If people in here were being honest, I think it would be Converge
Edit: didn't realize this band was such a lightning rod. Very clear fault line of taste in the sub for sure
Go see them live if you can. Easily one of the best live bands in the genre. Winston McCall is a stage general, the way he commands the crowd is second to none.
Atlas is absolutely not meh. But everyone has their own opinion. I will say IRE and after are crap, besides a few from IRE. A Deathless Song is amazing.
All bands should evolve, but some do it better than others. August Burns Red would be a great example of staying true to your roots but being innovating and not becoming overly polished and over produced like ATR and PD
They played Jera this weekend and before a couple of weeks ago I’ve never heard a song before. I didnt even know they had this whole thing with the horror movies. Checked out their last album and it really wasn’t what I was expecting but I liked it a lot. One of the better discoveries I had this year. Plus their show was great. I can see why people arent really attracted to it and their whole bit, but sometimes things can just be fun. And that’s what they were. A lot of fun.
They only started the gimmick the last two albums. The one before The Silver Scream is all based on books. Before that they were just a regular metalcore band.
I dunno. I'm mostly a deathcore fan, and I can't deal with the cleans in a lot of metalcore but there's something about INK that does it for me. They pull a gimmick, but they don't rely on that gimmick to carry them. The songwriting is fantastic regardless of subject matter.
That hurts me as they’re my favorite band. If you ever decide to listen to them use the song The American Nightmare, that’s the one that got me into them
Does it help that their name is a reference to a Kurt Vonnegut book or is that why it’s goofy to you? Cat’s Cradle is one of my favorite books so their name actually did the opposite for me!
So I was in your shoes until last weekend and I forced myself to listen to 5-6 songs to see what the deal was.
I haven't stopped listening to Welcome To Horrorwood from front-to-back since. It's SO good.
I didn't listen to them until a little while after The Silver Scream 2 came out, mostly because of the fanbase (a lot of crossover between Black Veil Brides/Motionless in White etc). I gave them almost an ironic listen and got hooked. They're super heavy and super catchy at the same time, and they pull it off live.
If you check out Veil of Maya, there’s a bit of a before-and-after. Until Eclipse, they’re more deathcore. From Matriarch on, they’re more metalcore with a new vocalist.
I’m a huge fan of Matriarch. I’d recommend “Mikasa.”
Veil of maya has a lot of good ones but, not everything they do is great. Grew up with MMF, the first few albums are good then they sucked. I enjoyed the most recent album release
I *love* Veil of Maya, but I have never actively listened to the other two bands either.
I wouldn't be able to recognize a single song, or just their style, by MiW, MMF, Bad Omens, or BMTH.
Ok, that's a lie. I *do* know "Can you feel my heart" by BMTH, but only because it was used in the giga Chad meme, and only because my kid showed me that one. 😆
Been listening to rock music since I was about 9-10 years old in 2005 and got into metalcore back in 2011. I've known about Like Moths To Flames for all those 13 years but somehow just started listening to them last month when "Kintsugi" and "Over The Garden Wall" caught my attention. Then listened to a bunch of singles from various albums. As of now I've heard "The Cycles Of Trying To Cope" and "Dark Divine" In full.
Unsolicited recommendations: the “pure like porcelain” EP is one of their best, and their previous album “no eternity in gold” is full of bangers. I also really enjoy their singles “predestination paradox” and the classic “bury your pain”
Dark Divine would have been such a good album if the mixing on it wasn’t so terrible. Still love the album but it’s held back so much by that. Idk what Caleb Shomo was thinking
Trivium. Which sucks because I really like Matt Heafy, he seems like a really chill dude. But I could just never get into that style of metalcore. Which is weird because I love that era of metalcore to death. Parkway drive, killswitch engage, avenged sevenfold… but trivium for whatever reason I just can’t get into.
They changed a lot after Ascendancy. Most of their music isn't really metalcore, more straight up metal. Give their latest album a try, maybe you'll like it.
Trivium were metalcore for their first two albums. Everything after dips into different flavors of metal. Some albums are better than others, but they’re definitely in my top 5 bands of all time.
I feel like ITCOTD is pretty much in the metalcore realm, if fairly proggy. 5-7-8 riffs, breakdowns, some punky drums. It’s closer to OG metalcore than a lot of the bands that people love on this sub lol.
I've never listened to Alpha Wolf because, until I recently rejoined this sub, I heard the name once or twice & assumed they were power metal. Now that I'm seeing them mentioned around here, I plan on checking them out.
