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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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[edit]- AC4
- The Accüsed[1]
- Adolescents
- Adrenalin O.D.
- AFI
- Against
- Agent Orange
- Agnostic Front[2]
- All Out War
- 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[3][4]
- Arson Anthem
- Articles of Faith
- Assjack
- Attitude Adjustment
- Avail
- Awkward Thought
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Bad Brains at 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., 1983
- 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[5]
- 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[6]
- The Bronx
- Brutal Knights
- Bulldoze[7]
- Bullet Treatment
- Bunchofuckingoofs
- Burn
- Burning Sensations
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[edit]- Cancer Bats
- Capsize
- Career Suicide
- Carpathian
- Casey Jones
- The Casualties
- Cerebral Ballzy
- Chain of Strength
- Champion
- Chaos UK
- Channel 3
- The Chats
- The Chisel[8]
- 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
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Minor Threat performing in 1981
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[edit]- 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
- Skarhead
- Slant
- Slapshot
- Snapcase
- SNFU
- Snot[20]
- Speed (Australian band)
- 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[21][22]
- Superjoint Ritual[23]
- Sworn Enemy
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[edit]See also
[edit]- List of beatdown hardcore bands
- List of Christian hardcore bands
- List of crossover thrash bands
- List of melodic hardcore bands
- List of metalcore bands
- List of post-hardcore bands
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- ^ Kamiński, Karol. "3 noteworthy UKHC records to check this Winter: Big Cheese, Rapture, Stages in Faith". Retrieved October 28, 2019.
- ^ "Broken Teeth". Kerrang! (14). July 13, 2016.
- ^ "BULLDOZE The Final Beatdown". Blabbermouth.net. October 21, 2007. Retrieved August 27, 2023.
- ^ Ramage, Jack (April 25, 2023). "A DECADE OF THE UK'S HARDCORE PUNK SCENE – IN PHOTOS". Huck. Retrieved September 12, 2023.
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- ^ "Sunami surprise release self-titled debut album, 'Sunami' is now streaming". Retrieved August 26, 2023.
- ^ Sacher, Andrew (January 9, 2023). "38 Hardcore Releases We're Anticipating in 2023". Retrieved August 26, 2023.
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- ^ "Throwdown - Biography by Ryan Downey". AllMusic. Retrieved June 8, 2021. Hardcore outfit that melds metalcore with a straight-edge ethos
- ^ Merrill, Shawn (August 1, 2003). "Verbal Abuse - Just an American Band/Live in '84". Exclaim!. Retrieved March 28, 2025.
- ^ Gardner, Noel (May 18, 2015). "It's Noel's Straight Hedge! The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed". The Quietus. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
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- ^ "Album Premiere: Vorvaň – 'Awakened'". May 26, 2021.
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