GRINDCORE

Genre musik ini berkembang selama pertengahan tahun 80-an di Inggris oleh Napalm Death, selanjutnya di ikuti oleh teman sejawatnya dari Inggris Carcass, Terrorizer dari Amerika dan Agathocles dari Belgia. Nama "grindcore" diperkirakan di ucapkan oleh mantan drummer Napalm Death, Mick Harris. Ketika di tanya tentang istilahnya, dia mengatakan sebagai berikut:
Grindcore came from "grind", which was the only word I could use to describe Swans after buying their first record in '84. Then with this new hardcore movement that started to really blossom in '85, I thought "grind" really fit because of the speed so I started to call it grindcore.
Sumber lain menyangkal pernyataan Harris. Didalam artikel majalah Spin di tulis tentang sebuah genre, Steven Blush menyatakan bahwa "orang yang sering menyebutkan" untuk menyuarakan style grindcore adalah Shane Embury, basis Napalm Death sejak 1987. Embury mengusulkan pada pernyataan dirinya sendiri tentang bagaimana "sound" grindcore seharusnya:
As far as how this whole sound got started, we were really into Celtic Frost, Siege - which is a hardcore band from Boston - a lot of hardcore and death-metal bands, and some industrial-noise bands like the early Swans. So, we just created a mesh of all those things. It's just everything going at a hundred miles per hour, basically.
Pelopor grindcore, Napalm Death, formasi ke-8.
Dari kiri-kanan: Lee Dorrian, Shane Embury, Bill Steer, Mick Harris
Pendiri Earache Records Digby Pearson setuju dengan Embury, mengatakan bahwa Napalm Death "put hardcore and metal through an accelerator". Pearson, bagaimanapun grindcore "wasn't just about the speed of [the] drums, blast beats, etc." Ia menyatakan bahwa "it actually was coined to describe the guitars - heavy, downtuned, bleak, harsh riffing guitars [that] 'grind', so that's what the genre was described as, by the musicians who were its innovators [and] proponents."
Beberapa kunci personel grup disebutkan oleh anggota dan mantan anggota Napalm Death pertumbuhannya dipengaruhi oleh band-band seperti Discharge, Lärm, Amebix, Repulsion, Throbbing Gristle, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and the aforementioned Siege, Celtic Frost and the Swans. Post-punk, such as Killing Joke dan Joy Division, juga di sebutkan sebagai pengaruh di awal kelahiran, berikutnya di sbutkan dalam setengah DVD Scum Napalm Death reissue.