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Revision as of 18:29, 19 August 2004 by 68.254.14.190 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Post-Hardcore, as the name might suggest, is a musical offshoot of the hardcore punk movement. The earliest appearances of the genre were in Washington, DC in the mid to late 1980's (see the era's releses on Dischord Records for example) and was not widespread until the early 1990's however. Post Hardcore music, as a musical genre, is marked by its precise rhythms and loud guitar based instrumentation and vocal performances that are as often sang as shouted. The genre has developed a unique balance of dissonance and melody. It shares with its hardcore roots an intensity and social awareness and the some of the DIY punk ethic present, but eschews much of the unfocused adolescent rage and sloppy amatuerisms of the music. One of the earliest and most prolific of these bands is DC's Fugazi. see also Jawbox, Shudder to Think, Slint, (post-hardcore with a decided art rock lean) Rodan, Tar, Jesus Lizard, Lard, Big Black, (both with a strong industrial music influence) among others. The genre produced less and less through much of the 1990's and now is nearly vanished from the public eye, though in more underground circles the genre is carried on.
Related genres include both emo and math rock which share a common heritage with post hardcore, though these two genres have since diverged and developed uniquely unto themselves.