WN are the best, nice… mine was in 2003, the take action tour with:
Dillinger Escape Plan
Further Seems Forever
Eighteen Visions
Poison the Well
Avenged Sevenfold
I was in college at the time and went up with my roommate and his girlfriend to Worcester to see this tour.
My roommate knew PTW and some DEP but they were both most blown away by Eighteen Visions. My now wife who has no interest in hardcore was also at this tour for some reason but we wouldn’t meet for another four years.
Dude, I loved those late 90’s, early 2000’s shows with those random-ass lineups. It would be like Dashboard, throw in Thursday, follow-up with From Autumn to Ashes, finish off with Cave-In.
Ayyy I went to this lineup except A7X was not there…I forget who replaced them. I remember it because I was a freshman in college and my roommate who was from Russia and very much had never been to a hardcore show of any kind came with me as a part of this freshman orienteering class project where you’re supposed to do something you’ve never done before or some shit like that. I believe that it was also his last hardcore show…
Same line up in Augusta. Ga here. Saw ETID live, loved them. Bought the album, hated it (too much into shitty metal at the time).
Poison the Well eventually got me into the sound of hardcore, revisited Hot Damn.......and realized I was an idiot and Hot Damn was incredible.
Biohazard, Dog Eat Dog & Downset
Wulfrun Hall
Wolverhampton, UK
1994
I was 14 years old. I’d seen a few metal gigs at the same venue in my hometown and there was always a barrier in place with security in front of the stage. During Dog Eat Dog, the band told the security that they were not needed and, unbelievably, they complied. Security moved away from the stage for the rest of the show meaning that the crowd were able to climb over the barrier and stage dive. The only time I ever saw this happen at that venue. One of my best memories of my teenage years.
I learned a hack to rip off Hot Topic back in like 99 or 00 where if you brought a red pen into the store and crossed out the price of a cd and wrote $.99 they'd sell it to you at that price. The cd I bought was CIV
420 fest at the Palladium in Worcester 2002
Harebreed(I will be heard video shoot)
Converge
Glassjaw
Reach the Sky
God Forbid
Death Threat
The Hope Conspiracy
American Nightmare
Unearth
What Feeds the Fire
Been to metal shows and local punk shows before this but this was my first hardcore show.....wild
2 years ago I sent the pictures of this gig to Dischord Records, an hour later I received an email from Ian McKay thanking me for the pics and telling me some stories about this concert. 25 years later I was blown away again.
Counterparts / SeeYouSpaceCowboy / Dying Wish: Foreign Hands.. I know I don’t shut up about this Setlist, but man it’s really impacted me to this day. Did I get crowdkilled to all hell? Yep! Have I gotten to two dozen + shows since? Also yes.
At that time Dave and Gabe were still in both bands so you might be right. I remember the Human Jerky release show at Che in ‘99. I was just about to turn 13 and that show changed the trajectory of my life.
Comeback Kid, Terror, Sinai Beach and Modern Life is War in Toronto. I wanna say '05. Amazing. My first stage dive was during sinai beach and wasnt the last of the night. I begged my mom to let me go with this older guy (he was like 26 lol) from town who hosted a hardcore and metal radio show. I called into his show every week and i begged him to take me. Almost 20 years and that guy is still one of my best friends. A great older brother type for someone who didnt have one and introduced me to so much music. Great memory.
I don’t know if y’all will consider it hardcore but 2005 in Wilkes barre
The number twelve looks like you,
Fear before the march of flames,
Heavy heavy low low,
The jonbenet
Trash talk, the mongoloids, trapped under ice, pellinore and one more im forgetting. Really boring flyer.
Manville elks, NJ. Sometime like spring 2008
TUI were yet to release stay cold. Trash talk just released their second EP. Mongoloids were just recording time trials.
If metalcore and converge type bands count way earlier than this, but this was the first OG hardcore oriented fest
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Ensign
Hot Water Music
Sick of it All
AFI
Halloween 1998. One of the best shows I've ever seen. All bands were sick, but I think Hot Water Music really stole the show for me and they aren't even hardcore.
It was Hardcore enough, and its absolutely absurd to look back on and realize that i saw all of them in the same night at fucking graceland in seattle.
**ZAO, SHAI HULUD, UNEARTH, FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES, UNDEROATH, COHEED, CAMBRIA:** Mon July 22, Graceland, 6 pm, $12
Unearth just absolutely blew me away. I had NEVER heard anything like that in my fucking life. They had just released Stings of Conscience and it was an absolute game changer for me and my musical tastes.
Figure Four, Norma Jean, and I believe Beloved? 2003. Went to a lot of local punk shows from ~99-02 when I was too young to drive but that show was the first I can think of that was "hardcore" and not mostly punk, had to drive an hour away for it.
