So finally, here's my Post-Hardcore riffs video inspired by your suggestions! I previously didn't know that much about Post-Hardcore, so I definitely have more of a feel for this genre now even though there's lots more still to explore! I must say I definitely preferred the older 80s and early 90s stuff. Maybe I'll go more into the 2000s stuff another time. Also the Katana patch I used is available on Patreon to all free and paid members if anyone is interested in downloading it.
I honestly enjoy early-mid 90s PH the most, it takes a lot of inspiration from 80s hardcore, it's dynamic, experimental (but not too experimental) and sharp. Late 90s and onwards PH doesn't feel the same, because the range of influences grew and strayed from just punk. It fused w some metal, emo, even pop, it really sounds like it's own separate thing (not saying that in a bad way tho).
@@MalMotorDedoI feel like a lot of the late 90s PHC was still very Fugazi influenced. There was definitely more outside influences as time went on, but At the Drive in and Unwound’s last albums were in 2000 and 2001 and they are very much punk influenced. It was around 2005 that the metalcore influences that have taken modern PHC really took over.
There's plenty of 2000s stuff more in the older style. There's a sorta transitionary period between the old and new styles as well in that era but thats only a limited set of bands. Thursday, late at the drive in abd hell is for heroes are a part of it
Great to see that Quicksand made the list! The more metallic stuff is probably my favorite style of post-hardcore. Helmet, Deftones, Hum, Snapcase, and early Chevelle are all also worth checking if you haven’t already. :)
Thanks! That's interesting that you mention Deftones because I wouldn't have thought of them as post-hardcore, but now you mention it there are musical similarities, but in a more metal way as you say. I guess there is some kind of cross-over there. I'll check those others out.
@@bloxsy_ I'd primarily call them an alt-metal band, but they definitely have significant post-hardcore influences throughout most of their work, particularly from Helmet, who I also mentioned. :p
Nowhere near enough At the Drive In comments in here! My personal fav post hardcore band for sure. Their energy and creativity were nearly unmatched in the genre
A riff video about post hc that isnt just scene/modern stuff :o Delivering as always! Suggestions or not. I love that jesus lizard one!! Rites of spring one too.
@bloxsy_ I'm glad you're listening to them!!! My favorites currently are Savory, Green Glass, Reel, Whitney Walks, and Cruel Swing! (Mainly because I'm obsessed with thier album FYOSS rn) i recommend listening to Lula Divinia by Shiner and Electra 2000, You'd Prefer An Astronaut and Downward Is Heavenward by Hum. ❤️🤘🏾
Great selection of riffs, done with the usual level. Merchandise is a fun riff to play. Thanks for the drive like jehu reminder. Need to dig out yank crime
Holy fuck! Thank you for including Fall by Dag Nasty on this list! I've been trying to figure out the right way to play the main riff for so long, and watching this helped me figure it out. Dag Nasty is one of my favorite bands ever, both lyrically and musically. Brain Baker is an absolute guitar wizard, and his work in Dag Nasty is my favorite of his. The way he plays those ringing notes over the main riff creates such an interesting texture, and it's so unique. Can I Say to Wig Out at Denko's to Field Day is one of the best 3 album runs of all time, in my opinion.
Sign me up to watch your fingers play ten Husker Dü tracks til I figure out how to play like Bob. This is my favorite one of your videos so far. The only thing I'm mad about is having to pull out all my old records now.
Dope selection, I would include: Snapcase, NomeansNo, Jawbox, Hum, Unsane, Helmet, Orange 9mm, The Mark of Cain, RapeMan, Shellac, Handsome, Refused, Into Another, Therapy? Greetings from Brazil !
FANTASTIC ! Thank you for the great video Bloxsy. - It wild be nice to see some Guitar TABS (or chords) so we can practice playing. We are just beginners.
Thank you. I started doing a series of tutorials where I slow things down and put tabs on the screen. If you have any songs you would like to learn. Let me know.
@@bloxsy_ Thank you so much Bloxsy. I am just starting to play guitar and I just love to see your guitar videos. I am starting to learn a few riffs. Any great song you play with some Tabs would be helpful. THANK YOU ! - One day, I will make sure to Put Your Name on my first music record as a Special Dedication !! :)
Flashback to walking home drunk at 5am and finding a £5 note on the Pavement and using it go to see Nation Of Ulysses that night. I will come back to this tomorrow and try to play along to some of them.
when i think of post hardcore, i'm thinking of bands like Chiodos, Enter Shikari, AlexisonFire, AtTheDriveIn etc like that 2000s blend thats just so good
Different eras. Some of this I would call post-punk more than post-hardcore. I would somewhat agree with you, you had stuff like Converge and the hardcore scene of the 90s after post-punk then the answer to it. Genres are silly, there’s a decent mix of them here.
