Grindcore is not one of my favorite subgenres, but I like it well enough on the whole. My experience with it has not been particularly broad, as I don't listen to it with much regularity, and so I have a lot of empty spaces. Of all my genre lists, this is possibly the most practical, because I do need help remembering what grindcore I like and how much I've heard.

Like my other genre lists, this is not meant to dictate for all time and all purposes what is and is not grindcore; there may be bands that are borderline or adjacent or individual albums by grindcore bands that are not in themselves grindcore. This is just for my own organization and reference.

I originally included Anaal Nathrakh and Melt-Banana on the grounds that grindcore forms part of the basis for their styles (and, more critically, because it was getting lonely at the top of the list), but considering either of them a grindcore act without heavy qualification would be quite a stretch. I already know that I like them anyway, so their inclusion on this list was not helpful to me in terms of making this a resource; on revision, I decided to nix them (and also the non-grind Carcass albums).

The first portion of the list contains albums that I count among my favorite grindcore releases. From then on, the list is broken into tiers of ratings 9/10 down to 6/10. If it isn't on the list, I haven't heard it or I didn't like it.

Last updated December 28, 2023.

1.Gridlink - Longhena

2.Gridlink - Coronet Juniper

3.Contrastic - Contrastic

4.Contrastic - Mamun

5.Takafumi Matsubara - Strange, Beautiful And Fast

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Loose order

1.Injurious - Abominable Extermination Through Uncanny Passages

2.Molested Divinity - Desolated Realms Through Iniquity

3.Reduced - Majesty From Within

4.Fixation On Suffering - Confined In Obscurity

5.Chalera - Theophobium Excruciation

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1.Dimmu Borgir - Eonian

2.Pestilence - Hadeon

3.Mantar - The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Obscura - Diluvium

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1.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn

4.Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy

5.Immortal - Northern Chaos Gods

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1.Akhenaten - Golden Serpent God

2.Akitsa - Credo

3.All My Sins - Pra Sila - Vukov Totem

4.Amorphis - Queen Of Time

5.Antlers - Beneath.Below.Behold.

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These are 10 death metal albums from 2018 that I think were the best. This is just my opinion and it is subject to change.

1.Autokrator - Hammer Of The Heretics

2.Psycroptic - As The Kingdom Drowns

3.Obscura - Diluvium

4.Tomb Mold - Manor Of Infinite Forms

5.Terrorizer - Caustic Attack

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The best and the worst albums of 2018 in my opinion.

Few notes:
- covering death metal, goregrind, porngrind, deathgrind, grindcore, thrash metal, black metal, crossover, hardcore, stoner whatever.
- in order from best to worst
- rated on a scale from 0 to 10
- few lines so I remember wtf it was about

1.Meat Spreader - A Swarm Of Green Flies Over The Rusty Pot

2.Judas Priest - Firepower

3.Haemorrhage / Hemdale / Meat Spreader - Fallen In Gore

4.Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed

5.Cancer - Shadow Gripped

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1.Necrophobic - Mark Of The Necrogram

2.Aborted - TerrorVision

3.Judas Priest - Firepower

4.Deicide - Overtures Of Blasphemy

5.Monstrosity - The Passage Of Existence

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1.Hate Eternal - Upon Desolate Sands

2.Bloodbath - The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn

3.Pestilence - Hadeon

4.Monstrosity - The Passage Of Existence

5.De Profundis - The Blinding Light Of Faith

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1.Striker - Play To Win

2.Between The Buried And Me - Automata II

3.Soreption - Monument Of The End

4.Boss Keloid - Melted On The Inch

5.Turnstile - Time & Space

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