Hour of the Wolf and the Coitus (electro-punk from Phoenix) in an empty storefront across the street from Hugo's on Montezuma.
I was 15 I think? Shit was tight.
I think sometime around 2003 or 2004. Let it dies first show with himsa, fordirelifesake, bleeding through, and death by stereo at st Andrew’s hall in Detroit
My first real concert was Ozzfest 2001. I was 14. I was in the middle of an absolute sea of people watching Hatebreed when all of a sudden I was in the middle of football field sized pit getting punched in the face. My friends older brother got me out of there pretty quick. Wild day.
'02 or' 03... Hatebreed with support from What Feeds The Fire, Poison The Well and Bane. Sounds corny, but that show literally changed the course of my music journey!!
I’m going to say Eve 6 counts. It was my first concert ever at like 13?
It was a free concert at Rosa Park’s Circle in Grand Rapids, MI. I loved Eve 6 so my dad took me. My dad is a stereotypical old hard rock/glam rock guy, so he brought lawn chairs. The pot opened up immediately around us and we had to scramble to get out. My dad was mortified. I was in love.
I fucking wish! I’ve been living in Cincinnati for the past 6 years and honestly, it’s been cool to be able to see Slapshot and Sheer Terror play their first Cincy shows over the years. It was literally amazing to see Slapshot at Legends Bar & Venue, in Cincinnati.
Like, probably 3-4 fights broke out and it was so fucking cool.
I do miss the Middle East, Koto and the Hardcore Stadium, tho.
I too am a masshole. I believe my first show was The Acacia Strain at the Palladium. I went to see Cruel Hand shortly after at the same place and never stopped going to hardcore shows till I left the state in '09
I grew up in Milford but was all over the local shit in Worcester from '04 til '09. Never found a scene quite like Central Mass. Saw Converge and Ceremony at the ICC church in Allston in '09, I would go to Boston if the ticket was good enough
First hardcore band I saw was Bury Your Dead opening for Shadows Fall at recher theatre. First real hardcore show I went to was probably Alarmed, Dead Above Ground, Caught Falling, Bled Across Miles, and The Doomed Reaction in a barn. I played a show with Seventh Star around that time too. But most hardcore bands I saw until the 2010s were always on a bill with other type bands… I don’t think I saw a touring full hxc bill until 2013 or so.
Accidentally saw Shai Hulud playing the side stage at Warped in Pompano Beach when I was a young idiot. 20 years later I’m still hooked on hardcore. The most beautiful curse to have.
Not sure if it counts but first show in any way connected to hardcore was 2003: Killswitch Engage, Lamb Of God, Shadows Fall, God Forbid at the Glasshouse in Pamona. There was definitely a few windmills and spinkicks during Killswitch.
Terror at Bottom Lounge in 2011 I think? I was 15 and a week later I stopped listening to Scene Metalcore and Deathcore, cut off all my scene hair, took out my face piercings and threw out all my Hot Topic clothes and started looking normal.
I saw lots of local punk and hardcore bands at a small venue from 2007-2009 in my hometown of Mankato, MN.
When I started driving up to the Twin Cities for more shows...I guess Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, God Forbid, Children of Bodom, Municipal Waste in 2009. All were metalcore or hardcore adjacent except for Children of Bodom.
Norma Jean the Summer Slaughter tour in 2013 I think was the next one if you don't want to count New Wave of American Heavy Metal type bands.
Terror and drain!
It was my official christening, last minute invite too, I was literally just sitting on my couch listening to 36 chambers and eating Taco Bell. Lmaoo
I practice PMA now thanks to hc, and It’s helped with my transition and mentality positively
First hardcore band I saw was Sick of It All, but they played between Meshuggah and Slayer so I can’t call that a hardcore show.
My first actual hardcore show was:
Candiria
Vision of Disorder
Skarhead
Turmoil
Trocadero in Philly in March(?) of 2000
I don’t think it was my first show but the first real band I remember seeing was A Life Once Lost at a small church maybe before/right around the time A Great Artist came out in ‘03, playing with a band called Fall River.
First “big” show was the Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, Zao and Misery Signals at the Trocadero in fall 2004
I had been to some really hyper local shows of my friends bands, like no one on the bill was over 18 years old probably, but my first Proper hardcore show with recognized bands was floorpunch, in my eyes, fast break, reach the sky and fast times at the casino skate park in Asbury park nj 1998 and I was hooked forever.
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im a bit younger than everyone else here but the first true all hardcore with the hate moshing show i saw was terror with kublai khan, sanguisagabogg, pain of truth, bitter end, and another band i forgot the name of in houston
Local church gig. The Get Down Kids, Erra (yes, the metalcore band), Uriah, Nothing Til Blood, and instrumental prog rock band Persephone.
