The Essential Guide to Modern Hardcore

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 12-27-2016, 05:28 PM

So Batlord and Mondo have already brought us their own variations of this and done it very well. I've been debating starting this one for quite a while now, and finally decided it would be a cool project to work on every once and awhile.

Everyone already knows ****ing awesome hardcore punk was throughout the 90s, taking the world by storm and spitting in the face of just about everyone within spitting distance. After the 90s however, the genre became seemingly less and less sought after, especially after the emergance of all your other cores (grindcore and metalcore in particular.)

With that being said, there's still a ton of awesome hardcore music out there that really is worth the time of day whether you're a fan of the stuff that was put out of the 80s or in search of something entirely different. That will be this thread, in a nutshell. I'll be bringing you some of my favourite modern hardcore bands and albums in hopes that maybe you will find a new favourite of your own in the process.

For the purpose of this thread, modern will refer to anything post-2000. I'm going to try to refrain from posting anything that is more metalcore than hardcore or post-hardcore, because as I mentioned Batlord and Mondo are already doing a great job of covering those genres in their respective threads.

I also want to invite anyone with any interest in doing so to post their own favourite modern hardcore albums, which is the main reason I'm choosing to do this as a thread in the punk section instead of as a journal. So yeah, that's that.