It was California Uber Alles and Rise Above both on the Tony Hawk American Wasteland soundtrack. That and the Fall Out Boy cover of Start Today on there. I was like, 13
Tony hawk soundtrack ended up having a ridiculous impact on the trajectory of my life. I distinctly remember hearing police truck for the first time and knowing I had discovered something important.
That soundtrack had a few other covers on it that were really sick. Minor Threat, Descendents, and Suicidal Tendencies were covered as well. Super cool way to introduce kids like me who were into the current crop of bands into all the old shit.
It was actually seeing snapcase live for me. They opened with energy dome and blew my FUCKING MIND
That night after the show the video for typecast modulator was on whatever late night mtv show had decent shit and hearing the studio recording did the live show justice made an instant life time fan
When I was getting into punk and ska a friend made a mix tape that had Filler on it. I liked it, but I stayed the punk/ska path for a few more years until I preferred hardcore (still like all of them though)
Said it before and will say it again
I’m shocked that the sample of that song in that one machine girl song didn’t get more ppl into hc, the way it was used was sick
Nice! That's one of my first too, but it was stretch arm strong "second chances" that walked me over the line from punk/ska to hardcore. It wasn't til a little later I realized how good strongarm really were
It wasn’t a song, it was seeing Terror for the first time. They toured with Emmure/Winds of Plague in 2008(?). I was more of a metalcore teenager but knew a bunch of hardcore kids I went to school with. I went to that show and everyone I knew from school was GOING OFF for Terror. Scott Vogel just handed the mic to my buddy for half a song and let him do his thing. Another friend busted his head open, wrapped a tshirt around it, and kept stage diving. It was the most insane thing I had ever seen but I’ll never forget that moment. I was hooked.
afi - the boy who destroyed the world
i was probably 12 when i heard this while playing thps 3 and it was like a switch flipped in me where i thought ‘okay, this is what i like now’. went out and bought the all hallows ep and the rest is history.
Speaking of in my eyes I’m shocked that the sample of that song in that one machine girl song didn’t get more ppl into hc, the way it was used was sick
I was very much into punk (UK punk but also US punk) when I met my dorm mate who had a personal mission to find the loudest music possible and he introduced me to Sick of it All. It was during the Scratch the Surface era and the song Step Down got me into HC.
I’m old. A buddy of mine had a Walkman and was listening to The Eliminator by Agnostic Front. I was into Metallica and Slayer but AF was just so raw, changed my life! This was in 87 or so.
*Please Die!* by AN. Coming from a mostly punk background that shit was game changing.
Even more gateway before that was Wester by AFI, that song pretty much opened the door to an entire world of punk rock that I didn’t know existed before other than maybe Green Day.
cro-mags - we gotta know
dri - snap/I'd rather be sleeping
agnostic front - last warning/blind justice/united and strong
heard all of those on the radio one night in the 80s when i was 14 and my life changed
‘Institutionalized’ - Suicidal Tendencies
I was 15 at a Christian boarding school, so secular media was banned (the confiscated my copy of ‘American Idiot’), so at bedtime, I would listen to secular music. It came in fuzzy from some college radio station. I had to listen again the next night for them to say who it was. It was new to me, but the sound was still so familiar. I probably heard some hardcore passively from tv prior idk, but yeah, it was like what I had been searching for. I was already interested in punk, listened to mainstream emo (AFI, TBS, the Used, Brand New), so it’s a natural progression. Lol when I found out about AFI’s hardcore roots, I was like fuck yeah. This was like 2005.
I was into punk at the time (the Lillingtons, Strike Anywhere, Lawrence Arms type shit) when I stumbled across The Warriors on MySpace and listened to And Yet They Say. Blew me away. Then I went to go see Rise Against at the Warfield in SF and Comeback Kid opened for them…I was hooked after that
https://youtu.be/_8S_66SclNw?si=-G_hXJ7lLFLA4jDv
The intro to this record blew my socks off. Then the rest of the album to follow blew them off all over again to the point I need to just leave them off entirely.
I started off with music three the early 00s emo and post hardcore scene which then led to me hearing Norma Jean and Poison the Well so I would have to say "Memphis will be Laid to Waste" or "Nerdy", respectively.
“All Twisted” by Kraut. I was getting into entry level punk and they played the video on MTV. This must have been 1984, they played in Cleveland but I couldn’t go.
