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New No Hardcore

**New No Hardcore** is a musical and artistic movement that gained underground prominence in the late 2020's, particularly in the United States. The scene originates from a variety of experimental metal, punk, indie, and electronic acts that were markedly influenced by the no wave sensibilities of 80s underground rock mixed with the modern textures of modern post-punk and post-hardcore. The label has grown to include artists of various genres and sonic aesthetics and its legitimacy as a genre label is a topic of debate.

## History

The history of the New No Hardcore scene can arguably be tracked back as far as 2023 when Scottish post-hardcore band The Smiling Hats released their debut LP, WHATEVA. The album was regarded by the underground metal community as a sleeper hit when it initially came out and lauded for its intricate blends of hardcore punk, industrial rock, and post-punk styles, and by the end of the year WHATEVA was on several best of the year lists, boosting its prominence and earning them a review from internet music critic Anthony Fantano. The following year, a Scottish-American alternative-metal band named The Ha Nor would release their debut album, MEh, which would bring much of the same influences to a metal context and win over the hearts of punks and metal fans alike.

In addition to these two bands, an even more electronically driven punk band called Break Up Sex was beginning to gain worldwide prominence after the smash success of their debut album Sex&Sex&Sex. Drawing comparisons to cult music acts all over the map such as Death Grips, The Prodigy, Talking Heads, and The Blood Brothers, they nearly single-handedly brought digital hardcore and sasscore back into the mainstream after years of being relegated to the underground circuit.

These bands were incredibly influential to many of the most prominent bands in No New Hardcore, including The Fisherwomen, Priest Tank, Visitor Kenta, and Pink Eels, all of whom have stated their admiration for one of the two at some point in their careers. The success of two of these bands, The Fisherwomen and Priest Tank in particular, were the first bands to establish a solid identity for the scene that would come to be known as New No Hardcore. Priest Tank and Fisherwomen frontpersons Tyler Breghan and Chante North would found No New Records prior to recording their first album under the name Amalgam, a move they said was to allow them to fund money for future releases for their friends and their own artistic projects. The label quickly began to sign more and more bands that had a similar vested interest in pushing the boundaries of hardcore, punk, metal, and electronic music and developed a devout following and culture surrounding the scene they created. Today, the scene has notable acts in nearly every region of the world, and signing to New No Records is often seen as a badge of honor to the most abstract bands the punk, metal, and electronica underground has to offer.

## Style

Although the scene has some unifying stylistic undertones, many bands associated with the movement sound almost nothing alike on their face. The most common association music fans tend to make is to that of the sounds of the earliest pioneers of the style, like bands such as many of the Breghan brothers' musical projects (Priest Tank, Sheer Mu, Sex Pact, Dangerkin, Dead Dogs, Tourist Skinners) The Fisherwomen, Visitor Kenta, The Friar, and other bands more directly involved in hardcore punk. However, there are also many metal acts associated with the scene, such as Antithy, Dead Mass, Amalgam, Bloodsmith, and Edging, some of which include members of those same hardcore bands. To further complicate things, many bands signed to the label and by proxy are considered a part of the scene are their distant cousins in Ambientcore and Vitci Letam, two styles of Electronic Post-Hardcore (EPHC) that mutually shared influences with No Wave Hardcore.

## No Wave Hardcore

### Stylistic Origins

Hardcore punk, no wave, post-punk, post-hardcore, goth rock, industrial rock, noise rock, grindcore, powerviolence, sasscore, synthpunk, art punk, brutal prog

### Other topics

Mid 2030's in the United States

**No Wave Hardcore**

No Wave Hardcore is considered the genre at the core of the New No Movement, as its no wave aesthetic is probably the most commonly shared feature of the scene. The style is defined by sass-influenced vocal styles, primitive but extremely fast and heavy drum passages, discordant guitar harmonies, odd time signatures and abstract song structures. One of the earliest purveyors of the sound was Cops In Crisis, a band fronted by Tom Bryan, whose odd vocal inflections and quirks were matched with some of the most bizarre hardcore punk songs ever written. The most influential band within the scene is almost unanimously regarded to be The Fisherwomen, whose harsh and atonal post-punk influenced sound defined the meta in experimental punk and hardcore for the better part of a decade. Other highly regarded bands in the style are acts such as Postal, Dead Dogs, Dangerkin, and Visitor Kenta.

