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--- Who put "the worst of" metal and "the worst of" hardcore? That's your opinion; this is an article. Removed.

Metalcore is becoming the new Numetal. I like it, but you can't deny that.

Alright, I had nothing to do, so I completely overhauled this again. Feel free to keep your goddamned egos and scene points out of this. To be honest, I give this one week before someone fucks this article up again and gets it marked for POV and cleanup. -- Escapeartist, the original author, 01:54, 2 Jul 2005 (UTC)

I added a "song structure" section. my email is liquidfission@gmail.com

Contents

[edit] Early Scene

My personal belief is that this section is messy. If we truly want to name bands that were punk that brought in a metal influence we at least need to name Discharge, Agnostic Front and the Cro-Mags. Bands like Biohazard and Madball definitely came later as they were prominent in the 90s rather than the 80s. As far as "metal" bands with punk influences we need Slayer and Anthrax besides DRI and Nuclear Assault. I have put this here for discussion first rather than mess with somebody elses edits. Any comments? Paul Tew 13:19, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Moshcore

Really, I dont think thats metalcore, its obviously an influence, especially on the Core part, but I'd never call it metalcore, it should have its own page I think. -Shai Hulud... Doesn't appear on this page, which is funny because they are one of the only bands I have ever seen advertise themselves as Metalcore. They have very strong influences in both Metal and Hardcore and while their sound isnt typical metalcore (to me that means unearth ala oncoming storm or darkest hour circa so sedated) they are a very good example of metalcore. - Style... Little is said about the musical stylings of metalcore and things that are specific to it as a genre, Drop C tuning (or Drop D), Doublebass (drums), the intricacy in guitar riffs that is typical to Metal (Opeth, Emperor) with the brutal vocals that resemble Hardcore (Throwdown, Blood for Blood), Drums that stray between the two, sometimes straightforward and fast, half-time moshes, importance of time signature (im not a drummer, so im a little lost in that dept.) Anyway, this article is historically weak, which is understandable, because everyone has different ideas about how we got where we are and where that even is, but the music is there in front of us, so describe it right? If the problem is agreeing on bands that fall into the genre "Metalcore" then lets start with a general list. I don't proclaim to be an expert on this, but I will end this post with what I believe to be a basic list of current and recent Metalcore bands, people should add or subtract as they see fit, we may find this impossible to do, but if we can get a working lst of metalcore bands, perhaps we can get this ball rolling a little better

[edit] Mathcore

One other thing - Mathcore is its own thing, maybe its a metalcore subgenre, maybe, but its different, but to mention that it is also called "noisecore" is terrible. (noiscore is a fine genre, hear me out) The names of the two genres imply that they are essentially polar opposites. Math Metal, and therefore Mathcore are "mathy", they are really technical and there is little or no "noise". Noisecore is noisy, its a term that is commonly missused by someone whos ear is not attuned to what they are listening to. Noisecore bands (from what I know) are not taht common and really just sound liek noise with some screaming overtop. There is no metal and barely any hardcore involved, I think its just kinda an indierock subgenre that often borders on electronic music. The closest thing to a metalcore/noisecore crossover is ( I think) The Locust. Some will disagree, thats fine, I dont even like the Locust.

That said here is a working list, add subtract, justify, most importantly, JUSTIFY. don't just delete a band and add the Blood Brothers cause you think it should be that way. Lets all try to do this with an open mind and remember that this genre is fairly obscure in the grand scheme of things and our definitions are going to be different based on geographical differences more than anything else. So I grew up outside Philly and now live in Upstate NY, this is how I see it:

[edit] Metalcore bands

  • A life Once Lost (????),
  • Age of Ruin,
  • As I lay Dying,
  • As Hope Dies,
  • Avenged Sevenfold,
  • Buried Inside,
  • Coalesce (??),
  • Converge,
  • Hamartia (listen to them, you'll see),
  • If hope dies,
  • It Dies Today,
  • Into the Moat (elements of metalcore + spazzcore, noisier than most, still not noisecore),
  • Killswitch Engage(?),
  • Misery Signals,
  • Saving Throw,
  • Shai Hulud,
  • The Red Chord (?),
  • This Day forward (?),
  • Unearth,
  • Zao (??),
  • Zombie Apocolypse,

[edit] Atreyu is a huge maybe for me

One more note, there is a bit of mention of Punk in all this talk. My take on it is that we are now (being IN metalcore) twice removed from Punk. Punk kindof spawned Hardcore, and thats a big Kindof (idealogically they are pretty different at their roots, nevertheless there is a lot of punk influence in hardcore, the big transition coming with bands like Bad Brains and Minor Threat). Hardcore spawned the "Core" in "metalcore" and Metal is obviously responsible for the "metal". Metal as a genre is so removed from Punk as far as roots go, that to call "Metalcore" a subgenre of either Metal, Hardcore, or Punk, isn't fully true. It's a blending of two very different styles (that sound the same to your parents), Metal and Hardcore. Now I'm done.

