Grindcore, as such, was developed during the mid-1980s in the United Kingdom by Napalm Death, a group who emerged from the anarcho-punk scene in Birmingham, England.

Led by Dead Kennedys, a U. S. anarcho-punk scene developed around such bands as Austin's MDC and Southern California's Another Destructive System.

Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing is a semi-fictional depiction of the anarcho-punk and riot grrrl scene in early 90s Washington, DC.

Parallel to the development of these sub-genres, many bands in the American hardcore punk scene adopted anarcho-punk ideology, including MDC and Reagan Youth.

Simultaneously, anarcho-punk began to fuse with elements of the new age travellers movement and neo-hippies, as well as the older political squatting scene.

Riot / Clone was a punk band often associated with the anarcho-punk scene, active from 1979 – 1983 and then revived in the early 90's until they split up again in 2005.

Rudimentary Peni emerged from the British anarcho-punk scene in the early 1980s.

Up through the band's first studio album, Death Church ( 1983 ), their records were packaged in fold-out paper sleeves full of artwork, lyrics and poster graphics characteristic of Crass and many other bands in the anarcho-punk scene.

In England, in the anarcho-punk scene, Andy Martin of The Apostles was equally forthright.

They are known for introducing the style of hardcore punk to the East Coast punk scene, but were also a part of the anarcho-punk movement.

has an association with the North American anarcho-punk scene due to its relationship with artists in the genre and its publishing of Inside Front.

Beginning around 1976, the anarcho-punk scene in the UK developed the band Crass and related bands, including The Poison Girls.

A report on Peruvian rock included in the July 1999 issue of Maximum RocknRoll mentions the following bands: Aeropajitas, Manganzoides, 60s garage punk / garage revival, Asmereir, a blend of punk / ska / reggae / hardcore / thrash, Leusemia, that put out a double CD through Coyote Records and it's titled Moxon, Histeria Kolectiva reminiscing of Leusemia, dios hastío euro-crustcore intense and desperate, Ataque Frontal classic I-spit-on-your-face band, one of the shapers of the scene, Psicosis ska / punk orchestra, 3 Al Hilo, punk rock & roll, Metadona female fronted pop-punk, Magras punk / hardcore and reggae, P. T. K. this means Pateando Tu Kara, anarcho-punk, Los Rezios, Autonomia, Migraña, Irreverentes, Hazloquechuchapunkron, Perú No Existe, Generacion Perdida as well as fanzines: Caleta, Sub, Cuero Negro and Crash Boom Zap.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he was involved in the early UK anarcho-punk musical scene, which featured bands including Crass, Conflict, Poison Girls, Rudimentary Peni, The Mob, Zounds, Omega Tribe and Flux of Pink Indians.

Violence has also sometimes appeared in the punk subculture, but has been opposed by some subsets of the subculture, such as the pacifist strain of anarcho-punk.

The younger Christo had come from a more anarcho-punk background – he was also a member of Green CND, and had been involved in the blockade of Ronald Reagan's car at the 1984 Lancaster House summit meeting.

In the 1980s Home was also a regular contributor to the anarcho-punk / cultural magazine VAGUE.

They also released material by other anarcho-punk performers, including their ' sister ' band The Passion Killers, Antidote and an animal rights benefit compilation, The Animals Packet.

* Oi Polloi is a Scottish anarcho-punk group, whose name is a pun on the term, and also Oi!

Established in 1989, the collective publishes a nationally-known zine ( also called Profane Existence ), as well as releasing and distributing anarcho-punk, crust, and grindcore music, and printing and publishing pamphlets and literature.

Stas ( vocals ) also sang for Boston area anarcho-punk band, Krema-1.

The episode also parodies the British anarcho-punk band Chumbawamba.

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

Several of these bands rooted in anarcho-punk such as The Varukers, Discharge, and Amebix, along with former Oi!

The term anarcho-punk is sometimes applied exclusively to bands that were part of the original anarcho-punk movement in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The concept ( and aesthetics ) of anarcho-punk was quickly picked up on by bands like Flux of Pink Indians, Chumbawamba and Conflict.

These first-wave anarcho-punk bands are musically varied but are often connected by discernible stylistic elements: a willingness to experiment that often went outside the bounds of other hardcore punk acts, a slipshod and improvised feeling, perhaps owing to the many of the bands conceiving of themselves more as musical collectives than formal acts, and " ranting " sections, where bands would expound on issues like animal rights or gender inequality.

Crust punk mixed anarcho-punk with an extreme metal sound, and was pioneered by bands such as Antisect, Sacrilege and Amebix.

Some anarcho-punk bands incorporate indie rock such as the Nation of Ulysses, Blyth Power and The ( International ) Noise Conspiracy.

While anarcho-punk bands have been often ideologically varied, most groups could be categorized has adhering to anarchism without adjectives, in that it embraces the syncretic fusion of many potentially differing ideological strains of anarchism.

The Psalters are a folk punk band with an affiliation with Christian anarchism, though most anarcho-punk bands are generally critical of Christianity.

* List of anarcho-punk bands

* Photographic archive of anarcho-punk bands

* List of anarcho-punk bands

Thompson writes that the label “ became ground zero for crust movement ” and that the aesthetic of second-wave ( i. e., beginning in the late 1980s ) anarcho-punk “ is currently exemplified by the bands released ” on the label.

** December 18-Members of Crass, The Mob, The Apostles and others squat the Zig Zag Club in west London and put on a free all day event featuring a number of anarcho-punk bands.

Like some other anarcho-punk bands of the time the band were promoters of animal rights causes, their debut EP being a benefit for animal welfare groups and prior to the recording of the A Look at Life EP there was a necessity for a new line-up as two of the original members had been imprisoned for various animal rights actions.

The political ideals of hippies influenced other movements, such as anarcho-punk, rave culture, green politics, stoner culture and the new age movement.

Other precursors to anarcho-punk include avant-garde art and political movements such as Fluxus, Dada, the Beat generation, England's angry young men ( such as Joe Orton ), the surrealism-inspired Situationist International, the May 1968 uprising in Paris, and the CND.

By the end of the 1980s, the emerging rave culture had an influence on anarcho-punk, with travelling sound systems such as Spiral Tribe, and the Bedlam sound system.

During the mid 1980s the band moved away from their original anarcho-punk roots, and began to incorporate influences from glam rock as well as acts such as Johnny Thunders.

These groups sometimes felt a greater association with other elements of ' 80s hardcore punk, such as straight edge, anarcho-punk, youth crew, or crust punk, than most initial thrashcore groups did.

As such, they are not considered part of anarcho-punk.

Much of this sentiment can be found in British punk bands, especially those emerging from the crust punk sub-genre such as Amebix or Antisect and the related anarcho-punk sub-genre where bands like Flux of Pink Indians made clear their opposition to nuclear warfare.

Always highly critical of the seemingly inward looking anarchist movement of the times, the autonomous and extreme libertarian approach of The Apostles seemed to portray classic anarchism, as opposed to the conformity of many of their contemporaries, This led the group receiving respect from notable members of the anarcho-punk movement such as Conflict, who released three records by The Apostles, and Crass with whom the band co-operated with during the squatting of the Zig-Zag Club and during the time in which The Autonomy Centre and Centro Iberico anarchist venues operated.