There are several bands named 'Grief. 1. Grief was founded in 1991 by Terry Savastano and drummer Randy Odierno of crust band
Disrupt. Grief's sludgy
doom metal brought extremely slow riffs to the
metal underground. The band was heavily influenced by
Black Sabbath,
Eyehategod and
doom warriors
Saint Vitus. Grief's music was jagged, noisy, harsh and brutally dissonant. Lead singer Jeff Hayward favored the sort of tortured, throat-shredding, screaming vocals that were quite common in
death metal/black metal and grindcore, and that risk-taking combination of torturous v…
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