Powerviolence
| Powerviolence | |
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Powerviolence pioneers Siege performing at their high school in 1984 | |
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1980s, United States |
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| Derivative forms | Bandana thrash |
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| Emoviolence | |
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Powerviolence (sometimes written as power violence) is a chaotic and fast subgenre of hardcore punk which is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore. In contrast with grindcore, which is a "crossover" idiom containing musical aspects of heavy metal, powerviolence is just an augmentation of the most challenging qualities of hardcore punk. Like its predecessors, it is usually socio-politically charged and iconoclastic.