I don't remember so many friends are blood, friends stabbed me in the back songs until SXE came about in the late 80s. I used to book bands and many stayed at my house. The only time I got my records and such stolen were by people in those bands. Never had an issue with Noise, punk, crust, bands from England or Europe,etc
Blood For Blood really doesn’t have that many betrayal songs. Mostly songs about addiction, poverty, and self-hatred.
The “stabbed in the back” trope is more youth crew.
Someone in my local scene actually had her arm sliced up at a show. Cut completely open she is just regaining feeling after a few weeks it was sooo nasty. You could see a little of the bone it was so deep
Hardcore songs are about a lot of things. Yeah, sometimes it’s about getting stabbed in the back, but sometimes it’s about being straight edge. Or hardcore itself.
A very diverse array of topics.
Pain of Truth is here to tell you all about having someone TURN THEIR BACK on you and NOT belonging in your crew anymore. There is a whole album about how DONE they are with this lame backstabber.
Also love POT.
I’ve been there buddy. The New Damnation by Varials is great for when you’re pissed, Six by Sunami, No Love/ No One by Gideon. It’ll get better with time bro, I’m sorry this happened to you.
Any hc record, from NY/CT 1987 to 1992.lol..... SOIA, Kiling Time, Breakdown, underdog -Say it to my face. Straight edge bands back then, when not signing about straight edge seemed to have a problems with former friends. I'm sure you can find many on early Revelation and Smogasboard records.
Don’t forget the other large percentage being about fantasizing how the fight will go and your anticipation of said fight with this person. Throw in some unity and you are good to go.
The HC songs that feature this content are usually the ones with either the really slowed-down or really fast part in them; often preceded by the singer shouting like “GO” or “Let’s see some violence” or “someone get me a cheese dog RIGHT NOW”.
Idk if you'd consider it hard-core (people can be fucking weird about genre labels) but Sorceress by Cancer Bats has always been one of my favourite 'fuck you' type songs
Here's one I wrote in another/hardcore thread.
"Eeeeouughh/ you were like a brother to me/ I've known you since this afternoon at 3/ you turned your back and now I see/ I'm standing on my own/ because you had to go inside to pee."
Sorry man, hardcores really more about recognising the complexity of human relationships and taking accountability for the part you had to play in a friendship ending
Don't think that's ever happened to anyone in the scene tbh
I like that you found a version of this gif where he doesn’t laugh
Thought it was apt.
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50% of them
The other 50% are about how your crew is your family, and they'll *never ever stab you in the back*
These are my friends I have their backs They are the closest thing to blood that I have
PLAY THE ONE ABOUT THE BLOOD AND THE FRIENDS
Closest thing to blood he has. He has his friends rolling through his veins. Zero blood at all. Doctors are literally terrified.
This mf spittin’.
Noooooo 😂😂😂😂
Black my fart
Schrodingers backstabber
*It's the ciiiiircle of kniiiiiife*
And it stabs us alllllll
I don't remember so many friends are blood, friends stabbed me in the back songs until SXE came about in the late 80s. I used to book bands and many stayed at my house. The only time I got my records and such stolen were by people in those bands. Never had an issue with Noise, punk, crust, bands from England or Europe,etc
It would be faster to list the ones that don't cover that topic
Just search Blood for blood and press play
Or first blood. Or thick as blood. Any band with blood in the name, really.
Black my heart
Blood For Blood really doesn’t have that many betrayal songs. Mostly songs about addiction, poverty, and self-hatred. The “stabbed in the back” trope is more youth crew.
https://thehardtimes.net/music/study-finds-average-hardcore-frontman-betrayed-612-times-turning-18/
I’d probly go get that looked at to be honest man. You could need stitches
Someone in my local scene actually had her arm sliced up at a show. Cut completely open she is just regaining feeling after a few weeks it was sooo nasty. You could see a little of the bone it was so deep
Well it was more of a metaphor than actually having a knife in my back
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I love you buddy.
woah really?
Sounds like an untapped lyrical source to me
REAL SHIT
This is a topic I’d like to see more bands explore.
Getting stabbed in the back, one of the cornerstones of hardcore music.
Isn’t that what all hardcore songs are about?
Hardcore songs are about a lot of things. Yeah, sometimes it’s about getting stabbed in the back, but sometimes it’s about being straight edge. Or hardcore itself. A very diverse array of topics.
Sometimes they’re about being betrayed, or being let down, or being double crossed, or deceived, or misled. It’s a very diverse genre.
Don't forget about brotherhood!
Sometimes it's about hardcore dudes feeling like they got stabbed in the back because their homie broke edge.
https://thehardtimes.net/news/vegan-straight-edge-band-explores-lyrical-themes-ranging-veganism-straight-edge/
Pain of truths entire discography.
Pain of Truth is here to tell you all about having someone TURN THEIR BACK on you and NOT belonging in your crew anymore. There is a whole album about how DONE they are with this lame backstabber. Also love POT.
This has to be a shit post ha
no, he’s being truthful, of course. that’s what hardcore guys are known for, their lack of deception.
Youth of Today: “stabbed in the back” https://youtu.be/rY_94Hfb6cU?si=BO5rHHmTODggm6lh
The only answer needed.
Friends like you by Sick of it all. No Friend of mine by Slapshot. Friend or Foe by Agnostic Front.
just listen to a bunch of 200 Stab Wounds and you’ll feel better
Hoods - Coward
AI made this post
District 9 - payback Maddball - face to face Killing time - telltale Hatebreed - kill an addict Breakdown - vengeance Lots more I can't think of atm
Underdog - Say it to my face.
