Sick of It All, which opened the concert, is a more typical hard-core band.

"I do have hard-core bands, but I'm very careful."

It had merely been a coincidence, he insisted, that the night of the killings he had worn a sweatshirt with the name of a hard-core band.

He invited eight loud hard-core bands for a daytime show, and three folk performers for the evening.

Blind Idiot God, a hard-core band meant to represent the younger generation, played last to an audience, which was small to begin with, of about 20 people.

Unlike most other heavy-metal and hard-core bands, Slayer didn't provide a release for its audience but an anesthetic.

Black Dice has evolved from a hard-core band into something more enigmatic: the group's noisy free-form compositions can be both jarring and hypnotic.

Women, she says, should not "deny their femininity by trying to be as unpretentious and stupid as all the other male hard-core bands."

In the mid-80's there was a great all-female hard-core band called Frightwig.

He now plays with a few other Biola students in Phineas, a hard-core band.