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Additionally, [[Discharge (band)|Discharge]] played a huge role in influencing the the Swedish hardcore scene with bands such as [[Anti Cimex]] and other European bands. To this day many hardocre bands from that region still have a strong [[Discharge (band)|Discharge]] and even [[Motörhead]] influence, which is considered by many to be the standard Swedish hardcore sound.

It should also be mentioned, that there in the more underground part of the UK scene, around the same time and a little later, grew a hardcore sound and scene, inspired by continental European/Scandinavian, Japanese and US bands. It was started by bands and the people in [[Asylum]], [[Genocide Association]] and [[Plasmid]], that from these bands material -- only heard at their live shows, and released on demo tapes and comps in the mid 80's -- would evolve into bands like [[Heresy]], [[Ripcord]], [[Napalm Death]], [[Hellbastard]], [[Doom]], [[Satanic Malfunctions]] and [[Extreme Noise Terror]]. Where hardcore in the US allmost had disappeared or evolved into something that (at least in the eyes of certains fans) didn't have much to do with what it was about in the earlier part of the 80's (in terms of production, distribution and what kind of audience it attracted to go to shows and to be members ofin bands), it was brought back to life in a way that both was like when Hardcore was it its best, and at the same time managed to incorporate metallic/crossover influences, in a way that gave it a relative new sound. The most important influences among late 80's UK bands was, among others, [[G.I.S.M.]], [[Confuse]], [[Siege]] and [[Septic Death]], as well as [[Discard]], [[Anti Cimex]] and more metallic bands like [[Celtic Frost]] and [[Metallica]], with a solid background in the UK Anarcho Punk sound/way of thinking, as well.

In much the same way, [[Anarcho-punk]] bands like [[Crass]], [[Conflict (band)|Conflict]], and [[Rudimentary Peni]] had little in common with American hardcore other than an uncompromising political philosophy and an abrasive aesthetic. American hardcore punks listened to and supported many of these British bands (shows by bands such as GBH were considered special events in America, and drew large crowds), even while upholding a strict regionalism, deriding them as 'rock stars' and anyone too fond of them as 'poseurs' (expressive fans of the influential UK anarcho-punk collective, Crass, were called 'crassholes'). A 1986 concert by Discharge, in New York, generated brief international infamy when a crowd of roughly 1,500 paid $10 admission and pelted the band with garbage, but it should be noted at the time Discharge were adopting a more metallic sound. American hardcore bands who visited the UK (such as Black Flag, in 1981) encountered equally ambivalent attitudes. Visiting European hardcore bands suffered no such prejudice in the US, with Italian bands [[Raw Power (band)|Raw Power]] and [[Negazione]], and the Dutch [[BGK]], enjoying widespread popularity.