page_title: Heavy hardcore
section_title: Vagueness of the term
hierarchical_section_title: Heavy hardcore / Vagueness of the term
caption_attribution_description: English: Punk rock hardcore band The Bad Brains at Nightclub 9:30, Washington, DC, 1983.
context_page_description: Heavy hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk and heavy metal that incorporates more music elements of heavy metal than traditional hardcore punk. Heavy hardcore features aggressive vocals, down-tuned electric guitars, gang vocals, and heavy breakdowns. Heavy hardcore bands are often labelled as simply "hardcore", causing the term "hardcore" to be a vague term because it also is used as a label on traditional hardcore punk, a genre played by bands like Minor Threat and Bad Brains.
  New York hardcore bands such as Agnostic Front, Warzone, Sick of It All, and Cro-Mags and the thrash metal subgenre crossover thrash paved the way for heavy hardcore. Heavy hardcore emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s with bands such as Killing Time, Madball, and Sheer Terror. In the mid-to-late 1990s and early 2000s, many other heavy hardcore bands, such as Hatebreed, Bulldoze, Shai Hulud, and Strife, all became prominent heavy hardcore bands. Heavy hardcore bands such as Terror and Death Before Dishonor gained cult followings in the mid-to-late-2000s.
context_section_description: Heavy hardcore bands often get labelled as simply "hardcore", making "hardcore" a vague term because the term "hardcore" is also used for traditional hardcore punk, a genre played by bands like Minor Threat and Bad Brains. In an interview with Alex Dunne of the hardcore punk band Crime in Stereo, Dunne said "there's really two hardcores, if you want to get into it". Dunne said bands like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Lifetime, Avail, and Gorilla Biscuits are examples of hardcore that he grew up with, while examples of the other type of hardcore, which "often gets referred to as 'tough guy' hardcore", is "bands more influenced by Agnostic Front and Madball and Sheer Terror". Dunne described the latter as "what people think of" "when you say hardcore". According to the website Vice, "there are two types of hardcore. Well, actually, there are about a thousand different subgenres of hardcore but you can put them all into two main categories: tough guy hardcore and non-tough guy hardcore." Vice explained the difference between the two by describing heavy hardcore as "all well and good for when you want to be mad at the world and lift weights and stuff." Aubin Paul of Punknews.org wrote that "the brand of metal-infused hardcore that Victory was pushing" during the 1990s "represents the majority of modern hardcore, with relatively few bands representing the older roots". Paul described "the older roots" as " 'classic' hardcore bands like Minor Threat, Black Flag and the Bad Brains".
caption: Bad Brains (pictured) is an example of a traditional hardcore punk band, making them different from heavy hardcore bands.
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