Hardcore

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Contents 1 In music 2 In science 3 In wrestling 4 Other uses 5 See also

The word hardcore may mean:

[edit] In music

• Hardcore punk, a heavier, faster version of punk rock
  • Christian hardcore, a form of hardcore punk music featuring evangelical Christian lyrics and themes
  • Melodic hardcore, a more melodic, less furious version of hardcore punk
  • Post-hardcore, a musical offshoot of hardcore punk
  • Hardcore dancing, a form of mosh dancing or slam dancing
  • Metalcore, a heavy metal and hardcore punk crossover, also known as "hardcore metal," "tough guy hardcore," "new school hardcore," and "heavy hardcore"
• Hardcore dance music
  • Breakbeat hardcore, which shares its rhythm lines with breakbeat
  • Hardcore breaks
  • Hardcore techno, a subgenre of electronic dance music closely related to Dutch gabber music
    • Happy hardcore, a form of dance music typified by a very fast tempo, female vocals, and saccharine lyrics
    • UK hardcore, a genre found at the start of the 21st century in the United Kingdom
    • Digital hardcore, a gritty genre first defined by Alec Empire in the early 1990s
• Hardcore hip hop, a subgenre of hip hop characterized by confrontational lyrics and gritty beats
• "Hardcore", a song by NoiseCollector about plays on the word

[edit] In science

• Hard-core predicate, a mathematical term
• In nuclear physics, a potential (force) that forbids two nucleons to share the same space.

[edit] In wrestling

• Hardcore wrestling, a style of professional wrestling
  • Forever Hardcore, a professional wrestling documentary DVD
  • Hardcore Homecoming, a professional wrestling event in 2005
  • Bob Holly, a professional wrestler who has used the name, "Hardcore Holly".

[edit] Other uses

• Hardcore gamer as opposed to a casual gamer
• Hardcore pornography, a form of pornography that features explicit sexual acts
  • Max Hardcore (born Paul F. Little, 1956) a controversial American male porn star
• Hardcore (film), a 1979 film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C. Scott.

[edit] See also

• List of music genres suffixed -core