Punk is a state of mind, and Hardcore is where it hits at its most ferocious. Use this hub to explore the faster, louder and more explosive end of the punk spectrum, from classic hardcore and D-beat to melodic, post-hardcore and modern crossover sounds.
Punk is a state of mind, and Hardcore is where it hits at its most ferocious. Use this hub to explore the faster, louder and more explosive end of the punk spectrum, from classic hardcore and D-beat to melodic, post-hardcore and crossover sounds.
Hardcore strips things back and turns the pressure up. It runs from the early US and UK scenes through NYHC, crust, powerviolence, skate punk, melodic hardcore, post-hardcore and heavier crossover bands that borrowed the speed, anger and directness of punk and then made a right racket with it.
Browse official merch, vinyl and CDs from scene staples, cult names and newer bands keeping the sound moving. Some artists here are pure Hardcore Punk, while others sit on the edges of post-hardcore, metalcore, crossover thrash, noise punk or melodic punk, but all belong in the wider conversation.
This A-Z list takes a wide discovery view of Hardcore. Expect old-school hardcore, D-beat, crust, melodic hardcore, post-hardcore, crossover thrash, metallic hardcore and related punk-heavy sounds.
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A: Adolescents, Agnostic Front, Alexisonfire, All Pigs Must Die, Amebix, Angel Du$t, At The Drive-In
B: Bad Brains, Bad Religion, Biohazard, Black Flag, Body Count
C: Cancer Bats, Candy, Capra, Ceremony, The Chisel, City of Caterpillar, Coalesce, Code Orange, Comeback Kid, Converge, Cro-Mags, Cryptic Slaughter
D: Dag Nasty, Dead Heat, Dead Kennedys, Deez Nuts, Descendents, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Discharge, Disfear, Disgust, Disrupt, D.O.A., Dog Eat Dog, Doom, downset.
E: English Dogs, Envy, Every Time I Die, The Exploited, Extreme Noise Terror
F: FEAR, Full of Hell
G: GBH, Gel, G.I.S.M., Great American Ghost, Guilt Trip
H: Harm's Way, Hatebreed, Higher Power, High Vis, Hot Water Music, Husker Du
I: Integrity, Iron Reagan
K: Knocked Loose, Kublai Khan TX
L: La Dispute, Lifesick, L.S. Dunes
M: Madball, Militarie Gun, Minor Threat, Minutemen, Misfits, Municipal Waste
N: NAILS, Naked Raygun
P: Poison Idea, Poison the Well, Power Trip, Propagandhi
Q: Quicksand
R: R.A.M.B.O., Raw Power, Refused, Ringworm, Rise Against, Rolo Tomassi, Rudimentary Peni
S: Sacrilege, Samiam, Scowl, Shame, Sick Of It All, Soft Play, Spiritual Cramp, Static Dress, Stick To Your Guns, Stiff Little Fingers, Stormtroopers Of Death, Stray From The Path, Suicidal Tendencies, Svalbard
T: Terror, Thrice, Thursday, Touché Amoré, Toxic Reasons, Trappist, Turnstile
W: Weekend Nachos, Whores., Wolfbrigade, Wormrot, Wrong
If you want to keep digging, browse the wider Punk Music Hub, or move into Punk Rock, Alternative Rock, Thrash Metal and the broader Metal Music Hub. Hardcore has never been especially fussy about borders, which is handy, because neither are most decent record collections.
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