^ Animosity is from san francisco and is a death metal band, the other 2 are also metal/metal core.
Some hardcore bands from sacto you should check out are hoods, killing the dream, trash talk, above this world and set it straight.
I've seen hoods a couple of times in the past. They've fallen off a lot though in recent years, and are constantly changing up their line-up with the exception of mikey hoods. I always loved mikey's rants that he makes during shows and calling out people.
Some good sacto hardcore bands are...
I've been playing off and on for around 5 years now. I've learned chords and different scales, and have enough skill that I can make up certain solo's. I just don't keep up with it enough, and rarely practice anymore. I have a japanese fender strat custom with 2 humbucker pickups and 1 single...
There was a stoner rock documentary I saw a few years ago that was interesting and talked about the genre and its beginnings. I think it was called desert rock or some shit like that.
^ Suicidal Tendencies first album was most definitly a hardcore punk album, but even in that one they brought in a little metal influence with the guitar solos. After their 1st album, they had more of a metal sound mixed with punk. Suicidal is a band that is kind of hard to categorize because...
lol nah I like a lot of different music including rap, but I've been into punk and hardcore for a long time. And yeah the cro-mags are an old nyhc band that started in the 80's.
Certain hardcore bands started bringing more metal influences into the music in the early 90's and is what started "metal-core". Hardcore punk is what the genre originally was started in the early 80's and was basically just punk played faster and harder with bands like bad brains, minor threat...