Metalcore, I'm popularizing the genre :O

[evensonD]

Metalcore (also known as hardcore metal) is a fusion genre, mixing elements of metal and hardcore punk.

Defining the metalcore sound is not an easy task. Various bands have fused a hardcore-influenced sound and attitude with many different types of metal.

I'll list like 90% of the metalcore bands out there at the end of this post just to let you guys know what to download if you like what you hear.

From the late 1990s,particularly after the turn of the millennium, metalcore has grown immensely, to the point where major record companies are taking interest in the genre. Recent releases, such as Unearth's III: In the Eyes of Fire and Norma Jean's Redeemer have charted moderately high on the Billboard 200.

"Melodic metalcore" has become immensely popular, with bands playing a combination of melodic death metal, popularized by bands such as At the Gates and In Flames, and early metalcore. This results in style that has a definite element of melody (such as harmonized leads in bands with two guitarists) juxtaposed against the brutal rhythms and vocals. Today, many popular metalcore bands play this style, including Bleeding Through, Caliban, Heaven Shall Burn, Darkest Hour, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, From Autumn to Ashes, Zao, and Unearth.

Some bands, such as Botch and Norma Jean, expanded on the blueprints of Rorschach and Deadguy, bringing forth intense, math rock- and noise rock-influenced guitar riffs.

One of the best aspects of the metalcore genre is the fact that either they have an amazing lead vocalist that does both the screams and the singing, or they have 2-3 lead vocalists, but the fact that there is a break between screams and singing is very nice, it evens out the music, and more importantly separates this genre drastically from Death Metal/Black Metal.

Most metalcore bands have sick guitar players, and in most cases you can expect a face melting solo in almost every song haha.

Now for some good examples of said genre :

Silent Civilian - The Song Remains Unnamed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfp5ngH6YmI

All That Remains - The Air That I Breathe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9qlKEyV4E

Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zkxDeFRat8

He Is Legend - The Seduction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTKtjPzNOPY

It Dies Today - Freak Gasoline Fight Accident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g897VYH8ycs

Norma Jean - Blueprints for Future Homes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWu4al2gqqI

A Dozen Furies - The Cycle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wLDjsNwzlE

Atreyu - Bleeding Mascara ( Emo song title, but a fucking wicked song. )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LvhQ6aIX1o

In Flames - Take This Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ul-hqg_iPo

All That Remains - This Calling
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vohlRS7OiQ

As I lay dying - Though Struggle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdSj0hMtmNs

Early Avenged Sevenfold ( not this new crap ) - Unholy Confessions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMrKxnsaUMg

Bury Your Dead - House of Straw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2PqSlg-gcQ

Evergreen Terrace - Mad World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXii_4L8MJw

I killed the prom queen - Say Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyMx_9lSD8g

Parkway Drive - Romance is dead
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0gWDSWybRE ( nevermind the stupid girls dancing lol )

Anyways, that was a long post, gathering videos and such, hope you can expand your musical horizon, and enjoy some brutal breakdowns, insane riffs, and facing metal guitar solos.

[evensonD]

Btw, heres that insanely long list of bands.


#-B

* 100 Demons

* 7 Angels 7 Plagues

* A Dozen Furies

* A Life Once Lost

* The Acacia Strain

* Acme

* Adamantium

* Adora

* Aftershock

* Age of Ruin

* The Agony Scene

* All That Remains

* All Out War

* Anterrabae

* As Blood Runs Black

* As I Lay Dying

* Atreyu

* August Burns Red

* Avenged sevenfold (early work)

* Beloved

* Between The Buried And Me

* Beneath the Sky

* Besieged

* Between the Wars

* Betzefer

* Bird Of Ill Omen

* Bleed The Sky

* Bleeding Through

* Blessed By A Broken Heart

* Bloodlined Calligraphy

* Bring Me The Horizon

* Bullet For My Valentine

* Buried Inside

* Burn in Silence

* Burnt By The Sun

* Burn The Priest

* Bury Your Dead

C-E

* Cassius

* Caliban

* Calico System

* Cannae

* Cataract

* Catherine

* Cave In

* Chimaira

* The Chariot

* Clone the Fragile

* Coalesce

* Cold War

* The Concubine

* Converge

* Curl Up and Die

* Darkest Hour

* Darkness Rites

* Day Of Contempt

* Deadguy

* Dead to Fall

* Death by Stereo

* Demise of Eros

* Demon Hunter

* Despised Icon

* Destroy the Runner

* The Devil Wears Prada

* Diecast

* Dir en grey (Newer work)

* Disaster Next Door

* Drop Dead, Gorgeous

* Dry Kill Logic

* E.Town Concrete

* Earth Crisis

* Eighteen Visions (Early work)

