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powerviolence

Last updated: Tue Oct 28 2025 08:02:32 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Powerviolence is an extreme hardcore punk subgenre that emerged in the 1990s, characterized by blistering speed, chaotic tempo shifts, and brutally short songs. The music combines grindcore's intensity with hardcore punk's raw aggression, often incorporating sudden breakdowns and blast beats. Born from DIY underground scenes, it channels political rage and social frustration through its unrelenting sonic assault.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
84		1984	Siege	Drop Dead	powerviolence thrashcore grindcore	thrashcore # 98
35		1988	Infest	Slave	powerviolence
45		1991	Crossed Out	Crossed Out	hardcore powerviolence
49		1992	Capitalist Casualties	Disassembly Line	powerviolence
50		1992	No Comment	Downsided	powerviolence
32		1994	Zulu	Where I'm From	metalcore powerviolence
43		1994	Spazz	Dwarf Jester Rising	powerviolence
90		1994	Zulu	Fakin' Tha Funk (You Get Did)	powerviolence
59		1996	Man Is the Bastard	Thoughtless	hardcore noise powerviolence
4		1997	Cattle Decapitation	Ten Torments of the Damned	grindcore noise rock noisecore noisegrind powerviolence screamo	noisecore # 62 noisegrind # 96
10		1997	Mörser	2 Hours To Doom	deathcore deathgrind grindcore hardcore punk powerviolence	deathgrind # 41
21		1997	Capitalist Casualties	Capitalist Casualties	powerviolence
46		1997	Charles Bronson	Youth Attack!	hardcore powerviolence
31		1997-06-06	Spazz	Sweatin' to the Oldies	powerviolence
57		1997-08-05	Spazz	La Revancha	powerviolence
24		1998	Gasp	Drome Triler of Puzzle Zoo People	powerviolence grindcore	emoviolence # 45
6		1999	Fuck on the Beach	Power Violence Forever	fastcore grindcore powerviolence	fastcore # 96
61		1999	Despise You	West Side Horizons	powerviolence
66		1999	Lack of Interest	Trapped Inside	powerviolence
29		1999-03-23	Capitalist Casualties	Subdivisions in Ruin	hardcore punk powerviolence
36		1999-07	Combatwoundedveteran	I Know a Girl Who Develops Crime Scene Photos	powerviolence	noisecore # 35
83		1999-11-02	Spazz	Crush Kill Destroy	powerviolence
30		2000	Man Is the Bastard	Mancruel	ambient electronic meditation noise powerviolence
9		2001	Kid Rock	Bad Reputation	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black metal brutal death metal country cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal hard rock harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal hip-hop melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal porngrind post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac rap rock raw black metal rock russian black metal slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal usbm viking metal war metal	nsbm # 2 old school death metal # 3 swedish death metal # 18 nwobhm # 22 slamming brutal death metal # 35 war metal # 36 raw black metal # 37 deathgrind # 39 power electronics # 43 suicidal black metal # 49 cybergrind # 53 finnish black metal # 57 pagan black metal # 60 rac # 61 harsh noise # 61 depressive suicidal black metal # 62 death n roll # 81 drone metal # 82 usbm # 83 porngrind # 87 gorenoise # 87 russian black metal # 88 hatecore # 89 harsh noise wall # 93
1		2001-02-27	Fuck on the Beach	Endless Summer	powerviolence
11		2002	A Days Refrain	A Days Refrain/Neil Perry split	emo hardcore hardcore punk screamo	emoviolence # 65
27		2002	Neil Perry	A Days Refrain/Neil Perry Split	emo hardcore hardcore punk powerviolence real screamo screamo skramz	skramz # 55 real screamo # 72
3		2002	Hellnation	Thrash Wave	powerviolence
23		2002	Los Crudos	Discografía	powerviolence
71		2002	Infest	No Man's Slave	powerviolence
82		2004	The Saddest Landscape	Lift Your Burdens High for This Is Where We Cross	emo powerviolence real screamo screamo	real screamo # 95