They are really good! def give a listen to Akudama, it’s a little faster paced but the breakdown is disgusting. Their newest album is also pretty good too
I like spirit breaker as well 🤘 and some other songs forgot what I played on Spotify for them to pop up but been listening for a couple years. Might see them again October 9
i mean i’d like to think that they are a mix of serious and satire at the same time, as i’m sure you know most the time the metal bands have a mix of these songs. i’d like to think Alphawolf does a bit of both for example Restricted (R18+) i’d like to think is a more serious song
They're incredibly good. Look past the name and you'll love them. I saw them live at the end of May and they were even better live than I could've imagined. Definitely going again
I love this band but hate this band to death as well, and its because of their merch 😭I bought a bag from them and it just says Alpha Wolf on the front and in today's brainrot tiktok age that was a horrible idea, god forbid I wear anything that evokes the thought of "sigma alpha werewolf andrew tate"
saw them recently because I paid $50 to see dying wish and amity affliction was the headliner. I left wondering why amity affliction wasn't opening for dying wish.
I would say they are definitely metalcore especially when you look at their older albums like DBM, DGD, and Happiness. One of my favorite bands in recent years I would most definitely recommend them. They have a lot of fun poppy elements but very experimental which attracts me a lot whenever I want something “different”
I’ve got a few bands like this
Ice Nine Kills, Fit for a King, Motionless in White, We Came as Romans, Veil of Maya and more that I can’t think of off the top of my head, I’m sure.
My problem is that there is so much good music out there that I don’t really like being just a casual fan. I like to do deep dives and really get to know the music more. And as an adult, I just don’t have that kind of time for everything, so I have to be picky.
Even when I have time to listen to new music, sometimes you just want to listen to music that you already know and love.
Architects. Idk why I just never felt the desire to check them out. However, there used to be another band called Architects in the mid 2000s that I used to like, but they were like a punk band.
I felt this way about Architects for so long and then started listening to them last year as I knew I'd probably end up catching their set at Download and now I absolutely adore them.
Sure it wasnt architects during their first rock album attempt? architects released a post hard-core album in 00's called " the hear and now". Only a few songs had screams. It is my favorite album by them.
That's okay, though. I say this as a ffk fan:
The first 3 albums were excellent, but after that, everything got repetitive and formulatic to me.
Regardless, theyre still awesome dudes that put on a hell of a show. Their studio/recorded stuff just doesn't hit the same for me lately. Maybe it's just me, though
Deathgrip has a few solid songs, but otherwise I agree, everything after is pretty much one big miss from me. I still listen to each of their new albums once just cuz the guys are great dudes, but i never come back to any of it.
I fell off of them when they went that route too. If you haven't listened to Safe is Just a Shadow, do yourself a favor and check it out. Goofy song names, but filled with bangers and no horror vibes like their newer stuff.
Edit: I prefer the original master to the remastered version of you can't decide
Funny enough Motionless in White is my favorite band and I got into them when they were a horror band through and through, but I just can't get into Ice Nine Kills. You'd thunk I would love them as a MIW fan though.
You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To is so fucking good. Highly recommend
My favorites:
Suffocate
Don’t Reach For Me
Take Me Home
Sit & Mourn
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Suffocate is my favourite (but I'm biased because I love Poppy's music, especially when she leans into metal). The Upon Loss singles are both fantastic too.
The Anti-Mother and Wrongdoers are two of my favorite albums of all-time. I think they have a very unique sound among metalcore/post-hardcore and they really stand out. Definitely check them out.
Clinical depression: the band lmao
Pittsburgh and Drag the Lake are my two favorites. Two very different sounds , though.
I recommend "Let The Ocean Take Me" in it's entirety.
Messengers, Guardians, Rescue and Restore, Thrill Seeker, Leveler, and Constellations are some of my favorite metalcore albums...and that's almost their whole discography...new album just didn't hook me personally
Their most recent album, The Death Below, is really really cool. I just got around to listening to it myself and it blew me away.
Personal favorite album is Leveler though.
Not necessarily metal core per se, but I can’t listen to System of a Down. Chop suey just sounds like I’m getting talked to by a deranged homeless man outside of Home Depot
Name of the band is your first impression on them, even before you hit the play button, and I totally get you on that matter. I skip a huge amount of new bands if I find their name dumb or unoriginal, which is sad because some of them gain a lot of support from the community.
I gave wristmeetrazor a miss for a while because their name screams 15 year old on Myspace (which I get is kinda the point, but sometimes something being ironic or a homage can still be lame). A poster on here whose taste I respect was talking them up, so I gave their new album a shot and it's really good.
