Evolution of Metalcore (1989-2023)

Metalcore is a hybrid of hardcore punk and metal emerged in the mid-to-late 1990s, emphasizing breakdowns and increased usage of dissonance.
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[@ciel777_]

sm ppl complaining ab the bands included like ?? make yr own list then tf

[@exoticwaves1580]

Because these bands do not represent the evolution of metalcore and the bands that put the genre on the map,imagine someone trying to learn about metalcore and they go oh everyone was listening to xRepentancex in 2013!, like nah nobody was listening to that shit this whole list is a troll

[@juliogonzalez2880]

@@exoticwaves1580this list isn’t based on popularity though

[@cigarettecat3981]

@@exoticwaves1580dude you weren’t there people were def listening to repentance

[@exoticwaves1580]

@@cigarettecat3981 maybe in your little circle jerk, i get what the dude that made the video says but like sempiternal dropped in 2013… i think that says enough, my main problem with this list is there is zero evolution

[@michaeledward5201]

​@@exoticwaves1580troll people like you, this list represents at beginning the fusion of metal and hardcore, doesn't mean to you?, well metalcore is even a thing at 80s like crossover thrash bands like crumbsuckers D.R.I and Carnivore, one of their interviews at Mike score (All out war vocalist) he claims they're metalcore bands, this genre fuses many things about metal and hardcore punk, Of course because people like to be ignorant listening trash music like mainstream metal that like generates money at their records and pseudo reputation people like you

[@satesup4353]

This is what Metalcore originated from, back when it was called Metallic Hardcore. Until NWOAHM takeover and Crabcore, afterwards. The perfect guide of history of early Metalcore. This may confused newcomers, though... .

[@YaBoyJRock42069]

No one has or will ever acknowledge NWOAHM as a thing 😂😂😂😂 Its literally metalcore. Cope

[@satesup4353]

@@YaBoyJRock42069 well, it is during the NWOAHM the actual term Metalcore is used. NWOAHM is just for media classification.

[@victorgm4702]

Hardcore Punk with Metal influences = Metallic Hardcore ( Nu school of Hardcore ) , Hardcore Metal or Metal Hardcore. Finally, for short Metalcore

[@RibeiroGames12]

the therm metalcore is way older than "metallic hardcore" (basically a therm that became more popular after melodic metalcore started getting more sucesseful). Merauder, All Out War, Shai Hulud and H800 bands already used to call themselves metalcore in the 90s

[@RobertRodriguez1990]

To be fair. I’ve been listening to metal since 1997. In 2008 until present day 2024 , I’ve been telling people metal core is my favorite subgenre. I’ve only ever heard one band in this compilation. Had to go to Wikipedia to see if I was wrong to classify as I lay dying, killswitch and all the other bands that play in dropped tuning with open E string 5-7-8 riffs as metalcore.

[@lovemycamry]

RIP Adrienne ):

[@GreyJ47]

Hey man!

[@lovemycamry]

@@GreyJ47yooooo!!!

[@spaceriot23]

biohazard, converge, merauder should be on this list

[@hereticdeth7986]

convarge was in mathcore video

[@evansmith9514]

People still underestimate how influential Earth Crisis is

[@handel1111]

Earth Crisis is gay

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

its ridiculous

[@shanewright9735]

Seriously! I remember when Firestorm came out. It was like a bomb went off in the scene. I immediately started writing metal influenced HC riffs. Then they joined the Ozzfest tour, and to my recollection that was the the time that was the first I had seen the two scenes really interact.

[@trtorbelfort]

Was too young for earth crisis’ original run, went back and listened to all of the classics when I went down the rabbit hole of the scene and they’re fucking legends

[@RamManNo1]

Fr. Their riffs were catchy as hell.

[@Higor_da_costa_coelho]

People thinks metalcore is only the melodic plus breakdown 💀

[@DragoonKiller777]

Sad reality the real one kinda keeps underground as Most of the Hardcore scene

[@malditazos]

HC = MC ?

