| Deathgrind | |
| Cultural Origins: | Late 1980s-1990s, United States and United Kingdom |
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."[1] Dan Lilker described deathgrind as "combining the technicality of death metal with the intensity of grindcore."[2] 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:
