The two recordings construct and produce pleasure for different audiences. Columbia U Press pp. Toward a Semiology of Music trans. Walser analyzes the musical and the social functions of metal using both ethnographic and musicological methodologies. His conclusions are both subtle and sensitive to the experience of metal fans and musicians.
Hardcore punk is punk that insists on the most extreme musical and ideological positions.
The musical conventions of heavy metal blend easily with the speed and confrontational attitude of hardcore punk in hardcore heavy metal.