Your way in
Cybergrind 1999
Grindcore with programmed drums nobody could play and electronic elements. Made in bedrooms more often than in studios.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 10
- Melody
- 2
- Where from
- Global
- Tempo
- 250-400 bpm
- Song length
- 30 sec-2 min
- Written about
- Body horror, Technology, Absurdity, Misanthropy
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Cybergrind | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 1999 | 96% | ×1 |
| Being young and out late What should the words be about? | Body horror, Technology, Absurdity, Misanthropy | 0% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 79% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1 out of 6. Cybergrind leads the next by 4 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
Napalm Death, Scum 1987
Napalm Death - Scum. Side B, with Bill Steer on guitar, is the essential half.
- 2The one to put on first
Gridlink, Longhena 2014
Gridlink - Longhena. Twenty-two minutes, and it counts as a long album here.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Grindcore, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Cybergrind'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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Symphonic power metal 76%
Power metal with orchestra, choir and a fantasy libretto. The more, the better.
4 steps from Cybergrind, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Symphonic power metal -
Mathcore 75%
Metalcore with its wiring torn out: meter changes every few seconds, dissonance and chaos controlled to the millimetre.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 8 steps from Cybergrind.
The way into Mathcore
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 fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 6.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 6.
- Being young and out late put 115 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 6.
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.