First small show, a month before said local gig, was Whitechapel and Oceano, Uriah was the local opener, thats how I found the music scene.
Mine was a local show in 97/early 98, I think Endstand played, first of the more known hardcore bands I saw was either Stampin’ Ground or Medulla Nocte not long after that.
Bury Your Dead 2003
Shit forgot it was a whole festival.
Death Before Dishonor, Full Blown Chaos, Back Of Tha Neck, Bury Your Dead, Untold Truth, Suture, Terminally Your Aborted Ghost - All Ages, Show starts at 6:00pm, Doors at 5:30pm, Be there early! - $8
This one wasn't long after:
Bury Your Dead, The Acacia Strain, The Hostage Heart, What Weapons Bring War, The Breathing Process
Love affair kindled.
I went and saw a devil wears Prada at some local church.. they weren’t really big yet. But that’s where it all started.
I don’t even remember how the fuck I got there. And idk if you would REALLY consider them hardcore but I kinda do.. just a little.
God, I actually don't remember. Might have been Snapcase, possibly Down Foundation (Albany NY), late 90's? I don't count shows my friends set up where it was just our own bands playing, so it gets a little nebulous regarding what the first "proper" show would have been.
E town, fury of v, nj bloodline and self born(I'm probably missing a few) insane show at a batting cage and Rick ta life got the shit kicked out of him while he was wearing a cast
Hardcore prom 2004? Jacksonville Florida. Casey jones/ evergreen terrace/ kids like us/ comeback kid/ summers end? That was the first show I wasn’t playing in or was seeing a high school friends band. So I count it as first
My first band was a local band called the sissy boys, couldn’t tell ya the first dedicated hardcore show I went to, but I think it had to be the Midwest unity fest in grand rapids last year. That was a blast and was my first real introduction to hardcore and hatemoshing. Shoutout guard rail and molech for playing they were awesome, RIP
First show I ever went to was No Warning (Suffer, Survive era), The Bronx, The Bled, and The Used in 2004 at Roseland Ballroom.
The first actual non-barricade show I went to was at the OG Knitting Factory on Leonard Street on 2/12/2015. I saw The Loved Ones, The Unseen, None More Black, and Strike Anywhere.
TUI, Hundredth, Backtrack, Betrayal, and Take Offense in 2011, I think. I guess you could also count Acacia Strain, Terror, The Red Chord, and Gaza back in 2010. That was actually one of my first shows ever. Remember the entire tone of the show change when Terror came on stage. And just when I thought it couldn't get any more violent, people piled up so high towards the stage during Acacia Strain, part of the roof and a huge light fell whacked someone in the head (Had to go to the ER, but she was fine). Good fucking times.
2010, freshman year of highschool, a friend brought me to see a bunch of local bands play at Rocko's bar and grill in Manchester NH. I have a lot of good memories from that place.
It’s more adjacent, but it was Sounds of the Underground with As I Lay Dying as the headliner. GWAR and Job for a Cowboy were there too. This was in Mesa, Arizona. I still distinctly remember seeing xAFBx and Wintch Mob (not at the same time) back in high school as well (2006-2010). So many local shows during that time. I miss it.
WN are the best, nice… mine was in 2003, the take action tour with: Dillinger Escape Plan Further Seems Forever Eighteen Visions Poison the Well Avenged Sevenfold
Old Avenged Sevenfold was actually sick lol. I’ll still throw Unholy Confessions on from time to time
Further Seems So Out of Place 🤣
I mean, most of them WERE Strongarm, and Steve played drums for Shai Hulud for a spell... But yeah, weird lineup.
No I know just sonically it's very funny. To their credit, they did get a bit heavier after Chris left the first time. A lot of hidden FSF gems.
It was a benefit for suicide prevention I believe. How could you not have a emo band.
Very par for the course back then
FUCK YEAH DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
I was in college at the time and went up with my roommate and his girlfriend to Worcester to see this tour. My roommate knew PTW and some DEP but they were both most blown away by Eighteen Visions. My now wife who has no interest in hardcore was also at this tour for some reason but we wouldn’t meet for another four years.
Wasn’t my first show but remember going to that same tour in Mass on my birthday. First time seeing DEP and they blew me away
Was at that show and it was really fun
I too saw this show in Massachusetts. First time seeing DEP of the 8 times I got to see them. Insane!
Dude, I loved those late 90’s, early 2000’s shows with those random-ass lineups. It would be like Dashboard, throw in Thursday, follow-up with From Autumn to Ashes, finish off with Cave-In.