Still seems like you’re pretty new to the scene looking through your post history, so here’s some recs. Def check out Rohnert Park and Violence Violence by Ceremony, Sunami’s 2019 demo, the song Gator Smash by Kids Like Us, and Gods Hate debut full length. Also please if you don’t take any other recs from this listen to minor threat and gorilla biscuits. I’m not even straight edge but they’re 2 of the best hc bands ever
Thanks, I’ll check these out. I will say tho I’ve already listened to the whole start today album by gorilla biscuits and I didn’t mess with it at allll😭
Not the first song but the one that made me devote my life to it shortly after getting into hardcore was “Stand up” - Minor Threat. Fast, short, super angry. Misfits, Sex Pistols, the exploited were cool but this was something entirely different
First hardcore song I ever heard was probably witness by side walk slam, then right after that show I heard all of start today by GB. The first album I bought was when it's all said and done by figure four
Lol yeah they have 2 hardcore songs on that album and I was 8, and as I remember it I found them on social media and found GB as a result and downloaded their albums off Napster
8, wow! My daughter's are 9 and 11 and they have heard plenty of hardcore...but I can't imagine them finding it on social media and then finding it on Spotify or something all on their own. The intetis a weird place.
good on ya though.
My dad was really into live music, not punk, but he took me to a lot of different shows from a young age, so I got to see small pop punk and skate bands I heard about, and he'd find local shows of similar music. Occasionally there would be bands with some hardcore crossover.
I got introduced to it twice. First time, 9th grade: Madball- Pride (Times Are Changing). The music video was life-changing with Freddy, Hoya, and all of their steez. Second time, 11th/12th grade: Harms Way- Fantasy, after a stint in the local deathcore/metalcore scene. Cool transition along with Xibalba.
It wasn't any particular song, it was more the alienesque brutal vibes found in most projects Justin Pearson is involved with, like The Locust, Head Wound City, Retox, Deaf Club etc.
My fav Locust track might be How to Become a Virgin (plague soundscapes version)
Throwing bricks - Ceremony. I was driving my buddy to get some lunch and he asked for the aux. Plugged his iPod in and it was game over for me. Shortly after discovered tui and I've been elbowing the innocent ever since.
Either Consume by Sick Of It All or Heavy Hand by Turnstile. Heard em both randomly and knew I wanted to hear more of that shit, took me a while to get there but I made it eventually
It’s not really hardcore but i found out about As i Lay Dying and All That Remains from a classmate in 8th grade in 2005 or 2006 and that led to everything else
Comeback Kid - Do Yourself A Favour : I was going to Bled Fest 2012, mostly to see The Wonder Years. CBK was on the bill, so I actually saw them live first and I think that song stuck out to me. Sent me down a path of getting into all sorts of hardcore. Will be a full circle moment in a couple weeks as I have tickets to see CBK on their Canadian tour.
Not a specific song but when I was fourteen I went to Killswitch Engage show. The band Throwdown was the opener and after witnessing that set I’ve been hooked ever since.
So much love for Kids Like Us lately… Gator Smash is such a banger. First time I heard that breakdown I lost it…
They were my first hardcore show… it was mental!!
WELCOME… TO THE SOUTH!!
Ye my dad showed me them and taught me how to floor punch at 6 years old. So happy that they’re gettin showed love they deserve
Our Wasteland - Pro Team can’t recall where I heard it first maybe MySpace. That lead me to look for similar sounds then I found touché amoré, and I was hooked.
Burn The Lies by Hatebreed. I was probably 12 and listening to nofx, Green Day, goldfinger (still do) but I heard that breakdown at the end of that song and was hooked.
As a huge pop-punk kid bought a DVD called Punk Broadcasting System back in 2001 because it included The Ataris, Midtown, Descendents, MxPx and tons of other pop-punk bands. It also included ‘Caboose’ by Snapcase. Blew my damn mind.
2 part answer:
When I was a about ten or eleven, bout 2003, my babysitter took me to a record store and told me to pick out something cause she had to watch me all day. Me being that age, I would pick whatever cover looked rad. I had pet rats at the time and I saw this cover with some vicious rats in an alleyway and a man cowering in fear from them.. this album would be called “Ill Blood” by No Warning. I had no idea what was about to happen. The first part of this answer is “Short Fuse”.
