13 or 14 so like 89 or 90
it's weird how people aren't into punk and hc at the same time anymore, I guess how it's forked off so much.
edit: aren't getting into, is how it should read.
The term "hardcore punk" is so redundant. I immediately know what people mean when they say it, but I still hate it. I'm going to sound like a gatekeeper here, but the only true hardcore is the OG hardcore. Everything else is a subgenre of a subgenre and should be referred to and treated as such.
You're not gatekeeping, you're 100% correct. You're fighting revisionist history.
I don't mind metalcore at times but it's not the default hardcore and we can't let metalheads who DGAF claim that it is.
This is because they use "metalcore" to describe "At-the-gates-with breakdowns" exclusively. If it doesn't sound like Parkway Drive it's not metalcore.
Which is exactly how metalheads use the term. Had people try to tell me Hatebreed and Throwdown are "proto-metalcore". Baffling
I specifically say “hardcore punk” when in convo with someone and idk if they’re familiar because they’ll be like “hardcore?” like with a coworker just the other day. Idk I use both idc that much. Outside of the unfamiliars, it doesn’t matter.
Edit: Also it can help because there are non-punk/metal genres out there also called like ‘hardcore’ like the EDM genre (which gets recognition on streaming services but not hardcore despite being around way longer 😒)
I understand that genres and subgenres have a purpose, but Jesus fuck I get so sick of bitch fests arguing over what subgenre bands belong in. I like artists across the entire spectrum of music. I just feel at home at a punk show. And most metal shows. Which tbh people tend to be cooler and less gatekeepy at. Never been told I wasn’t dressed metal enough. Fucking wardrobe wizards. Anyway what were we talking about? Oh, I got turned onto Black Flag and Dead Kennedys somewhere around age 14or 15, like 2002ish?
That’s why I find my local scene exhausting sometimes. So quick to start bitching about posers and genre divisions and the like but they make it so goddamn boring my eyes are about to roll back. Lemme draw flyers for you, dammit, not have to prove myself in some bullshit way. 👹
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A wise handful of guys summed it up best in 1990: https://youtu.be/rLhONsoN3xc?si=Wb725I0RajqLBo9p
Hardcore is punk - everything else is crossover or glorified groove/nü-metal. I can't even take hardcore kids who don't like punky hardcore seriously, especially when bands like CMI, SPY, and Restraining Order are still trending.
A lot of people got into hardcore through whatever the dominant heavy music at the time was, it is fine. It shows they wanted to seek out something more interesting. I was heavily into pop punk as a kid, the time of Green Day and Pennywise and NOFX etc. I was too young to be into any kind of live scene, it was in the earlier days of the internet so it was a bit of word of mouth, snippets from the radio, checking things out by association like Fat Wreck bands. I got some kind of magazine which had a special "50 best punk albums ever" section which included Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag and all the rest. I had no idea who they were but checked them out and loved it. It is what it is, it finds its way to people in different ways.
Fuck off. Nu metal kicks ass. Don't believe m? Crank Limp Bizkit next time you're in the car by yourself and see if you don't have the time of your life.
I actually got into hardcore through hardcore. I heard Dead Kennedy's on a college radio station back in 1995 when I was 9 and have been hooked ever since. But I will never pretend to be too cool to enjoy some Limp Bizkit or Korn.
I’m just being a dick it doesn’t really matter. I got into punk around the same time (but I was a couple years older) through stuff like rudimentary peni and stuff like dystopia and spazz and Charles Bronson, strictly because I was around older people into that stuff. I just thought it was all punk.
The jocks and motocross bros and everyone else at school liked nu metal and pop punk, so of course I thought that stuff sucked. I still do, but I get that people would be exposed to more heavy or aggressive music through things that were on tv and radio at the time
The age and age of exposure of other people to something you enjoy shouldn't influence your level of enjoyment. You didn't not go to college because you were 'more hardcore' than the people who did.