[@Higor_da_costa_coelho]

@@malditazos Bro, never heard 7 angels 7 plagues, on broken wings, converge, skycamefalling?

[@josejesushernandezbustillo9139]

​@@Higor_da_costa_coelhowell, the melodic Metalcore stills heavy, until the came of scenekids

[@Higor_da_costa_coelho]

@@josejesushernandezbustillo9139 The New Wave Of Metalcore/metallic hardcore came along with a bunch of new bangers, try to checkout some boundaries, Seeyouspacecowboy and chamber

[@nickbusch7860]

Ill never forget the day my band opened for A Second Story Window. It was at some random bar with a mid size crowd and I was chatting with the guitar player. He asked what my band sounded like and I have a short description and I asked if they were heavy. He chuckled and said "hah ya kind of". They went on after us and fucking blew my mind for the next 30 minutes. Was such a honor and privilege.

[@pawelzawislak1671]

I'm glad you included Congress. Such an underrated band! If it was me making that list, I'd definitely throw Morning Again in.

[@lukefenwick1607]

Morning Again don’t get enough recognition

[@joshy3747]

as soon as I opened this I was like "Bloodlet and On Broken Wings better be on here" and sure enough they were lol great video man!

[@imalizard2113]

I saw Poison the Well with Hatebreed and Bane back in 2000-2001. I found the video on KZbin recently and couldn't believe all the baggy jeans. So easy to forget that there was a span of time where everyone was dressing like that. Edit: I forgot that a basically unknown Shadow's Fall was there too and I was probably the only one singing along because my older brother had their first couple albums. Wasn't long before they blew up.

[@DRUNKWOLFSOFFICIAL]

Should've included Eighteen Visions for one of these slots, either 2000, 2002, or 2004.

[@hereticdeth7986]

right beacasue this band pionniered sound of metalcore with death metal influence!

[@evansmith9514]

100%

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

02 for sure i remember when they toured opening for Strung Out lol a SoCal punk staple, it was dope.

[@DRUNKWOLFSOFFICIAL]

@@hereticdeth7986 CLEANS TOO!!!!!!!

[@cigarettecat3981]

@@DRUNKWOLFSOFFICIALnah prayer for cleansing did that before them

[@BassRocker617]

Converge and Botch have entered the chat

[@ChainsawSlammer1.3.8]

Back when metalcore screams were angry and brutal, and didn't sound sugarr ahh

[@taylerthompson7559]

The first as I lay dying album was huge.

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes is just Zao worship. Unless you mean Frail Words Collapse, but that's their second album

[@jeleopard]

@@xangrycatmanx5104 you say "just" as if it still wasn't fire.

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

​@@jeleopardof course its fire. Beneath The Encasing of Ashes is amazing. But you can't deny that it isn't very derivative of Zao

[@Kyle11011]

August burns red 🔥

[@bludgeonedtodeath90]

Finally someone who lists the "essential" Metalcore bands from start to finish! Because when Metalcore is mentioned, polished Metalcore bands such as Architects, Wage War, Motionless In White usually come to mind. The golden years of Metalcore are the late 90s and early 2000s. Afterwards, similar bands with high quality productions emerged. In this list, "Evolution" can only be explained in terms of recording quality. Because the bands at the end of the video do nothing but copy old Metalcore bands.

[@_nuclearnoodle_5757]

🤓

[@victorgm4702]

Metallic Hardcore

[@michaeledward5201]

90s Metalcore = Metallic hardcore

[@21centLWLRO]

Will haven is so fucking underrated

[@sGunkz]

Pure of metalcore

[@bloodypenny]

needs some crumbsuckers and rorschach on there for the early years. did not expect to see catherine on there, have not heard that name in years.

[@marcus2239]

Catherine.. bought that album after getting rejected by a woman named Catherine. Good band that i remember 09.

[@batviolence]

hatebreed? converge? killswitch engage?

