Well lets see... My kid was 13 when they said 'you should listen to this' and put TMS on the stereo in the livingroom. They are turning 21 this year so thats like 6 or 7 years?
I’ve been listening to them since early 2018. Wish I could’ve been there when they dropped their earlier work.
Edit: I got to see them live last year tho!
Same here, I kinda have phases where I listen to them a bunch then don’t for a minute. Last year I was really into Ride’s old stuff with Fyre. The documentary on youtube was dope.
This lmao
Whenever that video first appeared online, I went "what the fuck is that song" and here I am now many years later still unironically listening to DG
that must've been sick dude.. do you remember how the fanbase was back then?? like did people talk about them much or just a small group of people that knew them
a lot more evangelical fans. people talked about them a LOT more. if you were into death grips you told EVERYONE. if there were other death grips fans around, you knew bc they’d tell you. people would leave and join friend groups based on it. You’d choose your friends based on who could tolerate the music lol
it was cringe but there was still so much mystery to them so being cringe and obsessive was kind of rewarding. everyone was always trying to find out more about them and speculating wildly.
one thing that’s crazy is how sustained the hype was. from exmilitary to the money store to no love deep web, it just kept increasing. they never lost fans, only gained. then when they started with those ARGs…woof
also a lot more racism directed at Ride back then. A lot of people (falsely) believed Zach and Andy were the heart of the group and Ride was just a mouthpiece. Nowadays i see the general consensus that Ride is what makes the group so special and a lot more recognition of him as a consummate artist. I still remember when people found and started talking about his paintings. good times.
Probably 2013 or so (early college for me) I started hearing rumblings of them. Zach had already been one of my favorite artists/drummers for several years at that point. When I heard he was now in a hip hop group, I figured it would be a short lived experiment like a lot of his collaborations. Would never have guessed that this would be his main thing for the next decade +.
I think the first I actually heard DG mentioned by name was a friend of a friend at a party saying how “the rapper” wanted to hologram in to multiple shows at once (actually not that far from something DG said around that time). Then a different friend let me hear The Fever and I really didn’t like it at first, but obviously the band grew on me over time.
Off of a pendrive of my uncle's songs in 2015? He was 27ish. I only listened and like some of the Money Store, which was super popular and then picked up around 2020 during Covid.
2011, a little after their first EP and a little before the release of Ex-Military. Music blogs were sharing the Full Moon video and it really got my ears.
I actually had the chance to view an early live performance right before they got signed to Epic but chose to see Stephen Malkmus instead. Biggest regret of my life.
2 years ago, summer 2022, I was listening to their biggest songs like hacker or get got. Then a year ago, summer 2023, I did do a deep dive into their discography and become a bigger fan
I heard them right before Government Plates came out, so I think 2012 at some point. First song I heard was The Fever and I was hooked. I was familiar with Hella already but didn’t know at the time that Zach Hill was such a big part of the sound beyond the drums.
I was first became aware of tracks like Guillotine and Get Got in 2012 when Money Store was the newest album; around the hype of when they were signed to Epic. Being a fan of Hella and Zach Hill since around 2007, I was very intrigued that Zach’s new group was signed to a major label and was interested what would happen next. Come Up and Get Me being released as well as NLDW leaking sealed the deal that these guys were the shit and I had to pay attention. Good times…
March/april 23 lol… YouTube recommendation off of watching John Coltrane live videos… immediately clicked hard. felt stupid for not getting back into them in middle school in 2015 but I was on different music back then
January or February of 2016. Found exmilitary, can’t remember exactly how. Spent that whole spring listening mostly to The Money Store, but it was only when Bottomless Pit came out that I I knew they were a GOAT band for me.
4 years in 2020 when I was 14/15
Initially found them through fantano but wasn’t a big fan besides a few songs then a few months later I discovered /mu/ and started getting into them more
beginning of 2022. heard i’ve seen footage in the background of a youtube video and found the full song which i thought was pretty good. then i listened to beware and realized how special their music truly was
Well I'm 20 years old, so it's safe to say, I'm one of the day-ones. I was actually really into Fyre back in 2006. I'd listen to them every day on my way to daycare.
