You’re Not Hardcore Unless You Live Hardcore: Overuse Of The ‘Core Term

This post has been a long time coming and was kind of birthed from yesterday’s article, “Has Metal Succumb To Trend Whores?“. There used to be a day when the word Hardcore meant something in terms of music. These days it’s broken down in the form of different genres by bands that have no clue about what really is “Hardcore“. People think Hardcore is a genre of music when in reality it was a way of life, a subculture.
Hardcore stemmed from Hardcore Punk. The hardcore genre came from kids in large cities like D.C., NYC, Boston, Chicago, L.A., …read more