Hardcore punk

Um, And it's probably more important now than it ever has been where the world and the music scene is kind of run by TikTok and non-personal interactions.

Hardcore sort of lost its most important factor for a little while, which was it standing for something.

There are definitely people out there that are not welcoming of And not accepting, and I would go even as far as to say bullies that are out there.

Dismissive, purposeful.

Um, one of the things you would hear, I would say pre COVID, um, is people always talking that they about bands that they didn't like, cause they said they were too preachy or talk too much and everything.

Now that we're in this post COVID society and this like really weird place in America and in the world we're in right now, um, It sort of feels like a lot of the people that were saying that are talking about a band being preachy just didn't want to accept that maybe their ideologies were on the wrong side of history.

And in my opinion, Hardcore and punk.

You could call it leftist liberal if you want.

Hey there, all you musical extremists.

Chris from the Mighty Decibel Network here with another hour of new underground metal and hardcore punk madness.

We're going to start this week's episode of the Mighty Decibel Show with veteran UK block thrashers Devastator, who are celebrating their 10th anniversary as a band with a new Goathammer EP coming out November 27th.

Here's the advanced title track, Thrash It Up.

They worship the devil This is uncutting

That was Necrophalanx, the advanced single from U.S. black thrashers Sader's sophomore full-length Alga Horde, which comes out October 31st.

Let's delve again into hardcore punk waters.

This is Belgian unit State Enemy with Ugly Side off their demo 2026 outing.

No worries.

but kind of like the dead kennedys and fugazi and a lot of like a lot of hardcore punk and post hardcore bands uh were a big influence on our early stuff and then yeah we did that for a number of years making kind of really really aggressive really aggressive kind of minimalist kind of punk music with uh a lot of screaming on my part which is like i don't know how i had the energy to scream as much as i used to like It was a yeah, it was a very exhausting time to play music for me.

Every time we come off the stage, I'd just be like, yeah, ready to ready for bed.

After that,

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it's actually interesting because, like, you know, I remember I had a similar trajectory when I was kind of, like, when I was getting into music, I kind of got into, like, hardcore punk, so it was bands like Day Candies, Black Flag, what was it, like Circle Jerks, Bad Religion, Bad Brains, all those.

And then

And Washington, D.C. gave us Minor Threat, who, while still meaning the hardcore spirit, lived a drug-free and alcohol-free lifestyle that they called Straight Edge.

Sometime in the late 1980s, people plugged into the hardcore punk subculture started talking about a new flavor that grew out of whatever Husker Du and Minor Threat was doing.

There were groups like Rites of Passage, Embrace, and Fugazi.

Their music was still loud, hard, and often very fast, but there was something different about the lyrics.

know it just had like the hardcore roots it still felt youthful angsty punchy but it also had like metals nuances like it's more technical like technically uh it's more about you know like the big metallic riffs even like kind of like groove metal aesthetics that popped in thrash metal too Um, for me, it just, it, it immediately hit, you know, I was already into like death metal, thrash metal.

I listened to a lot of crossover stuff.

Hardcore has always been part of the list.

And this just like the next evolution.

Yeah.

That's my year, you know, like...

And let me just tell you, Hardcore 98, Hardcore 99, pretty thin, pretty weird time.

Transition time, in my opinion.

There was stuff there percolating.

It's

time to wake up! Stop believing! When things fall apart Can we make a new start? Yes! There's no one else to blame for our life's pain We created ourselves, we accepted their shame We think we are, we want to be Our ego keeps us from rising to shame When things fall apart Can we make a new, a new start? What is this thing? And how can we get it? We'll change the world! Despite our expectations, everything will change! We'll change the world! Fight! Fall! We gotta stand tall! We'll change the world!

So Sam, Triple B, get back to doing those America's Hardcore comps.

I think we're due for one.

Yeah.

Good Clean Fun, Straight Outta Hardcore.

Joke

band? Joke band.

So being able to see what he was doing firsthand.

But I mean, these are people that have one foot in, you know, mostly in like the hardcore punk and rock kind of side, but also are into hip hop.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

yeah act on it

yeah absolutely absolutely yeah yeah

so people tuning into this might be, you know, questioning like, all right, this is, Bridge Nine's a hardcore punk label.

You know, what's, what's up with, with having somebody that's so deeply rooted in hip hop.

That's when I sort of like...

Hardcore was the first music that felt like that's mine.

Right.

That's what I wanna do, what they're doing.

Uh-huh.

It's called the, like, the, the Hardcore and Punk Food Association Game.

[laughs]

So like a Rorschach test.