History Main / HardcorePunk

* [[Music/XUSBand X]] (California, More poetic and less fast than their contemporaries)

* Music/{{X}} (California, More poetic and less fast than their contemporaries)

* Music/TheCrucifucks (Wisconsin)

* Music/DieKreuzen (Wisconsin)

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

* Music/ManIsTheBastard (California)

* [[Music/{{DOA}} D.O.A.]] ({{Trope Namer|s}}, TropeCodifier in Canada)

* Fuming Mouth (Boston)

* 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). Level 9 hardcore punk is often a subgenre like powerviolence or crust punk. Level 10-11 hardcore punk is instead [[Main/{{Grindcore}} something else entirely.]]

* LyricalDissonance: A lot of anarchist bands, such as Music/{{Crass}} and Flux of Pink Indians, used violent, abrasive musical styles to convey a message of ActualPacifism.

* Judiciary (Texas)

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.

* Bodysnatcher (Florida, also deathcore)

* AnarchyIsChaos: [[TropesAreNotBad In a good way, however.]] That said, some of the actual anarchist bands defy this, though the LyricalDissonance may make this not obvious at first.

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

* MinisculeRocking: A lot of bands have very short songs, though there was also a tendency among bands to expand their song lengths later in their career as they [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly experimented with their sound more]].

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: There's a few examples including Dead Kennedys, Big Boys, Meat Puppets, Suicidal Tendencies, Minutemen, Husker Du, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Gay Kiss and a few others. Many bands are also very thrash metal influenced.

* TropeMaker: Popular candidates include Music/BlackFlag, Music/DeadKennedys, Music/TheGerms. Some of them exhibit somewhat NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly tendencies compared to the rest of the genre because they played it when it had still been an UnbuiltTrope.

* Music/{{Fear}} (California)

* 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. Level 9 hardcore punk is often of a subgenre sometimes known as powerviolence. Level 10-11 hardcore punk is instead [[Main/{{Grindcore}} something else entirely.]]

* [[Music/{{DOA}} D.O.A.]] (TropeNamer, TropeCodifier in Canada)

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

In the late 1980's and the early [[TheNineties 1990's]], a new breed of hardcore band began. The first of these is sometimes thought to be Integrity, who hailed from Cleveland. They mixed thrash metal influences with the fresh flavor of hardcore, and sowed the seeds of a new genre, nowadays known as {{Metalcore}}. Other bands who were instrumental in this were Ringworm, Rorschach, Overcast, and Earth Crisis. Music/{{Converge}} were a band who formed in Boston, Massachusetts. They took the early sound of metallic hardcore and created an enigmatic mix of extreme metal with envelope-pushing sensibilities. Nowadays, they are seen to be the keystone in the influences of the Mathcore subgenre, which includes bands like Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan and Architects.

In the late 1980's and the early [[TheNineties 1990's]], a new breed of hardcore band began. The first of these is sometimes thought to be Integrity, who hailed from Cleveland. They mixed thrash metal influences with the fresh flavor of hardcore, and sowed the seeds of a new genre, nowadays known as {{Metalcore}}. Other bands who were instrumental in this were Ringworm, Rorschach and Earth Crisis. Music/{{Converge}} were a band who formed in Boston, Massachusetts. They took the early sound of metallic hardcore and created an enigmatic mix of extreme metal with envelope-pushing sensibilities. Nowadays, they are seen to be the keystone in the influences of the Mathcore subgenre, which includes bands like Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan and Architects.