thrashcore

Thrashcore is often confused with crossover thrash and sometimes thrash metal.Felix von Havoc. [http://www.havocrex.com/press/article/1/20 Maximum Rock'n'Roll #198] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605102813/http://www.havocrex.com/press/article/1/20 |date=June 5, 2008 }}. Retrieved June 20, 2008."Powerviolence: The Dysfunctional Family of Bllleeeeaaauuurrrgghhh!!". Terrorizer no. 172. July 2008. p. 36-37. Further confusion is added by the fact that many crossover bands, such as D.R.I., began as influential thrashcore bands. Throughout the '80s, the term "thrash" was in use as a synonym for hardcore punk (as in the New York Thrash compilation of 1982). It eventually came to be used for the faster, more intense style of hardcore punk. The term thrashcore is of recent vintage but dates from at least 1993.As Max Ward writes, "625 started in 1993 in order to help out the local Bay Area thrashcore scene." {{cite web | author=Ward, Max | year= 2000| title=About 625 | work=625 Thrashcore | url=http://www.625thrash.com/about.shtml | access-date=June 5, 2008 }} The "-core" suffix is necessary to distinguish it from the thrash metal scene, which is also referred to as "thrash" by fans. Still more confusingly, the term "thrashcore" is occasionally used by the music press to refer to thrash metal-inflected metalcore.Voegtlin, Stewart (July 29, 2008). [http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-29/music/soulfly-cranks-up-the-thrash-and-triggers-a-debacle/ "Soulfly Cranks Up the Thrash and Triggers a Debacle"]. Village Voice. Retrieved July 31, 2008.

Just as hardcore punk groups distinguished themselves from their punk rock predecessors by their greater intensity and aggression, thrashcore groups (often identified simply as "thrash") sought to play at breakneck tempos that would radicalize the innovations of hardcore. Early American thrashcore groups included Cryptic Slaughter (Santa Monica), D.R.I. (Houston), HYPE (Toronto, Canada), Septic Death (Boise, Idaho) and Siege (Weymouth, Massachusetts). The British Electro Hippies, the Dutch Lärm, the Italian Raw Power, and the Japanese S.O.B. also practiced important examples of the style. Some of Negative Approach's later work was influential on the scene.

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The powerviolence scene grew out of thrashcore as an American counterpart to the British grindcore scene, which had emerged from crust punk, with bands such as Septic Death, Infest and Siege being the first to move towards the style.{{cite web|last1=Preenson|first1=Richard|title=What Even is "Thrashcore" Anyway?|url=https://thrownintothefire.wixsite.com/music/single-post/2018/03/01/What-Even-is-%E2%80%9CThrashcore%E2%80%9D-Anyway|website=Thrown Into the Fire|date=March 2018 |access-date=March 4, 2018}} Powerviolence groups saw themselves as distinct from grindcore because of the increasing proximity of grindcore groups to the death metal being performed in Florida, Sweden, and Brazil.Bartkewicz, Anthony (July 2007). [http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/powerviolence.aspx "Screwdriver in the Urethra of Hardcore"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224033317/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/powerviolence.aspx |date=February 24, 2008 }}. Decibel Magazine. Retrieved July 29, 2007. Powerviolence groups wished to avoid the association with heavy metal music and culture that crossover thrash, thrash metal, and grindcore had made, while also incorporating "tempo changes with droney and sludgey down tempo parts". As well as from thrashcore, powerviolence groups also took inspiration from crust punk, and eventually from noise music. Main groups associated with powerviolence included No Comment, Hellnation, Man Is The Bastard, Crossed Out, Charles Bronson, Spazz and Rorschach.

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Thrashcore groups such as S.O.B.,{{cite web|url=http://metalbrothers.es/bios/biografias/s-o-b/|title=S.O.B – METALBROTHERS.ES – Todo el Metal – All about Metal|website=metalbrothers.es|access-date=January 18, 2018|archive-date=December 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219115847/http://metalbrothers.es/bios/biografias/s-o-b/|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2012/10/12/the-lazarus-pit-sob-s-what-s-the-truth/|title=The Lazarus Pit: SOB's What's the Truth? - Decibel Magazine|date=October 12, 2012|access-date=January 18, 2018}}{{cite web|url=https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2016/04/14/grindcore-meets-grunge-napalm-death-and-the-melvins-bring-co-headlining-tour-to-agora|title=Grindcore Meets Grunge: Napalm Death and the Melvins Bring Co-Headlining Tour to Agora|first=Jeff|last=Niesel|access-date=November 27, 2017}} Cryptic Slaughter,{{cite web |last1=Farrar |first1=Justin |title=The 30 Greatest Thrash Bands of All Time |url=https://www.spin.com/2017/12/the-30-greatest-thrash-bands-of-all-time/ |website=Spin |access-date=July 20, 2018|date=December 26, 2017 }} Siege and Deep Wound{{cite book |last1=Mudrain |first1=Albert |title=Choosing Death |page=21 }} were major influences on early grindcore acts such as Napalm Death, Carcass and Repulsion. Grindcore is considered to be more metallic, due to its influence from crust punk.

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The '90s saw a revival of the thrashcore style, as groups that had previously been associated with powerviolence or grindcore began to explore their debt to this earlier form of extreme music such as rock and metal. This was sometimes referred to as bandana thrash, in reference to the headgear preferred by many of the performers.[http://www.625thrash.com/interviews.shtml Interview with Max Ward]. Maximum Rock'n'Roll. Retrieved June 19, 2008. Prominent '90s thrashcore groups included Code 13, MK-ULTRA, Guyana Punch Line, What Happens Next? and R.A.M.B.O. (from the United States), Vitamin X (from the Netherlands), Vivisick (from Japan) and Voorhees (from the UK). These groups sometimes felt a greater association with other elements of '80s hardcore punk, such as straight edge, anarcho-punk, youth crew, or crust punk, than most initial thrashcore groups did.

• 625 Thrashcore
• Havoc Records
• Ebullition Records
• Slap-a-Ham Records
• Deep Six Records
• Six Weeks
• Sound Pollution Records

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• Blush, Steven (2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. {{ISBN|0-922915-71-7}}

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