Digital hardcore can be best described as a mix of punk and electronica. Industrial guitars, shouted and screamed vocals along with high-tempo percussion are common elements of the genre. This sound developed over the course of the early 1990s, mostly in Berlin, Germany.
From its onset, the classic digital hardcore sound was defined by the work of Atari Teenage Riot, their frontman Alec Empire and the record label they formed in 1994, Digital Hardcore Recordings. Highly political lyrics, a sign of punk rock’s influence on the genre and distorted drum loops often played at over 200 BPM were common elements in the genre. This style of drum programming would later be taken to an extreme in breakcore, which was heavily influenced by digital hardcore.
