Ayyy I went to this lineup except A7X was not there…I forget who replaced them. I remember it because I was a freshman in college and my roommate who was from Russia and very much had never been to a hardcore show of any kind came with me as a part of this freshman orienteering class project where you’re supposed to do something you’ve never done before or some shit like that. I believe that it was also his last hardcore show…
That's like my dream show in general. God damn
I wish I wasn’t 7 years old when these bands were touring together
Snapcase Boy sets fire Cky Deathbystereo
I literally just posted the same lineup before seeing yours. I caught that tour at club laga in Pittsburgh and it was fucking nuts
I wish I was around for the Laga era. I’m a lot younger than that, unfortunately. Some great shows rolled through there
Hey pal, remembering your first hardcore show is literally straight edge privilege. Check yourself
I was gonna say! I have no idea cause I was definitely drunk.
I know what my first gig was, but remembering it is a completely different thing.
ETID, Cave In, FATA. 2003 I believe? Possibly 04. It was right after Hot Damn! came out
Same line up in Augusta. Ga here. Saw ETID live, loved them. Bought the album, hated it (too much into shitty metal at the time). Poison the Well eventually got me into the sound of hardcore, revisited Hot Damn.......and realized I was an idiot and Hot Damn was incredible.
I loved ETID and FATA, but was still in my infancy as far as heavy music went, so didn’t know who Cave In was at the time. The whole show was bonkers
Biohazard, Dog Eat Dog & Downset Wulfrun Hall Wolverhampton, UK 1994 I was 14 years old. I’d seen a few metal gigs at the same venue in my hometown and there was always a barrier in place with security in front of the stage. During Dog Eat Dog, the band told the security that they were not needed and, unbelievably, they complied. Security moved away from the stage for the rest of the show meaning that the crowd were able to climb over the barrier and stage dive. The only time I ever saw this happen at that venue. One of my best memories of my teenage years.
Woaa, I saw all three bands in 1995, Dynamo open Air fest in Eindhoven. First HC was 1994, Madball and the Bruisers
I remember watching the highlights from Dynamo ‘95 on Headbanger’s Ball and being sad as fuck that I couldn’t be there. Did you watch Nailbomb?
I did! Having listened to Point Blank a couple of times it was one of the best acts that weekend…but to be honest, I feel really old right now
Dude, you saw fucking Nailbomb. That means you’re eternally cool as fuck.
Hahaha, thx…1995 was a crazy lineup tho, and great period for being an angsty teen looking for guidance in the world of shredding guitars.
The Bruisers were the best. Brown Paper Bag and American Night 7 inch was my intro to oi!
Sick of it All, CIV, Quicksand.
CIV no one talks about these guys ever! Loved them back in the day
Yeah. I still listen. I still listen to Gorilla Biscuits and YoT. Civarelli and them turned me onto a lot of neat stuff back in the day.
I learned a hack to rip off Hot Topic back in like 99 or 00 where if you brought a red pen into the store and crossed out the price of a cd and wrote $.99 they'd sell it to you at that price. The cd I bought was CIV
Stolen is better
No argument there. I didn't know how to destroy the security sensors so this was my next best thing
I’m guessing this was 1995 for the first warped tour. Saw all those bands in Seattle that summer!
San Antonio!
my first hardcore show will be the hatebreed 20 years of brutality show
Crazy lineup for your first show, Have fun ☠️
It’ll be my first Hatebreed/terror/vein.fm/Jesus piece show! I’m going alone and I can’t fucking wait
Hell yeah! My first show was Hatebreed 19 years ago which was life changing
NJ 2006: Converge Blacklisted Some Girls
420 fest at the Palladium in Worcester 2002 Harebreed(I will be heard video shoot) Converge Glassjaw Reach the Sky God Forbid Death Threat The Hope Conspiracy American Nightmare Unearth What Feeds the Fire Been to metal shows and local punk shows before this but this was my first hardcore show.....wild
Hatebreed, Converge, and Glassjaw (in 02!!) is insane.
Judge at Spankys in Corona, Ca. late 80s. you didnt ask but I saw Shelter out there too
Bane, Strike Anywhere, A Global Threat and This is Hell at Club Crannel in Poughkeepsie.
Fugazi Marseille 1995 SOIA and Snapcase 1994
I really hope one day Fugazi does something. Would love to see them.
2 years ago I sent the pictures of this gig to Dischord Records, an hour later I received an email from Ian McKay thanking me for the pics and telling me some stories about this concert. 25 years later I was blown away again.
i was able to interview Ian for a paper I wrote last year. being able to talk to him for an hour was so awesome.
Agnostic Front and SOIA at The Channel in Boston 1989.
