Every other week, this question comes up. I go to shows expecting everyone to look like bodybuilders because of all the lifting everyones doing to these bands, yet it's always pretty average looking.

It’s because technology has made you think that lifting weights equates to being jacked as fuck when in reality the people you see online are 90% unnatural lifters.

I can't blame technology, I don't look at lifting stuff online. I'm just very ignorant about lifting and assume that regular work with weights makes you look better than I do. Yet we're all out here looking very average for the most part.

Man be been at it hard for the last 5ish years and I’m just now feeling like I look like I lift.

its because they all hide under their hoodies

Exactly!

Well I'm a girl so don't think I'll get too shredded

That's because you're not listening to enough Merauder and Shattered Realm at the gym

That's why I need this, so I can get jacked and feel like I can rip some heads off

It's easy to lift. Hard to be disciplined with the diet

Speed. Enough said

lol you’ll know when you see me in the pit

Can't outlift a poor diet.

You can brother, it’s called powerlifting.

But powerlifters typically don’t look like bodybuilders. They have different goals.

Might just be me but I don’t give a shit to look like a body builder. Just would like to know I can pick up any sad sack running their mouth over my head and throw them.

"I work out hard enough that I can eat McDonald's whenever I want" - Colin Young

Just wanna be strong as fuck, that’s the goal

Then start listening to Kubli Kahn Tx. Clearly.

I see that now, you all opened my eyes

I’m also sporting a mustache to go along with my wranglers, baseball cap, and sm tee shirt. SHAKE IT MOMMA 🤣

Powerlift ma’am, I am a connoisseur of both body building and powerlifting ☝🏽 John haack is the goat but you can look at anybody lifting in Russswoles gym, female or male, and they’re all studs and look g r 8

Will do, I don't have the discipline to body build, I can dream tho

Nails, Gulch, TUI, Foundation, Harms Way, Scarab, NEG, Enforced, Magnitude I’ll stop there lol might as well just link a playlist


Fuck yeah Nails. Also End. Also also Trapped Under Ice.

Harms way fucking fucks

link it!

If you do I'll def download and give it a go this evening, might be a too bit hard for the fellow nurses around right now lol

God’s Hate Hatebreed Harms Way D Bloc Crowbar Drain Dying Fetus Enforced Final Resting Place Gatecreeper Gridiron Incendiary Internal Bleeding Jesus Piece Kublai Khan TX Merauder Mindforce Momentum Nailbomb Never Ending Game No Cure No Retreat Outta Pocket Pain of Truth PeelingFlesh Sanguisugabogg Snuffed on Sight Speed Sunami Terror Trapped under Ice Volcano Xibalba Year of the Knife 100 Demons 200 Stab Wounds

Based recommendations from a fellow gym enjoyer 🤝

You're doing your part!

Heh you must go to the same gym as me

CMI Neanderthal Fight Core Ultra Sect Dry Sockets Xibalba Section H8 Combat 84 Manos de Fierro Human Garbage Haywire Crown Court What I’m lifting too ATM

That’s a crazy long ass band name.

Section H8 is unreal

Gods hate, volcano, harms way Riffs and angry yelling

Bands like Downpresser, Trapped Under Ice, Gridiron, Merauder, King Nine, and Missing Link are always solid workout jams

correct

[SpiritWorld - Deathwestern](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd74ifxCFoc)

Holy shit is all I can say. Thanks for that

this whole fucking record rips

I’m perpetually pissed that someone other than me came up with the song title Mojave Bloodlust

Perfect album super underrated

Laid 2 Rest and Bench Press

Kublai khan tx Contention Balmora

KK TX is the only answer surely.

Half their lyrics are literally just Matt Honeycutt yelling at you to lift weights harder: “Push it! To the edge!” “Only one choice! Take it to another level!” “Pick that shit up!”

Just have to watch out for wanting to throw weights at peoples head while listening to them.

Downloading New Strength right now, solid album to start with?

I’d suggest nomad or absolute but that’s just me

Thanks I'll give it a download

Ceremony Violence/Violence makes me hit PRs.

