# List of hardcore punk bands

alThis is a list of notable hardcore punk bands. Hardcore punk (commonly shortened to hardcore) is an underground music genre that generally revolves around a thicker and more aggressive tone than earlier punk rock.
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* 10 Minute Warning
* 108
* 100 Demons
* 25 ta Life
* 50 Lions
* 7 Seconds
* 88 Fingers Louie

## A

* AC4
* The Accüsed
* Adolescents
* Adrenalin O.D.
* AFI
* Against
* Agent Orange
* Agnostic Front
* American Nightmare
* American Standards
* Angry Samoans
* Angst
* Anti Cimex
* Anti-Everything
* Anti Feminism
* Anti-Flag
* Anti-Nowhere League
* Anti-Pasti
* Antidote
* Antisect
* Armia
* Arms Race
* Arson Anthem
* Articles of Faith
* Assjack
* Attitude Adjustment
* Avail
* Awkward Thought

## B

* Backstabbers Incorporated
* Bad Brains
* Bad Religion
* Bags
* Bane
* Battalion of Saints
* Battery
* Bayonet
* Beartooth
* Beastie Boys (early)
* Being as an Ocean
* Big Boys
* Big Cheese
* Black Flag
* Black Market Baby
* Blast
* Break Even
* The Blood
* Blood for Blood
* Bomb Factory
* Born Against
* Born from Pain
* Borscht
* Botch
* The Brat
* Brick By Brick
* Broken Bones
* Broken Teeth
* The Bronx
* Brutal Knights
* Bulldoze
* Bullet Treatment
* Bunchofuckingoofs
* Burn
* Burning Sensations

## C

* Cancer Bats
* Capsize
* Career Suicide
* Carpathian
* Casey Jones
* The Casualties
* Cerebral Ballzy
* Chain of Strength
* Champion
* Chaos UK
* Channel 3
* The Chats
* The Chisel
* Chokehold
* Choking Victim
* Christ on Parade
* Circle Jerks
* CIV
* Clit 45
* Clutch (early)
* Close Your Eyes
* Corrosion of Conformity (early)
* Code Orange
* Cold as Life
* Cólera
* Comeback Kid
* Consumed
* Converge
* Counterparts
* Cripple Bastards
* Cro-Mags
* Crumbsuckers
* Cryptic Slaughter
* Crucifix
* Los Crudos
* Cruel Hand

## D

* D.I.
* D.O.A.
* Drain
* D.R.I.
* Dag Nasty
* Damage
* Dayglo Abortions
* Dead Kennedys
* The Dead Milkmen
* Dead Swans
* Deathkiller
* Death Before Dishonor
* Death Piggy
* Deep Wound
* Defeater
* Descendents
* Die Kreuzen
* Discharge
* Disembodied
* Dogfight
* Down to Nothing
* Dr. Know
* Dropdead
* The Dicks
* DYS

## E

* E.Town Concrete
* Earth Crisis
* Econochrist
* electric eels
* Endpoint
* Endwell
* Energy
* English Dogs
* Evergreen Terrace
* Excel
* The Exploited
* Expire
* Extortion

## F

* F-Minus
* The F.U.'s
* Faith
* Fang
* Farewell to Freeway
* The Fartz
* Fear
* The Feederz
* Fever 333
* Final Conflict
* Flipper
* FOD
* The Flex
* For Against
* Fortunate Son
* The Freeze
* Fucked Up
* Full of Hell

## G

* Gang Green
* GBH
* The Geeks
* Gel
* Germs
* Get Scared
* GISM
* A Global Threat
* G.L.O.S.S.
* Gorilla Biscuits
* Government Issue
* Green Arrows
* Good Clean Fun
* Gulch

## H

* H$_2$O
* Hatebreed
* Have Heart
* Heart Attack
* Heart in Hand
* Heresy
* Higher Power
* High Vis
* Hogan's Heroes
* Hoods
* Hundredth
* Hüsker Dü

## I

* I.R.A.
* The Icemen
* Icepick
* The Idoru
* Ignite
* Ill Repute
* Incendiary
* Infest
* In My Eyes
* Inside Out
* Integrity
* International Superheroes of Hardcore
* Iron Cross
* Iron Mind
* I-Spy

