Torture porn has no plot (hence the questionable comparison to porn few of these films feature actual sex scenes). Those who crave such graphic atrocities are perhaps best compared to movie fans who seek out the most gruesome, nausea-inducing torture porn films over suspenseful, narrative-driven horror movies that may be gory, but only to visually illustrate a moment in the storyline. Just as not every thrash fan loves death metal and not every death metal follower digs black metal, for some, goregrind is the line of extremity not to be crossed. It’s all about how harsh the growls, gurgles, howls, grunts, pig squeals and banshee shrieks come across to the listener.įor years, goregrind has been a niche subgenre of death metal. Even choruses are rarely enunciated with any sort of clarity. More absurdly, without a lyric sheet (or websites such as Genius Lyrics), it’s virtually impossible to tell what the vocalists are singing about. Many of the artists seem to be vegan or vegetarian and a surprising percentage support animal rights. What’s kind of funny about a lot of death metal from the early days until now is that, aside from the frequently grisly cover art and song titles, the music doesn’t seem like it was written by sociopaths who bury decaying bodies under their back porches. In many cases, depraved lyrics overshadow limited musicality. Many of the demented lyricists of bands such as Jig Ai, Cephalotripsy, Exulcerate and Torsofuck out-nauseate their predecessors by writing about genital mutilation, defecation, necrophilia… and worse. Along with the dawn of deathcore, goregrind bands started popping up like zombies, with just one goal: to create the most twisted, insane and disgusting extreme metal by pushing grindcore to new heights. The second generation included bands such as Impaled, Mortician, Exhumed, Cattle Decapitation and Regurgitate. Several years later, a new generation of grindcore and brutal death metal bands exited the abattoir with new batches of extreme songs about carnage, serial killers and other atrocities. Soon, a wave of more contentious death metal bands including Repulsion, Impetigo, Autopsy, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass and Pungent Stench were upping the ante with faster, more unrestrained music and lyrics rooted in death, disease, atrocity and gore. But as soon as Death emerged in 1984 with songs like “Corpse Grinder “and “Evil Dead,” and Possessed surfaced the next year with “Swing of the Axe,” they immediately upstaged even the most aggressive thrash. Death metal was the new extreme. Thrash bands such as Slayer, Exodus and Blood Feast had some pretty sick lyrics that alarmed some of the mainstream.
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