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

They count as well, but this list highlights more unknown and underground bands

[@hereticdeth7986]

convarge was upload in mathcore video

[@rubencrudelini2129]

Earth Crisis, Poison the Well, were the game changers… but how fucking i love Martyrs AD ❤ if only they did a bit more stuff

[@jonathanmulcahy949]

Happy to see Will Haven, confused by lack of Marauder

[@rogerdodger9192]

Master killer is THE essential metal core album honestly.

[@DragoonKiller777]

​​@@rogerdodger9192you made me listen to that masterpiece again, thank you 🙏🏻😁

[@cigarettecat3981]

merauder isn’t a metalcore band

[@DragoonKiller777]

@@cigarettecat3981 Merauder IS a Metalcore band. At least the albums I've heard are Metalcore

[@iachtulhu1420]

@@cigarettecat3981 Yes, Merauder is an essential metalcore band.

[@goldenpie6]

I feel like there needs to be a genre differentiation between this kinda metallic hardcore sound and architects/BFMV/KSE etc type metalcore sound

[@RibeiroGames12]

Architects and BMFV have nothing in common tbf. 1. KsE and BMFV = Melodic Metalcore 2. Architects = Progressive Metalcore

[@hereticdeth7986]

​@@RibeiroGames12bfmv is more like melodic Metal for emo Kids, goth Kids and nu metal kids. This band dosent sounds like hardcore

[@RibeiroGames12]

@@hereticdeth7986 true even tho the singing and screaming sound reminiscent of metalcore and post hardcore scenes. The instrumentation almost doesn't contain metalcore chugging riffs or panic chords

[@lil8iTcH]

​@@RibeiroGames12 I think that's the main influence from Metalcore that a lot of these melodic Metalcore bands have. I see it like a gradient. Some bands will lean towards the Metal side, than others. But still have incorporations of Hardcore even if it's as small as just the Vocals. Metallic Hardcore is a type of Post-Hardcore (PROVE ME WRONG) and Post-Hardcore sounds NOTHING like Hardcore. Melodic Metalcore is a type of "Post-Metalcore" which doesn't have to sound like original Metalcore. That's the way I see it at least

[@RibeiroGames12]

@@lil8iTcH i don't think that metalcore is a type of post-hardcore, because the therm is most of the time associated with hardcore kids going experimental without taking metallic influence. And the main influences for the creation of metalcore were definitely the crossover thrash scene, bands from NYC like Madball, Biohazard, Cro-mags playing a more groovy and thrashy style of crossover. And most of the time those bands werent taking influences from PHC at all (fugazi, drive like jehu, etc) but taking from other styles of metal like thrash, groove metal and death metal

[@moshing6654]

Arkangel, All out war....

[@BlueDollarBillz]

to leave All Out War out of a metalcore video is bat shit crazy

[@psychosis8429]

I don't know a lot of these bands but they sound killer. I'll have to give them a listen sometime

[@WordsofHeresy]

My introduction to metalcore was Asking Alexandria, Parkway Drive and Motionless in White 😬 kinda wish it were these bands instead

[@obscureprey13]

i only recognized a few bands 😓 but alot of the bands i gotta check out for sure 😁

[@charleslilly4213]

Feels more like a post hardcore punk evolution but a lot of great bands were mentioned

[@DragoonKiller777]

Thing is that many nowadays confuse post hardcore with Metalcore, the thing is that Metalcore is wide as it's me fussion of hardcore punk (including post-hardcore in the melodic variants) with Metal like grove and melodic death metal, and there are some melodic band very influenced by the new post hardcore as post-hardcore band who play both post-hardcore and Metalcore, that's where the line gets blurry

[@DragoonKiller777]

Something else, real Metalcore has always been part of the Hardcore community but with space in the metal community because of it's hybrid nature, so far all the songs Presented are part of the Metalcore genres, Rise and Fall is from the crust punk scene (and one of my favourite bands)

[@ProGamer1590]

where did you get the audio for brave new world order? I can't find it anywhere

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

Probably soulseek

[@fettjonjr]

love me some old norma jean

[@XPGrindDeathking]

Holy fuck Metalcore actually used to sound crazy. Modern Metalcore has some good stuff too but holy shit.

