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5 unusual facts about hardcore punk


'69 Newport

'69 Newport is a 7" vinyl EP record by the influential ska-core band Operation Ivy. The 7" was composed of "Hedgecore" and "Left Behind", both of which were recorded at 924 Gilman Street in 1987.

Camino a Idilia

Camino A Idilia is the fourth LP released by the argentinian Punk rock formerly Hardcore punk band Shaila, released on November 18, 2006.

Kevin Kash

Kash was a founding member of the seminal New York City hardcore band "Adam-12", which was co-founded by notable New York graffiti writer Revs who, along with Kash, wrote the majority of the band's material; their 7", "Do Not Resuscitate", is a sought-after collector's item.

Mat Walerian

He was strongly attracted to jazz, but also played in crossover groups melting hardcore and heavy experimental guitar music with free improvisation while in high school.

Sin Dios

Sin Dios (English: Godless) was a hardcore/anarcho-punk band from Spain that formed in 1988 in Madrid.


Agnostic Front

The band began playing hardcore punk similar to their contemporaries, and were thrust to the forefront of the burgeoning New York hardcore scene in the mid-1980s with their widely regarded 1984 classic Victim in Pain before incorporating thrash metal elements into their music.

Angermeans

Angermeans is the third full length album release by Californian hardcore band Strife.

Argentine punk

At the beginning of their career, their sound was heavily influenced by early hardcore punk bands such as Dead Kennedys and Bad Brains; death rock and goth rock bands such as Virgin Prunes, and reggae bands.

Armageddon Record Shop

It was started by the members of Dropdead, in order to release their LP in 1998, but now carries a full array for all kinds of records, from Indie rock to Hardcore punk to Noise music.

BBQ Chickens

BBQ Chickens (often stylized as BBQ CHICKENS) is a Japanese hardcore punk band, created in 2000 by former Hi-Standard member Ken Yokoyama.

Black Anvil

The band formed in New York City in 2007 and signed to Monumentum Records once the members left the hardcore punk band Kill Your Idols, who disbanded at that time.

Bright Grey

Bright Grey, the second album by hardcore punk band The Steal, was released on CD and vinyl by Banquet Records.

Call of the Weasel Clan

Call of the Weasel Clan is the debut album of UK ska punk band Lightyear, who originate from Derby, it features a blend of ska, pop punk, hardcore and reggae styles.

Chim Chim's Badass Revenge

The band's recent experiences prompted the album's themes of racism and music industry practices, and Chim Chim's Badass Revenge includes some of the band's heaviest songs, such as the hardcore punk title track, "Riot" and "Psychologically Overcast" (the latter featuring guest vocals by Busta Rhymes).

Christ on Parade

Christ on Parade was a mid-late 1980s San Francisco East Bay political hardcore punk band, formed in 1985 by ex-members of Teenage Warning and peace punks Treason.

Feel the Darkness

Feel the Darkness is an album released by the American hardcore punk band Poison Idea in 1990.

French Kicks

Three of the original four band members, bassist Jamie Krents, vocalist/drummer Nick Stumpf, and vocalist/guitarist Matthew Stinchcomb (currently Etsy's European Director), are from Washington, D.C. They were heavily influenced by the hardcore scene that flourished during their youth in the D.C. area.

In the Cesspool of Culture

In The Cesspool of Culture is the debut album by Ska punk/Hardcore punk band Gandhi's Cookbook.

Is This My World?

Is This My World? was the debut album by Boston hardcore punk band Jerry's Kids.

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!

Love the Music, Hate the Kids

Ensign's journey from hardcore punk on their debut, Direction of Things to Come in 1997 through to metalcore on The Price Of Progression – taking a middleground stance on Cast the First Stone in 1999 – saw them now turning full-circle into seminal, old school punk and doing an album of cover versions which were important to them in their formative years and recognised by many fans as important to the genre.

Morning in America

In the music documentary film American Hardcore, Vic Bondi, of the band Articles of Faith, expresses the ethos of the 80s American hardcore punk movement, presented as opposing Reagan and the mainstream, stating, "Everyone was saying it was morning in America. Someone had to say, 'It's fucking midnight!'"

Mourning Noise

Mourning Noise was an American horror- and hardcore punk band from Lodi, New Jersey, notable for drummer Steve Zing.

Nefarious Realm

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

One King Down

One King Down was a straight edge hardcore band from Albany, New York that recorded and performed from 1994 until 2001.

Project Rocket

The members originally played in hardcore, political metalcore and punk rock bands such as Racetraitor, Spitalfield, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Knockout, killtheslavemaster, The Kill Pill and Vegan Reich before forming Project Rocket to develop their own pop punk and emo sound.

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.

Reflex Records

Reflex Records was an American independent record label formed by the members of hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü and Terry Katzman.

Release the Cure

Release the Cure was the fourth and final full-length album released by Brooklyn hardcore band Indecision.

Rikk Agnew

(born December 9, 1958), more commonly known as Rikk Agnew, is an American guitarist who has played in some of the most influential bands of the Orange County hardcore punk scene, as well as the influential deathrock band Christian Death.

