Grindcore

Pendiri Earache Records Digby Pearson setuju dengan Embury, mengatakan bahwa Napalm Death "put hardcore and metal through an accelerator". Pearson, bagaimanapun grindcore "wasn't just about the speed of [the] drums, blast beats, etc." Ia menyatakan bahwa "it actually was coined to describe the guitars - heavy, downtuned, bleak, harsh riffing guitars [that] 'grind', so that's what the genre was described as, by the musicians who were its innovators [and] proponents."