Deathgrind (sometimes written as death-grind or death/grind) is a shorthand term that is used to describe bands who play a fusion of death metal and grindcore.
Zero Tolerance described deathgrind as "grindcore and brutal death metal colliding head on.""Grind Prix" (2005). Zero Tolerance #004, p. 46. Dan Lilker described deathgrind as "combining the technicality of death metal with the intensity of grindcore."Lilker, Danny, Grind Your Mind: A History of Grindcore liner notes. Mayan Records, MYNDD056, 2007. Paul Schwarz in a 2006 Terrorizer article explained the origin of the term as arising from specialist catalogs and zines within the extreme metal scene in the 1990s:
See also List of deathgrind bands Goregrind Pornogrind
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