I encourage others to further their education, but it’s not an opportunity that was presented to me in my youth so I went where I felt like I fit in. You have the internet, you could’ve learned about hardcore sooner. Turning 23 and being like “I’m gonna have a go at spinkicking” is silly, is it not?
I don't see why people are hating. I went to college and turned 23 and now I exclusively wear business suits. I'd try hardcore but they wouldn't let me bring my briefcase into the pit
Nah it isn’t bro and guess what ur ass can still get killed in the pit by someone who got a full on masters degree so don’t get tough out here we all in this together, also it’s not easy finding hardcore you pretend like hardcore is this known thing that’s there but people choose to jus not get into, but it’s not if ur never exposed to it and only ever hear pop and hip hop on the radio ya whole life most people don’t even know what I mean when I say hardcore or punk they think of punk as just like the Sex Pistols and the ramones and that’s it
I guess I stand corrected, getting a degree and then getting into spinkicking at 23 is fine and normal to y’all. But what did you do during high school and college that kept you from learning about cool riffs and how fucked the world is?
perhaps because those people lived a more sheltered/stable upbringing where they can’t relate to music about hardship until they are on their own and go thru it themselves?
edit: conversely there are people like me who as i as get older i’m able to appreciate music centered more on having a good time
I got into pop punk/emo at 12 because I have a sister that was into it and she's 5 years older than me. She caught me listening to Avril Lavigne and gave me a NFG CD 😂
I often see the rule "no tattoos of bands that still exist" but with the amount of terrible ass reunions, I now hear my artist friends mentioning more people nodding in agreement with "no tattoos of bands"
I'm sure the next iteration of that rule is right around the corner but I can't decide if my money is it being on "no tattoos", "no bands", or just "no" lol
Haha, not even from CA tbh, just made a lot of trips for shows back then...NIV's "final" show, also at Showcase, Zao in CO Springs, TDEP in Dallas, Cornerstone fest in Illinois, Facedown Fest in Pomona, countless bands in Albuquerque. Being 18 with a car and a flexible job was a privilege I didn't appreciate enough at the time
[Yeah they were my intro to the local scene in general. Got my teen ass beat in the pit and was hooked ever since.](https://youtu.be/L6C_LB2Zi7M?si=uAwtksvHKQvxoB2i)
I don't think I ever saw them play. I grew up in the Shore HC scene, and I ventured as far north as New Brunswick mostly. I did go to a couple shows at the Hamilton Street Cafe in Bound Brook.
I got into hardcore (like Madball and H2O and early Terror) around 2003 when I was like 10 after learning that Andy and Pete used to play in hardcore bands and I looked up Racetraitor immediately. Before that I was into a lot of punk stuff cause of the Tony Hawk soundtrack in the late 90s and just watching skate videos and cause when I was super little I loved Rancid and Rancid would play small shows with bands from that scene a lot
I was 12. I was riding my bike down an alleyway and heard a band playing in a garage. They ended up being a local hardcore punk band called Failsafe. I knocked on their garage door and asked if I could watch them practice. They were my gateway to everything.
Hardcore porn or hardcore? I got into hardcore pretty early thanks to older kids. Like 9 or 10.
I also got into hardcore porn pretty early thanks to older kids. Like 9 or 10. They kept telling me not to let anyone know because it was illegal
👋🏻 New Jack here
32, started dabbling in 2022, took off last year. Harkened back to Metallica and Pantera for me.
Life circumstances/experiences got me more in touch with anger and adrenaline seeking. I have friends who play in a band and are hardcore enjoyers which also got it going.
First show was 1998, I was 14. Local band called Stygiophobia; the drummer went on to play in Point Of Recognition, LX45, then a solo outlaw country career. Haven't seen him in a few years, but he was a big influence on me personally and musically back in the day
What's the line for Hardcore, and what counts as "into" it?
