Beatdown hardcore
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Beatdown hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk which incorporates elements of thrash metal and hip hop. The genre features aggressive vocals, heavy, palm muted guitar riffs and breakdowns. The genre
Madball were one of the earliest hardcore bands to merge masculine, street-wise lyrics with metal-influenced grooves.
Carl Schwartz, vocalist of San Francisco beatdown band First Blood
Brutal death metal
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Brutal death metal is a subgenre of death metal that privileges heaviness, speed and complex rhythms over other aspects, such as melody and timbres. The genre was pioneered in the early 1990s by Suffo
Suffocation popularised brutal death metal on Effigy of the Forgotten (1991)
Dying Fetus, one of the most prominent acts to merge brutal death metal with technical instrumentation
Russia's Katalepsy were a prominent slam death metal band in their early years