Marduk - Heaven Shall Burn When We Are Gathered (1996)

Tracks:
01 Summon The Darkness
02 Beyond The Grace Of God
03 Infernal Eternal
04 Glorification Of The Black God
05 Darkness It Shall Be
06 The Black Tormentor Of Satan
07 Dracul Va Domni Din Nou In Transilvania
08 Legion


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Metallica - Death Magnetic (2008)

Metallica - Death Magnetic (2008)

1. "That Was Just Your Life" – 7:08
2. "The End of the Line" – 7:52
3. "Broken, Beat & Scarred" – 6:25
4. "The Day That Never Comes" – 7:56
5. "All Nightmare Long" – 7:57
6. "Cyanide" – 6:39
7. "The Unforgiven III" – 7:46
8. "The Judas Kiss" – 8:00
9. "Suicide & Redemption" – 9:57
10. "My Apocalypse" – 5:01


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Black Tide - Light From Above

Black Tide is an American heavy metal band from Miami, Florida. Formed in 2004, the band is currently signed to Interscope Records. The original band comprised of Gabriel Garcia (vocals/guitar), Alex Nuñez (guitar), Zachary Sandler (bass/vocals), and Steven Spence (drums). Black Tide has toured on Ozzfest, and with Avenged Sevenfold and All That Remains. They also played the Rock on the Range festival in Columbus, OH.[1] The band released its debut album, Light From Above, on March 18, 2008.
Black Tide was founded in Miami, Florida in 2004 by guitarist Gabriel Garcia and his older brother Raul Garcia. Raul recruited second guitarist Alex Nuñez. At the time, Garcia was 10 years old and Nuñez was 13 years old.[2] Garcia and Nuñez recruited bassist Zachary Sandler and drummer Steven Spence, after Raul's departure from the group. [2] This completed the band's lineup. Originally known as Radio, the band's name was changed to Black Tide by Interscope records soon after its inception. The band started playing local shows, eventually gaining the attention of record labels due to the members' young age and talent. In 2005, Black Tide signed a demo deal with Atlantic Records [2] as Radio. The deal lasted for only a year, before the band was spotted by a record executive for EMI, who notified Interscope Records of the band. By mid 2007, Black Tide was signed on to Interscope.[2]

Black Tide recorded a single, "Shockwave", which gained rotation on MTV2's Headbangers Ball and is also available as downloadable content on the video game Rock Band. The band started touring and gained a position on the second stage of Ozzfest, but were kicked off the tour because the stage was sponsored by Jägermeister and all of the members of Black Tide were under the legal drinking age.[3] Although the band was no longer appearing on the second stage, Black Tide was able to be the opening act on the main stage in some areas, opening for Lordi, Static-X, Lamb of God, and Ozzy Osbourne.[3] After Ozzfest, the band toured with Avenged Sevenfold and All That Remains.[4][5]They are well known partly due to their age. They are all under the age of 21 and two members are still in High School.

In late 2007, Black Tide entered the studio in Chicago, Illinois with producer Johnny K. The band recorded 12 new tracks which included a cover of Metallica's first written song, "Hit the Lights", which originally appeared on Kill 'Em All.[6] The resulting album, Light From Above, was released on March 18, 2008. The album was critically praised, with Dan Epstein of Revolver Magazine saying "Listening to the debut album from Miami's Black Tide is a little like stumbling across a cool late-80s metal record you'd completely forgotten about. A very promising debut" and Scott Alisoglu of Blabbermouth.net stating the album contains "Big, sometimes pop-based, melodies meets crunchy, guitar-driven metal that falls somewhere between thrash/traditional metal and the dirtier end of '80s glam/hair metal."[7][8] Light From Above debuted at number 73 on the Billboard 200, with 11,400 copies sold in its first week of sales.[9]. Black Tide has also won the Kerrang! Award for Best Newcomer.

