I was stoked when something like that put alot of what I'd consider "the sound tracks of our lifes" out there.. give thoese bands a much needed spotlight
I got into post hardcore first. At The Drive In - Relationship of Command was the first hardcore related album I ever heard back when it came out. Led me to Fugazi, which led me to Minor Threat and Bad Brains.
For me my "transitional genre" that got me more interested in hardcore was sludge metal. Lead me to finally get around to listening to Black Flag's My War, an album that was initially on my radar bc my Dad recommended it to me lol. Man, I loved that album.
Same but with Glassjaw, then one day my buddies and I were driving around and my friend turned on Hot Damn by ETID. All the songs sounded the same to my dumb brain but I had to listen again
Based tbh. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence and Hot Damn are easily the two best hardcore/hardcore-adjacent albums of that era unless we count screamo.
I got Relationship of Command when I was 15. 38 now, and it’s one of very few albums from that time that I still listen to. Pretty much just them, Wu Tang, and Black Sabbath. It’s an all-time top 10 for me.
Hard not to👊 definitely in my top 5, some Earth Crisis destroy the machines and Hatebreed satisfaction is the death of desire and this record all in my rotation in 96/97
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I'm from CT, and being a teen in the late 90s this album changed my musical life.
Not a cool answer by any means, I was a Metalhead most of my younger years.
Cancer Bats, probably Birthing The Giant or Hail Destroyer, definitely got me into the hardcore sound.
Getting more into the scene, it was Lost In Life by Backtrack, Pretty Low by Expire, and Don’t Wait Up by Bane.
Nah that’s a solid answer. I was 13 when Birthing The Giant came out and it was my first intro beyond the mainstream rock bands with a Hardcore/Punk background (Rise Against, etc.). That and Hail Destroyer are great intro albums, especially for those into the metal/metalcore scene of the early/mid 2000s.
Some people here might not consider Descendants “real hardcore” but in the west coast scene Descendants are your favorite hardcore band’s favorite band.
Yesssssss son! I feel like Avail never get their props. I never see them mentioned. 4 am Friday is one of my favorite records. I was putting Simple Song on every mix I made for about 5 years
Way back in my high school years, my friend was super into punk, I was super into Korn lol. I didn’t get it for a long while, but I always like Avail. I’m pretty much the exact opposite now. I’ve really grown to love hardcore and I can’t listen to nu metal hardly at all.
That's funny you bring up Korn. I've been revisiting stuff lately, and some of their songs are really, really good. (Also, some have NOT aged well) But have you ever seen their set from Woodstock '99? They open with Blind and the energy, just from the video, is palpable. They were definitely a force to be reconed with when they were at the top of their game.
I used to buy punk albums at a locally owned record store. One day I was there and the guy behind the counter called me over, handed me a copy of Out of Step by Minor Threat, and told me I needed to hear it. It absolutely blew my mind the first time I heard it. That was 1983 and I’m still loving hardcore.
Brother gave me it when I was ten
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The Things We Carry by Have Heart
man i just gotta say,
this album art just makes no sense compared to how it sounds tbh. its very "acoustic indie band from 2007" but the album fucking rips
Haha I get what you're saying but always loved the cover. It's the lyrics from Watch Me Rise, and I think it fits the subject matter of the record pretty well.
So funny cus this art style was soooo prevalent around the 2 years around when this album came out. I feel like it was right around when everyone learned how to torrent Photoshop and became a graphic designer.
I can think of like 5 albums covers similarly designed that are such drastically different genres. Then you compare this cover to Son and it's just so funny to me how time relevant it all is.
Gorilla Biscuits - self titled. Does that count as an album? That was how my dad introduced me to HC. but the way I got myself fully into HC was Nonstop Feeling by Turnstile. That just blew my mind, and they’ve been my favorite band for like 7years sense.
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. This kid had a DK logo shirt in sixth grade and I always wondered what it was but never asked, we had a older sub with a ponytail one day and he was like “Dead Kennedy’s!”. Looked them up when I got home and was immediately hooked. I’d get into Metal more but there was always a bit of hardcore.
