Hatecore

Hatecore
The term 'Hatecore' was first used around 1989 by the New York group SFA to differentiate itself from the 'positive hardcore' of the 'Youth Crew' straight edge movement, which the band perceived as stereotypical and 'hippie-like'. [3] The band symbol from SFA showed the band name in large letters and the words "New York City Hate-Core", framed in a white rectangle on a black background, spread over two lines.

“For some idiotic reason, in the mid-'80s the New York scene split in two, and you were either a hardcore kid in jock clothes or a punk with a million band names written on your studded jacket; however, we always thought of it as being one type of music: hardcore/punk.”

- Brendan Rafferty:
Biography of the band SFA
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After the group had used the term "Hatecore" on their flyers, it spread and was also picked up by labels and fanzines and also applied to other bands, initially to groups like Sheer Terror , who played a similar rough and hateful style as SFA and had a similar background, but later the term was mainly associated with groups whose style corresponded to the 'metallic hardcore' that had emerged in New York and the surrounding area and mainly for Victory Records releases, but also for militant straight-edge formations, even hardlineBands, used. Over time, however, the term hatecore became increasingly arbitrary due to the diversity of groups categorized as hatecore, and fanzines began to complain about the style's increasing stereotypical and unoriginality. [4] [5] More and more, Hatecore became a synonym for so-called "tough guy" bands. [3] Towards the end of a relatively short boom in the early 1990s, Hatecore, as an independent genre name, initially sank into insignificance again and gradually fell largely out of use. Nevertheless, the term Hatecore was and is still used sporadically to describe bands with a decidedly non-radical right-wing background. So he appears in reviews in connection withHateclub, D-fens, Inflexible, Next Step Up, Wolfbrigade oder Blood for Blood auf.

Controversy on the term
The SFA singer Brendan Rafferty wrote in 1991 about the misunderstandings and controversies of the “ hate ” term in Hatecore: “ For those who still don't get it, the 'Hate-Core', as I have called it, works not senseless, wanton violence or discrimination as some people have misinterpreted. It is about expressing true anger at the moral, social and political injustices that we encounter every day. Those who think that anger has no place in the underground have no place in the underground themselves. "

Classic Hatecore bands
25 Ta Life
Born Against
Burn
Cro-Mags
Earth Crisis
Edgewise
Hammerhead
Hatebreed
Integrity
Lavatory
Neanderthal
Neglect
Nihilistics
Rorschach
SFA
Sick of It All
Snapcase
Undertow
Vegan Reich
Yuppicide

Hatecore as right-wing extremist music
After there was controversy over Hatecore, be it because of White Pride statements by individual band members, [22] religious fanaticism or militant straight-edge ideologies, the term became part of the American white power music scene from the mid-1990s picked up and gained further dissemination in connection with right-wing extremist and openly neo-Nazi bands outside the actual hardcore scene. The first bands here include Angry Aryans, Blue Eyed Devils , H8Machine and Intimidation Onewhich imitated the New York 'metallic hardcore' style and thus musically emulated the earlier Hatecore bands. The term 'hatecore' was placed in the interpretation of right-wing listeners in relation to the term hate crime .

Since the turn of the millennium , the modern hardcore and metalcore scene has been oriented towards musical as well as visual characteristics, i.e. the lifestyle and dress code , across all scenes . Outwardly, scene-goers as well as scene publications are often impossible or difficult to distinguish from non-right-wing extremists or recordings. The band No Reue, which emerged from the RAC, is the first German right-wing extremist Hatecore band, [23] as well-known bands are Moshpit , Path of Resistance , Brainwash , Race War , Burning Hate [24] or Race RiotIt is not uncommon for musicians to play or play in classic right-wing rock or NSBM bands before or in parallel . The term “NSHC” (National Socialist Hardcore) has established itself as a synonym for the “new” Hatecore, primarily in Germany. [25] [26] Ingo Taler, however, describes the NSHC term as unusable, as these bands rarely take a clear position, and instead uses the term "White Power Hardcore" (WP-HC). [25] As a reaction of the hardcore scene, the Good Night White Pride campaign was formed in Germany , to which the neo-Nazi-minded supporters reacted with "Good Night Left Side".

In recent years, parts of the scene have also adopted the ideology of the straight edge movement, for example in the United States through the “Terror Edge” network. The concept of a drug-free and body-conscious lifestyle is interpreted as a basic element for creating or maintaining a “healthy national body ”.

Over the last few years there has also been overlap with the Autonomous Nationalists .