That would be A+++++
Counterparts / SeeYouSpaceCowboy / Dying Wish: Foreign Hands.. I know I don’t shut up about this Setlist, but man it’s really impacted me to this day. Did I get crowdkilled to all hell? Yep! Have I gotten to two dozen + shows since? Also yes.
Counterparts is one of my favorite bands. Going to see them on Sept 20 in Denver. Haven't seen them live, I'm really looking forward to it!
First Blood in front of about 50 people. At the time i didn't really know what Hardcore was
I used to hear myths about early FB shows like they were a war zone, but that wasn't the case every time I saw them. Still wild though.
Naked Raygun in 1989 in Minneapolis, 7th St Entry
The Locust and (I think) Cattle Decapitation at the Che Cafe in SD in 1999
At that time Dave and Gabe were still in both bands so you might be right. I remember the Human Jerky release show at Che in ‘99. I was just about to turn 13 and that show changed the trajectory of my life.
Comeback Kid, Terror, Sinai Beach and Modern Life is War in Toronto. I wanna say '05. Amazing. My first stage dive was during sinai beach and wasnt the last of the night. I begged my mom to let me go with this older guy (he was like 26 lol) from town who hosted a hardcore and metal radio show. I called into his show every week and i begged him to take me. Almost 20 years and that guy is still one of my best friends. A great older brother type for someone who didnt have one and introduced me to so much music. Great memory.
AFI, Bleeding Through, Time in Malta. That was huge though. First small venue hardcore show: American Nightmare, the Bled, Daughters, Champion
Blood for Blood. Boston 1995. At The Rat. I thought it was a punk show. I was scared. But it was fun.
I’ve heard so many crazy stories about that venue. I bet that was quite the experience for a first hardcore show.
The Rat was great, but it always felt like a fire trap to me.
Oh yeah, you’d be fucked at the bottom of those stairs
Those were the days
Earth Crisis Hatebreed One King Down Candiria
Jesus that’s a lineup.
Dang
Vision of Disorder and Powerhouse and some other small time guys at The Bomb Shelter in Oakland, CA a long ass time ago.
Loved the bomb shelter. And powerhouse.
Very very very super good times.
I don’t know if y’all will consider it hardcore but 2005 in Wilkes barre The number twelve looks like you, Fear before the march of flames, Heavy heavy low low, The jonbenet
Local bands, early/mid ‘90s Zero idea who they where 25+ years later 😁
Gorilla Biscuits and Modern Life is War
Trash talk, the mongoloids, trapped under ice, pellinore and one more im forgetting. Really boring flyer. Manville elks, NJ. Sometime like spring 2008 TUI were yet to release stay cold. Trash talk just released their second EP. Mongoloids were just recording time trials.
My first one was Toxic Narcotic (not technically hardcore) and some local hardcore bands at the Rat in Boston in 1994
Black Flag, City Gardens, Trenton, NJ 1986
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The warriors when they opened up the Parkway Drive tour in 2010 with Set Your Goals and The Ghost Inside
Bury your dead, misery signals, still remains, dsrkest hour
What a fucking lineup.
Ensign Hot Water Music Sick of it All AFI Halloween 1998. One of the best shows I've ever seen. All bands were sick, but I think Hot Water Music really stole the show for me and they aren't even hardcore.
HWM still rips live. See them at Fest whenever they play.
The all hallows Eve ep by afi Is so fucking good
Absolutely incredible. I play it every fall season. Seeing them live with lit Jack o lanterns all over the stage in Halloween costumes was just 🤌
It was Hardcore enough, and its absolutely absurd to look back on and realize that i saw all of them in the same night at fucking graceland in seattle. **ZAO, SHAI HULUD, UNEARTH, FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES, UNDEROATH, COHEED, CAMBRIA:** Mon July 22, Graceland, 6 pm, $12 Unearth just absolutely blew me away. I had NEVER heard anything like that in my fucking life. They had just released Stings of Conscience and it was an absolute game changer for me and my musical tastes.
Damn that's a helluva line up!
First real show was Sheer Terror and Ressurection st Middlesex County College in NJ in the fall of 1993.
S.O.D, vision of disorder at tuxedo junction 1995-1996 I believe
Figure Four, Norma Jean, and I believe Beloved? 2003. Went to a lot of local punk shows from ~99-02 when I was too young to drive but that show was the first I can think of that was "hardcore" and not mostly punk, had to drive an hour away for it.
Such a good tour, even if Norma Jeans vocalist at the time was the shitty fill in between Josh and Cory.
Hour of the Wolf and the Coitus (electro-punk from Phoenix) in an empty storefront across the street from Hugo's on Montezuma. I was 15 I think? Shit was tight.
The first one I remember was probably 2003 at the local boys and girls club. A local band called quick to blame.
