Conclusion

Abstract

In Melbourne and Osaka’s grindcore scenes, to belong is to be brutal. Scene members constitute belonging to grindcore scenes in multiple ways: through shared knowledges and significations, social practices and the experience of being in a live grindcore performance — as a fan or a musician. Material grindcore objects and visible grindcore practices work primarily on a representational level. Scene members’ experience of belonging at a live grindcore performance, however, is more than representational. It is primarily affective — it constitutes the experience of brutal belonging.