Japanese hardcore

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Japanese hardcore punk, often known as Japcore, refers to the fast-paced Japanese punk/hardcore genre. The original intent of Japcore was to protest the social and economic changes sweeping Japan in the 1980's and 1990's. GISM and The Stalin are considered by many to be the founding fathers of Japcore. Occasionally, Japcore artists will include elements of crust punk, visual kei, anarcho punk, horrorpunk, d-beat, and thrash metal in their songs. The lyrics often focus on social issues, such as nuclear weapons, poverty, and corruption caused by capitalism.

[edit] Examples of Japcore

Main article: List of Japanese hardcore punk bands

• 2nd Degree
• Aburadako
• Anarchy Condoms
• ARMS
• Assfort
• Balzac
• Bastard
• Battle of Disarm
• Beyond Description
• Chicken Bowels
• Cocobat
• The Comes
• Confuse
• Dir en Grey
• Disclose
• Disdomestic Violence
• Forward
• Framtid
• Fuck on the Beach
• Gauze
• Garlic Boys
• GISM
• Hylkiö
• Insane Youth
• Inkisicao
• Judgement
• Kuro
• Lip Cream
• Pear of the West
• Power of Idea
• Raw Gauge
• Retort
• Rose Rose
• Screen Out
• Slight Slappers
• Systematic Death
• The Stalin
• Vivisick
• Yoshiaki
• Zero Fast

[edit] External links

• Japanese Hardcore Information Database on Deep Fry Bonanza Punk/Hardcore Webzine - working external links
• MCR Co. a Japanese Hardcore punk label since 1983
• Obscure Japanese Underground band lists and information

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