Soilent Green

Not to be confused with Soylent Green.

Soilent Green is an American grindcore/sludge metal band formed in 1988 in Chalmette/Metairie on the suburbs of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Soilent Green
Soilent Green performing in 2008
Background information
Origin	New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Genres	Sludge metal grindcore
Years active	1988–present
Labels	Dwell Relapse Metal Blade Housecore
Members	Tommy Buckley Brian Patton Ben Falgoust Scott Crochet
Past members	Donovan Punch Glenn Rambo Marcel Trenchard Scott Williams Ben Stout Tony White Gregg Harney

History

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]

Musical style

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 popular culture

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]

Members

Current

• Tommy Buckley – drums (1988–present)
• Brian Patton – guitars (1988–present)
• Ben Falgoust – vocals (1993–present)
• Scott Crochet – bass (2003–present)

Former

• Donovan Punch – rhythm guitar (1988–1999)
• Glenn Rambo – vocals (1988–1992; died 2005)
• Marcel Trenchard - bass (1988–1992)
• Scott Williams – bass (1992–2002; died 2004)
• Ben Stout – rhythm guitar (2000–2001)
• Tony White – rhythm guitar (2003–2005)
• Gregg Harney – rhythm guitar (2005–2007)

Timeline

Discography

Studio albums

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

EPs

Release date	Title	Label
1998	String of Lies	Relapse Records