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Goregrind is an extreme subgenre of grindcore that emerged in the late 1980s, pioneered by bands like Carcass and Impetigo, characterized by pitch-shifted, guttural vocals, blast beat drumming, and graphic lyrical content focused on medical pathology, autopsy procedures, and visceral horror. The sound combines grindcore's chaotic velocity with death metal's heavy low-end frequencies, creating a deliberately repulsive sonic assault often accompanied by intentionally disturbing artwork lifted from medical textbooks. Tracks are typically short, explosive bursts of distorted brutality, with vocals oscillating between deep growls and high-pitched squeals to create an inhuman, almost comical grotesqueness.

While brutal death metal emphasizes technical precision and gorenoise dissolves into complete sonic obliteration, goregrind maintains recognizable song structures and rhythmic intensity beneath its filthy production aesthetic. Bands like Exhumed, Haemorrhage, and General Surgery refine the template with surgical precision, balancing humor and horror through samples from medical documentaries and exploitation films. The genre's theatrical embrace of taboo subject matter distinguishes it from the nihilistic violence of neighboring styles—this is horror as dark satire, not genuine misanthropy.

Goregrind demands listeners confront music's capacity for absolute extremity while appreciating its subversive wit. It's the musical equivalent of underground horror cinema: grotesque, uncompromising, and strangely cathartic for those willing to explore metal's most boundary-pushing corner.