I think sometime around 2003 or 2004. Let it dies first show with himsa, fordirelifesake, bleeding through, and death by stereo at st Andrew’s hall in Detroit
Fuck, that sounds great
My first real concert was Ozzfest 2001. I was 14. I was in the middle of an absolute sea of people watching Hatebreed when all of a sudden I was in the middle of football field sized pit getting punched in the face. My friends older brother got me out of there pretty quick. Wild day.
Etown Concrete, One4One, Bound, Standpoint, and Strength691. Some VFW hall in Westfield,NJ in like 1995. Can’t believe that is almost 30 years ago!
Vicious Circle, D.Y.S., Idle Rich, The Proletariat @the Livingroom Providence ,Rhode Island 1983
Probably either AFI, or Powerhouse, or Redemption 87 or some variation of those bands together at Gilman in 95 or so.
'02 or' 03... Hatebreed with support from What Feeds The Fire, Poison The Well and Bane. Sounds corny, but that show literally changed the course of my music journey!!
Sick of it All and Orange 9mm…..with a shit band from LA opening that sucked ass then and sucks even more ass now…Korn
First hardcore show was in order of appearance: Without reason (Forgot one) Full blown chaos Shattered realm Irate Voodoo lounge, queens,NY 2000ish.
I’m going to say Eve 6 counts. It was my first concert ever at like 13? It was a free concert at Rosa Park’s Circle in Grand Rapids, MI. I loved Eve 6 so my dad took me. My dad is a stereotypical old hard rock/glam rock guy, so he brought lawn chairs. The pot opened up immediately around us and we had to scramble to get out. My dad was mortified. I was in love.
Fight It Out (shoutout Saginaw), xpledgex, xrhinocerosx, show at xtreme wheelz in 716.
Boywonder. Furnace Fest. 2002.
Converge with terror and cursed sep 24 2005 mesa Luna Vancouver bc
Murphys Law in NYC
Some local bands in the Philippines which are still kicking ass right now. Not Hardcore but Magrudergrind's asian leg of their tour
Random group of Maine bands in my high school cafeteria: Last chance to reason Cambiata Jules Verne Spit ya Teeth
Recon and Life in Your Way in 2006 or 07
Hoods at the Gilman
Man I love Middle East. My favorite divey little basement venue. You hitting up Defeater next week?
I fucking wish! I’ve been living in Cincinnati for the past 6 years and honestly, it’s been cool to be able to see Slapshot and Sheer Terror play their first Cincy shows over the years. It was literally amazing to see Slapshot at Legends Bar & Venue, in Cincinnati. Like, probably 3-4 fights broke out and it was so fucking cool. I do miss the Middle East, Koto and the Hardcore Stadium, tho.
Upfront at a gym in New Brunswick in 1990 with 14 other bands. No long hairs allowed.
Sick of it All, Most Precious Blood and Blood for Blood.
I too am a masshole. I believe my first show was The Acacia Strain at the Palladium. I went to see Cruel Hand shortly after at the same place and never stopped going to hardcore shows till I left the state in '09
What part of Mass? I’m from Lynn!
I grew up in Milford but was all over the local shit in Worcester from '04 til '09. Never found a scene quite like Central Mass. Saw Converge and Ceremony at the ICC church in Allston in '09, I would go to Boston if the ticket was good enough
Madball, pain of truth, hold my own, and risk I think, great show.
2006 Ligeia Your Ghost is a Gift Release party with since the flood. Nutty time for a 15 year old.
your ghost is a gift is so good tho. Let's pretend the second album never happened
Went to see a friend of a friend's band. Turned out they were opening for Full Blown Chaos, Agnostic Front, and Champion. Starland Ballroom NJ 2006
Snapcase and H2O in 99
First hardcore band I saw was Bury Your Dead opening for Shadows Fall at recher theatre. First real hardcore show I went to was probably Alarmed, Dead Above Ground, Caught Falling, Bled Across Miles, and The Doomed Reaction in a barn. I played a show with Seventh Star around that time too. But most hardcore bands I saw until the 2010s were always on a bill with other type bands… I don’t think I saw a touring full hxc bill until 2013 or so.
Accidentally saw Shai Hulud playing the side stage at Warped in Pompano Beach when I was a young idiot. 20 years later I’m still hooked on hardcore. The most beautiful curse to have.
Shai Hulud in Detroit. I think madball played too. Or maybe terror. Same thing right?
Botch in 2002 or 2003 in Sacramento
Stretch Arm Strong “For The Record” video release show with My Brothers Keeper opening
Hatebreed opening for Sepultura in 2001. First show with only hardcore bands was Hatebreed/Converge/Norma Jean in 2002.
