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Also known as power violence

Powerviolence (sometimes written as power violence) is a chaotic and fast subgenre of hardcore punk which is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore. In contrast with grindcore, which is a "crossover" idiom containing musical aspects of heavy metal, powerviolence is just an augmentation of the most challenging qualities of hardcore punk and grindcore. Like its predecessors, it is usually socio-politically charged and iconoclastic.

Key facts

Music genre.name
Powerviolence
Music genre.image
Siege_battle_of_the_bands_1984.jpg
Music genre.image_size
260
Music genre.caption
Powerviolence pioneers Siege performing at their high school in 1984
Music genre.cultural_origins
Late 1980s, United States
Music genre.derivatives
Bandana thrash
Music genre.subgenres
Powernoise
Music genre.fusiongenres
Emoviolence
Music genre.other_topics
Crossover thrash grindcore crust punk noise rock screamo

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
music genre
Subclass of
hardcore punk
Country of origin
Canada
Image
Siege battle of the bands 1984.jpg
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topic's main category
Category:Powerviolence
inception
1987-01-01
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • Characteristics
  • Etymology
  • History
  • Legacy and influence
  • Emoviolence
  • References

Powerviolence (sometimes written as power violence) is a chaotic and fast subgenre of hardcore punk which is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore. In contrast with grindcore, which is a "crossover" idiom containing musical aspects of heavy metal, powerviolence is just an augmentation of the most challenging qualities of hardcore punk and grindcore. Like its predecessors, it is usually socio-politically charged and iconoclastic.

== Characteristics ==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “powerviolence” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.