[@evansmith9514]

And this list is missing the best of the best. Unearth

[@defeatstatistics7413]

you can literally hear where 'modern' mid-2000s metalcore starts (with Poison The Well, skycamefalling, and Darkest Hour in like 1999-2001). Metalcore needed Thursday and In Flames to happen before it really became what it is now.

[@rballard2730]

Thanks Hopesfall for introducing me to this great metal genre.

[@badbrainbeatz3451]

for you, what genre does hopesfall play in the ep “no wings to speak of” ? i like that sound a lot, however, i can't find similar music.

[@rballard2730]

@@badbrainbeatz3451 I’d say, loosely, metalcore. But it’s a bit more nuanced. It was the quality of the screaming that first attracted to and done might have called it ‘screamo’ at the time - but that doesn’t really do it justice.

[@badbrainbeatz3451]

@@rballard2730 But it has no common tempo at all in metalcore, according to chatgpt, it is a kind of post hardcore, emo, screamo with touches or airs of melodic hardcore, however, this definition is not enough for me to look for similar music on KZbin.

[@michaelchristy506]

Everything after 2000 is more hardcore than metalcore I have nothing against hardcore, but like, they are distinctly different. This is less of a history of metalcore and instead more of the history of modern hardcore And yes, I get that metalcore evolved out of hardcore music, but yall need to understand that metalcore has had its definition changed over the years as well as hardcore Also furthermore, to have any evolution of the start of metalcore without converge is criminal, as most people agree that metallic hardcore existed beforehand, it was converge and earth crisis that made METALCORE

[@g3gesh0t]

when metalcore was good

[@lunarstrain235]

You forgot many others like Zao and Darkest Hour

[@paul7452]

yes but is more like melodic death

[@hereticdeth7986]

@@paul7452 only zao is trad metalcore

[@lukefenwick1607]

Darkest Hour are more straight up melodeath

[@jeanelinbalanday8290]

This are the original metalcore bands!!!!

[@Ozymandiaz1260]

I thought metalcore was either stuff like Zao or Converge. Maybe I’m just confused.

[@juliogonzalez2880]

they’re also both metalcore

[@YaBoyJRock42069]

At 35 years old I still listen to On Broken Wings and Evergreen Terrace regularly

[@KILLOXY]

disembodied solos forever and always

[@bobbywood6.920]

Damn should made a playlist! Would be sick

[@xj4maroon5dude]

This is just me; but I feel like in some ways Hardcore and Metalcore are like siblings except one of them is just a little bit heavier with more breakdowns. Such as with the new hardcore bands(in my opinion) such as Boundaries, 156 Silence and Knocked Loose. Not to say they can’t have that metalcore sound I just grew up with another timeline of metalcore(BMTH Bring Me The Horizon, The Devil Wears Prada) so would it be considered hardcore in some ways or should it all be pushed into one big pool of metalcore from different timelines. This is been on my mind for a while especially when you think of it in a sibling perspective. Metalcore could be the older brother, Hardcore is like the middle child and Punk could be the little brother and so on and so forth(when it comes to screaming. With Screamo and Post-Hardcore being the younger ones with less screaming.)

[@DragoonKiller777]

Actually Metalcore is short of Metallic Hardcore Punk so it's in fact Hrdcore Punk with a heavier sound, in it's evolution it added more hardcore genres mixed with more metal genres mainly grove, thrash and death metal so it's a big pull of different Hardcor-punk/Metal fusions where the 1st born Metalcore is the known as crossover thrash, I myself am mor fan of the clasical Metalcore Like Hatebreed, Earth Crisis, Madball, Sworn Enemy, Merauder. The bands you mentioned are from the melodic brach that fusioned post-HC and melodic dm in short teĺling

[@DragoonKiller777]

Oh and more correctly Metalcore are children of Hardcore Punk and Metal, and Hardcore Punk a direct descendant of Punk 🤷🏻‍♂️, postHC would be like sibling of Metalcore and the 2nd post-HC would be father of some melodic Metalcore bands

[@xj4maroon5dude]

@@DragoonKiller777 thank you for your that! I always thought I was the only one who kind of thought that way

[@DragoonKiller777]

@@xj4maroon5dude you're welcome 😁

[@Gonyos]

The term to describe it is "hardcore adjacent". Not pretty much hardcore punk (for me who more into hardcore punk) because it's sounds very metal but share the same stage with hardcore scene especially in tne USA.