**Noiseviolence**

## Noiseviolence

### Stylistic Origins

Powerviolence, grindcore, post-hardcore, noisecore, synthpunk, post-industrial, industrial rock, screamo, post-metal

### Other topics

Mid 2030's in the United States

Noiseviolence is a subgenre of powerviolence characterized by the use of extreme dissonance, harsh synthesizer noise walls, unhinged and over-the top vocal performances, and an emphasis on a diverse use of sound. The genre is often argued to have started with Philadelphia-based blackened hardcore punk band The Friar, whose emphasis on harsh noise generated by layers of atonal synthesizers defined them amongst a field of contemporary powerviolence artists. The first commercially successful band to have ever been called referred to as "noiseviolence" was Priest Tank, after *Rolling Stone* praised their critically acclaimed album The Reins for its intense emphasis on atmosphere in the contexts of powerviolence and metalcore. Sam Breghan, drummer of Priest Tank and brother to the band's vocalist and guitarist Tyler Breghan, is often regarded as one of the most important figures in noiseviolence for his contributions to Dangerkin, Bloodsmith, Priest Tank, Sex Pact, and Edging, all of which are projects that have influenced several other popular noiseviolence acts.

**Ambientcore**

## Ambientcore

### Other Names

ambient punk, cloud punk, electronic post-hardcore, post-5th wave

### Stylistic Origins

ambient, drone, noise, punk rock, synthpunk, chiptune, post-punk, psychedelia, soul, art pop, hyperpop, post-hardcore, progressive pop, experimental hip-hop, punk rap, no wave, vaporwave, indietronica, noise pop, bubblegum pop, drum & bass, alternative r&b

### Subgenres

Hyper-fi, dark ambientcore, ambientgore

**Ambientcore,** also widely known as **ambient punk** or **electronic post-hardcore (EPHC),** is a genre of electronic music that is known for using simultaneously noisy and ethereal atmospheres built on heavily manipulated synthesizers and samples, long instrumental sections, intense shifts from quiet, slow, and understated performances to peaks of emotional catharsis and thrashing futuristic drum and synth production. The style was pioneered by Judo Lil, who is largely considered to be the most influential No New Hardcore-associated artist of all time. The scene's most commercially successful artist is SABRA GUILD VLTIMATE, whose debut album SABRA SILENT 1 peaked on the Billboard Top 100 at #12 and spawned the subgenre known as **dark ambientcore**. This style of ambientcore more explicitly takes influence from goth and neo-folk music than the greater scene and has a more downtempo feel.

Although ambientcore is more successful in the mainstream than other styles within the New No Movement, the scene tends to receive most of its love from many of the same fans as bands within the explicitly punk rock or metal acts within the scene. Judo Lil is also a very close friend of many members of the New No Hardcore scene, including Tyler and Sam Breghan, Rhomat Solfeit of HIJZANVITCI, and Asa Witt of Sheer Mu, and has collaborated with many artists in a variety of different projects within the movement, which further cements their direct relationship in building each others' styles and communities.

## List of Bands

* Allegro Soul
* Alyse Has Changed
* Amalgam
* Anita The Void
* Antithy
* Angry Dirge
* Battery Lickers
* Bloodsmith
* Boarhunter
* Boatman Brooks
* Break Up Sex
* Cops In Crisis
* Dangerkin
* Dead Dogs
* Dead Mass
* Dumb Sailors
* Edging
* The Fisherwomen
* The Friar
* The Ha Nor
* Hart's Affair
* Judo Lil
* Lard Panther
* Libertine Dreams
* Nocturnal M
* Pink Eels
* Postal
* Priest Tank
* SABRA GUILD VLTIMATE
* Sex Doll Colony
* Sex Pact
* Sheer Mu
* SIREN
* Smiling Hats
* Tone Def
* Tourist Skinners
* Visitor Kenta
* ZANGEMSE (Angels)