a genre of music that is much like hardcore. it has a different style though, where it will be heavy then have a melodic breakdown.Also they scream much more than hardcore. Newer hardcore screams to but people who only like oldschool hardcore say thats fake hardcore.SO,post-hardcore consists of poety like lyrics, melodic break downs, emo choruses, and usually a emo-scene crowd.
some post-hardcore bands
off the top of my head:
fear before the march of flames
new underoath
glassjaw
chiodos
emery
scary kids scaring kids
older from autumn to ashes
off the top of my head:
fear before the march of flames
new underoath
glassjaw
chiodos
emery
scary kids scaring kids
older from autumn to ashes
by robertolololeft ear June 14, 2006
Bill: You alright?
Ted: Yeah I feel post-hardcore mate. I just twated a 15 year old emo kid.
Ed: Dude check that chick over there
Jay: She's 14
Ed: Post-Hardcore.
Ted: Yeah I feel post-hardcore mate. I just twated a 15 year old emo kid.
Ed: Dude check that chick over there
Jay: She's 14
Ed: Post-Hardcore.
by Next Friday I give you punch. January 12, 2008
by Ben Tricarico March 29, 2006
A type of heavy metal with fast drums, ranging screams, and brutal/cool breakdowns. Bands that are considered post-hardcore are: Suicide Silence, Job For A Cowboy, Asking Alexandria, Chelsea Grin, and White Chapel.
Loser: Asking Alexandria is so brutal!
Troll: They're not brutal retard! They're post-hardcore! LOSER! GO DIE IN A HOLE!
Troll: They're not brutal retard! They're post-hardcore! LOSER! GO DIE IN A HOLE!
by LakeLisaGuitarist May 20, 2011
Agenre of music formed when people in the hardcore scene got tired of hardcore's limited form. Retains some characteristics of hardcore but builds more on tension and release
Fugazi, Quicksand, and Jawbox are really good post-hardcore bands. The Used isn't post hardcore, it's pop punk trying to be scary
by geoff April 2, 2005
Music that is as heavy, nasty and edgy as hardcore but not as one-dimensional and features exponentially less use of the words "respect" and "hate" in its lyrics and content... It has nothing whatsoever to do with Taking Back Sunday or Dashboard Confessional; defining "Post Hardcore" in such a manner displays profound ignorance of even the slightest notion of what constitutes this phrase's crucial rootword "Hardcore" and anyone providing such a definition that includes the above-mentioned bands wouldn't know "Hardcore" if it walked up and punched them in the teeth while wearing brass knuckles or if Sheer Terror was playing a live show in their mother's basement.
"That website all the emo-mo's and whitebelts whine and post pictures of themselves on lists 400 Blows as "Post Hardcore" - that's interesting, I'd call it Metal or Rock."
by MattFromVacationlandWhat January 5, 2006
Originally a broader,more experimental offshoot of Hardcore Punk,but closer under the umbrella of 'Indie-rock',it traces its roots back to the time of the Revolution Summer (1985) when bands such as Rites of Spring and Gray Matter helped establish this genre along with the then,barely-coined ''emocore'' (which is why today,people still like to say that Post-Hardcore is 'emo',even if they don't even know these bands).
Soon enough,more Post-Hardcore bands were formed,such as the highly influencal Fugazi,Nation of Ulysses,Jawbox and Shudder to Think.
Many bands took influence from the 'noise rock' sound from Sonic Youth and Big Black.
As the 90's approached,post-hardcore found its way to a wider audience,with Quicksand and Drive Like Jehu signing to major labels and Fugazi still influencing bands by the masses.
Then came Hot Water Music,Cursive,and Small Brown Bike.
More bands formed towards the end of the nineties including the highly energetic At The Drive-in,Thursday and the Blood Brothers.
It then became bad.Horrible bands with horrible pig snorted screaming were crawling their way onto the cover of Kerrang! Magazine.
Enter Shikari,Alesana,Silverstein,The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus,Hawthorne Heights and From First To Last were obsessed over by 13 year olds and marketed as 'emo'.