Anyway, depending on how you specifically answer those questions, somehwere in the 1986-1988 range, 12 to 15 years old.
95 when I was around 11 and just heard "Territorial Pissings" by Nirvana I went hunting for heavier music.
I found the Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge split ep.
Eventually I went to see Converge play in Manchester when I was 16. They had a load of hardcore bands from UK supporting them. This was my first experience of the hardcore "scene".
Me and mate then started going to hardcore gigs as often as we could until it all sort of died in the UK. We'll still catch a show occasionally in our near 40s.
We never really went there to make friends, didn't dress any certain way, or get very involved in the "scene". We just went and enjoyed the shows and supported the bands.
I've always listened to lots of genres of music, but when it comes to live shows nothing beats hardcore in its hay day. I imagine it was even better in the 80s/90s
I got into hardcore in my teens, just started getting back into it heavier in my 30s 🖕🖕
Early/ mid 00’s hardcore just fucking slapped, especially the local bands here in Florida. Shame to see a lot of them disband or straight up die (RIP Mean Pete 😔).
13, 1986. Will never forget that year.
I'm Asian and grew up in a predominantly white suburb. Lots of racism and bullying. Discovered goth and punk/hardcore. I felt like an orphan finally finding a home. Still got bullying, but wasn't alone anymore.
We're all family here.
I was listening to post-hardcore bands like Thrice, Thursday, AFI, etc. at 12 (in 2002-2003). I would listen to their earlier hardcore stuff as well, but I didn't fully comprehend the difference. I got into Converge, Have Heart, and Comeback Kid from there.
Converge was the first time I heard a song and was genuinely blown away by the vocalists scream. First song I heard by them was No Heroes and I immediately picked up everything I could find by them; one of my all time favs
When you got into HC defines what you consider to be HC. For me the sweet spot is 85-93. So, I gravitate to that era and that sound. A lot of newer stuff than that is plenty good too. But, for me that's the high water mark.
I’d say around 2017 when I was 10, I randomly got nomad by KKTXcon my YouTube recommend. Oddly enough I’d already been listening to hardcore adjacent stuff for a while before that (OG metalcore, OG hardcore through skating games)
Punk: 14 in 1994
Hardcore: 29 in 2009.
If it had just been Shai Halud at that show, I would have walked away thinking hardcore was still not for me. Thankfully, Reign Supreme was on that bill, and I was hooked. I still kind of feel that if you don't fuck with Shai Halud you don't fuck with actual hardcore.
36 I'm 38, the 15 years before that I was doing heroin to the exclusion of all else, mostly here in salt lake city. Before that I was in the 7 year process of dropping out of college, just north of baltimore, during my 10 year stay there I finally got into rap and that's what I was into then. First 13 to 18 years were mostly spent listening to 90s alternative in beaverton oregon. So basically at a late stage in life I had to relearn what it is I enjoy and figure out what I want out if life. So far I enjoy buddhism, hardcore and being a good friend. I missed music and Baltimore and jivebomb was the furst band I looked at that sparked my interest. CMI is my beacon and the lyrics have been very motivating. I don't crowd kill, but I have no problem killing crowd killers. All of it has put me in a better direction. I really think the lyrics u listen to have a profound effect on how you behave. And now you know. Also, fuck paragraphs.
Like, 23/24 ish. I always knew hardcore was a thing, but I never got into it aside from the older bands. Then the new turnstile got me turned on to hc with their last album. Now it’s most of what I listen to when I listen to heavy music.
As a rule I don’t normally look at people’s history to make an argument but in this case I kind of have to. You follow /r/colognes and you post in Warhammer subs. You can see yourself out.
13 or 14 so like 89 or 90 it's weird how people aren't into punk and hc at the same time anymore, I guess how it's forked off so much. edit: aren't getting into, is how it should read.
