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The underground music scene in New York was an intriguing place for a young person to land in the mid-'80s. At the time, there was a strong cross pollination going on between the city's hardcore punk and underground metal scenes with bands such as Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, the Crumbsuckers, Nuclear Assault, Anthrax and Overkill managing to interest both the burr heads and long hairs to their shows

Vinnie Stigma is a certified New York hardcore legend. The guitarist helped form Agnostic Front in 1980, and in the process helped influence several generations of punk, hardcore and metal musicians. Stigma's outspoken personality is also a breath of fresh air in today's all too politically correct music scene ...

If you're a fan of early '80s hardcore, then The Alligators have your number. Featuring Agnostic Front vocalist Roger Miret along with bassist Rich Labbate, drummer Steve Larson and guitarist Barret Burt, all of California's Insted, The Alligators write the kind of lean and mean songs that get your blood boiling from the word go...

Agnostic Front-man Roger Miret is moonlighting in the street punk riot squad Roger Miret and the Disasters, which he admits is "more melodic" than his main band. "Musically, it's a collage of all the bands who inspired me and made me who I am in AF," Miret told Noisecreep...

Agnostic Front are synonymous with New York City's hardcore scene. Vocalist Roger Miret -- who also fronts the melodic street punkers Roger Miret and the Disasters, who will release 'Gotta Get Up Now' on Jan. 25 -- has since moved to Arizona, but one thing remains constant...

In the late '80s, Underdog were a staple of the New York hardcore scene. The band was spearheaded by vocalist Richie Birkenhead, who played guitar in Youth of Today between 1986 and 1987, and Russ 'Wheeler' Iglay, who did time in Murphy's Law...

Rockledge, Fla.-based Christian hardcore band Call to Preserve will release their third album, 'Life of Defiance' on June 8. The disc is the follow-up to 2008's 'From Isolation,' and the recorded the album at Warrior Sound Studios in Chapel Hill, N...

Walter Schreifels is best known for his work in Gorilla Biscuits and Quicksand, but he is gearing up for his first solo record, 'An Open Letter to the Scene,' on May 4. It's a decidedly personal affair, a stripped-down and mostly acoustic sound, a seemingly far cry from his definitive past in the then-burgeoning, 1980s New York Hardcore scene...

Back in the early '80s, when what we know now as hardcore music began, no one would have ever expected it to be flourishing the way it is today, decades later. These days, it's not that out of the ordinary to see hardcore bands selling out 1,000 seat theaters, and playing alongside black and death metal outfits...

Ringworm's Human Furnace -- such a hot name, no? -- is a busy man. In addition to fronting Ringworm and working as a tattoo artist, he's now playing guitar and singing for fellow Cleveland band Gluttons, which is Motörhead-style biker rock mixed with the filth-caked punk of Discharge. Chr...