hardcore

A variety of punk rock originating in the US in the early '80s. It involves shouted vocals (as opposed to growled) with a fast, aggressive tempo and a guitar sound featuring quick chord changes. Minor Threat, Bad Brains, SSD, and the Circle Jerks are known for this style. By 1986, a new style of hardcore came out of the New York scene. The NYHC scene added mosh breakdowns to mix, but the music retained its fast aggressive nature. This spawned the youth crew scene, a positive straight edge scene featuring such bands as Youth of Today, Chain of Strength, and the Gorilla Biscuits. Judge is a notable band from this era that added some metal style to their riffs. In the 90s hardcore took many different direction, bands like Lifetime and Turning Point took the late '80s sound (particularly the melodic approach pioneered by the Gorilla Biscuits) and added a softer sung vocals and the lyrical approach of DC bands like the Rites of Spring and Dag Nasty. Other bands like Earth Crisis mixed hardcore with death metal growls and slow brutal guitars. Today many bands continue to play the early '80s fast, thrashy style as well as the so-called '88 or youth crew style, while still others have taken the sound of bands like Earth Crisis farther and mixed in more metal elements such as double bass drumming. Hardcore refers to all of these styles, though metalcore is best used to identify bands like Throwdown or Converge (who don't really sound anything alike but both mix metal and hardcore). Finally, some bands like Bane, With Honor, and Comeback Kid are mixing positive youth crew style hardcore with more complex metal riffing without straying into the beatdown, double bass drumming style of metalcore. People talking about old-school hardcore should be referring to one of the hardcore sounds that developed in the '80s, regardless of when the band formed.

early '80s: Minor Threat, Government Issue, Black Flag, SSD, Jerry's Kids, Youth Brigade, Bad Brains, Agnostic Front, JFA

late '80s/'88 style: Youth of Today, Cro-Mags, Uniform Choice, Chain of Strength, Bold, Gorilla Biscuits, early Turning Point

emo-influenced hardcore: Lifetime, Falling Forward, later Turning Point

early metalcore: Earth Crisis, Strife

modern metalcore: Throwdown, Unearth, Adamantium, Converge

modern youth crew/old-school bands: Ten Yard Fight, In My Eyes, Champion, Give Up the Ghost (formerly called American Nightmare), Black Sheep Squadron, the Spark, Trial

by Robert Murdoch August 13, 2006

hardcore kid

a kid who listens to hardcore/metal heavy music: throwdown, the bled, bleeding through, as i lay dying, nora, darkest hour. stuff like that. they are usually dressed in black band t shirts and blue jeans. but some may dress whatever they want. they go to hardcore shows and hardcore dance which is where they punch air and do ninja kicks. they are not afraid of getting hurt and will always stand up for themselves. they are tough and they dont care what people think of them. they hate being called emo and they will always start shxt for that. but they are also never uptight in anything. they are never mad at anyone and usually never hate. they are usually funny and fun to be with and also like to have fun. random things are their favorites. they are just like most normal people but they wont take shxt from anyone.

holy shxt i just got hit in the face. fxckin cool lets go again

by hXcGUY July 26, 2005

hardcore

A genre of porn, usually involving both men and women, banging each other. Usually looks like a bunch of apes in mating season. A related offshoot of this is bukkake.

This title was based off the definition of hardcore as something that is intense or very strong.

OMG! HARDCORE PORN!

Hardcore porn involves ugly stick-women being boned until they break apart.

man 1 : what kind of porn is that?
man 2 : It's hardcore! Lots of endless fucking action!

by withoutname August 24, 2005

Detroit Hardcore

An utterly Delicious Picture of a man ripping his anus open with both hands. Very similar but not to be confused with "Goatse"-(google images, goatse.)Dont listen to sick dogs defenition, it sucks. The man has an erectiona and the picture is taking from underneath towards the sun thus creating a lense flare. The inside of his anus is a vibrant red that looks very tasty.

Dude zander jerked off to Detroit Hardcore last night!

by I <3 detroit November 3, 2006

hardcore headquarters

B.A.M.N (by any means necessary) definition for receiving head, oral sex, fellatio while playing COD, call of duty

Epikk Freak: hey Unsung you're playing like crap, whats the deal?

Unsung Reaper: man my girl is over here messing with me.

BlackxLegion: oooooh I bet he's over there getting that hardcore headquarters ha haaaa!!!!!

Epikk Freak: HEADQUARTERS ONLINE!!!!!

by BAMN (BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY) October 27, 2011

hardcore pawn

A game involving three people. One person is being spit-roasted whilst the two people on each end play a game of chess.

You bring your girlfriend and we’ll have a game of hardcore pawn

by massivetraps25 November 25, 2020

Hardcore Ed

Someone who works hard and parties hard. Also keeps their house at 55 degrees at all times.

That hot dog is for Hardcore Ed.

by Riggs April 10, 2003