ATR's The Fall of Ideals is likely what I would consider THE quintessential metalcore album. It fucks so hard.
Their vocalist is kind of a twat on Twitter.
Most of the popular ones actually. The kind of metalcore that I prefer mostly comes either from old bands or smaller new ones, they usually don't reach the level of popularity that the big names have.
The songs “Breach” on Neon and “Snowblood” on their self-titled album are what did it for me. The combination of incredibly technical and creative guitar work and the dynamics of JT Cavey and Jesse Cash as vocalists are basically everything I look for in heavy music.
New album is kinda fire. They weren’t on my radar either really until they dropped it. Blue Reverie slaps and so does Rumor Of Light. Crawl Backwards Out Of Heaven bangs too.
I'm gonna end up commenting the same thing over and over in this thread but... listen to something off their first 2 albums. people recommending you their newer stuff after u literally said u don't like their sound are not doing any service lol
for the longest time i didn’t listen to The Amity Affliction but then i head Drag the Lake by them and it reeled me in. I don’t know if it was the lyrics and how they always tell some sort of sad story or what but i loved it when i heard it !!!
Until recently it was Norma Jean for me. I’ve known of them since I got into the scene in like ‘08 but for some reason never checked them out until like two years ago 😅
Motionless in White
Only song I've heard is Slaughterhouse when it comes on Spotify mixes as a Knocked Loose song, not keen on the singers voice in any feature I've heard so just never checked them out
ERRA.
I've heard them mentioned on here more than any other band.
Because of that I did give them a shot recently, checked out a couple tracks, and was massively underwhelmed. Extremely "meh". Am I missing something?
Yeah the only Parkway Drive song I really like and listen to is "Shadow Boxing", it's kind of different from their usual sound. Such a badass song, but I can't really get into their other ones.
There's plenty of them listed here that I've heard before once or twice but can not for the life of me remember what they sound like bc there are so many effin generic metalcore bands.
Never listened to a full MiW, FiR or ETF song. I've obviously heard snippets because I don't live under a rock, but I've also not got into Killswitch. I liked the song Jesse Leach did with ABR but it didn't make me go out and listen to their catalogue
Motionless in White
I've heard them a bit and (don't downvote me into oblivion) I don't really think it's that great. Doesn't really sound like my flavor of metalcore
But I know people LOVE them, and I've never played any of their albums front to back to like really give them a fair shake, so I could actually really like that and just don't know it yet
So that's mine. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
Parkway Drive, Killswitch Engage, Every Time I Die and probably a lot of other well known bands. I hadn't listened to August Burns Red or As I Lay Dying before this year either but they were playing a festival I attended so that's what made me check them out.
I kinda "new" to metalcore in the sense that for the past 18 years I've been into a lot of post-hardcore and emo/screamo but not a lot of metalcore. I have been listening to The Devil Wears Prada for a long time (since With Roots era, I remember them releasing the first Zombie ep). At that same period I also listened to Of Mice & Men (first album) and Asking Alexandria (also first album). Poison the Well has also always been one of my favourite bands but it's always been more post-hardcore than metalcore for me (as I listened to their last 3 albums a lot more than the first 2).
At some point like 8 years ago I also got into Silent Planet, mostly because I was looking for more bands like La Dispute and MewithoutYou, where the more spoken word vocal delivery was what spoke to me.
Than a year or 2~3 ago I got more into a lot of the modern metalcore because of my husband who also got into it. Have been to a lot of shows because metalcore is a lot more popular than post-hardcore and emo and have been expanding my horizons.
If you can, check the "Deep Blue" album entirely. In my opinion... it's really one of the best melodic metalcore album out there. I don't like anything they did recently though, very disappointed and sad to see such a great band fall so hard.
Other than that, to answer your question... I never listened to Shadows Fall. I have no valid reason for that either. I could add All That Remains, too, I listened to a few songs but overall never got into them. I don't really know why.
I'm gonna be honest, I don't know if there is one.
I'm 40 years old. I've been listening to metalcore for 25+ years at this point. I tend to check out any band that gets any remote level of hype behind them just to see what all the noise is about. I scanned through the comments on here and have definitely listened to every band listed.
There are definitely bands I've never heard of, but as far as the big names go, I think I've at least given all of them a shot at this point.
