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Deathgrind 1990
Death metal compressed to the length and speed of grindcore. No intro, no outro.
- Heaviness
- 10
- Speed
- 10
- Melody
- 2
- Where from
- USA / United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 220-320 bpm
- Song length
- 1-3 min
- Written about
- Body horror, Ecological collapse, Misanthropy, Politics, on the older records
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Deathgrind | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1990 | 96% | ×1 |
| Short. Say it and stop. How long should a song be? | up to 3 min | 92% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 97% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, era 1, length 1 out of 4. Deathgrind leads the next by 2 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Entombed, Left Hand Path 1990
Entombed - Left Hand Path. The first twenty seconds explain the entire Swedish sound.
- 2The one to put on first
Pig Destroyer, Prowler in the Yard 2001
Pig Destroyer - Prowler in the Yard. No bass player, and you don't miss it.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Death metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Deathgrind's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Goregrind 95%
Grindcore with pitch-shifted vocals and lyrics from a pathology textbook. Carcass wrote the rules on their first two albums.
4 steps from Deathgrind, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Goregrind -
War metal / bestial 95%
Black and death metal reduced to noise, speed and bullet belts. The least legible branch of metal there is.
4 steps from Deathgrind, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into War metal / bestial
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 4.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 4.
- Short. Say it and stop. put 18 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Progressive rock, Progressive metal. Worth 1 of 4.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.