Bad Brains self titled open a lot of doors for me as far as music goes as far as proper hardcore Blacklisted's No One Deserves to Be Here ended up in quite a few of my old Pandora play sessions.
It all started back in the summer of '97
Snapcase - Progression through unlearning and Grade - Separate the magnets
Not the most "hard" hardcore, but they sent me down the spiral
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friend gave me this freshman year of high school and the rest is history
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
I always want to say Hatebreed because I heard them first but I had never heard the word hardcore when I heard them when I was 11 years old and it was just metal to me with Satisfaction and UTK, a few months later when Perseverance dropped it was the heaviest thing I’d ever heard in my life but still no concept of hardcore. And honestly I thought MT was just a punk band, so it was when I was like 13 and 14 when I heard Most Precious Blood and Terror when I first heard a band called hardcore, and those are two of my favorite bands to this day.
25 ta Life - Keepin it Real album; i had to be about 3 or 4 years old but i was told that i used to imitate Rick ta Life’s vocal style when i used to hear their tracks. I probably thought it was hilarious.
new gen of kids has to seek out music again because games and films are parts of music labels ad machine, but for the vast majority of those under 35 Tony Hawk Pro Skater put everyone into hardcore wether they realise it or not, that provided the seeds to find more through limewire
Those early 2000s comps you'd get free at warped tour really jumped me light years forward in my musical education. Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza, Bleeding Kansas, Paint It Black, Bear vs Shark. A lot of wild discoveries for a kid mostly listening to RATM, Limp Bizkit, and ska.
I'm fuzzy on which one was listened to first, because it was on the same day.
Hatebreed - Satisfaction is the death of desire or Bane - Holding this Moment.
I got into the Ramones, which helped me find the Misfits, which got me into American 80s Hardcore. Which got me into Black Flag, MDC, Jerrys Kids, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Negative Approach, Siege, Negative FX ect
Death Before Dishonor’s Friends Family Forever album was the point of no return. I like Hatebreed and other bands here and there but that DBD album popped up right around the time I started going to shows with friends rather than whatever not hardcore bands my brother was in at the time.
Went to a DIY punk show when I was about 13 and there was a merch stand with a bunch of free cd's. I Grabbed the Terror / No Warning / Holding On / Ramallah split [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnZ-m32SzAwl0RwJdCHabb8Y-cK3AFkX](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnZ-m32SzAwl0RwJdCHabb8Y-cK3AFkX) and thought it was pretty sick. Looked for more and then I went to a Sick of It All show (was Auckland 2003/4?) and was pretty set.
Bane - The Note and
Comeback kid-Wake the Dead.
I was stationed in Japan from 2004-2007. There was this local CD store we used to hang out at and I discovered a lot of music that is legendary now.
Hmmm
Perseverance by hatebreed, sundowning by this is hell, and one of the two casey jones records.
Most importantly the band that opened that can of worms was GlassJAw with EYEWTKAS AND AT THE DRIVE IN from my cousin.
I was listening to DMM none stop when I first got into them. I hadn’t heard anything like it before. Shortly after finding Genghis tron I was introduced to Gulch and now power violence is my favorite vein of HC.
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West Haven CT, born and Raised baby!
Technically it'd be tracks from Power of the Wolf by Hour of the Wolf, and also tracks from Waste Makes Waste. They were the first hardcore show I ever saw. But the first full album I listened to and was like "Oh, yeah, this is it" was Songs to Scream at the Sun.
Converge - Petitioning The Empty Sky
Yeah yeah its’s technically Metalcore/Mathcore/whatever but it was what pulled me into hardcore and heavier music in general. Was into 90’s alt rock/post hardcore like Sonic Youth/Fugazi and punk like Rancid before then.
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Saw they were touring Aus and decided to listen to it on a whim, turned out to become one of my favourite records of all time. Was also my second time seeing Terminal Sleep live as they opened for STYG and SYSC, had seem them before but this second time it sounded less like dumb screaming and more like hc lol
Your Demise — The Kids We Used To Be.