48		2004-03-01	Iron Lung	Life. Iron Lung. Death.	powerviolence
75		2005	Ceremony	Ruined	fastcore hardcore powerviolence thrashcore	thrashcore # 94 fastcore # 99
47		2005-03-22	Bucket Full of Teeth	IV	emoviolence powerviolence	emoviolence # 83
76		2005-06-01	ACxDC	He Had It Coming	powerviolence
7		2006	Apartment 213	Cleveland Power Violence	grindcore powerviolence
25		2007	Weekend Nachos	Punish and Destroy	powerviolence
58		2007	Magrudergrind	Rehashed	powerviolence
53		2007-03-20	The Locust	New Erections	mathcore	mathcore # 43 noisecore # 87
51		2007-09-14	Rusko Star	Blonde	beatdown hardcore black doom metal black metal blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal glam metal glam rock goregrind gothic doom metal gothic metal grindcore grunge hair metal hard rock harsh noise hatecore heavy metal industrial mathcore melodic death metal metalcore moshcore nsbm nu metal porngrind post-grunge power metal powerviolence rac raw black metal real screamo sludge sludge metal sludgecore speed metal speedcore suicidal black metal symphonic metal thrash metal true black metal true metal true norwegian black metal viking metal	speed metal # 10 glam metal # 11 hair metal # 22 nsbm # 33 blackened death metal # 34 goregrind # 38 death doom metal # 41 drone metal # 49 brutal deathcore # 59 beatdown hardcore # 64 suicidal black metal # 68 moshcore # 69 depressive suicidal black metal # 70 deathgrind # 72 cybergrind # 75 rac # 77 harsh noise # 78 real screamo # 80 gothic doom metal # 81 true norwegian black metal # 82 raw black metal # 83 speedcore # 87 true metal # 90 sludgecore # 91 porngrind # 93 hatecore # 94 black doom metal # 96 true black metal # 97
22		2007-12-01	Iron Lung	Sexless // No Sex	powerviolence
33		2008	Extortion	Sick	powerviolence
63		2008-05-20	The Endless Blockade	Primitive	powerviolence
44		2009	Hatred Surge	Deconstruct	powerviolence
81		2009-03-01	Punch	Punch	hardcore hardcore punk powerviolence thrashcore	thrashcore # 97
89		2009-06-16	Magrudergrind	Magrudergrind	grindcore powerviolence	grindcore # 76
19		2009-09-01	Insane Clown Posse	Bang! Pow! Boom!	brutal death metal brutal deathcore deathcore deathgrind goregrind moshcore nsbm	post-black metal # 6 beatdown hardcore # 43 nsbm # 46 goregrind # 53 suicidal black metal # 54 raw black metal # 54 cybergrind # 61 depressive suicidal black metal # 64 rac # 68 harsh noise # 68 gothic doom metal # 68 brutal deathcore # 69 real screamo # 69 true norwegian black metal # 74 speedcore # 77 moshcore # 79 drone metal # 79 deathgrind # 85 true metal # 86 true black metal # 86 sludgecore # 86 porngrind # 90 black doom metal # 91 hatecore # 92
79		2009-09-01	Weekend Nachos	Unforgivable	hardcore metalcore powerviolence sludge metal	sludge metal # 40
16		2010	Anna Blue	So Alone	alt-country alternative country atmospheric black metal black doom metal black metal blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore chillwave crossover thrash crunkcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive suicidal black metal djent doom metal drone metal emo gabber glam metal glam rock goregrind gothic doom metal gothic metal grindcore grunge hair metal hard rock harsh noise hatecore heavy metal horrorcore indie pop indie rock industrial industrial metal lo-fi mathcore melodic death metal melodic hardcore metalcore nsbm nu metal orthodox black metal pop punk porngrind post-black metal post-grunge post-hardcore power metal powerviolence progressive metalcore queercore rac rap metal rap rock rapcore raw black metal real screamo rock n roll skramz sludge sludge metal sludgecore speed metal speedcore suicidal black metal symphonic metal technical death metal thrash metal true black metal true metal true norwegian black