User:Icelandic Hurricane/Hardcore Pop

Hardcore Pop also known as Popcore is a subgenre of Hardcore Punk that originated in the United States in the early 2000s. Hardcore Pop is characterized by mostly melodic singing with screaming in some songs and heavy guitars and fast tempos, as opposed to constant yelling. Hardcore Pop songs are typically about depressing topics. Songs without screaming or much screaming and are more mainstream are often referred to as "Popcore". Any soft popcore songs are characterized by emotionally-charged lyrics.

List of Hardcore Pop bands
Feel free to add bands, I'll just decide if they are or not.


 * A Day to Remember
 * The Academy Is...
 * Adair
 * Addison Park
 * AFI (Sing the Sorrow and some of Decemberunderground)
 * Aiden
 * AKA
 * Alesana
 * The Almost
 * Another Day Break
 * A Static Lullaby (some songs)
 * Atreyu (Lead Sails Paper Anchor)
 * Dead By April
 * Bayside
 * Bleed the Dream
 * By the WaySide
 * Chiodos
 * Circa Survive
 * Coheed and Cambria
 * Early Next Year
 * Emery
 * Endwell
 * Escape the Fate
 * Fall of Troy
 * Fall Out Boy (early material)
 * Fell Far Behind
 * Flyleaf
 * From First to Last
 * Funeral for a Friend
 * The Gerard Way Project
 * Hawthorne Heights
 * The Get Up Kids
 * Glassjaw
 * Goot
 * Halifax
 * I Am Ghost (also contains metal influences)
 * Jet Lag Gemini
 * Jimmy Eat World
 * June
 * Lostprophets
 * Madina Lake
 * Mainstay
 * Matchbook Romance
 * Midtown
 * My American Heart
 * My Chemical Romance (early material)
 * New Found Glory
 * The Offspring
 * Oh, Juliet!
 * Ok Go
 * Pencey Prep (also contains indie influences)
 * Permanant Holiday
 * Relient k
 * The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
 * Rookie of the Year
 * Saosin
 * Say Anything
 * Self Against City
 * Senses Fail
 * Set Your Goals
 * Something Corporate (some songs)
 * Southpaw
 * The Starting Line
 * Story of the Year
 * Stutterfly
 * Sugarcult
 * Someday Never
 * Taking Back Sunday
 * This Beautiful Republic
 * Thrice (early material, also contains metal and experimental influences)
 * Thursday (some songs, also contains post-punk influences)
 * Tokyo Rose
 * The Used
 * Whole Wheat Bread
 * Weezer
 * A Wilhelm Scream
 * Yellowcard
 * 30 Seconds to Mars (some songs)

Not Hardcore Pop

 * AFI (early material and most of Decemberunderground)
 * Atreyu (early material)
 * blink-182
 * Brand New
 * Bright Eyes
 * Bullet for My Valentine (except for All These Things I Hate)
 * Cute Is What We Aim For
 * Dashboard Confessional
 * Death Cab for Cutie
 * Fall Out Boy (Infinity on High)
 * My Chemical Romance (The Black Parade, except for This Is How I Disapppear)
 * Panic! at the Disco
 * Rise Against
 * Thrice (most of Vheissu)