Nintendocore
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Nintendocore is a broadly defined style of music that most commonly fuses chiptune and video game music with hardcore punk and/or heavy metal. The genre is sometimes considered a direct subgenre of post-hardcore and a fusion genre between metalcore and chiptune.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Nintendocore
- Music genre.caption
- Horse the Band performing at Lee's Palace 2015 in Toronto, Ontario
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Early 2000s, United States
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- hardcore punk
- Part of
- heavy metal subculture
- Country of origin
- United States
- Creator
- Horse the Band
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- topic's main category
- Category:Nintendocore
- Commons category
- Nintendocore
- inception
- 2001-09-00
- influenced by
- chiptune
- different from
- video game music
- partially coincident with
- cybergrind
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Encyclopedic overview
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Nintendocore is a broadly defined style of music that most commonly fuses chiptune and video game music with hardcore punk and/or heavy metal. The genre is sometimes considered a direct subgenre of post-hardcore and a fusion genre between metalcore and chiptune.
Practitioners of this style include Horse the Band and Minibosses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nintendocore” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.