metal underground hip-hop viking metal witch house	goregrind # 3 nsbm # 9 crossover thrash # 28 rap metal # 30 brutal deathcore # 30 queercore # 42 deathgrind # 44 skramz # 47 raw black metal # 48 alternative country # 49 suicidal black metal # 53 cybergrind # 58 gabber # 62 real screamo # 62 depressive suicidal black metal # 63 harsh noise # 65 rac # 66 gothic doom metal # 67 true norwegian black metal # 72 speedcore # 75 drone metal # 81 crunkcore # 82 true black metal # 83 death n roll # 83 sludgecore # 85 true metal # 85 black doom metal # 87 orthodox black metal # 87 porngrind # 89 hatecore # 91
74		2010	Nails	Split	deathgrind grindcore powerviolence	deathgrind # 87
68		2010-10-08	Sex Prisoner	Sex Prisoner	grindcore powerviolence
87		2010-10-28	Nails	Unsilent Death	grindcore	grindcore # 89
60		2011	Weekend Nachos	Worthless	hardcore hardcore punk	hardcore punk # 2
55		2011-12-06	ACxDC	Second Coming	powerviolence
70		2011-12-20	Baby Kata	Pipi caca	black metal death metal doom metal emo grindcore hardcore punk horrorcore powerviolence screamo skramz	horrorcore # 30 skramz # 81
18		2012	Full of Hell	Full of Hell/Goldust	crust grindcore hardcore hardcore punk powerviolence real screamo screamo skramz sludge sludge metal	crust # 4 skramz # 49 real screamo # 68
39		2012	Homewrecker	Worms and Dirt	american crust hardcore ohio powerviolence	crust # 39 ohio # 72
5		2012	The Kill	Make 'Em Suffer	grindcore powerviolence
88		2012	Cerce	Cerce	hardcore noise rock powerviolence screamo
54		2013	Hatred Surge	Human Overdose	powerviolence
64		2013-03-19	Nails	Abandon All Life	grindcore	grindcore # 92
42		2013-08-06	Dead In The Dirt	The Blind Hole	grindcore	grindcore # 38
96		2013-08-27	Knocked Loose	Split	beatdown hardcore hardcore metalcore metallic hardcore powerviolence	hardcore # 5 beatdown hardcore # 98 metallic hardcore # 99
72		2014-06-24	ACxDC	Antichrist Demoncore	powerviolence grindcore hardcore
95		2014-07-22	Jason Aldean	Burnin' It Down	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal world yacht rock	swedish death metal # 4 power electronics # 5 pagan metal # 6 drone metal # 7 gothic metal # 24 technical death metal # 25 doom metal # 36 groove metal # 46 post-grunge # 48 deathcore # 48 plugg # 57 post-metal # 66 nsbm # 72 atmospheric black metal # 75 brutal death metal # 80 goregrind # 83 viking metal # 83 symphonic black metal # 85 phonk # 85 grindcore # 86 rac # 87 old school death metal # 90 blackened death metal # 90 nwobhm # 91 depressive black metal # 91 gorenoise # 92 war metal # 92 avant-garde metal # 92 nightcore # 92 brutal deathcore # 93 yacht rock # 93 world # 93 true norwegian black metal # 93 melodic black metal # 94 harsh noise # 94 deathgrind # 94 raw black metal # 95 blackened crust # 95 funeral doom metal # 95 harsh noise wall # 95 cybergrind # 96 porngrind # 96 pagan black metal # 96 hatecore # 96 death n roll # 96 death doom metal # 96 suicidal black metal # 97 finnish black metal # 97 slamming brutal death metal # 97 nerdcore # 97 black death metal # 97 russian black metal # 97 norwegian black metal # 97 depressive suicidal black metal # 97 usbm # 97
34		2014-08-01	Iron Lung	Savagery	powerviolence
65		2014-08-19	Punch	They Don't Have To Believe	hardcore hardcore punk powerviolence thrashcore	thrashcore # 90
8		2014-10-31	Homewrecker	Circle of Death	american ohio powerviolence	ohio # 58
28		2015-04-03	Kuroi Jukai	Kuroi Jukai	grindcore noise powerviolence
52		2015-07-12	Baby Kata	Pee Pee Poo Poo	emo heavy metal midwest emo powerviolence skramz black metal doom metal	skramz # 71
92		2015-08-24	Jarhead Fertilizer	Always Faithful	grindcore noisecore powerviolence	grindcore # 60 noisecore # 100
62		2016	Sex Prisoner	Tannhauser Gate	powerviolence
37		2016-02-12	Magrudergrind	II	grindcore powerviolence
