The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Death metal style · 1985–

Goregrind keeps death metal’s growl, guitar smear, and pathology lyric and runs them on a grind miniature.

Influence
Grindcore genre · 1986–

Goregrind keeps grindcore’s blast-and-miniature and changes the vocal and the public code from politics to gore.

Influence

Goregrind

style · 1988–

Also called gore grind

Kind of Grindcore

Late-1980s grindcore that keeps the blast-and-miniature grammar and recodes the lyric and vocal as pathology and gore (early Carcass, Impetigo, later General Surgery). It hears Grindcore for the grid and Death metal for the growl and pathology lyric. Empty Given is checked: later pornogrind and deathgrind names stay leftover bins or stay on this node.

Listen

  1. Genital Grinder Carcass (1988) YouTube · Spotify
  2. Exhume to Consume Carcass (1988) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  3. Regurgitation of Giblets Carcass (1988) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  4. Boneyard Impetigo (1990) YouTube · Spotify
  5. Severe Catatonia in Pathology General Surgery (1991) YouTube · Amazon

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Death metal → Goregrind

timbre and productionphrase and lickperformance practicestrength: highwell documented1988–1991recordingoral

Mechanism

Goregrind keeps death metal’s growl, guitar smear, and pathology lyric and runs them on a grind miniature. Strength high. Grindcore supplies the blast grid (grindcore goregrind); this file is the death half.

Evidence

Reek of Putrefaction against mid-1980s death records; Mudrian on Carcass as a grind/death overlap.

Debate

Whether early Carcass “is” death metal. The grid parent is grind; the vocal-and-lyric hop is death’s.

Mediators

artist: Carcass

Grindcore → Goregrind

meter and groovetimbre and productionfunction and contextstrength: highwell documented1988–1991recordingoral

Mechanism

Goregrind keeps grindcore’s blast-and-miniature and changes the vocal and the public code from politics to gore. Strength high. Death supplies the growl-and-lyric hop (death metal goregrind).

Evidence

Reek of Putrefaction against Scum; Mudrian on that Carcass fork.

Debate

Whether this is already death metal. The grid parent is grind; the growl-and-riff hop is later.

Mediators

artist: Carcass