What's the difference between Grindcore and Death Metal?
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Gridcore song lengths are all like this on an albumn
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1:22
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Go play Pig Destroyer, Napalm Death, Nasum back to back to back, and then when you feel they all sound the same, you'll know what Grindcore is.
Everything else is death.
Scott
0:22
1:41
2:32
0:45
0:06
0:12
1:34
2:20
0:43
1:22
2:01
1:11
0:55
0:12
Go play Pig Destroyer, Napalm Death, Nasum back to back to back, and then when you feel they all sound the same, you'll know what Grindcore is.
Everything else is death.
Scott
Historical Differences:
Grindcore developed directly from crust and hardcore, death metal borrowed some techniques from hardcore (Discharge) but is largely metal-derived.
Conceptual Differences:
Grindcore retains the politicized nature of hardcore, as well as many of its explicitly deconstructive leanings. While death metal has occasionally touched on political and social issues, it tends to be more indirect in metal's Romantic fashion, focusing on existential chaos, occultism and gothic horror.
You do see some lyrical overlap, as both genres frequently touch on death and gore as grist for the thematic mill. However, they handle these topics in a rather different fashion, with grindcore "playing" (in the postmodern sense) with death and pain as value signs for didactic purposes (Carcass) and death metal approaching them as an exercise in horror (Autopsy).
Structural and Aesthetic Differences:
Grindcore generally retains the pared down, strictly linear structures of hardcore and crust, as well as the rhythmic and melodic simplicity (both within phrases and songs as a whole). Death metal is heir to the "riff salad" approach common to metal (and derived ultimately from prog rock), and tends to not only be more complex rhytmically and tonally, but more prone to recursions and structural meandering. As a result, grindcore songs tend to be very short (under 2 minutes, often much less) and devoid of the radical tempo and melodic shifts found in most top tier death metal. Grind is also tends to retain the DIY production aesthetic and ironically sloppy playing of hardcore, in contrast to the clinical precision, professionalism and Romantic dedication to craft and atmosphere one typically finds in death metal.
Obviously, at this point there has been so much cross-pollination between grind and death metal that a lot of times it comes down to social standing and who bands associate themselves with.
Grindcore developed directly from crust and hardcore, death metal borrowed some techniques from hardcore (Discharge) but is largely metal-derived.
Conceptual Differences:
Grindcore retains the politicized nature of hardcore, as well as many of its explicitly deconstructive leanings. While death metal has occasionally touched on political and social issues, it tends to be more indirect in metal's Romantic fashion, focusing on existential chaos, occultism and gothic horror.
You do see some lyrical overlap, as both genres frequently touch on death and gore as grist for the thematic mill. However, they handle these topics in a rather different fashion, with grindcore "playing" (in the postmodern sense) with death and pain as value signs for didactic purposes (Carcass) and death metal approaching them as an exercise in horror (Autopsy).
Structural and Aesthetic Differences:
Grindcore generally retains the pared down, strictly linear structures of hardcore and crust, as well as the rhythmic and melodic simplicity (both within phrases and songs as a whole). Death metal is heir to the "riff salad" approach common to metal (and derived ultimately from prog rock), and tends to not only be more complex rhytmically and tonally, but more prone to recursions and structural meandering. As a result, grindcore songs tend to be very short (under 2 minutes, often much less) and devoid of the radical tempo and melodic shifts found in most top tier death metal. Grind is also tends to retain the DIY production aesthetic and ironically sloppy playing of hardcore, in contrast to the clinical precision, professionalism and Romantic dedication to craft and atmosphere one typically finds in death metal.
Obviously, at this point there has been so much cross-pollination between grind and death metal that a lot of times it comes down to social standing and who bands associate themselves with.
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SheisMySin said:
You're gay.
For once, I find myself agreeing with the generally flawless ANUS definition on this matter. Cheers. Now if only more of ANUS' writings could be less focused on complex words and trying to find in music what isn't really there, I'd pay more attention to them...
Some site on the internet told me one genre is death metal and one genre is grindcore, now I can tell the difference by knowing there is a difference because both are two different genres.
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V.V.V.V.V. said:
I think it's funny that a site called "Anus" tries to be so intellectual, as if anyone who cares about intellectualism will pay attention to a site about metal called anus.com. Sounds more like a porn site.
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MasterOLightning said:
really? You are pwning me in knowledge today my friend
It still sounds like a pornsite though
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