On March 27, 2008, the band performed on the late-night show Jimmy Kimmel Live on the ABC television network in the United States and Citytv in Canada.[10]

The band will be opening for Bullet For My Valentine on their forthcoming November UK tour, alongside Lacuna Coil and Bleeding Through. Black Tide will also support Bullet For My Valentine on their US tour in September.[11]The band is now touring on the Rockstar Mayhem Festival with Slipknot, Disturbed, and other bands. They have started performing Prowler an Iron Maiden cover on this tour, which was formally recorded for Kerrang Magazine's Iron Maiden Tribute CD, Maiden Heaven.

As of now, Nuñez is a former member of Black Tide. He left due to disagreement on which direction the band should go. They still remain good friends. Currently filling in for Alex is Austin from the band, The Panix. The Panix also lists Alex as a member.

Black Tide has annonced that "Shout" will be the next video.

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Tracklist:
01 - Shockwave
02 - Shout
03 - Warriors Of Time
04 - Give Me A Chance
05 - Let Me
06 - Show Me The Way
07 - Enterprise
08 - Live Fast Die Young
09 - Hit The Lights
10 - Black Abyss
11 - Light From Above
12 - Black Widow

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Krisiun - AssassiNation

Krisiun was formed in 1990, by three brothers, vocalist / bassist Alex Camargo, guitarist Moyses Kolesne and drummer Max Kolesne. (Alex uses his mother's maiden name). They have toured extensively through North America, South America and Europe (recording their first official DVD while in Poland).

The band is heavily influenced by the debut albums of Sodom, Kreator, Morbid Angel and Slayer. Their violent lyrics and very fast musical tempo makes them one of the most eminent "extreme death metal" bands in the world today.

They released two demos and then moved to São Paulo in 1995 where people already started to notice the budding talent of the band. Shortly after the move their second guitarist Altemir Souza left the band and returned to Porto Alegre (where he died of a motorbike accident in 2002).

The Unmerciful Order EP (their only "major" recording featuring a second guitarist, namely Mauricio Nogueira of Torture Squad) established the band as a cult act, and that status was further confirmed by the release of their debut album Black Force Domain (now as a trio) in 1995. The following albums continued to improve their brutal and uncompromising approach to death metal.

In February-March 2007, the band toured North America with Unleashed, Belphegor and Hatesphere. May-June 2007 the band spent on the road through Europe alongside Immolation and Grave. Further roadwork through the first 2 weeks of September Krisiun tours Northern Europe, last 2 weeks of September they tour Russia on the Flaming Arts Festival tour. October 2007 saw Krisiun touring Poland and the Balkans extensively with Vader, Incantation and Rotting Christ.

In April-May 2008, the band recorded the new disc in Stage One Studios in the city of Borgentreich, Germany. The production was made by Andy Classen who had worked with the Brazilians in the album Conquerors of Armageddon and AssassiNation.

The new album was given the name Southern Storm and the launch in Europe is scheduled for July 21, 2008 via Century Media Records. The disc will bring 12 new tracks and a version for "Refuse/Resist", the classic of Sepultura originally launched in the album Chaos A.D..

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Tracklist:
01. Bloodcraft
02. Natural Genocide
03. Vicious Wrath
04. Refusal
05. H.O.G. (House Of God)
06. Fathers Perversion
07. Suicidal Savagery
08. Doomed
09. United In Deception
10. Decimated
11. Summon
12. Sweet Revenge

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International Superheroes of Hardcore

The International Superheroes of Hardcore are a parodical hardcore punk band. The band is a side project of New Found Glory and features all five members. Chad Gilbert and Jordan Pundik switched duties to vocals and guitar, respectively. The remaining three members play the same instruments as in New Found Glory. All five members use pseudonyms rooted in hardcore and punk culture (bassist Ian Grushka's pseudonym of "Sgt. Soy" is a reference to both the prevalence of vegetarianism/veganism in hardcore and punk communities as well as his own vegetarianism).

The band has released one album, 2008's Takin' it Ova!. It was included with the New Found Glory EP Tip of the Iceberg. The band's songs are typically humorous in nature and tackle topics such as Back to the Future and "Superhero Sellouts."

