Members of the city's hardcore punk music scene are getting together to help out those who became sick after 9/11 - both first responders and survivors of the terrorist attacks - with a benefit concert this Sunday in Brooklyn. NY1's Roger Clark filed the following report.

The raw power and intense beat of hardcore punk music, or simply hardcore, seems rough around the edges but members of the more than 35-year-old New York scene will tell you, it's a close-knit community.

"The hardcore scene has always been together like that and has always helped everybody out," says Jerry Ex of Tragic Dynasty.

Continuing that tradition, Jimmy Ferrari of Blast Furnace Productions is putting together a benefit concert September 11th at Brooklyn's Lucky 13 Saloon featuring 11 bands with all proceeds going to 9/11 Health Watch, an independent group that advocates for first responders and survivors made sick by the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. 

"Basically it's like the second wave of deaths from 9/11. So I figured let me just try and get a few bands together and just raise some money and try and just do something good in the process," says Ferrari.

Among the bands slated to perform: The Drew Stone Hit Squad, Caught in a Trap, and Robots and Monsters. Many members in the groups are native New Yorkers who feel a strong connection to the men and women who responded to the attacks.

"People that were down there every day, 12 hour days. There were guys that didn't even go home. Guys and woman that didn't even go home to their families. The pile was first," says Paulie Nugent of Da Ded Rabbidz.

"I was down in the neighborhood when the buildings came down. It was a pretty traumatic day. And anything that I can do to help to raise money or anything like that, I'm right there," says Drew Stone of The Drew Stone Hit Squad.

And that's the case for every performer, hoping to entertain and help out at the same time.

"When we heard this, we made push to shove on our schedules to make sure that we would contribute to a good cause," says Freddie Delacruz of Silence Equals Death.

"As a father to be able to tell him that I'm doing something to make a difference for people that sacrificed some their lives, and some their health and their well being for others, it really makes us proud to do something like that," says Scott Earth of Silence Equals Death.

To find out more about the show or if you want to help out, just head to facebook.com/blastfurnanceproductions.