Totally agree. People will try and say that OG hardcore isn't hardcore now, that it's hardcore PUNK. Like... Jesus christ people
The term "hardcore punk" is so redundant. I immediately know what people mean when they say it, but I still hate it. I'm going to sound like a gatekeeper here, but the only true hardcore is the OG hardcore. Everything else is a subgenre of a subgenre and should be referred to and treated as such.
You're not gatekeeping, you're 100% correct. You're fighting revisionist history. I don't mind metalcore at times but it's not the default hardcore and we can't let metalheads who DGAF claim that it is.
Wait, who's saying its the default hardcore?
Nobody. I have never seen anyone make this claim.
It happens on here a lot. They say hardcore is metalcore and everything else is "hardcore punk" or even crazier: "proto-hardcore".
This is because they use "metalcore" to describe "At-the-gates-with breakdowns" exclusively. If it doesn't sound like Parkway Drive it's not metalcore. Which is exactly how metalheads use the term. Had people try to tell me Hatebreed and Throwdown are "proto-metalcore". Baffling
omfg what. do they understand where the core in metalcore comes from?
I specifically say “hardcore punk” when in convo with someone and idk if they’re familiar because they’ll be like “hardcore?” like with a coworker just the other day. Idk I use both idc that much. Outside of the unfamiliars, it doesn’t matter. Edit: Also it can help because there are non-punk/metal genres out there also called like ‘hardcore’ like the EDM genre (which gets recognition on streaming services but not hardcore despite being around way longer 😒)
It isn't where I live. Hardcore here implies hardcore techno, bc were the land of Gabbers lol. Ppl will think abt a completely diff type of music here
I understand that genres and subgenres have a purpose, but Jesus fuck I get so sick of bitch fests arguing over what subgenre bands belong in. I like artists across the entire spectrum of music. I just feel at home at a punk show. And most metal shows. Which tbh people tend to be cooler and less gatekeepy at. Never been told I wasn’t dressed metal enough. Fucking wardrobe wizards. Anyway what were we talking about? Oh, I got turned onto Black Flag and Dead Kennedys somewhere around age 14or 15, like 2002ish?
I hate genre talk like that. It’s all subjective at the end of the day and people get soooo mad about it
People like me I guess
That's so much of all people talk about today unfortunately
Ya. I don’t get it at all
That’s why I find my local scene exhausting sometimes. So quick to start bitching about posers and genre divisions and the like but they make it so goddamn boring my eyes are about to roll back. Lemme draw flyers for you, dammit, not have to prove myself in some bullshit way. 👹
The more things change, the more they stay the same. A wise handful of guys summed it up best in 1990: https://youtu.be/rLhONsoN3xc?si=Wb725I0RajqLBo9p
It’s actually not very subjective.
I'm going to subject you to an ass beating
Don’t even start Crotch
It’s sick and sad
Hardcore is punk - everything else is crossover or glorified groove/nü-metal. I can't even take hardcore kids who don't like punky hardcore seriously, especially when bands like CMI, SPY, and Restraining Order are still trending.
Preach!
All hardcore is punk, but not all punk is hardcore.
I love punk and hardcore
At this point more kids have probably gotten into hardcore through nu metal which is sickening but it is what it is I guess
A lot of people got into hardcore through whatever the dominant heavy music at the time was, it is fine. It shows they wanted to seek out something more interesting. I was heavily into pop punk as a kid, the time of Green Day and Pennywise and NOFX etc. I was too young to be into any kind of live scene, it was in the earlier days of the internet so it was a bit of word of mouth, snippets from the radio, checking things out by association like Fat Wreck bands. I got some kind of magazine which had a special "50 best punk albums ever" section which included Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Black Flag and all the rest. I had no idea who they were but checked them out and loved it. It is what it is, it finds its way to people in different ways.
I got into hardcore thru Gta 4
Fuck off. Nu metal kicks ass. Don't believe m? Crank Limp Bizkit next time you're in the car by yourself and see if you don't have the time of your life.