One of my coolest live show memories was back when I was in highschool seeing them play in I think Newmarket, ON to maybe 20 or 30 people. A few of the other kids and me were up front screaming the words into the mic and it was fucking awesome.
That's also the show I first heard Counterparts, they were one of the openers. They played Sturdy Wings and everyone went craaaazy.
I was a metalhead elitist in high school, then I ended up in an emo band who played a lot of shows with hardcore bands who made me embarrassed to be in an emo band so I quit and started one.
Poison the Well - The Opposite of December. I was 10 and my friends older brother threw on nerdy and I knew I just needed more of whatever that was. And then the hellfest dvd and it was game over for lil me.
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i started with post hardcore and went backwards fr
The Acacia Strain Continent. I know it's technically Deathcore or whatever but alot of those mid 2000s deathcore bands helped me evolve my taste towards hardcore
Kublai Khan - New Strength got me into metallic hardcore
Modern HXC - half Only Self by Jesus Piece and half Code Orange Forever
Classic HXC - probably Give Me Convenience or Give me Death but Keepers of the Faith immediately afterwards
I was already moving from punk rock and ska punk towards heavier stuff but then I saw with my own eyes, Every Time I Die, and it was absolutely mindblowing.
Went and got Hot Damn the next day. It was like nothing I’d ever heard before. Insane.
My War-Black Flag at first but i got into the more metallic stuff because of Converge. Before that was all the swedish influenced metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, It Dies Today etc
Satisfaction is the death of desire .. downloaded off Kazaa when I was 14. Didn't even know what it was. Funny story I visited a jail as a part of a school field trip for a sociology class or something like that and kept seeing HATE CREW 2000 all over the place so I was typing that in online and typed it into Kazaa and that's how i found hatebreed. Really changed my life lol. And then I still didn't really know what "real hardcore" was, so I was mostly into like hot topic hardcore, every time I die and Norma Jean and stuff.. then my sister started dating a guy who introduced me to madball and gorilla biscuits and stuff.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater
Man the soundtrack to those games were great. I first got into punk/metal music through Pro Skater 4’s soundtrack, absolute classic
Tony Hawk's Proving Grounds got me into The Bled
Pro Skater 4 soundtrack has no skips tbh
Frfr
I was stoked when something like that put alot of what I'd consider "the sound tracks of our lifes" out there.. give thoese bands a much needed spotlight
Suicidal tendencies, S/T What an album
I got into post hardcore first. At The Drive In - Relationship of Command was the first hardcore related album I ever heard back when it came out. Led me to Fugazi, which led me to Minor Threat and Bad Brains.
ATDI does not get enough love. What an incredible record
Acrobatic tenements is hauntingly good
I went from post HC to metalcore to HC
I went from metalcore to grindcore to powerviolence to hardcore. But still much more powerviolence than straight hardcore though.
For me my "transitional genre" that got me more interested in hardcore was sludge metal. Lead me to finally get around to listening to Black Flag's My War, an album that was initially on my radar bc my Dad recommended it to me lol. Man, I loved that album.
Same but with Glassjaw, then one day my buddies and I were driving around and my friend turned on Hot Damn by ETID. All the songs sounded the same to my dumb brain but I had to listen again
Based tbh. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence and Hot Damn are easily the two best hardcore/hardcore-adjacent albums of that era unless we count screamo.
I took the same path
ETID did not get all the flowers they deserved.
I got really into Glassjaw when Worship & Tribute came out. Spent a ton of time on the GJ message board haha.
ATDI and Thursday were my favorite bands in high school. The late 90’s post hardcore train definitely got me here
I got Relationship of Command when I was 15. 38 now, and it’s one of very few albums from that time that I still listen to. Pretty much just them, Wu Tang, and Black Sabbath. It’s an all-time top 10 for me.
At the drive in is great
At the drive in and Thursday for me. Cosmonaut is one of my favorite songs from relationship of command.
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One of the greatest albums of all time
Hard not to👊 definitely in my top 5, some Earth Crisis destroy the machines and Hatebreed satisfaction is the death of desire and this record all in my rotation in 96/97
Loved this before I knew what HC even was. So good. Any recommendations for similar bands or sound?
