Horrified

Repulsion’s only full-length recording became such a genre classic that they’re still playing festivals today based on its noxious notoriety. While maybe not the first band to approach grindcore from a death metal (rather than hardcore punk) perspective, they certainly found the Trioxin formula that turned the style into an undead killing machine. Wall-to-wall blastbeats, seriously rending riffs on classics like “Black Breath” and “Eaten Alive,” Scott Carlson’s decomposed zombie roar — just utterly unhinged and as gnarly now as it was back in the day. It’s not like grind wasn’t extreme already. This just opened the mausoleum door to an audience of ravenous metalheads.