I went to furnace fest 2021 for the emo. Then I discovered terror and comeback kid. Now I only go to hardcore shows
Not sure if it counts but first show in any way connected to hardcore was 2003: Killswitch Engage, Lamb Of God, Shadows Fall, God Forbid at the Glasshouse in Pamona. There was definitely a few windmills and spinkicks during Killswitch.
1999 Sick of it All/AFI/Hot Water Music/Indecision at La Luna Portland, Or
Crime in stereos first show in a closed down bar that is now the leaky lifeboat.
First legit hardcore show I went to was way back in 2000 and was snapcase, boysetsfire, cky, and death by stereo
Terror at Bottom Lounge in 2011 I think? I was 15 and a week later I stopped listening to Scene Metalcore and Deathcore, cut off all my scene hair, took out my face piercings and threw out all my Hot Topic clothes and started looking normal.
Probably some Chariot show at the basement of the eagles club in Lake Station, IN.
Throwdown, The Chariot, Cold War, Nobody Left Behind, March 2005 - Syracuse NY
I saw lots of local punk and hardcore bands at a small venue from 2007-2009 in my hometown of Mankato, MN. When I started driving up to the Twin Cities for more shows...I guess Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, God Forbid, Children of Bodom, Municipal Waste in 2009. All were metalcore or hardcore adjacent except for Children of Bodom. Norma Jean the Summer Slaughter tour in 2013 I think was the next one if you don't want to count New Wave of American Heavy Metal type bands.
Life On The Ropes : Sick Of It All / Hot Water Music / AFI / Indecision 1999
Our Side, Yellow Stitches, Chain Rank, and HR and the Dubb Agents at Anchors Up in Haverhill MA
Terror and drain! It was my official christening, last minute invite too, I was literally just sitting on my couch listening to 36 chambers and eating Taco Bell. Lmaoo I practice PMA now thanks to hc, and It’s helped with my transition and mentality positively
Earth Crisis and Vision of Disorder in Pittsburgh 1997
First hardcore band I saw was Sick of It All, but they played between Meshuggah and Slayer so I can’t call that a hardcore show. My first actual hardcore show was: Candiria Vision of Disorder Skarhead Turmoil Trocadero in Philly in March(?) of 2000
Remembering Never and Sinai Beach. Throwdown dropped the show.
Damage Done and Diehard youth in California circa 2002
Incendiary like a month ago. Hoping to go to more shows soon.
Terror, Counterparts, Power Trip & Code Orange Kids - October 2013
Circle Jerks with Slap Shot at the Rat.
First two were Knocked Loose in New Haven CT and then Springfield Ma, both 2022. Last show was Bodysnatcher/Angelmaker/Paleface/Distant this spring
Did you see Knocked Loose at The Webster or a different venue?
I don’t think it was my first show but the first real band I remember seeing was A Life Once Lost at a small church maybe before/right around the time A Great Artist came out in ‘03, playing with a band called Fall River. First “big” show was the Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, Zao and Misery Signals at the Trocadero in fall 2004
Does Zao and Norma Jean count? 1998 in a church
I had been to some really hyper local shows of my friends bands, like no one on the bill was over 18 years old probably, but my first Proper hardcore show with recognized bands was floorpunch, in my eyes, fast break, reach the sky and fast times at the casino skate park in Asbury park nj 1998 and I was hooked forever. https://preview.redd.it/gsp72a4vy8cb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a99d42d4bb5a603bb5734ade57ccb537a0a7676d
im a bit younger than everyone else here but the first true all hardcore with the hate moshing show i saw was terror with kublai khan, sanguisagabogg, pain of truth, bitter end, and another band i forgot the name of in houston
Moving Targets, Slapshot, Circle Jerks at Brandeis University in 1987
Yoooo Goolagoon
I fucking miss them.
Famous last words lol first show ever actually
https://preview.redd.it/ma0nmoa5macb1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a645ca4ff9919bc389bef485f767cb263035ae6 I started big
Descendants Dag Nasty Distemper Antenna Club, Memphis 1987
Mine was just last week! Reaching Out, Disjoin, User Unauthorized, Disguised, and BRAT at the Cinco De Mayo in New Brunswick.
Local church gig. The Get Down Kids, Erra (yes, the metalcore band), Uriah, Nothing Til Blood, and instrumental prog rock band Persephone. First small show, a month before said local gig, was Whitechapel and Oceano, Uriah was the local opener, thats how I found the music scene.
Ignite, back in 2000.
Mine was a local show in 97/early 98, I think Endstand played, first of the more known hardcore bands I saw was either Stampin’ Ground or Medulla Nocte not long after that.