Me too. It only took me all of 10 seconds seeing them play as my first show to go “yup, this is it. This is the thing.”
My dude. Saw them with earth crisis in 97.
https://preview.redd.it/sgxfqj6act8d1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36396fb314008a5748b27b56572bd02bac9e51b9 I'm from CT, and being a teen in the late 90s this album changed my musical life.
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Same but I’m from NY. I wore the shirt until there were holes in the arm pits.
You’re from Cumtown?
We're you by any chance from around Danbury area? These guys incited a riot at a place called Tuxedo Junction and got shut down.
Bad Religion - How could hell be any worse, this full stop got me into everything I’m into
Not a cool answer by any means, I was a Metalhead most of my younger years. Cancer Bats, probably Birthing The Giant or Hail Destroyer, definitely got me into the hardcore sound. Getting more into the scene, it was Lost In Life by Backtrack, Pretty Low by Expire, and Don’t Wait Up by Bane.
Nah that’s a solid answer. I was 13 when Birthing The Giant came out and it was my first intro beyond the mainstream rock bands with a Hardcore/Punk background (Rise Against, etc.). That and Hail Destroyer are great intro albums, especially for those into the metal/metalcore scene of the early/mid 2000s.
Do The Descendants count? If so “Milo Goes to College”. If not Avail “4am Friday”
They do. If we're talking about the genre hardcore, Descendents are far more of a hardcore band than basically every band that gets posted on this sub
Some people here might not consider Descendants “real hardcore” but in the west coast scene Descendants are your favorite hardcore band’s favorite band.
Yesssssss son! I feel like Avail never get their props. I never see them mentioned. 4 am Friday is one of my favorite records. I was putting Simple Song on every mix I made for about 5 years
Way back in my high school years, my friend was super into punk, I was super into Korn lol. I didn’t get it for a long while, but I always like Avail. I’m pretty much the exact opposite now. I’ve really grown to love hardcore and I can’t listen to nu metal hardly at all.
That's funny you bring up Korn. I've been revisiting stuff lately, and some of their songs are really, really good. (Also, some have NOT aged well) But have you ever seen their set from Woodstock '99? They open with Blind and the energy, just from the video, is palpable. They were definitely a force to be reconed with when they were at the top of their game.
I used to buy punk albums at a locally owned record store. One day I was there and the guy behind the counter called me over, handed me a copy of Out of Step by Minor Threat, and told me I needed to hear it. It absolutely blew my mind the first time I heard it. That was 1983 and I’m still loving hardcore.
Jane Doe
The chugging end of The Broken Vow had me like “I’m ok with songs that are just this” lol
If this was everyone's answer thr world would know true peace
Agreed
Brother gave me it when I was ten https://preview.redd.it/n9s523voit8d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a489abb24f7df7959ce01addd6f59f9cc9c0d0f The Things We Carry by Have Heart
man i just gotta say, this album art just makes no sense compared to how it sounds tbh. its very "acoustic indie band from 2007" but the album fucking rips
Haha I get what you're saying but always loved the cover. It's the lyrics from Watch Me Rise, and I think it fits the subject matter of the record pretty well.
So funny cus this art style was soooo prevalent around the 2 years around when this album came out. I feel like it was right around when everyone learned how to torrent Photoshop and became a graphic designer. I can think of like 5 albums covers similarly designed that are such drastically different genres. Then you compare this cover to Son and it's just so funny to me how time relevant it all is.
Bracewar - Juggernaut Converted me from being an elitist metal head. Nearly 17 years later. It's still amazing.
Bracewar fucking rules
Bracewar!!!!!!
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Hatebreed-Satisfaction is the death of desire
That and Perseverance were my gateways. Caught them at Ozzfest '02 sandwiched between Meshuggah and Down. Hell of a triple header.
