Nintendocore
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| Cultural origins | Early 2000s, United States |
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Nintendocore (also known as Nintendo rock,video rock, and nerdcore) is a music genre that fuses aggressive styles of modern rock with chiptune and video game music. Pioneered by Horse the Band, The Advantage, and Minibosses, Nintendocore emerged from various styles of hardcore punk and heavy metal, and has been influenced by many other musical genres.
Nintendocore frequently features the use of electric guitars, drum kits, and typical rock instrumentation alongside synthesizers,chiptunes, 8-bit sounds, and electronically produced beats. It originated out of a very diverse range of musical styles, including hardcore punk,post-hardcore,melodic metalcore, and heavy metal. In addition to these origins, it has been influenced by a variety of other genres, such as electro,noise rock,post-rock, and screamo. Thus, Nintendocore groups vary stylistically. Horse the Band, combines metalcore, heavy metal, thrash metal, and post-hardcore with post-rock passages. "The Black Hole" from Horse the Band's third album, The Mechanical Hand, is an example of Nintendocore, featuring screamed vocals, heavy "Nintendo riffs," and "sound effects from numerous games."Math the Band includes electro and dance-punk styles.Minibosses use Kyuss-inspired heavy metal riffing, and The Advantage is associated with styles such as noise rock and post-rock.The Depreciation Guild was an indie band that incorporated 8-bit sounds, video game music, and elements of shoegaze.
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