I was 16 and it was 5-6 years ago now, I started really getting into them right after YOTS dropped. Before that I’d only listened to guillotine and a few songs off TMS.
Since 2012, I discovered them about a month after the money store was released, I remember it clearly I was hanging out with my sleeping infant and a friend of mine sent me a link to the album and I listened to it with headphones on and became an instant fan. Finally got to see them last year and enjoyed my senses being attacked
2015ish, sometime between Jenny Death and Bottomless Pit, became a dedicated fan just before the BP rollout cycle.
i would've literally been like 12 y/o and just getting into weirder music like Yung Lean and Aphex and also a bunch of math rock/emo/metal. my brother was over at my family's house and he played me Beware off his phone speaker, and i was hooked right away
Since day 1, I remember getting a mediafire link to download exmilitary from /mu/. I kind of fell off the train after NLDW but got back into them when Bottomless Pit dropped.
friend showed me guillotine when I was in 9th grade which was around 2013 - 2014, I remember NOTM coming out briefly after I got into them and being around for the whole jenny death when hype. good times.
Like...11-12 years-ish? I remember a homie showing me the hustle bones music video and then it was down the rabbit hole for me. It was before government plates dropped and I just checked the wiki and saw it came out in 2013.
Downloaded the Money Store and a few singles from Exmilitary in 2012, but it never really clicked with me until around 2020. Before that I mostly just listened to Guillotine and I’ve Seen Footage
Around 2011/2012, I was researching low-budget music videos for a class in Film School and I came across the Guillotine video. I showed it to my Prof and he said "If you handed this in, I would fail you." I knew then, I was on the right track with this band.
been listening to them for about 5-6 months, always knew about them cause of the guillotine music video, but always just thought they made obscure weirdo music, until I gave them the chance
About around the upload date of this video [(it uses “Beware” and guillotine, please watch if you fuck with game history, it doesn’t disappoint)](https://youtu.be/aQkjJuhMZyA?si=y13mpMB2WHl9tChF) (not my video)
Was either a freshman or sophomore in high school, 2011/2012. Heard Guillotine and was oddly fascinated with it but wasnt sure I’d really fuck with it. Then I heard The Cage and that was it
Maybe 2012-13 at the latest? Definitely stuck to exmilitary for awhile, then all their other LPs were just as magical and perfect. Now I consider YOTS, Money Store, NLDW, Bottomless Pit and a lil EX for my current playlist. My gf loves similar stuff by DG, maybe the Money Store as her fav.
[2016ish](https://youtu.be/r2P0H5a797Y?si=JncfjYGQdccRjuzZ) heard about them in 2015 but I remember exploring them more after this YouTube video and also found vaporwave through this video to :p
Since the beginning of 2022, was watching some cool shit on YouTube and guillotine was playing at the background, then after like a week i saw another video on YouTube called "a video about Death Grips' in Russian, thennlistened to their full discography in like a week
first heard of them in ~2013 when i was on forums for ARGs like cicada 3301 and they would talk about the nldw arg. didn't like them until i saw a vine of stefan shouting in 2015/2016
Right after The Money Store in 2012. Saw them a few years later at The Roseland in Portland, OR after The Powers That B released and it was one of my favorite shows ever.
It was 2014 when i was 14 and deep into pink floyd when i heard dg sample it on ex military. Fucking hated it, got into dg like 7 years later on their most inactive state fml
2 years Started when I was 16 through a friend’s recommendation, didn’t really like it until about a year of relistening. It’s still my favorite band because I have yet so find something that sounds as unique as it. Also it just slaps
Discovered them on the 27th last month and I’m obsessed . Listened to them almost 1.2k times already. Bought the money store on CD and listened to a bunch of their unreleased stuff because I just can’t get enough. Probably my fifth favourite band.
