What is Crust?
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The most extremist version of punk. The music is always political and badass. Nearly all crust is anarchist or marxist-anarchist. Crust fashion, although almost an oxymoron is all black(derived from Crass's assosciation of black with anarchy) with sewn on patches of bands they listen to. The patches are black with white lettering and usually sewn on with dental floss.
Unlike other punks,
Crust music is loud fast and abrasive, all crust is anti-racist and all is anti-war, thus earnign crusty's the demeaning term of "hippie punks."
Crust fucking rocks.
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crustcoreThe punk equivalent of grindcore- insanely fast, loud with incredibly garbled vocals that sound like "ruh-ruh-ruh-raaarrwwggg" despite what the lyric sheet says. Almost always political, alomst always ass-kicking.
Doom, Nausea,and Disrupt are all pretty good crust bands.
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Crust punk is the extreme evolution of hardcore punk. The genre might be considered hard to listen to and very abrasive, using elements of anarcho-punk and grindcore to create a unique sound that can either be fast and leaning to grindcore, or slow and mopey and/or melodic. It was originally called stenchcore. Although not the same genre, crust is closely related to
Lyrics to crust songs tend to be dark, and based around politics and current events and even some human emotion; topics such as nuclear destruction, environmentalism, racial equality, squatting/non-conformity, apocalypse, abolishing sexism, animal rights, veganism/vegetarianism, religious control, death (and/or escaping life) and anarchism are common. Crust is one of the darkest subgenres of punk, and also is one of the least recognizable as punk, in terms of sound. Elements of the crust sound can be heard in many Anarcho-punk bands, such as those signed to Profane Existence, Mortarhate Records, Havoc Records, & Life is Abuse Records.
Many consider the band Amebix to be the godfathers of crust punk, and consider the Arise! LP to be the first known defining crust punk album. The band Deviated Instinct, who actually coined the term "crust punk", was one of the first bands to play the genre as it commonly recognized today.
Listeners of crust punk music are often referred to as
Amebix, Axegrinder and Nausea are crust bands.
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Something weird, disgusting, or unappealing. Anything can be crusty. Someone's face, a dirt spot, or even your behavior.
"ya i totally just cut my leg open"
"thats crusty"
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Someone who talks a load of crap for an extended period of time and does not know when to shut up!! The action is known as crusting. Frequently overused by some people which in itself is crusting!!
Steven - I saw the other day on this website that if you stand instead of sit during most of your daily activities you burn an extra 37 calories a day....how cool is that??!!
Fred - Dude your crusting, i've never heard anyone as crusty as you in my life....you are the definition of crust!!!
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Someone poor and repulsive; a hobo who lives in squalor; Someone who is extremely poor.
I saw him living in a dirty basement; he's so crust.
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1.Of or relating to the mythical vagina crust.
Don't sleep with her she's got mad crust.
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