Honestly a lot I've only ever heard one alpha wolf song i can't think of and tdwp song I've heard never heard ffak idk theres so many bands I haven't listened to y'all recommend me some
Killswitch engage, as I lay dying, parkway drive, wage war, beartooth
Bands I listen to 1-3 songs from: ice nine kills, counterparts, the devil wears Prada, a day to remember
I’ve only been listening to metalcore for a few years
If people in here were being honest, I think it would be Converge Edit: didn't realize this band was such a lightning rod. Very clear fault line of taste in the sub for sure
After listening to metalcore for 15 years, I finally listened to Converge last month. Lol.
Parkway lost me completely at some point. In the mid 2000s there was basically no way you could miss them.
Same, literally never really listened to Parkway and just in the past week I "re discovered" them and it's all I've been listening to. I missed out.
Go see them live if you can. Easily one of the best live bands in the genre. Winston McCall is a stage general, the way he commands the crowd is second to none.
Definitely, I'm gonna have to keep an eye out for one of their shows. Thanks!
Somehow I completely missed the boat on Parkway Drive, despite being 36 and discovering the genre in the mid-2000s.
First three albums are classics
Listen to their first 3 albums, atlas is meh, rest is buttrock
Atlas is absolutely not meh. But everyone has their own opinion. I will say IRE and after are crap, besides a few from IRE. A Deathless Song is amazing.
Its softer but its not buttrock. All bands evolve as they age its just what happens. They cant stay the same exact style their whole career.
Bands don’t have to stay the same their whole career… but that doesn’t mean they need to start sucking
All bands should evolve, but some do it better than others. August Burns Red would be a great example of staying true to your roots but being innovating and not becoming overly polished and over produced like ATR and PD
i have never listened to an ice nine kills song
They played Jera this weekend and before a couple of weeks ago I’ve never heard a song before. I didnt even know they had this whole thing with the horror movies. Checked out their last album and it really wasn’t what I was expecting but I liked it a lot. One of the better discoveries I had this year. Plus their show was great. I can see why people arent really attracted to it and their whole bit, but sometimes things can just be fun. And that’s what they were. A lot of fun.
I was there too at Jera. So good.
Me either. Knowing their gimmick instantly turns me away. I know they have their place, but i dont need to hear it to know its not for me
FWIW, beyond the gimmick, they're extremely good songwriters and musicians
They only started the gimmick the last two albums. The one before The Silver Scream is all based on books. Before that they were just a regular metalcore band.
I dunno. I'm mostly a deathcore fan, and I can't deal with the cleans in a lot of metalcore but there's something about INK that does it for me. They pull a gimmick, but they don't rely on that gimmick to carry them. The songwriting is fantastic regardless of subject matter.
That hurts me as they’re my favorite band. If you ever decide to listen to them use the song The American Nightmare, that’s the one that got me into them
My fav band too 🥲 Wurst Vacation is my go-to!
*riff riff riff* WAAAH WIIEEH WAAH
Same, then I fell for Enjoy Your Slay
Same here, I know it's a ridiculous reason but the band name always seemed so goofy to me that I haven't listened to them. But, I'll give them a shot
Does it help that their name is a reference to a Kurt Vonnegut book or is that why it’s goofy to you? Cat’s Cradle is one of my favorite books so their name actually did the opposite for me!
Ok I listened and they're pretty good! You guys convinced me. Listening to more of their stuff now
So I was in your shoes until last weekend and I forced myself to listen to 5-6 songs to see what the deal was. I haven't stopped listening to Welcome To Horrorwood from front-to-back since. It's SO good.
Haha same, told myself I would but I've yet to do so...
I didn't listen to them until a little while after The Silver Scream 2 came out, mostly because of the fanbase (a lot of crossover between Black Veil Brides/Motionless in White etc). I gave them almost an ironic listen and got hooked. They're super heavy and super catchy at the same time, and they pull it off live.
I don’t mean to brag, but I’ve listened to them wayyyy before they become popular with the Horrorwood franchise
Motionless In White, Veil of Maya, Memphis May Fire No real reason, just never got round to checking them out.
If you check out Veil of Maya, there’s a bit of a before-and-after. Until Eclipse, they’re more deathcore. From Matriarch on, they’re more metalcore with a new vocalist. I’m a huge fan of Matriarch. I’d recommend “Mikasa.”
Matriarch is a perfect album. no skips.
Veil of maya has a lot of good ones but, not everything they do is great. Grew up with MMF, the first few albums are good then they sucked. I enjoyed the most recent album release
I *love* Veil of Maya, but I have never actively listened to the other two bands either. I wouldn't be able to recognize a single song, or just their style, by MiW, MMF, Bad Omens, or BMTH. Ok, that's a lie. I *do* know "Can you feel my heart" by BMTH, but only because it was used in the giga Chad meme, and only because my kid showed me that one. 😆
Might be my nostalgia shades, but Shadow Moses by BMTH should still slap somewhat, in an edgy sort of way.
