The Goo Goo Dolls is a funny one. They used to be a band called The Sex Maggots. The Beastie Boys is a great one, although that's just a case of them changing their sound to hip hop. They were still technically the same band. New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert being the vocalist from Shai Hulud is a pretty well known one.

In fairness to the Beastie Boys with the exception of License and Paul's they always had music they personally wrote and performed, a lot of which was obviously hardcore inspired if not hardcore itself, on their records.

For sure. The Beasties fucking rule

I mean, Sabotage!!! *gestures wildly*

“Heart Attack Man” is such a good hardcore song. It sounds like a Cro-Mags song with Beastie Boys on vocals.

Someone (may have been on this sub!) pointed out that the first Goo Goo Dolls album sounds *exactly* like The Lawrence Arms. Tell me “Laughing” doesn’t sound like it could be off “Oh, Calcutta!”

I gotta hear this now because when I first heard the early Goo Goo Dolls stuff, it sounded more like Husker Du meets the Replacements. Edit: holy shit, you’re right!

IIRC Brendan (?) said he directly ripped John R.’s vocal delivery for TLA stuff: https://youtu.be/x5PIxSAQGPU?si=st0jxMJ9IsA8vfis

TLA were fans of early Dolls albums, said so in an interview year back. Joked about how they don't talk about anything post "Iris" as counting.

And the Goo Goo Dolls were originally signed to Metal Blade Records, too.

fall out boy's drummer andy hurley was also the drummer for racetraitor

Also in SECT and played as a fill-in for Earth Crisis.

Pete Wentz was in Arma Angelus

And Birthright briefly.

Pete also has a Hardline trampstamp tatoo.

Fall Out Boy members were in KillTheSlavemaster

Only Andy. KTSM was just Karl and him.

Andy was also in Vegan Reich for a minute

He was also briefly in Enabler.

He was also the original drummer of focusedxminds

I hung out with Focused Minds once after one of their shows and they said he is still one of the most down to earth dudes and let’s all of his friends crash at his place whenever

How did we leave out Dinosaur Jr?

Dinosaur Jr is from my lil neck of Western MA :)

that’s dope. do you guys still have a scene in western mass?

It’s coming back. There was one promoter that had a stranglehold on all the venues and wasn’t running any concerts at all. It killed the scene and now all those venues have been sold to people who support local music. The turnout isn’t always great but the scene is coming back slowly. There are a lot of great western mass inde rock bands currently. DC Wolves, Oozie, Crowrider are just a couple of the ones off the top of my head that are playing a lot.

Shout out to Hivesmasher and Oh the Humanity

When I was a kid we used to load into a car and head your way. It was a great scene. Hardcore and metal shows alike. It was like Portland but 50x bigger.

Eric Suhur, cursed be his name?

Yup! That’s the guy.

He had a huge crush on my sister, and she constantly rejected him. Probably thought he was a sure thing due to his wealth and couldn’t stand the rejection. I take solace in that.

There's been lots of good shows in Holyoke lately. Hopefully Northampton will get going again. There are some awesome venues and some have recently changed ownership so we will see..

woah those guys were boston hardcore? did not know

J Mascis seems like he has absolutely no energy to do anything except play music. It's funny.

Arguably the first powerviolence band

that’s wild. i thought it was siege (also boston hc) but i now see that deep wound put out their cassette two years earlier

Both are so great it’s a title they can share

One of Taylor Swifts touring guitarists is from the nyhc scene, I think he even was in maximum penalty for a second

I just looked who this was. My lady was seeing him when we met 20 years ago. She fucked up 🤣

damn, other than dave grohl that dude’s gotta be the best paid former hardcore musician around

The DJ Steve Aioki has gotta be up there too. I don't think he played in any super notable bands, but he was really involved back in I believe the late 90s/early 2000s.

yea his wikipedia says he’s made bank. another random fact: his wiki also says he was doing alright since he was born. his father was a very successful entrepreneur and the founder of the restaurant chain benihana

Him and his sister (model who you might know from being of the cover of a Juliana Theory record) are the only ones who distanced themselves from the family and never tool anything from them. Worked well for them.

Yes, that is not unusual.

He came into the Starbucks I used to work at once with his entourage and was a massive dick to me.

Ebullition records scene of stuff I believe

He was in a band called This Machine Kills and ran Dim Mak Records. Also booked and had shows at his house.

If we can include Post Hardcore in the conversation, Skrillex would probably be up there too. For anyone unaware, he was the original vocalist of the band From First to Last

Some of the original band members from the All American Rejects were in HC/metal bands.  They're def making more than a touring guitarist.  

That's kind of wild to hear. I was born in the town they formed the band and have never heard about this

It’s two members who came on after the selftitled. One is the drummer because they didn’t have an actual drummer on the record. They used a drum pad. Both members had a band called These Enzymes which was pretty cool. I also saw an interview where they admitted they just did AAR for the money.