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Tracklist:
01. New Found Glory - Tip Of The Iceberg
02. New Found Glory - Dig My Own Grave
03. New Found Glory - If You Don't Love Me
04. New Found Glory - No Reason Why (Gorilla Biscuits)
05. New Found Glory - Here We Go Again (Shelter)
06. New Found Glory - Cut The Tension (Lifetime)
07. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - ISHC Theme Song
08. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Screamo Gotta Go
09. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Cpt. Straight Edge
10. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Seat Belt
11. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Madball's Got Our Back
12. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Fashion Show
13. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Back To The Future
14. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Superhero Sellouts
15. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Just Like Dr. Jones
16. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Hardcore Hokey Pokey
17. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Dirty Mouth
18. International Superheroes Of Hardcore - Ebay Revenge

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Earth Crisis

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Earth Crisis are a vegan straight edge metalcore band from Syracuse, New York, that recorded and performed from 1991 until they broke up in 2001. They have reunited and been active again since 2007.

Band History
Earth Crisis is known for supporting animal rights (including organizations such as the Animal Liberation Front) and promoting a straight edge, vegan lifestyle.

Lyrics are replete with strong statements, many concerning animal abuse and political issues. The title song from their second 7", entitled Firestorm, with lyrics depicting a neighborhood submerged in drug addiction and crime, became an anthem for followers of the straight edge ideology.

The first two 7", All Out War (1992) and Firestorm (1993), made the band popular in some hardcore punk and metalcore circles. The next two full-length records, Destroy the Machines (1995) and Gomorrah's Season Ends (1996), brought a more complex and developed form of metalcore. The band's growing popularity was noticed by Roadrunner Records; a new record deal pushed the band to record Breed the Killers (1998), featuring a guest appearance by Machine Head's vocalist and guitarist, Robb Flynn. The band then left the label and returned to Victory Records, releasing 2000's Slither soon after. With clear and professional production, it surprised some listeners and introduced the band's music to a wider audience. The band's final album, Last of the Sane (2001), is Earth Crisis' tribute to those bands which influenced them. Covers of songs by The Rolling Stones, Slayer, Led Zeppelin, and Dead Kennedys were included. This was found amusing by some because bands such as Led Zeppelin and The Rolling Stones embody much of what Earth Crisis were against.

In 2001, Earth Crisis played their final show at Hellfest in Syracuse, New York[1]. Frontman Karl Buechner, along with Bulldog and Erick Edwards, started the band Freya, previously known as Nemesis. On January 27, 2007, Earth Crisis played the Maryland Metal and Hardcore Festival, and played a west coast reunion show on May 5th, at the Ventura Theatre. A 10 day tour of Europe was announced shortly after the Ventura show.

Karl Buechner, Erick Edwards, Bulldog, Scott Crouse and Dennis Merrick were also in the band Path of Resistance, which was formed during down time from touring in 1997. The band also consisted of D.J. Rose and Jonathan Dennison.

Earth Crisis is headlining the Firestorm Fest from 2/29/08 to 3/23/08 supported by Terror, Sworn Enemy, Shai Hulud, Down To Nothing and Recon. On the 15th of February, MTV.com quoted vocalist Karl Buechner as having said that Earth Crisis is writing new material. "The best way to describe it is it's a mixture between Destroy the Machines and Breed the Killers". The new album is expected to be released early in 2009.[2]

Members
Karl Buechner - vocals (1992 - 2001, 2007 - present)
Scott Crouse - guitar (1992 - 2001, 2007 - present)
Ian "Bulldog" Edwards - bass (1992 - 2001, 2007 - present)
Dennis Merrick - drums (1992 - 2001, 2007 - present)
Erick Edwards - guitar (1998 - 2001, 2007 - present)

Former members
Ben Read - guitar (1992 - 1994)
Kris Wiechmann - guitar (1995 - 1997)
Michael Riccardi - drums (1992)
Andy Hurley - drums (1993)