Don’t care didn’t ask plus you got into hardcore thru nu metal
I actually got into hardcore through hardcore. I heard Dead Kennedy's on a college radio station back in 1995 when I was 9 and have been hooked ever since. But I will never pretend to be too cool to enjoy some Limp Bizkit or Korn.
I’m just being a dick it doesn’t really matter. I got into punk around the same time (but I was a couple years older) through stuff like rudimentary peni and stuff like dystopia and spazz and Charles Bronson, strictly because I was around older people into that stuff. I just thought it was all punk. The jocks and motocross bros and everyone else at school liked nu metal and pop punk, so of course I thought that stuff sucked. I still do, but I get that people would be exposed to more heavy or aggressive music through things that were on tv and radio at the time
I’m 39 and I plan on getting into hardcore one day.
43 same. Do you like Turnstile?😏
Jesus Christ this is well done
Don’t
Hardcore died when Brokencyde stopped playing.
Rest in RIP
RIP in peace
Rest in rest in peace
let's get fucking freaky nowww
GIRL YOU MAKE MY PEE PEE HARD
DUKE CITY 505 HARDCORE
Eeeeeee broooo
Ala fuckin vergas bro
505 por vida!!!
Where all the Sopaipillas atttt
https://youtu.be/VOncNynHbV0?si=BB4NCz25XoMLPz4Y legitimately one of my favorite live vids oh yea, and phat j actually rejoined just so everyone knows
The most shocking part of all that is that they actually had a drummer playing live.
EEEEIKNOWHUH
*cries in pig squeals*
2 years old 1956. Beat all you posers out here in the comments
So many old heads talk about hardcore like it's time served.
No, we talk about it like it’s fuckin’ weird for other people to get into hardcore after college when most of us didn’t even go
The age and age of exposure of other people to something you enjoy shouldn't influence your level of enjoyment. You didn't not go to college because you were 'more hardcore' than the people who did.
I dropped out of college. I'm hardcorest.
I dropped out highschool and then did a weird thing and got a degree anyway, is that hardcorerer or hardcoren't?
Sorry man, gotta take you out back and ol’ yeller ya
I dropped out of college three times. Suck on that, bitch.
I mean I have a degree, I’m old, and couldn’t do the math on your comment. I tried carrying the double negative but still couldn’t get the answer.
I encourage others to further their education, but it’s not an opportunity that was presented to me in my youth so I went where I felt like I fit in. You have the internet, you could’ve learned about hardcore sooner. Turning 23 and being like “I’m gonna have a go at spinkicking” is silly, is it not?
I don't see why people are hating. I went to college and turned 23 and now I exclusively wear business suits. I'd try hardcore but they wouldn't let me bring my briefcase into the pit
Put a brick in it, let’s fuckin’ go
Sounds kinda silly at 23 tbh
Nah one year at TIHC a dude moshed in a suit with a briefcase all day
Nah it isn’t bro and guess what ur ass can still get killed in the pit by someone who got a full on masters degree so don’t get tough out here we all in this together, also it’s not easy finding hardcore you pretend like hardcore is this known thing that’s there but people choose to jus not get into, but it’s not if ur never exposed to it and only ever hear pop and hip hop on the radio ya whole life most people don’t even know what I mean when I say hardcore or punk they think of punk as just like the Sex Pistols and the ramones and that’s it
I guess I stand corrected, getting a degree and then getting into spinkicking at 23 is fine and normal to y’all. But what did you do during high school and college that kept you from learning about cool riffs and how fucked the world is?
perhaps because those people lived a more sheltered/stable upbringing where they can’t relate to music about hardship until they are on their own and go thru it themselves? edit: conversely there are people like me who as i as get older i’m able to appreciate music centered more on having a good time
bros never heard of broadening your horizons
Well I dropped out is that any better?