[@rhaq426]

Could we have a spotify playlist of these?

[@KeenPotato]

Shout out to Cathrine making the list. Sacramento ogs!!

[@davey_digital]

This is SO far off actual genre bending influences

[@TiagoOuteiro]

Well...based on the line ups shown here it all started with Poison the Well...

[@rolmodel12.]

Such a great band, I miss 'em

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

only saw em once but it was a great pit

[@JorgeSolanoVargas]

Bueno, debo reconocer que el metalcore de la vieja escuela es bueno, lastimosamente creo que los 2000s trajeron una nueva ola muy cargada de melodías y menos brutalidad que hicieron que el género perdiera "peso" para los que gustamos de un sonido más fuerte y menos "endulzado" por decirlo así.

[@brucenatelee]

Are these all "just metalcore" or different genres mixing metal + hardcore (grindcore, powerviolence, crust, fast sludge, etc.).

[@batviolence]

i feel like void had some impact since rhey were one of the earliest hardcore bands to add hints of metal

[@lysdexiar31]

this is a sick list of hardcore bands

[@DimaNSK-vy4br]

Then why are they metalized?

[@QTIP95]

I thought for sure Mis Sigs would have gotten ‘04 but Martyr AD fucking slaps so 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@sillywsop1441]

Motherfucking Groundwork.

[@yahirgarcia2259]

Ah nms el metalcore tiene muchas bandas épicas y yo creyéndome la mentira de que forzosamente tenia que tener melodías o voces limpias melancólicas de manera exagerada.

[@DragoonKiller777]

Escuchate Earth Crisis - Firestorm Strife - Blistered Hatebreed - Confide In No One Madball - Born Strong Born From Pain - Rise Or Die Terror - I'm Only Stronger Earth Crisis - Counterstrike Solo algunas canciones para que tripees con el verdadero Metalcore

[@naoki-tanaka]

As Hope Dies

[@rballard2730]

Transformative music.

[@Goryptor]

Where's At The Gates - Slaughter of the Soul? The most influential record for all the 00s metalcore bands.

[@juliogonzalez2880]

they’re melodic death metal

[@Goryptor]

@@juliogonzalez2880 Of course they are but there would be no As I Lay Dying, Darkest Hour, Killswitch Engage or The Black Dahlia Murder without them.

[@juliogonzalez2880]

still not metalcore. just because they influenced a lot of metalcore bands doesn’t mean they’re metalcore. that’s like saying slayer should be in a death metal list because they influenced a lot of death metal bands. that defeats the whole purpose of the video.

[@neolbioldey]

​@@Goryptorand without Black Sabbath there would be no At the Gates. What's your point?

[@Goryptor]

@@juliogonzalez2880 They created the formula that got ripped off countless times on that record. They may be a melodeath band but that was the first modern melodic metalcore record and deserves at least an honourable mention. I originally said it as a joke/pun, nevermind.

[@ou7094]

someone else can explain me the history of metalcore?

[@arthurasatrian9044]

There was a new wave of american heavy metal music in 90s (pantera, machine head, fear factory, etc). Evolution of those bands in 94-95 (from mid to fast tempo guitar play with chuggy riffs/breakdowns) brought to a life new bands with revival swedish melodeath style influence (mostly at the gates, but also edge of sanity, unanimated, inflames, dark tranquility, etc) with some fashionable emo treats from '00.