Albums
All Out War (EP) (1992, Conviction Records, re-released 1995 on Victory Records)
Firestorm (EP) (1993, Victory Records, re-released 1995)
Destroy the Machines (LP) (1995, Victory Records)
Gomorrah's Season Ends (LP) (1996, Victory Records)
The California Takeover (Live) (1996), Victory Records, split live album with Strife and Snapcase.)
The Oath That Keeps Me Free (Live) (1998, Victory Records)
Breed the Killers (LP) (1998, Roadrunner Records)
Slither (LP) (2000, Victory Records)
Last of the Sane (LP) (2001, Victory Records)

Forever True - 1991-2001 (Compilation) (2006, Victory Records)

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Extreme Noise Terror

Extreme Noise Terror (often abbreviated to ENT) are a crust punk and grindcore band originally from Ipswich, England. Formed in January 1985, they are one of the key early UK grindcore bands and are still together today.
Notable for their use of dual vocalists and for recording a number of sessions for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, Extreme Noise Terror started as a hardcore punk band. It became evident from early shows that they were far more extreme than many bands of that genre. Before even Napalm Death, ENT helped characterise the early, archetypal grindcore sound: Fiercely political lyrics, grinding guitars, extremely fast tempo and often very short songs.
In 1992 Extreme Noise Terror appeared live with dance music group The KLF at the BRIT Awards. They also worked on The KLF's abandoned album The Black Room.

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Extreme Noise Terror will perform in Indonesia!!! They will visit Jakarta, Bandung and Malang.

28 June 2008 - Hangar Fire Ground A, Bandung, INDONESIA
29th June 2008 - TBA, Jakarta, INDONESIA
1st July 2008 - UMM Dome, Malang, INDONESIA

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NOFX - Wolves in Wolve's Clothing

Track List

01. 60%
02. USA-holes
03. seeing double at the triple rock
04. we march to the beat of of indifferent drum
05. the marxist brothers
06. the man i killed
07. benny go blowed up
08. leaving jesusland
09. getting high on the down low
10. cool and unusual punishment
11. wolves in wolves' clothing
12. cantando en espanol
13. 100 times fuckeder
14. instant crassic
15. you will lose faith
16. one celled creature

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17. doornails
18. 60% (reprise)

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NOFX

NOFX (pronounced "no ef-ex") is an American punk rock band. The band formed in Los Angeles, California (now based in San Francisco), in 1983. Since 1991 (and after several line-up changes) El Hefe (Aaron Abeyta) has played lead guitar and trumpet. The band rose to popularity in 1994 with their album Punk in Drublic which was certified gold.

NOFX has released 10 studio full lengths, 15 EPs, and many 7" singles. The group has independently sold over 6 million records worldwide, making them one of the most successful independent acts of all time. The band is also set to air their own show on Fuse TV entitled "NOFX: Backstage Passport."

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Band History
Here's a great idea, let's get the guy in the band who smokes the most pot to write a band history. That's me. The guy who couldn't remember what was said five minutes ago if his life depended on it. You try and write down the last 16 years of your life and make it seem relevant…

First Practice 1983
Here's what I do remember. I was sitting with a kid named Dillon in our usual spot with the other punkers during lunchtime at Fairfax high school. He was a drummer, and we were dissatisfied with the bands we were in. My band consisted of me and my one and only Punk Rock friend both playing guitar and singing and that was it. Neither one of us had finished any songs. Not quite a recipe for success.

So I sez to my friend, let's start a band. A real band, a band that does stuff. A band that writes songs, practices, puts out records, and goes on tour. We talked about who else we wanted in this band. We knew lots of good people from going to punk gigs around LA. He knew a Bass player named Mike who used to be in a band called False Alarm. We both knew a guy named Steve from Orange County who we agreed would make a great front man. We made some calls and arranged to meet and have a first practice.

