UK82 was a UK Punk scene in the early 1980s that started as a musical movement. Street Punk bands, such as The Exploited and G.B.H, were formed to counter the previous wave of Punk Rock through rebellious themes, imagery, and lyrics. The name of the scene comes from a song off the album Troops of Tomorrow by The Exploited. During this time, the scene gravitated toward the melodic sound of 1970s Oi! and the modern aggression of Hardcore Punk growing in the US from this time period.
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UK82 was a UK Punk scene in the early 1980s that started as a musical movement. Street Punk bands, such as The Exploited and G.B.H, were formed to counter the previous wave of Punk Rock through rebellious themes, imagery, and lyrics. The name of the scene comes from a song off the album Troops of Tomorrow by The Exploited. During this time, the scene gravitated toward the melodic sound of 1970s Oi! and the modern aggression of Hardcore Punk growing in the US from this time period. The style from this scene would influence and draw from other hardcore music from this region in the 1980s, some of the most prominently being the D-Beat bands Discharge and The Varukers. Acts associated with this scene displayed a rebellious and aggressive nature toward society, the government, and the previous wave of punk rock. Musicians are commonly associated with street punk attire, consisting of studded vests and spiked, colored hair. This imagery and aggression was directly influential to Metal growing concurrently from this time period, specifically early Thrash Metal, as bands incorporated more distorted guitars, aggressive songwriting, and extreme sounding music.
The movement from this scene began and found its peak from 1980 through 1982, with some spillover into the mid-1980s when it ultimately declined. Early UK hardcore punk, street punk, and d-beat bands set the foundation for the hardcore sound within the country. The bands from this time period claimed to have little or no influence from prior metal music, with Motörhead being an exception, as they have stated there was a division between the punk and metal scenes in the early 1980s. This scene would see its decline in the mid-1980s with metallic punk growing as Crossover Thrash, Crust Punk, and Grindcore began to rapidly find its place in the UK.
