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

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Right now, while I'll definitely do something more in depth on them soon, I just have to post something by Arkangel. Their Dead Man Walking album might just have just become my go-to album for straight-up brutality. I honestly can't think of another album as extreme as this. The simple, straightforward malevolence, and unnatural heaviness is just awe-inspiring. I challenge anyone, ANYONE to find me something more brutal. It defies words.

I can't hear what you're hearing. I'm not gonna trash the band but it sounds kind of average to me. Average for metalcore which is to say, very heavy music made by kids who grew up on heavy music. Arkangel sounds okay, definitely pissed off. But all of these kids sound really angry like that. I never fully got what makes music brutal though. I dunno, parents just don't understand I guess.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Botch
Mathcore/Metalcore/Post-Hardcore
1993--2002

one of my favorite bands of all! Their American Nervosa album hits me the hardest but everything they did is solid. Definitely Trve Metalcore in the sense that it came before all the terrible stuff.

Another one of my very favorite bands that fits in with the subjonra is Buried Inside who had kind of a sludgy post-metal feel. But they were definitely metalcore though I mean look at a picture of them.


If, in the late 90s-mid 00s, you had long hair parted on one side, swept across your forehead and tucked behind one ear then your metal band is probably metalcore. If you wore plaid shirts and skinny jeans it definitely is. But their Chronoclast album is definitely good here's a song





I don't know if they really qualify but to me this band sounds like metalcore with a southern groove thing happening: Byzantine. I've only heard this one album but I dig it.