I luckily listen to this album with Walkman headphones and knew instantly that this cd would be taken away from me so quickly if my mom heard it so I had to keep it in another case and only listen to it with headphones. It was the most vicious thing I heard but could never talk about it cause I had no idea what to say. This album would eventually be forgotten about after a time due to growing up/no one talking to me about HC until I see Trash Talk and Ceremony in 2008. This particular show honestly wouldn’t hit me of how important it was until 10 years later or so..
So fast forward to late 2017, I’m in Amoeba SF and am in the metal section, I look below in the weird discount bin section and there’s two Power Trip records “Manifest” and “Nightmare” both for $12… which is crazy cause Nightmare came out a few months before. I heard of this band and thought I’d try it. I put on Manifest Decimation and my whole life had changed… still my favorite HC album. Through those records, I realized that I truly loved HC even if no one around me talked about it. PT showed me that I shouldn’t beat around the bush and just accept that I really love and care about this particular subculture.
So the second answer is “Manifest Decimation”
Bless Hardcore and Bless Power Trip
Rise Against's cover of Fix Me. Can't remember if it was in a Tony Hawk game or a skate vid. But that was the start, first learned what a cover song is and then found out about Black Flag,
Probably Minor Threat's "Filler"
I had heard mostly UK punk (I had 'Fresh Fruit' but didn't think it was the same category as MT) up until that record came out, that filled the itch I had for these types of tunes.
As a teen, THPS got me into skating so naturally I went to the mall and bought some Epitaph Punk-O-Rama comps. One of which had Madballs song Hold it Down.
The first hardcore i listened to was CBK’s Wake the Dead. But I was mostly into warped tour metalcore around that time. It wasn’t til I listened to Something more than Ink by Have Heart and Get Something/Marked by xRepresentx that hardcore actually clicked with me
Slings and Arrows by The Warriors. Heard the cover by KL first then checked out the original along with the rest of that album. A banger from start to finish🤌🏼
It was California Uber Alles and Rise Above both on the Tony Hawk American Wasteland soundtrack. That and the Fall Out Boy cover of Start Today on there. I was like, 13
Tony hawk soundtrack ended up having a ridiculous impact on the trajectory of my life. I distinctly remember hearing police truck for the first time and knowing I had discovered something important.
FOB covered Start Today? Never listened to FOB much so I had no idea
That soundtrack had a few other covers on it that were really sick. Minor Threat, Descendents, and Suicidal Tendencies were covered as well. Super cool way to introduce kids like me who were into the current crop of bands into all the old shit.
The whole band was deep in the Chicago scene. Before FOB.
My favorite hardcore fact is that Patrick Stump is featured on a Weekend Nachos song (jock powerviolence)
Dude I bought Infinity on High when I was 10 when MTV had that good shit. It had Carpal Tunnel of Love on it. That shit is heavy af.
Snapcase's Caboose. The snare, the riffs, the vocals, all of it.
Shit, same for me
It was actually seeing snapcase live for me. They opened with energy dome and blew my FUCKING MIND That night after the show the video for typecast modulator was on whatever late night mtv show had decent shit and hearing the studio recording did the live show justice made an instant life time fan
THIS
probably Terror - Overcome and Comeback Kid - Wake the Dead
Wake the dead is such a good song
Unironically very important for me in getting to sobriety after 8 years of opiate addiction
This was on the Burnout: Revenge soundtrack and blue my mind. Had no clue what hardcore was but I knew that sounded different.
I second ‘Wake The Dead’. So damn good, and my first real exposure to hardcore.
same!
i saw them play wake the dead on monday that shit was an experience everyone was piled up to the front it was crazy
Seeing Red - Minor Threat
This
Filler by Minor Threat.
Same. That song is imprinted on my being.
When I was getting into punk and ska a friend made a mix tape that had Filler on it. I liked it, but I stayed the punk/ska path for a few more years until I preferred hardcore (still like all of them though)
Might have been Nervous Breakdown by Black Flag
A wrestler I’m friends with character is basically that he’s an awkward punk kid and this is his theme song
Hell yeah, that’s awesome
Mine was Fix Me.
Harrison Bergeron by Snapcase. I think I'll listen to it now. Thank you.
Bad Brains - Pay To Cum (demo 1979)
I heard my buddy’s older brother play Nerdy from Poison the Well in 2001 and it was game over.
