Showing posts with label metal. Show all posts
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Friday, October 9, 2026

Hardcore punk making a comeback? (SNL)


Turnstile live at Full Force in 2019 (wiki)
Turnstile started as a hardcore punk rock group. Their breakthrough third album Glow On was released in 2021, earning critical acclaim and three Grammy nominations. The band has expanded and now just calls itself "an American rock band" from Baltimore (Maryland) that formed in 2010. Turnstile consists of lead vocalist Brendan Yates, guitarist Pat McCrory, guitarist Meg Mills, bassist Franz Lyons, and drummer Daniel Fang. Their fourth album Never Enough was released in 2025 and charted in the Top 10 of five countries, including the USA. It received five Grammy nominations, making it the first band in history to be nominated in the rock, alternative, and metal categories in the same year [2]. Turnstile won a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for their song "Birds" and Best Rock Album 2026. More

First hardcore punk band on SNL: 1981

What is "hardcore punk"?

First real LA hardcore punk? The Germs (1976)
Commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc, this subgenre of punk rock with its distinct subculture originated in the late 1970s. It is generally harder, faster, and more aggressive than other forms of punk music [8].

Los Angeles may be famous for hXc, but LA certainly didn't invent it singlehandedly. Its roots can be traced to other crosspollinating punk scenes in Northern California like the San Francisco Bay Area and the SoCal region, including Orange County, Hollywood, and outlying parts of the sprawling megalopolis of the City of Lost Angels.

The Story of Hardcore Punk Rock ๐Ÿงท

Turn on, tune in, and drop out, Kids (Ram Dass)
Hardcore punk arose as a reaction against the still predominant "hippie" (wimpy peace, love, happiness) cultural climate of the time (in the late '60s, early '70s). It was also inspired by D.C., and New York punk rock and earlier proto-punk [1].

Hardcore Buddhist Zen?
Hardcore punk generally eschews (resists, rejects, runs away from) commercialism, the established music industry, and "anything similar to the characteristics of mainstream rock" [14], which tries its darndest to garner fans, popularity, and commercial appeal in a capitalist marketplace.

Hardcore punk, on the other hand, frequently addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically charged lyrics" [15].

Hardcore Buddhist punks?
Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Truth About Reality (Brad Warner)
I was in Hollywood singing about Buddhism (Darby Crash)

LA's Wasted Youth: "Problem Child"
"Wasted" youth is a double entendre, as youth is wasted being wasted on drugs and drink (IG)
Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s (with a place for girls, riot grrrls, post-riot grrrls, new-riot grrrls, and Jews), particularly in Los Angeles, San Francisco (punk rock in California), Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York (NYHC), as well as in Canada and the United Kingdom.



Straight edge X: no drinking, drugs
Hardcore has spawned the straight edge movement and its associated sub-movements, hardline, and youth crew.

Hardcore was heavily involved in the rise of the independent record labels in the 1980s and with the D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) ethics in underground music scenes.

It has also influenced various music genres that in distinction to punk rock have experienced widespread commercial success, including grunge and crossover thrash metal.
What happened to straight edge?
Straight edge tattoo: hardcore booze-and-drug-free, vegan clean living
East LA (Chicano) backyard parties
Hardcore makes it to the Midwest
Although the punk music genre started in English-speaking Western countries, notable hardcore scenes have existed in Buddhist Japan (Japanese punk rock, Japanese hardcore punk), Italy (Italian punk rock), and Brazil (Brazilian punk rock).

Best band on the East Coast? Void "Who Are You" live in 1983

Characteristics
Void releases classic split-EP with No Faith (one of our personal favorite punk bands of all time)

American Hardcore (film) 
Hardcore punk historian Steven Blush credits DC's Dischord Records co-owner Ian MacKaye (Bad Brains-inspired Minor Threat and Fugazi) with starting a "die-hard mindset that begat almost everything we now call Hardcore," which was virulently anti-music industry and anti-rock star [16].

An article in Drowned in Sound argues that late-1970s/early-1980s era hardcore is the true spirit of punk, because "all the poseurs and fashionistas f*cked off to the next trend of skinny pink ties with New Romantic haircuts, singing wimpy lyrics" and the punk scene now consisted of people like Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag, and Circle Jerks, dedicated to the DIY ethics [17].