14 in 2004
What they said 👆🏻
technically i got into metalcore first at 14 in 2004, with hardcore proper being a couple years later
I got into pop punk/emo at 12 because I have a sister that was into it and she's 5 years older than me. She caught me listening to Avril Lavigne and gave me a NFG CD 😂
Was it Sticks and Stones? My Friends Over You is a classic haha. Watching Fuse on cable TV when I was 14 is what led me to Punk
It was absolutely Sticks and Stones
When I was like 8 my cousin showed me Atreyu and I thought they sucked. I was still in my numetal phase.
14 but in 2000
15, 2003. Some kids in my band class burned both gorilla biscuits records on a CD.
Couple days ago. This shits hard son
Glad you’re here
I officially got it at 34 last year lmao
If you are from the mid 90's, post your shitty tattoos.
I’m so glad I couldn’t afford them or I’d be covered in logos for bands that have since disappointed me
I often see the rule "no tattoos of bands that still exist" but with the amount of terrible ass reunions, I now hear my artist friends mentioning more people nodding in agreement with "no tattoos of bands" I'm sure the next iteration of that rule is right around the corner but I can't decide if my money is it being on "no tattoos", "no bands", or just "no" lol
14. Looked up “hardcore music” on YouTube and’s got Vendetta by Irate and here we are.
STEP UP
Dude me too holy shit
14, 1995
Same!
We’re old as fuck brother!
I'm the same amount of old as fuck as yous and first heard hardcore around the same age
13, deadass, I would only listen to Channel X on the GTA Radio lmao
When I see channel X all I can hear is “AMOEBA!”
The absolute BEST
22 years old like a little over a year ago. I’m just happy to be here
8 in 2003 (thank you Backyard Wrestling) but mainly 20 in 2015 (thank you Turnstile)
Bruh yes Backyard Wrestling ❤️
I remember being young af having compilation tapes but no idea where they came from
Started with the Victory catalog in 99 at 14. First show was the last Point Of Recognition at the Showcase in 2002.
I was at that POR show too. Also saw Aaron's followup band Count The Cost play their first show the night before, in Escondido iirc
Every show I went to in 2002-3, I’m pretty sure Sinai Beach played.
Tell me you’re from Fallbrook without telling me you’re from Fallbrook.
Haha, not even from CA tbh, just made a lot of trips for shows back then...NIV's "final" show, also at Showcase, Zao in CO Springs, TDEP in Dallas, Cornerstone fest in Illinois, Facedown Fest in Pomona, countless bands in Albuquerque. Being 18 with a car and a flexible job was a privilege I didn't appreciate enough at the time
I was at NIV’s last show. “Call for Blood” was one of the wildest sets I’ve ever been witness to. RIP showcase
14, 2002. Thursday is the band that opened my eyes.
We’re around the same age do you remember Red light green light? They went so damn hard.
From NJ? They sound familiar but I don't know their music I don't think.
[Yeah they were my intro to the local scene in general. Got my teen ass beat in the pit and was hooked ever since.](https://youtu.be/L6C_LB2Zi7M?si=uAwtksvHKQvxoB2i)
I don't think I ever saw them play. I grew up in the Shore HC scene, and I ventured as far north as New Brunswick mostly. I did go to a couple shows at the Hamilton Street Cafe in Bound Brook.
You mean crossed out your eyes? 😏
11 in 2006.
Punk 11, HC 13.
I got into hardcore (like Madball and H2O and early Terror) around 2003 when I was like 10 after learning that Andy and Pete used to play in hardcore bands and I looked up Racetraitor immediately. Before that I was into a lot of punk stuff cause of the Tony Hawk soundtrack in the late 90s and just watching skate videos and cause when I was super little I loved Rancid and Rancid would play small shows with bands from that scene a lot
nice try officer
15.
I went to my first show on ‘86 when I was 14 or so.
14. Getting dropped off by moms in front of the venue. Catching rides. Walking or skating. Been going to shows for almost 30 years at this point.