* Embrace Today

* Embrace the End

* Enter Shikari

* The Esoteric

* Eso-Charis

* Evergreen Terrace

* Every Time I Die

* Eyes of the Betrayer

F-L

* Fear Before the March of Flames

* Figure Four

* Fixation

* From A Second Story Window

* From Autumn to Ashes

* From The Carnival Of Horrors

* Frontside

* Folly

* Full Blown Chaos

* GFK

* Gizmachi

* God Forbid

* Haste the Day

* Hatebreed

* HeavyHeavyLowLow

* He Is Legend

* Hell Within

* Himsa

* HORSE the band

* The Human Abstract

* I Killed the Prom Queen

* In This Moment

* Inhale Exhale

* Injury

* Inner Surge

* Inside Out

* Integrity

* Into the Moat

* It Dies Today

* The Jonbenet

* Killswitch Engage

* Lamb of God

* Liar

* Light This City

* Living Sacrifice

* Look What I Did

* Love Me Butch

M-P

* Maharahj

* Manhattan Skyline

* Manntis

* Maroon

* Matthias

* Maximum The Hormone

* Misery Signals

* Most Precious Blood

* Neaera

* Nights Like These

* No Innocent Victim

* Nora

* Norma Jean

* The Number Twelve Looks Like You

* Odd Project

* On Broken Wings

* On The Last Day

* Overcast

* Parkway Drive

* Play Your Part

* Poison The Well

* Prayer For Cleansing

* Prediction

* Protest the Hero

* Psychostick

* The Psyke Project

R-Z

* Rafflesia

* Raiz

* The Red Chord

* Red Roses For A Blue Lady

* Scars of Tomorrow

* See You Next Tuesday

* Shadows Fall

* Shai Hulud

* Shogun

* Silent Civilian

* Sinai Beach

* Skycamefalling

* Sky Eat Airplanes

* Snapcase

* Spitfire

* Still Remains

* Stretch Arm Strong

* Subconscious

* Subzero

* This Runs Through

* Threat Signal

* Through the Eyes of the Dead

* Trivium (early work)

* Twelve Gauge Valentine

* Twelve Tribes

* Underoath

* Undertow

* Unearth

* Undersaw

* Vanna

* Walls of Jericho

* War of Ages

* The Warriors

* Will Haven

* Winter Solstice

* With Passion

* Zao



Mabye finally I'll have someone to talk to about metalcore other then Mickey :P

[schrotti]

wow u seriously suck if u havent noticed yet that im listening to metalcore as well as bm and dm for years now.

[Phosgene]

hc punk > metalcore
devin you are being corrupted !! :<

[bigjuicyboobies]

Metalcore is nothing new, silent civilian and killswitch engaged have been around for a good while. I did find a few new bands though, nice list.

[Hoodlum]

You forgot the greatest of them all!
Avril lavigne - BoyFriend
yEEE man thats sum hard core shit right there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BLACK MAKEUP ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!

[spoiler]l3l[/spoiler]

[evensonD]

Metalcore is nothing new, silent civilian and killswitch engaged have been around for a good while. I did find a few new bands though, nice list.[/b]

Ya, well silent civilian is gay and made 1 album and broke up. But yah, its just metalcore isn&#39;t a popular genre, theres a few standout bands like killswitch and underoath, but for the most part you say metalcore and someones like, metalwho?

[Eric]

wow u seriously suck if u havent noticed yet that im listening to metalcore as well as bm and dm for years now.[/b]

been listening to it for probably over 4 years now .

(Old)Poison the well - pro
Evergreen terrace
unearth
calicosystem
this day forward
From Autumn to Ashes (Some of it)

[JesusBuffs]

<3

[TheMadHatter]

Soul-less music.
No feel to it.

It&#39;s not about how many notes you can hit per second, it&#39;s about the feeling that goes into each note.
Listen to some Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson (early blues), music that started all that shit off.

[JesusBuffs]

The oldies that started this type of music off is good too...but I like the new bands too (not really new, but you know what I mean) no reason you can&#39;t like more than one type of music. I like everything from rock (all kinds), to rap, and even some country. Basically the only music I hate hearing is gospel.

[DragonFire]

I went to see all that remains in Concert they were good.

[UsedFromDiez]

lol love all those bands almost

[evensonD]

Soul-less music.
No feel to it.

It&#39;s not about how many notes you can hit per second, it&#39;s about the feeling that goes into each note.
Listen to some Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Robert Johnson (early blues), music that started all that shit off.[/b]

Definitely love all those bands, like jesusbuff said, you need to broaden your musical horizon, I like every type of rock ever made.

[aggressi0n]

ATREYU? Remove that shit, Atreyu sucks balls they, they ruined hardcore by bringing Emos to it.

Also Old Avenged SevenFold is good =)