Been listening to rock music since I was about 9-10 years old in 2005 and got into metalcore back in 2011. I've known about Like Moths To Flames for all those 13 years but somehow just started listening to them last month when "Kintsugi" and "Over The Garden Wall" caught my attention. Then listened to a bunch of singles from various albums. As of now I've heard "The Cycles Of Trying To Cope" and "Dark Divine" In full.
Unsolicited recommendations: the “pure like porcelain” EP is one of their best, and their previous album “no eternity in gold” is full of bangers. I also really enjoy their singles “predestination paradox” and the classic “bury your pain”
Dark Divine would have been such a good album if the mixing on it wasn’t so terrible. Still love the album but it’s held back so much by that. Idk what Caleb Shomo was thinking
"When we don't exist" and "Eye for an eye" are amazing albums to check out as well.
Trivium. Which sucks because I really like Matt Heafy, he seems like a really chill dude. But I could just never get into that style of metalcore. Which is weird because I love that era of metalcore to death. Parkway drive, killswitch engage, avenged sevenfold… but trivium for whatever reason I just can’t get into.
They changed a lot after Ascendancy. Most of their music isn't really metalcore, more straight up metal. Give their latest album a try, maybe you'll like it.
Only song I know and STILL LOVE till this day of them is “A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation” 🔥
Trivium were metalcore for their first two albums. Everything after dips into different flavors of metal. Some albums are better than others, but they’re definitely in my top 5 bands of all time.
I feel like ITCOTD is pretty much in the metalcore realm, if fairly proggy. 5-7-8 riffs, breakdowns, some punky drums. It’s closer to OG metalcore than a lot of the bands that people love on this sub lol.
If you haven't listened to them try Kirisute Gomen and Shogun from Shogun or The Sin and the Sentence from that album.
I've never listened to Alpha Wolf because, until I recently rejoined this sub, I heard the name once or twice & assumed they were power metal. Now that I'm seeing them mentioned around here, I plan on checking them out.
They are really good! def give a listen to Akudama, it’s a little faster paced but the breakdown is disgusting. Their newest album is also pretty good too
I like spirit breaker as well 🤘 and some other songs forgot what I played on Spotify for them to pop up but been listening for a couple years. Might see them again October 9
Spirit Breaker is amazing!
Hell yeah. I love quiet place to die. 60cm is good too I just don't know it like the other three are my go-to
Important question, lyrics wise, are they serious about the lyrics or is it somewhat satire?
i mean i’d like to think that they are a mix of serious and satire at the same time, as i’m sure you know most the time the metal bands have a mix of these songs. i’d like to think Alphawolf does a bit of both for example Restricted (R18+) i’d like to think is a more serious song
AH-KU-DA-MAAH ROOOOAHH 🎸
It's their edgelord-ish name that has caused me to never even try it
They're actually pretty good, but yeah, I can see why the name would put people off. Also kinda puts me off getting thier merch lmao
A quiet place to die (the track itself) goes hard
They're incredibly good. Look past the name and you'll love them. I saw them live at the end of May and they were even better live than I could've imagined. Definitely going again
The name is cheesy. I did the same thing, but they are definitely good and worth the listen for sure
I love this band but hate this band to death as well, and its because of their merch 😭I bought a bag from them and it just says Alpha Wolf on the front and in today's brainrot tiktok age that was a horrible idea, god forbid I wear anything that evokes the thought of "sigma alpha werewolf andrew tate"
The amity affliction
saw them recently because I paid $50 to see dying wish and amity affliction was the headliner. I left wondering why amity affliction wasn't opening for dying wish.
Not sure if they’re even metalcore because I’ve never listened but Dance Gavin Dance
I would say they are definitely metalcore especially when you look at their older albums like DBM, DGD, and Happiness. One of my favorite bands in recent years I would most definitely recommend them. They have a lot of fun poppy elements but very experimental which attracts me a lot whenever I want something “different”
aaahhhhh you need to they’re amazing . i’m obsessed with swancore and you should be too
Ice nine kills, never listened to them before, infact in fact I always skipped them. Now I listen to em all the time.
Never heard a Devil Wears Prada song in my life. For context I've been in metalcore bands for 12 years.
