List of hardcore punk bands

This is a list of notable hardcore punk bands. Hardcore punk (commonly shortened to hardcore) is an underground music genre that generally revolves around a thicker and more aggressive tone than earlier punk rock.

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• 10 Minute Warning

• 108

• 100 Demons

• 25 ta Life

• 50 Lions

• 7 Seconds

• 88 Fingers Louie

A
• AC4

• The Accüsed

• Adolescents

• Adrenalin O.D.

• AFI

• Against

• Agent Orange

• Agnostic Front

• American Nightmare

• American Standards

• Angry Samoans

• Angst

• Anti Cimex

• Anti-Everything

• Anti Feminism

• Anti-Flag

• Anti-Nowhere League

• Anti-Pasti

• Antidote

• Antisect

• Armia

• Arms Race

• Arson Anthem

• Articles of Faith

• Assjack

• Attitude Adjustment

• Avail

• Awkward Thought

B
• Backstabbers Incorporated

• Bad Brains

• Bad Religion

• Bags

• Bane

• Battalion of Saints

• Battery

• Bayonet

• Beartooth

• Beastie Boys (early)

• Being as an Ocean

• Big Boys

• Big Cheese

• Black Flag

• Black Market Baby

• Blast

• Break Even

• The Blood

• Blood for Blood

• Bomb Factory

• Born Against

• Born from Pain

• Borscht

• Botch

• The Brat

• Brick By Brick

• Broken Bones

• Broken Teeth

• The Bronx

• Brutal Knights

• Bulldoze

• Bullet Treatment

• Bunchofuckingoofs

• Burn

• Burning Sensations

C
• Cancer Bats

• Capsize

• Career Suicide

• Carpathian

• Casey Jones

• The Casualties

• Cerebral Ballzy

• Chain of Strength

• Champion

• Chaos UK

• Channel 3

• The Chats

• The Chisel

• Chokehold

• Choking Victim

• Christ on Parade

• Circle Jerks

• CIV

• Clit 45

• Clutch (early)

• Close Your Eyes

• Corrosion of Conformity (early)

• Code Orange

• Cold as Life

• Cólera

• Comeback Kid

• Consumed

• Converge

• Counterparts

• Cripple Bastards

• Cro-Mags

• Crumbsuckers

• Cryptic Slaughter

• Crucifix

• Los Crudos

• Cruel Hand

D
• D.I.

• D.O.A.

• Drain

• D.R.I.

• Dag Nasty

• Damage

• Dayglo Abortions

• Dead Kennedys

• The Dead Milkmen

• Dead Swans

• Death Before Dishonor

• Death Piggy

• Deep Wound

• Defeater

• Descendents

• Die Kreuzen

• Discharge

• Disembodied

• Dogfight

• Down to Nothing

• Dr. Know

• Dropdead

• The Dicks

• DYS

E
• E.Town Concrete

• Earth Crisis

• Econochrist

• electric eels

• Endpoint

• Endwell

• Energy

• English Dogs

• Evergreen Terrace

• Excel

• The Exploited

• Expire

• Extortion

F
• F-Minus

• The F.U.'s

• Faith

• Fang

• Farewell to Freeway

• The Fartz

• Fear

• The Feederz

• Fever 333

• Final Conflict

• Flipper

• FOD

• The Flex

• For Against

• Fortunate Son

• The Freeze

• Fucked Up

• Full of Hell

G
• Gang Green

• GBH

• The Geeks

• Gel

• Germs

• Get Scared

• GISM

• A Global Threat

• G.L.O.S.S.

• Gorilla Biscuits

• Government Issue

• Green Arrows

• Good Clean Fun

• Gulch

H
• H2O

• Hatebreed

• Have Heart

• Heart Attack

• Heart in Hand

• Helmet

• Heresy

• Higher Power

• High Vis

• Hogan's Heroes

• Hoods

• Hostile Mind

• Hundredth

• Hüsker Dü

I
• I.R.A.

