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A Dirty Western

Along with Russ Meyer's nudie-cutie Wild Gals of the Naked West (1962) and the hardcore Sweet Savage (1979), the film is one of the few porn films in the American Western movie genre.

A Reason to Breathe

A Reason to Breathe is a self-released 2002 EP by US Hardcore/Rock band, The Esoteric.

A Tribute to Teresa Teng

Although the take of hardcore rock acts like Zang Tianshuo and 1989 on the gentle songs of Teresa Teng is rough edged, like Faye Wong's tribute Decadent Sound of Faye (菲靡靡之音) which appeared two months later, the album was a genuine and sincere tribute to the childhood appreciation of Teng as one of the first pop singers to be heard in China.

California State Route 2

During this time, the closed freeway was used as a location for several films, including Coffy, Corvette Summer, The Gumball Rally, Death Race 2000, Hardcore, and several American television series including "Adam-12", "Emergency!" and "CHiPs".

Dante Thomas

He has recently released his album Hardcore on Videotape and has an international single hit "Feeling So Blue" with Michael Mind Project, being a retake on Eiffel 65 1999 hit "Blue (Da Ba Dee)".

David Pajo

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Pajo played with three Louisville hardcore and hardcore-inflected bands in his early career.

Deadwater Drowning

Following the release of their self-titled EP, the band continued playing shows in their local area including a performance at the 5th annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Devinn Lane

In addition to hardcore work, Lane also hosted Playboy TV's mock reality show 7 Lives Exposed, which ran for six seasons until 2007, and has appeared in several softcore films which appear on DVD and on the Cinemax channels.

DJ Dean

DJ Dean's success began in 1992, at age 17, when he became well known in Hamburg's club scene with the music styles Hardcore and Gabba.

EC8OR

The music was in the same vein of Atari Teenage Riot's style of early Breakcore and hardcore techno with a punk edge, which led to EC8OR been overlooked by fans of digital hardcore recordings, but EC8OR employed more low-res ideas as the first album was entirely composed on Amiga 500 and with a microphone.

Envy / Jesu

Envy / Jesu is a split album between Japanese hardcore band Envy and Justin Broadrick's Jesu.

Enzyme Records

Founded in 2001 by Patrick van Kerckhoven as a continuation of Kerckhoven's previous labels, Gangsta Audiovisuals and Supreme Intelligence Records, to 'restart' his labels and continue in a new style of hardcore without being drowned in pointless criticism".

Errortype: Eleven

Errortype:11's eponymous debut on Some Records, the record label started by Walter Schreifels who played in many New York hardcore bands, most notably Youth Of Today and Gorilla Biscuits, the (post-hardcore band Quicksand and CIV), was recorded in seven days in Ray Martin's makeshift Operating Room.

Far-Less

Far-Less was a five-piece post-hardcore band originally from Marion, Virginia, with members from Marion and other surrounding areas, including Pulaski and Blacksburg.

Four Year Strong

For their third studio album, Enemy of the World, the band decided to expand upon their hardcore influences.

Hardcore Devo: Volume One

Some tracks are earlier versions of some of Devo's best known tracks that would later be re-recorded and used on subsequent Devo records (e.g. "Jocko Homo," "Mongoloid"), but a majority of the tracks were never re-used and remained unreleased until the Hardcore Devo compilations.

Hardcore Gamer

Although usually focusing on specialty games, Hardcore Gamer has featured cover stories for larger releases such as Dead Space and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

Hardcore Station

It is also the title of the DC Comics six-issue limited series Hardcore Station (July-December 1998) in which the concept was first introduced, created by writer Jim Starlin.

Johnny Whitney

He is probably most well known for his vocals alongside Jordan Blilie in the now defunct post-hardcore band, The Blood Brothers.

Jordan Blake

Blake was the former member & vocalist of the post-hardcore band A Skylit Drive, and was featured on their first release She Watched the Sky.

KCDIY

KCDIY is also the name of a music compilation featuring punk and hardcore bands from the Kansas City area such as Anxiety Attack, Crap Corps, Dick Cheney's Dick, The Hospital, Alert!

Lazy Sunday

The lyrics involve subjects that are "anything but hardcore," such as eating cupcakes from the Magnolia Bakery, searching for travel directions on MapQuest and buying tickets with $10 bills.

Lene Børglum

Lene Børglum (born 1961) is a Danish film producer who has worked on films in genres including experimental shorts, hardcore porn videos and theatrical feature films such as Lars von Trier's Golden Palm-nominated Dogville.

Letters To You

"Letters to You" is the first single released by Californian post-hardcore band Finch.