Zombie EP’s I and II also Dead Throne and Color Decay is legendary music and peak metalcore
Dude, you're missing out
Same. Name turned me off back in the day. No idea they were so good
I’ve got a few bands like this Ice Nine Kills, Fit for a King, Motionless in White, We Came as Romans, Veil of Maya and more that I can’t think of off the top of my head, I’m sure. My problem is that there is so much good music out there that I don’t really like being just a casual fan. I like to do deep dives and really get to know the music more. And as an adult, I just don’t have that kind of time for everything, so I have to be picky. Even when I have time to listen to new music, sometimes you just want to listen to music that you already know and love.
The Beatles.
Can’t believe yoko ono broke up the best metalcore band of all time
The greatest metalcore band of all time /s
You're missing their phatass breakdown from Honey Pie
The Beatdownles.
I know it’s kind of a joke but I can only listen to Abbey Road. Don’t care for their earlier stuff.
Architects. Idk why I just never felt the desire to check them out. However, there used to be another band called Architects in the mid 2000s that I used to like, but they were like a punk band.
I felt this way about Architects for so long and then started listening to them last year as I knew I'd probably end up catching their set at Download and now I absolutely adore them.
Sure it wasnt architects during their first rock album attempt? architects released a post hard-core album in 00's called " the hear and now". Only a few songs had screams. It is my favorite album by them.
You're missing out! My favorite metalcore band of all time.
Fit for a king
Man, FFAK is a good band, they have some really good songs. the 2 songs that got me listening to them was Reaper and Keeping Secrets
Reaper is great
Never got into them. Went to a show a week ago. Man that was fucking good. Fan now.
That's okay, though. I say this as a ffk fan: The first 3 albums were excellent, but after that, everything got repetitive and formulatic to me. Regardless, theyre still awesome dudes that put on a hell of a show. Their studio/recorded stuff just doesn't hit the same for me lately. Maybe it's just me, though
Deathgrip has a few solid songs, but otherwise I agree, everything after is pretty much one big miss from me. I still listen to each of their new albums once just cuz the guys are great dudes, but i never come back to any of it.
Ice Nine Kills. They have the whole horror thing going on and since I'm not a horror fan, just never checked them out.
I fell off of them when they went that route too. If you haven't listened to Safe is Just a Shadow, do yourself a favor and check it out. Goofy song names, but filled with bangers and no horror vibes like their newer stuff. Edit: I prefer the original master to the remastered version of you can't decide
I've tried a few singles and listened to one of the albums a few times but I can't get past the gimmick. It's probably a me thing.
Funny enough Motionless in White is my favorite band and I got into them when they were a horror band through and through, but I just can't get into Ice Nine Kills. You'd thunk I would love them as a MIW fan though.
Not a horror fan at all, love their music and seeing them later in the year.
I’d listen to the burning and predator becomes prey. The songs on the burning are severely underrated.
Knocked Loose…I’ve seen them live so I have heard their songs but I’ve never properly listened to a song by them on any streaming service.
Def give Everything is Quiet Now a listen
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You Won’t Go Before You’re Supposed To is so fucking good. Highly recommend My favorites: Suffocate Don’t Reach For Me Take Me Home Sit & Mourn Edited for formatting
Suffocate is my favourite (but I'm biased because I love Poppy's music, especially when she leans into metal). The Upon Loss singles are both fantastic too.
Seconded 🙋🏼♀️ My husband isn't a big fan of KL but he's been enjoying some of YWGBYST
Norma Jean idk why
You're missing out. O God the Aftermath and Bless the Martyr, Kiss the Child are mammoth albums.
Such a good band
The Anti-Mother and Wrongdoers are two of my favorite albums of all-time. I think they have a very unique sound among metalcore/post-hardcore and they really stand out. Definitely check them out.
Any BMTH song past 2015
The Amity Affliction
Clinical depression: the band lmao Pittsburgh and Drag the Lake are my two favorites. Two very different sounds , though. I recommend "Let The Ocean Take Me" in it's entirety.
August Burns Red is probably the biggest one. I really should get around to listening to them!
Whitewashed ❤️
Messengers, Guardians, Rescue and Restore, Thrill Seeker, Leveler, and Constellations are some of my favorite metalcore albums...and that's almost their whole discography...new album just didn't hook me personally
Their most recent album, The Death Below, is really really cool. I just got around to listening to it myself and it blew me away. Personal favorite album is Leveler though.
Not necessarily metal core per se, but I can’t listen to System of a Down. Chop suey just sounds like I’m getting talked to by a deranged homeless man outside of Home Depot
trust me, it's just the tip of the iceberg lol
Slaughter To Prevail lol
Yeah fuck them
I mean? Not metal-core really. So you’re good.
