Wednesday, March 6, 2013

An attitude towards life called “core”

About four years ago I bought my first Metal-CD – that was the moment I decided metal to be my favorite musical genre. I wandered back and forth between the different subgenres that Metal features until I came to the so called “core-scene”.
It did not take a long time until I was fascinated by the coherence, the fun in life and the style, which are main parts of that lifestyle.
I started going to concerts, where I met more and more people who shared that attitude and I found more and more friends in that scene.
Two years later my three best friends and my boyfriend founded a metalcore- band and so I got increasingly more to do with it.
I started writing lyrics for their songs and since about one year I have had the privilege to join every concert they play and sell their shirts. That gave me the chance to get to know some very famous bands and even talk to them. Although first I was only impressed by the music I started to become part of that scene.

 


“Core” is the colloquial and short form for hardcore, which is basically a musical genre but moreover it is a lifestyle. Young people tend to live that attitude towards life.
The musical genre is based on the heavy beats of metal mixed with aggressive vocals and the rapidness of punk.
“Core” is separated in different subgenres: deathcore, metalcore, hardcore and beatdown, which is seen as a subgenre although it has no “-core” in its name.
The origins of all forms of “core” are punk and hardcore.
A very important part of this scene are the concerts where you can meet old and new friends, you can get the real feeling and have fun.
The followers, fans and frequent concert visitors invented their own dance style called “mosh”, which is another interesting part of that culture.
This lifestyle is very unconventional – a lot of tattoos and piercings are used to be different and to shine out from all others and to express one’s own attitude.
Of course nobody is getting tattooed just for these few reasons, in most of the cases every tattoo has its own story.

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