Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom
[6] According to writer Ian Glasper, the Varukers from Leamington Spa, are often cited as the original D-beat band, due to their close sonic proximity to Discharge.
[18] Additionally, metal bands Sacrilege and Bolt Thrower began their careers involved in the West Midlands crust punk scene.
Punk historian Ian Glasper indicates that "For several months gob-smacked audiences weren't sure whether Napalm Death were actually a serious band any longer, such was the undeniable novelty of their hyper-speed new drummer.
"[22] Earache was founded in 1985 by Digby Pearson, and would go on to help the further development of grindcore, hardcore and crust punk, by putting out releases from artists like Concrete Sox and Heresy.
The label's first major release of note was MOSH 3, Napalm Death's Scum, which went on to reach number 7 in the UK indie chart.
Ian Glasper describes the group as "pissed-off hateful noise with its roots somewhere between early Discharge and Disorder, with [vocalists] Dean [Jones] and Phil [Vane] pushing their trademark vocal extremity to its absolute limit.
[32] According to NoEcho writer Ethan Stewart "the closest thing to a straight edge band for much of the [1980s] was Statement", a solo-project by the Apostles drummer Patrick "Rat" Poole.
Additionally, many groups from the UK punk and hardcore scene did include straight edge members, namely Napalm Death, Blitz and Heresy.
[34] Following this, a number of additional straight edge bands began to form including XdisciplineX, False Face, Headstong, Step One and Kickback.
[36] Members of the existing punk and hardcore scenes in the country often reacted negatively to the straight edge bands, to the extent that on multiple occasions fights broke out between the musicians and fans.
[61] The success of Gallows led to other British hardcore acts of the time gain notability like the Ghost of a Thousand, Heights,[62] Dead Swans[61] and Blackhole.
[67] Bullet for My Valentine's second album Scream Aim Fire, released in 2008, peaked at number 4 on the Billboard 200 and sold 360,000 copies in the United States.
[80] While She Sleeps from Sheffield were one of the most successful bands to come from the UK metalcore scene in the 2010s, playing sold-out shows across the country at venues like Brixton Academy.
[87] The movement was fronted by Liverpool-formed, Leeds-based band Violent Reaction,[37] with other notable practitioners including Arms Race,[88][89] Big Cheese,[90] Higher Power and the Flex.
[91] Writer Tony Rettman the record label Quality Control HQ as "the center of [the NWOBHC]", stating that it "helped [to] define the modern sound of UK hardcore".
The label was founded by British–Polish musician Ola Herbich, a member of the bands Arms Race and Game, after she visited the New York hardcore scene in 2009.
This consisted of bands like Good Throb, Frau, Petrol Girls, Nekra, and Woolf, and was mainly focused around the venues Power Lunches and DIY Space For London.
[114] Formed in nearby Meriden in 1979 by Nik Bullen and Miles "Rat" Ratledge, they were influenced initially by hardcore punk bands such as Crass, Discharge and GBH.
[118] Bullen met Justin Broadrick in Birmingham's Rag Market in 1983[119] and the two started making electronic and industrial music while Napalm Death temporarily ground to a halt.
[120] The band resumed activities in 1985 with Broadrick on guitar, increasingly coming under the influence of extreme metal acts such as Celtic Frost, and performing at the Mermaid for the first time in October 1985.
[127] On their 2012 second album, they pursued a more melodic, horror-influenced style, which would go on to influence a wave of Southampton horror punk groups, that included Creeper and Miss Vincent.
[128] In the early 2000s, South Wales was home to a large post-hardcore scene based around venues such as the Toll House in Bridgend, the Maltsters in Pontypridd, TJ's in Newport and the Barfly in Cardiff and groups like the Blackout, Midasuno and Hondo Maclean.
[131] The sound of these bands was generally shaped by albums from American groups such as Full Collapse by Thursday, Tear from the Red by Poison the Well and Worship and Tribute by Glassjaw.
In a 2015 article by Vice, Funeral for a Friend vocalist Matthew Davies-Kreye stated that "We took [the sound of the aforementioned American artists] and spun it on it’s [sic] head, gave it a bit more of a geographical sensibility.
[129] In a 2010 article, BBC writer James McLaren described groups like Brutality Will Prevail, 33 and Ironclad as "the shape of (Welsh) punk to come".
[135] Sore Throat, based in Huddersfield, were emblematic of the late-1980s grindcore scene through their merger pop culture satire, extreme political views and short, improvised songwriting.
[138] The 1 in 12 Club, an anarchist co-op venue in Bradford, was the main location of the mid-1990s straight edge hardcore scene, played by groups like Unborn, Slavearc, Vengeance of Gaia and Withdrawn.
[142] In the late-1970s, Leeds was home to influential punk rock groups such as the Mekons, Gang of Four and Delta 5, who helped to shape the sound of post-punk.
into the sound of hardcore, the NWOBHC continued to grow in the city, where groups like the Flex, Regiment, True Vision and Shrapnel became prominent practitioners.
[96] Bandcamp Daily writer Fred Mikardo-Greaves had stated that Leeds punk and hardcore bands are often more "fun" than other similar scenes, citing a "a sense of absurdity" in the sound of groups like Ona Snop and the Shits.