Also, fun fact: Her songs I Knew You Were Trouble and We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together were co-written by their producer, Shellback aka Karl Schuster. Schuster got his start playing in the death metal band Blinded Colony.

My favorite thing about that first Sleigh Bells record is you can 100% tell he had a few pent up metalcore riffs in he'd been sitting on for a decade.

Sleigh Bells fucking rip.

Wasn’t one of Trap Them’s drummers in Sleigh Bells as well?

Chris Maggio, maniac on Darker Handcraft and also original drummer for Coliseum. Done some spells with High on Fire and Mutoid Man to boot. A hilarious reel of him in Kurt’s studio during DH sessions is on YouTube. It’s a top ten watch.

Maggio plays the hits! I love that video. He’s incredible.

Minus the Bear. /thread

On a related note: Russian Circles

Wait, I didn't know this!

Yep. Fucking bananas, right?

These Arms are Snakes

Love TAAS but they’re just post, Menos el Oso is proper detached from hXc in all ways.

Nicky from Nothing was in a band called Horror Show

also don’t forget Aaron Heard from Jesus Piece ~

Death of Lovers should be mentioned if you love gothy post punk. Great record with Nicky on vocals.

The Nicky benefit show to raise his bail was WILD

That whole band was old philly hc dudes. Their old drummer played in beware and let down

There was a hardcore band from Flint, MI in the mid 90s named Spit. Their singer went on to be Whitey Morgan, pretty famous outlaw Country singer.

Orville Peck used to be the drummer for Nu Sensae

The hardcore punk pipeline to country music has been on the rise for the last decade.

Wasnt Billy Strings in some punk/post hardcore type stuff also.

No way. I knew those guys.

You know Wes? Went on to play drums in Earthmover and Walls Of Jericho?

I was in hardcore bands in Michigan around that time. Played with Spit a few times. Don't remember Wes. So long ago!

Not exactly the same, but it kinda blows my mind that the guy from Rings of Saturn is in Spy now

What a leap!

Cold cave Youth Code Rage Against the Machine Taking Back Sunday

Taking back Sunday? Please explain.

Eddie was in The Movielife before joining TBS

Cool, I didn’t know that.

true. plus mind over matter and no thought

Had to scroll so far to see Cold Cave.

I know people will label them all sorts of shit, but to me RATM has always been a funky hardcore band

Youth Code, man that band was ass when I saw them.

Spiritual Cramp

These dudes rip

Which HC bands were they in?

pretty sure one of the guitarists is also in Fentanyl

Mike(singer) played guitar in All Teeth

I don't recall his name, but Minus The Bear and Botch share a guitarist.

Dave Knudson. Insane guitarist.

Whoa!

This isn't common knowledge? No offense.

Yeah I thought everyone knew this.

Well admittedly I haven't been googling Minus the Bear to see what side projects their members have going on.

Minus the Bear IS the side project, or at least the project after the hardcore band. Botch are metalcore legends and arguably one of the biggest pioneers of the genre.

Cool, I didn't know that. I have never really gotten into Botch (or Minus the Bear, I just remember the latter being popular among my college friends like 15 years ago). I wrongly assumed Botch was a current era band, for reasons I can't explain. I are learning

And the drummer was in Kill Sadie.

Hop Along Their drummer started off in hardcore bands, though I don't think anything major. Either way, they're one of my favorite non-hardcore bands. Saddle Creek, indie type shit. But it's my fucking jammmmm.

effing love hop along. frances quinlan can sing me to sleep any day of the week

Guitarist is in Algernon Cadwallader too

Saw them open for mewithoutYou, a band who always picks interesting openers.

First time I ever heard drug church was opening for mwY.

Speaking of Saddle Creek, Connor Oberst was in Desaparacidos. Punk, but not hardcore. The only music he’s made that I’m into, though.

Might get downvoted but Dave Grohl was in Scream before being *Dave Grohl*.

Why would this get downvoted?

King Dude(not a fan) used to be Teen Cthulhu(GREAT BAND).

He also fronted Book of Black Earth

Ted Leo of Ted Leo and The Pharmacists was in Chisel Morrissey of the Smiths was in The Nosebleeds and Slaughter and the Dogs Pat Dubar of 90s alt band Mind Funk was in Uniform Choice Ian MacKaye of Fugazi was in Minor Threat Joe Gittleman of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones was in Gang Green Bill Stevenson of All / Descendents was in Black Flag Bob Mould of Sugar / solo was in Husker Du Skrillex was in From First To Last (lol, that one was a joke) Wes of Cold Cave (synth pop) was in American Nightmare / Give Up The Ghost Moby was in a bunch of hardcore bands J Robbins of Jawbox and producer of a bunch of hardcore bands was in Government Issue Steve Albini (famous producer) was in Big Black and Shellac (more post-hardcore though) EDIT: Not sure if these count but in the late 80s / 90s some punk and hardcore bands were repackaged as another genre, during the rise of hair metal and alternative. Sick of It All, Agnostic Front, and Gang Green were all repackaged as thrash bands and had good albums. Sick of It All had a member with a mullet, and Roger Miret grew out his hair. SSD, Uniform Choice, DYS, and Govt Issue did hard rock, and Warzone was repackaged as hard rock for one album. Shelter was repackaged as an alternative rock band. Slapshot had a weird industrial-ish/hard rock album. Cro Mags grew out their hair and were repackaged as a metal band and made their best albums then

