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There are a lot of fantastic post-punk and post-hardcore bands that get the label art punk presumably for leaning more heavily into the original punk rock sound (Minutemen, NoMeansNo, Mission of Burma, and early Talking Heads comes to mind), but I still like them all the same. Consequently, I find a lot of art punk bands stray furthest from the punk subcultures with a few notable exceptions. So, kind of a weird term in my opinion, but I could probably figure out what bands a person likes if they told me they were into "art punk."

Sorry I let you down anon. You seem like a cool guy with adequate reading comprehension skills, so it's disappointing to know that I lost a potentially valuable follower in you. I will be working on how I can improve and hopefully will you back somewhere down the line.

I enjoy the classics like most: Black Sabbath, Slayer, Motorhead, Bolt Thrower. Of course metal and punk have borrowed from one another for decades, so it can be pretty easy to get into metal if you already enjoy punk. The New Wave of British Heavy Metal took notes from the rise of punk rock in the UK during the '70s, so early Iron Maiden and Venom had some crossover appeal in that regard. If you like the fast/upbeat stuff then thrash metal might be for you: Celtic Frost, Anthrax, and the more modern Power Trip are good ones to get into imo. There are also the crossover thrash bands like S.O.D. and Cryptic Slaughter that were more rooted in hardcore punk. And then there's grind/mincecore, metalcore, stenchcore, all kinds of -cores that fuse some kind of hardcore punk with metal in some different way. But to keep things brief, start out with the bands I named above. I'm sure there's lots of other great metal bands that punks also enjoy dearly, so I'd be interested in hearing from people in the replies.

This debate has been settled already.

Yeah I think DEVO mostly gets credit for their influence on new wave but barely within the world of punk music. We're seeing more of it now with the egg punk bands, but even older bands like the Dead Milkmen and Decedents have DEVO in their DNA. Anyone not up on Hardcore Devo needs to change that.

Wearing a banana costume to a hardcore show is lame and I would discourage people from doing the same. Calling it out on stage with a microphone and inciting mob violence is far worse and reflective of the power imbalance in that moment. Danzo has a good take on the situation too (many such cases).

Just looked it up and yeah, looks like the Rescissions Act of 2025 caused the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to be completely defunded. That sucks!

What other government-funded public service should we start calling punk? Does anyone have dibs on a "universal healthcare is punk" t-shirt design yet? "Pensions are punk" on a tote bag would go hard at the retirement homes.

As for your Dystopia recommendations, you should check out Sea of Deprivation, His Hero Is Gone, and Fall of Efrafa. All these bands incorporated elements of sludge metal into their style of crust punk, which would become fairly popular in the 2000s. Some might call this "neo crust" but that's also a pretty wide label that can encompass various approaches to crust that were more melodic than the bands that came before. Either way, I think those bands will suit you well.