Definitions

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  • noun music A subgenre of fast hardcore punk music that emerged in the early 1980s.

Etymologies

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thrash +‎ -core

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Examples

  • "Magic-Merveille," she said, and her quiet voice cut right through the thrashcore band and into me.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

  • She vanished into the crowd, and the thrashcore sound returned, stink of machine oil and chemicals and designer drug sweat and cheap synthleather.

    Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009

  • I had a friend in LA who was really into thrashcore, most of which went in one ear and out the other for me.

    The Big Takeover 2009

  • Sure, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles haven't played in five years and haven't put out a proper studio album in nearly 15, but the legendary thrashcore outfit had been able to maintain its explosive vigor well into the new millennium until cancer temporarily sidelined guitarist

    Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue 2009

  • That’s the moment of true Misfit maturation — the songwriting, the themes — the midway point between the motley experimentation of the Static Age era and the straight-up thrashcore of Earth A.D.

    Earth A.D. | ATTACKERMAN 2008

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