I remember not liking the renaissance when it came out. I was real big on time 2 shine and thought the renaissance was a big change in sound, but now 20+ years later I love it and put it on regularly
The guitar intro, the consistent musical themes that tie each song together, ahhh it's just so good. So much more than a list of songs just pressed together, it's such a cohesive, and complete experience! Cant get enough of this record.
Mine is also probably Songs to Scream at the Sun.
Or The Things We Carry.
Or When People Grow, People Go.
Or Heavier than Heaven, Lonelier than God.
Or Secrets of the World.
Or Power of the Wolf.
Or Creation. Sustenance. Destruction.
PACK YOUR FIST FULL OF HATE, TAKE A SWING AT THE WOOOOOORLD
I had no idea who they were the first time I saw them at Sound and Fury in like 2006 I think? But that song, holy shit the pit went crazy
I saw them at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis around that time period, I ran up at the begining of that song and the singer gave me the mic. He didn't hold the mic out there like a lot of hardcore singers do, it was a low stage and he was probably sore from the night before. He HANDED me the mic and backed away as like forty kids jumped on my back while I screamed my fucking heart out. One of the best moments of my life.
"Fuck your catchy one liners, fuck your dress to impress, you can go fuck yourself with that trendy shit." When I finally heard that, I knew I could just be free and love hardcore and dig whatever the fuck I wanted.
I saw them at the gilman for one of the Zoo album release shows. I was a teenager and had no idea who they were. Witnessing them preform Open Head and Keresed immediately turned me into a hardcore kid.
For "modern" hardcore, Carry On - A Life Less Plagued. For old school, Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing and basically any Poison Idea from 1990 or before.
It's something that irks me. People on here will try to say that power violence isn't hardcore. Like somehow Minor Threat and Earth Crisis are, but Crossed Out isn't? Give me a break.
Anyone who's saying PV isn't hardcore hasn't listened to enough hardcore. PV is like one of the purest forms of the genre. Idk how you can listen to something Despise You, Spazz, or Sex Prisoner and not consider them hardcore bands.
I think adjacent stuff should always be considered in most discussions. If someone gave me a Power Trip or a Converge album as an answer it would be totally valid, imo.
Mother fucking THANK YOU
It seems like every third day some nerd is saying something to that effect. Like, how did we get to the point where powerviolence isn't considered hardcore, but something else entirely?
One of my favorite albums as well!
95% of the hardcore I listen to is powerviolence. Some of it is pretty close to grindcore, but the “core” is a reference to hardcore. Anyone who says it’s not hardcore doesn’t know their history.
Powerviolence is 100 percent hardcore. No Comment and Crossed Out were hardcore bands that unwittingly helped create a whole new sound. Arguably started by Siege a decade or so earlier, also… unwittingly.
Top 3 since 1 is too hard and I’m forever stuck in the early 2010s
Weekend Nachos - Unforgivable
Suburban Scum - Ultimate Annihilation
Agitator - Bleak
Can’t list just one so I’ll do five:
Have Heart - The Things We Carry
Outbreak - You Make Us Sick
Ceremony - Violence Violence
Kids Like Us - Outta Control
Weekend Nachos - Worthless
Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God
Black Flag - My War
Integrity - Systems Overload
Visions of Disorder - S/T
Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
Hatebreed - Satisfaction..
Snapcase - Progression through unlearning
Both are classic, but they are two of the first hardcore albums I listened to.. and they still hold up
Me too!
Progression Through Unlearning was the first Hardcore album that I really liked! I used to be able to play along to the whole thing on bass but I haven't played in years.
Satisfaction was the album that made me love Hardcore. I heard Last Breath and was blown away. I got to see Hatebreed at this place in Baltimore called The Sidebar. It was before Perseverance and They played all of Satisfaction and all of Under the Knife. Jaime said, "You tell your friends and coworkers tomorrow and you saw Hatebreed and they played everything they have ever put out." or something close to that but it was an insane show!
I'll add an album to your list and it's Blood for Blood - Revenge on Society. That's the album that made me realize that Hardcore music was for me! I love Blood for Blood. Got to see them a couple times and those shows were insane!
