Hardcore/grindcore

Posted by: jcs_smith on 17 August 2006

I’ve been going through some of the records that I haven’t listened to for ages and I find myself transfixed by hardcore. I particularly love the hybrids – ambient hardcore (what a title) like Scorn or jazz hardcore like Painkiller and John Zorn’s Torture Garden or even the collaboration between Extreme Noise Terror and the KLF – I really wish they’d done more stuff. I’ve also being listening to a lot of straight ahead hardcore stuff like Extreme Noise Terror, Godflesh, Defecation, Napalm Death (they were so much better when it wasn’t possible to tell they were ‘singing’ words and it took longer to read the title of the track than it did to listen to it,) Bolt Thrower, Carcass and Lawnmower Death Squad (Ooh Crikey It’s Lawnmower Death Squad has got be one of the best album titles ever.)
The trouble is this stuff is pretty hard to get hold of since the bands have moved on from the Peel Sessions, and I haven’t heard some of the newer bands like Deicide, Severe Torture, Mistress, Municipal Waste, Prostitute Disfigurement, Anaal Nathrakh, Bum Gravy and Pungent Stench. Does anyone have any recommendations because I’m not sure where to start?
Posted on: 21 August 2006 by o'meyer
Maybe it's just me but most of the bands you mention seem to be death or black metal rather than hardcore or grindcore.

Where to start on the more straight ahead stuff? Cannibal Corpse's the bleeding and Obituary's Slowly We Rot spring to mind as classic albums (I don't know where "newer stuff" starts by the way) as well as Deicide, Pungent Stench, Entombed and Dismember. These bands all play their quite distinctive styles of death metal.

As you mention Anaal Nathrakh wich is black metal, you might throw in some classics of that genre to get started. Mayhem's De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas is considered by some to be THE black metal album. Others can't stand it. Other classic bands: Marduk, Dark Funeral (fast/in your face) Darkthrone (raw and primitive especially the earlier albums) then of course there's dimmu borgir and Cradle of Filth which are more atmospheric, however if I were after atmospheric black metal i'd get one of the first two Emperor albums "in the nightside eclipse" or "anthems to the welkin at dusk".

These are quite well-known bands so you you might already have heard them. Maybe you should just go to a metal festival and check out 30+ bands in 2 days. Most festivals have "metal markets" where you'll find most of what youre looking for. Just to bad the festival season is almost over.
Posted on: 22 August 2006 by Guido Fawkes
What about Godcore?