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

From a more hardcore perspective; 1st wave metalcore was heavily influenced by New York Hardcore such as Judge, Agnostic Front and Cro-Mags, but the first band to take that NYHC sound and blend even more metal in is Integrity (the first band in this video) as well as Ringworm (both originally from Cleveland, OH). But it wasn't until Earth Crisis came out with the Firestorm EP in 1993 that the more metallic sound took over hardcore in a big way. From that point so many bands came out of the hardcore scene that incorporated way more metal elements. 1st wave metalcore (or metallic hardcore) also had a lot of crossover with beatdown hardcore (a style originating in New York in the late 80's), which features a much groovier sound compared to what people traditionally call hardcore punk (Outburst, Neglect, and especially Bulldoze). Beatdown hardcore was also influential in the sense that it placed more emphasis on the breakdown.

[@NekBravery]

What would've been of my younge me if i had the chance to discover this bands back in the day and not 10 or 12 years later! too bad there weren't many platforms when i was a teenager here in Argentina, so i had to stick to the most famous bands

[@Suf7djehe7eken]

This video showed me how ignorant I was on a genre I myself claimed to listen so often. So, original metalcore and hardcore (not hardcore punk) are the same?

[@lorddracule988]

Hardcore is the same as hardcore punk, it's just a shorter name

[@vin_fm2354]

Progenitor might be the heaviest song in the last ten years

[@shadowG1989]

Hardcore metal or metalcore??

[@monti0120]

maybe Im an idiot, but isn't this usually called metallic hardcore? I thought metalcore leaned more towards metal, than hardcore and the most prominent bands were Trivium, Killswitch engage, a7x etc.

[@xangrycatmanx5104]

Metallic hardcore is metalcore

[@kirisutegomen12]

Some bands sound more like hardcore, others sound more like metal, but they are part of the same group

[@LeVraiBabaYaga]

after poison the well, everything started to sound like a copy of them.. but with more and more the "pop" sound instead of true melancholy.

[@mysticmagicsmurfdarklord6844]

Where is Zao and Botch?!

[@LazarBlagojevic43]

wheres is Converge,Botch and Zao?

[@Ryoga770]

And where did it converge?

[@MrDushelove]

as i lay dying? trivium? playlist

[@MrDushelove]

suck

[@hereticdeth7986]

Trivium is more like modern thrash metal and the new wave of american heavy metal this band is not metalcore and as i lay dying is melodic metalcore

[@MrDushelove]

@@hereticdeth7986 ok, baby, now open hustory of trivium, listen album with songs "dying in your arms, ember inferno and other, and After, Come back here and type to me Sorry Master

[@hereticdeth7986]

@@MrDushelove this songs sounds like melodic thrash metal and melodic metal zero hardcore sounds and zero breakdowns! Only song "After, Come back here" have breakdowns but not typical hardcore breakdown and groove hardcore sludgey riffs

[@hereticdeth7986]

@@MrDushelove Metallic Hardcore is the real Metalcore, what you are calling Metalcore is Melodic Metalcore and no, it didn't have it's origins on Nu Metal it had it from post hardcore and melodic death metal, it's because of Nu Metal Bands that took the influence of that 1st Melodic Metalcore that the confusion comes because are the ones who made it commercial , still there are more than one Metalcore Genre and the pure Metalcore belongs to the HC scene, some of the bands dislike the termn because of the ignorance of others who think that the melodic one is the real Metalcore, for those people they prefer to be known as Hardcore.

[@FemaleXenomorphWerewolfRockMet]

I love metalcore

[@Joshwatz]

no converge is kinda crazy

[@totalswabby4217]

No Merauder. WTF

[@hereticdeth7986]

@@Michellejohnedward and eighteen visions

[@placeholderwastakenwastaken]

theres no earth crisis either

[@juliogonzalez2880]

@@placeholderwastakenwastaken2:00

[@neolbioldey]

We need Every Time I Die

[@Stevomadjia]

More of a metalic hardcore evolution

[@DimaNSK-vy4br]

Metallic hardcore = metalcore

[@Stevomadjia]

@@DimaNSK-vy4br no... There is a big difference. Like does trivium and earth crisis sound alike.