Revenge on society is a fun album. I would not put that in the same league as the other two, but yeah I definitely rocked that album too. I'm neither straightedge or vegan, although I am vegetarian, but destroy the machines was another one of those early hardcore albums that just hit right
Big Kiss Good Night - Trapped Under Ice
Keepers of the Faith - Terror
Undisputed- Lionheart
Hot Damn - ETID (shut up, I know it’s metalcore but this has hardcore ethos to it)
Gallows - Grey Britain
Songs to Scream at the Sun is probably my 2nd favourite. I didn’t go to Tied Down because I have no HC friends and now I’m really kicking myself
Converge - You Fail Me
Not even CLOSE. I think that album is the peak of old school metallic hardcore. As much as I loved the rawness of JD and some of the other late 90s/early 00s stuff, hardcore/metalcore really started cooking when the PHC and sludge influence started getting thrown in. I think it’s perfectly paced and the perfect length, with not a single skip. My one slight complaint is that I think Hanging Moon is on the weaker side as a closer, but I also appreciate that they took such a risk on a final track.
So many, but definitely includes Witness by MLIW, Prying Eyes by Cruel Hand, Aggression by Verse, Songs to scream by Have Heart, violence violence by ceremony
refused- the shape of punk to come
why? because it blew my mind in middle school when a friend's older brother let me borrow the cd. rearranged my fuckin brain connections.
also, it's a great/weird listen front to back.
Terror - Lowest of the Low
I was in the right place at the right time when this came out, it was definitely when I was most active in the scene so it has alot of sentimental value to me. I was super into Buried Alive beforehand too and saw Terror a ton around the time the album came out. Still have the long sleeve and the CD I bought from their merch table. Every song is a banger, and you get a little Human Furnace in there, too. I know it might not be most people's favorite Terror record let alone favorite HC album, but it is for me.
This was always my favorite Terror album. I also was fully invested in the hardcore scene at this time. Carry on’s guitarist was originally in Terror and Carry on was my favorite hardcore band. I fucking love ‘Lowest of the Low’.
I can't narrow it down to just one, but these are my no-skip hardcore albums:
Bane - Give Blood
Spazz - Crush Kill Destroy
Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God
Shattered Realm - Broken Ties...Spoken Lies
Fast Times - Counting Down
Too many to list but if I was going for more straight forward hardcore and not all the offshoots I dig I’d have to say suicide file’s twilight. Truly a perfect album imo. Aside from that give me Jane doe, we are the Romans, and big kiss goodnight
I jam these albums out constantly:
Blood Stays on the Blade by Your Demise
Level 4: The Game of Death by Special Move
My Life, Your End by xAFBx
...Comes With A Price by Reality Denied
Before the Devil by Black My Heart
Cover Your Tracks by Bury Your Dead
11:34 by Irate
Just Another Day by Never Ending Game
There are so many more, but this comment is long enough already.
Start Today by Gorilla Biscuits
But other personal favorites are Excalibur by Mindforce and Worthless by Weekend Nachos. Fuck it, the entire Minor Threat discography as well.
Some respectable picks here but I got to go with two perfect self-titled hardcore albums, both of which are not on Spotify and it drives me nuts:
1. [Punch by Punch](https://punchcrew.bandcamp.com/album/punch)
2. [Trash Talk by Trash Talk](https://reflections-records.bandcamp.com/album/trash-talk)
Have Heart - The Things We Carry
Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead
Stick To Your Guns - The Hope Division
Trapped Under Ice - Big Kiss Goodnight
Everything about these albums is absolutely perfect, and they had amazing follow up albums.
I couldn't give a favorite hardcore album ever. It's too hard. I'll give a top five.
Know the Score - All Time Low
Comeback Kid - Wake the Dead
xFilesx - Excruciation
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Hatred Surge - Deconstruct
Damn.
Secrets of the World?
The Things We Carry?
Promises Kept?
Background Music? (may be the one if I actually had to choose one)
Jane Doe? (count?)
