Hardcore punk
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Hardcore Punk (or "hardcore") is a style of punk music that is usually louder, faster and more angry sounding than earlier punk rock music from the 1970s. Hardcore began in the 1980s in North America. Some of the important bands of the genre are Bad Brains, Black Flag, Discharge, Minor Threat, and the Dead Kennedys. Hardcore songs often have more political lyrics (words) than songs from 1970s punk rock.
[edit] How it sounds
Hardcore band singers often sing by shouting the words of the song. Hardcore songs are often sound like the singer is angry. Hardcore bands use electric guitars, electric bass guitar, drums, and a singer. The electric guitars in hardcore bands are distorted and noisy.
[edit] Well-known Hardcore Bands
- 7 Seconds
- The Adolescents
- Agnostic Front
- Bad Brains
- Bad Religion
- Charged GBH
- Circle Jerks
- Corrosion of Conformity
- Crass
- Cro-Mags
- The Casualties
- D.O.A.
- D.R.I.
- Dag Nasty
- Dayglo Abortions
- Dead Milkmen
- Dead Kennedys
- Discharge
- Descendents
- The Exploited
- GBH
- Hüsker Dü
- MDC
- Minor Threat
- The Misfits
- The Minutemen
- NOFX
- Nomeansno
- Subhumans
- TSOL
- UK Subs
- The Varukers
