Hardcore

Hardcore, hard core or hard-core may refer to:

Music

Genres

• Hardcore punk, a subgenre of punk rock music
  • some of its subgenres and derivatives such as metallic hardcore and melodic hardcore
  • harDCore, a portmanteau abbreviation for hardcore punk music in Washington, D.C.
  • hardcore dancing, a maneuver related to moshing, usually performed at hardcore punk and heavy metal shows
• Hardcore techno, a style of electronic dance music
  • some of its subgenres and derivatives such as breakbeat hardcore, happy hardcore, UK hardcore, industrial hardcore, early hardcore and mainstream hardcore
• Hardcore hip hop, a subgenre of hip hop music
• Digital hardcore, a fusion between hardcore punk and hardcore techno or other electronic music styles

Albums

• Hardcore (Daddy Freddy album), 2004
• Hard Core (Paul Dean album), 1989
• Hard Core (Lil' Kim album), 1996
• Hard Core (Lil' Kim mixtape), 2014
• Hardcore '81, album by D.O.A.

Film

• Hardcore (1977 film), a British comedy film
• Hardcore (1979 film), an American crime drama film starring George C Scott
• Hardcore (2015 film), a Russian first-person action adventure/sci-fi film directed by Ilya Naishuller of the band Biting Elbows

Other uses

• Construction aggregate, often referred to as "hardcore"
• Hard core, a type of semiconductor intellectual property core
• Hardcore (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Multiverse
• Hardcore Holly, the ring name of American professional wrestler Robert Howard (born 1963)
• Hardcore pornography, a form of pornography that is explicit
• Hard-core predicate, a concept in cryptography
• Hardcore wrestling, a form of professional wrestling
• Permanent death, sometimes called "hardcore mode", a video game style which doesn't allow a killed character to be restored

See also

• List of hardcore genres in music
• Hard Corps (disambiguation)
• All pages beginning with "Hardcore"
• All pages with titles containing Hardcore
• All pages with titles containing Hard core