Los Angeles Free Press

The last issue was dated April 3, 1978, but was featured in Paul Schrader's 1979 film, Hardcore as where George Scott's Jake Van Dorn character placed an advertisement of himself as a porn producer in order to find his missing daughter.

Malaysian rock

Since the early millennium, Metalcore became popular in Malaysia as well with renowned underground bands such as Forsaken, Amarah, Dewata, Furion Escalada, Dominator (early), Tyrant (screamo), Dead Eyes Glow, Mad Monsters Attack, Restraint and Love Me Butch (post-hardcore) supporting the local scene.

Mark Breeze

Together, known as Styles & Breeze, they have produced some of the most popular hardcore and trance songs; examples include: "Heartbeatz", a UK #16 hit, "You're Shining" (UK #19), and "Let Me Fly" (UK #59).

Midget professional wrestling

The hardcore wrestling troupe the Half Pint Brawlers simulated sex, used staple guns as weapons, and performed using other hardcore antics in January 2008 during a Delta Upsilon fraternity event at Northwestern University.

Mr. Messiah

He is an important figure in the St. Petersburg Dubstep and Breakcore scenes and he is also closely affiliated with Russia’s glitch, IDM, Hardcore techno, music scenes.

Nefarious Realm

Nefarious Realm is a metal, hardcore, and extreme music-themed website and media company, founded by Matt Darcy in early 2006.

NIET

Niet, a punk rock and hardcore punk band from Ljubljana, Slovenia

Planes Mistaken for Stars

Their song title "Funeral for a Friend", itself shared with Elton John's "Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding", was adopted as the name of the Wales-based post-hardcore band Funeral for a Friend, whose lead singer Matthew Davies-Kreye cited Planes Mistaken for Stars as one of his favourite bands at that time.

Punk the Vote!

Roach and Starbuck, two hardcore punks from Montreal, try to form their own political party, but run out of time due to Canada's electoral process.

Queercore

Later, in the U.S. during the eighties when the Hardcore punk scene arose, The Dicks' Gary Floyd was writing queer-themed songs, as were many hardcore bands, except that he, along with Randy Turner of Big Boys were both open about being homosexuals.

Real Hardcore

Real Hardcore was covered by German Dance music group Rocco as Everybody, it was released as the second single from their 2003 album "Dancecore".

Robert Yonover

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Self Destruction Blues

"Dead By X-Mas" has been covered by the Japanese hardcore band The Piass in 1994, the US punk band The Hillstreet Stranglers in 2005, the British electro group Sohodolls in 2007 and the Finnish rockabilly band Big Daddy & Rockin’ Combo in 2008.

SpiderCider

SpiderCider is a punk rock project from Goth/Punk/Hardcore/Metal veteran Eerie Von.

Stereotyperider

Stereotyperider is a post-hardcore/punk band from Phoenix, Arizona.

The Killing Lights

The album, Hellbound & Heartless was released on June 19, 2012, presenting a drastical change from softer post-hardcore scream-style music to a heavier industrial metal with its typical distorted vocals.

The Sunmachine and the Ocean

"The Sunmachine And The Ocean" is the first official release from Scottish post-hardcore band The Ocean Fracture, and was produced by Ben Phillips at City Of Dis studios in Gillingham, Kent.

The Surprise of a Knight

By 1920, the first hardcore homosexual sex acts were depicted in the film Le ménage moderne du Madame Butterfly.

The UK Kid

Jones' VPW wrestling events have received wide acclaim as the best on the British wrestling circuit, with many former WWE wrestlers on the roster including Bob 'Hardcore' Holly, former D-Generation X member The Road Dogg, D'Lo Brown, Chris Masters, Kip James (AKA Billy Gunn), Shawn Daivari and Al Snow.

Unimagine

Unimagine is the sophomore album by Australian post-hardcore band Hands Like Houses, released on July 23, 2013 from Rise.

Washington, D.C. hardcore

Hardcore in D.C also has grown a large following in the late '80s and the '90s: Swiz, Device, World's Collide, Fury, Battery, Ashes, Gauge, Smart Went Crazy, and Damnation A.D., with a majority of these bands releasing albums on Jade Tree Records, THD, Art Monk Construction, Lovvitt Records, and Sammich.

World Burns to Death

As well, World Burns to Death's music reflects the tradition of 80s purist American hardcore (Negative Approach and Minor Threat), European bands influenced by, and including, Discharge, and Japanese hardcore punk (Burning Spirits).

WUFM

WUFM primarily plays alternative Christian music across several genres, with the most played including pop-rock, hard rock, punk, and hip-hop, as well as occasional emo, electronica/dance, and hardcore/metal.


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