Goregrind

[HaggardBastard]

So a few of us started discussing goregrind in the brutal/slam death thread, and I thought we needed a goregrind thread. Naturally, and as much as I hate the term, pornogrind can be included as well.

I listened to this almost exclusively for a four or five month period when I was in high school and ended up building up quite the archive of material.

Great bands:

Cock and Ball Torture
Last Days of Humanity
Lymphatic Phlegm
Dead Infection
Utopie
early Carcass (had to include them, being the founders and all)
Reek of Shits
Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition
GUT
Mucupurulent
Dead
Regurgitate
Squash Bowels
Catasexual Urge Motivation
Haemorrhage

There were several bands I didn't include in that list, like the Meatshits or Decomposing Serenity, because they suck. You'll also noticed I didn't include any of the Razorback bands, because I'm not entirely sure that any of them completely qualify as goregrind.

 

[Alter]

Cock and Ball Torture was my first real metal band! I have a really hard time finding any real art in this genre anymore, to be hinest.

 

[The Ozzman]

The Day Everything Became Nothing

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Catasexual Urge Motivation used to be on Razorback Records.

Blood Freak - Sleaze Merchants

This album qualifies as goregrind imo.

 

[HaggardBastard]

Catasexual Urge Motivation used to be on Razorback Records.

Blood Freak - Sleaze Merchants

This album qualifies as goregrind imo.

True, they did, but I guess I was talking about the typical Razorback sound. Also, I definitely feel that some of the releases are goregrind, like the one you mention, but not all of 'em, like Ghoul.

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Yeah, Ghoul started out as a thrashy (and sometimes grindy) death metal band and then went on to be some lame retro-thrash band.

 

[HaggardBastard]

I actually liked We Came for the Dead quite a bit, but everything after that was kinda meh.

 

[Alter]

I liked all of Ghouls releases. Blood Freak would be goregrind? I have a lot to learn.

 

[v2kv]

The Day Everything Became Nothing

These guys are good...really unusual vocals though.

 

[The Ozzman]

The vox are the best part

 

[General Zaroff]

Rec a Goregrind band or two to get me familiar.

 

[Addo_Of_Nex]

1349: Lymphatic Phlegm and The Day Everything Became Nothing.

I've never really made an attempt to get into goregrind, though it has been an intention of mine for quite a while. I really love listening to something that makes me feel disgusting and absolutely repulsed, which is quite a feat for a band, as my interest in metal has built an incredibly high tolerance for things of this nature.

 

[HaggardBastard]

Any of the bands I listed at the beginning are great, but my personal favorites are Cock and Ball Torture (Opus(sy) VI - very groove-based and accessible), Last Days of Humanity (Hymns of Indigestable Suppuration - early Carcass x 10), and Lymphatic Phlegm (Pathogenesi Infest Phlegmsepsia - easily the most innovative and "out there" goregrind album I've ever heard). Another undisputed classic of the genre is Dead Infection's A Chapter of Accidents, though the production is lacking. Catasexual Urge Motivation is a must as well. Also, for less blasting, noisy bands who incorporate goregrind into their sound, try some of the Razorback bands, especially Gruesome Stuff Relish, Bloodfreak, Frightmare, and Splatterhouse. Other great Razorback bands are Machetazo, Gigantic Brain, Lord Gore, Fuck I'm Dead and Ghoul (1st album), though I don't really think any of those bands technically qualify as goregrind. Regarding the Razorback bands, however, keep in mind that they tend to be relatively up-beat, at least compared to more traditional goregrind bands, and there's an element of camp present on most of their releases.

EDIT: Wow, I guess I just recommended you 15 bands instead of two. Sorry 'bout that: I get carried away. Regardless, I second Addo's Lymphatic Phlegm rec, and I'd also suggest Cock and Ball Torture.

 

[General Zaroff]

Ah thanks!

The Last Days Of Humanity's vocalist is not human, I swear it. They trained some type of big cat such as a lion and it does the vocals.

 

[HaggardBastard]

Well, technically, you're right: they use a pitch shifter, which is really the only way to get the extremely deep, gurgly, unnatural sound.

 

[General Zaroff]

Yeah, but I've never heard anything like this before. Usually when a band uses pitch shifting, it kinda sounds like a burp.

 

[HaggardBastard]

Yeah, I really don't know how they get that insane, repulsive tone on the vocals. It's really sickening, isn't it? Actually, the OTT vocals of LDOH, Lymphatic Phlegm, and others are one of the things I really like about goregrind. It just makes you feel wrong.

 

[Jreg]

LDoH has always been one of my favorites, and I was still surprised when they still managed to floor me with their last few releases. The "In Advanced Haemorrhaging Conditions" EP is ridiculous. 7 minutes, 10 songs of pure blast beats without a single breakdown. It's one of my favorite grind recordings of the last ten years.

 

[NinjaGeek]

Blood Freak would be goregrind? I have a lot to learn.

Doesn't Blood Freak also have some stoner influences? Or at least on their sleeze merchants album?

 

[HaggardBastard]

I haven't listened to that album in a long time, but I really don't remember a prominent stoner/doom influence. Maybe I should reevaluate it.