Hardcore isn't spawned from punk. Hardcore IS punk. All hardcore=punk. I don't know how many times I have to go through this with people. It is really quite annoying trying to explain to people that there is no such thing as a hardcore band that doesn't at least have an implied 'punk' after the term hardcore; ---> hardcore (punk). Granted New York styled hardcore bands are further removed from their punk roots than west coast hardcore bands, but they still have anti-authority lyrics and simplistic song structures (thus punk). I think the big misconception is derived from people calling early metalcore and bands like hatebreed hardcore. It created a rather nasty confusion.

Also, if my parents ever mistake Rise Against or Black Flag for metal, I'll kill them.

And Atreyu is not a metalcore band. At best Atreyu is an emocore band or just an emo band with metal influence.

[edit] You Are a Douche.

Sorry, i gotta disagree with you there. To say that metal is far removed from punk is just ignorance. Look at bands like Motorhead, and Anti Nowhere Legue, they're both self described as bands that are both Metal AND punk, ESPECIALLY Anti Nowhere League. Lemmy described motorhead as 1/2 rock, 1/2 metal, and 1/2 punk. And as far as the roots of hardcore goes - how it was "spawned" - hardcore started out as hardcore punk, with the likes of black flag, bad brains, minor threat and the dead kennedys (a self described hardcore-punk band). And, dude, ideologically different? Throwdown is definitely a hardcore band. Yout can't argue with that. What do they preach ideologically? Unity, Intelligence, Open Mindedness, Political Activism - all things that punk grew to preach as well. Ideologically, Punk and Classical hardcore are ONE IN THE SAME. The only difference lies in musical style, in which case hardcore is just punk played louder and screamed harder.

As far as Metal being musically different than punk (as implied) it is only in solo style. Metal incorporates more classical-music-inspired solos, using full scales instead of simple pentatonic mode runs. Otherwise, it's all the same three chords and basic beat.

You need to check your facts, man.

dude you can't be serious. to say that punk and metal are basically the same is ignorance. metal is far removed from punk, both old and especially new. why dont't you get your old albums out before making such claims again.


--Hardcore was punk in the 80's. the original hardcore punk scene pretty much died in 1990 when the scene shifted to grunge/ poppunk and metal-punk even a bit of rap mixing. punk and metal were two totally seperated scenes until the late 80's when crossover emerged. Some bands may have combined the two musically before that but crossover was the first time the two scenes were going to shows together. They didnt really get along back then though.

[edit] Editing disputes

June 13th Which asshole deleted my section on metalcore song structure? Its one thing to clean it up, modify it, or add to it, but some idiot deleted it.

Ok, it's pretty much agreed that this article has become mess. I've cleaned up the article somewhat, by removing the several links to bands and lists, as they do not appear in the same fashion under other music genre articles. For "External links", please only add links concerning metalcore music, not to links to a band's website (which would only cause disputes and possibly misrepresentations).

Unfortunately, I cannot solve the NPOV dispute. I'll probably watch the page, but mainly for the way it's formatted rather than its content. I hope that someone edits this article fairly, but it cannot be done if people keep on yelling out obscenities instead of solving the dispute. But please, especially, stop the name calling. It takes the article nowhere.

SCooley138, Please do NOT delete Talk comments. If you wish to archive the discussion, refer to Wikipedia:How to archive a talk page, but do not delete discussions. Even though it appears that you've been treated quite rudely, blaking pages just shows a lack of respect and it makes matters worse. --Jivi 04:20, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Disagree with you here Jivi. Take a look at this: Wikipedia:Remove_personal_attacks

This discussion has become a long series of personal attacks on bands and editors.

--SCooley138 03:27, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

I took out some of the Avenged Sevenfold gushing, they are a good band but come on now, the release of their 3rd album hardly belongs on the general metalcore page. This page is terrible, through and through, and needs to be completely re-written. Phrases like "not for the emo kids or weak hearted" and "taken their musical direction to new heights" are for press releases, not wikipedia. Deicide81 23:16, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

A7X ABSOLUTELY belongs in the metalcore genre. The first two albums are clearly within the genre and the newest is fairly similar with more melodic guitar work and cleaner singing (Matt Shadow was ruining his voice by screaming and doesn't scream at all anymore). Saying they don't belong because they've gotten softer or whatever the reason is, is the same as taking Metallica out of the "Thrash Metal" genre because of the music they produced in the 90's.

