Metalcore Puns

For example, August Burns Red is my favorite, but sometimes they have moments that just sound like indiscernible noise. It's pretty consistent about their albums, there's always a song or two that have parts where all the instruments just mesh into noise

I do and I actually love a lot of "Butt Rock" (especially bands such as Breaking Benjamin, old Skillet, old Disturbed, RED and Seether). This question is because I have noticed that when many people have switched to Metalcore or more alternative and niche music, they just don't look back.

For me it's Through Struggle by As I Lay Dying. I was really new to metal as a whole so seeing it being combined with clean vocals was really gripping. Not to mention that iconic breakdown in the end. Let's see what got y'all into the genre.

Mine has to be Gone with the Wind by Architects for sure. It's more than amazing and hits you right in the feels which is why I had it on repeat for months. What song have you listened to the most till now?

Here is the weekly recommendation thread as we only get two pinned posts.

After two weeks of intense voting in the nomination round and voting round, we are finally ready to release the results. Both aforementioned threads will be taken out of contest mode so if you want to see the exact votes, please go there.

Nonetheless, here is the top three of each category!

#Album of the Year (not ft. Courtney LaPlante)

1. Erra - Erra

2. Ice Nine Kills - Welcome to Horrorwood

3. Silent Planet - Iridescent

#Song of the Year (ft. Courtney LaPlante)

1. Erra - Gungrave

2. Make Them Suffer - Contraband ft. Courtney LaPlante

3. Ice Nine Kills - Funeral Derangements

#Guest Feature of the Year

1. Make Them Suffer - Contraband feat. Courtney LaPlante

2. Spiritbox - Yellowjacket (ft. Sam Carter)

3. Ice Nine Kills - Take Your Pick (ft. Corpsegrinder)

#Meme of the Year (Sponsored by r/corejerk)

1. Eskimo Callboy enters the Eurovision Song Contest with Pump It

2. corejerk writes a song

3. Every man should get grapefruited NSFW

#Most Unintelligible Vocals of the Year

1. Landmvrks - Say No Word

2. SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Painting A Clear Picture From A Unreliable Narrator

3. Spiritbox - Circle With Me

#r/metalcore AMA of the Year

1. Garrett Russell

2. Erra

3. The Devil Wears Prada

#Underground Release of the Year (less than 5,000 listeners on Spotify)

1. What Lies Below - Destinations

2. Queen Kona - Lucid

3. Exanimate - Luminous

#North American Album of the Year (excluding USA)

1. Spiritbox - Eternal Blue

2. Phinehas - The Fire Itself

3. Structures

For me, I always have and always will be a big fan of Seether, no matter how many other metalheads/core boys shamed me for doing so.

Temporarily moving the weekly recommendation thread here as we only get two pinned spots.

Sorry for the delay y'all, new mod team slowed some stuff down (yes I'm part of the problem), but it's finally that time of the year!

This year will be pretty much the same as last year in terms of categories and format. In case you’ve forgotten or are new here, here is how it’ll work:

• I will post a bunch of comments in this thread; these comments will be what this year's categories are.
• You will post replies to my comments for whatever you are nominating in that category.
• Everyone will then upvote any nominations to vote on their picks for each category.
• Don’t discuss the nominations in this thread, save that for the general discussion thread. Any comments that aren’t nominations will be removed.

##IMPORTANT: INCLUDE CONTEXT (YOUTUBE/SPOTIFY/IMGUR/ETC LINKS) WITH YOUR NOMINATIONS OR THEY WILL BE REMOVED. This is especially important for nominations like Best Album, Best EP, Best Breakdown, Best News Story etc, but include it for anything where possible.

##Before nominating, check and make sure that you aren't nominating something that someone else has already nominated in that category already! All duplicates will be removed to make it easier to count votes.

After a week or so, the three most upvoted nominees will move onto the Final Voting Round.

One major highlight of metalcore has to be how versatile some vocalists are. They can go from the meanest sounding screams to the cleanest melodic singing - Marcus Bridge of Northlane, Lukas of Veil of Maya and Chris of Like Moths to Flames to name a few. Any other vocalists who are really versatile and can do a lot with their voice?