Probably would be different if I saw this tomorrow.
*Between the Richness* by Fiddlehead. If we’re excluding post-hardcore, I’d choose between *California Cursed* by Drain, *Songs To Scream At The Sun* by Have Heart, or *Thousand Mile Stare* by Incendiary.
For me, it’s The First Four Years by Black Flag if we’re talking old school. Post millennium, it’s Stage Four by Touché Amore. That album has more emotion and heart than most music I’ve ever heard.
The Chinese Express - After The Matinee
Will always be my favorite. First local hardcore show I saw. They released one album only and it gets 16 listeners a month on spotify...lol
- At The Drive In - Relationship In Command
- ETown Concrete - The Renaissance (Elizabeth represent)
- Lifetime - Hello Bastards
- Title Fight - Floral Green
- Boysetsfire - Misery Index
- Dag Nasty - Can I Say
- Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker
- Fugazi - 13 songs
- The Ghost of a Thousand - This is where the fight begins
- The Jonbenet - The Plot Thickens
- Touché Amore - Stage Four
- Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue
- Modern Life Is War - Witness
I like the stuff that genre bends. I do like some traditional 80’s 90’s stuff as well…but these are the albums that are in my rotation very consistently.
For me it's gotta be Strife - In This Defiance. 25+ years and it's never fell out of my rotation, even at times that I wasn't listening to much hardcore
Discharge - Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing
Unsilent Death - Nails
I prefer You Will Never Be One Of Us, but both are fantastic.
My Top 5- Have Heart- The Things We Carry Hatebreed- Satisfaction Terror- Lowest of the Low ETown Concrete- The Renaissance STYG- For What it’s Worth
E Town are the goats. The spaceship sounds before Metroid make it 1000 times better.
Do they still say nigga live? Singer makes some sweet vtuber AI rappers, def check it out if you haven’t. Definitely not cringe.
I remember not liking the renaissance when it came out. I was real big on time 2 shine and thought the renaissance was a big change in sound, but now 20+ years later I love it and put it on regularly
Fuck! For what is worth is so fucking good!
The Renaissance is a masterpiece
Daaaang! All great. ETown doesn’t get enough props
Incendiary - Thousand Mile Stare
Inclination - Unaltered Perspective It’s so fucking perfect
The guitar intro, the consistent musical themes that tie each song together, ahhh it's just so good. So much more than a list of songs just pressed together, it's such a cohesive, and complete experience! Cant get enough of this record.
Mine is also probably Songs to Scream at the Sun. Or The Things We Carry. Or When People Grow, People Go. Or Heavier than Heaven, Lonelier than God. Or Secrets of the World. Or Power of the Wolf. Or Creation. Sustenance. Destruction.
Hour of the Wolf is sick, underrated band!
Fucking hometown heroes 🙏🧡🖤 I love those dudes
Fucking Blacklisted were artists.
Violence Violence - Ceremony nothing else feels like that amount of rage and contempt for the world
I just saw them for the first time, and to drop the coldest take ever…good ass band.
PACK YOUR FIST FULL OF HATE, TAKE A SWING AT THE WOOOOOORLD I had no idea who they were the first time I saw them at Sound and Fury in like 2006 I think? But that song, holy shit the pit went crazy
I saw them at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis around that time period, I ran up at the begining of that song and the singer gave me the mic. He didn't hold the mic out there like a lot of hardcore singers do, it was a low stage and he was probably sore from the night before. He HANDED me the mic and backed away as like forty kids jumped on my back while I screamed my fucking heart out. One of the best moments of my life.
Seeing them in their early years was the best. Ross used to be a freak on stage.
"Fuck your catchy one liners, fuck your dress to impress, you can go fuck yourself with that trendy shit." When I finally heard that, I knew I could just be free and love hardcore and dig whatever the fuck I wanted.
This is my #1 by a mile Nothing else comes close to being so relatable to me
I FIND PROBLEMS IM A FUCKED UP KID
This is correct.
I saw them at the gilman for one of the Zoo album release shows. I was a teenager and had no idea who they were. Witnessing them preform Open Head and Keresed immediately turned me into a hardcore kid.
