Painkiller's "Guts of a Virgin" is Avant-Garde Metal
The 1991 debut album from unusual New York side project PainKiller is generally tagged as a combination of free jazz & grindcore but I have to question that position. The jazz component is most certainly bizarre enough to warrant an avant-garde jazz association while the grindcore component is actually quite small given just how short those tracks are. The wider contribution would sit much more comfortably under an avant-garde metal tag as there simply isn't anything around that sounds remotely like this artist. For that reason, I'd like to see 'Guts of a Virgin' added to The Infinite under the Avant-Garde Metal genre. If this is successful then I'll be looking to have the album removed from The Horde & the Grindcore genre.
This nomination has been posted in the Hall of Judgement.
I've given both of the first two Painkiller releases some listening and reviews (with the third album Execution Ground to be done the same soon) as a self-challenge to explore the band's avant-garde weirdness. There is definitely a lot of the bizarre jazzy avant-garde metal going on in both albums. However, I can hear some prominent grindcore in some sections of the mid-length tracks in their debut, enough that I think it should still qualify as grindcore in half of the tracklisting. So I'll vote YES for both Guts of a Virgin and Buried Secrets to be added to The Infinite and avant-garde metal, but for those albums to be removed from The Horde and grindcore, I'll vote NO for the former and YES for the latter.