91		2016-06-17	Nails	You Will Never Be One Of Us	grindcore	grindcore # 93
85		2017	Full of Hell	Trumpeting Ecstasy	grindcore powerviolence	deathgrind # 71 grindcore # 84
69		2017-02-03	Full of Hell	Amber Mote in the Black Vault	death metal grindcore powerviolence
2		2017-06-07	Friendship	Hatred	grindcore noisecore powerviolence	noisecore # 59
13		2018-02-10	xiao	PAIN	hardcore powerviolence
56		2018-03-09	Setsuko	The Shackles Of Birth	powerviolence screamo skramz	skramz # 73
20		2019-02-26	comforting	I'm a Failure	black noise death industrial electronic harsh noise noise rock powerviolence	harsh noise # 70 death industrial # 77 black noise # 89
94		2019-04-10	GhosteMane	Fear Network	crust grindcore hardcore punk metalcore powerviolence	hardcore punk # 38 grindcore # 82 crust # 99
99		2019-06-07	Nails	I Don't Want to Know You	grindcore metal powerviolence	metal # 43 grindcore # 96
98		2019-10-10	Sam Hunt	Kinfolks	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	pagan metal # 2 swedish death metal # 2 power electronics # 3 drone metal # 3 technical death metal # 6 nu metal # 10 progressive metal # 14 thrash metal # 26 metal # 36 melodic death metal # 42 black metal # 50 death metal # 66 groove metal # 70 gothic metal # 71 post-grunge # 74 plugg # 75 deathcore # 78 nsbm # 79 doom metal # 80 post-metal # 87 brutal death metal # 87 goregrind # 88 phonk # 89 rac # 90 symphonic black metal # 92 old school death metal # 92 atmospheric black metal # 93 gorenoise # 94 viking metal # 94 nwobhm # 94 blackened death metal # 94 nightcore # 95 grindcore # 95 true norwegian black metal # 96 brutal deathcore # 96 harsh noise # 96 war metal # 96 deathgrind # 96 yacht rock # 97 depressive black metal # 97 raw black metal # 97 harsh noise wall # 97 skinhead # 97 melodic black metal # 98 avant-garde metal # 98 pagan black metal # 98 cybergrind # 98 hatecore # 98 blackened crust # 98 suicidal black metal # 99 porngrind # 99 black death metal # 99 funeral doom metal # 99 nerdcore # 99 russian black metal # 99 depressive suicidal black metal # 99 death doom metal # 99 usbm # 99 norwegian black metal # 99 death n roll # 99 slamming brutal death metal # 99 finnish black metal # 99
86		2019-10-18	Zulu	Our Day Will Come	metalcore powerviolence sampling	sampling # 44
73		2020	Dropdead	Self Titled 1993	fastcore hardcore hardcore punk powerviolence	fastcore # 98
93		2020	Nails	Unsilent Death (10th Anniversary Edition)	grindcore powerviolence	grindcore # 73
15		2020	Dropdead	Self Titled 1998	powerviolence
12		2020-01	Fucked	JapariGate	death metal goregrind grindcore hardcore metal noisegrind powerviolence rock sludge	noisegrind # 98
17		2020-03-20	Escuela Grind	Indoctrination	grindcore hardcore powerviolence
80		2020-11-06	Soul Glo	Songs to Yeet At The Sun	experimental hip hop hardcore hardcore punk noise rock post-hardcore powerviolence screamo
38		2021	World Peace	Come And See	grindcore hardcore hardcore punk powerviolence
14		2021-08-01	Brat	Mean Is What We Aim For	death metal grindcore hardcore hardcore punk metal powerviolence thrash metal
40		2021-10-01	Full of Hell	Garden of Burning Apparitions	grindcore noise rock	grindcore # 20 deathgrind # 59
77		2021-11-05	Portrayal Of Guilt	CHRISTFUCKER	powerviolence screamo sludge metal	sludge metal # 31
26		2022-01-18	Brat	Grime Boss	death metal grindcore hardcore hardcore punk metal powerviolence thrash metal
41		2022-05-20	Burrice Precoce	Maldita Burrice	powerviolence