The only good thing left was Thursday.
Its sad really.What mainstream did to destroy Emo,Indie Rock,Post Hardcore,Screamo,and Pop punk...
Soon enough,more Post-Hardcore bands were formed,such as the highly influencal Fugazi,Nation of Ulysses,Jawbox and Shudder to Think.
Many bands took influence from the 'noise rock' sound from Sonic Youth and Big Black.
As the 90's approached,post-hardcore found its way to a wider audience,with Quicksand and Drive Like Jehu signing to major labels and Fugazi still influencing bands by the masses.
Then came Hot Water Music,Cursive,and Small Brown Bike.
More bands formed towards the end of the nineties including the highly energetic At The Drive-in,Thursday and the Blood Brothers.
It then became bad.Horrible bands with horrible pig snorted screaming were crawling their way onto the cover of Kerrang! Magazine.
Enter Shikari,Alesana,Silverstein,The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus,Hawthorne Heights and From First To Last were obsessed over by 13 year olds and marketed as 'emo'.
The only good thing left was Thursday.
Its sad really.What mainstream did to destroy Emo,Indie Rock,Post Hardcore,Screamo,and Pop punk...
Teacher : So,Freddie,tell us what music are you into?
WannabePoser (freddie) : xHardXcorex,Emo...POST-HARDCORE
Teacher : ???
WP : Its like kinda hardcore metal stuff with totally rad screaming.
Teacher : Hmmm....Sounds very underground!
WP : Yeh,only the cool skater emo people like me listen
to it.Its not really on MTV,so yeh it's definitely underground.
Post-Hardcore expert : *sniggers* Oh my god!
Teacher : I'm Sorry??
P-HE : Dude you really need to learn the facts,Kerrang! is getting you brainwashed man,that screaming isn't rad it's unemotional and a headache!
They only get you listening to them 'cause THEY says its cool and 'cause they straighten their hair.As you can see Cedric Bixler-Zavala NEVER straightened his hair!!
WP : Cedric Bixler Who??
PHE : Oh My God!! Frontman of the LEGENDARY post-hardcore band,AT THE DRIVE-IN!!
WP : Post-Hardcore? Are They Good?
PHE : Better than your trash.
We're Talking, Drive Like Jehu!! Husker Du!! Jawbox!! Cap'n Jazz!!
And there 'aint no 'shit' in FUGAZI!!!...er except for the 'I'
Teacher : Will You Please Calm Down!!
P-HE : I can't unwind until i listen to Unwound!!!
WP : Who???
P-HE : *Screams Geoff Rickley-esque scream*
WannabePoser (freddie) : xHardXcorex,Emo...POST-HARDCORE
Teacher : ???
WP : Its like kinda hardcore metal stuff with totally rad screaming.
Teacher : Hmmm....Sounds very underground!
WP : Yeh,only the cool skater emo people like me listen
to it.Its not really on MTV,so yeh it's definitely underground.
Post-Hardcore expert : *sniggers* Oh my god!
Teacher : I'm Sorry??
P-HE : Dude you really need to learn the facts,Kerrang! is getting you brainwashed man,that screaming isn't rad it's unemotional and a headache!
They only get you listening to them 'cause THEY says its cool and 'cause they straighten their hair.As you can see Cedric Bixler-Zavala NEVER straightened his hair!!
WP : Cedric Bixler Who??
PHE : Oh My God!! Frontman of the LEGENDARY post-hardcore band,AT THE DRIVE-IN!!
WP : Post-Hardcore? Are They Good?
PHE : Better than your trash.
We're Talking, Drive Like Jehu!! Husker Du!! Jawbox!! Cap'n Jazz!!
And there 'aint no 'shit' in FUGAZI!!!...er except for the 'I'
Teacher : Will You Please Calm Down!!
P-HE : I can't unwind until i listen to Unwound!!!
WP : Who???
P-HE : *Screams Geoff Rickley-esque scream*
by SDRErule August 15, 2009