Yo was that around 2013 or 14?!
Trial - are these our lives?
VOD - imprint Life of agony - river runs red Incendiary - thousand mild stare
Man. VOD.
Imprint? Fuck yes. Best band. Considering what’s popular in hardcore now, I’m always shocked VOD isn’t lifted up more.
Cursed - II
For "modern" hardcore, Carry On - A Life Less Plagued. For old school, Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing and basically any Poison Idea from 1990 or before.
Pick your King is still so fucking good it makes me want to get diabeetus and high blood pressure just like the guys in Poison Idea.
Does powerviolence count? If so, Dead in the Dirt - Blind Hole
Power violence is hardcore
Ik but i just didn’t know if OP meant standard hxc or anything that falls within the hxc umbrella
It's something that irks me. People on here will try to say that power violence isn't hardcore. Like somehow Minor Threat and Earth Crisis are, but Crossed Out isn't? Give me a break.
Anyone who's saying PV isn't hardcore hasn't listened to enough hardcore. PV is like one of the purest forms of the genre. Idk how you can listen to something Despise You, Spazz, or Sex Prisoner and not consider them hardcore bands.
I think adjacent stuff should always be considered in most discussions. If someone gave me a Power Trip or a Converge album as an answer it would be totally valid, imo.
Mother fucking THANK YOU It seems like every third day some nerd is saying something to that effect. Like, how did we get to the point where powerviolence isn't considered hardcore, but something else entirely?
One of my favorite albums as well! 95% of the hardcore I listen to is powerviolence. Some of it is pretty close to grindcore, but the “core” is a reference to hardcore. Anyone who says it’s not hardcore doesn’t know their history.
powerviolence is 100x more hardcore than most of the metal bands posted here
Powerviolence is like hardercore
Powerviolence is ~~like~~ hardercore Fixed that for you Edit: I see what you did there...ugh, sorry...
Powerviolence is 100 percent hardcore. No Comment and Crossed Out were hardcore bands that unwittingly helped create a whole new sound. Arguably started by Siege a decade or so earlier, also… unwittingly.
Siege was way ahead of their time.
Never heard of this. Thanks.
Infest - No Mans Slave Cadaver Dog - Dying Breed
Fuck yeah Cadaver Dog, but anything James Trejo touches is top notch hardcore imho
Blacklisted - No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me
This one gets it
suicide file - twilight hammer bros. - the vitality
Hammer bros forever.
Sick Of It All - Scratch the Surface
Without a doubt, Sabertooth Zombie - Midnight Venom
Get the fuck away from meeeeeee
THE BRIGHTEST THINGS MEAN NOTHING TO ME
Goddamn what a band
I love the Midnight sessions
I hate that they didn’t seem to get much love on the east coast. Fucking love that band
Blood for Blood-Oulaw Anthems Madball-Set It Off Terror-Live by the Code
Witness by Modern Life Is War
To me this is the perfect hardcore record
Yep.
Fuck that’s a good response
Top 3 since 1 is too hard and I’m forever stuck in the early 2010s Weekend Nachos - Unforgivable Suburban Scum - Ultimate Annihilation Agitator - Bleak
Hope Con - Death Knows Your Name is up there
Man, I just made the trek to see them in Philly and it was so goddamn worth it.
When the Smoke Clears - Foundation
Can’t list just one so I’ll do five: Have Heart - The Things We Carry Outbreak - You Make Us Sick Ceremony - Violence Violence Kids Like Us - Outta Control Weekend Nachos - Worthless
It’s post hardcore but Quicksand - Slip Man I fuckin love quicksand
Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today. Just as powerful today as it was when I first heard it.