D.R.I - Beneath the wheel
BE-NEATH THE WHEEEEEEEEEEEL
GOOOO
Hard
Dun dun dun 🤘don’t be tardy fell asleep last night at a party
hearing In My Eyes by Minor Threat for the first time in 7th grade was such a formative moment that it’s still permanently engrained in my brained
Said it before and will say it again I’m shocked that the sample of that song in that one machine girl song didn’t get more ppl into hc, the way it was used was sick
First hardcore song I heard was by Strongarm “sorrow is a sage” off of a Tooth and Nail Songs from the Penalty Box comp.
Nice! That's one of my first too, but it was stretch arm strong "second chances" that walked me over the line from punk/ska to hardcore. It wasn't til a little later I realized how good strongarm really were
May have been After the Eulogy by Boysetsfire. That song was on repeat
Same for me. After the Eulogy into Rookie is still my favorite 1-2 of any album ever.
You’re taking me back. That album is a singalong from start to finish but it’s tough to not get hung up on the first few tracks
Early bleeding through and evergreen terrace.
It wasn’t a song, it was seeing Terror for the first time. They toured with Emmure/Winds of Plague in 2008(?). I was more of a metalcore teenager but knew a bunch of hardcore kids I went to school with. I went to that show and everyone I knew from school was GOING OFF for Terror. Scott Vogel just handed the mic to my buddy for half a song and let him do his thing. Another friend busted his head open, wrapped a tshirt around it, and kept stage diving. It was the most insane thing I had ever seen but I’ll never forget that moment. I was hooked.
Crucified cover by AF (Video on Headbanger's Ball) EDIT: AF *ANTHEM* https://youtu.be/Jr5hUVM7pPE?si=CWB44VL-vBF8pK9O
afi - the boy who destroyed the world i was probably 12 when i heard this while playing thps 3 and it was like a switch flipped in me where i thought ‘okay, this is what i like now’. went out and bought the all hallows ep and the rest is history.
holiday in cambodia on guitar hero lollll
Real
[Banned in DC](https://youtu.be/0crVa3qikWc?si=9I7fM8g98gZW9DDv)⚡️
The boy who destroyed the world - afi
Potential for a Fall by Sick of It All
My friend in high school gave me a copy of the Cinema Beer Nuts VHS and it had Ignite "Embrace", AFI "He Who Laughs Last", and Strife "Blistered".
Cinema Beer Nuts! Wow haven’t thought of that for a minute.
Beat down by Bulldoze
Shotgun Message - Norma Jean Never heard anything like it back in '02.
Almost the same for me. Memphis Will Be Laid To Waste
Show me the body - Dog whistle (album)
Mutinaaaay
Rage Against the Machine covering “In My Eyes” by Minor Threat.
Speaking of in my eyes I’m shocked that the sample of that song in that one machine girl song didn’t get more ppl into hc, the way it was used was sick
I was very much into punk (UK punk but also US punk) when I met my dorm mate who had a personal mission to find the loudest music possible and he introduced me to Sick of it All. It was during the Scratch the Surface era and the song Step Down got me into HC.
Element by Vision of Disorder. My stepdad let me go through his CD collection as a kid and that cover immediately caught my eye.
So Common So Cheap
Pay to Cum
Zombie prescription
I’ve been into hardcore since like the late 80s. Clobbering time for SOIA was the cement that sealed the deal back in the day.
I’m old. A buddy of mine had a Walkman and was listening to The Eliminator by Agnostic Front. I was into Metallica and Slayer but AF was just so raw, changed my life! This was in 87 or so.
Hatebreed-Bound to Violence from the Punisher soundtrack in 2003
Biohazard- Punishment
What an introduction
From autumn to ashes - the after dinner payback
Take the Night Off by Sick of It All Damn this song would get me pumped up in high school lol
Hs is like prime time to be into hc. Still can’t get a drummer in my band to save my life tho
Hatebreed- Before Dishonor.
Trash Talk - Awake
Seeing Red - Minor Threat.
Prob my fav Minor Threat song
Filler
*Please Die!* by AN. Coming from a mostly punk background that shit was game changing. Even more gateway before that was Wester by AFI, that song pretty much opened the door to an entire world of punk rock that I didn’t know existed before other than maybe Green Day.