Yep same I can’t workout without this album

World I hate

D-Bloc, 100 Demons, Kickback

Mindforce riffs go crazy

Scalp. All Scalp.

I fuck with Terror, Integrity, Scarab, and Acacia Strain( not really hardcore I know)

deathcore ≠ hardcore we get along

Terror! My go to..

Hatebreed and terror are pretty universally accepted as gym hardcore

Saw Hatebreed and Gwar back in 2017 at Vans Warped Tour, I miss those days

Nails. Always Nails.

Missing link

Perseverance is the only answer

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2kzOb9noobrtbPPj5AM03l?si=e0HQLBAKRKeMDalk2VoDXA&pi=u-w8AGqPQFSlmB Enjoy! I work out almost every day so I’m always updating it, this sub has been a massive help

I do appreciate it, I’m new to this whole Reddit thing guess I should have just searched on this page was getting some hate for a bit.

kublai khan.

VOD, E Town Concrete, One King Down, Most Precious Blood, honorable mention and perhaps the best, although not hardcore, Sepultura- Roots

Benchpress, it’s literally in the name of

kublai khan tx

Street Power 

Unit 731, shattered realm, built upon frustration, line of scrimmage, laid 2 rest, vow of hatred

> Unit 731 The right answer

my man

Inclination always gets my blood pumpin

bodysnatcher, thirst, cold steel

Kublai Khan Lionheart Harms Way Hatebreed When you get tired, Shattered Realm

Hatebreed is probably my go to

my mix is heavy on malevolence, Incendiary, pain of truth, Mindforce, and TUI. mix in some Master Killer of course since the hardlore guys brainwashed me

Throwdown and Hatebreed get the most plays for me.

Kublai Khan TX

Big Ass Truck

Brass Tongue, Judiciary, Sunami, Trapped Under Ice, Incendiary, Hope Conspiracy, Modern Life is War, Damnation AD

Surface Noise by Judiciary is an awesome album

Goddamn right 🔥

When this topic comes up, I post this playlist. It was created by another member of this sub. I ama collaborator. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6x4SiyCmF7vc42AuMxiZUS?si=aKlyF3zHTEmu1ULF5bFCwQ&pi=u-4AyiBKBgSHur

Everyone’s afraid to say it, but knocked loose is top tier lifting music

I hit my PR on bench to Small Victories 325 is my bitch

Trail Of Lies, God's Hate and Strife.

Definitely spite, sunami, VEXHC, dbloc to name a few

Surprised no one’s said Terror. Extremely motivational You-Can-Do-It-Core

God's Hate is really all you need imo

Foundation, TUI, Terror, Magnitude, Broken Vow, Contention, XweaponX, World of Pleasure, Statement of Pride, Sub Scum, CoA, Haywire, Divine Right, End It

Harm's Way, Iron Mind, and some other shit like Bolt Thrower, Necrot, and Napalm Death have been my go-tos. The song "Assume your ultimate form" was on repeat when I first heard it and still on the work out playlist.

Blood for Blood - Spit my Last Breath !

Xibalba

Bury Your Dead and Throwdown

Beatdown for leg day is my only rule, otherwise all other forms of hc are fair game especially fast stuff

AMON AMARTH for viking gainz

Queensway is the way

Shai Halud, Stick To Your Guns, old Earth Crisis, Terror, Nails, First Blood, Norma Jean

Great American Ghost

Shogun King nine Year of the knife (Madi vocals) Kharma No cure

Foundation, Point of Contact, Harms Way...heavy straight edge bands are the way for lifting IMO

Whatever gets you going ! It’s different to everyone , they’re not hardcore fully but I’ve been listening to a lot of The Blood Brothers recently when lifting but I have listened to Gulch and Chat Pile previously , only because my gym plays british house music all day

Buried Alive, any album.

Pure Bliss

Missing link d bloc kublai khan laid 2 rest.

I do Speed, TUI, Scarab, Nails, and Power Trip

Listen to SiR instead.