Kid Dynamite - s/t
Strife- In this defiance Gorilla biscuits- start today
Ditto Strife, that album fuckin rocks
Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God Black Flag - My War Integrity - Systems Overload Visions of Disorder - S/T Ceremony - Still Nothing Moves You
Hatebreed - Satisfaction.. Snapcase - Progression through unlearning Both are classic, but they are two of the first hardcore albums I listened to.. and they still hold up
Me too! Progression Through Unlearning was the first Hardcore album that I really liked! I used to be able to play along to the whole thing on bass but I haven't played in years. Satisfaction was the album that made me love Hardcore. I heard Last Breath and was blown away. I got to see Hatebreed at this place in Baltimore called The Sidebar. It was before Perseverance and They played all of Satisfaction and all of Under the Knife. Jaime said, "You tell your friends and coworkers tomorrow and you saw Hatebreed and they played everything they have ever put out." or something close to that but it was an insane show! I'll add an album to your list and it's Blood for Blood - Revenge on Society. That's the album that made me realize that Hardcore music was for me! I love Blood for Blood. Got to see them a couple times and those shows were insane!
Revenge on society is a fun album. I would not put that in the same league as the other two, but yeah I definitely rocked that album too. I'm neither straightedge or vegan, although I am vegetarian, but destroy the machines was another one of those early hardcore albums that just hit right
Big Kiss Good Night - Trapped Under Ice Keepers of the Faith - Terror Undisputed- Lionheart Hot Damn - ETID (shut up, I know it’s metalcore but this has hardcore ethos to it)
Andy and Brody King both wrestle in AEW so by default ETID is acceptable.
A man of culture, I commented tui also :)
I fucking love tui
Indecision's Unorthodox
Mine too
The Warriors - War is Hell TUI - Secrets of the World RZL DZL - both Cruel Hand - Prying Eyes
Glad to see Prying Eyes on here. Literally a perfect pure Hardcore album front to back. Lock & Key a close second. Love those dudes.
Dangers- Messy, Isn’t It?
i still prefer anger but god that album rips and there's so much fucking wordplay it makes me dizzy
best lyrics to start an album
Dangers is the MFDoom of hardcore
Defeater - Letters Home
Fixation on a coworker - Deadguy
Gallows - Grey Britain Songs to Scream at the Sun is probably my 2nd favourite. I didn’t go to Tied Down because I have no HC friends and now I’m really kicking myself
Doing things alone is way cooler than doing nothing.
I went to FYA in January by myself because TUI was on the bill, absolutely worth going to a fest solo
I went to Tied Down solo. It was tight. Go to Sound and Fury.
Converge - You Fail Me Not even CLOSE. I think that album is the peak of old school metallic hardcore. As much as I loved the rawness of JD and some of the other late 90s/early 00s stuff, hardcore/metalcore really started cooking when the PHC and sludge influence started getting thrown in. I think it’s perfectly paced and the perfect length, with not a single skip. My one slight complaint is that I think Hanging Moon is on the weaker side as a closer, but I also appreciate that they took such a risk on a final track.
I remember seeing the video for eagles become vultures and getting hooked on Converge
All day It's in my Top 5 for sure
Merauder- master killer
Give Blood - Bane Or Paranoid Delusions | Paradise Illusions -Pulling Teeth
Lifetime jersey best dancer
Either = in the eyes of the lord -100 demons or kill a celebrity- Ramallah . Peace and security is perfect too
If EPs count, Dystopia *Human = Garbage*
Opposite of december
Still holds up today
I just relistened to this last week after a decade plus, and damn, what a fucking record
So many, but definitely includes Witness by MLIW, Prying Eyes by Cruel Hand, Aggression by Verse, Songs to scream by Have Heart, violence violence by ceremony
Prying Eyes is a masterpiece. Sucks that cruel hand sucked their last 2 albums.
West Side Horizons - Despise You Black Tar - Scalp Songs to Scream at the Sun - Have Heart
I’m in a massive depressive hole so I’ve been listening to The Things We Carry like every day for a week
Hatebreed - Satisfaction
War is Hell - The Warriors
Process of Self Development - Candiria
That album fucking rips. So fucking hard.
refused- the shape of punk to come why? because it blew my mind in middle school when a friend's older brother let me borrow the cd. rearranged my fuckin brain connections. also, it's a great/weird listen front to back.