Other writers have also attributed hardcore punk rock to a reaction against artsy and mellower sub-genres that punk grew into, such as post-punk and super popular new wave [2, 18]. Hardcore punk additionally broke with original punk rock song patterns and visuals, favoring lower-key aesthetics [19] that were all about getting back-to-basics. More

What is a "minor" threat?

Punk rock Los Angeles: The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III
(Shout! Studios) The Decline of Western Civilization, Part III | full movie | Penelope Spheeris

The crazy kids of today: T.R.U.E.


This punk band might be saving humanity

Scroll Stopper Club(Scroll Stopper Club) May 18, 2026: A man claiming to be from the future says humanity was saved by a punk band from near Seattle: Tacoma, Washington. Naturally, I investigated. This week’s Scroll Stopper is “Blast” by The Rat Utopia Experiment — a chaotic, explosive punk track that somehow turns spelling into a full-blown psychological event.


In this episode: ๐Ÿ€ The REAL Rat Utopia Experiment and society collapsing ๐Ÿ€ Why crowds love yelling together ("gang/group vocals") ๐Ÿ€ How audience participation creates cult-level fan loyalty ๐Ÿ€ Why this song absolutely rules ๐Ÿ€ A songwriter tip bands should steal immediately. If listeners love discovering new music before everyone else does, welcome to the Scroll Stopper Club. ๐ŸŽต Listen to The Rat Utopia Experiment “Blast.” YouTube: @theratutopiaexperiment. Website: theratutopiaexperiment.com. Bandcamp: theratutopiaexperiment.bandcamp.com. ๐Ÿ“ธ Follow Scroll Stopper Club on Instagram: scrollstopper.club

Mermaid Island grrrl who growls, rocks

Mermaid Island live in Hollywood
Blur's Dream(Blur's Dream) Dec. 10, 2025: KNUCKLEHEAD HOLLYWOOD. So, like, I brought my Sony A7R IV to Knucklehead in Hollywood. The bill consisted of M-16, Spunk, Mermaid Island, and Spray Allen. The energy at this show was wild. Shoutout the Latex Vixens for dancing during the live sets! I had a ton of fun, and the bands played super dope music. Apologies to M-16 for not filming the first half of the set. But check out Mermaid Island's SETLIST: "Freaks" 0:20 "Don’t Ask" 3:00 "He Started It" (dedicated to Hamilton Morris) 8:36 "Panic Button" 12:55 "Ice Cream" 17:20 "Sh*t Out of Luck" 24:55 "Mona Lisa" 29:09 Links: mermaidislandband, linktr.ee/mrmdisland...

What is British anarcho-punk like RP, Crass?
(Every Album Ever with Mike Mansour) The story behind the world's most unhinged anarcho-punk band | Ep. 257: Rudimentary Peni (a medical reference to a fetal pre-vagina)


Punk-influenced filthy standup comedy?

Why hardcore punk was so important

Rich Mom(Rich Mom) April 24, 2024: Hope y'all enjoy this new series I’ve put together! Thanks so much for watching. DISCLAIMER: This video is NOT intended to be a deep dive. To learn more about the hardcore punk subculture, see @thepunkrockmba. Sellout Finn McKenty, MBA, is real groovy and I don't know why people hate him. Here's McKenty's take:
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Thursday, October 8, 2026

White man's powwow: slam dance mosh pit



Study finds mosh pits mimic ancient tribal rituals
If only neighboring Hollywood nightclubs had a way for young invading European settler colonialists to express themselves in appreciation of their musical traditions, perhaps a distinctive dance style to the beat of relentless drums with howls and yelps, cheers and applause.

Careful, kids, you don't want to get hurt.
Such exuberance might look like pure mayhem and random violence, particularly when it devolves to a war game/war dance called a "Wall of Death."

For example, the biggest Wall of Death ever was during Slaughter to Prevail's set at Hellfest 2024. Is it real?

