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Melodic hardcore keeps hardcore punk’s speed and direct attack while giving melody a larger role in the writing.
Several 1980s American punk currents fed that approach. Washington, D.C.’s Dag Nasty kept the local hardcore edge while making the writing more accessible and melodic. Bad Religion developed another long-running version on the West Coast, adding a strong dose of melody while remaining rooted in punk and hardcore.
Jakarta’s Concrete Youth stepped away from metallic hardcore, beatdown and breakdown-heavy writing to let simpler melodic ideas lead. Utrecht’s State Power keep thrash edges and a hard breakdown inside fast melodic hardcore. Montreal’s The Last Mile returned with a denser hardcore direction on “Holding On To Hope” while remaining rooted in punk. Bendigo’s No Hope pull from mid-to-late-2000s hardcore and put live energy at the centre of their approach. Baltimore’s Be Well connect melodic hardcore with songs about fear, disappointment and healing.
Philadelphia’s Sunstroke explicitly point back to Revolution Summer-era D.C. punk in their own account. Across IDIOTEQ, melodic hardcore also overlaps heavily with hardcore punk, punk rock and post-hardcore.