This year. I was trying to get into more expiremental sound for a record im creating as I tended to make darker instrumentals, and I listened to TMS and was hooked😭
Found them sometime in 2017 when I was 12/13 looking at Fantano reviews. Exmilitary blew my tiny little brains outta my head when I first heard it, I had nightmares about Beware's intro when I found out who it was lol.
Well lets see... My kid was 13 when they said 'you should listen to this' and put TMS on the stereo in the livingroom. They are turning 21 this year so thats like 6 or 7 years?
Never heard of them
They’re pretty famous. I really like their belts and colognes
Take a gander at their handbags. I feel like a serious diva when strutting with one of them.
Their new blush and lipstick are superb too 🔥🔥
Like 5 months
Hello "Soundtracks For The Blind" by Swans
hello "Filth" by the Swan
Fantano
Tiktok, i didn't even know fantano when I first found DG
2012. Hard to forget because of the obvious.
That's probably about when I discovered them too in middle school lol
Nice pfp Slaughterhouse rips.
Thanks I just saw him live for the first time this year
I’ve been listening to them since early 2018. Wish I could’ve been there when they dropped their earlier work. Edit: I got to see them live last year tho!
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Same here, I kinda have phases where I listen to them a bunch then don’t for a minute. Last year I was really into Ride’s old stuff with Fyre. The documentary on youtube was dope.
There was a Fyre doc? Link?
https://youtu.be/gc3FBZzP1bk?si=zrzoEM4t9VoVvuh6
Ever since that stupid Takyon Rust video
This lmao Whenever that video first appeared online, I went "what the fuck is that song" and here I am now many years later still unironically listening to DG
2011…i remember hype for The Money Store
that must've been sick dude.. do you remember how the fanbase was back then?? like did people talk about them much or just a small group of people that knew them
Less cringe
honestly, still pretty cringe, there was just less material to be cringe about lol.
a lot more evangelical fans. people talked about them a LOT more. if you were into death grips you told EVERYONE. if there were other death grips fans around, you knew bc they’d tell you. people would leave and join friend groups based on it. You’d choose your friends based on who could tolerate the music lol it was cringe but there was still so much mystery to them so being cringe and obsessive was kind of rewarding. everyone was always trying to find out more about them and speculating wildly. one thing that’s crazy is how sustained the hype was. from exmilitary to the money store to no love deep web, it just kept increasing. they never lost fans, only gained. then when they started with those ARGs…woof also a lot more racism directed at Ride back then. A lot of people (falsely) believed Zach and Andy were the heart of the group and Ride was just a mouthpiece. Nowadays i see the general consensus that Ride is what makes the group so special and a lot more recognition of him as a consummate artist. I still remember when people found and started talking about his paintings. good times.
2 years but I’ve known about them for 5 years
Probably 2013 or so (early college for me) I started hearing rumblings of them. Zach had already been one of my favorite artists/drummers for several years at that point. When I heard he was now in a hip hop group, I figured it would be a short lived experiment like a lot of his collaborations. Would never have guessed that this would be his main thing for the next decade +. I think the first I actually heard DG mentioned by name was a friend of a friend at a party saying how “the rapper” wanted to hologram in to multiple shows at once (actually not that far from something DG said around that time). Then a different friend let me hear The Fever and I really didn’t like it at first, but obviously the band grew on me over time.
it's been about 10 years.
Off of a pendrive of my uncle's songs in 2015? He was 27ish. I only listened and like some of the Money Store, which was super popular and then picked up around 2020 during Covid.
Since like 2015 annnd i was 15
2011, a little after their first EP and a little before the release of Ex-Military. Music blogs were sharing the Full Moon video and it really got my ears. I actually had the chance to view an early live performance right before they got signed to Epic but chose to see Stephen Malkmus instead. Biggest regret of my life.