Terror - One with the underdogs
Big Kiss Goodnight
Gorilla Biscuits - self titled. Does that count as an album? That was how my dad introduced me to HC. but the way I got myself fully into HC was Nonstop Feeling by Turnstile. That just blew my mind, and they’ve been my favorite band for like 7years sense.
Violence Violence - Ceremony
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables. This kid had a DK logo shirt in sixth grade and I always wondered what it was but never asked, we had a older sub with a ponytail one day and he was like “Dead Kennedy’s!”. Looked them up when I got home and was immediately hooked. I’d get into Metal more but there was always a bit of hardcore.
AFI - Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes Bought the CD just weeks after I heard STS for the first time.
You were like “hmm this I certainly spooky, but what if…he does his best Danzig voice?”
Fortunately, they had two more albums of EXACTLY that.
Wasted Youth Brew by Blood for Blood
That Revenge On Society record spoke to my soul. Blood For Blood definitely on top 5
amen brother man
Backtracks first EP and randomly Born Low reincarnage
3 dollah bill yall
Realest comment here
Bad Brains self titled open a lot of doors for me as far as music goes as far as proper hardcore Blacklisted's No One Deserves to Be Here ended up in quite a few of my old Pandora play sessions.
It all started back in the summer of '97 Snapcase - Progression through unlearning and Grade - Separate the magnets Not the most "hard" hardcore, but they sent me down the spiral
Bitter End - Climate of Fear
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Minor Threat - Complete Discography I always want to say Hatebreed because I heard them first but I had never heard the word hardcore when I heard them when I was 11 years old and it was just metal to me with Satisfaction and UTK, a few months later when Perseverance dropped it was the heaviest thing I’d ever heard in my life but still no concept of hardcore. And honestly I thought MT was just a punk band, so it was when I was like 13 and 14 when I heard Most Precious Blood and Terror when I first heard a band called hardcore, and those are two of my favorite bands to this day.
Satisfaction is the Death of Desire
25 ta Life - Keepin it Real album; i had to be about 3 or 4 years old but i was told that i used to imitate Rick ta Life’s vocal style when i used to hear their tracks. I probably thought it was hilarious.
7 Seconds back in '87.
The Things We Carry
One King Down - God Loves, Man Kills
new gen of kids has to seek out music again because games and films are parts of music labels ad machine, but for the vast majority of those under 35 Tony Hawk Pro Skater put everyone into hardcore wether they realise it or not, that provided the seeds to find more through limewire
Suicidal Tendencies and Hatebreed
drive like jehu - drive like jehu
AMP Hardcore Compilation Terror-One With the Underdogs Also, seeing the videos for Polygraph Cheaters and Wake the Dead on Headbanger’s Ball
Those early 2000s comps you'd get free at warped tour really jumped me light years forward in my musical education. Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza, Bleeding Kansas, Paint It Black, Bear vs Shark. A lot of wild discoveries for a kid mostly listening to RATM, Limp Bizkit, and ska.
A friend gave me Throwdowns Haymaker and Terrors Lowest of the Low & One with the Underdogs and I was INNNNNN
I'm fuzzy on which one was listened to first, because it was on the same day. Hatebreed - Satisfaction is the death of desire or Bane - Holding this Moment.
Hatebreed is a good one 💯
I come more from the metalcore scene of the early aughts but it was definitely the pipeline of Norma Jean - bless the martyr to Jane Doe
“I Used to Hate Cell Phones” was my introduction to hardcore. Once I watched NJs Furnace Fest 2002 set on YouTube I was hooked.
Bad brains. Obviously
The copy of Breed the Killers my brother stole from Best Buy.
I got into the Ramones, which helped me find the Misfits, which got me into American 80s Hardcore. Which got me into Black Flag, MDC, Jerrys Kids, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Negative Approach, Siege, Negative FX ect
Minor Threat - Complete Discography
A local Cleveland band called Above This Fire. After I gave them a chance I saw Unit 731 and Sacred Pledge in a park. That was that.
Hatebreed having I Will Be Heard in xXx was my introduction
Death Before Dishonor’s Friends Family Forever album was the point of no return. I like Hatebreed and other bands here and there but that DBD album popped up right around the time I started going to shows with friends rather than whatever not hardcore bands my brother was in at the time.
