I'll have the actual first wave of UK crust soon and then...it gets really complicated.

This old blog has really good detailed write-ups of most of the anarcho punk scene as well as download links that may not work anymore:

https://anarchoscene.blogspot.com/?m=1

Oh fuck, I forgot to mention Rudimentary Peni who were kinda outsiders as well as part of the anarcho punk thing and are also a favorite band of mine. There's a lot to go into with them, maune just read their page on the blog I sent, Nick Blinko is my biggest visual art inspiration as well)

Oh! Also Chumbawamba came from the later part of this/early crust scene and mostly played with early crust bands for the first 6 years or so!

Another band(s) I reallt like are Cyanide Scenario who are super goth and then became Internal Autonomy who are all over the place.

Oh also Lost Cherees who start out kinda like Hagar the Womb but by the time of their first full length All Part of Growing Up they kinda got really good, huge recommend album wise, irs really poppy but the songwriting is superb.

Flowers in the Dustbin are another great band.

Ooh! Also Anthrax who had the name before the metal band, Anti-System who would become kinda crust, and Rubella Ballet are also really cool. I know about a LOT of bands and may have more to add just to this scene alone. And I haven't even talked about ones outside the UK. Im trying not to overwhelm, but yeah.

Anarcho punk kinda has a tone and recording quality commonality but the music is super varied, dont expect that later on

Double replying so you get notified, first wave of UK Crust isn't too hard. Things really branch of during and after that but we'll go sorta slow-ish. So anarcho punk in general was pretty bloomer. Turns out living im squats under Thatcher wore that down and so it became CRRRRRUST. Also people listening to stuffing Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd and what would become known as first wave black metal like Venom, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost who all fucking rip, Hellhammer is super influential to crust. So ive already talked about amebix and Antisect as well as sorta in between bands like Icons of Flith. Crust also took a lot from Diacharge and thr more chaotic squatter punks like Disorder and Chaos UK. There are essentially 3 schools of crust. Antisect style which is basically heavy anarcho punk with a dbeat, crust core which is exemplified by Extreme Noise Terror at the Earliest which is like proto grindcore and would become grindcore but still exist as its own thing after and stenchcore which is generally slowe paced and metal in a death/doom metal way while still having a lot of punk.

So for crust core the essential early bands are Extreme Noisd Terror, despite them tski g a really long time to put out an LP were the firsr, Doom is probably the biggest. Doom was really influenced by Swedish dbeat (dbeat being the suvgenre of bands that really really rip off Discharge and will have its own entry). There's also a noisier version in the Sons of Bad Breath and other Hackney Hell Crew bands that would eventually form Sore Throat and invent noisegrind

Your antisext style is common among anarcho punk bands ive already mentioned who bridge the gap and will become important in the 90s.

For now, stenchcore and grind are kinda the evolving things

For stenchcore

Deviated Instinct, probably my favorite band, also started as anarcho punk but ways had a metal sound, the terminal filth stenchcore demo from 1986 is everything crust is about.

Axegrinder, came later than the others but really nails this dirgey slow mid tempo thing that would be used a lot

More obscure bands from the time and place include Domination Factor, Pro Patria Mori and Life Cycle. They all absolutely rip.

For grind, Napalm Death is an obvious one, they also began as an anarcho band and kinda sounded Like joy division before replacing all but one .member speeding up a lot and replacing the last og member before the first lp came out.

Heresy also rocks. Early UK grind is a bit closer to really fast hardcore cause they were just hearing some of the early American icsn hardocre stuff. Concrete Sox, Electro Hippies, and Ripcord are the essentials. For the super raw check out Dirge and Plasmid, being able to tolerate stuff that sounds that bad will be useful soon.