--- title: "Goregrind" type: "MusicGenre" url: "https://themetalnet.com/genre/goregrind" parent: "Grindcore" bands: 200 era: "late 1980s" --- # Goregrind **Goregrind** is a metal fusion genre, formative in the late 1980s. TheMetalNet maps 200 bands and 510 albums under it. Goregrind is grindcore obsessed with blood and viscera, pairing blasting, lo-fi grind with pitch-shifted, gurgling vocals and lyrics steeped in gore, pathology, and medical horror. England’s Carcass launched it in the late 1980s, famously mining medical textbooks for imagery on records like Reek of Putrefaction. The production is deliberately filthy, the songs short and chaotic, and the whole thing often laced with dark humor. Note: the genre trades in intentionally graphic, grotesque themes. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Genre | Goregrind | | Level | Sub-genre | | Parent genre | Grindcore | | Formative era | late 1980s | | Fusion genre | Yes | | Bands | 200 | | Albums | 510 | | Formation span | 1982 to 2026 | ## Notable bands (top 60 by prominence) - [Haemorrhage](https://themetalnet.com/band/haemorrhage-31f91503) (Spain, 1990) - [Last Days of Humanity](https://themetalnet.com/band/last-days-of-humanity) (Netherlands, 1989) - [General Surgery](https://themetalnet.com/band/general-surgery) (Sweden, 1988) - [Cock and Ball Torture](https://themetalnet.com/band/cock-and-ball-torture) (Germany, 1997) - [GUT](https://themetalnet.com/band/gut) (Germany, 1991) - [Regurgitate](https://themetalnet.com/band/regurgitate) (Sweden, 1990) - [Lymphatic Phlegm](https://themetalnet.com/band/lymphatic-phlegm) (Brazil, 1996) - [Embalming Theatre](https://themetalnet.com/band/embalming-theatre) (Switzerland, 1995) - [Dead Infection](https://themetalnet.com/band/dead-infection) (Poland, 1990) - [Rompeprop](https://themetalnet.com/band/rompeprop) (Netherlands, 1999) - [Disgorge](https://themetalnet.com/band/disgorge-bda91cb4) (Mexico, 1994) - [Jig-Ai](https://themetalnet.com/band/jig-ai) (Czechia, 2004) - [Libido Airbag](https://themetalnet.com/band/libido-airbag) (Germany, 1995) - [Mucupurulent](https://themetalnet.com/band/mucupurulent) (Germany, 1995) - [Oxidised Razor](https://themetalnet.com/band/oxidised-razor) (Mexico, 1998) - [Sublime Cadaveric Decomposition](https://themetalnet.com/band/sublime-cadaveric-decomposition) (France, 1996) - [Gronibard](https://themetalnet.com/band/gronibard) (1998) - [Carnal Diafragma](https://themetalnet.com/band/carnal-diafragma) (Czechia, 1997) - [Cliteater](https://themetalnet.com/band/cliteater) (Netherlands, 2002) - [Blue Holocaust](https://themetalnet.com/band/blue-holocaust) (France, 2001) - [Pulmonary Fibrosis](https://themetalnet.com/band/pulmonary-fibrosis) (France, 1999) - [Rectal Smegma](https://themetalnet.com/band/rectal-smegma) (Netherlands, 2003) - [Tu Carne](https://themetalnet.com/band/tu-carne) (1996) - [Amoebic Dysentery](https://themetalnet.com/band/amoebic-dysentery) (United States, 2000) - [SpermSwamp](https://themetalnet.com/band/spermswamp) (2001) - [The County Medical Examiners](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-county-medical-examiners) (United States, 2001) - [Catasexual Urge Motivation](https://themetalnet.com/band/catasexual-urge-motivation) (Japan, 1992) - [The Day Everything Became Nothing](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-day-everything-became-nothing) (Australia, 