Here's my small list of grind albums for beginners of the genre. The higher something is in the list the easier to get into it.
First few examples are early grind or grind adjacent to the genre:
- Napal Death-Scum (considered to be the first ever grindcore album)
- Napalm Death-Harmony Corruption
- Terrorizer-World Downfall (a bit more into the deathgrind)
- Stormtroopers of Death-Speak English or Die (it's crossover thrash but basically the same as grind but more drunk)
- D.R.I.-Thrash Zone (once again crossover)
- Nails-Unsilent Death/I Don't Want To Know You/You Will Never Be One of Us/Every Bridge Burning (Nails is generally considered to be one of the best modern grind bands)
- Pig Destroyer-Terrifyer/Prowler in the Yard
- Wormrot-Voices/Hiss
- Insect Warfare-World Extermination
- Repulsion-Horrified
- Magrudergrind-Magrudergrind (if you enjoyed this one in particular then consider the follow up list)
- Discordance Axis-The Inalialible Dreamless
- Retorsion-Élve Rohadás (small Hungarian band go give 'em some love)
Powerviolence is basically just grindcore but somehow even more punk by being faster, having rapid tempo changes and micro songs being more prevalent. If you dig Nails and Magrudergrind in particular from the second list then consider checking these out:
- Siege-Drop Dead
- Yacøpsæ-Tanz, Grosny, Tanz... /Timeo Ergo Sum
- Hong Kong Fuck You-Another Fucking Day in Paradise/Happy Shitting Rainbows/Third World Fighting Music
- Sex Prisoner-Tannhäuser Gate
- Dropdead-Dropdead
- Dead in the Dirt-The Blind Hole
- Combat Wounded Veteran-I Know A Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos/This Is Not An Erect, All Neon Body (CWV in particular is emoviolence)
- Orchid-Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! (same here it's emoviolence)
Now here's come the funky shit. These are the more heavy, more weird subgenres of grind. Tbh you could dive face first to these but I highly recommend doing your homework and getting the gist of grindcore before listening to these:
- Carcass-Symphony of Sickness
- Exhumed-Gore Metal
- Sulfuric Cautery-Chainsaws Clogged With The Underdeveloped Brain Matter Of Xenophobes
These 3 are goregrind, basically brutal death metal but mixed with grind
- Carnal Diafragma-Space Symphony Around Us
This is pornogrind, don't worry if you hate it, most pornogrind is genuinely unlistenable.
- Contrastic-Contrastic
This in particular is funky. It's Czech deathgrind mixed with avant-guard elements.
- Kuroi Jukai-Kuroi Jukai
Idk it's probably noisecore but it just exists in the back of my head for some reason.
Y'all can post your own reccs, the more the merrier.