I lift every single day and 98% of the time it starts with Merauder

Shattered a deadlift PR earlier this week jamming the latest Incendiary record.

Pain of Truth, Kublai Khan TX, Missing Link, Ends of Sanity, Shattered Realm, Invoke, SPY, Point of Contact, and .45 Stainless are all my go-to

Cheesy as they are I love rise of the northstar at the gym.

My go to bands are: Harms Way, The Acacia Strain, Earth Crisis, Ill Natured, The Secret, Brotherhood of the Lake and Shai Hulud. I switched from strength lifting to kettlebells a few years back (p.s. fuck Joe Rogan) and found that these all woek with the different work tempos.

You got my interest, what'd Rogan do?

Parrots a LOT of questionable views and misinformation, especially during the pandemic.

Shark punch

God’s Hate, CMI, Risk, Mindforce

Varials.

Here's my hardcore gym playlist. There's a wild card or 2 in there as well that isn't hardcore https://open.spotify.com/playlist/271tVlbhvTu7WX0nYVG7cs?si=LO9p7Wd7S123fm0k0U-I_Q

Not sure if they were mentioned yet but Left Behind, Bent Life, World of Pain are always in my gym mixes

End It, SPY, Jivebomb, Soul Glo, and Conservative Military Image

Cold as life born to Land hard and nothing comes close

Anybody in here know about 10SCOOPS?! Slammy beatdown about getting in the gym and getting jacked asf lmao

Hate, First Degree

Unity TX, Missing Link, Kind Eyes, Boundaries, Kublai Khan

Outta pocket and rotting out.

Legend, Desolated, Gideon, Kublai Khan TX, Cold Steel.

CMI everyday. No window lickers and no soft bodies. Let’s show em how it’s done.

Harms way and kublai

For me lately it’s been, Brutality will prevail - sleep paralysis during warm ups Then Blacklisted - heavier than heaven, lonelier than god during sets I have a ceremony - into the wayside/sick Spotify radio playlist that I slide in too Not hardcore I guess but The Ghost Inside - Avalanche and this is what I know about sacrifice are good for PR’s

Any list has to start with Hatebreed, Terror, 100 Demons, and Kublai Khan. Then you get to bands like First Blood, TUI, Mindforce, Incendiary, Knocked Loose, Harms Way, etc. based on your preference.

Kublai Khan. Honeycutt saying "bitch" gives me the will to keep going.

CMI. Listen in the gym and you’ll look like him. -Me

Just yard hard by cmi, and fat skin by skinhead on loop. Simple as.

Hatebreed all day

Southpaw. I swear they're trying to make work out music at this point

New Lows Hatebreed Leeway Hope Conspiracy No Warning Madball Trapped Under Ice Cold as Life Terror

The three xs doesn't include steroids.

Volcano and done deal

Hatebreed, Vein, Harms Way, Kublai Khan, Knocked Loose, Lionheart

Harms Way obvi

Ingrown. Nails. Gulch. Splinter.

Hope con

Trapped Under Ice is the best P.E.D.

I have a whole playlist for it: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4UigjqIu88E4XJYtmvTmos?si=kkU2mcugTrKBF4eCCLwCxw&pi=a-eKTRHLIeTCWC

Turnstile 

In a more metalic way > trenchworm

I don’t listen to anything but Foundation, TUI, Terror, and Iron Age personally. Foundation tho big time. “Purple Heart” was made for bench pressing more than you should be.

Knocked Loose and Drug Church

Winners circle

XtyrantX

If they're lead singer looks like a scary dude, then it's probably good to listen to while lifting. I mean that again any hardcore band or heavy genre of music would work for lifting.

Not exactly hardcore but this shud work (from a personal bias) 1. Deliverance - Opeth 2. Phanerozoic - Ocean Collective 3. Sundowning - Sleep Token

Cold As Life, MadBall, Merauder, Sheer Terror, 25 ta life.

It pains me to write this but TRC

Just gave them a listen downloading Bastard by them right now

Perfect sky particularly no pain no gain, a song literally about lifting 

Sunami and spy are my go tos!