2001) - [Mincing Fury and Guttural Clamour of Queer Decay](https://themetalnet.com/band/mincing-fury-and-guttural-clamour-of-queer-decay) (1996) - [Neuropathia](https://themetalnet.com/band/neuropathia) (1996) - [Spasm](https://themetalnet.com/band/spasm) (Czechia, 2000) - [Ahumado Granujo](https://themetalnet.com/band/ahumado-granujo) (Czechia, 1999) - [Butcher ABC](https://themetalnet.com/band/butcher-abc) (Japan, 1994) - [Gutalax](https://themetalnet.com/band/gutalax) (Czechia, 2009) - [Hymen Holocaust](https://themetalnet.com/band/hymen-holocaust) (Netherlands, 2005) - [Houkago Grind Time](https://themetalnet.com/band/houkago-grind-time) (United States, 1990) - [Pathologist](https://themetalnet.com/band/pathologist) (Czechia, 1990) - [Sikfuk](https://themetalnet.com/band/sikfuk) (United States, 2001) - [Satan’s Revenge on Mankind](https://themetalnet.com/band/satan-s-revenge-on-mankind) (Germany, 2004) - [Destructive Explosion of Anal Garland](https://themetalnet.com/band/destructive-explosion-of-anal-garland) (Czechia, 2005) - [Septicopyemia](https://themetalnet.com/band/septicopyemia) (1995) - [Ultimo Mondo Cannibale](https://themetalnet.com/band/ultimo-mondo-cannibale) (Italy, 2005) - [Porky Vagina](https://themetalnet.com/band/porky-vagina) (2009) - [Gonorrhea Pussy](https://themetalnet.com/band/gonorrhea-pussy) (Germany, 2004) - [Pharmacist](https://themetalnet.com/band/pharmacist) (Japan, 2020) - [Gored](https://themetalnet.com/band/gored) (Germany, 2003) - [Phyllomedusa](https://themetalnet.com/band/phyllomedusa) (United States) - [Die Pigeon Die](https://themetalnet.com/band/die-pigeon-die) (Australia, 2005) - [Cumgun](https://themetalnet.com/band/cumgun) (2003) - [Demented Retarded](https://themetalnet.com/band/demented-retarded) (Czechia, 1996) - [Sulfuric Cautery](https://themetalnet.com/band/sulfuric-cautery) (United States, 2015) - [Epicrise](https://themetalnet.com/band/epicrise) (Ukraine, 1995) - [Autophagia](https://themetalnet.com/band/autophagia) (1997) - [Paediatrician](https://themetalnet.com/band/paediatrician) (2006) - [Abörted Hitler Cöck](https://themetalnet.com/band/aborted-hitler-cock) (2007) - [Neuro-Visceral Exhumation](https://themetalnet.com/band/neuro-visceral-exhumation) (2000) - [MOÑIGO](https://themetalnet.com/band/monigo) (Spain, 2005) - [Patologicum](https://themetalnet.com/band/patologicum) (2000) - [Offal](https://themetalnet.com/band/offal) (Brazil, 2003) - [Disgorged Foetus](https://themetalnet.com/band/disgorged-foetus) (France, 1996) ## Where it is played - [United States](https://themetalnet.com/country/us): 19 bands - [Germany](https://themetalnet.com/country/de): 10 bands - [Japan](https://themetalnet.com/country/jp): 10 bands - [Czechia](https://themetalnet.com/country/cz): 10 bands - [Mexico](https://themetalnet.com/country/mx): 7 bands - [Netherlands](https://themetalnet.com/country/nl): 6 bands - [France](https://themetalnet.com/country/fr): 6 bands - [Canada](https://themetalnet.com/country/ca): 5 bands ## Bands formed by decade | Decade | Bands formed | | --- | --- | | 1980s | 4 | | 1990s | 34 | | 2000s | 52 | | 2010s | 33 | | 2020s | 22 | --- Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/genre/goregrind](https://themetalnet.com/genre/goregrind). 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