Revenge on society
Hell yeah dude, Wasted Youth Brew did it for me
ETID- big dirty
It’s a bit fuzzy but I think it was the first two Minor Threat seven inches or the Dirty Rotten LP.
Straight Faced - Conditioned
13 Songs by Fugazi introduced me to the world Songs to Scream at the Sun and Out of Step grabbed my attention and kept it
Went to a DIY punk show when I was about 13 and there was a merch stand with a bunch of free cd's. I Grabbed the Terror / No Warning / Holding On / Ramallah split [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnZ-m32SzAwl0RwJdCHabb8Y-cK3AFkX](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbnZ-m32SzAwl0RwJdCHabb8Y-cK3AFkX) and thought it was pretty sick. Looked for more and then I went to a Sick of It All show (was Auckland 2003/4?) and was pretty set.
Bane - The Note and Comeback kid-Wake the Dead. I was stationed in Japan from 2004-2007. There was this local CD store we used to hang out at and I discovered a lot of music that is legendary now.
Satisfaction
Hatebreed - Under the Knife
Hmmm Perseverance by hatebreed, sundowning by this is hell, and one of the two casey jones records. Most importantly the band that opened that can of worms was GlassJAw with EYEWTKAS AND AT THE DRIVE IN from my cousin.
Pulling Teeth -Vicious Skin
So good
Snapcase- Progression Through Unlearning
Defeater - travels
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for those who were crucified
Fuck yes. An incredible album.
Wake the Dead & The Things We Carry
A different shade of blue KL and Dead Mountain Mouth Genghis Tron
Ayy, shoutout Genghis Tron. Dead Mountain Mouth and Board Up The House are two of the greatest albums ever recorded.
I was listening to DMM none stop when I first got into them. I hadn’t heard anything like it before. Shortly after finding Genghis tron I was introduced to Gulch and now power violence is my favorite vein of HC.
glow on by turnstile and lament by touché amoré as a newcomer, listened to both of those around the same time and that sent me down the path
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
ETID - Hot Damn
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Shai Hulud- Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion
For me it was Errorzone
Prob satisfaction
Technically it'd be tracks from Power of the Wolf by Hour of the Wolf, and also tracks from Waste Makes Waste. They were the first hardcore show I ever saw. But the first full album I listened to and was like "Oh, yeah, this is it" was Songs to Scream at the Sun.
Hour of the wolf was so fucking good. I still listen to that album at least once a week.
Incendiary-Thousand Mile Stare
Snapcase. Their self titled EP.
There was no specific album but the band was Agnostic Front.
Converge - Petitioning The Empty Sky Yeah yeah its’s technically Metalcore/Mathcore/whatever but it was what pulled me into hardcore and heavier music in general. Was into 90’s alt rock/post hardcore like Sonic Youth/Fugazi and punk like Rancid before then.
Same. and I think more punk and hardcore folks listen to converge than actual metal/metalcore folks.
Refused -Shape of Punk to Come
Refused - Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent
Satisfaction initially then Petitioning the Empty Sky solidified it in me.
mongoloids time trials, cruel hand lock & key, down to nothing the most
Not an album, but I saw Drain open for Neck Deep and was hooked
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Not my first hardcore album, but the one that really clicked: Madball Set It Off.
Terror- Lowest of the Low and Comeback Kid - Turn It Around
Probably Minor Threat discography.
Have Heart The Things we Carry
Probably either Songs To Scream At The Sun by Have Heart or Keepers of the Faith by Terror
Candiria - Beyond Reasonable Doubt
Boogada Boogada Boogada by Screeching Weasel.
https://preview.redd.it/d35bq20jht8d1.png?width=976&format=png&auto=webp&s=79a05a64ea93d4da9ffa8e37a40ed18ed004437c Saw they were touring Aus and decided to listen to it on a whim, turned out to become one of my favourite records of all time. Was also my second time seeing Terminal Sleep live as they opened for STYG and SYSC, had seem them before but this second time it sounded less like dumb screaming and more like hc lol
Damaged
Hatebreed- perseverance and Shai hulud- that within blood I’ll tempered
Ngl it was Body Count - S/T
119 by Trash Talk
https://preview.redd.it/0t2f0e86rt8d1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2620ae694730ba3bfe923551acf00090002a282c Gallows - Orchestra of Wolves
Change is a sound. Still one of my faves to this day
Not a hardcore band but Poison The Well is what put me on the path to get to hardcore in the early 00s.
