Hardcore

Hardcore may mean:

Music

Styles

• Hardcore punk, a harder, faster,less rockn'roll version of punk rock
  • Post-hardcore, a musical offshoot of hardcore punk.
  • Hardcore dancing, a form of mosh dancing or slam dancing
  • Melodic hardcore, a subgenre that's more melodic than traditional hardcore
  • Straight Edge, refers to a lifestyle that started within the hardcore punk subculture

See also: Category:Hardcore punk genres

• Hardcore techno, a style of electronic music typified by a fast tempo and the rhythmic use of distorted and atonal beats and samples
  • Breakbeat hardcore, shares its rhythm lines with breakbeat
  • Hardcore breaks, written in the style of old skool rave music or breakbeat hardcore using modern technology
  • Happy hardcore, typified by a very fast tempo and 'happy' lyrics and melodic changes
  • Gabber hardcore, a subgenre of hardcore techno characterised by its bass drum sound
  • UK hardcore, born in the early 90s in the United Kingdom
• Hardcore hip hop, a subgenre of hip hop characterized by confrontational lyrics and gritty beats

See also: Category:Hardcore music genres

See also: List of hardcore genres

Albums

• Hard Core, the 1996 debut album by Lil' Kim
• Hardcore (album), a 2004 album by Daddy Freddy
• Hardcore '81, a 1981 album by D.O.A.
• Hardcore, a 1997 album by Neophyte

Other

• Hardcore wrestling, a style of professional wrestling
• Hardcore pornography, a form of pornography that features penetration
• Hardcore (1977 film), a 1977 British comedy directed by James Kenelm Clarke.
• Hardcore (1979 film), a 1979 film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C. Scott
• Hardcore (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
• A very coarse compacted gravel used in foundations for laying concrete or paving on soft ground.

See also

• All pages with titles containing Hardcore