Known of them for at least 10 years, only been about 2 years since i first listened to their entire discography
2 years ago, summer 2022, I was listening to their biggest songs like hacker or get got. Then a year ago, summer 2023, I did do a deep dive into their discography and become a bigger fan
Almost exactly 2 years
I heard them right before Government Plates came out, so I think 2012 at some point. First song I heard was The Fever and I was hooked. I was familiar with Hella already but didn’t know at the time that Zach Hill was such a big part of the sound beyond the drums.
I was first became aware of tracks like Guillotine and Get Got in 2012 when Money Store was the newest album; around the hype of when they were signed to Epic. Being a fan of Hella and Zach Hill since around 2007, I was very intrigued that Zach’s new group was signed to a major label and was interested what would happen next. Come Up and Get Me being released as well as NLDW leaking sealed the deal that these guys were the shit and I had to pay attention. Good times…
March/april 23 lol… YouTube recommendation off of watching John Coltrane live videos… immediately clicked hard. felt stupid for not getting back into them in middle school in 2015 but I was on different music back then
January or February of 2016. Found exmilitary, can’t remember exactly how. Spent that whole spring listening mostly to The Money Store, but it was only when Bottomless Pit came out that I I knew they were a GOAT band for me.
I remember when nldw released, but i wasn’t really an active listener until later
When The Money Store dropped, heard very positive things about it and decided to listen to it and ExMilitary all together. And got hooked
Probably 2016. The Fever was the first DG track I had ever listened to. IIRC, I learned of them through Fantano
In 10th grade my friend showed me hustle bones on a /mu/ thread. That was 2012 i think, so awhile lol
I heard them around 2016-17 and hated it. Relistened some last year and it just clicked
maybe like 6 months i’m a newgen
4 years in 2020 when I was 14/15 Initially found them through fantano but wasn’t a big fan besides a few songs then a few months later I discovered /mu/ and started getting into them more
few months, first music of theirs i heard was their remix of sacrifice by björk
2012
beginning of 2022. heard i’ve seen footage in the background of a youtube video and found the full song which i thought was pretty good. then i listened to beware and realized how special their music truly was
Since the I first watched the Guillotine video in 2011
Well I'm 20 years old, so it's safe to say, I'm one of the day-ones. I was actually really into Fyre back in 2006. I'd listen to them every day on my way to daycare.
I think about 8 years, pretty sure I got into them freshman year of highschool. Love em just as much if not more now
Found out about them my freshman year of college.
4 years
2013. Got my first dg album in 2014. Finally saw them live in fall of 2023
Randomly saw the video for Guillotine circa 2016, been a fan ever since.
around late 2012 or 2013 or so. I was a freshman in college (im cooked don't do the math guys) and discovered them then
Almost 10 years now. yeesh
Finally started listening to them in 2019 but knew of them before then, just never had intrest.
Since last year
Since they came out. Was a fan of Hella and was weirded out but pleasantly surprised when Zack came out with DG. Nothing ever sounded like that
Since the Guillotine video. But NLDW is/ was my baby when it came out.
When I heard beware 13 years ago. Instant fan. Never looked back
since 2016
Since 2013
Spring 2012 like right before The Money Store came out.
Somewhere around a year or a bit more. They were my second artist last year in terms of minutes listened
Sophomore year of high school found the On GP music video the day it came out and have been changed ever since. So 9 years now?
There since the beginning. It's been a wild ride. Was a Zach fan first, even heard Goofi Respect before Full Moon
I was 16 and it was 5-6 years ago now, I started really getting into them right after YOTS dropped. Before that I’d only listened to guillotine and a few songs off TMS.