Hey, down front, we're trying to watch the show! - Then pay for a seat. This is GA on the floor.
We Got Power! (perihelionarts.com)
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Mosh Pit Meditation (calm amid chaos), Pt. 1
But a tribal war dance full of fists and fury with wild gyrations of the body, swinging limbs recklessly at nonparticipants, or coagulate into a swirling mass of humanity in a "circle pit" to the grating guitars, excruciating vocalizations, and amplified rhythm section of rebels without a cause, ne'er-do-wells, and malcontents. Perhaps, in time, such an outlet will form in and around Tinsel Town, USA, as bands seek to win the attention of corporate music industry types.


Mosh pits of the future
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Thursday, August 20, 2026

Every Satanic metal act explained

  1. Coven
  2. Black Sabbath (Ozzy Osbourne)
  3. Venom
  4. Mercyful Fate (King Diamond)
  5. Slayer (Catholic Tom Araya)
  6. Possessed (death metal)
  7. Bathory
  8. Morbid Angel
  9. Deicide (Glenn Benton)
  10. Mayhem
  11. Burzum
  12. Emperor
  13. Darkthrone
  14. Gogoroth
  15. Dark Funeral
  16. Bohemeth
  17. Watain
  18. Ghost
  19. Dissection
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Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Japanese girl-metal Nemophila in LA


NEMOPHILA takes over The Glass House in the Pomona Arts Colony (next to the Fox Theater Pomona), Los Angeles County, on Tuesday, July 14, 8:00 pm. The cost of attending the future Babymetal overlords in Los Angeles is $25 (DOS) or $39.87 (full price in advance, no surprises later).

WHAT HAPPENED?
A November Morning | No Echo
Female fronted Mortalis opened, but they need a lot more practice. The drummer was struggling, the singer was nervous, and... what can be said that they don't already know? Next was Islander, which was a significant improvement with the metalcore growling for every song and real guitarwork, though between bands we left and worked our way into neighboring all-ages nightclub The Haven to see A November Morning (a kind of early Job for a Cowboy). The sign at the door clearly says, "No Crowd Killing, Moshing, Slamming, Mosh Pit, Crowd Surfing, or expressions of aggression," the floor was cleared by berserkers doing the tornado with fists, feet, and cartwheels, practicing their karate high kicks. It was all well and good until the young girl with bone earrings in the striped suspenders got kicked in the face and had to be taken out crying, bleeding, and lamenting her choice to participate in the ultraviolence. But A November Morning and the other acts on the bill were good, so good it delayed us returning to the Glasshouse to continue the show. Eventually, we had to and, boy, was it worth it! Nemophila are fantastic.

We love that crazy Disney plush toy fish?
First, what's with the name? Like the unspeakable act known as necrophilia, "love of corpses," the band loves (philia) Nemo from Finding Nemo? Maybe they meant Nemo'tode.

It's not a gimmick. There's very little "hard rock" about it, except that the singer has clearly listened to a lot of Iron Maiden. This is aggressive metal core in the vein of Hanabie. (shown above) and the goddesses that are Babymetal. But every song was solid, as they were coming off of an 11-stop North American tour that started in Chicago, hit New York, and crawled its way to LA. These are future stars with tremendous drumming talent, no ego, young girls who dress more like Billie Eilish or Tokyo schoolgirls than the rockstars they already are. The rhythm section just kept chugging along non-stop. It was amazing. And how the singer, who must weigh all of 80 pounds, can keep that Chester Bennington yell going song after song, tour stop after tour stop, boggles the mind. The highlight was when each member got the mic to speak their love of LA in very broken English. The first few songs were marred by technical issues, no fault of the band, that the club couldn't seem to fix. So they had to delay the show and turn on the lights. In the meantime, the singer got on her phone, seeming to make a call to her mom in Japan about how it was going, but actually using a translation app to explain to the audience that these technical issues were no fault of theirs and please be patient. She later read a speech to the audience that must have taken her hours to compose on the tour bus with a thesaurus. The audience -- mostly white and Latino, older with lots of dads and grandpas, with an unusually high number of teenybopper Asians and their guardian chaperones for an extreme metal show, and not a single Black person -- loved it, chanted along, and after the fifth song broke into a continuous circle pit of appreciation. Watch out, Black Pink and Katseye, these gals are coming.

