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Grunge band Nirvana at the MTV Video Music Awards in 1993, receiving the Best Alternative Video Award for ‘In Bloom’. The Seattle-based band – from left, Kris Novoselic, Dave Grohl, and Kurt Cobain – defined and popularized a style of music that came to be known as grunge rock, with the band's first album Bleach (1989) gaining it a counterculture following among college students.

Rock music style of the early 1990s, featuring a thick, abrasive, distorted sound. Grunge evolved from punk in the Seattle and Washington areas of the USA and became popular following the chart success of the band Nirvana in 1991.

The Melvins (formed in Seattle in the early 1980s) pioneered grunge with their turbid, slow-moving sound. Pearl Jam (formed in Seattle in 1990), with their powerful singer, Eddie Vedder, have been the most commercially successful grunge-inspired group to follow after Nirvana.



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