Metalcore sounds too prepackaged to me. It very carefully dissects various elements of extreme metal to give it a wider target range. For a lot of people the growled vocals are an instant turnoff for death and black metal, but if you sprinkle in some clean melodic chorus' every goddamn song then the pussies don't get scared off as quickly. It's a Frankenstein genre, but only using the "best" parts and I think a lot of the individuality gets lost in the transition. Like Engine said, everything besides the vocals feels held back, and in metal the vocals are never the most important part, even with power metal.
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