Hardcore Punk (commonly just called Hardcore) is a subgenre of punk rock. What makes this genre different from regular punk is that it is faster, harder, and has no clear origin (the place of origin is spread all across Northern America, reaching New York, California, Washington D.C., and even to the UK).

Hardcore was made as a rebellion to the hippie movement, and the genre ended up creating the straight edge movement, as well as several other movements. Early hardcore artists needed a way to protest against the economic issues in the late 1970s, and hardcore was that solution.

Hardcore eventually parented various genres, like skacore and grunge, arguably two of the most important genres in ‘90s rock music.

Artists

• Rise Against (hardcore punk earlier material, melodic hardcore later material)
• Dead Kennedys
• Black Flag