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Originally Posted by Metal Connoisseur
This genre is becoming over saturated with garbage acts like Asking Alexandra, Norma Jean....But some of the more "metal" groups like Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Between the Buried and Me, and As I Lay Dying I find to be really innovative and palatable. So any thoughts on the genre?
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Norma Jean's 1st album "Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child" is a ripping dissonant metalcore record, more along the lines of Converge, rather than the melodic metalcore product they're producing these days. Early Jesse Leech Killswitch and BTBAM were very brutal, especially "The Silent Circus". I always joke with my friends that if BTBAM members put on about 50 pounds on their skinny bones and had long residing hairlines they would have been as highly revered and Bolt Thrower or Immolation by the metal community. Lately, I'm really fond of the workman like music of
Unearth. Very well down, stipped-down metalcore with no clean vocals, and lots of crunchy guitar. They actually do some nice short and sweet guitar solos.
Overall I find metalcore like most other metal genres, you have the great bands the rank up their with some of the finest in metal. Then you got the boat load of imitators that are signed by record companies to cash in. Unfortunately, the clones ending up defining the genres, because that's what most people hear.