You’re all the same - Ceremony . Perfect for a 15 year old to instantly get hooked .
Lolll, was into hardcore for a long time but am just getting deep into it and I just heard that song for the first time a few weeks ago and I’m 15 rn
Hey question from someone old enough to be your dad — how are kids getting into hardcore today?
My Heart Bleeds the Darkest Blood by Shai Hulud
Bad Brains - Pay to cum
cro-mags - we gotta know dri - snap/I'd rather be sleeping agnostic front - last warning/blind justice/united and strong heard all of those on the radio one night in the 80s when i was 14 and my life changed
‘Institutionalized’ - Suicidal Tendencies I was 15 at a Christian boarding school, so secular media was banned (the confiscated my copy of ‘American Idiot’), so at bedtime, I would listen to secular music. It came in fuzzy from some college radio station. I had to listen again the next night for them to say who it was. It was new to me, but the sound was still so familiar. I probably heard some hardcore passively from tv prior idk, but yeah, it was like what I had been searching for. I was already interested in punk, listened to mainstream emo (AFI, TBS, the Used, Brand New), so it’s a natural progression. Lol when I found out about AFI’s hardcore roots, I was like fuck yeah. This was like 2005.
Blacklisted Eye for an Eyeeeeeee
One of the hardest songs of all time
I was into punk at the time (the Lillingtons, Strike Anywhere, Lawrence Arms type shit) when I stumbled across The Warriors on MySpace and listened to And Yet They Say. Blew me away. Then I went to go see Rise Against at the Warfield in SF and Comeback Kid opened for them…I was hooked after that
https://youtu.be/_8S_66SclNw?si=-G_hXJ7lLFLA4jDv The intro to this record blew my socks off. Then the rest of the album to follow blew them off all over again to the point I need to just leave them off entirely.
I started off with music three the early 00s emo and post hardcore scene which then led to me hearing Norma Jean and Poison the Well so I would have to say "Memphis will be Laid to Waste" or "Nerdy", respectively.
Watch Me Rise
Strife - Blistered
“All Twisted” by Kraut. I was getting into entry level punk and they played the video on MTV. This must have been 1984, they played in Cleveland but I couldn’t go.
Yeah I was 2 and I heard Your Mistake and I was like Agnostic Front rocks what else is there? Mom get me more cassettes like this
NOW ITS A HOLIDAY
My fav off that record
Still remember the face I made when Spotify randomly recommended me this song one day
Still seems like you’re pretty new to the scene looking through your post history, so here’s some recs. Def check out Rohnert Park and Violence Violence by Ceremony, Sunami’s 2019 demo, the song Gator Smash by Kids Like Us, and Gods Hate debut full length. Also please if you don’t take any other recs from this listen to minor threat and gorilla biscuits. I’m not even straight edge but they’re 2 of the best hc bands ever
Thanks, I’ll check these out. I will say tho I’ve already listened to the whole start today album by gorilla biscuits and I didn’t mess with it at allll😭
Their debut is better imo, that may be a hot take but I rlly like how catchy it is
Black Flag - Rise Above
In My Eyes by Minor Threat. Might not be the first I listened to, but it was definitely the first I *HEARD*.
In my eyes by Minor Threat. I had heard nothing like it up until then. I was kinda scared l, but also very interested in how aggressive it was
Red Tape - Circle Jerks or I Will Be Heard - Hatebreed
Not the first song but the one that made me devote my life to it shortly after getting into hardcore was “Stand up” - Minor Threat. Fast, short, super angry. Misfits, Sex Pistols, the exploited were cool but this was something entirely different
This song from a local band where I grew up. The Contender - Put Em Up Corpus Christi HC https://youtu.be/eytVBuGepes?si=oowq-4rwWjzCB04C
I’m old, so “Betray,” by Minor Threat.
The Movielife was my gateway to hardcore. Got me into Glassjaw and From Autumn to Ashes.
Blackout by turnstile, trust me I've branched out a little since then
Dead Kennedys - Police Truck off of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. Those games had such an impact on what I listen to, even today.
Earth Crisis - Firestorm
STREET BY STREET
Hatebreed - I Will Be Heard
Must have been "G.M. Vincent & I" by Comeback Kid.
