Editing Thrashcore

{{Short description|Fast-tempo subgenre of hardcore punk}}
{{distinguish|text=[[Crossover thrash]], which fuses hardcore punk with thrash metal, or [[speedcore]], which is an aggressive electronic dance music subgenre}}
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{{More citations needed|date=February 2024}}{{Infobox music genre
| name              = Thrashcore
| other_names       = Fastcore
| image             = Vainstream2015 SickOfItAll-13.jpg
| caption           = [[Craig Setari]] of New York thrashcore band [[Straight Ahead (band)|Straight Ahead]]
| stylistic_origins = * [[Hardcore punk]]
* [[punk rock]]<ref name="Evolution22">{{cite book|last=Roddy|first=Derek|title=The Evolution of Blast Beats|year=2007|isbn=978-1423460169|page=22}}</ref>
| cultural_origins  = Early 1980s, United States
| derivatives       = * [[Crustcore]]<ref name="Rise of Crust">{{cite web|last=Von Havoc |first=Felix |title=Rise of Crust |publisher=Profane Existence |date=January 1, 1984 |url=http://www.havocrex.com/press/article/3/83 |access-date=June 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615163312/http://www.havocrex.com/press/article/3/83 |archive-date=June 15, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[grindcore]]
* [[powerviolence]]
| subgenres         = [[Bandana thrash]]
| fusiongenres      = 
| other_topics      = * [[Crust punk]]
* [[D-beat]]
* [[skate punk]]
* [[crossover thrash]]
* [[thrash metal]]
}}

'''Thrashcore''' (also known as '''fastcore''') is a fast-[[tempo]] subgenre of [[hardcore punk]] that emerged in the early 1980s. Thrashcore is essentially sped-up hardcore, adopting a slightly more extreme style by means of its vocals, dissonance, and occasional use of [[blast beat]]s. Songs are usually very brief, and thrashcore is in many ways a less [[Consonance and dissonance|dissonant]], minimally [[Heavy metal music|metallic]] forerunner of [[grindcore]]. The genre is sometimes associated with the [[skate punk|skateboarder]] [[subculture]].

==Terminological ambiguity==
Thrashcore is often confused with [[crossover thrash]] and sometimes [[thrash metal]].<ref name=FH2>Felix von Havoc. [http://www.havocrex.com/press/article/1/20 ''Maximum Rock'n'Roll'' #198] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080605102813/http://www.havocrex.com/press/article/1/20 |date=June 5, 2008 }}. Retrieved June 20, 2008.</ref><ref name=terrorizer>"Powerviolence: The Dysfunctional Family of Bllleeeeaaauuurrrgghhh!!". ''Terrorizer'' no. 172. July 2008. p. 36-37.</ref> Further confusion is added by the fact that many crossover bands, such as [[Dirty Rotten Imbeciles|D.R.I.]], began as influential thrashcore bands.<ref name="FH2"/> Throughout the '80s, the term "thrash" was in use as a synonym for [[hardcore punk]] (as in the ''[[New York Thrash]]'' compilation of 1982). It eventually came to be used for the faster, more intense style of hardcore punk. The term thrashcore is of recent vintage but dates from at least 1993.<ref>As Max Ward writes, "625 started in 1993 in order to help out the local Bay Area thrashcore scene." {{cite web | author=Ward, Max | year= 2000| title=About 625 | work=625 Thrashcore | url=http://www.625thrash.com/about.shtml | access-date=June 5, 2008 }}</ref> The "-core" [[suffix]] is necessary to distinguish it from the thrash metal scene, which is also referred to as "thrash" by fans. Still more confusingly, the term "thrashcore" is occasionally used by the [[Music journalism|music press]] to refer to thrash metal-inflected [[metalcore]].<ref>Voegtlin, Stewart (July 29, 2008). [http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-07-29/music/soulfly-cranks-up-the-thrash-and-triggers-a-debacle/ "Soulfly Cranks Up the Thrash and Triggers a Debacle"]. Village Voice. Retrieved July 31, 2008.</ref>

==History==

===Origins===
Just as [[hardcore punk]] groups distinguished themselves from their [[punk rock]] predecessors by their greater intensity and [[aggression]], thrashcore groups (often identified simply as "thrash") sought to play at breakneck tempos that would radicalize the innovations of hardcore. Early American thrashcore groups included [[Cryptic Slaughter]] (Santa Monica), [[Dirty Rotten Imbeciles|D.R.I.]] (Houston), HYPE (Toronto, Canada), [[Septic Death]] (Boise, Idaho) and [[Siege (band)|Siege]] (Weymouth, Massachusetts). The British [[Electro Hippies]], the Dutch [[Lärm]], the Italian [[Raw Power (band)|Raw Power]], and the Japanese [[S.O.B. (band)|S.O.B.]] also practiced important examples of the style. Some of [[Negative Approach]]'s later work was influential on the scene.