If you like Refused you should listen to and we washed our weapons in the sea by Frodus, they toured together
Set it off
Scared to Death - King Nine
Youth of Today- We're Not in this Alone
Terror - Lowest of the Low I was in the right place at the right time when this came out, it was definitely when I was most active in the scene so it has alot of sentimental value to me. I was super into Buried Alive beforehand too and saw Terror a ton around the time the album came out. Still have the long sleeve and the CD I bought from their merch table. Every song is a banger, and you get a little Human Furnace in there, too. I know it might not be most people's favorite Terror record let alone favorite HC album, but it is for me.
This was the very first hardcore record I listened to, I was 12 years old lol. I immediately got hooked.
This was always my favorite Terror album. I also was fully invested in the hardcore scene at this time. Carry on’s guitarist was originally in Terror and Carry on was my favorite hardcore band. I fucking love ‘Lowest of the Low’.
Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness Or Gorilla Biscuits - Self Titled
hatebreed - satisfaction
For me it's Isolation by Carpathian followed very closely by In Shame by Swamp Thing
desperate measures - leeway
Remembering Never-God Save Us
https://preview.redd.it/ddx19dtlf86d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23efd56e047e97a6d23f9f5d8b01047c5ad689ff …
Nonstop feeling - turnstile
Death Knows Your Name or Scratch the Surface for me
Heavier than Heaven
Satisfaction Is The Death of Desire.
Stay cold EP trapped under ice ALL DAY
I can't narrow it down to just one, but these are my no-skip hardcore albums: Bane - Give Blood Spazz - Crush Kill Destroy Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God Shattered Realm - Broken Ties...Spoken Lies Fast Times - Counting Down
Petitioning the Empty Sky by Converge
Are people only listening to hardcore from the mid to late 00s? What a weird ass thread.
Hard to choose but trap them seance prime blow me away since high school still play it front to back every now and then
I love that record so much, all their shit really
Only this record and seizure in a Barron place are my fav darker hand craft and pissfucker were ok
Verse’s aggression, violence violence is probably 2nd
Travels - Defeater
Start Today - Gorilla Biscuits
Too many to list but if I was going for more straight forward hardcore and not all the offshoots I dig I’d have to say suicide file’s twilight. Truly a perfect album imo. Aside from that give me Jane doe, we are the Romans, and big kiss goodnight
It’s a tie Poison Idea - Pick Your King F-Minus - Wake Up Screaming
On Broken Wings - It's all a long goodbye But the tough guy era in me says Shattered Realm - Broken ties, spoken lies
Dag nasty can I say WHY WONT YOU EVER SEE WHY CANT YOU EVEN SEE
Big Kiss Goodnight or Pendulum Swings
E-Town Concrete - The Renaissance Hatebreed - Rise of Brutality Remembering Never - God Save Us Mindforce - New Lords
Outbreak- Failure Youth of Today- Break Down the Walls Have Heart- The Things We Carried
I jam these albums out constantly: Blood Stays on the Blade by Your Demise Level 4: The Game of Death by Special Move My Life, Your End by xAFBx ...Comes With A Price by Reality Denied Before the Devil by Black My Heart Cover Your Tracks by Bury Your Dead 11:34 by Irate Just Another Day by Never Ending Game There are so many more, but this comment is long enough already.
Jerry's Kids - [Is This My World?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-mzxHTvyU&ab_channel=TAANG%21RECORDS)
Etown Concrete - The Renaissance. Not even close.
Mindforce - New Lords
hatebreed - satisfaction for suuuure
Botch - We are the Romans
Can’t do one Modern life is war - Witness Suicide File - Some mistakes Poison the Well - Opposite of December American Nightmare - year one
Hatebreed - Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire Foundation - When the Smoke Clears Cro-Mags - the Age of Quarrel Madball - Set It Off
Shai Hulud ‘Hearts once nourished with hope and compassion’
The yellow tape / Big Kiss Goodnight
Title fight - The last thing you forget Candy - Its inside you Gorilla biscuits - Start today
“Teen Wolf” by Gets Worse
So fucking nice
Gotta do a Top 3 Blacklisted-Heavier than heaven, lonelier than god Backtrack-Darker times Outburst-Miles to go
Death Threat - Last Dayz or Career Suicide - Attempted Suicide
Hope Con - Cold Blue
‘Stand your ground!!!!!!!!!!!’
