History Music / DeathGrips

* BadassBeard: Again, Ride.

* DreamTeam: Special guests have included Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/LesClaypool, Nick Reinhardt, [[Music/{{Tool}} Justin Chancellor]] and [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible Justice]] [[HarshNoise Yeldham]].

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually in the 7-10 range, with "Birds" and "Get Got" falling back to around a 4. "Full Moon (Death Classic)" may as well be a borderline 11.

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Subverted--save for "Get Got" and "Death Grips Is Online," their calmest songs musically tend to be their heaviest lyrically.

* WordSaladLyrics: ''All the time''. [[CrazyAwesome Doesn't make them less cool, though.]]

* ChangedForTheVideo: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MHhLDCJ57E the video]] for "No Love", the song is occasionally interrupted by a harsh, distorted noise and "1000%! I USED TO GIVE A FUCK!" pops up on the screen, in keeping with the "on the [X]th day I did/did not give a fuck" scrolling across the bottom of the screen. This interruption doesn't appear in the actual song.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[SelfDeprecation We upload trash.]][[note]]From left to right; Zach Hill, Stefan Burnett (MC Ride), Andy Morin[[/note]]]]

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** ''The Money Store'' features {{animesque}} art of a smoking female sadist holding a topless female masochist with a dog gimp mask and the band name carved into her chest by a leash.

** "Centuries of Damn" features the line "Nailed to crucifix/Lilith shoved up her cunt".

** Sua Yoo (the girl who made the ''Money Store'' artwork) on the cover of ''Fashion Week''.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: MC Ride's modus operandi - -choice examples include "Voila" (in which he sounds like he's being disemboweled), "Spread Eagle Cross The Block" (SHIT IS MINE/IT'S ALL MINE/ALL THE TIME!), and "Full Moon (Death Classic)" (in which he spends the whole rap shouting).

** The band also uploads all their music to Website/YouTube and [=SoundCloud=] the day of release. ''Jenny Death'', in fact, was released on Website/YouTube nearly two weeks before its official release, in response to it being leaked.

* SingingVoiceDissonance: A rare rap example--if you heard Stefan speak, you'd never believe he was MC Ride.

* {{Mondegreen}}:
** One of the lines in "Birds" says what innocently seems like "I had a bluebird / Now it's dead". However, lyric sites claim that it's actually "I had a bluebird / Now it's ''did''".
** Invoked in "BB Poison"; the song's hook actually goes "Obey me, poison", but the way Ride says it sounds a lot like "Oh, baby, poison", which could then be reworked into "Oh, [[TitleDrop BB poison]]".

** In the "Hustle Bones" video, we see an open bottle of milk tossed into a dryer. When the dryer starts working, the bottle and milk go flying every which way, including the camera lens.

->''it's like misheard lyrics but they're actual lyrics''
-->--''A [=YouTube=] comment for their song'' "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoZgZT4DGSY Hacker]]'''"

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: The first nine or so minutes of the "Come Up and Get Me" video is black and white footage of Ride going insane. [[NothingIsScarier It's also mostly silent.]]

** The band also uploads all their music to Website/YouTube and Soundcloud the day of release. ''Jenny Death'', in fact, was released on Website/YouTube nearly two weeks before its official release, in response to it being leaked.
* DistinctDoubleAlbum: ''The Powers That B'', which consists of two halves: ''Niggas on the Moon'' and ''Jenny Death''. The first disc is extremely abstract and experimental, while the second is heavy, catchy RapRock.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: In "Guillotine," MC Ride pronounces the L sound in "guillotine" (which is usually silent) for the purpose of flowing better.

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The videos for "Come Up And Get Me" and "On GP". The former begins with a 9 minute, largely silent art film of Ride losing his mind in a hotel room, while the latter has the band sitting still in a room while the song is blasted over the speakers. There's also the video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWihfnnLCE June 22]]", which is about 7 minutes of weirdly distorted footage of a hooded figure rolling a toy truck around.
* LongTitle: "[[Music/BobDylan You might think he loves you for your money but I know what he really loves you for it's your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat]]", which is often abbreviated simply as "You Might Think" or sometimes just "Hat".

