Album Rating: 2.0

yea lol

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

You two suck ):

agreed six previous one was better

Album Rating: 4.0

I think this album and the one before it are pretty equal. I like um both.

Album Rating: 2.0

sorry dude this just hardly does anything for me and i usually love this kind of stuff so idk

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

It's fine I'm just sold on this album. I love it but that's pretty obvious.

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, this fucking rules.

Album Rating: 4.0

I usually don't like stuff like this but I love this for some reason.

Album Rating: 5.0

this is not even close to powerviolence wtf?

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

based on the definition from RYM, i feel like this stacks up pretty well as a modern iteration of powerviolence.



Powerviolence is an underground music scene that erupted across California especially in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Although it wasn't strictly limited to this area, it seemed the majority of the most influential artists were rooted there. Powerviolence takes the blueprints of Hardcore Punk and Grindcore, but adds in extremely spastic song tempos. Often songs with a similar runtime and brutality to Grindcore, suddenly change into extremely slow Sludge Metal riffs, and then back into fast Grindcore. Powerviolence can often be mistaken as a crossover between Grindcore and Hardcore Punk, as the blastbeats and short song lengths are similar to Grindcore, yet the riffs and shouty vocals are more similar to Hardcore Punk. Key bands of the subgenre were often signed to the label Slap a Ham Records, created by Chris Dodge, the frontman of another Powerviolence band, SPAZZ. Key artists include No Comment, Infest, Gasp, Man Is the Bastard and Crossed Out. Some of them split up before even making a full length album, leaving behind highly influential EPs, demos and complete discography compilations.



The key to making a good Powerviolence song was the ability for the band to have quite a tighter chemistry than the typical sloppy attitude to musicianship attributed to a lot of Hardcore Punk and Grindcore. The bands had to be able to pull off their sporadic and sudden tempo changes back and forth between fast blastbeat driven playing and extremely slow sections. This became a huge challenge to perform live, but added to the intensity of the music. Crossed Out's "Lowlife" and No Comment's "Downsided" are typically known as landmark songs that define the Powerviolence sound. Although bands such as Man Is the Bastard pushed the boundaries further, adding long, drawn out Ambient, Electronic and Drone sections inbetween the short Grindcore outbursts. Gasp also added drawn out psychedelic guitar jamming and Power Electronics, weaved in and out of Grindcore and Hardcore Punk sections.



The scene seemed to die out in the early to mid 1990s, as most of the influential bands of the movement split up or took their sound in different directions, leaving the original releases (often on single size vinyl only) much sought after. However throughout the late 1990s and the 2000s, many Powerviolence revival bands started to crop up, such as Charles Bronson, Bucket Full of Teeth and Hatred Surge. Not to mention some newer Grindcore and Hardcore Punk artists have taken influences from Powerviolence in their own music, such as Insect Warfare.

Album Rating: 4.0

powerviolence is one of the most unnecessary genre classifications ever.

Album Rating: 4.0

The entire album is on youtube, although there's a funny bit around like 9 minutes in where it goes to some random viking/folk metal sounding stuff for like 40 seconds for some reason lol

not powerviolence at all sorry. listen to any of the early bands (bands that defined the sound) listed in that wiki article you copy pasted and then listen to this. modern iterations like soul swallower/mind eraser or iron lung dont sound like this. this is way more on the metallic grinding side of things than the hardcore side, which is where pv lies

and as much as ive enjoyed ballous production on some of his earlier recordings like orchid and pg.99, this record just loses a lot of its appeal by sounding too big and clean. even with this being pretty derivative moshy crap, the sound would probably be improved if it were based around a scratchier analog sound

Album Rating: 5.0

^droppin bombs

Album Rating: 5.0

Thank you alachlahol, I knew that definition didn't quite fit. If anything, I would just call this metalcore in the same vein as Converge except a lot more angry.



Besides that, I can't stop listening to this record.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

i definitely hear the sludge interspersed with grindy sections, so i see where people are coming from when they call this powerviolence. i mean honestly who cares.

Album Rating: 5.0

Exactly. And tbqh, I'm feeling this as AOTY atm. I literally can't stop listening to this.

Album Rating: 3.5

wore off me pretty quickly tbh. gonna bump down

Album Rating: 4.5

Instantaneous ire without compromise over proper riffs that comes across as the real deal. Before this buries itself deep in my soul I must know what genre or sub-genre to classify it, because I must label to satisfy and amalgamate so I can treat this as product.