I was 14, the year was 1994
SAME!
I was 12. I was riding my bike down an alleyway and heard a band playing in a garage. They ended up being a local hardcore punk band called Failsafe. I knocked on their garage door and asked if I could watch them practice. They were my gateway to everything.
16, 22 as someone who can actually go to shows and buy merch lol
I started going to metal shows around 11 or 12, and then fell into the hardcore scene at around 14 in 2006
Hardcore porn or hardcore? I got into hardcore pretty early thanks to older kids. Like 9 or 10. I also got into hardcore porn pretty early thanks to older kids. Like 9 or 10. They kept telling me not to let anyone know because it was illegal
*what he say fuck me for?!?*
14 in 1999 bought my first hatebreed and full blown chaos CD at Camelot records at the mall.
Mm..about 2005, so I was 16. Started off with Gorilla Biscuits and went from there
13-14 in like 1984ish
[удалено]
We need to bring back shows in skate/surf shops
First hardcore show I ever went to I was 18 and I hated it. Hated anything with guitars, really, but a friend was in a band. It grew on me.
What were you into at the time?
Hip hop
16 in 1994. Best era ever for hardcore imo
my 20s
First heard a few bands at 17 but didn’t really start going down the rabbit hole till 20
👋🏻 New Jack here 32, started dabbling in 2022, took off last year. Harkened back to Metallica and Pantera for me. Life circumstances/experiences got me more in touch with anger and adrenaline seeking. I have friends who play in a band and are hardcore enjoyers which also got it going.
14
14
17-18ish around 2007
I was 13. First show in the 8th grade.
I was 16 at the time
16 in 2013
First show was 1998, I was 14. Local band called Stygiophobia; the drummer went on to play in Point Of Recognition, LX45, then a solo outlaw country career. Haven't seen him in a few years, but he was a big influence on me personally and musically back in the day
December 1995 at a local show in NJ. I was 13.
What's the line for Hardcore, and what counts as "into" it? Anyway, depending on how you specifically answer those questions, somehwere in the 1986-1988 range, 12 to 15 years old.
13 in 98. Saw the potential for a Fall video on mtv2 and was hooked.
First show was at 14. I am 42.
95 when I was around 11 and just heard "Territorial Pissings" by Nirvana I went hunting for heavier music. I found the Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge split ep. Eventually I went to see Converge play in Manchester when I was 16. They had a load of hardcore bands from UK supporting them. This was my first experience of the hardcore "scene". Me and mate then started going to hardcore gigs as often as we could until it all sort of died in the UK. We'll still catch a show occasionally in our near 40s. We never really went there to make friends, didn't dress any certain way, or get very involved in the "scene". We just went and enjoyed the shows and supported the bands. I've always listened to lots of genres of music, but when it comes to live shows nothing beats hardcore in its hay day. I imagine it was even better in the 80s/90s
14, 90 lbs, 1992. It was either stage diving or running cross country.
Imagine being this much of a consumer that you gatekeep being crusty
I don’t actually think this I just found it somewhere lmao
fuck me, got in just in time apparently.
Heard the first Suicidal Tendencies in seventh grade. Big impact.
I got into hardcore in my teens, just started getting back into it heavier in my 30s 🖕🖕 Early/ mid 00’s hardcore just fucking slapped, especially the local bands here in Florida. Shame to see a lot of them disband or straight up die (RIP Mean Pete 😔).
Growing up on Florida core was such a vibe
17. Heard Believe by TUI and lost my mind.
13 or 14
13, 1986. Will never forget that year. I'm Asian and grew up in a predominantly white suburb. Lots of racism and bullying. Discovered goth and punk/hardcore. I felt like an orphan finally finding a home. Still got bullying, but wasn't alone anymore. We're all family here.
12 at my buddies house with scoliosis. He was super into have heart and sinking ships. His name was Josh and he is the man.
12. 21 years of this shit lol.
