Definitions

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  • noun music A genre of hardcore punk music characterized by distorted feedback

Etymologies

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noise +‎ -core

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Examples

  • We jammed and thrashed; we called ourselves noisecore or candy punk and we also had some killer songs.

    My Black Guitar 2009

  • Examine their previous work (on the brilliant Kill Rock Stars label), starting in the feminist-noisecore scene in the pacific-northwest: massive dueling guitar sound, urgent vocals, hardcore drumming.

    SKSKSKSKSKSK (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • Examine their previous work (on the brilliant Kill Rock Stars label), starting in the feminist-noisecore scene in the pacific-northwest: massive dueling guitar sound, urgent vocals, hardcore drumming.

    Music (For Robots): May 2005 Archives 2005

  • Rapino has been a member of the experimental Devil Music group for years; Grier played bass and synth in the gonzo noisecore band Fat Day.

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2010

  • Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher lived in Clinton in the late 1990s, playing with noisecore outfit Today is the Day before falling out with the band's temperamental frontman, Steve Austin.

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2009

  • Dailor and guitarist Bill Kelliher lived in Clinton in the late 1990s, playing with noisecore outfit Today is the Day before falling out with the band's temperamental frontman, Steve Austin.

    Home - BostonHerald.com 2009

  • Here's a grating, intense instrumental from self-described "noisecore prog-rock" trio BACTERIA.

    SparkPlugged 2009

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