Your way in
Crust punk 1984
D-beat soaked in metal and mud: thick tone, apocalyptic themes, trousers unwashed since 1989.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 3
- Where from
- United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 150-220 bpm
- Song length
- 1.5-3 min
- Written about
- Anarchism, War and the state, Animal rights, Ecological collapse
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Crust punk | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1984 | 40% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 87% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 6. Crust punk leads the next by 3 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Bad Brains, Bad Brains 1982
Bad Brains - Bad Brains (the ROIR cassette). The fastest band of the decade.
- 2The one to put on first
Amebix, Arise! 1985
Amebix - Arise! It sounds like the end of the world, which was the point.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Hardcore punk, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Crust punk's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Proto-punk 83%
Garage rock turned hostile and repetitive, with noise and nihilism. Nobody called it punk yet, but everyone at CBGB copied from it.
6 steps from Crust punk, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Proto-punk -
First wave 82%
The bands that supplied the name and the themes, while still playing speed or thrash metal. Venom released the album that christened the genre.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Crust punk.
The way into First wave
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 6.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 6.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.