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** "Hunger Games" is a subversion. It's in 4/4 time, but the rhythm is... uh.... ''batshit [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCaUecZlnUQ insane]]...''
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* AxeCrazy: MC Ride in most songs.
* CarefulWithThatAxe: MC Ride, all the time.
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* DroneOfDreadDroneOfDread: Frequiently used in the instrumentals, notably in "Guillotine" and incorporated into almost every track in some way on ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB.''
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* {{Minimalism}}: "Hunger Games" uses this to an [[NothingIsScarier unsettling]] effect.
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** The video for "Come Up And Get Me" features roughly nine minutes of silence at the beginning set to black & white footage of MC Ride going crazy.
** The instrumental for "Hunger Games" uses this.
** The video for "Come Up And Get Me" features roughly nine minutes of silence at the beginning set to black & white footage of MC Ride going crazy.
** The instrumental for "Hunger Games" uses this.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' ([[SerialEscalation somehow]]) manages to be this despite the band already having some of the darkest output of any rap group.
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** The reasonable theory is that Andy is representing the band in their lawsuit Sony due to their contract breach. The band still needs to make money, so they're touring.
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** The reasonable theory is that Andy is representing the band in their lawsuit Sony due to their contract breach. The band still needs to make money, so they're touring.Zach and Stefan are touring without him.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: "Full Moon (Death Classic)" was the first song they ever dropped, and it pretty much sums up what the internet was in for.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Andy Morin has been missing since April 2012 and it has yet to be answered as if he left the band, is taking a break, is sick, or anything.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Andy Morin has been missing since April October 2012 and it has yet to be answered as if he left the band, is taking a break, is sick, or anything.anything.
** The reasonable theory is that Andy is representing the band in their lawsuit Sony due to their contract breach. The band still needs to make money, so they're touring.
** The reasonable theory is that Andy is representing the band in their lawsuit Sony due to their contract breach. The band still needs to make money, so they're touring.
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* MagnificentBastard: The whole band after the entire marketing campaign of ''No Love Deep Web'', if you believe the possibility that they lied about their label pushing the release date. Or even then, if not.
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* MagnificentBastard: The whole band after the entire marketing campaign of ''No Love Deep Web'', if you believe the possibility that they lied about their label pushing the release date. Or even then, if not.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Andy Morin has been missing since April 2012 and it has yet to be answered as if he left the band, is taking a break, is sick, or anything.
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* OneOfUs: The band is very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoins]] as a payment method for their album. [[http://twitter.com/DeathGripz/status/239228230580711425 They said yes.]]
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* SignatureSong: ''Guillotine''.
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* XMeetsY: PublicEnemy meets {{Industrial}}. Some have taken to calling their particular style "Noise Rap".
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* XMeetsY: PublicEnemy meets {{Industrial}}. Some have taken to calling their particular style "Noise Rap".Rap".
** Or HardcoreHipHop meets {{Industrial}} meets CyberPunk meets PunkRock
** Or HardcoreHipHop meets {{Industrial}} meets CyberPunk meets PunkRock
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** "Artificial Death in the West" is a very spacious and chilled out song, especially coming at the end of ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB''.
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* [[FanNickname Fan Adjective]]: ''Noided'', a word that's [[OlderThanTheyThink been around since the 90s]] to mean "annoyed", but has been repurposed in the lyrics of "I've Seen Footage" to mean "paranoid". In practice, most Death grips fans use it in the context of "excited" or "psyched".
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* ''Death Grips'', 2011
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* ''Death Grips'', Grips'' (EP), 2011
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In short, it backfired ''hard'' for Epic Records.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The music video for ''Culture Shock'' is a tiny distorted videoscreen superimposed over a headstone, looping repeatedly. It's hard to see, but the footage on the screen is from a pornographic sex scene.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The music video for ''Culture Shock'' is a tiny distorted videoscreen superimposed over a headstone, looping repeatedly. It's hard to see, but the footage on the screen is from a pornographic sex scene.
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* ExecutiveMeddling: In short, it backfired ''hard'' for Epic Records.
Records attempted to push back the date of ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'''s release to some time in 2013, when the AlternateRealityGame they'd been running had hyped the original release date of October 23rd for quite some time. Death Grips responded by ''immediately'' leaking the album, [[RefugeInAudacity with a photograph of a penis as the cover]].
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The music video for''Culture Shock'' "Culture Shock" is a tiny distorted videoscreen superimposed over a headstone, looping repeatedly. It's hard to see, but the footage on the screen is from a pornographic sex scene.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The music video for
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* {{Sampling}}: From Link Wray's classic 60s hit "Rumble" to Arthur Brown's "Fire" to voice clips of Charles Manson.
** ''System Blower'' sampled its distinctive bridge from a ''Venus Williams tennis serve''.
** ''System Blower'' sampled its distinctive bridge from a ''Venus Williams tennis serve''.
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* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Money Store'' is a lot more refined and less angry, compared to ''Exmilitary''. Still incredibly rough and bizarre compared to just about every other rap act out there, though.
** As is ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' compared to The Money Store.
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* NewSoundAlbum: While they still fall under the umbrella of industrial hip-hop, each of their albums is this compared to the previous one. ''Exmilitary'' was a lot more hook- and beat-driven than their debut. ''The Money Store'' is a lot was considerably more refined electronic and less angry, compared to ''Exmilitary''. Still incredibly rough sample-based than ''Exmilitary'', and bizarre compared to just about every other rap act out there, though.
** As is''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' compared to The Money Store.eschews catchy hooks in general in exchange for a deeper focus on atmosphere.
** As is
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* ScaryBlackMan: MC Ride,'''AND HOW'''.'''and how'''.
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* SurprisinglyGentleSong: '''They don't have one.'''
