Speedcore
Speedcore is an extreme form of hardcore techno defined by very high tempos, usually above 300 beats per minute, and an aggressive, distorted sound.
It grew out of hardcore techno in the early 1990s as producers kept pushing the speed and aggression up, and the act Disciples of Annihilation gave the style its name with their track 'N.Y.C. Speedcore'. Producers overdrive the kick drum until it turns into a harsh, buzzing tone, and often use transgressive themes. Faster tracks still are called splittercore, from about 600 beats per minute, or extratone, from about 1,000.
Artists it is known for: Disciples of Annihilation.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Europe and United States, early 1990s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have speedcore among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Speedcore artists
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YoshikoThe speedcore 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.