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Hardcore punk is an intensified version of the punk rock genre, characterized by bands who play short, loud, and angry songs with exceptionally fast chord changes on highly overdriven guitars. The lyrics are often political in nature, and typically violent in expression.
| Hardcore punk
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| Stylistic origins:
| Punk rock
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| Cultural origins:
| early 1980s North America
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| Typical instruments:
| Guitar - Bass - Drums
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| Mainstream popularity:
| Little to none during the careers of the bands, has gained much popularity in recent years
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| Derivative forms:
| Emo
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| Subgenres
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| D-beat - Queercore - Skate punk - Straight edge - Crust Punk
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| Fusion
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| Grunge - MetalcoreSpawned sometime during the 90's, metalcore is, as the name suggests, a metal influenced form of hardcore punk. Though the style has arguably little resemblence to what is commonly classified as hardcore punk, it could be said to be a natural progression - Ska punkSka punk is a fusion of Jamaican ska and British and American punk rock. The earliest combinations of the two sounds occurred in the late 1970s as punk's revolutionary lyrical content led to a natural affinity with similarly styled reggae and other Caribb - Thrash metalThrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. Speed metal and Power metal are distinct but related subgenres). The origins of Thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of metal bands began incorporating hardcore
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| Regional scenes
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| Boston - Los Angeles - Southern California - DC - NY
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| Other topics
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| BandsThis is a list of bands considered to be hardcore punk by some. The definition of hardcore punk is a very loose one. In fact, some would say to say that you are hardcore punk would mean that you aren't, and to say that you aren't would mean that you are.
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1 History
Hardcore originated in North America, primarily in and around major cities like Los AngelesThis article is about the city in California. For other uses of 'Los Angeles' see Los Angeles (disambiguation The City of Los Angeles widely known by its abbreviation L. is a large coastal metropolis in Southern California in the western United States., Washington DC, New York City, Vancouver, and Boston, as a vehicle for expressing urban and suburban teen angst. Commentator Steven Blush claimed (in American Hardcore: A Tribal History) that hardcore was punk rock adapted for suburban teens. Many hardcore bands have lyrical themes that range from righteous indignation at societal hypocrisy to the promotion of some form of anarchism.
The true origin of the term 'hardcore' in relation to punk rock is lost in a haze of time, distance, and quite likely, drugs and alcohol. Generally credited with popularizing the term, however, is an album released by Vancouver's D.O.A. titled simply "Hardcore '81".
