Bandana thrash is a movement within

thrashcore Thrashcore (also known as fastcore) is a fast-tempo subgenre of hardcore punk that emerged in the early 1980s. Thrashcore is essentially sped-up hardcore, often using blast beats. Songs can be very brief, and thrashcore is in many ways a less d ...

, that is sometimes associated with

powerviolence Powerviolence (sometimes written as power violence) is an extremely dissonant and fast subgenre of hardcore punk which is closely related to thrashcore and grindcore. In contrast with grindcore, which is a "crossover" idiom containing musical ...

that explored their debt to an earlier form of extreme punk rock. The term is in reference to the headgear preferred by many of the performers. The ideology of bandana thrash is

DIY ethic "Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts. Academic research has described DIY as behaviors where "individuals use raw and semi ...

, in many cases

straight edge Straight edge (sometimes abbreviated sXe or signified by XXX or X) is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs, in reaction to the excesses of punk subculture. For some, thi ...

, street life, anticonsumerism, and worldwide unity, the latter is referred in many songs like "Bandana United Us" by GxHx, "Intercontinental Bandana Union", by What Happens Next?, as well in the manifesto in Conquest for Death's ''Many Nations, One Underground''". The style was prominent into the early to mid 2000s.

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