and live performance footage to produce a portrait of the musicians who play grindcore, an extreme sub-genre of punk/metal characterized by high speed and full volume. Shot during a weekend trip ...

The Mermaid was vital to the early days of the band Napalm Death and the creation of a new metal subgenre: Grindcore. This metal-punk crossover Grindcore was steeped in a do-it-yourself (DIY ...