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<title>Bring Me The Horizon</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Formed in 2004, this Sheffield, Yorkshire, England quintet took its name from a line in <I>Pirates of the Caribbean</I> and its sound from American hardcore and metal. Combining the elements of straight-edge hardcore, primitive '90s metalcore, and death metal, BMTH fused their own brand of crushing music that got the attention of the music industry. After releasing their debut album only in the U.K. in 2006, the band -- Oliver Sykes (vocals), Lee Malia (guitar), Curtis Ward (guitar), Matt Kean (bass), and Matt Nicholls (drums) -- was voted Best Newcomers by Kerrang! Magazine, and the media frenzy ensued. They quietly re- released the album in the United States a year later, but it wasn't until Epitaph Records released 2008's highly anticipated second full-length <I>Suicide Season</I> following their stint on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour that BMTH became a force in the States.
- Jen Guyre]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:01:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Cannibal Corpse</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:17:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the most aggressive, influential, violent, frenetic, fearful Metal bands of the '90s. Let's refer to their aural assault as "Splattercore."
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Iwrestledabearonce</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:42:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Between The Buried And Me</title>
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<category>Progressive Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Formed in 2000 in North Carolina, Between the Buried and Me play extremely technical and varied death metal with super-growly Cookie Monster-esque vocals. The songs have many components, ranging from obliterating grind-core, to messing with signature signatures like the Gorguts on lithium, to moments of sheer ethereal beauty. But it's these passages with light guitars and sung vocals that really set Between the Buried apart from other folks playing death metal today.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>The Dillinger Escape Plan</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 3 Dec 2009 22:53:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[From the outset, the Dillinger Escape Plan's sonic terror has been precision violence. Franticly unloading extreme dissonance and exacting attacks of gleaming chrome noise against chaotic rhythms, they embody alarmist anxiety. While they've never been shy to change direction mid-song (tempos converging, frenzied thrashing dropping away to tense, Sabbath slow-builds) their new direction widens the chasm between musical moments. Guitar grinds stumble into Fusion noodling and rip into a blastbeat-driven frenzy. Mr. Bungle comparisons are definitely at hand, though Patton and co. possess neither the aggressive abandon of the Dillinger Escape Plan nor vocalist Dimitri Minakakis' rash, unyielding percussive screams.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<category>Metalcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:51 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Arsonists Get All The Girls</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Repulsion</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:55:03 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Carcass</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:00:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[That so many Carcass fans considered the fierce Death Metal assault of <I>Swansong</I> (1996) a sellout says something about the band's origins. Debuting in 1988 with the guttural early Grindcore of <I>Reek of Putrefaction</I>, the quartet established itself as one of the more extreme Metal bands around. The medically detailed and all but indecipherable lyrics to songs like "Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites" tend to grab attention first, but the self-consciously gory shenanigans are backed by an appropriately stomach-churning musical attack. Their murky riffs, claustrophobic drums and absurdly low-in-the-throat vocals (courtesy of onetime Napalm Death guitarist Bill Steer) established a pattern many bands would follow. After a brief recording hiatus, they reemerged in 1994 with the more cleanly produced and increasingly song-centered <I>Heartwork</I>, and bassist Jeff Walker's demonic mid-range replaced Steer's low growl. The aptly named <I>Swansong</I> put the last nail in the coffin, so to speak, offering their most accessible yet most controversial work. Whether it signaled evolution or "sellout" was something the band itself could not agree on, and they split around the time of its release.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Trap Them</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:29:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though formed in New Hampshire in 2001, grind enthusiasts Trap Them find themselves split between the east and west coast; vocalist Ryan McKenney and bassist Steve Lacour live in Seattle, while guitarist Brian Izzi resides in New Hampshire and drummer Mike Justian in Massachusetts. Originally called Trap Them + Kill Them when they were simply a side project for McKenney and Izzi, the band didn't start releasing proper albums until its 2007 debut <I>Sleepwell Deconstructor</I>, the first of three releases from the band that year. They signed to Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon's label Deathwish, which released the EP <I>Seance Prime</I>, a split with Extreme Noise Terror. In 2008, Trap Them put out their second full-length, <I>Seizures in Barren Praise</I>, produced as always by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou.
