- Absolute death metal – A collection of links, contact information, tour dates and interviews with death metal bands such as Cannibal Corpse and Centurian.
- A Dark Place – A comprehensive guide on death, black, doom, and grindcore genres. Includes lyrics, band descriptions, and sound samples.
- Death Metal – A site for the promotion of death metal music and bands.
- Eternal Obscurity – Death metal band biographies, discographies, news, reviews and links.
- Everflowing Stream, The – Site dedicated to contemporary extreme metal and hardcore music, with reviews and interviews.
- Grindcore 999 – Metal Trade List – An entire collection of EPs, LPs, and CDs. E-mail for trade offers. Consists of death metal, black, grind, thrash, and others.
- Metal Stench – Tablatures, lyrics, photos, and MP3s.
- Phoenix Militia – 1987 issue of death metal zine by Bill Steer (of Carcass and Napalm Death).
- Bastard – Pforzheim Band. Homepage bietet MP3s, Infos, Konzertdaten, Merchandising (T-Shirts) und weitere Features.
- Belching Corpses – Die Band aus Deutschland bietet ein MP3-Kurzdemos, Bilder, Links und Termine.
- Beyond Serenity – Die Death Metal Band aus dem Saarland bietet Bilder, Sounds, Konzerttermine, Gästebuch.
- Black Swan – Die sachsener Musikgruppe mit den zahlreichen Stilen bietet Musikerinfo, Termine, Hörproben in MP3, Texte.
- Bösedeath – Eine Death/Grindcore Band mit Humor bietet Bandinfo, Konzerte, Bilder, Downloads.
- Branded Skin – Offizielle teils Flash-animierte Website der Underground Death Metaller. Bandinfos, Gigs, Presse, Merchandise. [VORSICHT: Diese Webseite enthält teils sehr krasse Darstellungen!]
- Death Metal – Seite nur über Death Metal mit aktuellen Tourdaten Bandlinks und Berichten und Neuigkeiten aus der Death Metal Szene
- Deathboard – Viel Diskussionstoff für Death-Metal-Fans der vorwiegend extremeren Sorte bietet diese Forum: nicht nur schräge Vögel und «Die-Hard»-Fans finden hier zu Wort, manchmal verirren sich auch aktive Musiker oder Mini-Vertrieb-Betreiber hierher.
- Hell is open – Umfangreiche Informationen zu Death- und Blackmetal mit News, Terminen, Konzertberichten, Fotos, Kritiken und Diskussionsforum. Ein Hauptanliegen dieser Site ist auch die Erhaltung des Metals in Rheinhessen (Alzey – Mainz).
Grindcore is an extreme form of hardcore punk and heavy metal, related to both death metal and crust punk, but historically formed by combining elements of Hardcore Punk and early thrash metal.
The genre was pioneered during the early 1980s in the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Brazil by bands such as Sore Throat and Napalm Death. In the United States the genre has their roots with proto-grindcore and hardcore punk bands such as Siege, DRI, Deep Wound and Repulsion.
Many of the early bands, such as Napalm Death, DRI, and Siege were seen by their contemporaries as part of the anarcho-punk and hardcore punk scenes. As many anarcho-punk and peace punk bands in England and hardcore in the United States had already incorporated elements of heavy metal into their music.
Many of these early bands were, and still are, obscure.
For instance, the hardcore punk band Siege only released a DIY demo entitled Drop Dead, and Repulsion was posthumously exposed to the world in 1989 through the album Horrified which was released in Europe by Necrosis Records, a label owned by members of the band Carcass.
Many consider the first true grindcore band to be British band Napalm Death.
The genre was given its name by Napalm Death’s drummer Mick Harris. Since then, the grind sound has evolved but is still recognisable for its intense blast-beat drumming, grinding guitars (hence the name), brutal grunted vocals, and very short songs (the Napalm Death song «You Suffer» is listed as the shortest song ever by the Guinness Book of Records, clocking in at fractionally over 1 second long; however, others such as the Cripple Bastards on their demo 94 Flashback di Massacro, and Agoraphobic Nosebleed on their 3″ cd/10″ lp Altered States of America have taken this aesthetic to even greater extremes). American grindcore band Anal Cunt, a project of Seth Putnam, has recorded an EP called 5643 Song EP which, amazingly, contains 5643 songs in less than 15 minutes.
Grindcore has proven somewhat difficult to categorise. Some fans and musicians have a firm concept of genre and subgenre, but others reject such categorisation as limiting or useless.
There is often significant crossover from one category to another, and often the influence of non-metal music is present.
Political grindcore: This subgenre is known for having politically aware lyrics, and is sometimes associated with the crust punk and peace punk movement. Of all the subgenres of grindcore, this one remains the most musically similar to the earliest grindcore bands. Examples include Nasum and Napalm Death.
Power violence a lot like grindcore, drum-wise and vocal-wise at times, but leans more to being faster sounding hardcore. Widely considered a sub genre of hardcore, equally if not more.
Goregrind: This subgenre started with the band Carcass, and is most notable for having gore obsessed lyrics, and pitchshifted vocals.
eGrind (also referred to as Cybergrind, Digital Grindcore, Digigrind, or Midicore) is a form of grindcore that, aside from the instruments used by ordinary grind, uses computer generated sounds and/or drum machines and other synthetic instruments. Typical bands in the genre are lightning fast with shorter songs, usually under 2 minutes and sometimes use samples.
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