We could have easily picked another 2.Īrtwork by Joel Abramhamsson, 2013.
Hardcore punk with its grounded, perceptive and individualistic ethos was on a collision course with Nordic society, which had failed to embrace individual thinking and had failed to address world problems. The established norm was the collective and patriarchal society. At a regional level, the five Nordic countries shared a broadly homogenous culture, with similar politics and value systems. While Nordic hardcore bands were primarily influenced by punk and hardcore from the UK and USA, local and regional influences were just as important. However this list is not an attempt to idolise bands or records, rather in doing this we’re paying respect to twenty early Nordic hardcore bands that we believe have acted as spearheads for the Nordic hardcore scene.We think that these bands have influenced our way of thinking by setting the musical, political and cultural footprints, and in no small part helped to ensure that the hardcore scene carried on for more than three decades.Despite the geographical proximities between Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland, “Nordic Hardcore” was never a coherent scene.įive different countries with five different languages, there were five different and largely separate hardcore scenes. We’ve compiled a list of what we consider the best and the most essential hardcore records before 1.Northern European countries Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland.A lot of punks will no doubt criticise our list on the basis that it is against punk ethos to categorise records like this.As the Nordic proverb has it: “When the devil gets old he becomes religious”.
0 most essential hardcore releases in the Nordic countriesblah, blah, blah – take me to the records.
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