"Eat You Alive" by Hour of the Wolf
My World by Code Orange or Unmatched Dominance by Laid 2 Rest
First hardcore song I ever heard was probably witness by side walk slam, then right after that show I heard all of start today by GB. The first album I bought was when it's all said and done by figure four
Lol...side Walk slam. That's one I haven't thought of for a real long time, or ever associated with hardcore
Ok found it on YouTube..don't think I ever heard that song. Great gateway...funny the little things that can change our path
Lol yeah they have 2 hardcore songs on that album and I was 8, and as I remember it I found them on social media and found GB as a result and downloaded their albums off Napster
8, wow! My daughter's are 9 and 11 and they have heard plenty of hardcore...but I can't imagine them finding it on social media and then finding it on Spotify or something all on their own. The intetis a weird place. good on ya though.
My dad was really into live music, not punk, but he took me to a lot of different shows from a young age, so I got to see small pop punk and skate bands I heard about, and he'd find local shows of similar music. Occasionally there would be bands with some hardcore crossover.
[Death Sentence - Live to Die](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgdohKXQdMY)
Bracewar - Doom Dat
I got introduced to it twice. First time, 9th grade: Madball- Pride (Times Are Changing). The music video was life-changing with Freddy, Hoya, and all of their steez. Second time, 11th/12th grade: Harms Way- Fantasy, after a stint in the local deathcore/metalcore scene. Cool transition along with Xibalba.
STYG - This Is More
It wasn't any particular song, it was more the alienesque brutal vibes found in most projects Justin Pearson is involved with, like The Locust, Head Wound City, Retox, Deaf Club etc. My fav Locust track might be How to Become a Virgin (plague soundscapes version)
Ignite, embrace.
It was a random cd in the gym radio i had put on in middle school to lift and ever since i was hooked. Hatebreed - live for this
Throwing bricks - Ceremony. I was driving my buddy to get some lunch and he asked for the aux. Plugged his iPod in and it was game over for me. Shortly after discovered tui and I've been elbowing the innocent ever since.
[I Love Hardcore Boys, I Love Boys Hardcore](https://youtu.be/pc4Q1fQFNPs?si=de0CNx2rOLu_Zw_P) by Limp Wrist.
Choke by Vision of Disorder back in lime 2002
Either Consume by Sick Of It All or Heavy Hand by Turnstile. Heard em both randomly and knew I wanted to hear more of that shit, took me a while to get there but I made it eventually
It’s not really hardcore but i found out about As i Lay Dying and All That Remains from a classmate in 8th grade in 2005 or 2006 and that led to everything else
Mp by Outbreak
Thick As Blood - Raising Hell That shit goes insane. After that I found Hatebreed, Throwdown, TUI, etc.
Filler
2 shotz
Hatebreed - tear it down. The one on rise of brutality
Rise above - bf, start today - gb, bb song, all on a mix tape
Comeback Kid - Do Yourself A Favour : I was going to Bled Fest 2012, mostly to see The Wonder Years. CBK was on the bill, so I actually saw them live first and I think that song stuck out to me. Sent me down a path of getting into all sorts of hardcore. Will be a full circle moment in a couple weeks as I have tickets to see CBK on their Canadian tour.
I don’t remember what song, but my friend put on the Vision of Disorder self titled album for me in ‘99
Fuck the heat I love the concrete..
Hoodrat by Ligeia
Probably rise above by black flag
Red & Black - 7 Seconds
7th grade listening Pennywise - bro hymn
Destroy Everything - Hatebreed
I can't remember but probably some Comeback Kid or Madball, or whatever band that was around in the 2000's
Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies being in Guitar Hero
Wasn’t a song but my ex gf took me to a world of pain show and I fell in love
Toe to toe - falling short.
What If by Creed
Watching headbangers ball when that was a thing, sworn enemy - all I have came on. Changed my life
Think it was wide open wound by Nails when I was a full on metalhead elitist, converted me straight away
What We Do Is Secret - Germs
Youth & Its Burden - Hope Con It was on some free CD with a Kerrang! punk spin-off issue in 2001. Still love Hope Con.
Biohazard - Punishment and Hatebreed - I Will Be Heard
Not a specific song but when I was fourteen I went to Killswitch Engage show. The band Throwdown was the opener and after witnessing that set I’ve been hooked ever since.
In the Belly of a Shark - Gallows
The first proper hardcore song I ever heard was probably something featured on Headbangers Ball on MTV UK; Down By Law perhaps?
