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Originally Posted by The Batlord
Are there any good histories of metalcore? And not about the post-2000 melodic metalcore-influenced ****. The original sound is so forgotten and undocumented that it's hard to know its history without probably having to take years to piece together pieces of dubious internet blog posts.
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RYM has a fairly comprehensive summary of the genre. They include a release chronology beginning in 1990 with the Voice of Thousands compilation and chart 4,232 albums of the genre along with user-submitted reviews for each.
I also recommend reviewing their Top List for metalcore, which currently has Converge's Jane Doe (2001) holding the #1 spot, though you can customize the date range to focus exclusively on pre-2000 releases.
(My apologies if you've already exhausted this resource.)
http://rateyourmusic.com/genre/metalcore
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