Babymetal rules the metal world

Babymetal stormed Los Angeles in 2025
LYRICS: Babymetal's "Gimme Chocolate!!" - "Give me chocolate! Atatata taata taatatata zukkyun Watatata taata taatatata dokkyun Zukyun, dokyun Zukyun, dokyun/ I won't, won't, won't, won't/ Never, never, never!// [CHORUS:] Check-it-out chocolate/ Can I have a bit of chocolate?/ But my weight worries me a bit these days/ However, chocolate/ Can I have a bit of chocolate?/ But wait a while!/ Wait a while! Wait! Wait! Wait!/ Atatata taata taatatata zukkyun Watatata taata taatatata dokkyun Zukyun, dokyun Zukyun, dokyun/ Not yet, yet, yet, yet/ Never, never, never!/ Check-it-out chocolate/ I can have a bit of chocolate, can't I?/ But my weight worries me a bit these days/ However, chocolate/ I can have a bit of chocolate, can't I?/ But wait a while! Wait a while!/ Wait! Wait! Wait!/ Parappappappaa rappappappaa rappappappaa paapapapapaa/ Too, too late/ Too, too late/ Too, too P! P! P!/ Come on!"

ABOUT: 「ใƒฉใ‚ฆใƒ‰ใ‹ใ‚‰ใ‚ฐใƒฉใƒณใ‚ธใพใง」ๆง˜ใ€…ใช่ฆ็ด ใ‚’ๅ–ใ‚Šๅ…ฅใ‚Œ、 “้Ÿณใฏๅœฐ็„ใฎใ‚ˆใ†ใซๆฟ€ใ—ใ、ใใฎไป–ใฏใ‚†ใ‚‹ใตใ‚”ใ‚’ๆจ™ๆฆœใ™ใ‚‹ๅœฐ็„ใฎใ‚†ใ‚‹ใตใ‚ใƒใƒณใƒ‰。 ไบˆๆธฌไธ่ƒฝใงใƒŸใ‚ฏใ‚นใƒใƒฃใƒผใชไฝ‡ใพใ„ใจ、ใƒใ‚ธใƒ†ใ‚ฃใƒ–็ณปใƒใ‚ญใƒใ‚ญใ‚ตใ‚ฆใƒณใƒ‰ใงไธ–็•Œใซ็ฌ‘้ก”ใ‚’ใŠๅฑŠใ‘！This band is like a heavy metal version of Black Pink but with roaring vocals and screeching guitars.


NEMOPHILA’s music can be described as a mixture of various styles ranging from loud rock to grunge. The band displays a sound heavier than heck, while presenting a soft [infantilized] and gentle-cute character at the same time. The band aims to exhibit an unpredictable mixture in their appearance and fashion along with a positive heavy metal sound bringing a smile to everyone around the world. Full lineup:
  • NEMOPHILA
  • Islander
  • Mortalis
This is an all-ages event presented by The Glass House Concert Hall. Doors open 7:00 pm. The Glasshouse APP: Discover the best nights out in this city, with tailored recommendations synced to any music library. Keep track of what’s coming up by saving events, sharing them with friends, or even listening to new music in the app. The Glasshouse has made it easy to swap a ticket with a friend or return it to the waitlist no stress (iOS Android). More VENUE:
  • The Glass House
  • 200 W. 2nd Street
  • Pomona, LA, CA 91766, USA
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Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Science: Psychology of GenX Metalheads

What was the PMRC?
This 'l save our kids from capitalist exploitation
The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was a bipartisan U.S. government committee formed in 1985 [1] with the stated goal of "increasing parental control over children's access to music deemed to have violent, drug-related, or sexual themes."

The committee's work led to the widespread adoption of the Parental Advisory sticker. The PMRC was known for its prejudicial targeting of heavy metal music, which drew opposition and criticism [2].

Beavis & Butt-Head ROAST some metal

Tipper and Al Gore get married in 1970
On political and religious grounds, the committee was supported by American Protestant televangelists, Reaganites, and the larger Christian evangelical movement, who accused hard rock and heavy metal music of harboring Satanic and occult related themes.

The committee was founded by four women known as the "Washington Wives"—a reference to their husbands' connections with the government power elite in the Washington, D.C. area.

Those female founders of the PMRC are Tipper Gore, wife of Senator and later Vice President Al Gore... More

Who cares what B&B think?
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