[@DimaNSK-vy4br]

@@Stevomadjia Metalcore is a shortened term for metallic hardcore, poser. Trivium has nothing to do with metalcore.

[@Stevomadjia]

@@DimaNSK-vy4br ahahah poser lol. Sure bro trivium aint metalcore cuz thery are more metal than hardcore. The thing is metalcore is a spectrum. Its like mixing colors, if u add more of one than the other its gonna show. So metallic hardcore is just a flavor of metalcore, but if u so dearly want the label all for yourself (and the trve core kids) take it. But it won't make reality any different. Trivium is recognized as metalcore (sum records are more metalcore than others) and thats fact and so is Earth Crisis, both can be in the same spectrum as they are. And also gate keeping is the cringest thing bro.

[@DimaNSK-vy4br]

@@Stevomadjia Metalcore in a nutshell, if you took hardcore and added features from heavy, thrash, death and groove metal.

[@pepitabletv]

No HATEBREED NO KILLSWITCH ENGAGE WTF ?

[@xhec87x]

Right? No As I Lay Dying? WTF!

[@marcus2239]

Unearth.

[@DragoonKiller777]

Hatebreed definitely has a spot in, but not Killswitch, they are good but they barely have the core in Metalcore, they are the commercial Melodic one

[@pepitabletv]

lol just listen to irreversal and say that again@@DragoonKiller777

[@BlueDollarBillz]

A lot of these aren't even metalcore, and to not include All Out War is blasphemy in the highest degree 😂

[@Kittengamer221]

Funny of people think it's about screams lmaooooo 90 percent if this is hardcore

[@pronounced.c1oud]

foreign hands rep 🫡

[@cavassani]

vein mentioned

[@thedourkin]

You're conflating metallic hardcore /crossover and metalcore, the former grew out of HC punk, the latter out of nu-metal. While many modern bands may incorporate both of these along with other influences the two styles have continued to evolve down separate paths with metalcore in particular becoming much more commercial. Despite what generalist KZbinrs and over zealous Wikipedia editors may tell you, most people I know who listen to /play metal influenced hardcore would be horrified to hear it called metalcore... Earth Crisis and Converge are a universe away from Killswitch Engage and Bring Me The Horizon. The only good thing to come out of lumping the two styles together is that someone who listens to Black Veil Brides [🤣] might find their way to Integrity or Rolo Tomassi and discover a scene full of interesting, experimental and politically charged music made by bands who operate on their own terms.

[@DragoonKiller777]

Metallic Hardcore is the real Metalcore, what you are calling Metalcore is Melodic Metalcore and no, it didn't have it's origins on Nu Metal it had it from post hardcore and melodic death metal, it's because of Nu Metal Bands that took the influence of that 1st Melodic Metalcore that the confusion comes because are the ones who made it commercial , still there are more than one Metalcore Genre and the pure Metalcore belongs to the HC scene, some of the bands dislike the termn because of the ignorance of others who think that the melodic one is the real Metalcore, for those people they prefer to be known as Hardcore.

[@JuanDeag228]

What the fuck is this? Not a single atthegatescore band except for Catherine. Did Shadows Fall, Prayer For Cleansing, End This Day, Dead To Fall, As Hope Dies, As I Lay Dying and All That Remains along with Undying and Unearth not exist?

[@hereticdeth7986]

This bands are melodic metalcore

[@marcus2239]

Norma Jean that i remember were actually very pist . No Dead To Fall

[@marcus2239]

Or Darkest Hour, Bleeding Through, Evergreen Terrace, Zao.

[@hereticdeth7986]

Dead to fall is melodic metalcore band

[@rhysturner6198]

No evergreen terrace? Asking Alexandria?

[@zimbobyyomo6228]

Love og Norma jean

[@ynodynodynod]

adrienne mentioned!!!!!

