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cylinder's top 50 GRIND/PV

loosely ranked. grind and powerviolence. no emoviolence, cuz i see that as more aligned with skramz, which i could make a whole list for as well. i tried to keep it as pure as possible. some of these dip into metalcore a little bit, but as long as they were grindy enough, i allowed them. recs are welcome, especially cybergrind and powerviolence
55Vaccine
Human Hatred

REC #5
Loved this! Ear-splitting lo-fi production, super short songs, and hardcore-styled, caustically pissed off vocals sure are a winning formula for pv. Just wish there were a few more tracks of this goodness, this thing is so short it feels a bit like a tease!
4.1/5
54Death Toll 80k
Harsh Realities

REC #4
Solid thrashy deathgrind. The music reminds me of a more intense version of 90s Napalm Death, when they started getting a bit more death-metally, and the vocals remind me of Discordance Axis with the back-and-forth from deep gutturals to screeching, cat-like shrieks. I'm glad the shrieks are there, because if it was only gutturals on top of these super-thick-and-chunky tones + super dense production, that would surely be too much "low." The grind parts on here are definitely intense, but the band leans a bit too much on the slower, more regular-sounding death/thrash metal-type riffs for my taste. They make a lot of the songs seem to drag on for me. More interesting tones would've been appreciated too. One thing I thought was really cool though was how the last track just keeps blasting and blasting until it abruptly cuts out. That was a nice, creative touch I think the album could use a little more of. Definitely solid, just not my bag exactly
2.9/5
53The Kill
Make 'em Suffer

REC #3
Damn, this shit is FEROCIOUS. The shrieky vocals, tremolo riffs, and hyperfast blasts give it a bit of a blackened tinge, which I love (I love black metal and blackened hardcore as well). A bit more variety in the songwriting would've been appreciated, and it's maybe a bit monochrome overall, but since it's so short, those aren't too big of issues. It's still a beast of a grind album- I could def see putting this on next time I feel like punching a wall.
3.6/5
52Despise You
West Side Horizons

REC #2
This was awesome! This is a 62-track comp with a few unreleased songs and bunch of others taken from various splits and other comps. And I really enjoyed every single track. I love the combination of male and female vocals- first time I've heard that in pv I think. And I appreciated how while the guy screams, the girl does more of a lighter shout, and the two voices mix very well, as opposed to the possible overkill of two vocalists both doing throat-shredding screams. Also love the blown-out bass- it adds a nice, crunchy underlayer to it all. Great dynamics within the songs too- despite there being 62 of 'em, they're all pretty distinct. And the slow parts are fuckin sick. My beef is the mixing on the vocals; sometimes they sit a bit flatly/awkwardly on top of everything else. That's easy to overlook though when the music is this potent.
4.2/5
51Spazz
Crush Kill Destroy

REC #1
Enjoyed this a lot! Most, if not all of the pv I've heard so far is deadly serious, so some pv with a sense of humor was refreshing. Super cool that all three members contribute vocals- gives the music a really rowdy, communal, all-over-the-place feel that works super well with this type of music. Wasn't sure about the lowest-voiced guy's vocals at first, but they grew on me over the course of the album, as I think they add to the silliness/humor of it all. The samples are hilarious too. The production leaves a biiit to be desired, but I guess the amateurishness of it is part of its charm. Great stuff!
3.7/5
50Fucked
Void 4: Permanence
49Noisear
Subvert the Dominant Paradigm
48Charles Bronson
Youth Attack!
47No Comment
Downsided
46Oktober Skyline
That's How Tripods Work
45Dead in the Dirt
The Blind Hole
44Cloud Rat
Threshold
43Wormrot
Voices
42Bucket Full Of Teeth
I, II, III
41Water Torture
Pillbox
40Cephalic Carnage
Lucid Interval
39Insect Warfare
World Extermination
38Inside The Beehive
Anaphylaxis
37Urine Festival
Of a Hermaphroditic Enema and an Urophilic Piss...

Of A Hermaphroditic Enema and an Urophilic Pissparty Pleasure
36Xiao
Burn
35Agents Of Abhorrence
Earth.Water.Sun
34Infest
No Man's Slave
33Wormrot
Abuse
32The Sawtooth Grin
Good.
31Thin
Dusk
30Sex Prisoner
State Property
29Magrudergrind
Magrudergrind
28Organ Dealer
The Weight Of Being
27Lurid Panacea
The Insidious Poisons
26Godstomper
Saturday Morning Powerviolence
25Not Your Friends
Constructing A Mental Breakdown
24Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Altered States of America
23Anal Bag
Deep
22Rotten Sound
Exit
21Gasp
Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People
20Plutocracy
Sniping Pigz
19Brutal Truth
Need to Control
18Wormrot
Hiss
17Sulfuric Cautery
Suffocating Feats of Dehumanization
16GridLink
Orphan
15The Locust
Plague Soundscapes
14The Great Redneck Hope
Behold The Fuck Thunder
13Assuck
Misery Index
12Sex Prisoner
Sex Prisoner
11Discordance Axis
Jouhou
10Wormrot
Dirge
9Sea of Shit
Sea Of Shit
8Cognizant
Inexorable Nature of Adversity
7Anal Birth
Infantbutchering
6Nasum
Human 2.0
5GridLink
Amber Gray
4Gigantic Brain
The Invasion Discography

Show me a better cybergrind album. You can’t. Because it doesn’t exist.
3Sex Prisoner
Tannhauser Gate

Best PV right after Sexless//No Sex. These guys are wayyyy too overlooked for how good they are.
2Discordance Axis
The Inalienable Dreamless

One of the greatest albums ever made. Perfection.
1Iron Lung
Sexless // No Sex

One of the greatest albums ever made. Even perfecter perfection.
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