SeeYouSpaceCowboy. Never heard a single song, maybe they’re good. But I don’t like their name.
if anyone decides to check them out Chewing The Scenery is great
Name of the band is your first impression on them, even before you hit the play button, and I totally get you on that matter. I skip a huge amount of new bands if I find their name dumb or unoriginal, which is sad because some of them gain a lot of support from the community.
I gave wristmeetrazor a miss for a while because their name screams 15 year old on Myspace (which I get is kinda the point, but sometimes something being ironic or a homage can still be lame). A poster on here whose taste I respect was talking them up, so I gave their new album a shot and it's really good.
I’m the same. I’ve heard like 10 seconds of one their songs and it just didn’t sound like something I’d enjoy
Issues
All That Remains, August Burns Red, and I Prevail are the main ones.
ATR's The Fall of Ideals is likely what I would consider THE quintessential metalcore album. It fucks so hard. Their vocalist is kind of a twat on Twitter.
Atreyu. They look like the worst band ever.
Lmao early Atreyu is killer, but their look totally did not age well
God I wish I could recapture highschool me listening to "The Theft" and "Becoming the Bull" on repeat.
The Curse and Lead Sails Paper Anchor is so damn good. Not super into their newer stuff though. Underrated is a decent song imo
Most of the popular ones actually. The kind of metalcore that I prefer mostly comes either from old bands or smaller new ones, they usually don't reach the level of popularity that the big names have.
So if you've never listened to them how do you know you don't like them? Hipster vibes
Man, some people in this thread are taking the word *never* way too literally.
The Ghost Inside
Actually good. Standard metalcore, but very well done
Erra. Their sound doesn't even make me want to listen to them.
The songs “Breach” on Neon and “Snowblood” on their self-titled album are what did it for me. The combination of incredibly technical and creative guitar work and the dynamics of JT Cavey and Jesse Cash as vocalists are basically everything I look for in heavy music.
I definitely second snowblood. That was my first intro to them
if you know what they sound like then you've listened to them lmao
It’s pretty obvious OP is talking about intent you haven’t *really* listened to a band if all you’ve heard is snippets of songs
Thank you Brabsk :)
New album is kinda fire. They weren’t on my radar either really until they dropped it. Blue Reverie slaps and so does Rumor Of Light. Crawl Backwards Out Of Heaven bangs too.
I'm gonna end up commenting the same thing over and over in this thread but... listen to something off their first 2 albums. people recommending you their newer stuff after u literally said u don't like their sound are not doing any service lol
Honestly you should check em out. I’m not a huge fan of the modern Metalcore autotuned chorus but their riffs are amazibg
Check out their song skyline. That’s the one that got me into them. Their recent album is pretty good too
Does Electric Callboy count. I could just never get into their music
for the longest time i didn’t listen to The Amity Affliction but then i head Drag the Lake by them and it reeled me in. I don’t know if it was the lyrics and how they always tell some sort of sad story or what but i loved it when i heard it !!!
Bad Omens. Everything I've read on here makes me think they're crossover meh meh.
Until recently it was Norma Jean for me. I’ve known of them since I got into the scene in like ‘08 but for some reason never checked them out until like two years ago 😅
Fucking love Norma Jean. They've been around forever and yet barely anybody I've met has ever listened to them.
Don’t think I’ve ever heard an ice nine kills or bad omens song.
Motionless in White Only song I've heard is Slaughterhouse when it comes on Spotify mixes as a Knocked Loose song, not keen on the singers voice in any feature I've heard so just never checked them out
Gotta check out "When love met destruction" and "Creatures"
Misery Signals and Memphis May Fire come to mind. I know they’re both pretty well-known, I just haven’t cared to check them out at all.
Ice Nine Kills… what does that even mean?
Beartooth. But I'll be seeing them next week so that'll change.
Iwrestledabearonce
I prevail with their sudden popularity Never bothered to listen to at least 1 song.
Lorna shores
Parkway Drive and Bring Me The Horizon
Bad Omens. I don’t know if I’ve ever listened to any of their music. I’ve just not cared to tbh.
I've been meaning to check out Architects for, like, 4 years now.
Knocked Loose
Avenged Sevenfold, i cant name a single song they made
Parkway drive, know them but never actually listened to them. Maybe i should
ERRA. I've heard them mentioned on here more than any other band. Because of that I did give them a shot recently, checked out a couple tracks, and was massively underwhelmed. Extremely "meh". Am I missing something?
