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why is there no powerviolence?! agoraphobic nosebleed are possibly the greatest band on earth! for those that dont know, powerviolence is hardcore punk mixed with metal and steroids played at 600 miles an hour with songs usually less than 30 seconds, and it fucking destroys listen to agoraphobic nosebleed now if you havent already and prepare to have your face ripped off

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Re: powerviolence! Powerviolence is to death metal what Twitter is to email. I agree with AkselJ's assessment. Then again, he's a Dream Theater fan so he's clearly got hours to listen. Sadly, I also wasn't satisfied with my 45 seconds worth of listening. The drumming's fine, but the moniker of 'best band on earth' is ridiculously superlative for this music in my opinion. One would need to prove to me that about a minute's worth of this punkified aberration is better than 4 or 5 minutes of Decapitated, Psycroptic, The Faceless, Obscura or Gorod. If one has not heard Hidden Genocide by Gorod one can't can't confer that title on Agoraphobic Nosebleed. Brutal funk death metal. Because everything else is taken...and because it's funny and amazing at the same time.

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I don't know enough about the difference between grindcore, powerviolence, and goregrind to really know if I've heard any powerviolence bands.

Goregrind is just a subgenre of grindcore, basically the template set forth by Carcass. It's rotten, more death metal influenced, and obviously gore obsessed. Powerviolence is a variety of hardcore that focuses on brutality with sharp tempo changes and spazzy songs. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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I know hardcore isn't usually your flavor, but it couldn't hurt to try it out. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

I'm listening to Nails - Abandon All Life. My big brother is digging it, he is a bit on the tippy side, so there is that. Drums are killer for sure. No dude, not my flavor, but impressive and I definatly like the slow bits, because they are hella heavy.

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I'm listening to Nails - Abandon All Life. My big brother is digging it, he is a bit on the tippy side, so there is that. Drums are killer for sure. No dude, not my flavor, but impressive and I definatly like the slow bits, because they are hella heavy.

Yeah, powerviolence goes from breakneck grinds to sludge speeds at the drop of a hat, and Nails is heavy as shit. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk
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i dont think i'd  consider AxNb as a powerviolence band, they're pretty close to epitome of grindcore for me, and have put out some really fabulous albums, Agorapocalypse being my favorite

Anyway, I've been checking this band Bandit out today, a pretty trusted blog paraded them as a powerviolence band that everyone should here the other day, and I gotta say I'm diggin it like a septic grave. Check em out here http://unholyanarchyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/play-fast-or-die 

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The band Despise You is decent. 

I think it might be helpful to approach the genre from more of a hardcore angle than a metal one - it's been said that powerviolence is to punk what gangsta rap is to hip-hop - basically an intense, gritty, realist take to the whole thing. The early powerviolence bands were basically made up of poor Californians. 

 

To be honest, I don't like most of the genre. To me a lot of it sounds like a less experimental, less intelligent, and more thuggish version of grindcore. However, I do like a fusion genre called emoviolence, which is a combination of screamo and powerviolence. Orchid is the buzz band of the genre, but to me the best band in the entire movement is Ampere. However, bands like this are pretty much all punk, with only vague hints of metal:

And yes, I realize the last post is from over a year ago.

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