- Jen Guyre]]></description>
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<title>Benediction</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:34:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Britain's Death Metal troopers Benediction have been releasing records since the late '80s. Their one handicap has been losing lead vocalists to the competition -- namely, Bolt Thrower and Napalm Death. Benediction's music is reliably devastating, and often blistering enough to qualify them as a Grindcore band.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Strapping Young Lad</title>
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<category>Thrash/Speed Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 09:06:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With drumming and riffing firing faster than your synapses can account, S.Y.L. unleash an absolute assault of speed, aggression and perplexing lyrics. Desperate vocals fire faster than blast beats, evoking the terror of a Cronenberg anti-hero trapped in a Tetsuo dystopia. Fearful waking nightmares.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Agoraphobic Nosebleed</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As Grindcore bands go, these guys may not be the most brutal (they're not exactly light listening either), but they are one of the ugliest. Embracing monotony, obnoxiousness, and above all speed, they single-mindedly race through concise, bitter song-like movements. Their 1998 Relapse debut <I>Honky Reduction</I> contained twenty-five tracks, with all but one clocking in at under 1:17. Not for everyone, but for those who appreciate such bands as Anal C*nt (with whom they share members), they're a refreshing breath of foul air.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Napalm Death</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:11:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Napalm Death were the band responsible for hacking off the Metal limb that would subsequently regenerate as Grindcore. Pushing the human body to discover the limits of how fast it can drum, strum and vocalize, the tempos they achieved on their early albums are unsurpassable, except digitally. Guitar notes swarm in on listeners like a cloud of flesh-eating insects with a fondness for ear meat, while the drums seem like they're being played with a machine gun. Meanwhile, vocal duties sound like they're being shared by Yoda after a long trek through the desert without water and a shrieking Sam Kinison stuck in a cocaine-less Hell. Though later efforts found the band backing off maximum overdrive to explore heaviness at slower speeds, their music still teems with sound and fury. Napalm Death's organ-mulching blasts of noise continue to define the state of the art in audio brutality.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Genghis Tron</title>
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<category>Experimental</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:33:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hailing from Philadelphia, Pa., by way of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., this analog-based experimental metal trio formed in 2004, and have been devout road warriors ever since. Mixing I.D.M. and noise with grind core and doom metal, Genghis Tron-- Mookie Singerman (vocals), Michael Sochynsky (keyboards) and Hamilton Jordan (guitars) -- formed their own synthesized brew of extreme music dubbed "electro-grind." In live as well as recorded performances, Genghis Tron simulate drum and bass effects using a drum machine and keyboard fills. Their chaotic debut, 2006's <I>Dead Mountain Mouth</I>, grabbed the attention of the media and also gained these tour enthusiasts attention from <I>Decibel Magazine</I>, where Singerman contributes a monthly column based on Genghis Tron's stories from the road called "Smile, You're Traveling." After signing to Relapse Records, they released their sophomore album, 2008's <I>Board Up the House</I>, to critical acclaim. Upping the ante with more melodious departures and streamlined storytelling this time around, Genghis Tron continue to invent and reinvent their own unique style.