I showed my friend the new LMTF EP, she just said "this is pure satanic shit cant understand anything", then just recommended ADTR's You're Welcome and she is in love with it rn. I need worst and softest albums ever existed just so I can recommend her more and can talk with her more.

Every band seems to have less creative merch as time rolls on. Not saying it’s not a part of growth & maturity in the scene, but god… does some new band merch just look awfully plain/generic. I’m not sure if it’s just bands trying to jump on the modern trends, or if they’ve really lost their stylistic edge. Nowadays, it’s usually just some plain text over some shapes, or simply the album cover as a design. I really do miss the unique styles & artwork that made metalcore merch standout over everything else. The Warped Era was unbeatable. Anyone agree with me?

I'm talking about songs with powerful choruses that blow you away

Ill start Bury tomorrow- Black Flame

Currently searching for some of the best metalcore ballads out there. Songs that are emotive, sad and still have some heavy in them. Also slow-burning songs too. For example, "End of Me" by ADTR is my current favorite. Give me all your suggestions!

complete as in not just 1-3 strong songs then just filler

G'day everyone, and I am proud to welcome you to the fifth annual results for r/Metalcore's fan voted Top 50! Firstly my apologies that this poll has been drawn out a bit longer than usual, between moving and a case of the spicy cough I've had my hands quite full of late. 2021 provided an unfortunately all too familiar backdrop, but a global pandemic didn't stop our awesome scene generating some truly exceptional new music. Sit back and enjoy the 2021 Top 50 songs as voted by you, with a little extra on the top 10 place-getters. Enjoy!

50. Cane Hill - Blood & Honey
49. The Amity Affliction - Like Love
48. Spiritbox - Sun Killer
47. Sentinels - Inertia
46. Ice Nine Kills Feat. Corpsegrinder - Take Your Pick
45. Spiritbox - Eternal Blue
44. Of Mice & Men - Bloom
43. Wage War - Death Roll
42. Volumes - Bend
41. Ice Nine Kills - Welcome To Horrorwood
40. Bad Omens - Artificial Suicide
39. Erra - Electric Twilight
38. Ice Nine Kills Feat. Jacoby Shaddix - Hip To Be Scared
37. Erra - Divisionary
[3

Maybe occult isn’t the right word, but old stuff from Born of Osiris, Erra, Volumes, Aristeia, BTBAM, Northlane (I still love their new stuff). I miss the grooves and the lyrics talking about the universe or something that’s bigger than the worldly problems of the everyday.

Yes, you read it right, your popular metalcore opinion. That one that at this point, we all know that it's just karma farming.

I would like to know your personal opinion. Thank you!🔥🎶🎸

I'm talking songs like Issues- King of Amarillo, I See Stars - Violent Bounce etc with real beef behind the songs.

An album, a tour, fan meeting, etc?

What I mean is that there's aggressive guitar playing along with a mixture of clean and harsh vocals. It sounds similar to metalcore, but isn't. For example Soilwork and In Flames, which are melodeath. Then there's nu-metal like Slipknot and post-hardcore like Silverstein

Pretty silly title here, but I just wanna say that I LOVE METALCORE music. I grew up a metalhead. More traditional stuff like Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest. I then got into prog metal like Opeth, Dream Theater, Mastodon. This was in the 2000s. During the 2000s there was a civil war amongst fans of heavy music. There was metalheads vs Metalcore fans. I was on the side of the former, and you couldn't get me to check out any Metalcore even if it was a more respectable band.

I went into the 2010s with the idea to be really open minded about music. So I listened to a ton of amazing contemporary music. From different genres like pop, hip hop, alternative, indie. I checked out a handful of metal releases, but didn't really give the genre as a whole much attention.

in 2021 I got turned on to Turnstile and I was blown away. it was my second favorite album that year. I started listening to more of the metal that I grew up on. Just a couple days ago I was sitting there going, I'm listening to all of this new music in indie and hip hop and listening to a lot of old metal, but nothing new. So I decided I wanted to get back into what is going on in the metal world today. Only this time I wanted to go in with the same open mind that lead to to so many amazing artists outside of metal.

I've been checking out all of the notable bands from Metalcore from the past 10 years- architects, bring me the horizon , Erra, Spiritbox, Thornhill, Polaris, while she sleeps, phinehas, Kingdom of giants, parkway drive, Beartooth. I am LOVING these bands. I am loving Metalcore.