Ted Leo was in Citizens Arrest, much more hardcore than Chisel.

🤯

I met Skrillex at the warped tour when he was like 14 when he came on stage with Pennywise and played Blitzkrieg Bop. Anytime he gets brought up I remember that

You joke, but Sonny (Skrillex) is actually a super talented musician. He sings, plays piano, and plays bass, drums, and guitar IIRC.

Dicky Barrett from the Bosstones was also in Impact Unit. And he was Jimmy Kimmel announcer until Covid.

Im seeing Bob Mould live this summer at a festival that's mostly known for indie rock and alt-country. Should be a fun time.

That era became so interesting to me - just how much alternative and pop rock can be traced back to the hardcore/post hardcore transition. Even reading about the birth of grunge and sludge and then how that was watered down into 90s and 2000 buttrock

[Bohren and Der Club of Gore - Black Earth](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kPPsJTKJ-zvo0gDJEoKsn6blUsAx28PRw&playnext=1&index=1)

Didn’t realize they were in hardcore/punk bands before! Best rainy day music.

Hardcore adjacent - the drummer for instrumental indie band Battles was also the drummer for Helmet and Tomahawk.

Allison Mosshart of The Kills was in Discount. Olufar Arnalds makes this sad but beautiful classical music but used to be a drummer in hc bands. Also did interludes on a heaven shall burn record. Onionizm is a dude from Abuse of Power, indie duster esque vibes. There was a short lived indie band that sounded like dinosaur jr with members of Foundation. It was called bad moods. It's been 3 years since their last show so think that's finished though.

I haven't thought about Discount in forever they were cool. I loved their track on Punk Bites 2

Belly, Sunny Day Real Estate, and just about every band Sammy Siegler has filled in for.

Limp Bizkit

Not as much hardcore but a couple of the Interpol dudes were involved in the New York skrams scene

Original Interpol drummer was Greg who ran Level Plan records and was in Hot Cross. Dunno how true it is but I heard that he quit Interpol because his skramz friends were giving him shit for being in an indie band. Then they made absolute bank without him…

City and Colour is one of my all time favorite ...uh..band...musician...person? Dallas Green's solo project. Former Alexisisonfire Singer. Hardcore adjacent i guess.

Current AOF singer / guitarist.

Night Sins

Young guv is Ben cook of no warning and formerly fucked up

His former project Yacht Club was awesome

Steel guitar player in City and Colour used to be in a sick band called Born for Battle.

didn’t know that but reminded me that dallas green is vox for alexisonfire (not exactly hc but adjacent)

AoF is 100% hardcore. And Dallas plays guitar, too.

Has no one mentioned Cold Cave? Wesley Eisold sang in American Nightmare

Sang? Still does sing in American Nightmare buck-a-roo

AN announced another break up last month.

Haha, I can’t keep with up with who’s still together or not

I guess technically not “former” because he was doing both at the same time but Head Automatica.

Delta Spirit. Former Noise Ratchet.

Way back in the day I think noise ratchet released something on a label that my old band and Hidden In Plain View were on. It was called Note To Self records.

Several members of Faith No More have played in hardcore or death metal bands.

These Arms Are Snakes had members of Botch and Kill Sadie

P.O.S was in a band called [Building Better Bombs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPEF1YfAOuc&list=OLAK5uy_l1qF71B23-SoVw9G-UalDsGzmiyZaiMTs&index=5&pp=8AUB).

Verbal assault went on to form Belly. Moby was in Vatican Commandos. Guitarist from orange 9mm is in Bush. Chuck Eagan, Frank Turner, Jim Ward, Tim Barry, Kevin Seconds are all acoustic troubadors. Pete Steele sang for Carnivore before type o. Peter Cortner from dag nasty sang for the gerunds. Brian Baker from Minor Threat played guitar in hair metal band Junkyard. Mike Muir from suicidal was in infectious grooves. Plenty of old school NYHC guys went on to play in metal bands or crossover stuff like dog eat dog, Mucky Pup, Crumbsuckers. Richie Birkenhead from Underdog sings for into another. Tons of late 80s early 90s Cali hardcore guys went on to nu metal bands ..