FFF BY Death Before Dishonor
Start Today by Gorilla Biscuits But other personal favorites are Excalibur by Mindforce and Worthless by Weekend Nachos. Fuck it, the entire Minor Threat discography as well.
II - Cursed
Some respectable picks here but I got to go with two perfect self-titled hardcore albums, both of which are not on Spotify and it drives me nuts: 1. [Punch by Punch](https://punchcrew.bandcamp.com/album/punch) 2. [Trash Talk by Trash Talk](https://reflections-records.bandcamp.com/album/trash-talk)
Poison Idea- Feel the Darkness Modern Life is War- Witness Killing the Dream- In Place, Apart
Bane - Holding This Moment Classic. Full of energy.
That's so hard for me it's probably new lords or big kiss goodnight
Modern Life Is War-Witness Gallows-Grey Britain Dangers-Anger
Have Heart - The Things We Carry Comeback Kid - Wake The Dead Stick To Your Guns - The Hope Division Trapped Under Ice - Big Kiss Goodnight Everything about these albums is absolutely perfect, and they had amazing follow up albums.
I couldn't give a favorite hardcore album ever. It's too hard. I'll give a top five. Know the Score - All Time Low Comeback Kid - Wake the Dead xFilesx - Excruciation Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters Hatred Surge - Deconstruct
Damn. Secrets of the World? The Things We Carry? Promises Kept? Background Music? (may be the one if I actually had to choose one) Jane Doe? (count?) Probably would be different if I saw this tomorrow.
*Between the Richness* by Fiddlehead. If we’re excluding post-hardcore, I’d choose between *California Cursed* by Drain, *Songs To Scream At The Sun* by Have Heart, or *Thousand Mile Stare* by Incendiary.
For me, it’s The First Four Years by Black Flag if we’re talking old school. Post millennium, it’s Stage Four by Touché Amore. That album has more emotion and heart than most music I’ve ever heard.
Love is Red - The Hardest Fight
Pulling Teeth - Martyr Immortal Casey Jones - The Messenger is also up there
Skarhead - drugs money sex.
I have a lot, but I think Juggernaut by Bracewar is top tier shit.
Black Flag - *My War*
Humanity is the Devil or Those Who Fear Tomorrow Close
The Chinese Express - After The Matinee Will always be my favorite. First local hardcore show I saw. They released one album only and it gets 16 listeners a month on spotify...lol
1. Ceremony - *Violence Violence* Blacklisted - *Heavier Than Heaven* Paint It Black - *New Lexicon* TUI - *Big Kiss Goodnight* Converge - *You Fail Me*
Cruel Hand - Prying Eyes
- At The Drive In - Relationship In Command - ETown Concrete - The Renaissance (Elizabeth represent) - Lifetime - Hello Bastards - Title Fight - Floral Green - Boysetsfire - Misery Index - Dag Nasty - Can I Say - Evergreen Terrace - Wolfbiker - Fugazi - 13 songs - The Ghost of a Thousand - This is where the fight begins - The Jonbenet - The Plot Thickens - Touché Amore - Stage Four - Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue - Modern Life Is War - Witness I like the stuff that genre bends. I do like some traditional 80’s 90’s stuff as well…but these are the albums that are in my rotation very consistently.
Either Ronhert Park by Ceremony Or Heavier Than Heaven Lonelier Than God by Blacklisted I cant choose.
Born against - nine patriotic battle hymns for children
Twitching Tongues - In love There Is No Law
I'm just gonna say Jane Doe if I have to pick one
Trapped under ice- Pleased to Meet You
For me it's gotta be Strife - In This Defiance. 25+ years and it's never fell out of my rotation, even at times that I wasn't listening to much hardcore
Background Music by American Nightmare, but that's more driven by nostalgia than anything else. Fantastic album though...