Post-Hardcore
Post-hardcore is a style that keeps the intensity of hardcore punk but adds more complex songwriting, shifts in volume and room to experiment.
It emerged in the United States in the 1980s, with Washington, D.C. as an early center. Bands use angular or intricate guitar parts, changing rhythms and vocals that move between singing and screaming. It is less rigid and less uniformly fast than hardcore, and in the 2000s a more melodic form became popular alongside emo.
Artists it is known for: Fugazi, At the Drive-In, Thursday.
- Family
- Punk & Emo
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United States, 1980s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 10%
About 7,900 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have post-hardcore among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Post-Hardcore artists
Pierce The Veil
Title Fight
Sleeping With Sirens
Dance Gavin Dance
Architects
Silverstein
A Day To Remember
Hum
Hail The Sun
Sunny Day Real Estate
The post-hardcore artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.