Your Demise — The Kids We Used To Be. One of my coolest live show memories was back when I was in highschool seeing them play in I think Newmarket, ON to maybe 20 or 30 people. A few of the other kids and me were up front screaming the words into the mic and it was fucking awesome. That's also the show I first heard Counterparts, they were one of the openers. They played Sturdy Wings and everyone went craaaazy.
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Converge-Jane Doe Hatebreed-Satisfaction is the Death of Desire Black Flag-Damaged and My War
Judgment Night OST. Dad was an avid CD collector and would show me soundtracks. That’s the one I gravitated to.
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Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust Inc.
Gallows, Orchestra of Wolves
Wake the Dead by Comeback Kid
I was a metalhead elitist in high school, then I ended up in an emo band who played a lot of shows with hardcore bands who made me embarrassed to be in an emo band so I quit and started one.
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Here is justice Here is punishment Here, in me…
Bless the martyr kiss the child
suicidal tendencies - s/t JFA - blatant localism ceremony - rohnert park cold world - dedicated to babies who came feet first
VOID Never heard anything like it.
Jane Doe
Poison the well the opposite of December. So damn good still listen to it regularly.
The Carrier - one year later
Poison the Well - The Opposite of December. I was 10 and my friends older brother threw on nerdy and I knew I just needed more of whatever that was. And then the hellfest dvd and it was game over for lil me.
Floral green
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Cover your tracks - bury your dead
Poison The Well - Opposite Of December
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Hopesfall - No wings to speak of.
The Acacia Strain Continent. I know it's technically Deathcore or whatever but alot of those mid 2000s deathcore bands helped me evolve my taste towards hardcore
trash talk-awake
Kublai Khan - New Strength got me into metallic hardcore Modern HXC - half Only Self by Jesus Piece and half Code Orange Forever Classic HXC - probably Give Me Convenience or Give me Death but Keepers of the Faith immediately afterwards
Trash Talk - No Peace thanks to Odd Future
I was already moving from punk rock and ska punk towards heavier stuff but then I saw with my own eyes, Every Time I Die, and it was absolutely mindblowing. Went and got Hot Damn the next day. It was like nothing I’d ever heard before. Insane.
NAILS- You Will Never Be One of Us
For me it was 3 albums in quick succession. Victory style 3->revenge on society-> holding this moment.
Not an album, but rather a band. This Is Hell
My War-Black Flag at first but i got into the more metallic stuff because of Converge. Before that was all the swedish influenced metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, It Dies Today etc
COVER YOUR TRACKS - BURY YOUR DEAD WAKE THE DEAD - COMEBACK KID JANE DOE - CONVERGE THE SILENT CIRCUS - BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME IDK TOO MANY TO NAME
Songs to scream at the sun
Have Heart - The Things We Carry
So many comments, and not a single like LMAO
Satisfaction is the death of desire .. downloaded off Kazaa when I was 14. Didn't even know what it was. Funny story I visited a jail as a part of a school field trip for a sociology class or something like that and kept seeing HATE CREW 2000 all over the place so I was typing that in online and typed it into Kazaa and that's how i found hatebreed. Really changed my life lol. And then I still didn't really know what "real hardcore" was, so I was mostly into like hot topic hardcore, every time I die and Norma Jean and stuff.. then my sister started dating a guy who introduced me to madball and gorilla biscuits and stuff.
Cover Your Tracks - Bury Your Dead
The Swarm - Parasitic Skies
Carpathian - Isolation. Bloody good one to start with. I loved Linkin Park and The Offspring as a kid so you could say it started there I spose