@@tangodelta7809post punk is goth joy division esque totally different scene post hardcore comes from the dc hardcore sounds more experimental side bands.
@ I mean I know there were some more ‘hardcore’ punk bands out there like the Exploits, maybe I’m ten years too young but I don’t think that was ever called hardcore - just punk
@@The_Nautillus1116 bro,i play the guitar,i play the bass,i love listening music,i inspire myself listening music,the screen of my phone have a collage of my favourite albums.I think i love music for real
Drive Like Jehu is one of my favorite bands ever, I genuinely don’t get how discussion of them remains so exclusive to Internet music circles nowadays. (Edit cause this sounded so negative) Sinews is badass though, your tone captured the record really well; same for Entirely Different Matters!
Nice video bloxsy_. The only riff I was familiar with was Used for Glue so I'm guessing post hardcore isn't my thing. Really liked the Jesus Lizard and Fugazi riffs! Edit: just realised you played an Embrace riff - thats not the same Embrace as the All You Good Good People Embrace, is it? I'd never put them down as post hardcore
HUM is pretty firmly post hardcpre in my opinion as someone who loves the band, they only have on album that can be considered front to back shoegaze, and their first two albums aren't even that reverberated, let alone shoegaze. Also, most ppl who are rlly into sheogaze will tear you a new one if you call them a shoegaze band, learned that the hard way 😂😂😂, and most dedicated shoegaze listeners just straight up despise post hardcore bands or shoegaze crossover genres, complete losers.
th-cam.com/video/3FVwX_b6P0Y/w-d-xo.html if you watch David play the riff from "Breadcrumb Trail" in the beginning, you are playing a harmonic in a different place than he is, overcomplicating it a bit. i learned that i was playing the harmonics in this riff incorrectly, as well. I've learned a lot of cool riffs from this channel.
Post-hardcore is a style of punk music that grew out of hardcore punk, except instead of emphasizing sheer speed and aggression, it puts more focus on things like song dynamics and dissonance. Oftentimes, post-hardcore bands would also write introspective lyrics for their songs, which eventually gave rise to emocore and then just emo. Hope that answers your question. :)
@@The_Nautillus1116 So what you are saying is that people are not allowed to speak their own mind or have their own opinion anymore. How hard-core is that? Not much. Haha.
@@The_Nautillus1116 So what you are saying is that people are not allowed to have their own opinion and the freedom to speak it. Not very Hard-Core punk now is it? Nope.
Title Fight, Husker Du, AND Slint? You have a great sense of taste my good sir 🫡
So finally, here's my Post-Hardcore riffs video inspired by your suggestions! I previously didn't know that much about Post-Hardcore, so I definitely have more of a feel for this genre now even though there's lots more still to explore! I must say I definitely preferred the older 80s and early 90s stuff. Maybe I'll go more into the 2000s stuff another time. Also the Katana patch I used is available on Patreon to all free and paid members if anyone is interested in downloading it.
you're tha man!
You are not, alone, 😊, like deployed 👍
I honestly enjoy early-mid 90s PH the most, it takes a lot of inspiration from 80s hardcore, it's dynamic, experimental (but not too experimental) and sharp.
Late 90s and onwards PH doesn't feel the same, because the range of influences grew and strayed from just punk. It fused w some metal, emo, even pop, it really sounds like it's own separate thing (not saying that in a bad way tho).
@@MalMotorDedoI feel like a lot of the late 90s PHC was still very Fugazi influenced. There was definitely more outside influences as time went on, but At the Drive in and Unwound’s last albums were in 2000 and 2001 and they are very much punk influenced. It was around 2005 that the metalcore influences that have taken modern PHC really took over.
There's plenty of 2000s stuff more in the older style. There's a sorta transitionary period between the old and new styles as well in that era but thats only a limited set of bands. Thursday, late at the drive in abd hell is for heroes are a part of it
YOOOOO EMBRACE!!!!! LET'S GOOOOOO. That record's right in front on the top shelf of my records rack. I got so excited lmao 😭😭
Same. I'm obsessed with that record at the moment
Hüsker Dü guitar tone , fkn IDENTICAL
Great to see that Quicksand made the list! The more metallic stuff is probably my favorite style of post-hardcore. Helmet, Deftones, Hum, Snapcase, and early Chevelle are all also worth checking if you haven’t already. :)
Thanks! That's interesting that you mention Deftones because I wouldn't have thought of them as post-hardcore, but now you mention it there are musical similarities, but in a more metal way as you say. I guess there is some kind of cross-over there. I'll check those others out.
