Nihilistics: Hardcore’s Post-81 Highpoints
It’s kind of comforting that after the early eighties, hardcore broke down into disparate camps, making the long march through auld tyme material a bit easier than with genres like post-punk or whatever else.
Yeah, all the hard-rock cum hardcore or just plain metal stuff is a tremendous bore. And apart from the slow, sludgey stuff from the south, what remains from hardcore’s post-81 highpoints are really just retreads of the first wave. It’s the same for any genre, though.
