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Old 12-11-2015, 06:15 PM   #81 (permalink)
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I'm saying Zao have by far the best breakdowns in the game
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Old 12-14-2015, 05:51 AM   #82 (permalink)
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I have not listened to most of these albums in years but this thread reminded me of them.

CATHARSIS - Passion



'Passion' is a great album mixing various influences to form a distinctive and quite original kind of hardcore. You can check the lyrics and the whole anarcho-crust ideology of the band but you don't have to if you just want to enjoy some brutal and dark music. One of the best hardcore I saw live too.

MORNING AGAIN - Hand Of Hope



If you like Poison The Well and the likes, be sure to check Morning Again (pretty much the starting point of this whole 'scene'). Great metallic hardcore with catchy choruses and a lot of moshable breakdowns. And just enough melodic sense not to grow bored of it in two months. A short album (or a long EP) that you will listen times and times again.

CAVE-IN - Until Your Heart Stops



Cave-In changed completely their sound after this album but you can already feel that there is more than metallic hardcore to this band. Hints of psychedelia, a pat on the back to NWOBHM and some weird experiments get along with their own blend of complex and brutal hardcore. A light version of Converge for some, I think this album is better that anything Converge ever released.
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Old 12-16-2015, 07:52 PM   #83 (permalink)
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I may have to rethink somethings I said earlier, about Entheogen being top metalcore album and Zao having the best breakdowns. I have since revisited Undying's At History's End, and ****. Not having been around, I wouldn't know how much exposure they received or how influential they were, but they could have been forerunners to the metalcore of today.

Playing that style which would lean heavily to melodic death metal, I could see it being a new thing. Thing is, Undying do it right. All the poser bands these days going for the death metal side are just so lame. Undying come through with fierce, melodic, and epic riffing, where new bands play such derivative and stale riffs, topped off with production that makes it sound so much like ****. Undying come through with massive and crushing breakdowns, always at a perfect moment and always super awesome and interesting, where new bands throw breakdowns around willy nilly, they are abrupt, no transition, and even more uninspired than the riffs. It's like someone jammed this breakdown, and bands that followed are all thinking "Oh yeah, that's sick, we have to make breakdowns like that, all the time." Undying come through with shredding vocals a la melodeath, where new bands often utilize those horrendous cleans, mega queer. Undying come through with a general rabid aggression, creativity, and attitude, where new bands are watered down, always sounding like some pussy ****.

This a masterpiece, a perfect fusion of In Flames and Integrity that modern posers fail at miserably.

If anyone knows any more bands, let me know, **** rules.

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Old 12-18-2015, 05:37 PM   #84 (permalink)
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Prayer For Cleansing are a similar band leaning towards the melodeath. This album is a serious gem of metalcore much like the one above. This one features a more buzzsaw style of guitar, and slightly more influences from strict death metal and tech death.

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Old 12-18-2015, 07:14 PM   #85 (permalink)
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Forgot to mention they are pre-Between the Buried and Me dudes
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Old 12-18-2015, 07:19 PM   #86 (permalink)
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Old 12-19-2015, 04:52 PM   #87 (permalink)
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Been listening to lethal amounts of metalcore these past few days, more of the metal leaning stuff, and just don't know how these posers came and tarnished the sound. I posted two melodic death/metalcore albums up there that I'd say are both 10/10's, why do modern bands suck so hard? The style is (at least close to being) the same, but they just manage to blow.

Fo real tho, Prayer For Cleansing are top notch, god tier core. Rain in Endless Fall is becoming one of the best metal/hardcore albums I've ever heard.
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Just rediscovered Nostromo. Metalcore with a grind influence. This is some sick **** and the breakdowns are just vicious.


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Another awesome band. They don't go for mathy prog-isms, lame death metal influences, or melodic death metal bull****. Stampin' Ground just sound like blue collar meatheads who like mixing brutal hardcore with thrash riffs and Pantera grooves (but without sounding like Hatebreed). And it ****ing rules.

And no, I don't know why they didn't just go with "Stompin' Ground".


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Old 12-22-2015, 03:45 PM   #90 (permalink)
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I'm definitely getting closer to posercore, if I'm not there already. But I made my way to this album, and genuinely dug it a lot. This could mean one of two things. 1) this band is doing something different that I can't articulate to keep my interest or 2) I could throw on some Devil Wears Prada right now and dig it.

Alright maybe not, TDWP is awful.



Oh well, I like it and that's all that matters
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