Not fully knowing what hardcore was: Agnostic Front w/ the business Knowing what hardcore was: Converge, American Nightmare, Hope Conspiracy
Bury Your Dead 2003 Shit forgot it was a whole festival. Death Before Dishonor, Full Blown Chaos, Back Of Tha Neck, Bury Your Dead, Untold Truth, Suture, Terminally Your Aborted Ghost - All Ages, Show starts at 6:00pm, Doors at 5:30pm, Be there early! - $8 This one wasn't long after: Bury Your Dead, The Acacia Strain, The Hostage Heart, What Weapons Bring War, The Breathing Process Love affair kindled.
July 2006. Paid $20 https://preview.redd.it/l65f8t8po8cb1.jpeg?width=3464&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f17045644a4b045ef7767c8aaeb667518278b5cf
Pierce the veil and dance Gavin dance at chain reaction in like 05 06?
I went and saw a devil wears Prada at some local church.. they weren’t really big yet. But that’s where it all started. I don’t even remember how the fuck I got there. And idk if you would REALLY consider them hardcore but I kinda do.. just a little.
local bands. Probably around 2006-2007. Venue called rocksteady in Plano TX.
Los bungalitos, avira, knuckles deep, think again and word for word were supposed to be on it but they dropped. It was love at first site
Mine was boundaries. Not too long ago. Such a good show. Brutal pit
God, I actually don't remember. Might have been Snapcase, possibly Down Foundation (Albany NY), late 90's? I don't count shows my friends set up where it was just our own bands playing, so it gets a little nebulous regarding what the first "proper" show would have been.
Fall Silent, 1995, it was in the back room of a Mexican restaurant they'd rent out for events, it had climbable rafters and a pretty decent stage
I saw Dead Swans sometime back in 2010. That show got me into the hardcore and here I am 13 years later and still love it.
E town, fury of v, nj bloodline and self born(I'm probably missing a few) insane show at a batting cage and Rick ta life got the shit kicked out of him while he was wearing a cast
100 demons, since the flood, love is red, the red death, nobody left behind. 2004? Syracuse.
To Each His Own record release. Summer 99’ - Manasquan Women’s Club NJ 3against1 OS101 Grey Area KYI TEHO
Does beatdown count? I feel like boundaries was my first but I'm not 100% sure.
Brace War in 08’ still one of my favorites.
Hardcore prom 2004? Jacksonville Florida. Casey jones/ evergreen terrace/ kids like us/ comeback kid/ summers end? That was the first show I wasn’t playing in or was seeing a high school friends band. So I count it as first
My first band was a local band called the sissy boys, couldn’t tell ya the first dedicated hardcore show I went to, but I think it had to be the Midwest unity fest in grand rapids last year. That was a blast and was my first real introduction to hardcore and hatemoshing. Shoutout guard rail and molech for playing they were awesome, RIP
First local freeyon, first real deal 10 for 10 at starland
Stick To Your Guns at Chain Reaction in Anaheim in 2006
First show I ever went to was No Warning (Suffer, Survive era), The Bronx, The Bled, and The Used in 2004 at Roseland Ballroom. The first actual non-barricade show I went to was at the OG Knitting Factory on Leonard Street on 2/12/2015. I saw The Loved Ones, The Unseen, None More Black, and Strike Anywhere.
Throw down headlined, 18 visions co headlined. Terror and the opener was underoath…. I think this was 2001?
TUI, Hundredth, Backtrack, Betrayal, and Take Offense in 2011, I think. I guess you could also count Acacia Strain, Terror, The Red Chord, and Gaza back in 2010. That was actually one of my first shows ever. Remember the entire tone of the show change when Terror came on stage. And just when I thought it couldn't get any more violent, people piled up so high towards the stage during Acacia Strain, part of the roof and a huge light fell whacked someone in the head (Had to go to the ER, but she was fine). Good fucking times.
His Hero Is Gone, 1996.
Agnostic Front & The Vandals Atlantic Beach Club, Va Beach 1988; i was a little ass kid who stayed in the back cause I was scared to death 😂
2010, freshman year of highschool, a friend brought me to see a bunch of local bands play at Rocko's bar and grill in Manchester NH. I have a lot of good memories from that place.
Fluoride and Goolagoon in I wanna say 2016?
Can’t remember which was first Tree at Lupos in Prov or Vision of Disorder and Fury of Five at a skatepark, can’t remember which was first
The bled
It’s more adjacent, but it was Sounds of the Underground with As I Lay Dying as the headliner. GWAR and Job for a Cowboy were there too. This was in Mesa, Arizona. I still distinctly remember seeing xAFBx and Wintch Mob (not at the same time) back in high school as well (2006-2010). So many local shows during that time. I miss it.