crust punk

English

Etymology

The term crust came from the band Hellbastard's 1986 Ripper Crust demo.

Noun

crust punk (countable and uncountable, plural crust punks)

1. (uncountable) A subgenre of punk rock, derived from hardcore punk with extreme metal elements, often with pessimistic lyrics about political and social ills.

   Synonyms: crust, crustcore, stenchcore

   Coordinate term: hardcore punk

   • 2010, Sharon M. Hannon, Punks: A Guide to an American Subculture, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 162:

     Crust: Also called crustcore or crust punk, an extreme version of hardcore punk that arose in Great Britain in the mid-1980s, featuring lyrics that espoused anarchist political or social beliefs shouted or growled over extremely fast metal guitar […]

2. (countable) A fan of that genre.

Further reading

• blackened crust
• crust punk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia