History Music / DeathGrips

* AntiPoliceSong: "Klink", "Black Quarterback"

-->''I've been spinning chambers since the day I was born!''

-->''I close my eyes and seize it\\

-->''They have a dilemma. But they'll win their dilemma.''

-->''In [[UnusualEuphemism the horn section]]\\

* BoastfulRap: Oh so many.
** Also subverted on many occasions, as Stefan's lyrics frequently display a great deal of self-loathing and suicidal thoughts, especially on later albums.

** Let's not forget Ride viciously humping the camera in "Double Helix."

* CreepyCircusMusic: Provides a backing beat throughout "Double Helix".

* DeathGlare: Prominently featured in ''Exmilitary'''s cover art.

* EldritchAbomination: One interpretation of ''The Powers That B''.

* HarshVocals: One of the very few rap examples.
* HeartbeatSoundtrack: Used as the backing beat for "Blackjack".

* [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming Idiosyncratic Song Naming]]: The tracks on ''Fashion Week'' all share a naming theme: the word "Runway", and then a letter. [[spoiler:As the track listing shows, all of the letters spell "JENNY DEATH WHEN".]]

* LastStand: "Come Up And Get Me" is about one, though in the song MC Ride's [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness not even sure if his attackers are real]].

* LoudnessWar: [[InvokedTrope Done on purpose]], [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools though not in a negative fashion]].
** ''Exmilitary'' brings it to the point of SensoryAbuse.
** Fortunately though, an unmastered version of ''The Money Store'' exists on the web and isn't hard to come by, and it avoids the brickwalling of the released versions. All the stems of ''Exmilitary'' also exist on the web, so it shouldn't be hard for anyone with the right programs to make their own master that isn't so [[SensoryAbuse abrasively loud.]]

* MindScrew: A lot of their music videos and promotional work are heavily reminiscent of [[WebVideo/MarbleHornets totheark's]] strange diatribes.
** It didn't help when trolls started interfering with the ARG around the time of the "No Hands" videos, posting false leads leading people through other accounts and websites and things [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments only to lead to a photoshopped cover of]] ''[[MemeticMutation In The Aeroplane Over The Sea]]'' by Music/NeutralMilkHotel [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments with MC Ride's face photoshopped over the boy.]] [[MindScrew Then one of the leads supposedly debunked lead to the discovery of actual clues and hints, as alluded to on Andy's website,]] as it was already difficult to determine which clues were genuine and which ones weren't, let alone if ''any of them'' were.
*** At one point the ARG had somebody buying dog aspirin off the deep web.

* MotorMouth: Ride does this on both verses on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhVN6gRD5XM "Shitshow"]].

** Let's not forget ''Fashion Week'', which takes the roots of ''Government Plates'' and plays with them at will, having special amounts of freedom since it's a wholly instrumental album.

* ObligatoryBondageSong: Parts of "No Love" and "Spread Eagle Cross The Block".

* TheOner: The video for "You might think..." and the first video for "On GP". In fact, the latter actually confused viewers initially, since the band members are so still in the video that many thought it was a still image (they do move later in the video).

** Sua Yoo appears this way on the cover of ''Fashion Week.''

* ScaryBlackMan: MC Ride, '''and how'''.
** Stefan Burnett on the other hand is [[TheQuietOne quite]] [[ShrinkingViolet the opposite]].
* SceneryGorn: The video to "Inanimate Sensation" is shown through the TV display of a basketball court--which has just fallen off the ceiling and gone straight through the floor.

** The last verse of "Inanimate Sensation" is ripe with references to various (mostly) rock songs, namedropping [[Music.TheBeatles "Mean Mr. Mustard"]], [[{{Music.ACDC}} "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)"]], [[Music.DavidBowie "Watch That Man"]], [[{{Music.Nirvana}} "Endless Nameless"]], [[Music.JimiHendrix "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)"]] and [[Music.WuTangClan "Brooklyn Zoo"]].

-->''Them clueless strut nailed to crucifix Lilith shoved up her cunt''

* StoicSpectacles: Andy.

* WordSaladLyrics: ''All the time''. [[RuleOfCool Doesn't make them less cool, though.]]

The weakness of this scene who fucks who lack the nuts to claim\\
The streets from which that real shit comes to push you up on game!\\

** "Shitshow" (which was actually removed from [=YouTube=] for its [[ToiletHumor "sexually provocative content" and "fetishes"]],f and re-uploaded onto [[https://player.vimeo.com/video/276180877 Vimeo]], so obviously NSFW) contains a fuckload of weird and downright [[{{Squick}} disgusting]] imagery:

%%* WidgetSeries: They are most definitely a WAT.

** Sua Yoo (the lady who made the ''Money Store'' artwork) on the cover of ''Fashion Week''.