I love that Metalcore music has proper songwriting (you know where the SONG matters over the technical ability, like Brian Wilson or something.) I love that it's extremely catchy, while still be extremely heavy. The exact reasons I fell in love with bands like Sabbath, or Metallica.

I just wanted to share how much I'm loving this Metalcore venture. I'm still interested in other metal sub-genres but nowadays I think Metalcore is scratching and itch I didn't know I had.

One-hit wonders are generally more pervasive in other genres, but in your option what song by a metal band launched them into the spotlight just for them to fail at recreating the spark in their subsequent works?

Which bands were already great on first release, could be ep or full album.

Best example that comes to mind is parkway drive for me.

title pretty much says it.

It could be relating to a band, the genre, the scene, or this subreddit. What is something you couldn’t see happening in metalcore? I’ll go first.

I couldn’t see an As I Lay Dying song being posted without one of the comments asking how people forgave Tim’s past.

Another one is seeing a hardcore-leaning band winning AOTY on this sub, though Knocked Loose did come close.

Do you consider any sort of metalcore or hardcore/metal genre mixed with death metal to be deathcore or would you say it has to have a specific sound? There were plenty of bands before the 2000s that were doing what deathcore “means” but it seems like people use the 2000s bands as the first wave.

What are the most emotional metalcore Albums?

Also I am looking for uplifting albums. Any recommendations for both?

I’m my opinion, I’d give it to either hand of blood by bfmv or zombie by tdwp

I'll start
Architects- Gone with the Wind. Keep it going dudes!
EDIT: One Artist One song Playlist inspired by this post and made by u/copypaste_93
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UyB9JKDlSWwLyiVmn2PIK?si=mz2oqQXhSkaBjbjgYrzizg&utm_source=copy-link

After doing this for r/deathcore, I wanted to do the same for this sub. I looked through 19 different favorite album / essential album / top 10 album topics in r/metalcore and put every single answer (with at least 5 upvotes) into a spreadsheet. In the end I added up all upvotes for each album to make a top list. I needed a little longer for this one since the topics were usually a little larger, obviously due to size of the subreddit. However, here are the results:

Top 1-25 Picture

Top 26-50 Picture

Top 100 (+) Spreadsheet

Notes:

• No EPs included. (if there is any, let me know so I can correct it)
• To make the Top 100, an album had to be mentioned at least in two different posts.
• The line between Metalcore, Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Deathcore & Mathcore is sometimes very thin as well as debatable but I tried my best to just include metalcore albums.

Fun Facts:

• I was expecting to see Wage War at least in the Top 50, but they didn't even make the Top 100, what makes it the only band of the r/metalcore's Hall of Fame who didn't make it! (together with daddy fiasco's ass of course!)
• Bury Tomorrow - Cannibal (20) is the only album in the Top 50 that just got mentioned twice, and was in both cases a part of a top list that got a huge amount of upvotes. Due to this, its high position can be a misleading, compared to the others.
• I was actually surprised to see Converge's Jane Doe on 12 and Botch's We Are the Romans on 50. Not because they didn't deserve it, but because it always sounded to me like the average user here never even considered these albums as something worth listening to, glad I was wrong!
• Even though it is on the second place, surprisingly, The Fall of Ideals got mentioned in more Topics/Posts than All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us!
• (personal sad fact) I'm a little disappointed (and somehow surprised) that They Said A Storm Was Coming by Jamie's Elsewhere wasn't even mentioned ONCE.

In my opinion 2005 was the best year for metalcore. 2004 and 2006 were also really good but I think 2005 is just a little bit better with the amount and quality of the music released that year.

Some albums that were released in 2005:

• Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison
• Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil
• As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security
• Parkway Drive - Killing With a Smiles
• Trivium - Ascendancy
• God Forbid - IV: Constitution of Treason
• August Burns Red - Thrill Seeker
• Between the Buried and Me - Alaska
• Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
• Protest the Hero - Kezia
• DevilDriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
• Chimaira - Chimaira
• The Agony Scene - The Darkest Red
• Norma Jean - O God the Aftermath
• Haste the day - When Everything falls
• I Killed the Prom Queen - When Goodbye Means Forever
• Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon
• etc.

