Gorenoise
Gorenoise is an extreme variant of Goregrind that combines and subverts its goregrind and Grindcore elements with brash Noise music. The style first began to take place in the late 1990s as goregrind was pushed to its extreme limits by bands such as Last Days of Humanity and Anal Birth.
As within goregrind, the vocals are heavily pitch-shifted down, often to the point of sounding like gargling or bubbling, or to imitate vomiting and other bodily functions. The drums are typically digitally programmed, chaotic, and at a high tempo; this often makes the sound comparable with Cybergrind.
Much like its goregrind roots, gorenoise musicians often utilise medical terminology in their band and song names, as well as using graphic and gory medical imagery in their cover art. Though mostly indecipherable due to the editing techniques used, gorenoise lyrics tend to focus on typical goregrind topics, with graphic violence, death, and bodily functions being the general focus.
The style became more notable in the 2000s, with bands specifically taking to and innovating the style directly. The mid-to-late 2000s saw the work of Bobby Maggard (an artist with several hundred gorenoise projects) and Phyllomedusa both further help define and develop the sound of the genre through their hundreds of releases.
Similar Genres:
- Noisegrind
- Noisecore
- Vomitnoise
- Warnoise
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