The Batlord's Thread of Metalcore that Doesn't Suck but In Fact ****ing Rules

[Tristan_Geoff]

My personal favorite metalcore album

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Tristan Geoff

My personal favorite metalcore album

Eat ****.

[Mondo Bungle]

if Mike Patton made a mathcore album (...again), well, here it is

[The Batlord]

@Mondo - I'm curious about more awesome early metalcore like Ringworm, Integrity, Starkweather, Groundwork, and other scuzzy hardcore bands with metal riffs who may or may not qualify as legit metalcore.

[The Batlord]

Also, I'm gonna need to add an entry for Groundwork soon. I'd forgotten what they sounded like, and just last night I was wondering why I couldn't find more bands that sounded like Deadguy. I guess I'll do that now...

Groundwork

Only had one album and a few EPs (which I have criminally overlooked up till about five minutes from now) but god damn is that album a monster. Like I said, it really reminds me of Deadguy, but more raw, sludgy, and relatively straightforward. But that's kinda hard to tell unless you know what band you're listening to and that you're not listening to earlier Deadguy. Even their singers sound alike. I honestly don't know if one is ripping off the other or if they were both just jiving on the same ****, since both of their sole LPs were released in 1995. I guess Groundwork might have the greater case since their debut EP was from 1992, whereas Deadguy hadn't released anything till 1994. They're from opposite sides of the country though, so who knows?

Either way there aren't enough bands that sound anything like Deadguy so I'm going to treasure Groundwork for all of their heavy-as-****ing-**** heavy sludginess and hateful vocals. And I guess if you're not totally sold on Deadguy's angular, mathcore style, then Groundwork are a bit more down-to-earth, so there's that. But **** you if you don't like Deadguy.

[Mondo Bungle]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

@Mondo - I'm curious about more awesome early metalcore like Ringworm, Integrity, Starkweather, Groundwork, and other scuzzy hardcore bands with metal riffs who may or may not qualify as legit metalcore.

[The Batlord]

Reprisal


Where Heavy Gloom Dominate (1997)

Had never listened to Reprisal's first album before, and man is it crushing. Their second was much more thrashy metalcore that sounded like a slightly less good version of Arkangel, but here they really bring the thuggish, New York hardcore grooves and breakdowns, all with a death metal brutality and vocal approach. Like a way better version of deathcore before deathcore existed (1997). Mother**** is this raw and brutal. One of the truly underrated late-90s/early-00s metalcore bands. Not particularly original, just totally awesome.

Boundless Human Stupidity (2000)

Probably their best, the aforementioned thrashier metalcore album. Slayer as **** and just totally rips. Required listening for any Arkangel fans as its the closest I've ever heard to Dead Man Walking. Brutal as **** breakdowns too. The vocals are a bit less death metally, but still raw and ugly. I've listened to this album way too many times and you should too. The Arkangel link is furthered by their straight-edge, Vegan lyrics, but pretty much every European metalcore band of the time seemed to be about the same **** anyway.

Mailorder Knife Set (2001)

Haven't listened much to this album, but like any Reprisal release it rips. Probably their worst, but it's all relative. Closer to their debut in sound, but without much death metal or thrash, this is very much a beatdown hardcore metalcore album, but it's definitely one of the better examples of the genre. At the very least it's cool as **** that Reprisal never made the same album twice, even if they were never all that original. Great energy as always with this record too.

[Mondo Bungle]

I didn't think that you would like Starkeather

[Mondo Bungle]

this is good

[Mondo Bungle]

Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

Zann

Heavy screamo/metalcore from germany that shred like it's going out of style. For anyone enjoying the metallic artists in here so far.

Metalcore edition