ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to address the gaps in the literature by focusing on the ways in which grindcore politics are produced and made meaningful through gendered, corporeal performances within Leeds’s grindcore scene. It focuses specifically on the songs of politically oriented bands in order to consider to what extent they can be considered to produce a form of protest music. The chapter examines how discursive transgressions, such as the use of dystopia and extreme, grotesque realism in grindcore lyrics are embodied and played out in the UK grindcore scene by female metal fans. Political discourses and embodiments within the grindcore scene are produced by and reflect underlying social conditions and class backgrounds. Grindcore is distinctive in relation to other extreme metal genres in drawing attention to the ways in which the metal scene and its fans are continually entangled in relations of power, globalization, and capital.