That's when I first met Mike. Mike was a huge Misfits fan. He looked like a Misfits fan. His hair was long in front and it was all hairsprayed together to a point down the middle of his face in what was called a "Devilock". Mike had some songs for us to play. I had written a song called "Take Part". It sounded an awful lot like Minor Threat's version of the Monkees' Stepping Stone. Steve didn't go to that first practice, he couldn't get a ride up from Orange county. After that first practice Dillon quit and Mike called up Erik. Mike and Erik had met a couple of years earlier while skateboarding around Hollywood. Erik liked Mike's Black Flag skateboard. It was Punk. Mike had asked Erik to join False Alarm back then, but Erik's mom wouldn't let him do it 'cuz he had no driver's license yet. Later on, when we asked him to play drums with us he was in a band called Caustic Cause. Erik joined us but his other band would have to have priority. We were supposed to be a 4-piece but practiced as a 3-piece, Steve hadn't made it to one practice yet.

Member of Nofx

1983

Erik Sandin (drums)
Eric Melvin (guitar)
Fat Mike (bass, vox)

came from False Alarm

1985

joined Meat Wagon, S.D.

came from Caustic Cause, quit band to go on vacation with parents to Idaho

Scott Sellers (drums)
Erik Sandin (drums)
Eric Melvin (guitar)
Fat Mike (bass, vox)

1986

died in Car Accident

(lasted 2 weeks) Scott Aldahl (drums)
Dave Allen (vox)
Eric Melvin (guitar)
Fat Mike (bass)

1986

Erik Sandin (drums)
Eric Melvin (guitar)
Fat Mike (bass, vox)
Dave Casillas (guitar)

came from Stalag 13, Dr. Know

1989

Erik Sandin (drums)
Eric Melvin (guitar)
Fat Mike (bass, vox)
Steve Kidwiller (guitar)

joined Speed Buggy

1991 - present Erik Sandin (drums)
Eric Melvin (guitar)

Fat Mike (bass, vox)

El Hefe (guitar)

NOFX’s Albums

They've Actually Gotten Worse Live!
Wolves In Wolves' Clothing
The Greatest Songs Ever Written (By Us)
The War On Errorism
45 or 46 Songs That Weren't Good...
Nofx/Rancid BYO Split Series Vol. III
Pump Up The Valuum
So Long and Thanks for All The Shoes
Heavy Petting Zoo/Eating Lamb
I Heard They Suck Live
Punk In Drublic
White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean
Ribbed
S&M Airlines
Liberal Animation
Maximum Rocknroll

NOFX’s EPs

7" Of The Month Club
Never Trust A Hippy
13 Stitches
Regaining Unconsciousness
Surfer
Bottles To The Ground
Pods and Gods
The Decline
All Of Me
Timmy The Turtle
Fuck The Kids
Don't Call Me White
Louise and Liza
Liza and Louise
The Longest Line
The P.M.R.C. Can Suck On This
HOFX
So What if We're On Mystic!

came from Punk Rock Karaoke

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All Shall Perish

All Shall Perish is a deathcore quintet from Oakland, California formed in 2002. All Shall Perish combines various genres, including death metal, deathgrind, metalcore, and sludge metal. All Shall Perish is known for their vocalizations of "pig squeals".[citation needed] Since 2005, All Shall Perish have delivered two records off of Nuclear Blast. The debut album, Hate, Malice, Revenge, was originally released by Japanese record label Amputated Vein Records in 2003. In 2005, it was re-released by Nuclear Blast and since then has received mostly underground acclaim. In 2006, The Price of Existence was released to largely positive critical reaction. The first single, "Eradication", was made into a video and is played on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball. You can download their new album in here.

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Walls Of Jericho

Walls of Jericho are a female-fronted Metalcore band formed in 1998 from Detroit, Michigan. Their first release was an EP entitled A Day and a Thousand Years (EP) (1999). Soon after the band were picked up by Trustkill Records and went on to release their first full length LP The Bound Feed the Gagged (1999) followed by All Hail the Dead (2004) and With Devils Amongst Us All (2006).

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Oi!