===Powerviolence===
{{Main|Powerviolence}}
The powerviolence scene grew out of thrashcore as an American counterpart to the British [[grindcore]] scene, which had emerged from [[crust punk]], with bands such as [[Septic Death]], [[Infest (band)|Infest]] and [[Siege (band)|Siege]] being the first to move towards the style.<ref name="TITF">{{cite web|last1=Preenson|first1=Richard|title=What Even is "Thrashcore" Anyway?|url=https://thrownintothefire.wixsite.com/music/single-post/2018/03/01/What-Even-is-%E2%80%9CThrashcore%E2%80%9D-Anyway|website=Thrown Into the Fire|date=March 2018 |access-date=March 4, 2018}}</ref> Powerviolence groups saw themselves as distinct from grindcore because of the increasing proximity of grindcore groups to the [[death metal]] being performed in Florida, Sweden, and Brazil.<ref>Bartkewicz, Anthony (July 2007). [http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/powerviolence.aspx "Screwdriver in the Urethra of Hardcore"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224033317/http://www.decibelmagazine.com/features/jul2007/powerviolence.aspx |date=February 24, 2008 }}. ''Decibel Magazine''. Retrieved July 29, 2007.</ref> Powerviolence groups wished to avoid the association with [[heavy metal music]] and [[Heavy metal subculture|culture]] that [[crossover thrash]], [[thrash metal]], and grindcore had made, while also incorporating "tempo changes with droney and sludgey down tempo parts".<ref name="TITF" /> As well as from thrashcore, powerviolence groups also took inspiration from crust punk, and eventually from [[noise music]]. Main groups associated with powerviolence included [[No Comment (band)|No Comment]], [[Hellnation]], [[Man Is The Bastard]], [[Crossed Out]], [[Charles Bronson (band)|Charles Bronson]], [[Spazz (band)|Spazz]] and [[Rorschach (band)|Rorschach]].

===Grindcore===
{{Main|Grindcore}}
Thrashcore groups such as [[S.O.B. (band)|S.O.B.]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://metalbrothers.es/bios/biografias/s-o-b/|title=S.O.B – METALBROTHERS.ES – Todo el Metal – All about Metal|website=metalbrothers.es|access-date=January 18, 2018|archive-date=December 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219115847/http://metalbrothers.es/bios/biografias/s-o-b/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.decibelmagazine.com/2012/10/12/the-lazarus-pit-sob-s-what-s-the-truth/|title=The Lazarus Pit: SOB's What's the Truth? - Decibel Magazine|date=October 12, 2012|access-date=January 18, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2016/04/14/grindcore-meets-grunge-napalm-death-and-the-melvins-bring-co-headlining-tour-to-agora|title=Grindcore Meets Grunge: Napalm Death and the Melvins Bring Co-Headlining Tour to Agora|first=Jeff|last=Niesel|access-date=November 27, 2017}}</ref> [[Cryptic Slaughter]],<ref>{{cite web |last1=Farrar |first1=Justin |title=The 30 Greatest Thrash Bands of All Time |url=https://www.spin.com/2017/12/the-30-greatest-thrash-bands-of-all-time/ |website=Spin |access-date=July 20, 2018|date=December 26, 2017 }}</ref> [[Siege (band)|Siege]] and [[Deep Wound]]<ref name="Choosing Death">{{cite book |last1=Mudrain |first1=Albert |title=Choosing Death |page=21 }}</ref> were major influences on early grindcore acts such as [[Napalm Death]], [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]] and [[Repulsion (band)|Repulsion]]. Grindcore is considered to be more metallic, due to its influence from [[crust punk]].<ref name="TITF" /><ref name="Choosing Death" />

===Revival===
{{Main|Bandana thrash}}
[[file:Trash Talk Band.jpg|thumb|right|Contemporary thrashcore band [[Trash Talk (band)|Trash Talk]] performing in 2010]]
The '90s saw a revival of the thrashcore style, as groups that had previously been associated with [[powerviolence]] or [[grindcore]] began to explore their debt to this earlier form of extreme music such as rock and metal. This was sometimes referred to as [[bandana thrash]], in reference to the headgear preferred by many of the performers.<ref name=MW>[http://www.625thrash.com/interviews.shtml Interview with Max Ward]. ''Maximum Rock'n'Roll''. Retrieved June 19, 2008.</ref> Prominent '90s thrashcore groups included Code 13, MK-ULTRA, [[Guyana Punch Line]], [[What Happens Next? (band)|What Happens Next?]] and [[R.A.M.B.O.]] (from the United States), [[Vitamin X]] (from the Netherlands), [[Vivisick]] (from Japan) and [[Voorhees (band)|Voorhees]] (from the UK). These groups sometimes felt a greater association with other elements of '80s hardcore punk, such as [[straight edge]], [[anarcho-punk]], [[youth crew]], or [[crust punk]], than most initial thrashcore groups did.

==Record labels==
*[[625 Thrashcore]]
*Havoc Records
*Ebullition Records
*[[Slap-a-Ham Records]]
*Deep Six Records
*Six Weeks
*Sound Pollution Records

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*[[Steven Blush|Blush, Steven]] (2001). ''[[American Hardcore: A Tribal History]]''. [[Feral House]]. {{ISBN|0-922915-71-7}}

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