Grindcore: Difference between revisions

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The principal characteristic of grind music is its intense density: everything is pushed to the extreme, so much that on first listening it can be difficult to discern what is happening, and it sounds just like a wall of speedy noise and shrieking vocals.<ref>some bands actually do this, in fact, it's called noisegrind</ref>. Grind in general is often mistaken for brutal death metal, which is a subgenre of death metal that strips away melodic elements to focus on a dense pounding sound. However, this is much slower and more technical, and relies more on heaviness, non-stop beating and linearity than the monster speed and aggression of grindcore. Musically speaking, grind tends to use more power chords, simple tremolo pickings and fast beats while brutal death tends more to use intricate tremolo picking, a lot of palm muting and intricate riffs, and a much more technical and heavy drumming. While in pure speed, both genres are on par, grind feels "faster" than brutal death, which feels more "overwhelming". Just compare the second [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D87ExoPR2SE Napalm Death] album to anything by, say, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln5jRhlySA0 Hate Eternal]. Yeah, it's confusing, especially when you have bands that merge the two.