- Jen Guyre]]></description>
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<title>THE END</title>
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<category>Progressive Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Locust</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:31 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Upon a harsh hammer blow to the skull, a dying man emits one final shreik before passing into the beyond. The Locust embody the terror and sound of that moment repeated with rapid sucession. Rhythms run frantically in every direction, dodging sledgehammer funereal bursts. Guitar and bass create painful, piercing blasts of manic expression.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Pig Destroyer</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[From their 1997 inception, Virginia-based death metal/grindcore superstars Pig Destroyer have represented the very forefront of extreme American metal. The band features guitarist Scott Hull, formerly of seminal hardcore chaos maniacs Anal C*nt and the sole permanent member of grindcore mainstays Agoraphobic Nosebleed, scary chimpanzee screecher J. R. Hayes, drummer John Evans and no bass. Pig Destroyer's inhumanly fast tempos, raving lunatic vocals and propensity for truly disturbing themes centering on violence are pretty much unrivaled in music. Basically, they're as nuts and smart as grindcore can possibly be. In addition to the jarring speeds, Hull manages to peal off some kind of thrumming hot lick in practically every 49-second burst of sonic terrorism the trio produces (see "Restraining Order Blues" and the title cut from 2004's <i>Terrifyer</i>). Chugging death/doom breakdowns and far out, K.K. Downing-inspired solos further blur the lines between death and grind metal. Since they signed with Relapse in 2000, each Pig Destroyer release has been received with clamoring praise from critics and fans alike.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Soilent Green</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:33:45 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Long considered one of the very heaviest and technically complicated groups to emerge from the muck of the New Orleans sludge metal/doom/grindcore scene, Soilent Green have made a name for themselves despite offering precious few releases (four full-lengths) for a band that's been together since 1988. Due in part to founding guitarist Brian Patton's longtime side gig playing guitar beside Jimmy Bower in Eyehategod, Soilent Green has seen enough hard times to dismantle 90% of the other bands on earth. Two van accidents, the murder in 2004 of bassist Scott Williams by his deranged roommate and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina would be enough to deep-six almost anybody, but Soilent Green has continued to record (albeit at their usual pace) and in 2007 moved from Relapse Records to Metal Blade. Jamming elements of hardcore and death metal up against slowed-down Southern rock riffs and torpid Sabbath doom, then putting it all to some weird time signature, Soilent Green's records can be an education in metal -- if you can get past Ben Falgoust's truly hateful lyrics and consistently disturbing vocal schizophrenia.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Bolt Thrower</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:36:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As hard and menacing as the weapon they were named after, Birmingham's Bolt Thrower continue to pound out songs of savage intensity after almost ten brutal years.
- Will Lerner]]></description>
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<title>Neon Synthesis</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:49:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Extreme Noise Terror</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:20:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Take away ENT's spiky mohawks and punk gear, and what you're left with is essentially Napalm Death with the name rubbed off and written over in the half-assed manner of a grade-schooler changing his report card. Expect the same sonic onslaught of blitzing guitars and scream-grunt-scream vocal moguls as Napalm Death, but with lyrics dumbed-down to an Oi!-accessible level.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>United Nations</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Born in N.Y.C. in 2005, this self-proclaimed "emo power-violence" band channels the mid-'90s movement of the same name. Featuring Geoff Rickly of Thursday on vocals, it's also highly speculated to feature Daryl Palumbo of Glassjaw/Head Automatica on backing vocals, Ben Koller of Converge on drums, and possibly members of Made Out of Babies and the Number 12 Looks Like You pulling guitar duties. Because these artists are all under contract with their respective record labels for their more prominent bands, their identities cannot be confirmed, but that didn't deter United Nations' eponymous 2008 debut on Eyeball Records from its seismic placement on the underground radar.