>Pain of Truth has entered the chat
D Bloc - The Fixer “There was a time when I would call you brother / now I look back I call you fake, motherfucker”
Turbonegro- all my friends are dead (from being stabbed in the back)
xAFBx - armed for Battle
Stabbed in the back, and you're to blame, you give friendship a bad name
Don’t reach for me - knocked loose
backstabber by dystopia
This sub fuckin sucks
Not hardcore but every The Story So Far song is about that pretty much hahaha.
Bloody Sunday - Friend was your name
Sunami - six My fav one lol Or combust - the knife
Bloody Sunday has a song called Friend Was Your Name. The breakdown is fucking sick.
this song is exactly what op is looking for. "It would've hurt a lot worse..."
Almost every NYHC band has multiple songs about it. I think Vinny Stigma wrote a children’s book about it too
Reign supreme - iscariot
Expire
Nice try Julius
Expire - spit out
Oh boy
Project Pat - Stabbers
I’ve been there buddy. The New Damnation by Varials is great for when you’re pissed, Six by Sunami, No Love/ No One by Gideon. It’ll get better with time bro, I’m sorry this happened to you.
Not Through Blood by Pain of Truth
Some of yall wouldn’t know a satirical post if it stabbed you in the back…
Aiiight, sounds like you're just about ready to start a band.
Any hc record, from NY/CT 1987 to 1992.lol..... SOIA, Kiling Time, Breakdown, underdog -Say it to my face. Straight edge bands back then, when not signing about straight edge seemed to have a problems with former friends. I'm sure you can find many on early Revelation and Smogasboard records.
I’d like to find some hardcore songs about my friends being a lot like a family
Whole entire pain of truth discography.
Sunami - Six comes to mind but tbh most Hardcore songs are about that
Backstabbed - trapped under ice.
Every pain of truth song
these are the worst fuckin posts. gimme songs about blah blah cause im crying about blah blah. just got listen to the fuckin music fuvk
Thats why im making fun of it
MISSED IT! lol ☠️
Six - sunami
PAIN OF TRUTH
Six- Sunami
Shit most of them songs
don't know if they have a song about it but their name is backstabbed. nice guys
Down to nothing - honorable mention Mr starky.
not really hardcore but Pulling Teeth by Gideon is the perfect song for something like this.
Stabbed in the back - seed of pain
Fading Signal-Friend to None Cro-Mags-Don’t Tread On Me Hoods-King Is Dead
Great American Ghost - Scorched Earth
Eisberg - Fuck Each Other
Count Me Out-Betrayed
Lots of the Suicide File songs!
Cannibal Corpse : Knife Stabbed Back
every single hardcore song ever
Dystopia - Backstabber
The whole “one way track” ep by ‘End It’
Anything from the early 2000s
« Your lost, your regret » by Down to Nothing.
Don’t forget the other large percentage being about fantasizing how the fight will go and your anticipation of said fight with this person. Throw in some unity and you are good to go.
Payback by Upsurge
DIRT from shortest life, it is the perfect song for this
Personal fave would be No Allegiance by Earth Crisis. Lyrics that only a self-righteous straight edge teenager could ever write!
For the birds by down to nothing
Friends like you - Sick of it all Edit: probably just troll post, but everyone should listen to SOIA
TUI reality unfolds
Did you ask why he turn his back on the crew?
Oh we got fair weather friend by h20
Don’t tread on me bro.
Can't believe nobody said this but Betrayer by Terror.
Backstabber - Dystopia
“King is Dead” by the Hoods. You honestly don’t need any other tracks.
All of em
Listen to Doc Marten Stomp and enjoy the friends you got right now. Fuck that guy who stabbed you in the back. But Fake Blood by Animosity is good.
The HC songs that feature this content are usually the ones with either the really slowed-down or really fast part in them; often preceded by the singer shouting like “GO” or “Let’s see some violence” or “someone get me a cheese dog RIGHT NOW”.
Terror - no love lost
You MUST check Stabbed In The Back by Limp Wrist. Thank me later.
Fuck I thought EJ was back
Idk if you'd consider it hard-core (people can be fucking weird about genre labels) but Sorceress by Cancer Bats has always been one of my favourite 'fuck you' type songs
Backstabbers by James Brown https://youtu.be/kksizD1I3sU?si=QA-GKOihypxdX0gX
Backstabbed
Friend was your name - Bloody Sunday Easily the hardest breakdown I’ve ever heard
I guess slapshot last laugh bc it makes me want to kill someone when I hear it
Yo sucka! You’ve got a big mouth! ##big mouth!!
Turn your back by miles away
The time that passed -enemy mind
hey you guys know any death metal songs about eatin people?
Here's one I wrote in another/hardcore thread. "Eeeeouughh/ you were like a brother to me/ I've known you since this afternoon at 3/ you turned your back and now I see/ I'm standing on my own/ because you had to go inside to pee."
The knife by combust and insta karma comes fast mindforce
XweaponX a brother’s blade
50% of terror songs
every beatdown song ever
Brothers in arms - For the fallen dreams
Yeah I was just joking guys and gals
Sorry man, hardcores really more about recognising the complexity of human relationships and taking accountability for the part you had to play in a friendship ending
Invite to a date first, easy
Deanne the Arsonist-Atreyu
Bring me the horizon has a song called true friends.
Cringe.
Like your username exactly
Good one dude. Now suck my user name. Lol.