97		2022-06-23	Sam Hunt	Water Under The Bridge	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 3 power electronics # 4 drone metal # 4 black metal # 4 pagan metal # 4 death metal # 16 technical death metal # 21 gothic metal # 37 doom metal # 44 groove metal # 55 deathcore # 56 post-grunge # 57 plugg # 64 post-metal # 72 nsbm # 73 atmospheric black metal # 79 brutal death metal # 83 goregrind # 84 viking metal # 85 rac # 88 phonk # 88 symphonic black metal # 88 grindcore # 90 blackened death metal # 91 old school death metal # 91 nwobhm # 92 depressive black metal # 92 gorenoise # 93 war metal # 93 true norwegian black metal # 94 nightcore # 94 yacht rock # 94 brutal deathcore # 94 deathgrind # 95 avant-garde metal # 95 harsh noise # 95 skinhead # 96 harsh noise wall # 96 blackened crust # 96 funeral doom metal # 96 raw black metal # 96 hatecore # 97 pagan black metal # 97 melodic black metal # 97 death n roll # 97 cybergrind # 97 death doom metal # 97 usbm # 98 norwegian black metal # 98 porngrind # 98 finnish black metal # 98 slamming brutal death metal # 98 suicidal black metal # 98 black death metal # 98 nerdcore # 98 russian black metal # 98 depressive suicidal black metal # 98
100		2023-03-10	Sam Hunt	Outskirts	atmospheric black metal avant-garde metal black death metal black metal blackened crust blackened death metal brutal death metal brutal deathcore country pop cybergrind death doom metal death metal deathcore deathgrind depressive black metal depressive suicidal black metal doom metal drone metal finnish black metal funeral doom metal goregrind gorenoise gothic metal grindcore groove metal harsh noise harsh noise wall hatecore heavy metal melodic black metal melodic death metal metal metalcore neoclassical darkwave nerdcore nightcore norwegian black metal nsbm nu metal nwobhm old school death metal pagan black metal pagan metal phonk plugg porngrind post-grunge post-metal power electronics powerviolence progressive metal rac raw black metal russian black metal skinhead slamming brutal death metal suicidal black metal swedish death metal symphonic black metal technical death metal thrash metal true norwegian black metal usbm viking metal war metal yacht rock	swedish death metal # 1 pagan metal # 1 power electronics # 2 drone metal # 2 technical death metal # 3 heavy metal # 16 metalcore # 19 nu metal # 31 progressive metal # 39 thrash metal # 53 metal # 59 melodic death metal # 66 black metal # 72 post-grunge # 78 nsbm # 80 groove metal # 81 plugg # 81 death metal # 83 deathcore # 85 country pop # 89 goregrind # 89 brutal death metal # 90 gothic metal # 90 rac # 92 doom metal # 92 post-metal # 93 phonk # 94 old school death metal # 94 gorenoise # 95 symphonic black metal # 95 nightcore # 96 grindcore # 97 deathgrind # 97 true norwegian black metal # 97 harsh noise # 97 brutal deathcore # 97 harsh noise wall # 98 viking metal # 98 blackened death metal # 98 skinhead # 98 war metal # 98 yacht rock # 98 raw black metal # 98 nwobhm # 98 pagan black metal # 99 hatecore # 99 cybergrind # 99 depressive black metal # 100 porngrind # 100 avant-garde metal # 100 death n roll # 100 norwegian black metal # 100 atmospheric black metal # 100 russian black metal # 100 nerdcore # 100 blackened crust # 100 funeral doom metal # 100 suicidal black metal # 100 finnish black metal # 100 slamming brutal death metal # 100 black death metal # 100 depressive suicidal black metal # 100 death doom metal # 100 usbm # 100 neoclassical darkwave # 100 melodic black metal # 100
67		2023-03-24	The Hirs Collective	We're Still Here	powerviolence
78		2024-01-18	Benson Boone	Beautiful Things (Alternate Versions)	black metal brutal death metal cybergrind death industrial ebm goregrind gorenoise harsh noise no wave nsbm pagan black metal powerviolence rac raw black metal true norwegian black metal	brutal death metal # 8 ebm # 10 nsbm # 51 goregrind # 68 no wave # 84 rac # 84 harsh noise # 87 true norwegian black metal # 88 gorenoise # 89 pagan black metal # 91 cybergrind # 91 raw black metal # 92 death industrial # 96

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