- Jen Guyre]]></description>
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<title>Brutal Truth</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:01:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[NYC metal gods Brutal Truth forged maniacally violent, punishing sounds that pushed the limits of listenability. Sounding as if it were devised for a snuff film or a "thrill kill" computer game, their music is harsh, truculent, and, yes, brutal. No false advertising here. Anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-religion, anti- pretty much everything except marijuana, this band thoroughly embraced negativity and nihilism and turned them into the creative forces that drove their music. Lead vocalist Kevin Sharp sings as if his words could fan the flames of Armageddon -- he sings as if he were himself on fire. With the rest of the band, he decimated the Metal engine of Grindcore and reassembled it using Industrial technology. The Robocop monstrosity this resulted in was truly something new under the sun: fast (but not enslaved to speed), noisy (but grooveable), crackling and sludgy at the same time. The group disbanded in 1998.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Psyopus</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:01:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Nasum</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:13:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Among Grindcore enthusiasts, Sweden's Nasum inspire awe. Those in the know revere their ability to churn out paint-peeling screams and earth-shaking blastbeats. Their diligent output of way-underground split 7-inches and comp tracks paid off with their 1998 full-length on Relapse entitled <I>Inhale/Exhale</I>.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Behold The Arctopus</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Blood Duster</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Australia's Blood Duster take their name from a song by John Zorn's Naked City but a tribute band they are not. In contrast to NC's shrill, cut-and-paste madness, they play a bottom-heavy mix of gore-filled Grindcore and grooving, southern-fried Death Metal. The former part of the equation comes through more heavily on their Relapse debut, 1996's <I>Yeest</I> (actually a compilation of two previous releases), as their music revealed a prominent early Napalm Death/Carcass influence. The subsequent <I>Str8 Outta Northcote</I> (1998), on the other hand, finds their hillbilly roots showing through to a much fuller extent. They've never taken themselves too seriously -- just look at their song titles -- but neither do they let things devolve into pure campiness.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Atrocity</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What do you expect from a band with a name like Atrocity? If you're looking for big double bass drum action, huge guitars wanking in a blaze of fire and brimstone, and a mush mouth spewing venom vocals, then you're in for a treat.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Cattle Decapitation</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:30:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Meat-hating death/grind metal band Cattle Decapitation was formed in San Diego in 1996, by two then-members of big time art hardcore band the Locust, bassist Dave Astor and drummer Gabe Serbian. Astor eventually left the Locust for Cattle Decapitation and Serbian eventually left Cattle Decapitation for the Locust. Astor himself quit CP in 2002 and the band, with a guy from 7000 Dying Rats (Josh Elmore) on guitar, the drummer from Creation is Crucifixion replacing Astor and two totally unrelated dudes on bass and vocals, soldiered on. Still with us? Why? Anyway, the band's music has evolved over the years from hardcore-y, joke-laden grind to a more straight death metal with throaty puke-vocals and the occasional Slayer solo. Lyrics and album art detail the band's stance on meat-eating (anti), the meat industry (it sucks) and humanity in general (also sucks). After a pair of late-'90s Three One G releases (Justin Pearson of the Locust's label), the four piece signed to Metal Blade in 2002. Accordingly, their 2006 album, <i>Karma, Bloody Karma</i>, is geared more toward actual metal fans than when they were living in the shadow of the Locust.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Terrorizer</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:09:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Rotten Sound</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:11:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Well-produced, complicated songs mixing Grindcore, Death and Black Metal into a nasty swarm of riffs that are alternately chugging and blazingly fast. The musicians are pros -- these guys deserve a large audience, and hopefully that audience won't congregate near anyplace decent or proper.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Luddite Clone</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:03:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[New Jersey band plays a fast, aggressive blend of Heavy Metal and Grindcore. Features atmospheric lead guitars, heavy riffs and growled vocals.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Latexxx Teens</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:57:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>With Dead Hands Rising</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Disrupt</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Disrupt's dual vocalist attack hits you in two directions, bringing both cat-hissing Death Metal growls and brutal Hardcore grunts. Armed with pulse-lifting tempos and a reckless rhythm section, the band displays a battering, multi-faceted sound.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Regurgitate</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:15:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Upon listening to Regurgitate, many people may have the urge to do just that. Graphic cover art, grotesque song titles such as "Frenzy Fecal Munching" and a relentless aural onslaught will offend and disturb anyone who isn't a coroner.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>CRUD</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:51:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>7000 Dying Rats</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yeah, the scene is rife with irreverence, but armed with song titles "My Nordic Butt can Rule Nations," "Paul Stanley's Chest," "Ozzy Looked Like Bea Arthur on the Ultimate Sin Tour," and "Bands that Play Funk Blow," 7000 Dying Rats kick the crutches of Metal out from under themselves. Meanwhile, the music is totally alinear grind that jumps from mind-numbing terminal metal, to Germanic Free Jazz squeals, to Parisian street music to extended vocal samples. Anything to amuse, annoy or offend. They are the musical equivalent of shoving autopsy photos and copies of <i>Terrorizer</i> and <i>Mad Magazine</i> through a paper shredder.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Exhumed</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 2 Jun 2009 20:00:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The vocalist for Exhumed would have made a good pirate. He's got a gruff, deep voice and doesn't sound like the kind of guy for whom pillage and mayhem are out of the question. His bandmates sound like good mercernary candidates themselves -- they clearly enjoy brutalizing their instruments. More pirates, less Death Metal -- that's what the world needs. How about it guys?