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#4
Reek of Putrefaction
ByCarcassReleased:1988-06
#11
Horrified
ByRepulsionReleased:1989-07-10
#3
Symphonies of Sickness
ByCarcassReleased:1989-11
#12
Ultimo Mondo Cannibale
ByImpetigoReleased:1990-02
#5
Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious
ByCarcassReleased:1991-10
#18
Necrology
ByGeneral SurgeryReleased:1991-11-04
#24
Horror of the Zombies
ByImpetigoReleased:1992
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#56
Surgical Disembowelment
ByDead InfectionReleased:1993
#83
Emetic Cult
ByHaemorrhageReleased:1994-05-01
#43
A Chapter Of Accidents
ByDead InfectionReleased:1995
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#90
Chronic Corpora Infest
ByDisgorgeReleased:1997-03
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#67
Grume
ByHaemorrhageReleased:1997-05-20
#55
Cocktales
ByCock and Ball TortureReleased:1997
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#23
The Sound of Rancid Juices Sloshing Around Your Coffin
ByLast Days of HumanityReleased:1998-03-04
#8
Gore Metal
ByExhumedReleased:1998-10-27
#57
Anatomical Inferno
ByHaemorrhageReleased:1998
#15
Hymns of Indigestible Suppuration
ByLast Days of HumanityReleased:1999-01-01
#34
Human Jerky
ByCattle DecapitationReleased:1999-04-08
#77
The Purity Of Perversion
ByAbortedReleased:1999-05
#92
She Lay Gutted
ByDisgorgeReleased:1999-11-09
#76
Slaughtercult
ByExhumedReleased:2000-08-06
#50
Carnivorous Erection
ByRegurgitateReleased:2000-10-31
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#78
And Then You'll Beg
ByCryptopsyReleased:2000-10-31
#22
Homovore
ByCattle DecapitationReleased:2000
#40
Opus(sy) VI
ByCock and Ball TortureReleased:2000
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#37
Domain of Death
ByMorticianReleased:2001-04-27
#38
Bring on the Dead
ByFuck...I'm DeadReleased:2001-11-15
#21
Sadochismo
ByCock and Ball TortureReleased:2001
#41
Morgue Sweet Home
ByHaemorrhageReleased:2002-03
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#70
Trono De Huesos
ByMachetazoReleased:2002-05-06
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#65
Mondo Medicale
ByImpaledReleased:2002-06-02
#95
To Serve Man
ByCattle DecapitationReleased:2002-07-30
#53
Darkest Day Of Horror
ByMorticianReleased:2003-04-22
#66
Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done
ByAbortedReleased:2003-04-22
#58
Anatomy Is Destiny
ByExhumedReleased:2003-07-23
#80
Clit 'em All
ByCliteaterReleased:2003-09-22
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#27
Hellcock's Pornflakes
ByRompepropReleased:2003
#48
Splatter-tekk
ByAhumado GranujoReleased:2003
#35
Egoleech
ByCock and Ball TortureReleased:2004-06-14
#32
Humanure
ByCattle DecapitationReleased:2004-07-13
#64
Spewage
ByArtery EruptionReleased:2004-08-03
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#94
Brain Corrosion
ByDead InfectionReleased:2004-12
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#6
Erotic Diarrhea Fantasy
ByTorsofuckReleased:2004
#73
the xtc of swallowing l.d.o.h. feaces
ByLast Days of HumanityReleased:2004
#81
Chemical Holocaust
ByAhumado GranujoReleased:2004
#79
Harvesting the Cunt Nectar
ByXXX ManiakReleased:2004
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#85
Scat Aficionados
ByStomaReleased:2004
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#68
Slow Death By Grinding
ByThe Day Everything Became NothingReleased:2005-01-01
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#98
Eat Clit or Die
ByCliteaterReleased:2005-03-06
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#29
In Advanced Haemorrhaging Conditions
ByLast Days of HumanityReleased:2005-10-20
#99
You Are a Fat Putridity
ByAnal NosorogReleased:2005
#28
Apology for Pathology
ByHaemorrhageReleased:2006-03-24
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#54
Jig-Ai
ByJig-AiReleased:2006-04-18
#33
Left hand pathology
ByGeneral SurgeryReleased:2006-05-29
#17
Putrefaction In Progress
ByLast Days of HumanityReleased:2006-07
#30
Sickening Bliss
ByRegurgitateReleased:2006-08-30
#71
Goreblast
BySatan's Revenge On MankindReleased:2006-11-18
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#72
Space Symphony Around Us
ByCarnal DiafragmaReleased:2006
#19
Olidous Operettas
ByThe County Medical ExaminersReleased:2007-01-23
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#9
Perverse Recollections of a Necromangler
ByWaking the CadaverReleased:2007-11-21
#62
Scream Bloody Clit
ByCliteaterReleased:2008-03-28
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#14
Menstrual Stomphulk
ByRompepropReleased:2008-04-05
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#82
Let's Start a Riot
ByBlood on the Dance FloorReleased:2008-04-16
#96
Mundo Cripta
ByMachetazoReleased:2008-05
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#36
Katana Orgy
ByJig-AiReleased:2008-07-10
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#47
It's Hard to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World
ByBlood on the Dance FloorReleased:2008-09-12
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#61
Paraphilic Elegies
BySpasmReleased:2008-10-05
#86
Stench of the Drowned Carrion
ByPurulent JacuzziReleased:2008-11-07
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#100
Cutterclit
ByDestructive Explosion Of Anal GarlandReleased:2008
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#45
The Harvest Floor
ByCattle DecapitationReleased:2009-01-19
#42
Keep on Smiling
ByRectal SmegmaReleased:2009-02-28
#91
Corpus In Extremis - Analysing Necrocriticism
ByGeneral SurgeryReleased:2009-03-12
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#88
Unleash the Carnivore
ByDevourmentReleased:2009-06-26
#46
Molesting the Decapitated
ByDevourmentReleased:2009-07-01
#69
Necrholocaust
ByDisgorgeReleased:2009-08-15
#52
Grindvirus
BySquash BowelsReleased:2009-10-20
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#75
Driving My Fist through Her Chest
ByArtery EruptionReleased:2009-11-16
#89
Coronary Reconstruction
ByAbortedReleased:2010-01-14
#31
My Worlds
ByJustin BieberReleased:2010-03-22
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#51
Gargle Cummics
ByRompepropReleased:2010
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#7
Shit Beast
ByGutalaxReleased:2011-04-01
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#44
Hospital Carnage
ByHaemorrhageReleased:2011-05-24
#49
All Guts, No Glory
ByExhumedReleased:2011-07-05
#84
Donec Mors nos Separaverit
ByHymen HolocaustReleased:2011
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#20
Monolith of Inhumanity
ByCattle DecapitationReleased:2012-05-04
#60
Hitoshizuku
ByGO-ZENReleased:2012-10-10
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#10
Gun
ByIngrownReleased:2012
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#97
The Necrotic Manifesto
ByAbortedReleased:2014-04-25
#16
Stinking Collection
ByGutalaxReleased:2015-06-26
#26
The Anthropocene Extinction
ByCattle DecapitationReleased:2015-08-07
#87
Termination Redux - EP
ByAbortedReleased:2016-01-15
#2
Gore
ByXavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffxReleased:2016
#63
Gore 2.0
ByXavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffXReleased:2018-07-08
#13
Straight From the Slaughterhaus
ByHaggusReleased:2020-07-26
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#74
Septic Decadence
BySeptageReleased:2020-10-16
#39
Apex Profane
ByMiasmatic NecrosisReleased:2020-10-31
#25
Horrific Compositions of Decomposition
ByLast Days of HumanityReleased:2021-03-01
#93
Lay Down and be Counted
ByGeneral SurgeryReleased:2021-06-11
#59
Flourishing Extremities On Unspoiled Mental Grounds
ByPharmacistReleased:2022-04-10
#1
The Cruelest Summer
ByTaylor SwiftReleased:2023-10-19
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