by Flack » Mon Mar 22, 2021 6:55 am
In the 1980s I found myself going down the rabbit hole and exploring increasingly heavier music. I started with all the normal MTV bands... Motley Crue, Ratt, Twisted Sister, and so on. Those bands led me to Anthrax and Metallica and Slayer and Megadeth. One day, a kid at school said, "you gotta listen to
this" and gave me a copy of Napalm Death's
Scum, released in 1987. I don't know if the term "grindcore" had been invented yet, but I knew one thing: this music was terrible.
Slave to the Grind is an all-encompassing look at the grindcore genre, starting with early bands like Terrorizer and Napalm Death and going through Brutal Truth, Nasum, Carcass, and others. It also covers the band
AxCx (click for the band's actual name), one of the most polarizing grindcore bands ever (with songs like "Hitler was a Sensitive Man", "You're Pregnant so I Kicked You in the Stomach", and the classic "Ha Ha Halocaust").
Two hours is enough time to cover the complete history of grindcore music. The documentary covers the foundation of grindcore (the "blast beat"), the early bands, the bands they split into, and the bands they eventually influenced. All the different variants of grindcore, from gorecore (where people cover themselves with fake blood) to noisecore (bands that have to discernable song structure or plan before walking out on stage).
I enjoy documentaries about music and bands, and enjoyed
Slave to the Grind. I still think Napalm Death's
Scum is fairly unlistenable, but at least I can now appreciate it for what it is.
In the 1980s I found myself going down the rabbit hole and exploring increasingly heavier music. I started with all the normal MTV bands... Motley Crue, Ratt, Twisted Sister, and so on. Those bands led me to Anthrax and Metallica and Slayer and Megadeth. One day, a kid at school said, "you gotta listen to [i]this[/i]" and gave me a copy of Napalm Death's [i]Scum[/i], released in 1987. I don't know if the term "grindcore" had been invented yet, but I knew one thing: this music was terrible.
[i]Slave to the Grind[/i] is an all-encompassing look at the grindcore genre, starting with early bands like Terrorizer and Napalm Death and going through Brutal Truth, Nasum, Carcass, and others. It also covers the band [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_Cunt]AxCx[/url] (click for the band's actual name), one of the most polarizing grindcore bands ever (with songs like "Hitler was a Sensitive Man", "You're Pregnant so I Kicked You in the Stomach", and the classic "Ha Ha Halocaust").
Two hours is enough time to cover the complete history of grindcore music. The documentary covers the foundation of grindcore (the "blast beat"), the early bands, the bands they split into, and the bands they eventually influenced. All the different variants of grindcore, from gorecore (where people cover themselves with fake blood) to noisecore (bands that have to discernable song structure or plan before walking out on stage).
I enjoy documentaries about music and bands, and enjoyed [i]Slave to the Grind[/i]. I still think Napalm Death's [i]Scum[/i] is fairly unlistenable, but at least I can now appreciate it for what it is.
https://youtu.be/2SlcVSeN57I?t=67
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeTVUBn0JnU