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Man is the Bastard</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:53:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Man is the Bastard are the proud pioneers of a genre known as power violence. Marked by noisy, grinding Hardcore riffs; shrieking vocals; and layers of vicious electronics, the San Francisco group is not to be taken lightly. A respected member of the underground scene since the early 1990s, the group continually stretches song form to its most harsh and abstract, stripping melody to bare notions of rhythm and texture. They have spawned several side projects/aliases, most notably Charred Remains and the power electronics of Bastard Noise. Feel the crust.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Merauder</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:19:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Merauder have been a fixture on the New York City Hardcore scene since 1990. With more Heavy Metal in their veins than a Superfund site, these Brooklyn street toughs don't just play their instruments, they pulverize them. If ultra-heavy aggro rock is manna to your ears, Merauder are your salvation.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Abacabb</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:47:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Washington, D.C.'s ABACABB -- vocalist Tyler Greene, guitarists Dan Moody and Tim Roskie, bassist Stefan Mills and drummer Navid Naghdi -- formed in 2004, but saw quite a few lineup changes as they grew in popularity on the East Coast. Playing a bloodcurdling brew of technical death metal and grindcore, ABACABB's moniker (see: the blood code for Mortal Kombat on Sega Genesis) couldn't be more fitting. Signed to Sumerian Records in 2008, they released their debut full-length, <i>Survivalist</i>, in early 2009.
- Jen Guyre]]></description>
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<title>Tusk</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 May 2009 01:50:47 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Day Everything Became Nothing</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:49:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Sanatorium</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:36 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Circle of Dead Children</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 10:36:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite their name, Pennsylvania's Circle of Dead Children are not just batch of another pointlessly offensive Metal miscreants. There are no silly gore/horror references or blind words of praise to the almighty Satan in their lyrics. Actually, they sing about politics and social issues, but then again, this is Grindcore we're dealing with -- you can't understand what they're saying without a lyric sheet. What matters is the music, and they deliver in that category. Their sound is deep, dense, and massively "heavy," yet at the same time marked by clear production that catches the details rather than yielding an undefined blur. Their songs shift smoothly between fast Death Metal riffs, grinding blastbeat sections, and bluesy sludge breakdowns worthy of New Orleans doom-bringers Eyehategod. Topping it off is a vocal mix of ridiculously deep death growls, crusty Hardcore screams and tormented Black Metal yelps. Sick and smart at the same time, CoDC are obviously not for all tastes, but if you've made it this far, you're probably ready to dig in.
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Unholy Grave</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:14:35 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Defecation</title>
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<category>Grindcore</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:34:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Afloat in a porcelain bowl of amphetamine-fed guitars and crisply unrelenting beats, hateful vocals make incomprehensible utterances that never falter in their greedy, bastardized anger. These are the soiled leavings of a famed one-time collaboration between Napalm Death veterans Mick Harris and Mitch Harris.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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