** The video for "Come Up And Get Me" features roughly nine minutes of black & white footage of MC Ride going crazy. Oh, and it's mostly silent.

* PerformanceVideo: "The Fever" and "No Love".

** "I Break Mirrors With My Face In The United States" consists of rehearsal footage taken with cameras strapped to the performers' wrists.

* SurrealMusicVideo: ''Many of them.''

** "The Fever" has the band performing the song, but with an ''extremely'' weird, darkening filter on top of the footage.

* TakeThatCritics: "Eh" seems to be directed towards haters and critics of the band, to which the band merely responds by saying "eh".

* LennonSpecs: Andy usually has these.

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** The song "Birds" is weird, [[UpToEleven even for their standards.]] Partially because it's probably the ''least abrasive song they've ever made.''
** "Steroids" is a 20-minute gabber song.
** ''Gmail and the Restraining Orders'' is a half-hour full of extreme drumming and harsh noise, featuring skipping and repeating MC Ride soundbites that are akin to ''Government Plates''.
** Some of the ''Powers That B'' tracks ("On GP" comes to mind) [[OutOfGenreExperience go from the band's usual experimental rap style and goes into full-on rap rock.]] It's essentially something you'd find on ''Exmilitary'', but on steroids and crack.
* SpokenWordInMusic:
** The iconic sampling of a UsefulNotes/CharlesManson speech at the start of ''Exmilitary''.
** "Dilemma" has one from Andrew Adamson.

* 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.

* TheAntiNihilist: The whole band seems to be this, based on interviews.

* AxCrazy: MC Ride in most songs. Probably best exemplified in the music video for "You Might Think..." in which [[FreakOut he completely loses it [[MoodSwinger in front of the camera]].

* AxCrazy: MC Ride in most songs.
* BadassBaritone: Ride, when he isn't screaming.

->''"We bring this for the ones who fiend to see the truth taken back in pain\\

It's Death Grips!"''

--> "I've been spinning chambers since the day I was born!"

--> "I close my eyes and seize it
--> I clench my fists and beat it
--> I light my torch and burn it
--> ''I am the beast I worship.''"
** "I Want It I Need It (Death Heated)" has a very true statement.
--> "Responsibility's cool, but there's more things in life
--> Like getting your dick
--> Rode all fucking night"

--> "They have a dilemma. But they'll win their dilemma."

--> In [[UnusualEuphemism the horn section]]\\
They hide weapons

--> ''"Bathe in you like Bathory, bathe in you like Bathory"''

--> ''"I keep em hanging from my balcony''\\
''Shrivel in my sun''\\
''Warm piss showing through his cheap slacks''\\
''This bitch is done"''

* DerangedAnimation: The music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfonhRkfaf0 True Vulture,]]" animated by Galen Pehrson and featuring voiceover work by Jena Malone of ''Film/DonnieDarko'' fame.
* DigitalPiracyIsOkay: ''No Love Deep Web'' was leaked by the band themselves in response to Epic refusing to release the album in 2012; the album racked up over 30 million [=BitTorrent=] downloads, making it the most legally torrented album of the year.

-->The screens flashing red, can't see shit but heads
-->Spinning exorcist like planets

--> "My life is a fuck
--> Ain't one thing I don't hate
--> Tell me my time's almost up
--> Imma say I can't wait
--> Put your gun to my head, I blow smoke in your face
--> Think you got what it takes?
--> '''COME UP AND GET ME!'''"

--> ''"Visit some medium, won't come near me''\\
''Treats me like a meteor''\\
''She scares me"''

* GenreBusting: Good luck finding anything remotely similar. Their sound straddles the genres of hip hop, punk, electronic music, industrial, and even heavy metal, without fitting cleanly into any of them.
** B L A C K I E, [[Music/{{Dalek}} dälek]], and [[Music/{{Clipping}} clipping.]] take similarly extreme and experimental approaches to hip-hop, but none sound quite the same--or quite like each other.

