_topics
- Anarcho-punk crossover thrash D-beat death metal industrial metal metalcore powerviolence sludge metal speedcore
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21 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Blast beat
- Lyrical themes
- History
- Precursors
- British grindcore
- North American grindcore
- Continental European grindcore
- Grindcore in Asian countries
- Influence
- Powerviolence
- Industrial and electronic influence
- Electrogrind
- Mathcore and screamo
- Crust punk
- Deathgrind
- Blackened grindcore
- Noisegrind
- See also
- Notes
- References
Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from abrasive-sounding musical styles, such as thrashcore, crust punk, hardcore punk, extreme metal, and industrial. Grindcore is considered a more noise-filled style of hardcore punk while using hardcore's trademark characteristics such as heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars, grinding overdriven bass, high-speed tempo, blast beats, and vocals which consist of growls, shouts and high-pitched shrieks. Early groups such as England's Napalm Death are credited with laying the groundwork for the style. It is most prevalent today in North America and Europe, with popular contributors such as Brutal Truth and Nasum. Lyrical themes range from a primary focus on social and political concerns, to gory subject matter and black humor.
A trait of grindcore is the "microsong", far shorter than average for punk or metal. Several bands have produced songs that are only seconds in length. Many bands, such as Agoraphobic Nosebleed, record simple phrases that may be rhythmically sprawled out across an instrumental lasting only a couple of bars in length.