• The Icemen

• Icepick

• The Idoru

• Ignite

• Ill Repute

• Incendiary

• Infest

• In My Eyes

• Inside Out

• Integrity

• International Superheroes of Hardcore

• Iron Cross

• Iron Mind

J
• Jawbreaker

• Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine

• Jerry's Kids

• JFA

• John Coffey

• Judge

K
• Kid Dynamite

• Kill Your Idols

• Killing the Dream

• Killing Time

• The Killing Tree

• King Parrot

• Knuckledust

• Knocked Loose

• Kraut

• Kublai Khan

L
• Lard

• Lay It on the Line

• Leathermouth

• Leftöver Crack

• Life's Blood

• Limp Wrist

• Litmus Green

• The Locust

M
• M.O.D.

• Madball

• Malevolence

• Marginal Man

• Matricide

• MDC

• The Meatmen

• Meat Puppets (early)

• Melvins (early)

• Middle Class

• Miles Away

• Mindsnare

• Minor Threat

• Minutemen

• Misfits

• The Mob

• Mob 47

• Modern Life Is War

• Moshiach Oi!

• Mouthpiece

• Murphy's Law

N
• N.O.T.A.

• Nails

• Napalm Death (early)

• Necros

• Negative Approach

• Negative FX

• Negazione

• The Nerve Agents

• Neurosis (early)

• Newborn

• New Regime

• The Nip Drivers

• No Bragging Rights

• No Innocent Victim

• No Redeeming Social Value

• No Trigger

• NOFX (early)

O
• Off!

• One King Down

• Operation Ivy

• Outbreak

P
• Painstream

• Paint It Black

• Parasites

• Pennywise

• Phinius Gage

• Point of No Return

• Poison Idea

• Pro-Pain

• Project X

• The Proletariat

• Punch

R
• Rambo

• Raised Fist

• Ratos de Porão

• Rattus

• Raw Power

• Reagan Youth

• Really Red

• Redd Kross

• Refused

• Rotting Out

• The Replacements (early)

• Repulsion

• Revenge of the Psychotronic Man

• Rich Kids on LSD

• Rise Against (early)

• Rites of Spring

• Rorschach

• Rudimentary Peni

• Ruiner

• Rupture

S
• S.O.A.

• S.O.D.

• Scream

• Septic Death

• Septic Tank

• Shai Hulud

• Sharptooth

• Sheer Terror

• Shelter

• Show Me the Body

• Sick of It All

• Siege

• Silverstein

• Skarhead

• Slapshot

• Snapcase

• SNFU

• Snot

• SSD

• The Stalin

• Stick to Your Guns

• Straight Faced

• Stray from the Path

• Stretch Arm Strong

• Strike Anywhere

• Strongarm

• The Stupids

• Subhumans (British band)

• Subhumans (Canadian band)

• Subzero

• Suicidal Tendencies

• The Suicide File

• The Suicide Machines

• Sunami

• Superjoint Ritual

• Sworn Enemy

T
• T.S.O.L.

• Tales of Terror

• Ten Yard Fight

• Terror

• Terveet Kädet

• The Ejected

• The Teen Idles

• This Is Hell

• Thrice (early)

• Throwdown (early)

• Thrown

• To the Wind

• Toe to Toe

• Toxic Reasons

• Tragedy

• Trapped Under Ice

• Trash Talk

• Trial

• Turnstile

U
• Ulrikes Dream

• Ultimatum

• Undertow

• The Undead

• Uniform Choice

• The Unseen

• Unseen Terror

• Up Front

• Urban Waste

V
• Vatican Commandos

• Vegan Reich

• Vein.fm

• Venomous Concept

• Verbal Abuse

• Verse

• Violent Reaction

• Vision of Disorder

• Vitamin X

• Void

• Vorvaň

W
• The Warriors

• Warzone

• Western Addiction

• Where's the Pope?

• White Flag

• A Wilhelm Scream

• Wormrot

• Wrangler Brutes

• The White Noise

X
• X-Cops

• XTRMST

Y
• Youth Brigade

• Youth Defense League

• Youth of Today

• Yellowcard (early)

Z
• Zeke

• Zero Boys

• Zulu