12 Metallic Powerviolence Bands Changing the Face of the Genre

Powerviolence as a genre has always tried to steer away from metal influences, despite being related to and having similar origins to grindcore, they contrast each other as grindcore embraces these influences. However in recent years a new crop of bands have begun building upon the style that Weekend Nachos, Charles Bronson and Spazz played before them, while inflecting Swedish death metal, crust punk, metallic hardcore, black metal and thrash metal influences into the sound.

“Now”, you may ask me “If grindcore is powerviolence with metal influences, shouldn't metallic powerviolence just be grindcore”. No, not at all, because if anything, grindcore is metallic thrashcore, as grindcore built upon thrashcore by beginning to scream rather than shout and being influenced by crust punk bands like Discharge and Amebix.

Metallic powerviolence, also referred to as “HM-2 hardcore” or sometimes “neo-crust”, on the other hand takes the noisey and sludgy elements of powerviolence, along with the aforementioned thrashcore influence, and incorporates the guitar tones and vocalisation of Swedish death metal, some of the drum beats of crust punk and riffs ranging from that of thrashcore to thrash metal to black metal. So, without further ado, here's 12 metallic powerviolence bands.