I wonder if someone should make a "List of metalcore bands" article, so all those who feel like they desperately need to expose their own or their favorite band can do it there instead of clogging up the article here.

PS. Thanks for turning an otherwise clean article into a goddamn mess. Do whatever the hell you want with it, I barely feel like bothering to edit this anymore.

PS2. To the guy who said that it mentions Most Precious Blood without mentioning Indecision: yeah, I did that. Guess what? If you're new to hardcore and metalcore, how much do you think you're going to hear about Indecision in comparison to Most Precious Blood? Yeah, that's right. -- Escapeartist, the original author, 16:30, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Like I said in my adding of the NPOV, it looks to me like whoever included "Gothencore" in here is not fond of the genre. The bit about the bands being drag didn't seem to make a lot of sense to me, I don't see bands like In Flames, Children of Bodom, Soilwork and such being like drag queens or said "fashioncore." In addition the writer basically says that all "Gothencore" sounds the same, whereas I belive these bands, while having a similar niché sound, hardly sound "the same." Just my 2 cents. Also, from what I have read, Gothenburg Metal pretty much = Melodic Death Metal (check the Death Metal article yourself, it references to this article), I mean that's around the area melodic death metal started, so I don't see how "Gothencore" borrows elements from what it essentially is. Come to think of it, I don't even see how this style of music has anything to do with Metalcore (which is like punk metal, right?) Anyway, it seems that parts of this article contain some POV elements that Sp0rk was mentioning, the "harder-core-than-thou diatribes." Basically I think this article needs the entire part about "Gothencore" removed or re-worked to be less POV filled. At the very least the part about drag and such should go. I await some responses, and will think about what I can do to clean this up. -- AshTM 08:04, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The beautiful thing about this page is the harder-core-than-thou diatribes RE: fashion-core, combined with the hilarious over-genre-fication. "mathcore"? Bravo guys, good job! You make us all look like stupid, sniveling hypocrites!! --Sp0rk 02:55, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Having two band lists seems a little redundant.

Okay, who the heck is it that keeps putting in the indier-than-thou local bands?

I was thinking about rewriting this page, but somebody beat me to it... and did a great job I might add. --SCooley138 09:24, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I removed the following:

Converge, while initially being a fairly straight-forward metalcore band, have on later releases been known to experiment with time signatures and progressive song structures while remaining true to their original metalcore origins. This started most notably on 1998's 'The Poacher Diaries', a split with famed grindcore band Agoraphobic Nosebleed.

First of all, according to www.convergecult.com, the split w/ ANB was released in late 1999. Second, the "noise" didn't start with that release. Converge experimented with time signatures and "noise" back in the 1994 release of Caring and Killing. Not to mention "When Forever Comes Crashing". (Which was released before the ANB split)


There is so much wrong with this page, I cannot even begin to edit it.. And to the person who said that Metalcore is the blending of NU METAL and TRADITIONAL METAL: Please, Please, Please do a little more research on this genre.. Some of the first Metalcore bands (Converge, Zao, Overcast) were around before Nu Metal even existed. Metalcore is the blending of many different types of METAL, with the aesthetics of the HARDCORE genre. Hardcore has nothing to do with Nu Metal; hell, Nu Metal itself has nothing to do with Metal.

Could somoeone familiar with the scene please merge Black Metalcore to Metalcore and redirect it? Thanks--nixie 23:05, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Really cool people have written and edited this article...

Wow! This article is a joke, right? It seems to be just a list of favorite bands for the last person who edited it.

"every now and then a band that isn't easy to peg even within these styles pops up, such as...The Blood Brothers...and...Neurosis"

OK... The Blood Brothers are screamo, which isn't even mentioned on this page, obviously because no one who knows enough has taken the time to make an edit.

Actually the blood brothers aren't Screamo at all. I would say roots in it, but def. not screamo

And... Neurosis is mentioned as if they just recently showed up on the scene, never mind the fact that they are one of the biggest influences on so many of the ACTUAL early metalcore bands, like Converge and Coalesce.

And then... there are the extra cool people who feel the need to put in lesser known bands that they happen to like, but whom MOST people couldn't care less about. Well, some "lesser known acts" ARE pretty important

I won't even get started on the jackasses who keep deleting any and all Christian bands from the page, as if that disqualifies them from playing metalcore... oh wait, I did get started ;)

This article needs SERIOUS help.

