FalseTodd
Skirt Wizard
Good hardcore bands:
-Refused "Shape of Punk to Come" - awesome & energetic, one of the most slickly produced hardcore records I've ever heard
-His Hero Is Gone - anything - puts most metal bands to shame for heaviness and anger - probably the best live hc band I've ever seen
-Rorschach - "Protestant" - metal-hardcore using the interesting parts of both instead of the chugga dumbitude
OK hell with this There are so many others. Here's some names:
Sleepytime Trio, Maximillian Colby, Assfactor 4, Assuck (pretty death metal, but kept to the hc scene for whatever reason), Union of Uranus (!!!AMAZING!!!), Elements of Need, etc etc etc etc etc way too much to mention.
all of this stuff will fall into various hardcore subgenres, but its all got the heavy sounding yet punk thing going on. Also many of these records will be wicked difficult to find at this point (I don't know where you'd find an Elements of Need record now, but their 7" was incredible) so maybe SoulSeek-ify them, which I feel is pretty legitimate in this case...
And this stuff is all a bit more recent, like mid-90s...there's older revered stuff that all the above came from like...Minor Threat and the other 80s dischord stuff, Crass, Infest, etc etc etc.
All's I'm saying is, judging hardcore by listening to a Relapse sampler is like judging black metal by listening to a Dimmu Borgir record. They're the most visible and "professional" or w/e, but far far far from representative. Bands like Burnt by The Sun (Who I think aren't bad BTW) are a new sort of metal hardcore crossover, along with Dillinger Escape Plan, Coalesce, blah blah blah blah. There is a ton of stupidity in this genre as in all others, but its worth wading through, IMO, for the good stuff.
-Refused "Shape of Punk to Come" - awesome & energetic, one of the most slickly produced hardcore records I've ever heard
-His Hero Is Gone - anything - puts most metal bands to shame for heaviness and anger - probably the best live hc band I've ever seen
-Rorschach - "Protestant" - metal-hardcore using the interesting parts of both instead of the chugga dumbitude
OK hell with this There are so many others. Here's some names:
Sleepytime Trio, Maximillian Colby, Assfactor 4, Assuck (pretty death metal, but kept to the hc scene for whatever reason), Union of Uranus (!!!AMAZING!!!), Elements of Need, etc etc etc etc etc way too much to mention.
all of this stuff will fall into various hardcore subgenres, but its all got the heavy sounding yet punk thing going on. Also many of these records will be wicked difficult to find at this point (I don't know where you'd find an Elements of Need record now, but their 7" was incredible) so maybe SoulSeek-ify them, which I feel is pretty legitimate in this case...
And this stuff is all a bit more recent, like mid-90s...there's older revered stuff that all the above came from like...Minor Threat and the other 80s dischord stuff, Crass, Infest, etc etc etc.
All's I'm saying is, judging hardcore by listening to a Relapse sampler is like judging black metal by listening to a Dimmu Borgir record. They're the most visible and "professional" or w/e, but far far far from representative. Bands like Burnt by The Sun (Who I think aren't bad BTW) are a new sort of metal hardcore crossover, along with Dillinger Escape Plan, Coalesce, blah blah blah blah. There is a ton of stupidity in this genre as in all others, but its worth wading through, IMO, for the good stuff.
