Power Violence is a sub-genre of Grindcore that tends to refocus it's musical energies on the original Crust and Hardcore Punk, that had created the genre (grindcore) in the first place, as contrasted to the modern grindcore variants that have become increasingly associated with death metal and other forms of extreme music influenced by metal.
Major artists include:
*Man is the bastard
*Crossed Out
*Pissed Happy Children
*Spazz
*No Comment
*Infest
*Pillsbury Hardcore
Hardcore punk (or ''hardcore'') is an intensified version of punk rock usually characterized by short, loud, and often angry songs with exceptionally fast tempos and chord changes.
Grindcore is an extreme form of heavy metal related to death metal, but historically formed by combining elements of early thrash metal (which predated the advent of death metal) and the music and attitude of hardcore punk. The adjective grind had briefly been used to describe any and all manner of hard rock, including Stone Temple Pilots, before it fell into general disuse.
