Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the second wave of punk rock in the country. The scene produced many successful and influential hardcore punk bands thr
Birmingham's Napalm Death are one of the most successful bands to come for the UK's hardcore scene
Birmingham's GBH were at the forefront of the first wave of UK hardcore
Daventry band Antisect are one of the progenitors of crust punk
Liverpool's Carcass helped to pioneer grindcore in the mid-1980s
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Metalcore is a broadly defined music genre combining elements of heavy metal and hardcore punk, originating in the 1990s United States and becoming popular in the 2000s. Metalcore typically has aggres
Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom
…D-beat. In the 2000s, the genre saw a revived interest, leading to the success of hardcore groups including Gallows, Send More Paramedics and Dead Swans, metalcore groups like Bring Me the Horizon, Architects and Bullet for My Valentine and post-hardcore groups such as Fightstar, ¡Forward, Russia! and Funeral for…
Shai Hulud guitarist Matt Fox has been credited by some for popularizing the "metalcore" term.
Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou
Ronnie Radke of Falling in Reverse, who mixes clean singing with screaming and rapping
Agnostic Front were an early band to merge elements of metal with hardcore