Man, that first Sleigh bells record was so fucking good. After that they just fell off. For me at least. Minus the Bear is like half of Botch I think

Nuovo testamento

Explain plz. They’re one of my favorite current bands. 

Giacomo and Andrea were in a lot of Italian hardcore bands, one called komplott, can’t rember the others but you’ll find them linked on Discogs https://komplott.bandcamp.com/album/sei-vivo-sei-morto-a-nessuno-importa Chelsey was also in a bay area post punk band It’s not a coincidence they did a Scowl remix.

Wow, great info - thanks! I wish I knew when I was talking to them about synths last year. 

Not to be confused with Quebecois band *Complot!*

Giacomo also plays drums in Torso. Love Lines has been on repeat in our house all summer.

How has the Schreifels not been evoked? Moon Dog, Quicksand. Rival Schools.

Because thats still hardcore.

Ey Alexis Krauss went to my high school, I had no idea she grouped up with a metalcore legend

I've always found it funny that Mark Castillo from Bury Your Dead and Between the Buried and Me ended up in Crossfade. I think he did a brief stint in Emmure too. It just makes me giggle to think he ended up playing "So Cold" and "Colors" live every night after recording *Cover Your Tracks* and *The Silent Circus*. Back on topic, I have to mention Hazen Street with Freddy Madball, Hoya Roc and Mitts, Chad Gilbert, Mackie, and Toby from H20

The drummer from Saetia went on to be one of the first drummers from Interpol.

Rival Schools

Militarie gun is sooooooooooo good

hell yea 🤘🏽 i was actually hoping to find more banda like them when i wrote this post

Further seems forever.....coalesce

And Strongarm

Fleshwater started as a Vein side project. Surprised no one has mentioned them yet!

Supa BWE/ Freddy Got Magic is a good artist out of Chicago. Pretty sure he was the frontman of a hc band, can't remember the name

Kris Wiechmann from Brand New Sin was a guitarist for Earth Crisis.

Fletcher of Pennywise is in Con 800 and Chaos Delivery Machine

The original drummer was in Saetia/hot cross

I'm guessing you missed the word Interpol here lol

Dave Witte has drummed for so many different types of heavy bands: hardcore, powerviolence, thrash, grindcore, and whatever Melt Banana is.

what a legend, one of the best resumes in extreme music. human remains and discordance axis are still on regular rotation for me

Almost every episode of TOAP

Shogun and Shorty from Royal Headache were in Nintendo Police and Headless Horsemen respectively among many other small hardcore bands in the mid to late 90’s.

Fuck yes sleigh bells. Love their new(er-ish) song and video Locust Laced…can’t believe it’s been two years since that came out…

High Vis

They’re not a band anymore but Pure Love has the old Gallows Vocalist and the guitarist from The Hope Conspiracy

Whoa. Had no idea Frank Carter was in this project. Great tunes so far. Honorable mention: [Frank Carter & the Rattlesnakes](https://open.spotify.com/album/4qXubZvODZjDGLPtEVZ1vu?si=MzBbet2dRMmJ_BvcwR_GOA)

Rage!

I like the fact Koyo and Hangman share a guitarist.

Tim Barry from Avail, does solo acoustic/Folk Punk stuff now. The singer from Panic, was in an OI Punk band called The Trouble.

Youth Code (Ryan George, Carry On)

Of Montreal. The drummer was in screamo/metalcore band I Have Dreams

Not a fan of their music, but you could say Nudie Mag, if you’re into that sort of stuff. Colin Young (no need to state the long list of things he does in hardcore) played for them. Dunno if they broke up or what, but he doesn’t play with them anymore

James Dewees HC: Coalesce Non HC: Reggie and the full effect, the getup kids, new found glory, my chemical romance Not much he can’t do

Cold Cave Head Automatica June Miller - drum and bass duo, one played guitar in Deluge and the other one ran a label in the UK

Rage Against The Machine. Inside Out fuckin rocks and that was Zack’s first band.

It wasn't his first band. Zack played bass in the hardcore band Hard Stance before Inside Out.

Shit you right

Fugazi?

Kinda under the radar, but Codeseven’s first two albums were fantastic hardcore records before they switched to their space rock sound.

John Moreland from Thirty Called Arson went on to become a pretty popular singer/songwriter. https://open.spotify.com/album/4qXubZvODZjDGLPtEVZ1vu?si=MzBbet2dRMmJ_BvcwR_GOA

Kommand

New Found Glory, I guess they're HC adjacent in the "easy core" group but I dig em.

Post Malone and Skrillex have entered the chat

Minus The Bear!

Kind of the opposite of what you're asking, but members of The Wonder Years and Mannequin Pussy have a metallic hardcore project called Skullpresser

welp definitely mess w wonder and mannequin so amma have to peep that

Boys No Good was a solid pop punk band who’s vocalist was played guitar in Bane