--> ''"MY WHOLE LIFE, MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE, MY WHOLE LIFE, MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE"''

--> ''Your parasite's showing, that's not my bad''\\
''Your bad's pathetic, your bad's your price tag''\\
''Your bad's embedded in your lives, a white flag''\\
''A sterilized white flag, born, bred, and buried in it''\\
''Wears you like a cherry finish, keeps you valuable and shiny''\\
''You're a shiny clown to me and the powers that B''

--> "Them clueless strut nailed to crucifix Lilith shoved up her cunt"

--> ''"It's been a pleasure, Stefan."''

* TakeThat: In "Hacker":
--> [[Music/LadyGaga Gaga can't handle this shit.]]

** ''Gmail and the Restraining Orders'' eclipses them all, at ''''''nearly a half-hour''''' worth of music.

* SiameseTwinSongs: "Culture Shock" and "5D" off of ''Exmilitary''.

* {{Animesque}}: The cover art for ''The Money Store'', which features a topless wide-eyed {{moe}}blob with "DEATH GRIPS" razored into her chest and a pig gimp mask, led around on a leash by another anime-styled girl dressed as a dominatrix, as drawn by Sua Yoo (who draws zines in this style).

** ''The Money Store'' features {{animesque}} art of a smoking female sadist holding a topless female masochist with a pig gimp mask and the band name carved into her chest by a leash.

* IAmNotShazam: It’s a common misconception that Andy Morin goes by the stagename “Flatlander,” when in actuality the name refers to both Andy and Zach together (the two of them making up the production side of Death Grips).

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The videos for "Come Up And Get Me" and "On GP". The former begins with a 9 minute, largely silent "art film" of Ride losing his mind in a hotel room, while the latter has the band sitting still in a room while the song is blasted over the speakers. There's also the video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWihfnnLCE June 22]]", which is about 7 minutes of weirdly distorted footage of a hooded figure rolling a toy truck around.

* GenrePopularizer: For industrial hip hop and punk rap. Those genres had already existed in some form since the 1980's, but Death Grips was the first band to achieve widespread underground success with them.

* {{Bookends}}: In "Beware," the song starts out with the chorus, moves onto the "And I know soon come my time" verse, and proceeds into three minutes of other verses, before repeating the same "And I know soon come my time" verse and ending with the chorus.

* CarefulWithThatAxe: MC Ride's modus operandi--choice examples include "Voila" (in which he sounds like he's being disemboweled), "Spread Eagle Cross The Block" (SHIT IS MINE/IT'S ALL MINE/ALL THE TIME!), and "Full Moon (Death Classic)" (in which he spends the whole rap shouting).

** Year of the Snitch gives us two of Ride's finest screams: DON'T JUMP in "The Fear" and WHY ME in "Disappointed."

* ContemptibleCover:
** ''The Money Store'', to the point of MemeticMutation.
** The cover for ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' takes this UpToEleven.
*** For those who have a BileFascination, it's a picture of the erect penis of Zach Hill in front of a bathroom wall with the album title written on it in marker.

** "Centuries of Damn" features the line "Nailed to crucifix/Lilith shoved up her cunt".

* TakeThatUs: Self-described themselves as "[[SarcasmMode V E R Y SHALLOW LISTENING]]" circa ''Bottomless Pit'' - this may be a TakeThat to critics who deem them as inferior to B L A C K I E, dalek, and other experimental hip-hop groups in terms of content.

* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Used frequently, usually molded into Ride's famous "BEEYOTCH."
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: Applies to the band's discography as a whole, but really gets explored on ''Exmilitary.'' "No Love" is apparently about a psychotic breakdown ''and'' beatdown, while "Come Up And Get Me" has Ride trapped at the top of an abandoned building hallucinating that people are coming to kill him.

* VulgarHumor: The leaked version of ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' features cover art that is nothing more than a photograph of a penis. An alternate cover, released a few days later, is a picture of socks with "SUCK MY DICK" embroidered on.