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American Hardcore
If you're a fan of punk or hardcore music today you owe it to yourself to check out this movie. Hands down one of the best collections of information about the era that took the music we love into what it is today.
The flick seriously doesn't miss a thing.... the rise of the scene in every city and the bands that started it all. D.O.A, 7 Seconds, Black Flag, SS Decontrol, Cro-Mags, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Adolescents, Teen Idles, Gang Green, Battalion of Saints, Agnostic Front, Circle Jerks, MDC, Suicidal Tendencies.... the list goes on and on. Extremely well done, lots of live footage, and generally just a cool look inside what drove these bands to do what they loved. I highly recommend checking it out. American Hardcore THEN READ THE BOOK |
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whats a new wave hardcore band?
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Modern hardcore/punk is not all bad.... you need to open your ears man!
Terror, Throwdown, Madball, Hatebreed, Hazen St., Converge, A Life Once Lost, A Static Lullaby, Bane, Every Time I Die, Hot Rod Circuit, Kids Like Us (CRAZY FUCKING GOOD), Most Precious Blood, The Bronx, The Bled, Walls of Jericho, Bleeding Through.... I could keep going if you'd like :) |
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I dig Hatebreed's thrashy stuff a lot.. they've got a killer vibe in their music. Walls of Jericho could use some more technical vocals, but their instrumental work is solid as fuck. Like I said, there are still some bands out there I'll listen to.
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My blanket statement stands. A few exceptions doesn't make me any less cold towards the genre, pun intended. Besides.. the genre is so mudded with bands with so many different sounds that when I say Hardcore, I'm talking about the direct descendants of the original Hardcore movement. Not bands like Hatebreed and Walls of Jericho which are obviously derived from metal.
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Well if you took the time to listen before you judged you'd find that many of the hot bed cities that hardcore originated in still have very vibrant scenes that have carried on.
Boston, LA, DC, NYC.... hell a lot of 'modern' hardcore bands have members that belonged to some of the pioneer bands that you praise so highly. The genre itself has hardly lost it's edge. True hardcore is still as angry and in-your-face as it always was. Bands still feel like they have something to stand up for. I'll give you the fact that a lot of hardcore kids are cheesy scenesters but the movement itself is far from dead. |
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That, my friend... is why sub-genres are necessary. I should have stuck with the term Nu-Wave Hardcore as opposed to Modern Hardcore. Either way, I think you can tell that I was getting at the modern sound as opposed to the traditional sound. There is still the odd metal band that comes out that slaughters my ear drums and I really dig that... but I strongly dislike Nu-Metal bands. Same thing.
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