@@bloxsy_ I'd primarily call them an alt-metal band, but they definitely have significant post-hardcore influences throughout most of their work, particularly from Helmet, who I also mentioned. :p
@@mynamessky5436 less metallic than these but still heavy and spacey sounding is Failure, another great band that still puts out amazing stuff.
Shoot, I forgot about them! Yes, check them out, too!
@@mynamessky5436 one of my all times faves. They influenced me so much.
That Thursday riff is so colourful and evocative
Awesome as always @bloxsy , please make a second part with Sunny Day Real Estate, Thrice, Saves The Day, Glassjaw, Minor Threat riffs 🙏🏻
Glassjaw is amazing
I love Slint. Spiderland is packed with lots of guitar riffs that sound like a horror movie original soundtrack
Brilliant video man. Big respect for putting Jehu in there. Rest In Power Rick Froberg.
Thanks!
Dude hell yeah! Drive like Jehu is so rad
this whole video is basically a list of all my favorite bands lmao kickass
"Merchandise" FUGAZI!! Perfect!! You nailed it. I want you to know I love you. I mean it
Thanks dude. I appreciate it!
Nowhere near enough At the Drive In comments in here! My personal fav post hardcore band for sure. Their energy and creativity were nearly unmatched in the genre
Some gem riffs in this video. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Fugazi has some just beautiful riffs
They sure do!! It's hard to play just the riffs though since they're so often interwoven with the other parts!
Please do a video for Glassjaw riffs! Justin Beck is a seriously creative guitarist, and Glassjaw are so underrated imo
So good. Full video dedicated to Karate, Slint or Unwound guitar parts next please. 👏
Slint and Unwound would go HARD
Slint & Jesus Lizard plz 🙏🙏🙏
Damn this was really nice to watch. Good work!
A riff video about post hc that isnt just scene/modern stuff :o
Delivering as always! Suggestions or not. I love that jesus lizard one!! Rites of spring one too.
Perfection again from Bloxsy
Thank you!
I miss some Jawbreaker and Nomenasno, but good selection!
Thank you!
Please make a video on Jawbox, Shiner, Or Hum. Their riffs are so great!!! awesome post-hardcore bands
I'm just getting into Jawbox. Which are your favourites?
@bloxsy_ I'm glad you're listening to them!!! My favorites currently are Savory, Green Glass, Reel, Whitney Walks, and Cruel Swing! (Mainly because I'm obsessed with thier album FYOSS rn) i recommend listening to Lula Divinia by Shiner and Electra 2000, You'd Prefer An Astronaut and Downward Is Heavenward by Hum. ❤️🤘🏾
HUM YESSSSSS
Great picks here
Great picks here@@Dankmemes555
I WAS WAITING FOR AT THE DRIVE-IN BUT THOUGHT IT WAS MAYBE TOO DIFFICULT TO FIND A PROPER "RIFF" FROM THEM BUT YOU DIIIID HATS OFF !!
This is the kind of video that makes you want to compliment someones music taste, great work!
Thank you!☺️
Perfection! ❤❤❤
Man this is absolutely great !
Thanks!
Shed is one of my favorite riffs ever, Perfect!
Well, I guess that's how emo started
unfortunately, yes. imagine going from the great bands here to all the crappy emo bands later.
bro thank you so much for doing Husker Dü! incredible. quite frankly, most of the bands here are incredible too.
All awesome choices!!! I was pleasantly surprised to see Hell Is For Heroes on here, underrated band.
Hell Is For Heroes getting mentioned!! mad underrated
I hope this means Reuben for part 2! :)
And I'll add early Biffy Clyro to the conversation as well
Love to see some quicksand appreciation !
Nice to see Slint included
A DEVIL AMONG THE TAILORSSS YESSS THAT SONG IS PURE FIRE
You should make a cover of that entire song dude, I'm sure you'll nail it.
Thanks. I might do that.
Great selection of riffs, done with the usual level. Merchandise is a fun riff to play. Thanks for the drive like jehu reminder. Need to dig out yank crime
great song choices and great playing
Thank you
Dude! WtF!
I knew from the hand shape on the thumbnail that Chatered Trips was the opener, that's like the first Husker song I learned on guitar haha
excellent selection.
I dig those P.Hardcore riffs as well as that cyclone keep rocking man😎🎸
Thanks man!
Holy fuck! Thank you for including Fall by Dag Nasty on this list! I've been trying to figure out the right way to play the main riff for so long, and watching this helped me figure it out.
