-Napalm Death-

Napalm Death was originally called 'Civil Defence' and started in Birmingham, a working class city, in 1982. (..), it started as a Punk rock project by high school student Nick Bullen, Miles Ratledge and some friends they met at school. At this stage, the band had a punk rock/hardcore sound and was strongly inspired by the band Crass and the anarchopunk scene that took place in England in the early 80's.

Although ND was the first band who actually coined the word 'Grindcore' to classify and define the type of music that they played, lots of other bands where already doing it for a while. Acts such as Siege, Repulsion, Macabre, S.O.B., Larm, Heresy, Criptic Slaughter, Nausea, Death and many others where all known for playing ultra fast and brutal songs. They didn't actually 'invented' grindcore, but more like helped it evolve and go forward. Anyway, Napalm Death was the first to actually pigeonhole those bands within a style, and to establish themselves as kings of the genre.