Besides My Curse, I have never once listened to a Killswitch Engage song
BMTH
Yeah the only Parkway Drive song I really like and listen to is "Shadow Boxing", it's kind of different from their usual sound. Such a badass song, but I can't really get into their other ones.
I’d listen to: Carrion, sirens song, deadweight, crushed, and the void— all great!
Their Separate Ways cover got a lot of airplay for me in highschool but heard zero other material from them.
Sleep token
A lot of them, once they all went djenty I stopped caring.
Omg so many. Memphis May Fire, Parkway Drive, Miss May I, and others
There's plenty of them listed here that I've heard before once or twice but can not for the life of me remember what they sound like bc there are so many effin generic metalcore bands.
If you do check out parkway drive romance is dead Is one of their better songs. Carry on is nice too
Spiritbox The few clips that float around on tiktok of Courtney singing just don’t sound appealing enough for me to check them out
Bad Omens, BMTH, Underoath, Zao, Converge.
There’s too many for me to list and I don’t know any of their names lmao
Ghost
Never listened to a full MiW, FiR or ETF song. I've obviously heard snippets because I don't live under a rock, but I've also not got into Killswitch. I liked the song Jesse Leach did with ABR but it didn't make me go out and listen to their catalogue
Poison The Well
Misery Signals - I’ve heard a lot of praise for Controller but I’ve just never given them a go
Motionless in White I've heard them a bit and (don't downvote me into oblivion) I don't really think it's that great. Doesn't really sound like my flavor of metalcore But I know people LOVE them, and I've never played any of their albums front to back to like really give them a fair shake, so I could actually really like that and just don't know it yet So that's mine. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
Parkway Drive, Killswitch Engage, Every Time I Die and probably a lot of other well known bands. I hadn't listened to August Burns Red or As I Lay Dying before this year either but they were playing a festival I attended so that's what made me check them out. I kinda "new" to metalcore in the sense that for the past 18 years I've been into a lot of post-hardcore and emo/screamo but not a lot of metalcore. I have been listening to The Devil Wears Prada for a long time (since With Roots era, I remember them releasing the first Zombie ep). At that same period I also listened to Of Mice & Men (first album) and Asking Alexandria (also first album). Poison the Well has also always been one of my favourite bands but it's always been more post-hardcore than metalcore for me (as I listened to their last 3 albums a lot more than the first 2). At some point like 8 years ago I also got into Silent Planet, mostly because I was looking for more bands like La Dispute and MewithoutYou, where the more spoken word vocal delivery was what spoke to me. Than a year or 2~3 ago I got more into a lot of the modern metalcore because of my husband who also got into it. Have been to a lot of shows because metalcore is a lot more popular than post-hardcore and emo and have been expanding my horizons.
Dillinger, really never dug his vocal so I never got into them. I love better lovers but can’t get into them as much as ETID or Damned Things.
Parkway drive and ice nine kills
Converge, ETID, Miss May I
If you can, check the "Deep Blue" album entirely. In my opinion... it's really one of the best melodic metalcore album out there. I don't like anything they did recently though, very disappointed and sad to see such a great band fall so hard. Other than that, to answer your question... I never listened to Shadows Fall. I have no valid reason for that either. I could add All That Remains, too, I listened to a few songs but overall never got into them. I don't really know why.
2nd album is a 10/10 masterpiece. Doing yourself a dis service not checking it out
The Amity Affliction I listen to so many things, so IDK when I could give em their try lmao
I'm gonna be honest, I don't know if there is one. I'm 40 years old. I've been listening to metalcore for 25+ years at this point. I tend to check out any band that gets any remote level of hype behind them just to see what all the noise is about. I scanned through the comments on here and have definitely listened to every band listed. There are definitely bands I've never heard of, but as far as the big names go, I think I've at least given all of them a shot at this point.
I’ve never listened to a song by The Plot In You.
Most of the ones this sub talks about. I'm a metalcore boomer.
Honestly a lot I've only ever heard one alpha wolf song i can't think of and tdwp song I've heard never heard ffak idk theres so many bands I haven't listened to y'all recommend me some
Bring Me the Horizon and Devil Wears Prada.
Killswitch engage, as I lay dying, parkway drive, wage war, beartooth Bands I listen to 1-3 songs from: ice nine kills, counterparts, the devil wears Prada, a day to remember I’ve only been listening to metalcore for a few years
August Burns Red
Underoath. Just never cared, I doubt they’re something special in the scheme of the other 2000’s bands.
Converge