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* SurprisinglyGentleSong: '''They don't have one.'''
** However,For a given value of "gentle"; "Culture Shock" and "Get Got" are fairly chill and closer to traditional hip-hop than the first track rest of ''The Money Store'', 'Get Got' was surprisingly quiet when compared to their earlier material.output.
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* UncommonTimeUncommonTime: "Death Grips (Next Grips)" and "Spread Eagle Across The Block".
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Formed in December of 2010, Death Grips is an AlternativeHipHop group consisting of rapper Stefan Burnett (a.k.a. MC Ride), drummer Zach Hill (of the band Hella), and producer Andy Morin. Their music is a unique blend of noise, [[{{Sampling}} samples]], noise, [[CarefulWithThatAxe loud]] [[HarshVocals vocals]], [[RuleOfThree noise]], and [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructing]] almost every HipHop trope under the sun.
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Formed in December of 2010, Death Grips is an AlternativeHipHop group consisting of rapper Stefan Burnett (a.k.a. MC Ride), drummer Zach Hill (of the band Hella), and producer Andy Morin. Their music is a unique blend of noise, [[{{Sampling}} samples]], noise, [[CarefulWithThatAxe loud]] [[HarshVocals vocals]], [[RuleOfThree noise]], and [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructing]] almost every HipHop trope under the sun.
sun. On October 1st, the band revealed that Death Grips' most recent release had been pushed back by their record label. In response, the band [[ThinkOfTheCensors released NO LOVE DEEP WEB for free]].
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* RefugeInAudacity: The leaked version of ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' features cover art that is nothing more than [[RefugeInVulgarity a photograph of a penis]].
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* OneOfUs: * The band are very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoins]] as a payment method for their album. [[http://twitter.com/DeathGripz/status/239228230580711425 They said yes.]]
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* OneOfUs: * The band are is very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoins]] as a payment method for their album. [[http://twitter.com/DeathGripz/status/239228230580711425 They said yes.]]
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* OneOfUs: * The band are very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoins]] as a payment method for their album. [[http://twitter.com/DeathGripz/status/239228230580711425 They said yes.]]
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Their discography is as follows:
* ''Death Grips'', 2011
* ''Exmilitary'', 2011
* ''The Money Store'', 2012
* ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'', expected to be released in October of 2012
* ''Death Grips'', 2011
* ''Exmilitary'', 2011
* ''The Money Store'', 2012
* ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'', expected to be released in October of 2012
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The music video for ''Culture Shock'' is a tiny distorted videoscreen superimposed over a headstone, looping repeatedly. It's hard to see, but the footage on the screen is from a pornographic sex scene.
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* HarshVocals: One of the few rap examples.
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* FaceOfTheBand: MC Ride, although Hill is this to rock fans.
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* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Money Store'' is a lot less angry and sample-based, compared to ''Exmilitary''.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The whole band, or at least whoever's in charge of their [[http://thirdworlds.net/retrograde/ internet]] [[http://twitter.com/#!/deathgripz presence.]]
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* StylisticSuck: Their songs are intentionally [[LoudnessWar brickwalled and compressed to a brutal degree]], and their videos are about as close to a live-action SweetBroAndHellaJeff as you can get.
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Formed in December of 2010, Death Grips is an AlternativeHipHop group consisting of rapper Stefan Burnett (a.k.a. MC Ride), drummer Zach Hill (of the band Hella), and producer Andy Morin. Their music is a unique blend of noise, [[{{Sampling}} samples]], noise, [[CarefulWithThatAxe loud]] [[HarshVocals vocals]], [[RuleOfThree noise]], and [[SubvertedTrope subverting]] and [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructing]] almost every HipHop trope under the sun.
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!!Death Grips' music contains the following tropes:
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Zach Hill plays the hell out of those drums. On studio recordings, they tend to be distorted, brickwalled, chopped, and compressed to almost frightening degrees. When they play live, though, he produces all those sounds by absolutely brutalizing the drum kit.
* AngryBlackMan: MC Ride, [[UpToEleven so much]].
* BadassBeard: Again, MC Ride.
* FaceOfTheBand: MC Ride, although Hill is this to rock fans.
* {{Sampling}}: From Link Wray's classic 60s hit "Rumble" to Arthur Brown's "Fire" to voice clips of Charles Manson.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Money Store'' is a lot less angry and sample-based, compared to ''Exmilitary''.
* NoBudget: Their music videos.
* SignatureSong: ''Guillotine''.
* SopranoAndGravel: On the track "Lord Of The Game", featuring Mexican Girl.
* StylisticSuck: Their songs are intentionally [[LoudnessWar brickwalled and compressed to a brutal degree]], and their videos are about as close to a live-action SweetBroAndHellaJeff as you can get.
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!!Death Grips' music contains the following tropes:
* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Zach Hill plays the hell out of those drums. On studio recordings, they tend to be distorted, brickwalled, chopped, and compressed to almost frightening degrees. When they play live, though, he produces all those sounds by absolutely brutalizing the drum kit.
* AngryBlackMan: MC Ride, [[UpToEleven so much]].
* BadassBeard: Again, MC Ride.
* FaceOfTheBand: MC Ride, although Hill is this to rock fans.
* {{Sampling}}: From Link Wray's classic 60s hit "Rumble" to Arthur Brown's "Fire" to voice clips of Charles Manson.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''The Money Store'' is a lot less angry and sample-based, compared to ''Exmilitary''.
* NoBudget: Their music videos.
* SignatureSong: ''Guillotine''.
* SopranoAndGravel: On the track "Lord Of The Game", featuring Mexican Girl.
* StylisticSuck: Their songs are intentionally [[LoudnessWar brickwalled and compressed to a brutal degree]], and their videos are about as close to a live-action SweetBroAndHellaJeff as you can get.