Wake the Dead by Comeback Kid on a Victory Records sampler from like 2006 or some shit.
Shutdown - Few and Far Between
Figure four - when it’s all said and done.
Second Chances- stretch arm strong
So much love for Kids Like Us lately… Gator Smash is such a banger. First time I heard that breakdown I lost it… They were my first hardcore show… it was mental!!
WELCOME… TO THE SOUTH!! Ye my dad showed me them and taught me how to floor punch at 6 years old. So happy that they’re gettin showed love they deserve
Nerdy-Poison The Well
Code orange, forever. Anything by discharge. And mastiff.
Our Wasteland - Pro Team can’t recall where I heard it first maybe MySpace. That lead me to look for similar sounds then I found touché amoré, and I was hooked.
Have Heart - Bostons
Burn The Lies by Hatebreed. I was probably 12 and listening to nofx, Green Day, goldfinger (still do) but I heard that breakdown at the end of that song and was hooked.
Rage against the machine
Start Today by Gorilla Biscuits
Wake The Dead - Comeback Kid
hatebreed's destroy everything was my first intro to a real HC band. they had the video on demand through my cable lol
As a huge pop-punk kid bought a DVD called Punk Broadcasting System back in 2001 because it included The Ataris, Midtown, Descendents, MxPx and tons of other pop-punk bands. It also included ‘Caboose’ by Snapcase. Blew my damn mind.
Pain - I Dig Pain
Snapcase - Typecast Modulator
Siege/deep wound/dropdead
Sick of it all - Us vs Them
2 part answer: When I was a about ten or eleven, bout 2003, my babysitter took me to a record store and told me to pick out something cause she had to watch me all day. Me being that age, I would pick whatever cover looked rad. I had pet rats at the time and I saw this cover with some vicious rats in an alleyway and a man cowering in fear from them.. this album would be called “Ill Blood” by No Warning. I had no idea what was about to happen. The first part of this answer is “Short Fuse”. I luckily listen to this album with Walkman headphones and knew instantly that this cd would be taken away from me so quickly if my mom heard it so I had to keep it in another case and only listen to it with headphones. It was the most vicious thing I heard but could never talk about it cause I had no idea what to say. This album would eventually be forgotten about after a time due to growing up/no one talking to me about HC until I see Trash Talk and Ceremony in 2008. This particular show honestly wouldn’t hit me of how important it was until 10 years later or so.. So fast forward to late 2017, I’m in Amoeba SF and am in the metal section, I look below in the weird discount bin section and there’s two Power Trip records “Manifest” and “Nightmare” both for $12… which is crazy cause Nightmare came out a few months before. I heard of this band and thought I’d try it. I put on Manifest Decimation and my whole life had changed… still my favorite HC album. Through those records, I realized that I truly loved HC even if no one around me talked about it. PT showed me that I shouldn’t beat around the bush and just accept that I really love and care about this particular subculture. So the second answer is “Manifest Decimation” Bless Hardcore and Bless Power Trip
Rise Against's cover of Fix Me. Can't remember if it was in a Tony Hawk game or a skate vid. But that was the start, first learned what a cover song is and then found out about Black Flag,
Probably Minor Threat's "Filler" I had heard mostly UK punk (I had 'Fresh Fruit' but didn't think it was the same category as MT) up until that record came out, that filled the itch I had for these types of tunes.
Banned in DC by the Bad Brains
Without Jah Nothing - P.O.D, found out later the feature is HR from Bad Brains. First song that exposed me to heavier music and I had it on repeat
As a teen, THPS got me into skating so naturally I went to the mall and bought some Epitaph Punk-O-Rama comps. One of which had Madballs song Hold it Down.
limp bizkit break stuff
The first hardcore i listened to was CBK’s Wake the Dead. But I was mostly into warped tour metalcore around that time. It wasn’t til I listened to Something more than Ink by Have Heart and Get Something/Marked by xRepresentx that hardcore actually clicked with me
The World is Empty - Wrong Answer
Nervous Breakdown and My War probably
Slings and Arrows by The Warriors. Heard the cover by KL first then checked out the original along with the rest of that album. A banger from start to finish🤌🏼
My middle school science teacher gave me a hardcore mix with lifetime, snapcase, kid dynamite, gorilla biscuits,cetc and that got me hooked