History Main / HardcorePunk

* Music/DeezNuts (Australia, also PunkRap)

Bands from Southern California in the early 1990s who were influenced by the hardcore sound of Music/BlackFlag and the Music/{{Descendents}}, such as NOFX, Music/{{Rancid}}, Music/BadReligion and Music/TheOffspring, were a huge part of the 1990s Punk Revival, incorporating more melodic elements, with Bad Religion in particular being known as the creators of the melodic hardcore subgenre. These bands also cemented the genre of SkatePunk and played a part in the popularity of SkaPunk and PopPunk, influencing bands in the latter genre like Music/GreenDay and Music/{{Blink 182}}.

Bands from Southern California in the early 1990s who were influenced by the hardcore sound of Music/BlackFlag and the Music/{{Descendents}}, such as NOFX, Music/{{Rancid}}, Music/BadReligion and Music/TheOffspring, were a huge part of the 1990s Punk Revival, incorporating more melodic elements, with Bad Religion and the Descendents in particular being known as the creators of the melodic hardcore subgenre. These bands also cemented the genre of SkatePunk and played a part in the popularity of SkaPunk and PopPunk, influencing bands in the latter genre like Music/GreenDay and Music/{{Blink 182}}.

* Music/{{Descendents}} (California) (one of the first to combine it with PopPunk and one of the {{Trope Maker}}s for melodic hardcore alongside Bad Religion)

Bands from Southern California in the early 1990s who were influenced by the hardcore sound of Music/BlackFlag and the Descendents, such as NOFX, Music/{{Rancid}}, Music/BadReligion and Music/TheOffspring, were a huge part of the 1990s Punk Revival, incorporating more melodic elements, with Bad Religion in particular being known as one of the creators of the melodic hardcore genre. These bands also cemented the genre of SkatePunk and played a part in the popularity of SkaPunk and PopPunk, influencing bands in the latter genre like Music/GreenDay and Music/{{Blink 182}}.

* Music/{{Descendents}} (California) (also an UrExample of PopPunk)

* DoingItForTheArt: So much so that it's easier to find bands which ''don't'' fall into this trope.

During the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s, hardcore also branched out through the work of bands like Music/{{Fugazi}}, Music/RitesOfSpring and Embrace, whose greater experimentation, more melodic songwriting and highly emotional, introspective lyrics helped create PostHardcore and EmoMusic, which have both strayed from their origins and become difficult to define (especially the latter genre). On the other hand, this time period also resulted in a different movement that aimed to mix the energy and intensity of hardcore and grindcore with the oblique, discordant elements of post-hardcore, noise, and math rock to create the powerviolence genre, which made a name for itself with bands like Man Is the Bastard, Spazz, and Despise You and later helped create the Entombedcore movement in the late 2000s when people began to mix it with metalcore and crust punk.

During the second half of the 1980s and early 1990s, hardcore also branched out through the work of bands like Music/{{Fugazi}}, Music/RitesOfSpring and Embrace. This was the beginning of PostHardcore and EmoMusic, which have both strayed from their origins and become difficult to define. On the other hand, this time period also resulted in a different movement that aimed to mix the energy and intensity of hardcore and grindcore with the oblique, discordant elements of post-hardcore, noise, and math rock to create the powerviolence genre, which made a name for itself with bands like Man Is the Bastard, Spazz, and Despise You and later helped create the Entombedcore movement in the late 2000s when people began to mix it with metalcore and crust punk.

In the early 1990s, hardcore also branched out through the work of bands like Music/{{Fugazi}}, Music/RitesOfSpring and Embrace. This was the beginning of PostHardcore and EmoMusic, which have both strayed from their origins and become difficult to define. On the other hand, this time period also resulted in a different movement that aimed to mix the energy and intensity of hardcore and grindcore with the oblique, discordant elements of post-hardcore, noise, and math rock to create the powerviolence genre, which made a name for itself with bands like Man Is the Bastard, Spazz, and Despise You and later helped create the Entombedcore movement in the late 2000s when people began to mix it with metalcore and crust punk.

* Music/{{Tendril}} ( Texas, mixed with AlternativeMetal)

* Music/{{Turbonegro}}

But also more out-there, and somewhat political in some cases. It started in North America in the late [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. The musicians had (mostly) identical ideologies to the first punk rockers, including the DIY-aesthetic. However, while the major early punk bands signed to major labels, hardcore bands recorded DIY records and sold them on tour, retaining their underground freedom. The art school influences on early punk were discarded, as hardcore musicians and fans tended to have a more blue collar background. As well, hardcore bands and fans moved away from the multicoloured Mohawks and flamboyant look and towards simple crew cuts, plain t-shirts, jeans and sneakers.

In the early 1980s, the UK hardcore scene produced Discharge, a band with a brutal roar of guitars and screamed vocals on anti-war themes, all over an unrelenting drumbeat, nicknamed D-beat, which was influential in hardcore. Their fusion of hardcore punk with the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal would be refined by bands like Amebix, Hellbastard, Antisect, and Anti Cimex, spawning the genre of crust punk.

