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Whatever you thought was the limit, this is the part that lives past it.
means Describing the most intense, uncompromising, or extreme version of something — whether a genre of music, a level of commitment, or content that pulls no punches.
from A straightforward English compound of 'hard' and 'core' — the unyielding center of something. It started literally in construction, where 'hardcore' meant the rubble and broken stone packed in as a foundation beneath roads and floors. From that gritty, solid base the word climbed into figurative use through the 20th century: a 'hardcore' of devoted supporters, then 'hardcore' pornography, then hardcore punk and its musical descendants — each borrowing the sense of the dense, durable, no-compromise center.
- origin
- From hard plus core, the unyielding center of anything
- music
- Hardcore punk songs often clock under 90 seconds
- gaming
- Hardcore mode usually means permanent death, one life only
- loyalists
- A hardcore fanbase shrinks but never leaves
- bpm
- Hardcore techno can scream past 200 beats per minute
straight edge movement — youth subculture rejecting drugs/alcohol, emerged in washington dc hardcore punk scene 1980s
earth liberation front — radical environmental group claiming responsibility for arson at logging operations and ski resorts, 1996-2001
victory records — chicago independent label founded 1989, released early albums by warzone, sick of it all, and other nyhc bands