Metalcore

a blend of hardcore and metal music that evolved in the mid-to-late 90’s with bands like unbroken, earth crisis, harvest, endeavor, poison the well and unearth. there is a liberal use of breakdowns in the music and the lyrical themes range from the political to the personal.

often -ssociated with the nu hardcore and fashioncore scenes.
“bleeding through is a present-day metalcore act.”
metalcore is a genre that has been around since the eighties but not totally popularized until the mid 90’s with bands such as unearth, the modern forerunners in the genre. it includes a mixture of hardcore punk and heavy metal and uses generally two guitarists, a b-ssist and double kick drums for the instrumentals. many bands use more than one singer, one generally for more melodic lines and the other, lead singer, who carries many of the vocal burden and usually “screams”.
metalcore bands include: 36 crazyfists, as i lay dying, bleeding through, bloodsimple, diecast, g-d forbid, haste the day, hatebreed, lamb of g-d, norma jean, still remains, unearth, walls of jericho.
a genre of music that had began in the late 80s/early 90s. originally combining elements of metal and hardcore, it has now evolved into a dime-a-dozen plethora of bands that sound exactly the same. new school metalcore bands borrow heavily from melodic european death metal combined with stolen slayer riffs and vocals ranging from annoying screams to cupped-mike growls. band names are usually longer than the songt-tles (i.e. between the buried and me, every time i die, etc). mostly caters to mallrat teens who are glued to facebook, shop at hot topic, wear skinny jeans, skateboard, and play call of duty all day long.
old school metalcore: insult ii injury, merauder, into another

new school metalcore: bullet for my valentine, as i lay dying, all that remains
a genre of new age metal that began in the late 1990’s with bands like slipknot and killswitch engaged. it infuses punk and extreme metal to create a strong, yet complex rhythm. it differs from punk metal by putting emphasis on the breakdown portion of the song, and often invoke a more depressed and somewhat hopeless feeling. some other modern examples include attack attack, underoath, atreyu, trivium, all that remains, and many more.
underoath atreyu all that remains killswitch engage punk metal trivium all that remain attack attack metal core
a subgenre of metal and hardcore that is kind of like communism. if it were to be done correctly, it would be perfect, but hardly anyone can do it right and therefore it is mainly horrible. there are some metalcore bands that i actually enjoy (the dillinger escape plan, hatebreed, every time i die), but most of it (and certainly the most popular bands) incorporate pop punk, electronic, glam, crunk, and all sorts of other sh-t and make it sound worse than putting a cat in a blender. not to mention deathcore, which is just an attempt to make an anti-metalcore genre, is even worse and brings shame to death metal. another thing that humor’s me with most metalcore is the bands claim to be the brutalist sh-t alive but they dress like a 12 year old scene girl.
good metalcore: every time i die, tdep, hatebreed, all that remains (sort of), ect.
bad metalcore: bring me the horizon, of mice and men, asking alexandria, the black dahlia murder, chelsea grin, ect.
a subgerne of metal and hardcore that is not sh-t, but is often called sh-t because a lot of bands don’t work to their full potential, and because there are too many bands that are called metalcore and are actually not! real metalcore is usually 70-90% metal and 10-30% hardcore. fake metalcore is really post hardcore in is often called so because of the existence of a breakdown and screamed vocals! real metalcore also has guitar solos now and then and often use a low toned type of screaming. fake metalcore absolutely has no solos and consistently use both screams and death growls, as well as a lot of singing! so next time you here of a metalcore band, compare them to bands like as i lay dying, august burns red, all that remains, killswitch engaged, etc… if they sound like them, it’s real metalcore, if they don’t, it’s not!

real metalcore bands: underoath (only there first 2 alb-ms) all that remains, avenged sevenfold (only there first 2 alb-ms), as i lay dying, august burns red, killswitch engaged.

fake metalcore bands: underoath (everything else they made after cries of the past), motionless in white, attack attack!, asking alexandria
metalcore hater: i think metalcore sucks!
me: why?
metalcore haiter: beacuse metalcore bands like asking alexandria sounds like emos trying to play metal!
me: (facepalms) asking alexandria is not metalcore!
metalcore haiter: yes they are, it says so on wikipedia.
me: (facepalms again) no they aren’t, they are only called so because they have breakdowns in there songs and have screamed vocals. listen to august burns red for an example of what real metalcore is!
(all of august burns red’s discography and some of all that remains songs later)
metalcore lover (formally a metalcore haiter): august burns red is the best band ever!
the term used to label two musical genres.

1) the fusion of hardcore punk and thrash metal sounding exactly like the sound of it – integrity or converge are good examples

2) extreme metal, usually simplified, with emo clean singing, screamo harsh vocals and an excess of breakdowns which sound nothing like hardcore punk. a fabricated genre aimed at making money and being popular. why is this called “metalcore” is beyond me.
1) integrity is a metalcore band and you know why when you listen to it. it takes thrash metal riffs and uses them on hardcore punk drum patterns or vice versa. you know where the “metal” part and the “-core” part came from.

2) atreyu is a metalcore band. they sound more like nu-metal with chuggy breakdowns. however n-body took his time to understand what exactly the hardcore influences of theirs are – i can certainly hear no breakdowns in my hardcore punk

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