Editing Crust punk (section)

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{{short description|Music genre}}
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{{Use British English|date=January 2024}}
{{Infobox music genre
| name              = Crust punk
| image             = Antisect, 1985.jpg
| caption           = Crust punk band [[Antisect]] performing in 1985
| other_names       = * Crust
* stenchcore
| stylistic_origins = {{hlist|[[Anarcho-punk]]<ref name="Rise of Crust" />|[[extreme metal]]<ref>{{cite journal |title=A History Of Metal - Punk Special: Crust Punk }}</ref>|[[D-beat]]<ref name=swedish>Peter Jandreus, ''The Encyclopedia of Swedish Punk 1977-1987'', Stockholm: Premium Publishing, 2008, p. 11.</ref>|[[biker metal]]<ref name="Speed Metal">{{cite book |last=Popoff |first=Martin |date=2017 |title=Speed Metal |author-link=Martin Popoff }}</ref>}}
| cultural_origins  = Early 1980s, England
| derivatives       = [[Grindcore]],<ref name=grindcrust>"In Grind We Crust," p. 46.</ref> [[red and anarchist black metal]]
| subgenres         = [[neo-crust]]
| fusiongenres      = [[Blackened crust]], [[crack rock steady]], [[crustcore]]
| regional_scenes   = * [[Music in Brazil#Brazilian grindcore and crust punk|Brazil]]
* [[Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom#Crust punk|United Kingdom]]
| other_topics      = * [[Crossover thrash]]
* [[metalcore]]
* [[sludge metal]]
* [[thrashcore]]
* [[thrash metal]]
* [[first-wave black metal]]
}}

'''Crust punk''' (also known as '''stenchcore''' or simply '''crust''') is a [[fusion genre]] of [[anarcho-punk]] and [[extreme metal]] that originated in the early to mid-1980s in England. Originally, the genre was primarily mid-tempo, making use of metal riffs in a stripped-down anarcho-punk context, however many later bands pushed the genre to be more grandiose, faster or more melodic. Often songs are political, discussing [[environmentalism]], [[anarchism]], [[anti-capitalism]], [[feminism]] and [[animal rights]]. 

The genre originated in the early to mid-1980s with [[Amebix]] and [[Antisect]], bands active in the anarcho-punk scene who began to incorporate the influence of [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] bands such as [[Hellhammer]], [[Motörhead]] and [[Trouble (band)|Trouble]]. The influence of these bands led to the genre's first wave with [[Hellbastard]], [[Deviated Instinct]] and [[Concrete Sox]]. By the late 1980s, the genre had begun to merge with [[hardcore punk]], typified by [[Electro Hippies]], [[Extreme Noise Terror]] and [[Doom (British band)|Doom]]. During the 1990s, this sound was continued by Swedish and Japanese bands including [[Skitsystem]], [[Driller Killer (band)|Driller Killer]], [[Disclose]] and Gloom, while other areas brought in outside influences such as [[Dystopia (band)|Dystopia]] with sludge metal, [[His Hero is Gone]] with [[powerviolence]], [[Choking Victim]] with [[ska]] and [[Disrupt (band)|Disrupt]] with [[grindcore]]. During the 2000s, the most prominent sound in the genre was the neo-crust style of [[Tragedy (band)|Tragedy]], [[Fall of Efrafa]] and [[From Ashes Rise]], which pushed the genre into more metal-influenced but also melodic and [[post-rock]]-inspired territory. At the same time, Swedish bands like [[Disfear]] and [[Wolfbrigade]] were also pushing crust punk into an increasingly melodic direction, through the incorporation of elements of [[melodic death metal]].