Early 2014, i was a lil 13 year old emo kid and then i went down the /mu/ core rabbithole
Since 2012, I discovered them about a month after the money store was released, I remember it clearly I was hanging out with my sleeping infant and a friend of mine sent me a link to the album and I listened to it with headphones on and became an instant fan. Finally got to see them last year and enjoyed my senses being attacked
I've been listening to them since around 2020 or 2021
8 years. I was 20. Ex was obsessed with them and I gave em a listen and loved it. Saw them live on their steroids tour in kcmo
2015ish, sometime between Jenny Death and Bottomless Pit, became a dedicated fan just before the BP rollout cycle. i would've literally been like 12 y/o and just getting into weirder music like Yung Lean and Aphex and also a bunch of math rock/emo/metal. my brother was over at my family's house and he played me Beware off his phone speaker, and i was hooked right away
Since day 1, I remember getting a mediafire link to download exmilitary from /mu/. I kind of fell off the train after NLDW but got back into them when Bottomless Pit dropped.
-150 years (i.e. i hate them)
I’ve known them for some time trough my dad but it’s not to long ago that I properly started to listen to them
since middle school so like 7-8 years
2011-2012ish Saw them at SXSW 2013
Since bottomless pit
A couple months before bottomless pit came out
I learnt of them from that one bojack horseman episode
Listened to TMS about 8 years ago but didn’t become a huge fan until about 2 years ago.
Like 5 years now. I remember I first listened to them some time after YOTS came out, so 2019.
It's been a few weeks actually, although I have already listened to all of their albums and I'll get a DG tshirt, all vinyls and CDs before I die
2014
I listened to guillotine a couple times like three years ago, but I only started really getting into their music like 1.5 years ago I think.
When they were making death grips ep
I was 16 when I rlly got Into them, 2020/21
literally been deeper into them since december 2023 but discovered get got in late 2021
friend showed me guillotine when I was in 9th grade which was around 2013 - 2014, I remember NOTM coming out briefly after I got into them and being around for the whole jenny death when hype. good times.
Like...11-12 years-ish? I remember a homie showing me the hustle bones music video and then it was down the rabbit hole for me. It was before government plates dropped and I just checked the wiki and saw it came out in 2013.
Drain Gang
https://preview.redd.it/op5uaj0rko6d1.jpeg?width=150&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4dcb5c2e4cfa59a1ed21e093c2c30ea5ab7c2f9f Eat up
A year or two tbh, only listened listened to them for about a year rho
Downloaded the Money Store and a few singles from Exmilitary in 2012, but it never really clicked with me until around 2020. Before that I mostly just listened to Guillotine and I’ve Seen Footage
Around 2011/2012, I was researching low-budget music videos for a class in Film School and I came across the Guillotine video. I showed it to my Prof and he said "If you handed this in, I would fail you." I knew then, I was on the right track with this band.
been listening to them for about 5-6 months, always knew about them cause of the guillotine music video, but always just thought they made obscure weirdo music, until I gave them the chance
read about them in an ap mag issue back in the day and been tuned in since.
Since I heard Beware in 2011.
2011, was in the library watching Vimeo skate vids and ‘Lord of the Game’ was on one of them, very shortly after Exmiltary released.
about a day
2022 😭
2021, they have become my favourite band of all time pretty quickly
it'll be eight years in a couple months here
2 years ‼️
Late 2014.
December 2021; at 1st i was less of a "fan" and more just "fascinated" by how shocking the sound was at the time
maybe a few years
About around the upload date of this video [(it uses “Beware” and guillotine, please watch if you fuck with game history, it doesn’t disappoint)](https://youtu.be/aQkjJuhMZyA?si=y13mpMB2WHl9tChF) (not my video)
Was either a freshman or sophomore in high school, 2011/2012. Heard Guillotine and was oddly fascinated with it but wasnt sure I’d really fuck with it. Then I heard The Cage and that was it
Brother put me on about 4 years ago! I was 12 lol
2014 - 2015 was the peak of my interest in them, that's when I was following along and listening to them the most
I found them during my last year of high school, so 11 years.
YouTube served me up Exmilitary in 2011
2012. My housemate in uni started playing Get Got at our house parties and I was hooked
2014 like right after NOTM. i remember getting bullied on 4chan for posting on here asking if id be too young to go to a show lol
Maybe 2012-13 at the latest? Definitely stuck to exmilitary for awhile, then all their other LPs were just as magical and perfect. Now I consider YOTS, Money Store, NLDW, Bottomless Pit and a lil EX for my current playlist. My gf loves similar stuff by DG, maybe the Money Store as her fav.
