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| Origin | New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
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| Years active | 1988–present |
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Soilent Green is an American grindcore/sludge metal band formed in 1988 in Chalmette/Metairie on the suburbs of New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Soilent Green was founded in 1988, but their debut album was not released until 1995, when Pussysoul came out via Dwell Records. The following four albums were released by Relapse Records, until they signed with Metal Blade Records for their 2008 album, Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction .
On April 26, 2004, bassist Scott Williams was killed in a murder–suicide by his partner. [1] [2] In September 2005, former singer Glenn Rambo was killed in Hurricane Katrina. [3]
Soilent Green's musical style is characterized as a mixture of grindcore with sludge and blues-heavy southern rock. [4] Rock Hard initially saw the band as an intersection of Eyehategod, Crowbar and Anal Cunt with occasional borrowings from death metal, [5] but on the next album the group's sound focussed on grindcore, which the band combined with influences from sludge and technical death metal, [6] and coined the term "sludgegrind" for Soilent Green's 2008 album. [7] Michael Edele of laut.de described the band's style as a "contradictory mixture of hardcore, sludge, grindcore and southern rock". [8]
The band's 1990s and early-2000s albums are regarded as trendsetting for the grindcore genre; [9] a Rolling Stone article listed Soilent Green as one of the "ten most important hard and heavy bands" of the hour in the late 1990s. [10]
In 2009, Soilent Green was featured on the first episode of season four on the Adult Swim show Squidbillies , entitled "Lerm". They performed the main title theme in a cowpunk/sludge style. [11]
| Release date | Title | Label |
| 1995 | Pussysoul | Dwell Records |
| 1998 | Sewn Mouth Secrets | Relapse Records |
| 2001 | A Deleted Symphony for the Beaten Down | Relapse Records |
| 2005 | Confrontation | Relapse Records |
| 2008 | Inevitable Collapse in the Presence of Conviction | Metal Blade Records |
| Release date | Title | Label |
| 1998 | String of Lies | Relapse Records |
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