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Journalist Kevin Stewart-Panko argues that the American grindcore of the 1990s borrowed from three sources: British grindcore, the American precursors, and death metal.

As early Napalm Death albums were not widely distributed in the United States, American groups tended to take inspiration from later works, such as Harmony Corruption.

American groups also often employ riffs taken from crossover thrash or thrash metal.

Early American grind practitioners included Terrorizer and Assück.

Anal Cunt, a particularly dissonant group who lacked a bass player, were also particularly influential.

Their style was sometimes referred to as " noisecore " or " noisegrind ", described by Giulio of Cripple Bastards as " the most anti-musical and nihilistic face of extreme music at that time.

" Brutal Truth was a groundbreaking group in the American scene at the beginning of the 1990s.

However, Sharp indicates that they were more inspired by the thrash metal of Dark Angel than the British groups.

Discordance Axis had a more technical style of playing than many of the predecessors, and had a much more ornate visual and production style.

Scott Hull is prominent in the contemporary grindcore scene, through his participation in Pig Destroyer and Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

ANb's Frozen Corpse Stuffed with Dope has been described as " the Paul's Boutique of grindcore ", by Village Voice critic Phil Freeman, for its " hyper-referential, impossibly dense barrage of samples, blast beats, answering machine messages, and incomprehensibly bellowed rants.

" Pig Destroyer is inspired by thrash metal, such as Dark Angel and Slayer, the sludge metal of The Melvins, and grindcore practiced by Brutal Truth, while Agoraphobic Nosebleed takes cues from thrashcore and powerviolence, like D. R. I.

and Crossed Out.

Pig Destroyer's style is sometimes referred to as " deathgrind ", because of the prevalence of death metal influences, as are Cattle Decapitation.