Digital hardcore is a genre that blends the attitudes and heaviness of hardcore music with the speed and synthetic chaos of electronic music. Digital hardcore doesn’t just refer to one kind of electronic music with one kind of hardcore. Instead, it refers to the way that the many subgenres that influenced each wider genre converged upon each other. The genre takes influences from hardcore punk, the riot grrrl movement, techno, industrial, and even things like heavy metal and screamo. It is a wide genre with many more specific terms that can fall underneath the umbrella of the term “digital hardcore”.
For many people, digital hardcore seemed like a logical artistic conclusion of both the punk ethos and the gungy EDM club vibes that were growing at the time. So without further ado, allow me to walk you through a playlist I made for people unfamiliar with this genre who want to take a bite out of something new. Below is a link to the playlist followed by an explanation of each artist, who they are, and why I added them.
Listen along by clicking this link.