Skag Heaven

While listening to the mixes, guitarist David Grubbs invited Karl Meyer of local band Human Zoo to do some backtracked vocals based on a dream related by Julian Bevan from the Cincinnati hardcore band Sluggo: “Tiny people, tiny people. So small you can fit them in the palm of your hand. Prove that they’re not real and win a hundred dollars.”

Skewbald / Grand Union

Skewbald/Grand Union, (commonly known as simply Skewbald), was a short-lived hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C. founded by former Minor Threat members Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson.

Stormtroopers of Death

The album, titled Speak English or Die, was recorded and mixed over three days and has since been hailed as a landmark album that was among the first to fuse hardcore punk with thrash metal.

The Ferry Boat Inn

Over the next few years the Ferry Boat became established as one of the most important venues for local bands, catering for all types of alternative music, with a leaning towards punk rock, ska punk, metal, hardcore and Post-rock.

The Heat Death of the Universe

The Heat Death of the Universe is the first full-length album by New York City-based hardcore punk band Off Minor.

The Pist

The Pist was an American hardcore punk band that was formed in Connecticut in the winter of 1992 by Al Ouimet on vocals and bass, Bill Chamberlain on guitar, and Greg Bennick on drums.

The Varukers

The Varukers are a UK hardcore punk band formed in 1979 by vocalist Anthony "Rat" Martin, which produced its most influential recordings in the early 1980s.

Vinnie Caruana

Peace'd Out is a Los Angeles based Hardcore band which features Vinnie Caruana on vocals, guitarist Steve Choi (RX Bandits), bassist Roger Camero (No Motiv), and drummer Casey Deitz (The Velvet Teen).

Volbeat

They are inspired by classic rock and roll artists such as Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, as well as modern hard rock, groove metal, alternative rock and hardcore groups.

Wasted Youth Brew

Wasted Youth Brew is a compilation album released by Victory Records in 2001 containing material by the hardcore punk band, Blood for Blood.


see also

Alexei Rodriguez

In 2002 he also contributed lead and backing vocals to Finnish hardcore/punk band, Endstand on two tracks from their split EP with Kafka.

Alice Bag

The Bags were notable for having two female lead musicians (Patricia Morrison co-founded the group with her school friend, Bag) and for pioneering an aggressive sound and style which has been cited as an early influence on what would become the hardcore punk sound.

Amery Smith

In 2012 Amery joined forces with DFL vocalist Tom Paul Davis (Crazy Tom), guitarist Greg Hetson (Circle Jerks, Bad Religion) and skate legend Tony "Mad Dog" Alva on bass forming the Hardcore Punk band G.F.P. General Fucking Principle.

Darker My Love

Guitarist/Vocalist Tim Presley, a former member of hardcore punk band The Nerve Agents, formed the band in 2004 with drummer and Nerve Agents bandmate Andy Granelli, also of The Distillers.

FTTW

F.T.T.W., the third album released by American hardcore punk band H2O

Lourd de Veyra

When the hardcore punk band Dead Ends ended their 4-year hiatus, he became the one of the band's guitarists in 1994, sharing guitar chores with the band's leader and founder Al Dimalanta, thus making Dead Ends a four-piece band.

Martin Sorrondeguy

In 1997, he appeared in Scott Treleaven's documentary film Queercore: A Punk-U-Mentary and spoke about being gay in the hardcore punk scene.

Mike Morasky

Morasky was part of the now defunct hardcore punk/noise rock band "Steel Pole Bath Tub", which he founded in 1986 with Dale Flattum.

Negazione

They were one of the early bands of the Italian hardcore punk scene, like Raw Power, Wretched, Declino and Indigesti.

NIET

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

Shikari

Enter Shikari, a post-hardcore punk rock band from St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK

Stereotyperider

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

Tamaskan Dog

In 2007, "Two Socks at Moonstone" and "Blustag Silver Moon" partook in promotional photography for the English hardcore punk band Gallows for their album Orchestra of Wolves.

The Catheters

The Catheters were a punk rock band from Bellevue, Washington that originally formed as a 4-piece in 1995 (Brian, Derek, Paul, and James who soon swapped bands with Dave and joined Damaged Goods), playing hardcore punk in the vein of Black Flag and The Circle Jerks.

The D.I.Y. Guys

The CD portion also contains "Niteclub In Bali", a B-Side off their Back 2 Base X album as well as "Get Em Up", a track featuring the Subnoize Souljaz, and a new hardcore punk song called "Killing Spree".

The F.U.'s

The F.U.'s performed a reunion show in the Boston area on August 29, 2010 along with fellow Boston pioneer hardcore punk bands DYS, Jerry’s Kids, and Gang Green as well as New York City’s Antidote.

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).

XO Skeletons

XO Skeletons is an electronic/hardcore/punk group from Waterbury, Connecticut, featuring well-known Boston hardcore legend Wesley Eisold from bands such as American Nightmare and Cold Cave.