The band became part of the American hardcore punk movement of the early 1980s.

Kevin Sharp of Brutal Truth declares that " Horrified was and still is the defining core of what grind became ; a perfect mix of hardcore punk with metallic gore, speed and distortion.

In 1982, Marrow met producer William Strong from Saturn Records, who recorded his first single, " Cold Wind Madness ", also known as " The Coldest Rap ", which became an underground success, becoming popular even though radio stations did not play it due to the song's hardcore lyrics.

On the other side, hardcore punk, Oi !, and anarcho-punk bands became closely linked with underground cultures and spun off an array of subgenres.

groups such as The Exploited and bands from father afield like Birmingham's Charged GBH, became the leading figures in the UK 82 hardcore movement.

A new movement in the United States became visible in the early and mid-1990s that sought to revive the punk movement, doing away with some of the trappings of hardcore.

Hüsker Dü also influenced the band's music ; The Replacements began playing faster and became more influenced by hardcore punk.

Concerts in the early Los Angeles hardcore scene increasingly became sites of violent battles between police and concertgoers.

The group broke up in 1980, and MacKaye and Nelson formed Minor Threat, who became a big influence on the hardcore punk genre.

Hardcore subsequently became a broad umbrella term, as a variety of different sub-genres arose, such as ; melodic hardcore ( Avail, Lifetime, Kid Dynamite ), emo ( Ashes, Endpoint, Saves the Day ), d-beat ( Avskum, Aus Rotten, Skitsystem ), powerviolence ( Spazz, Dropdead, Charles Bronson ), thrashcore ( What Happens Next ?, Voorhees, Vivisick ), mathcore ( Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch, Converge ), screamo ( Heroin, Antioch Arrow, Swing Kids ) and rapcore.

In 1982 Minneapolis hardcore group Hüsker Dü became the label's first non-West Coast signing.

During the mid-1980s Hüsker Dü became SST's star attraction, their strong songwriting and increasingly melodic music becoming the key link between hardcore and the developing sound of college rock.

During the first year of touring with the band, his hoarse voice became a recognizable and often imitated style of singing in hardcore punk.

Deal became the bassist and backing vocalist for the Pixies in January 1986, after answering an advertisement in the Boston Phoenix for a bassist who was into hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü and folk music icons Peter, Paul and Mary.

" It contained the song " Institutionalized ", which featured a music video that became one of the first hardcore punk videos to receive substantial MTV airplay, and greatly expanded the band's fan base.

Singer Milo Aukerman later reflected: " It's interesting: we started very melodic, then moved to hardcore, but melded the two at a certain point and became melodic hardcore.

Steven Blush, author of American Hardcore: A Tribal History, remarked that their " cheeky love songs disguised as hardcore blasts became the most aped formula in rock.

It's interesting: we started very melodic, then moved to hardcore, but melded the two at a certain point and became melodic hardcore.

The band became far more metallic in style, while retaining a range of musical influences and being more overtly humorous, they abandoned the early hardcore style and featured musicianship by Paul Neider ( guitar ) and Dave Miranda ( drums ) in particular.

In the 1980s some punk fans and bands became disillusioned with the growing popularity of the style, resulting in an even more aggressive style called hardcore punk.

Buckley also became interested in blues musician Robert Johnson and hardcore punk band Bad Brains during this time.

By 1981, hardcore was the dominant punk rock style not only in California, but much of the rest of North America as well.

Today music ranges from the traditional Welsh Male Voice choirs of the Valleys such as Treorchy Male Choir to the South Wales hardcore scene which plays a dominant role in the Cardiff music scene.

The United Kingdom-based rave hardcore scene of the 1990s encompassed several native styles through the years, techno and hardcore being the respective dominant genres in the North and South of the country for much of this period.

Bands like Flogging Molly, Black 47, Dropkick Murphys, The Young Dubliners, The Tossers introduced a hybrid of Celtic rock, punk, reggae, hardcore and other elements in the 1990s that has become popular with Irish-American youth.

Dead Kennedys are an American hardcore punk band formed in San Francisco, California in 1978.

They gained a large underground fanbase in the international punk rock community, and were one of the first American hardcore bands to make a significant impact in the United Kingdom.

The hardcore scene, which had been a haven for free-thinking intellectuals and downtrodden nonconformists, was increasingly attracting hooligans who came to punk concerts looking only to slam dance and fight to violent music.

In earlier years the band had criticized neo-Nazi skinheads for trying to ruin the punk scene, but just as big a problem was the increasing popularity of thrash metal and stereotypical macho " post-1982 hardcore " which brought the group ( and their genre ) an audience that had little to do with the ideas / ideals they stood for.

* Discharge ( band ), British hardcore punk band

It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including extreme metal, industrial music, noise music and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk.

Although an influential phenomenon on hardcore punk and other popular genres, grindcore itself remains an underground form of music.

Grindcore relies on standard hardcore punk and heavy metal instrumentation: electric guitar, bass and drums.

The most widely acknowledged precursors of the grindcore sound are Siege, a hardcore punk group, and Repulsion, an early death metal outfit.

Siege's goal was maximum velocity: " We would listen to the fastest punk and hardcore bands we could find and say, ' Okay, we're gonna deliberately write something that is faster than them '", drummer Robert Williams recalled.

Repulsion, from Flint, Michigan, cited street punk groups like Discharge and Charged GBH, crossover thrash such as Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Corrosion of Conformity, thrash metal like Slayer, Metallica, Sodom, and Venom, and death metal ( Possessed ), hardcore punk, like Black Flag, and older hard rock, as inspirational.

Other groups in the British grindcore scene, such as Heresy and Unseen Terror, have emphasized the influence of American hardcore punk, including Septic Death, as well as Swedish D-beat.

With the goal of becoming " the most extreme hardcore punk band of all time ," the group took Mick Harris from Napalm Death in 1987.

ENT were, are, and-I suspect-always will be a hardcore punk band ... not a grindcore band, a stenchcore band, a trampcore band, or any other sub-sub-sub-core genre-defining term you can come up with.

In addition, grindcore was one influence on the powerviolence movement within American hardcore punk, and has affected some strains of metalcore.

Powerviolence is a raw and dissonant subgenre of hardcore punk.

Its nascent form was pioneered in the late 1980s in the music of hardcore punk band Infest, who mixed youth crew hardcore elements with noisier, sludgier qualities of Lärm and Siege.

Digital hardcore is an initially German hybrid of hardcore punk and hardcore techno.