Music

10 years later Nintendocore is still the joke that went too far

by AUX staff

It was 11 long years ago that we first heard a song about a boy with scissors for a head. Nintendocore. It was a joke. Then it wasn’t. A decade later, it’s like nostalgia inception.

Nintendocore was originally a tossed off term used by Horse the Band in the early 2000s to describe their blend of hardcore breakdowns and 8-bit keyboards. But where Horse the Band’s video game connection ended with a few lyrical references to Cut Man and the creative use of a Korg, there was a whole slate of bands ready to take the mantle of Nintendocore way, way more seriously.

This Exists explores the genre up top.