Trapped in a Scene: UK Hardcore 1985-1989

Emerging from the wreckage of the anarcho-punk scene, underground hardcore music in the UK took it influences from the punk bands of the early Eighties, the nascent American hardcore wave breaking across British shores and the emerging metal/punk crossover scene. Filter such intense sounds through some through fiercely DIY aesthetics, a thriving tape-trading culture and an oft-skewed sense of humour and result was a potent movement that spawned such seminal acts as Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, the Stupids, Electro Hippies, Doom and Heresy. Such acts quick carved their names into the annals of alternative music and made 'UK Hardcore' a term respected around the world.