Music Sound

Crust is the extreme evolution of hardcore punk. The genre might be considered hard to listen to and very abrasive, using elements of anarcho-punk and grindcore to create a unique sound that can either be fast and leaning to grindcore, or slow and mopey and/or melodic. Some have called this subgenre stenchcore, after the Deviated Instinct 1987 DEMO, "Terminal Filth Stenchcore". Although not the same genre, crust is closely related to d-beat, anarcho-punk, thrashcore and grindcore.

Lyrics to crust songs tend to be dark, and based around politics and current events and even some human emotion; topics such as nuclear destruction, environmentalism, racial equality, squatting, non-conformity, apocalypse, abolishing sexism, animal rights, veganism/vegetarianism, religious control, death (and/or escaping life) and anarchism are common. Crust is one of the darkest subgenres of punk, and also is one of the least recognizable as punk, in terms of sound. Elements of the crust sound can be heard in many Anarcho-punk bands, such as those signed to Profane Existence, Mortarhate Records, Havoc Records, & Life is Abuse Records.

Many consider the band Amebix to be the godfathers of crust punk, and consider the Arise! LP to be the first known defining crust punk album. The band Hellbastard, who actually coined the term "crust", (after their 1986 "RIPPER CRUST" DEMO) was one of the first bands to play the genre as it commonly recognized today.

Listeners of crust music are often referred to as "crusties".

Examples of crust bands

ABUSE (later LAS RATAS)
ABC Weapons
Abraham Cross
Active Slaughter
Adacta
Against Empire
Amebix
Anarchoi
Anarcrust
Anfo
Another Destructive System
Anti-Product
Antisystem
Argue Damnation
Assrash
Atrocious Madness
Aus-Rotten (later Behind Enemy Lines & Caustic Christ)
Axegrinder
Axiom
Battle of Disarm
Behead The Prophet, No Lord Shall Live
Behind Enemy Lines
Black Kronstadt
Black Market Fetus
Blownapart Bastards
Bread And Water
Simbiose
Descarga Etilika
Cheap Bastard Squad
Cluster Bomb Unit
Concrete Sox
Confuse
Contravene
Culture Shock
Defector
Detestation
The Detested
Detrimental Greed
Deviated Instinct
Dishonourable Discharge
Diskonto
Disrupt
Doom
Dropdead
Driller Killer
Dystopia
Effigy
Existench
Extinction of Mankind
Extreme Noise Terror
Fleas and Lice
Filth
Filth of Mankind
From Ashes Rise
Fuck Hate Propaganda
Gloom
Grimple
GISM
Health Hazard
Hellbastard
Hellkrusher
Hellshock
Hiatus
Hibernation
His Hero is Gone
Homomilitia
Human Greed
Human Waste
Initial Detonation
Iskra
Jobbykrust
Kegcharge
Lakupaavi
The Lunatic
Masskontroll
Mass Grave
Misery
Murder Disco X
Nausea
Officer Negative
Power of Idea
Private Jesus Detector
React
Reality Crisis
Remains of the Day
Resistant Culture
S.O.L
Sacrilege
Scum Noise
Schifosi
Sedition
Skitsystem
State of Fear
Systems
Tem Eyos Ki
Thin The Herd
To what end?
Tragedy
Uprising
VIDA CRUDA
Vernix
Volkermord
Warcollapse
Warpath
Wolfbrigade-Originally Wolfpack
World Burns to Death