Hatecore
Hatecore is a sub-genre within Hardcore Punk and originally referred to groups with particularly aggressive and hateful lyrics. A clear distinction must be made between the classic Hatecore around 1990, which comprised more metal- oriented hardcore bands, and the current use of the term for groups that follow or are close to right-wing extremism , neo-Nazism , racism and the white supremacy ideology.
history
Hatecore as a variety of hardcore punk
The term 'Hatecore' was first used around 1989 by the New York group SFA to stand out from the 'positive hardcore' of the 'Youth Crew' straight edge movement, which the band perceived as stereotypical and 'hippie-like'. The SFA band symbol showed the band name in large letters and the words “New York City Hate-Core” spread over two lines underneath, framed in a white rectangle on a black background.
“For some idiotic reason, in the mid-'80s the New York scene split into 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. "
“For some idiotic reason the New York scene split into two camps in the mid-80s and you were either a hardcore kid in jock clothes or a punk with a million band names on your studded jacket; however, we always thought of it as a type of music: hardcore / punk. "
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 hardline bands are 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. Hatecore became more and more a synonym for so-called "tough guy" bands. Towards the end of a relatively short boom in the early 1990s, Hatecore sank into insignificance again as an independent genre name 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 dives u. a. in reviews in connection with Hateclub , D-fens , Inflexible , Next Step Up , Wolfbrigade or Blood for Blood .
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
Hatecore as right-wing extremist music
After there was controversy about Hatecore, be it because of White Pride statements by individual band members, religious fanaticism or militant straight-edge ideologies, the term was picked up and gained in the US white power music scene from the mid-1990s in connection with right-wing extremist and openly neo-Nazi bands also outside the actual hardcore scene. The first bands here include Angry Aryans, Blue Eyed Devils , H8Machine and Intimidation One , who 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 considered the first German right-wing extremist Hatecore band.Moshpit , Path of Resistance , Brainwash , Race War , Burning Hate or Race Riot are known bands , although it is not uncommon for musicians to be in classic right-wing rock or NSBM bands played or play. The term “NSHC” (National Socialist Hardcore) has established itself as a synonym for the “new” Hatecore, primarily in Germany. 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). As a reaction from the hardcore scene, the Good Night White Pride campaign was formed in Germany , to which the neo-Nazi-minded supporters responded 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 .
literature
- Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe : Harder, faster and louder - hardcore . In: RechtsRock - made in Thuringia . State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-937967-08-7 , p. 40-44 .
- Christian Dornbusch, Jan Raabe, David Anbich : Harder, faster and louder - hardcore . In: RechtsRock - made in Saxony-Anhalt . State Center for Political Education Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg 2007, p. 33-37 .
- Rainer Fromm : We Play NS Hardcore . New Trends on the Right Edge - Between Protest and Extremism. In: BPjM (Ed.): BPJM-Aktuell . No. 1 , 2008, p. 12–21 ( bundespruefstelle.de [PDF; accessed on July 5, 2015]).
- Ingo Taler: Right influences in the "hate core" . In: Lotta . No. 12 , 2003, ISSN 1865-9632 .
- Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag , Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 .
Web links
- Drug-free and German included - Telepolis article by Jens Thomas from April 22, 2008
- Hatecore at Netz gegen Nazis
Individual evidence
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