## J

* Jawbreaker
* Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
* Jerry's Kids
* JFA
* John Coffey
* Judge
* Judiciary

## K

* Kid Dynamite
* Kill Your Idols
* Killing the Dream
* Killing Time
* The Killing Tree
* King Parrot
* Knuckledust
* Knocked Loose
* Kraut
* Kublai Khan

## L

* Lard
* Lay It on the Line
* Leathermouth
* Leftöver Crack
* Life's Blood
* Limp Wrist
* Litmus Green
* The Locust

## M

* M.O.D.
* Madball
* Malevolence
* Marginal Man
* Matricide
* MDC
* The Meatmen
* Meat Puppets (early)
* Melvins (early)
* Middle Class
* Miles Away
* Mindsnare
* Minor Threat
* Minutemen
* Misfits
* The Mob
* Mob 47
* Modern Life Is War
* Moshiach Oi!
* Mouthpiece
* Murphy's Law

## N

* Nails
* Napalm Death (early)
* Necros
* Negative Approach
* Negative FX
* Negazione
* The Nerve Agents
* Neurosis (early)
* Newborn
* New Regime
* The Nip Drivers
* No Bragging Rights
* No Innocent Victim
* No Redeeming Social Value
* No Trigger
* NOFX (early)
* No Means No

## O

* Off!
* One King Down
* Operation Ivy
* Outbreak
* One Step Closer

## P

* Painstream
* Paint It Black
* Parasites
* Pennywise
* Pest Control
* Phinius Gage
* Point of No Return
* Poison Idea
* Pro-Pain
* Project X
* The Proletariat
* Punch
* Propagandhi

## R

* Rambo
* Raised Fist
* Ratos de Porão
* Rattus
* Raw Power
* Reagan Youth
* Really Red
* Redd Kross
* Refused
* Rotting Out
* The Replacements (early)
* Repulsion
* Revenge of the Psychotronic Man
* Rich Kids on LSD
* Rise Against (early)
* Rites of Spring
* Rorschach
* Rudimentary Peni
* Ruiner
* Rupture

## S

* S.O.A.
* S.O.D.
* Scream
* Septic Death
* Septic Tank
* Shai Hulud
* Sharptooth
* Sheer Terror
* Shelter
* Show Me the Body
* Sick of It All
* Siege
* Skarhead
* Slant
* Slapshot
* Snapcase
* SNFU
* Snot
* Speed (Australian band)
* SSD
* The Stalin
* Stick to Your Guns
* Straight Faced
* Stray from the Path
* Stretch Arm Strong
* Strike Anywhere
* Strongarm
* The Stupids
* Subhumans (British band)
* Subhumans (Canadian band)
* Subzero
* Suicidal Tendencies
* The Suicide File
* The Suicide Machines
* Sunami
* Superjoint Ritual
* Sworn Enemy

## T

* T.S.O.L.
* Tales of Terror
* Ten Yard Fight
* Terror
* Terveet Kädet
* The Ejected
* The Teen Idles
* This Is Hell
* Thrice (early)
* Throwdown (early)
* Thrown (band)
* To the Wind
* Toe to Toe
* Toxic Reasons
* Tragedy
* Trapped Under Ice
* Trash Talk
* Trial
* Turnstile

## U

* Ulrikes Dream
* Ultimatum
* Undertow
* The Undead
* Uniform Choice
* The Unseen
* Unseen Terror
* Up Front
* Urban Waste

## V

* Vatican Commandos
* Vegan Reich
* Vein.fm
* Venomous Concept
* Verbal Abuse
* Verse
* Violent Reaction
* Vision of Disorder
* Vitamin X
* Void
* Vorvaň

## W

* The Warriors
* Warzone
* Western Addiction
* Where's the Pope?
* White Flag
* A Wilhelm Scream
* Wormrot
* Wrangler Brutes
* The White Noise

## X

* X-Cops
* XTRMST

## Y

* Youth Brigade
* Youth Defense League
* Youth of Today
* Yellowcard (early)

## Z

* Zeke
* Zero Boys
* Zulu