Have been blasting Corpus Christi by diamonds to dust and it’s essentially just made me realise my ideal music is metalcore with deathcore vocals and elements and want to find some other bands that sound similar

Bands like Alexisonfire, Billy Talent, Comeback Kid, etc!

View Poll

When I was in middle-school and highschool in the late 2000’s, I don’t remember metalcore ever being used to describe some bands that are now described as metalcore. It seems like a lot of bands that were described as “hardcore” back in those days are now deemed metalcore. Hardcore or “HXC” would have been like ADTR, Beartooth, August Burns Red, Underoath, Norma Jean and there devotees would be considered hardcore kids. Was the term used and I was oblivious to it? Or was it placed retroactively? As I get back to my old musical tastes I now accept hardcore to be more of the 90s, 00s, hardcore punk scene and metalcore to describe the bands I did listen to, but I’m just curious because I don’t remember the term being used at large.

Enjoying this at the moment, any recs? Ringworm and integrity style. Doesn't have to be from the 90s

Edit: playlist link for anyone interested

playlist

I just went through a rough breakup after 2.5 years and it got kinda ugly. Got any recommendations for songs that make you feel good about a breakup? Been listening to a lot of boys of fall

As deathcore fans, we should acknowledge and appreciate our brothers in the hardcore subgenres, so what is your favorite metalcore album/song/band/musician? I'll start:

Song - "These Colours Don't Run" by Architects

Band - Boundaries (Polaris closely follows)

Musician - Gaku Taura

Album - Both albums by Polaris

Big metalcore fan, the idea came to me and wanted to see what people think.

View Poll

Let's have a good time and go off the rails and go ham on these takes, I'll start.

August Burns Red is boring AF. Jake Luhrs has had the same scream his entire vocal career, if you took away ABR's amazing instrumental talent, the very average-at-best vocalist would make them fade away into the rest of dead metalcore bands.

Another one, I find that whole "Djentcore" genre to be boring as hell. Bands like Volumes, Invent Animate, Glass Cloud, (some Periphery). I just find it all to sound the same, and the vocalists always do that Sam Carter rip off were they are doing a yell-sing at the same time.

Numero thrice: Huge fan of Beartooth, but Beartooth has made the same exact album their entire career. I loved Disgusting and thought it was a classic, top 10 possibly of all time, but Aggressive/Disease/Below all sound the same to me. If you took a song/single off one and played 3 of them to me, I wouldn't be able to tell what was off what. On the other note, Bring Me The Horizon is always changing genres, and say what you want about it whether you like it or not, it is very interesting to keep track of and see them grow in all phases.

Edit: One more opinion, not metalcore but I got into all types of rock/metal but there is one phase of it I never got into and thats the whole Fall Out Boy/My Chemical Romance/Panic At The Disco type of music. Never understood it.

Here is the weekly recommendation thread as we only get two pinned posts.

Welcome to the annual /r/Metalcore Best Of Voting Round! Let's wrap up 2021 with the final vote to decide what /r/Metalcore truly thinks about the year in review.

The rules are simple, vote on each category; these are the highest voted nominees from each category of the nomination round.

Please note:

• Categories that had a large number of submissions (AOTY, SOTY, etc.) had the top ten move on while every other category has the top five submissions.
• If a category had three or less submissions, the votes there will count as the final vote count for the end results and the category will not show up here.
• Discussion of the entries go on the general discussion thread.

After a week or so, the votes will be counted and another mod announcement will be made.

1. Circle With Me by Spiritbox (1.6k)
2. Contraband by Make Then Suffer feat. Courtney LaPlante (1.2k)
3. Holy Roller by Spiritbox (1.2k)
4. Blessed Be by Spiritbox (1.2k)

What’s even more impressive is that Blessed Be wasn’t even released in 2021 and it’s super rare to see an older song get so many upvotes.

Hypa Hypa by Eskimo Callboy & Clockwork by Northlane just about preventing Secret Garden from making it a clean top 5, with all three songs on ~1k upvotes

What are some songs where the guest feature didn't fit the song or the vocals didn't sound right for the song, etc.?

Who writes the best lyrics in metalcore and why? Give examples of your favorite lyrics and why you love them