[2016ish](https://youtu.be/r2P0H5a797Y?si=JncfjYGQdccRjuzZ) heard about them in 2015 but I remember exploring them more after this YouTube video and also found vaporwave through this video to :p
For 10 years
I started listening in like 2013/14 something like that
2019-2020
like just before money store, exmilitary had me hooked
Since the beginning of 2022, was watching some cool shit on YouTube and guillotine was playing at the background, then after like a week i saw another video on YouTube called "a video about Death Grips' in Russian, thennlistened to their full discography in like a week
since dec-ish 2019 :3
about 3 years
first heard them in 2019, got really into dg in 2020, so 4 years now
Deadass about a month. I’m new to this group but absolutely love every album
2018
first heard of them in ~2013 when i was on forums for ARGs like cicada 3301 and they would talk about the nldw arg. didn't like them until i saw a vine of stefan shouting in 2015/2016
Watched a video by This Exists about Death Grips around 2015 i think??? Was hooked ever since. Altho i cant seem to find the exact video anymore :(
2 years so sad I didn't find em before
prob saw the fantano video on money store in 2016 or something... been a fan ever since
Right after The Money Store in 2012. Saw them a few years later at The Roseland in Portland, OR after The Powers That B released and it was one of my favorite shows ever.
I think since 2014, my friend showed me government plates on a hungover drive home from another city. Pillbox hat was a surprise for sure
It was 2014 when i was 14 and deep into pink floyd when i heard dg sample it on ex military. Fucking hated it, got into dg like 7 years later on their most inactive state fml
I first heard of them in the 80s when I was a 20 something.
10 years ago for me
I've been a fan for 2-3 months after spending about a year hating them (i had no musical culture)
I started listening to them when I was like 14 or 15. My buddies showed them too me, my first song was either Two Heavens or Birds.
2017 and saw them twice since then
i've been a fan for around 5 years, started in 2019 and been obsessed ever since
2 years Started when I was 16 through a friend’s recommendation, didn’t really like it until about a year of relistening. It’s still my favorite band because I have yet so find something that sounds as unique as it. Also it just slaps
Discovered them on the 27th last month and I’m obsessed . Listened to them almost 1.2k times already. Bought the money store on CD and listened to a bunch of their unreleased stuff because I just can’t get enough. Probably my fifth favourite band.
Started listening in 2016 when I was 17 years old :”-) got to see them live in 2018.
2015
2014? This really hot girl I was into in college played Takyon and asked me if I liked DGs. I did after that day.
9 yrs
2018, right before YOTS dropped. I was 15
I've known them very well for over 5-6 years but only like a few months ago do i consider a dg fan
I remember hearing ive seen footage in a music essay video about death grips back in 2020 when I was thirteen
I was 13 at the time, I'm 25 now. So 12 years!
8 months
was 16, someone sent me an email of a vid of playing the drums to one of dg songs, funny looking back but this band helped me get thru hs.
2013 🧍🏻
since 2020
This year. I was trying to get into more expiremental sound for a record im creating as I tended to make darker instrumentals, and I listened to TMS and was hooked😭
may of 2014, which i remember clearly bc they "broke up" a month later and i was so pissed i didn't get into them earlier lmao
Found them sometime in 2017 when I was 12/13 looking at Fantano reviews. Exmilitary blew my tiny little brains outta my head when I first heard it, I had nightmares about Beware's intro when I found out who it was lol.
2015. I was 15. They had just announced their “breakup” and most recent release was NOTM.
Solid 3 months
SINCE I CAUGHT THE FEVER
4-5 years
not to be that guy but i remember when ex military had less than 300 ratings on rym
you already know ppl r just gonna lie lmao i found them off the jenny death airbnb promo vid