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Nintendocore
Nintendocore is a broadly defined style of music that most commonly fuses chiptune and video game music with hardcore punk and/or heavy metal. The genre is sometimes considered a direct subgenre of
Characteristics#
Referred to as the “bastard child of chiptune and metal,” Nintendocore frequently features the use of electric guitars, drum kits, and typical rock instrumentation alongside synthesizers, chiptune, 8-bit sounds, and electronically produced beats. Loudwire described the style as “literally sound ing like a bunch of scene kids got lost inside a Mario game.” The publication categorized it as a subgenre of both hardcore punk and scene music. It originated primarily from hardcore punk and heavy metal, and subgenres of those styles such as post-hardcore, and screamo. Artists in the genre have also incorporated elements of electro, and post-rock. 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. Others, such as Horse the Band and Math the Band, add screamed vocals into the mix. But yet other groups are strictly instrumental, such as Minibosses, While otherwise diverse, all Nintendocore groups “use specific instruments to mimic the sounds of Nintendo games.”
History#
Horse the Band was an early pioneer of Nintendocore and the originator of the term, which frontman Nathan Winneke coined as a joke. whom The New York Times praises as one of the groups who brought video game music into the mainstream modern music spotlight. The Advantage is an instrumental rock band formed by two students attending Nevada Union High School. The Phoenix-based rock group, Minibosses, " is one of the most well-established bands in the Nintendocore genre, with an impressive roster of covers including Contra, Double Dragon, Excitebike," and covers of other video game themes. performing at various video game expositions. In 2016, a group of artists, under the Nintendocore Lives label, released a compilation album, Smash 64, themed after the original Super Smash Bros. game, in an attempt to revitalize the genre.
See also#
*List of Nintendocore bands
- Genre family
- Fusion music genres, Hardcore punk genres, Heavy metal genres, Metalcore genres, Rock music genres