Originally Posted by scumflesh

You have a very metal view of the grindcore style (It's not a reproach, I have been like that for a long time)

Peopes who are very much into the old school punk/ hardcore/ fastcore side of the thing would disagree with your view... Some despise metal music... It's how it is

Perhaps every bands were called grindcore because there weren't many bands back then...

A nice exemple of early Grind/ proto grind (Just accelerate the stuff a bit, and it's pure grind) I hear no metal influence in that stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJmgYOBf14

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.