Hardcore_bands
This is a list of notable hardcore punk bands. Hardcore punk (commonly shortened to hardcore) is an underground music genre that generally revolves around a thicker and more aggressive tone than earlier punk rock.
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- AC4
- The Accüsed
- Adolescents
- Adrenalin O.D.
- AFI
- Against
- Agent Orange
- Agnostic Front[1]
- American Nightmare
- American Standards
- Angry Samoans
- Angst
- Anti Cimex
- Anti-Everything
- Anti Feminism
- Anti-Flag
- Anti-Nowhere League
- Anti-Pasti
- Antidote
- Antisect
- Armia
- Arms Race[2][3]
- Arson Anthem
- Articles of Faith
- Assjack
- Attitude Adjustment
- Avail
- Awkward Thought
- Backstabbers Incorporated
- Bad Brains
- Bad Religion
- Bags
- Bane
- Battalion of Saints
- Battery
- Bayonet
- Beartooth
- Beastie Boys (early)
- Being as an Ocean
- Big Boys
- Big Cheese[4]
- Black Flag
- Black Market Baby
- Blast
- Break Even
- The Blood
- Blood for Blood
- Bomb Factory
- Born Against
- Born from Pain
- Borscht
- Botch
- The Brat
- Brick By Brick
- Broken Bones
- Broken Teeth[5]
- The Bronx
- Brutal Knights
- Bulldoze[6]
- Bullet Treatment
- Bunchofuckingoofs
- Burn
- Burning Sensations
- Cancer Bats
- Capsize
- Career Suicide
- Carpathian
- Casey Jones
- The Casualties
- Cerebral Ballzy
- Chain of Strength
- Champion
- Chaos UK
- Channel 3
- The Chats
- The Chisel[7]
- Chokehold
- Choking Victim
- Christ on Parade
- Circle Jerks
- CIV
- Clit 45
- Clutch (early)
- Close Your Eyes
- Corrosion of Conformity (early)
- Code Orange
- Cold as Life
- Cólera
- Comeback Kid
- Consumed
- Converge
- Counterparts
- Cripple Bastards
- Cro-Mags
- Crumbsuckers
- Cryptic Slaughter
- Crucifix
- Los Crudos
- Cruel Hand
- N.O.T.A.
- Nails
- Napalm Death (early)
- Necros
- Negative Approach
- Negative FX
- Negazione
- The Nerve Agents
- Neurosis (early)
- Newborn
- New Regime
- The Nip Drivers
- No Bragging Rights
- No Innocent Victim
- No Redeeming Social Value
- No Trigger
- NOFX (early)
- S.O.A.
- S.O.D.
- Scream
- Septic Death
- Septic Tank
- Shai Hulud
- Sharptooth
- Sheer Terror
- Shelter
- Show Me the Body
- Sick of It All
- Siege
- Silverstein
- Skarhead
- Slapshot
- Snapcase
- SNFU
- Snot[15]
- SSD
- The Stalin
- Stick to Your Guns
- Straight Faced
- Stray from the Path
- Stretch Arm Strong
- Strike Anywhere
- Strongarm
- The Stupids
- Subhumans (British band)
- Subhumans (Canadian band)
- Subzero
- Suicidal Tendencies
- The Suicide File
- The Suicide Machines
- Sunami[16][17]
- Superjoint Ritual[18]
- Sworn Enemy
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Hardcore outfit that melds metalcore with a straight-edge ethos
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