[@rolypoly92]

This ain't metalcore, most of this is hardcore or metallic hardcore. The fact that you spanned over twenty years and showed almost zero evolution probably suggests you have a very limited idea if what metalcore is, to the point where you arguably don't actually fully grasp what it is. Off the top of my head only two of these bands can really be considered 'metalcore' and they're still far more metallic hardcore than straight up metalcore (Earth Crisis and Architects). Stampin Ground, Merauder, It Dies Today, If Hope Dies, God Forbid, Shadows Fall, KSE, Still Remains, 18 Visions, Bleeding Through, Misery Signals, Throwdown, AILD, Darkest Hour, I Killed The Prom Queen, early Parkway Drive... That's metalcore. This video is hardcore, maybe metallic hardcore at a push.

[@h4ruka-_-isde4d]

wasn't metallic hardcore the other term for metalcore?

[@gayoul5111]

Congress, h8000 Era is the best

[@atvena]

Metallic hardcore

[@danielhello9558]

which is literally metalcore...

[@atvena]

@@danielhello9558 yes but not all metalcore is metallic hardcore or at least just metallic hardcore

[@pivoinelafflorist1618]

Arkangel?

[@MomoMomo-kn1sh]

Killswitch Engage and As I lay dying metalcore king🤘

[@hereticdeth7986]

this bands are melodic metalcore

[@handel1111]

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[@MomoMomo-kn1sh]

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[@zannyreflections9651]

@@hereticdeth7986no they’re NWOAHM post melodic metalcore fusion

[@neolbioldey]

​@@handel1111wow what an insult

[@simoncharpentier2405]

Shai hulud ??? Shai hulud....... Its a disgrace not including them

[@westonvirginia6458]

Notice how it starts to get weak in 99 with Poison the Well. I often regard them as one of the bands responsible for wimpifying the genre.

[@zigah6729]

Where's Verse? 💔

[@juliogonzalez2880]

they’re melodic hardcore

[@sevel7556]

This isn't the evolution of metalcore at all LOL, this is just a list of metalcore bands closer to the hardcore side that you like. Many of them sound alike with no evolution in their sound, this is all one style of metalcore. For a real evolution video you shouldve included melodic metalcore to crabcore to melodic hardcore, to djentcore, to numetalcore, and back to the revival core type of sound that's a modern version of the style yo clearly like most.

[@hereticdeth7986]

Melodic metalcore is it was uploaded on youtube! Plus this is real metalcore not some bands like attack attack and djentcore bullshit!

[@JaDanBar97]

What metalcore is this...

[@atvena]

Sounds more like the birth of melodic deathcore

[@Lattrodon]

Too much hardcore not enough metalcore

[@hereticdeth7986]

metalcore alyways sounds like hardcore with metal influence

[@hereticdeth7986]

this is traditional metalcore video not some modern metalcore and crabcore bullshit

[@codybulluss1987]

This is what metalcore actually is ya goofball.

[@Lattrodon]

@@codybulluss1987 nope. Bunch of these bands are straight up hardcore. Completely different genres

[@codybulluss1987]

​@@Lattrodon Metalcore as a genre had to start somewhere. And most would agree that it's when hardcore bands started using elements of metal, which many of these bands display in their discographies. They're not completely different to metalcore because they started the bloody thing. It's bands like Sleep Token and Bad Omens that call themselves 'metalcore' that are absolutely not in the same genre at all.

[@CainGD]

This sounds like thrashy hardcore shit not metalcore bruh😭🙏🏼

[@hereticdeth7986]

metalcore alywas sounds like hardcore with extreme metal influence

[@projectpat2005]

guess what metalcore is…

[@h4ruka-_-isde4d]

because metalcore was like this back then?? it's a hybrid between heavy metal and hardcore punk, nothing like the djenty stuff you hear today

[@Kittengamer221]

Videos of bands that nobody cares about . Half these ain't even metalcore lmaooooo

[@exertion33]

Ummmmm. UnderØath???? Why the hell aren't they on here????? You're crazy.

[@CrypticlyEncrypted]

Ngl sadly a lot of metalcore has gone to poop