SoundCloud's Bottom of the Barrel

E‑punk (short for electronic punk) fuses the attitude, speed, and DIY ethos of punk with the timbres and sequencing of electronic music. It swaps or supplements a traditional drum kit and bass guitar with drum machines, samplers, and synths, yet keeps the barked vocals, anti‑authoritarian stance, and raw immediacy of punk. Emerging from late‑1970s/early‑1980s synth‑punk and German electropunk currents, the style privileges distortion, clipped loops, and simple, hard‑hitting riffs—whether played on power‑chord guitars or monophonic synth bass. Across its later waves it has absorbed EBM, industrial dance, and club sensibilities, yielding everything from minimalist, body‑music stomp to frantic, breakcore‑like blasts that still feel unmistakably punk.