In the early 1990s, hardcore also branched out through the work of bands like Music/{{Fugazi}}, Music/RitesOfSpring and Embrace. This was the beginning of PostHardcore and EmoMusic, which have both strayed from their origins and become difficult to define. On the other hand, this time period also resulted in a different movement that aimed to mix the energy and intensity of hardcore and grindcore with the oblique, discordant elements of post-hardcore, noise, and math rock to create the powerviolence genre, which made a name for itself with bands like Man Is the Bastard, Spazz, and Despise You and later helped create the Entombedcore movement in the late 2000s when people began to mix it with metalcore and crust punk. Furthermore, beatdown hardcore and slam death metal also started finding themselves being mixed in ways that increasingly blurred the lines between the two genres in the 2010s; while it is still largely an underground movement, acts like No Zodiac, Dysentery, The Merciless Concept, and Acranius have started to gain some momentum, and Slam Worldwide (a content aggregator/one-man PR firm) has served as something of an epicenter of this movement. The Entombedcore movement also bled into death metal, where a new crop of old-school death metal acts with extremely prominent hardcore elements (namely Gatecreeper, Outer Heaven, and Creeping Death) began to find substantial unexpected success in the late 2010s.

+ occasional HeavyMetal, ProtoPunk, Surf Music and {{Rockabilly}} influences

* HeavyMetal: Hardcore has a long and nuanced history with Metal, featuring a ''lot'' of cross pollination. Metal was very influential on what HardcorePunk became, and metal and hardcore combining has created several metal subgenres such as ThrashMetal, CrossoverThrash, and {{Metalcore}}.

* Music/Amebix (co-TropeMaker for crust punk)

* Big Boys [[/index]](Austin, An odd, {{Funk}} influenced band, an early example of Queercore)[[index]]
* Music/BlackFlag [[/index]](UrExample for California Hardcore)[[index]]

* Bulldoze (New York, TropeCodifier for beatdown)

* Music/{{Crass}} [[/index]](UrExample of British Hardcore; also generally considered {{Trope Maker}}s for anarcho-punk)[[index]]

* Music/DeadKennedys [[/index]](A rare GenreBusting example from California and a [[TropeMaker pretty early one too]].)[[index]]

* Deep Wound [[/index]](Boston, precursor of Music/DinosaurJr)[[index]]

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* Deez Nuts (Australia, also PunkRap)

* Dropdead (Rhode Island, also an UrExample of powerviolence)

* Earth Crisis (Syracuse, also one of the [[TropeCodifier Trope Codifiers]] for metalcore.)

* Music/{{Flipper}} [[/index]](California, Also NoiseRock)[[index]]

* Fuming Mouth (Boston, mixed with DeathMetal)

* Music/TheGerms [[/index]](California, TropeMaker)[[index]]

* Music/{{Hatebreed}} [[/index]](Connecticut, also {{Metalcore}})[[index]]

* [=Ho99o9=] (New Jersey, also {{Horrorcore}} and [[{{Industrial}} Industrial Hip Hop]])

* Music/HuskerDu [[/index]](Minnesota, early material, later moved on to PostHardcore and AlternativeRock)[[index]]

* [[Music/JerrysKids Jerry's Kids]] [[/index]](another possible UrExample from Boston)[[index]]

* Judge (New York, also an UrExample of beatdown)

** The Teen Idles (Possible UrExample of DC hardcore)

* Racetraitor (Chicago, also powerviolence; also famous for its association with Music/FallOutBoy, as Andy Hurley is their longtime drummer and Pete Wentz was an intermittent live fill-in bassist)

* Scream (DC, members went on to form Music/FooFighters and Dave Grohl was in the band before Music/{{Nirvana}})

* Siege [[/index]](Boston, also an UrExample of {{Grindcore}} and powerviolence)[[index]]

* Tendril ( Texas, mixed with AlternativeMetal)

* Music/{{TSOL}} (Orange County, later became more of a [[GothRock Deathrock]] band)[[index]]

* Music/{{Wire}} (UK, Their 1977 debut ''Music/PinkFlag'' is another [[/index]][[UrExample avant-garde precursor]])[[index]]

* Bodysnatcher (Florida, also deathcore, though they are much closer to a slam/beatdown sound on ''This Heavy Void'')

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually in the 6-8 range, sometimes higher in cases of bands with pronounced metal influences. Occasionally drops down to a 5, as well (particularly melodic hardcore). Most forms of powerviolence and crust punk can be found in the 9-to-11 mark, instead.

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But also more out-there, and somewhat political in some cases. It started in North America in the late [[TheSeventies 1970s]]. The musicians had (mostly) identical ideologies to the first punk rockers, including the DIY-aesthetic. However, while the major early punk bands signed to major labels, hardcore bands recorded DIY records and sold them on tour, retaining their underground freedom. The art school influences on early punk were discarded. As well, hardcore bands and fans moved away from the multicoloured Mohawks and flamboyant look and towards simple crew cuts, plain t-shirts, jeans and sneakers.

Japanese hardcore got its start sometime around the early 1980s, with acts like S.O.B., SS, GISM, The Stalin, and Gauze forming the initial wave. Characterized by its prominent noise and Discharge/D-beat influences, Japanese hardcore was notoriously frantic and abrasive and proved instrumental in the rise of thrashcore and grindcore, with GISM and S.O.B. having been noted as influences by Music/NapalmDeath.

'''Hardcore punk''' is what happens when you take PunkRock and [[DarkerAndEdgier make it harder, faster and more aggressive]]. Simple.

Bands from Southern California in the early 1990s who were influenced by the hardcore sound of Music/BlackFlag and the Descendents, such as NOFX, Music/{{Rancid}}, Music/BadReligion and Music/TheOffspring, were a huge part of the 1990s Punk Revival. These bands also cemented the genre of SkatePunk and played a part in the popularity of SkaPunk and PopPunk, influencing bands in the latter genre like Music/GreenDay and Music/{{Blink 182}}.