This is a list of hardcore punk bands from, or active within, New Jersey from 1980 to 1990. Bands that recorded are marked '(R)'.
* Adrenalin OD (R) 1982 Elmwood Park, New Jersey * Agents of Man * American Dilemma 1981Cherry Hill, New Jersey * American Standard (R) * Apathy (R) Bergenfield/Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey * A Priori (R) 1986 * Autistic Behavior (R) 1980 * The Beast (R) Red Bank, New Jersey * Bedlam (R) 1982, Union Township * Bigwig 1995-present * Black Vomit (R) Jamesburg, New Jersey * Bodies in Panic (R) 1982, Union Township, New Jersey * Borscht * Boxbout- (R) Brooklyn, New York, Springfield, NJ (R) * Brunfuss (R) New Brunswick, New Jersey * The Burnt (R) Midland Park, New Jersey , Bergen County, New Jersey * Cause For Alarm (R) Bergen County, New Jersey , later based in NYC. * C.C.4.J. (R) Matawan, New Jersey * Chemical Waste (R) Fort Lee, New Jersey * Child Abuse (R) New Jersey * Children In Adult Jails New Jersey * C.H.O.D. Chicken Holiday Of Doom * Chronic Sick (R) Long Branch, New Jersey * Crib Death (included members od Adrenalin OD) * Crucial Fun Point Pleasant, New Jersey * Crucial Party Montclair, New Jersey * Crucial Youth (R) Holmdel, New Jersey * Cyanamid (R) Bound Brook, New Jersey * Dead Pedestrians Belmar, New Jersey * Destroy All Bands (R) New Brunswick, New Jersey * Detention (R) Manville, New Jersey * Distorted Youth Union City, New Jersey * D.U.H. (R) Westfield, New Jersey * Emergency Defibrillator (R) West Orange, New Jersey * Exxistential Moped Jersey Shore * Fanous Cheezcake * Fatal Rage (R) Jersey Shore * False Justice (R) Manahawkin, New Jersey * For the Love of Colonia, New Jersey * Friendly Fire (R) Southern New Jersey * The Front Line later U.S. Chaos 1979 (R) Paterson, New Jersey * F.S.S.W 1982 Cherry Hill, New Jersey * Futile Effort (R) Trenton, New Jersey * Genocide (R) New Brunswick, New Jersey * Good Griefs 1981 Pennsauken, New Jersey * Good Humor Belmar, New Jersey * Headstrong (R) New Brunswick, NJ possibly 1989 * Hinckley Fan Club Bergen County, New Jersey * (R) Ocean County, NJ 1985-1995 * Holy Rape (R) 1990 Wyckoff and Midland Park * Jacky Paper (R) Holmdel, New Jersey * Jersey Fresh (R) 1985 Trenton * Kill Your Romeo (R) 2004 Mantua, New Jersey * Knifight Camden, New Jersey * Lethal Aggression (R) 1985 Toms River * Lord John (R) Freehold * Loose New Brunswick * Mayhem (became NYC Mayhem after relocating) * Mechanized Death (R) Montclair * Mental Abuse (R) Randolph/Dover/Chester/Parsippany/Montville/Branchville, New Jersey * Mental Decay (R) * Middle Class Uprising (R) 1982, Long Branch, New Jersey * The Misfits (R) Lodi, New Jersey * Mourning Noise (R) Lodi, New Jersey * Mucky Pup 1986, Bergenfield, New Jersey * My 3 Sons (R) * Navillus, Brick, New Jersey * Negative Youth 1984 (R) Somerville, New Jersey * Neurotic Impulse 1985 (R) Somerset, New Jersey * The Narcotics 1984 (R) Wyckoff, New Jersey * The Newd (R) * NJ Bloodline, Elizabeth, New Jersey * NJF (R) 1982, Bergen County, New Jersey * No Democracy * No Escape (R) * No Pest Strips 1984 Long Branch, New Jersey * One4One * Pleased Youth (R) * The Pleasure Hounds (R) 1979 * Prisoners Of War (R) 1985 Trenton, New Jersey * Psychos (R) * Psycho Sin (R) 1984 Jersey City, New Jersey * Public Domain (R) Millburn, New Jersey, Stirling,NJ , NYC,Springfield, New Jersey * Public Disturbance (R) Jersey Shore * The Pukes (R) New Jersey * Radon (R) Bergen County, New Jersey * Rosemary's Babies (R) Lodi, New Jersey * Johnnie Saline and the Abortionz (R) Maplewood, New Jersey * Sacred Denial (R) 1981, Bergen County, New Jersey * Sand in the Face (R) 1981, Montville, New Jersey * The Secret Syde * Secret Wrong Westfield, New Jersey * Seeds Of Terror (R) 1982, Camden, New Jersey * Send Help (R) New Jersey * September Violence Highland Park, New Jersey * Shrapnel (R) * Skooter Robinson (R) 1985 Highland Park, New Jersey * Social Decay (R) 1985 Toms River, New Jersey * Society's Rejects 1985 Trenton, New Jersey * Sticks & Stones (R) New Brunswick * Stetz (R) 1982 * Suburbicide (R) * The Cause (R) Southern New Jersey * The Radicals (R) 1978 Paterson, New Jersey * The Secret Syde (R) Long Branch, New Jersey * Teenage Depression (R) New Providence, New Jersey * Thirteen-Day Vacation (R) New Jersey * TMA (R) New Jersey * Turning Point (R) * Underacheivers * U.S. Chaos (R) 1981 Paterson, New Jersey * War-Dog & The Crooks (1979) New Jersey * The Wild Hairs (R) Asbury Park, New Jersey * The Worst (R) Jersey Shore * Youth in Asia (R) New Jersey * X-Men (R) Long Branch, NJ