there are punk & romantic connections. like romantic, punk is an urban working class manifestation of informal anti-establishment sensibility.
in the early 1970's british punks expressed their nihilistic views with the slogan drawn from the title of the sex pistols' song No Future.
a bit anti-modern punk is nihilistic in that is not concerned for the present with a deep disaffection from "both middle and working class standards". punk nihilism was expressed in the use of more self-destructive, consciousness-obliterating substances like heroin.
trends include:
anarchism,
anti-authoritarianism,
environmentalism,
vegetarianism,
psycho-billy death-rock, horror punk, goth, etc.