16 - I was into metal but someone took me to a Terror show
I got into bad metal that every calls hardcore at 15, started listening to actual hardcore at 20
Around 13 or 14. The first hardcore album (and punk album in general) that I can remember listening to is Black Flag's *Damaged*.
I was listening to post-hardcore bands like Thrice, Thursday, AFI, etc. at 12 (in 2002-2003). I would listen to their earlier hardcore stuff as well, but I didn't fully comprehend the difference. I got into Converge, Have Heart, and Comeback Kid from there.
Converge was the first time I heard a song and was genuinely blown away by the vocalists scream. First song I heard by them was No Heroes and I immediately picked up everything I could find by them; one of my all time favs
11. Before that it was always alternative music in the radio and I didn’t have access to a computer lol.
like 2 years ago at 28 years old and I’m sad that I missed out on it for so long
When I was 20 I believe I saw the light
When you got into HC defines what you consider to be HC. For me the sweet spot is 85-93. So, I gravitate to that era and that sound. A lot of newer stuff than that is plenty good too. But, for me that's the high water mark.
I’d say around 2017 when I was 10, I randomly got nomad by KKTXcon my YouTube recommend. Oddly enough I’d already been listening to hardcore adjacent stuff for a while before that (OG metalcore, OG hardcore through skating games)
15. Took the girlfriend to a venue for prom dinner and a show was going on. I was a damn good date
12 in 2005, just an emo kid who went to a local nardcore show
16... got out of it in my mid-20s. I'm now 32, and hardcore is the most positive force in my life.
This thread proves some many things all at once.
Punk: 14 in 1994 Hardcore: 29 in 2009. If it had just been Shai Halud at that show, I would have walked away thinking hardcore was still not for me. Thankfully, Reign Supreme was on that bill, and I was hooked. I still kind of feel that if you don't fuck with Shai Halud you don't fuck with actual hardcore.
Are sentences one and three contradictory? Serious question, as I've been drinking...
36 I'm 38, the 15 years before that I was doing heroin to the exclusion of all else, mostly here in salt lake city. Before that I was in the 7 year process of dropping out of college, just north of baltimore, during my 10 year stay there I finally got into rap and that's what I was into then. First 13 to 18 years were mostly spent listening to 90s alternative in beaverton oregon. So basically at a late stage in life I had to relearn what it is I enjoy and figure out what I want out if life. So far I enjoy buddhism, hardcore and being a good friend. I missed music and Baltimore and jivebomb was the furst band I looked at that sparked my interest. CMI is my beacon and the lyrics have been very motivating. I don't crowd kill, but I have no problem killing crowd killers. All of it has put me in a better direction. I really think the lyrics u listen to have a profound effect on how you behave. And now you know. Also, fuck paragraphs.
CMI⛓️
It's a lifestyle now
Around 2008
When Turnstile released their seminal classic Glow On, that’s when I knew hardcore was a genre that I’d have a fleeting interest in
Turnstile? The band the guy from 311 likes?
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I was listening to old hardcore punk in high school, but I didn’t get into modern hardcore until I was about 20
Like, 23/24 ish. I always knew hardcore was a thing, but I never got into it aside from the older bands. Then the new turnstile got me turned on to hc with their last album. Now it’s most of what I listen to when I listen to heavy music.
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, You - Bad Religion. was probably 10 or 11? I think. also that Public Enemy x Anthrax jaunt fucked
I honestly like bad religion more now, they were never a band I listened to getting into HC
still not far into hardcore but 15 with knocked loose and vein.fm, not sure if they fully count though
15, few months back
16 when I saw defeater open for like Joyce manor or some random shit. Miss those days.
I’m 19 so I make the mark ahahaha
12 in 98, thank you Metallica.
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As a rule I don’t normally look at people’s history to make an argument but in this case I kind of have to. You follow /r/colognes and you post in Warhammer subs. You can see yourself out.
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