In my quest for fast hardcore/powerviolence that started about 7 months ago, these are the 4 bands that I come back to the most. Infest wins by a mile. I also have Crossed Out, Dropdead, Lack of Interest, and Siege.

Who do I need to check out that I haven't/forgot to list? I am still mostly an idiot about this stuff.

No Comment, Plutocracy

I realized just now that I have already posed this question to you and Lamp in private, probably several times, and nobody else is going to post in this thread.

Heresy and Scholastic Deth. If you don't have everything that these bands have ever made ever, go out and get it.

Scholastic Deth is a band I forgot and i think they're great. Heresy is new.

ehhhh while I'm at it does anyone want to YSI me the new Insect Warfare?

Charles Bronson

MK Ultra
Larm/Seein' Red(basically the same people but two different bands)
Asshole Parade
Despise You
Hellnation
Burn Your Bridges
Slight Slappers
Flachenbrand
Yacopsae
Hummingbird of Death
XFilesX
Vitamin X(Down the Drain would be your best bet)
Mind Eraser
Soul Swallower
Straight Edge Kegger
old Think I Care
Breakfast
Jellyroll Rockheads
R.A.M.B.O.
No Comply
Warzone Womyn
Chainsaw to the Face
blah blah blah blah blah blah on and on and on

Either Insult is awesome as well.

Either band named Insult, I meant. Not some band called Either Insult.

The one from Holland is waaaaaay better.

Also, Harsh from Finland, Quill from Japan, locals Breathing Fire, Ripchord from UK, and more i can't think of right now. Yes, go and get some Heresy and Ripchord!

I can't believe no one mentioned Man is the Bastard. They are the ones who came up with the tag "Power-Violence" even if it was completely different.

I believe the UK band is spelled "Ripcord". Quill is good, they have some stuff out other than that split with Charles Bronson, but I haven't heard any of it.

I can think of a couple now I forgot too, Uzi Suicide, Bruce Banner, Fuck on the Beach(how did I forget them!?), Code 13, Scapegoat, Sidetracked, Short Hate Temper, Stikky, Ulcer, Conquest for Death, local band Third Death(the best in town)...you know. Some of these are a bit of a stretch from powerviolence, but it's fast hardcore nonetheless, I guess.

Fuck, forgot about Ulcer, that band was fucking awesome. Quill is basically the same band as Final Exit, just more musical than FE's more noisecore oriented stuff.

I do hate the term "power violence" though. As i mentioned above, MITB came up with it to describe their music, and bands that used it typically then and now to me is just like Lamp said, "....fast hardcore"

You are write, "Ripcord", is there anything else i spelled wrong or use out of context?

he's 'WRITE', Jay?

Dont you mean, RIGHT? hahaha stupid!

C.DEaD said:

A lot of what gets described as "powerviolence" today that actually seems to fit into the term well is basically sounding more and more like metal. In between short blasts, there's lots of sludgy riffs. So basically think of Crossed Out playing their fast parts and the slower parts sounding kind of like Crossed Out but more like Grief or something. Weekend Nachos, Mind Eraser, and Warzone Womyn seem to fit that pretty well, as does Mindless Mutant who hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread.

Most of the other bands I'd just substitute for calling "fastcore".

Last night I got Charles Bronson, Fuck on the Beach, and Hellnation, but havent listened to much yet. Also, what is Disrupt classified as because I got them too and appreciated it instantly. I thought they were a crust band but I don't really know what crust is. Again, I know I sound stupid about this shit because I am.

I saw Breathing Fire a few months ago at AS220, and the vocalist did his entire set grabbing his own ass. I am pretty familiar with Yacopsae, but have nothing. IS RAMBO the band the dresses up like pirates and stuff and has cardboard dragons and shit?

Anyone want to be a pal and YSI any of this stuff? Many of these bands have proven impossible for me to find.

Lamp, if by sounding more metal you just mean the big sludge riffs, then that's the stuff I want the most.

Disrupt is definitely a crust band.

If you're looking for sludgy riffs, one thing I'd try and track down a copy of is the Endless Blockade/Warzone Womyn split LP. The Endless Blockade side has just two long doomy type songs...supposedly that's not what they normally sound like, but I wouldn't know or anything. Try and get some Despise You stuff too...the guys who created that band were in black/death metal type bands and I remember seeing an interview with one of them a while ago that said "Go figure the one thing I put the least amount of effort into becomes this big DIY phenomenon". Some pretty metal sounding stuff in their songs.

And what are you using to download music?

Kinslayer said:

Go right over your head much?

no, see my sarcasm went over YOUR head...

gay face.

Kinslayer said:

Lamp said:

Soulseek. It's the only client I've found where I don't have to track down every individual song, which I is something I can't deal with.

RichHorror said:

My new band is called Either Insult, and we are offended.

Yo mutha.

Everything I was gonna mention was already mentioned except Godstomper. Check them out they're noisy drum and bass PV.

Also check out Neanderthal doesn't really fit in any category but it's like Man is the Bastard, they have the same members.

Also, Pissed Happy Children, Pillsbury Hardcore, and Stikky.

I try not to listen to any of the "new" shit like Weekend Nachos

I bet they rule, I bet I'd love them, but I feel like music is having a hard time progressing with everyone doing the same shit all the time.

Cynical, maybe?

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

Aren't you in the process of forming an oldschool hardcore band and doing Black Flag covers?

ZJD said:

Ironic, isn't it?

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

I was thinking it was stupid but irony works too if that's your preference.

ZJD said:

Can't it be both?

No.
Have you ever noticed that most of the time people use irony, they use it to describe something that is not ironic but rather unfortunate or weird? This is like that only I believe you are using it to describe something that makes no sense.

It's like rain, on your wedding day...


A free ride when you've already paid...

MikeGiallo said:

I forgot to mention Stikky? Shit.

All those other bands I left out on purpose. I don't like anything Eric Wood did outside of MITB and Godstomper isn't really very good either.

While I'm at it, I don't really like Plutocracy much.

Everything else mentioned in this thread is rad.

the_taste_of_cigarettes said:

You don't have to listen to them. Just read the lyrics to the Torture 7" and tell me with a straight face you don't love them without hearing them. If you can do that, I hate you.

Lamp said:

I didn't really like the Plutocracy I got a few months ago either.
Since last posting about music, I got Despise you, Mind Eraser, and Yacopsae, all of which I like very much. I also got the Insect Warfare full length and decided I like it enough to justify multiple tshirts. The 4 bands in the title still remain more special to me when I listen to them than everything else I've found though. Scholastic Deth has the greatest #5 potential at this point.

Your taste in powerviolence seems to be about the same as mine.

Lamp said:

I never read this response. Does this make us best friends now?

BFF's!

lolz

best fucking buttfuck friends forever

I was reading Scholastic Deth lyrics just now and saw "Solo King, Solo Hanneman" on Book Attack for the solo break and laughed out loud.

ZJD said:

Priceless.