This is a list of notable New York hardcore bands.
Early bands (early to mid-1980s)
Agnostic Front Adrenalin O.D. (this band is from New Jersey) Antidote Beastie Boys Carnivore Cro-Mags Crumbsuckers Damage Even Worse Heart Attack The Icemen Kraut Leeway Ludichrist The Mad Misfits (this band is from New Jersey) Murphy's Law Nausea Reagan Youth Sheer Terror Sick of It All Six and Violence The Stimulators (not hc, but important transitional band from the old scene.) Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.) Straight Ahead The Undead Urban Waste Vatican Commandos (This band is from Connecticut) Warzone The Young and the Useless
Late-1980s to early-1990s bands
Biohazard Bold (aka Crippled Youth) Born Against Breakdown Burn Candiria The Casualties Choking Victim Earth Crisis Gorilla Biscuits Helmet Into Another Judge Killing Time Life of Agony Life's Blood Madball Merauder Method of Destruction (M.O.D.) Orange 9mm Pro-Pain Project X Quicksand Shelter Subzero Unsane
Mid-1990s to 2000s bands
25 ta Life 108 All Out War The Austerity Program Awkward Thought Battle of Mice Bulldoze Castevet Cerebral Ballzy CIV Crown of Thornz Full Blown Chaos Gay for Johnny Depp H2O Indecision Jets to Brazil Leftöver Crack Morning Glory Most Precious Blood No Redeeming Social Value On The Rise Off Minor Rival Schools Saetia Skarhead Star Fucking Hipsters Sworn Enemy Tragic Figure Tripface District 9 Sons of Abraham United Nations
Long Island bands
Backtrack Crime in Stereo Glassjaw Half-Man Incendiary Invade Kill Your Idols Neglect On The Rise 1.6 Band Putdown Scapegrace Skycamefalling Stray from the Path This Is Hell Tripface Vision of Disorder
See also List of hardcore punk bands New York Thrash Compilation documenting the earliest NYHC scene.