Dag Nasty is one of my favorite bands ever, both lyrically and musically. Brain Baker is an absolute guitar wizard, and his work in Dag Nasty is my favorite of his. The way he plays those ringing notes over the main riff creates such an interesting texture, and it's so unique. Can I Say to Wig Out at Denko's to Field Day is one of the best 3 album runs of all time, in my opinion.
You're welcome. I'm new to Dag Nasty, but I thought that was an interesting riff for sure. Will explore more of their music for sure.
Great pick for songs. Love the majority of these bands. The others I will have to check out!
excellent riffs!
Amazing!
Please some Bastro and some Mclusky. Both very underrated. And Flipper, of course
BY GOLLY HE DID IT
Dude jordan minnesota is awesome, great selection, and breadcrumb trail is one of my favorite riffs ever
WE NEED A SLINT RIFFS VIDEO!!!!!
Sign me up to watch your fingers play ten Husker Dü tracks til I figure out how to play like Bob.
This is my favorite one of your videos so far.
The only thing I'm mad about is having to pull out all my old records now.
Oh yeah that would be fun. Which are some of your favourites? I've gotta put Divide and Conquer in there.
I didn’t expect Devil Among the Tailors🤘
You make me want to pick up my guitar 👌🏼
IT HAS COME
You have incredible skills and these riffs sound great man. I would love to see a Lungfish riffs video someday!
Thank you!
No Glassjaw? ☹
Dope selection, I would include: Snapcase, NomeansNo, Jawbox, Hum, Unsane, Helmet, Orange 9mm, The Mark of Cain, RapeMan, Shellac, Handsome, Refused, Into Another, Therapy?
Greetings from Brazil !
I need these songs as a Spotify playlist
FANTASTIC ! Thank you for the great video Bloxsy. - It wild be nice to see some Guitar TABS (or chords) so we can practice playing. We are just beginners.
Thank you. I started doing a series of tutorials where I slow things down and put tabs on the screen. If you have any songs you would like to learn. Let me know.
@@bloxsy_ Thank you so much Bloxsy. I am just starting to play guitar and I just love to see your guitar videos. I am starting to learn a few riffs.
Any great song you play with some Tabs would be helpful. THANK YOU !
- One day, I will make sure to Put Your Name on my first music record as a Special Dedication !! :)
Flashback to walking home drunk at 5am and finding a £5 note on the Pavement and using it go to see Nation Of Ulysses that night. I will come back to this tomorrow and try to play along to some of them.
Slint?!
Impressed
I’d love to see a list of top Superchunk riffs by you
Not familiar with them but I'll give them a listen!
@ hope you’ll dig them!🤞🏻🤞🏻
Very cool, bunch of songs I have never heard but that's an awesome thing. Obviously with HD & Fugazi there's better known songs too
more Lungfish!!
Wow, so nice to sse Lungfish here!
Aye shoutout Lungfish
DRIVE LIKE JEHU MENTIONED!!!
DRIVE LIKE JEHU OH YEAH
when i think of post hardcore, i'm thinking of bands like Chiodos, Enter Shikari, AlexisonFire, AtTheDriveIn etc like that 2000s blend thats just so good
Different eras. Some of this I would call post-punk more than post-hardcore. I would somewhat agree with you, you had stuff like Converge and the hardcore scene of the 90s after post-punk then the answer to it. Genres are silly, there’s a decent mix of them here.
Yuck
@@tangodelta7809post punk is goth joy division esque totally different scene post hardcore comes from the dc hardcore sounds more experimental side bands.
@ I mean I know there were some more ‘hardcore’ punk bands out there like the Exploits, maybe I’m ten years too young but I don’t think that was ever called hardcore - just punk
@@LostHorizons0 great contribution
5:16 THIS IS JORDAN 🗣🗣🗣
LET’S GOOOO
you're a great guitarist. i have similar influences as you do
Needs more Glassjaw
Great!
It Looks like we need The fall of Troy here❤😊
Now this is post hardcore, not those MySpace scene kid bands that blend metal with pop
myspace scene was cool too
Unexpected MySpace hate in 2025
Pop isnt a genre
@@TeVoyAMearIf you are still stuck in shoving music into "genres", then you don't like music for real.
@@The_Nautillus1116 bro,i play the guitar,i play the bass,i love listening music,i inspire myself listening music,the screen of my phone have a collage of my favourite albums.I think i love music for real
Drive Like Jehu is one of my favorite bands ever, I genuinely don’t get how discussion of them remains so exclusive to Internet music circles nowadays. (Edit cause this sounded so negative) Sinews is badass though, your tone captured the record really well; same for Entirely Different Matters!
