''Grindcrusher'' is a CD/LP released by

Earache Records Earache Records is a British independent record label, music publisher and management company founded by Digby Pearson in 1985, based in Nottingham, England, with offices in London and New York. The label helped to pioneer extreme metal by r ...

in 1989, showcasing nine of the label's bands. It contained a number of pioneer

grindcore Grindcore is an extreme metal, extreme fusion genre of heavy metal music, heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from abrasive-sounding musical styles, such as thrashcore, crust punk, hardcore punk, e ...

and

death metal Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...

groups such as

Napalm Death Napalm Death are an English grindcore band formed in Meriden, West Midlands, in 1981. None of the band's original members have been in the group since 1986, but since ''Utopia Banished'' (1992), the lineup of bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mi ...

Bolt Thrower Bolt Thrower were a British death metal band from Coventry. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. The band then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling ba ...

Morbid Angel Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida, formed in 1983 by guitarist, primary composer and sole remaining original member Trey Azagthoth, vocalist and bassist Dallas Ward, and drummer Mike Browning. Widely considere ...

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and Repulsion. This compilation was later rereleased in 1991 as ''Grindcrusher: the Ultimate Earache'', augmented with 14 extra tracks by the likes of Entombed and

Nocturnus Nocturnus, currently Nocturnus AD, is a Florida death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida, in 1987 by the drummer and vocalist Mike Browning (ex–Morbid Angel). History Formation Nocturnus was formed in 1987 by drummer and vocalist Mike Brown ...

Track listing

– "Chapel of Ghouls" # Repulsion – "Radiation Sickness" #

– "Exhume to Consume" (this version is different from the one that appears on the LP '' Symphonies of Sickness'') #

Godflesh Godflesh are an English industrial metal band from Birmingham. The group formed in 1982 under the original title O.P.D. (later Fall of Because) but did not release any complete music until 1988 when Justin Broadrick (guitar, vocals, programmi ...

– "Streetcleaner" (minus the intro that appears on the LP ''

Streetcleaner ''Streetcleaner'' is the debut studio album by English industrial metal band Godflesh. It was released on 13 November 1989 through Earache Records and was reissued with a second disc of previously unreleased material on 21 June 2010. The album ...

'') #

Terrorizer Terrorizer is an American grindcore band from Los Angeles, California. It was originally formed in 1985 as Unknown Death by vocalist Oscar Garcia and guitarist Jesse Pintado. They would rename themselves Terrorizer after recruiting drummer Pete ...

– "Dead Shall Rise" #

Hellbastard Hellbastard is an English crust punk/thrash metal band formed in 1984 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle. Early history Members "Scruff" Lewty, Phil Laidlaw and Ian "Scotty" Scott formed Hellbastard, which was to be a combination of Crass-like ...

– "Justly Executed" # Carnage – "Malignant Epitaph" # Naked City – "Osaka Bondage" #Filthy Christians – "Extremely Bad Breath" # Old Lady Drivers – "Colostomy Grab Bag" #Intense Degree – "I've Got A Cure" #

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– "Horrendify and Kill" #

– "Malicious Intent" # Entombed – "But Life Goes On" #

– "BC/AD" #

– "World Eater" #

Lawnmower Deth Lawnmower Deth are an English thrash metal band, who parodied the genre and recorded four albums. Initially active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they reformed in 2008. Biography Main career (1987–1993) Lawnmower Deth were formed in Rav ...

– "Satan's Trampoline" #

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– "Hypertrophian" #Sweet Tooth – "Fat City" #Mighty Force – "Thrashing a Dead House" #Spazztic Blurr – "He-Not-A-Home-Me-Marco" #

Heresy Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization. A heretic is a proponent of heresy. Heresy in Heresy in Christian ...

– "Release" #

Unseen Terror Unseen Terror was a British extreme metal band formed by Mitch Dickinson (Heresy (band), Heresy) and Shane Embury (later of Napalm Death), and played extreme metal with a technical edge along with elements of hardcore punk.Liner notes of Earac ...

– "Divisions" #

– "

You Suffer "You Suffer" is a song by English grindcore band Napalm Death, released on the band's debut studio album, '' Scum'' (1987). The song holds the world record for shortest song, being precisely 1.316 seconds long. The song was written by Nicholas Bul ...

References

1989 compilation albums Thrash metal compilation albums Death metal compilation albums Grindcore compilation albums Earache Records compilation albums Record label compilation albums {{1980s-death-metal-album-stub