"Modern" hardcore that doesn't suck

Pretty much anything on 31G, GSL, 5RC/KRS, Gravity, Load or Skin Graft.

But let's not forget that the lame mosh/youth crew kids have some good music in there!

- Converge
- Old Cave-In
- Chain of Strength

Actually, most Gravity bands were pretty great: Universal Order of Armaggeddon, Antioch Arrow... Angel Hair were pretty good too (though they're kind of a slower, more metallic version of Drive Like Jehu). Do those Gern Blandsten bands count? Merel definitely had their moments (especially their song on the Iconoclast split).

Also, Maximillian Colby. They were better than Sleepytime Trio, even...

me thinks its more to do with thrash metal.

i really like to hear black dice tho'.

Native Nod is playing right now here.... mmmm

also: this link is cool

http://www.robotix.org/sounds/

Well, post-hardcore or whatever you want to call it anyway.

Born Against is way better.

Huh? I asked both of those things sincerely. It's very possible that I'm wrong, but I'm certainly not trolling.

You could compare them to Mohinder though.

Mohinder had Two 7" EPs I belive. The CD discography has both and some live material IIRC. There's also a secret song of an instrumental they recorded.

Mohinder's drumming and noisy style are amazingly influential. I think a few of them went on to other important bands. The only ex-Mohinder band that I can summon up right now is the Anasazi.

-The Policy of 3 album on Old Glory Records
-Merel/Iconoclast split 7"
-Twelve Hour Turn, "The Victory of Flight"
-Heroin
-Drive Like Jehu
-all Palatka material
-both Assfactor 4 albums
-Current (the album particularly)

There's more, of course.. but that springs to mind right now. Also a lot of what Jon mentioned in his initial post.

I wish i had my records here at work...

Huh?? Have you hear their latest stuff. Emo Boys are weeping...

Teen Chthulu
Akimbo
Doosh!
The Blood Brothers
etc.

engine down came out of the same matrix of bands and are pretty good.

shotmaker are just too bland and undistinguished, like planes mistaken for stars and most of the other suposedly political but really tiredly oblique shit that's coming out now.

I was discussing with a friend earlier today how Engine Down, to me, aren't bad but they also aren't anything to write home about either. After their first album they lost the screaming and, to me, seemed to degenerate into bland mid-tempo indie rock. Again, not that they do what they do poorly or anything, but it just doesn't sit well with me. I get bored too easily.

I revere Rah Bras, who came out of the Max Colby/Sleepytime family tree. Haven't heard any of their recorded stuff but they get the bodies moving live--crazy synth-dance-punk for hardcore kids and nose rock fans.

I'm asking because I once called early Cave In metal to a friend, only to be quickly reprimanded. "Cave In are hardcore. Not metal." Who cares? (me, apparently)

And Charlie, I agree. The Ex Models are a lot of fun live.

The Mastodon material I've heard was hardcore at least...

Aww man Annihilation Time. I am loving this shit. I dunno that it's really hardcore but it reminds me of "Feel the Darkness." And they cover "Teenage Rebel" by the Pink Fairies. And they started out in Oxnard! Where have I been all their lives?

You know another good loud rock meets Poison Idea band? To Hell And Back.

guilty pleasure time (jess will laugh i'm sure):

saetia
off minor
hot cross

i have an ipod playlist with these guys that just killzzz it.

would appreciate a RIYL of the above if you're not lolzin at me.

"modern" "hardcore"

harvey milk

...probably classed as sludge

Annihilation Time's third album is so fucking great.

IT IS GREAT. Thank you for convincing me to check it out there, because I hadn't. And I just bought it and it fucking rules.

Having fallen it with AT because of this thread, I have to say, yeah! Bedroom Hendrix joins HC at it's best.

But Black Breath is great too, and still a functioning unit.

does hot snakes count?

cause, hot snakes.

have an annihilation time 45 around somewhere. remember liking it, but only kinda. wish i knew where it was...

Have any recent bands taken up the Blood Brothers' torch in a good way?

Doesn't Black Dice sound just like Social Distortion?

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, October 8, 2002 10:30 AM (8 years ago)

xp are Ex Models still around?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyvHKjUPLMY

I <3 the first Total Abuse LP but haven't heard the one that Youtube is from - I don't think a single distro carried it in the UK (other than like Boomkat, which is fine but I'd've been looking at paying maybe £14 for a 20-minute record), probably largely to do with them abandoning their Euro tour in Germany (and not making it to the UK) because they were so annoying that no-one wanted to drive them round

Ex Models the band don't exist now but there were subsequent bands... Pterodactyl was one iirc?