grindcore
 

can i get some suggestions? i've always been interested in what iv'e heard but i'm not familiar with all that many grindcore bands

i hear that cephalic carnage is grindcore, but i guess my favourite grindcore band is probably phobia. they're nothing fancy, by any means, but they do it well.

here's a decent article regarding grindcore which happens to list quite a few bands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindcore

STAY CLEAR FROM DEATH/GRIND LIKE LATTER CEPHALIC CARNAGE. some of the most boring music ever.

some suggestions:

napalm death - scum
napalm death - from enslavement to obliteration
pig destroyer - prowler in the yard
discordance axis - the ineffiable dream

those are like my favorites

try some Bathtub Shitter.

he did a song with discordance axis that's like 16 minutes long, you can find it on their farewell/tribute album our last day

check out Rectal Anarchy, it's a colloboration between merzbow and grindcore band gore beyond necropsy, it's not that great though, it's mostly merzbow's noise with grindcore vocals mixed really low, but I love the cover for some reason:

No love for Godflesh?
One of the greatest bands ever.
They kind of transcend the stylistic binds of the genre a lot of the time, but "Streetcleaner" is a stone classic!

i agree with you 110%

but i don't really consider godflesh to be part of the general description of the sound of grindcore (super fast beats, frenentic singing, fast technical guitar riffs). they are considered grindcore because justin broadrick was in napalm death and got marketed as such.

how about a david hasselhoff cover grindcore style

http://rapidshare.de/files/19810401/Grindcore.mp3.html

I'm no grindcore expert but I agree with those choices.

My favourite grindcore band would have to be Repulsion, I think they are from Somewhere in California sometime in the early 80s. They are early pioneers of grindcore and sound a bit like Napalm Death meets hardcore punk like Black Flag. They have one album that come in a 2 disc version with everthing they ever recorded.

I don't know exactly what grindcore is, but melt banana has been called that. They're really great. Check out Cell Scape, Charlie or Teeny shiny.

I have the Merzbow/ Shora split, that's very good. I don't think it's quite Grind though, definitely more Doom-y.

I get very confused about sub-genres of metal, it confuses the bejeesus out of me. Like the difference between death and black metal. And the fact that Cradle of Filth are often described as thrash, when they don't sound that different to Dimmu Borgir, who are apparantly Black, but don't sound that different to Emperor, who are apparantly death. Or have I got it all wrong?

I don't think Melt Banana count as Grind, but I don't know why I think that. I suspect it's because they're far to happy. They are certainly very good though, that much is true.

Godflesh are great, I saw them many years ago now, and Pig Destroyer were (are?) awesome.

What are Carcass, do they count? Reek of Putrefaction was a excellent album. Extreme Noise Terror as well, do they count? Again, excellent band.

EDIT: Just noticed the Wiki link, that's kind of helpful, and reminded me that Agorophobic Nosebleed exist and were/ are excellent. Still no closer to understanding the entire history of 80's > present metal sub-genres.

Emperor is black metal.

As far as I can tell, death metal is more concerned with technical precision and low end than black metal, which is less hung up on chops, is far more shrill, and has high grim shrieks as vocals as opposed to the guttural "cookie monster" style of a lot of Death Metal groups. I am by no means 110% metal though, so don't quote me on this.

I think this is part of the problem: People who are heavily into the scene are either reticent to articulation or very inarticulate (or probably both). People who aren't just don't know what the difference is. Hopefully I will be proved wrong presently.

That's one of the reasons why Wikipedia is so useful sometimes. If you go to the bottom of the grindcore page, you'll find links to the other genres of metal, including black, death, speed, etc....

THE LOCUST!!! They're nuts...

this thread made me realise, grindcore sucks.

Locust isn't conventional grindcore.

Locust is what I call "ADD core."

I know. Hence the "they're nuts". I'm not much of a fan, I just have few friends that are into grindcore and stuff, they seem to dig The Locust.