Discharge-influenced acts Freestate and Victims of
War, whilst Jones had been singing with Raw Noise. Hurley claims that the band name came from an insert for an album by the Dutch band Lärm: "It featured a bandanna-ed
hardcore kid with '
Extreme Noise Terror' surrounding him. Those three words summed up exactly what we were aiming at." Aside from
Discharge, the band cite as early influences Anti Cimex,
Rattus and
Antisect, another early proponent of the "one high, one low" vocal approach. ENT signed to the small UK-based indie label Manic Ears after a solitary gig supporting
Chaos UK.
Their first release for the label was a split LP with
Chaos UK in 1986, entitled Radioactive Earslaughter. Although there were still musical similarities between the two
bands, ENT were already beginning to twist
hardcore into what would later become known as "
grindcore". ENT have however expressed misgivings about the use of the term: We were known as
hardcore punk. Then it became this 'Britcore' thing that Sounds and NME came up with, with the
Electro Hippies, Napalm, Carcass and Bolt Thrower all rolled into one, all playing the same shows and then Napalm Death made the word 'grind' up. But they were always a bit more metal than us and we didn't really know what this word 'grind' meant.
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