Following the lead of first-wave British punk bands Cock Sparrer and Sham 69, in the late 1970s second-wave units like Cockney Rejects, Angelic Upstarts, The Exploited, and The 4-Skins sought to realign punk rock with a working class, street-level following.[216] Their style was originally called real punk or streetpunk; Sounds journalist Garry Bushell is credited with labelling the genre Oi! in 1980. The name is partly derived from the Cockney Rejects' habit of shouting "Oi! Oi! Oi!" before each song, instead of the time-honored "1,2,3,4!"[217] Oi! bands' lyrics sought to reflect the harsh realities of living in Margaret Thatcher's Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s.[218] A subgroup of Oi! bands dubbed "punk pathetique"—including Splodgenessabounds, Peter and the Test Tube Babies, and Toy Dolls—had a more humorous and absurdist bent.

The Oi! movement was fueled by a sense that many participants in the early punk rock scene were, in the words of The Business guitarist Steve Kent, "trendy university people using long words, trying to be artistic...and losing touch".[219] The Oi! credo held that the music needed to remain unpretentious and accessible.[163] According to Bushell, "Punk was meant to be of the voice of the dole queue, and in reality most of them were not. But Oi was the reality of the punk mythology. In the places where [these bands] came from, it was harder and more aggressive and it produced just as much quality music."[220]

Although most Oi! bands in the initial wave were apolitical or left wing, many of them began to attract a white power skinhead following.[221] Racist skinheads sometimes disrupted Oi! concerts by shouting fascist slogans and starting fights, but some Oi! bands were reluctant to endorse criticism of their fans from what they perceived as the "middle-class establishment".[222] In the popular imagination, the movement thus became linked to the far right.[223] Strength Thru Oi!, an album compiled by Bushell and released in May 1981, stirred controversy, especially when it was revealed that the belligerent figure on the cover was a neo-Nazi jailed for racist violence (Bushell claimed ignorance).[221] On July 3, a concert at Hamborough Tavern in Southall featuring The Business, The 4-Skins, and The Last Resort was firebombed by local Asian youths who believed that the event was a neo-Nazi gathering.[224] Following the Southall riot, press coverage increasingly associated Oi! with the extreme right, and the movement soon began to lose momentum.[218]
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Hardcore

A distinctive style of punk, characterized by superfast, aggressive beats, screaming vocals, and often politically aware lyrics, began to emerge in 1978 among bands scattered around the United States. The first major scene of what came to be known as hardcore punk developed in southern California in 1978–79;[208] the movement soon spread around North America and internationally.[209][210][211] According to author Steven Blush, "Hardcore comes from the bleak suburbs of America. Parents moved their kids out of the cities to these horrible suburbs to save them from the 'reality' of the cities and what they ended up with was this new breed of monster".[13]

Among the earliest hardcore bands, regarded as having made the first recordings in the style, were southern California's Black Flag and Middle Class.[210][211] Bad Brains—all of whom were black, a rarity in punk of any era—launched the D.C. scene.[209] Austin, Texas's Big Boys, San Francisco's Dead Kennedys, and Vancouver's D.O.A. were among the other initial hardcore groups. They were soon joined by bands such as the Minutemen, The Descendents, Circle Jerks, The Adolescents, and TSOL in southern California; D.C.'s Teen Idles, Minor Threat, and State of Alert; and Austin's MDC and The Dicks. By 1981, hardcore was the dominant punk rock style not only in California, but much of the rest of North America as well.[212] A New York hardcore scene grew, including the relocated Bad Brains, New Jersey's Misfits and Adrenalin O.D., and local acts such as the Nihilistics, The Mob, Reagan Youth, and Agnostic Front. Beastie Boys, who would become famous as a hip-hop group, debuted that year as a hardcore band. They were followed by The Cro-Mags, Murphy's Law, and Leeway.[213] By 1983, Minneapolis's Hüsker Dü and Chicago's Naked Raygun were taking the hardcore sound in experimental and ultimately more melodic directions. Hardcore would constitute the American punk rock standard throughout the decade.[214]

The lyrical content of hardcore songs, typified by Dead Kennedys' "Holiday in Cambodia", is often critical of commercial culture and middle-class values.[211] Straight edge bands like Minor Threat, Boston's SS Decontrol, and Reno, Nevada's 7 Seconds rejected the self-destructive lifestyles of many of their peers, and built a movement based on positivity and abstinence from cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs.[215] In the early 1980s, bands from the American southwest and California such as JFA, Agent Orange, and The Faction helped create a rhythmically distinctive style of hardcore known as skate punk. Skate punk innovators also pointed in other directions: Big Boys helped establish funkcore, while Venice, California's Suicidal Tendencies had a formative effect on the heavy metal–influenced crossover thrash style. Toward the end of the decade, crossover thrash spawned the metalcore fusion style and the superfast thrashcore subgenre developed in multiple locations.

