'Trapped In A Scene - UK Hardcore - 1985-1989'
by Ian Glasper
Emerging from the wreckage of the Anarcho-Punk scene, underground hardcore
music in the UK took its influences from the punk bands of the early Eighties,
the nascent American hardcore wave breaking across British shores and
the emerging metal/punk crossover scene. Filter such intense sounds through
some fiercely DIY aesthetics, a thriving tape-trading culture and an oft-skewed
sense of humour and the result was a potent movement that spawned such
seminal acts as Napalm Death, Extreme Noise Terror, the Stupids, Electro
Hippies, Doom and Heresy. Such acts quickly carved their names into the
annals of alternative music and made 'UK Hardcore' a term respected around
the world.
Trapped In A Scene: UK Hardcore 1985-1989 is the long awaited final installment
in Ian Glasper's trilogy examining hardcore punk in the UK during the
1980s. Like 'Burning Britain' and 'The Day The Country Died' it is based
on first hand accounts and is illustrated by never-seen-before photographs
and rare gig flyers, making it the definitive document on UK Hardcore.
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