Soilent Green

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=21841|title=Former Soilent Green Bassist Killed in Apparent Murder Suicide - Blabbermouth.net|work=BLABBERMOUTH.NET|date=27 April 2004|accessdate=15 November 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=2996|title=Former Soilent Green Bassist Scott Williams Found Murdered |publisher=Knac.com|accessdate=15 November 2014}} In September 2005, former singer Glenn Rambo was killed in Hurricane Katrina.{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=42427|title=Former Soilent Green Vocalist Glenn Rambo Found Dead - Blabbermouth.net|work=BLABBERMOUTH.NET|date=2 October 2005|accessdate=15 November 2014}}

Soilent Green's musical style is characterized as a mixture of grindcore with sludge and blues-heavy southern rock.{{Cite book |last=Sharpe-Young |first=Garry |title=New Wave of American Heavy Metal |publisher=Zonda Books |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-9582684-0-0 |pages=281}} Rock Hard initially saw the band as an intersection of Eyehategod, Crowbar and Anal Cunt with occasional borrowings from death metal,{{cite magazine |last=Stappert |first=Andreas |title=Review: Soilent Green - Sewn Mouth Secrets |magazine=Rock Hard |edition=140 |language=de}} but on the next album the group's sound focussed on grindcore, which the band combined with influences from sludge and technical death metal,{{cite magazine |last=Stappert |first=Andreas |title=Review: Soilent Green - A Deleted Symphony For The Beaten Down |magazine=Rock Hard |edition=176 |language=de}} and coined the term "sludgegrind" for Soilent Green's 2008 album.{{cite magazine |last= Wolf-Rüdiger|first= Mühlmann|title=Review: Soilent Green - Inevitable Collapse In The Presence Of Conviction |magazine=Rock Hard |edition=252 |language=de}} Michael Edele of laut.de described the band's style as a "contradictory mixture of hardcore, sludge, grindcore and southern rock".{{Cite web |last=Edele |first=Michael |date=2008 |title=Review: Inevitable Collapse In The Presence Of Conviction |url=http://www.laut.de/Soilent-Green/Inevitable-Collapse-In-The-Presence-Of-Conviction-(Album) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803195957/http://www.laut.de/Soilent-Green/Inevitable-Collapse-In-The-Presence-Of-Conviction-(Album) |archive-date=3 August 2012 |website=Laut.de |language=de}}

The band's 1990s and early-2000s albums are regarded as trendsetting for the grindcore genre;{{Cite book |last=Mudrian |first=Albert |title=Choosing Death: Die unglaubliche Geschichte von Death Metal & Grindcore |date=2006 |publisher=I.P. Verlag Jeske und Mader (2006) |isbn=978-3-931624-35-4 |pages=235 |language=de |trans-title=Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore}} 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.{{Cite magazine |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |date=1999-02-04 |title=Metal: The Next Generation |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/metal-the-next-generation-185482/ |access-date=2024-02-14 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}

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.{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=154476|title=Zoroaster Temporarily Parts With Bassist - Blabbermouth.net|work=BLABBERMOUTH.NET|date=24 February 2011|accessdate=15 November 2014}}

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

• 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)

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