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Post punk

During 1976–77, in the midst of the original UK punk movement, bands emerged such as Manchester's Joy Division, The Fall, and Magazine, Leeds' Gang of Four, and London's The Raincoats that became central post-punk figures. Some bands classified as post-punk, such as Throbbing Gristle and Cabaret Voltaire, had been active well before the punk scene coalesced;[200] others, such as The Slits and Siouxsie & The Banshees, transitioned from punk rock into post-punk. A few months after the Sex Pistols' breakup, John Lydon (no longer "Rotten") cofounded Public Image Ltd. Lora Logic, formerly of X-Ray Spex, founded Essential Logic. Killing Joke formed in 1979. These bands were often musically experimental, like certain New Wave acts; defining them as "post-punk" was a sound that tended to be less pop and more dark and abrasive—sometimes verging on the atonal, as with Subway Sect and Wire—and an anti-establishment posture directly related to punk's. Post-punk reflected a range of art rock influences from Captain Beefheart to David Bowie and Roxy Music to Krautrock and, once again, the Velvet Underground.

Post-punk brought together a new fraternity of musicians, journalists, managers, and entrepreneurs; the latter, notably Geoff Travis of Rough Trade and Tony Wilson of Factory, helped to develop the production and distribution infrastructure of the indie music scene that blossomed in the mid-1980s.[202] Smoothing the edges of their style in the direction of New Wave, several post-punk bands such as New Order (descended from Joy Division), The Cure, and U2 crossed over to a mainstream U.S. audience. Bauhaus was one of the formative gothic rock bands. Others, like Gang of Four, The Raincoats and Throbbing Gristle, who had little more than cult followings at the time, are seen in retrospect as significant influences on modern popular culture.[203]

A number of U.S. artists were retrospectively defined as post-punk; Television's debut record Marquee Moon, released in 1977, is frequently cited as a seminal album in the field.[204] The No Wave movement that developed in New York in the late 1970s, with artists like Lydia Lunch, is often treated as the phenomenon's U.S. parallel.[205] The later work of Ohio protopunk pioneers Pere Ubu is also commonly described as post-punk.[206] One of the most influential American post-punk bands was Boston's Mission of Burma, who brought abrupt rhythmic shifts derived from hardcore into a highly experimental musical context.[207] In 1980, Australia's Boys Next Door moved to London and changed their name to The Birthday Party, which evolved into Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. King Snake Roost and other Australian bands would further explore the possibilities of post-punk. Later art punk and alternative rock musicians found diverse inspiration among these predecessors, New Wave and post-punk alike.

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punk rock

Punk rock is an anti-establishment rock music genre and movement that emerged in the mid-1970s. Preceded by a variety of what is now known as protopunk music of the 1960s and early 1970s, punk rock developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Groups such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement. By 1977, punk was spreading around the world. Punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock, and created fast, hard music, typically with short songs, stripped-down instrumentation, and often political and anti-government lyrics. The associated punk subculture expresses youthful rebellion and is characterized by distinctive clothing styles, a variety of anti-authoritarian ideologies, and a DIY (do it yourself) attitude. Punk rock quickly, though briefly, became a major cultural phenomenon in the United Kingdom. For the most part, punk took root in local scenes that tended to reject association with the mainstream. By the beginning of the 1980s, even faster, more aggressive styles such as hardcore and Oi! had become the predominant mode of punk rock. Musicians identifying with or inspired by punk also pursued a broad range of other variations, giving rise to the alternative rock movement. By the turn of the century, new pop punk bands such as Green Day were bringing the genre widespread popularity decades after its inception.  
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