Should include Hopesfall and Poison the well, From Autumn to Ashes, Thrice.
Some absolute beauties Sir, I've been waiting 6 year for you to do a Mega City Four cover, please do it one day👍
Thank you! Oh wow sorry to keep you waiting. I’ve never heard of them. Maybe you requested it before and I forget? Which song should I cover?
@bloxsy_ that's ok Sir these things take time ha, if you could do either "Who Cares" or "Severe attack of the truth" that would be great 👍
Or Revolution by Mega City Four
no glassjaw but anyway great video and great picks!
Thank you!
Nice video bloxsy_. The only riff I was familiar with was Used for Glue so I'm guessing post hardcore isn't my thing. Really liked the Jesus Lizard and Fugazi riffs!
Edit: just realised you played an Embrace riff - thats not the same Embrace as the All You Good Good People Embrace, is it? I'd never put them down as post hardcore
Nah it’s a different embrace, they, along with rites of spring were the precursor bands to fugazi
Thank you. Yeah it's another band called Embrace from America featuring Ian Mackaye of Fugazi and Minor Threat, not the English Britpop band! :)
Embrace is so underrated
Dag Nasty❤
“We owe you nothing” Can you do facet squared?
finally 😎
can we get an emo vid? Like Sunny Day Real Estate/Mineral era
SDRE, Mineral, HUM, Glassjaw, Failure, and Indian Summer all need to be showcased by this dude.
What about bands like Hum and Helmet?
More shoegaze and alternative metal respectively
good shout actually mate
HUM is pretty firmly post hardcpre in my opinion as someone who loves the band, they only have on album that can be considered front to back shoegaze, and their first two albums aren't even that reverberated, let alone shoegaze. Also, most ppl who are rlly into sheogaze will tear you a new one if you call them a shoegaze band, learned that the hard way 😂😂😂, and most dedicated shoegaze listeners just straight up despise post hardcore bands or shoegaze crossover genres, complete losers.
screamo/skramz riffs next?
TITLE FIGHT
Great tone! What's your rig for these clips?
Thanks. I’m using a Boss Katana amp using the built in sounds
Deftones - Adrenaline
Who makes the Olympic White guitar?
It’s a Fender Cyclone
its like someone made a video just for me. also, whats your signal chain? :)
It’s a Boss Katana amp recorded direct using a USB into GarageBand.
@bloxsy_ impressive tones for such a simple rig. sick
Good list but def needs New Noise.
so it's more than clear post hardcore and dc "emotional hardcore" inspired grunge and no wave in some way
I think in some way Grunge is probably a type of Post-Hardcore in that they emerged after the hardcore scene in the mid to late 80s.
what are you talking about? no wave started in the late 70s and has nothing to do with any of these bands
@@bloxsy_ ṭĥàțś ŵĥäṭ îm ṣ̌ãÿīn̈ĝ 👹👹👹
I’m good to about 1990.
Mid 80’s started changing a lot for me.
Maybe too much early punk, hardcore and psychobilly…
I love that to included real post hardcore and not that 2000s flip hair bogus hair metal hot topic crap but real punk
th-cam.com/video/3FVwX_b6P0Y/w-d-xo.html if you watch David play the riff from "Breadcrumb Trail" in the beginning, you are playing a harmonic in a different place than he is, overcomplicating it a bit. i learned that i was playing the harmonics in this riff incorrectly, as well. I've learned a lot of cool riffs from this channel.
Where´s Cory Feldman? The most posthardcore stuff ever
Where is asking alexandria 😂😂😂
New Noise by Refused is probably the most iconic post-hardcore riff ever imo..
What is post hardcore??
Post-hardcore is a style of punk music that grew out of hardcore punk, except instead of emphasizing sheer speed and aggression, it puts more focus on things like song dynamics and dissonance. Oftentimes, post-hardcore bands would also write introspective lyrics for their songs, which eventually gave rise to emocore and then just emo. Hope that answers your question. :)
@mynamessky5436 Thank you
Post hardcore rules! Best
I still cannot see how people liked any of these bands. But that is just too bad for me I guess. Good guitar technique though!
People that actually love music listen to anything without complaining and being a prick.
@@The_Nautillus1116 So what you are saying is that people are not allowed to speak their own mind or have their own opinion anymore. How hard-core is that? Not much. Haha.
@@The_Nautillus1116 So what you are saying is that people are not allowed to have their own opinion and the freedom to speak it. Not very Hard-Core punk now is it? Nope.
lmao dude put the least possible interesting riff for jehu, shame