Maybe I'll find the time to make it JUST SLIGHTYLY LESS BIASED!

Good plan! Sam Spade 23:29, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] People Complaining

Yeah, I think that Gothencore distinction was sorta silly...I'd never heard that used before. It's all just more metalcore/noisecore to me. Anyways, my big problem with what has been written is that the bands they use to give examples are poor, take the "mathcore" section, well, first of all the original term was noisecore, it was given to Rorschach in the late 80s, and just about every band since has been influenced by Rorschach, or deadguy, and deadguy was formed by Rorschach members. The metalcore/tough guy hardcore thing, well, problem with that is that they name mostly new bands that aren't that good from the genre, I MEAN COME ON THEY PUT DOWN MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD WITHOUT EVEN MENTIONING INDECISION!

Anyways...if you're complaining that this is getting seperated from hardcore just quit your bitching, it's definitely not hardcore.

[edit] More

And Blood Brothers are not screamo, they're math rock with hardcore influence at best. For real screamo check in to:

  • Heroin
  • Swing Kids
  • Antioch Arrow
  • Angel Hair

Oh, and Neurosis has been around since the 80s, I tend to think they have more influence on Stoner and Sludge Metal.

I don't think you all need to be quibbling over little subgenres... 'OMG THEY R NOT MATHCOREZ THEY R THE SCREAMO' or whatever... Come on.

Metalcore is a combination of the hardcore (lyric driven, lots of fast distorted power chords) and heavy metal (distorted rifts and solos). As far as I'm concerned metalcore is melodic hardcore. I don't think that nu-metal has much to do with it, since these groups are NOT using turntables or industrial beats.

[edit] I changed a bunch of stuff around

So I guess there's a bunch of controversy wiht this page. A lot of it seems kind of like a mess.

I modified some stuff around. I also brought up bands like Undertow and Unbroken, who are some pretty crucial bands to the genre.

I got rid of Isis from the Mathcore section, i don't see why they would be on there other than a simalr fan base.

I edited around the "tough guy" and "gothencore" sections because they were sort of bias. I tried to mke it a little more neutral.

The whole fashioncore section seems really useless, especially the stuff about blogging. I might just merge some of the info in that with the "other" section.

[edit] gothenscore == melodic death metal

Just look at the bands in the gothenscore section, most of them are defined by [melodic death metal]. We don't need 1 million genres like: londonmetal, parismetal, pragametal. And I really don't see them relating to hardcore and henceforth metalcore. --vininim 13:14, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] WHAT?

seriously!?>?!! since I posted that long piece a few hours ago, did someone actually write that METALCORE GUITARS ARE SIMPLE!?!?! THEY FOLLOW THE RYTHYM SECTION!?!?! Are we talking about the same genre?? Hatebreed is pretty much hardcore, can people cite examples for the stuff they are posting? Please just download a few darkest hour songs and a hamartia song.

[edit] Gothencore?

I'm sorry but I don't think anybody has pinned such a thing. Someone editing trying to create a name it seems for all the band's mixing the melodic Death/Thrash style (which has been called Gothenburg Sound, popularized by Swedish bands like At The Gates, In Flames and Dark Tranquility.) with Hardcore and in some instances Emo and even Gothic and Glam and straight Punk influences.

That's pretty much a description of metalcore, at least as it is known today. Theunknown42 06:57, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gothencore appears to be the same as Gothcore

Have a look at the related articles melodic death metal and Gothcore Paul foord 1 July 2005 08:45 (UTC)

[edit] update

I updated the list of metalcore bands, I didn't take any off, even though i disagree with a bunch of them. Everyone I know calls the older 'metalcore' bands just straight up 'hardcore', but overall I think this page is a lot better than it was. Anyway i added the list i'd made in the discussion page to the list that the article linked to.

[edit] Friends and Enemies of Metalcore

Why is this genre a hated genre?

For those of you who are as into music as I am, you should know that public media loves to take a spin on a subculture and slap a name on it to market it. All genres have fallen victim to this (Punk, Metal, Hardcore and all its of its prefixes...Metalcore, Grindcore, Mathcore, and even its whiny more popular younger siblings emo and screamo). Metalcore bands that are a "hit" today, were "Metalcore" before it was the next big thing in the underground. Bands such as Poison The Well, Eighteen Visions, Most Precious Blood and its earlier incarnation, Indecision come to mind not to mention others. They have been in existence since about 1997. There is a problem here and that is trying to stick an image with a genre. The idea of metalcore for the uneduated musical masses have been painted due to certain bands popularity such as Atreyu and Bleeding Through. All black down to the clothes they wear, the color of their hair, and even the eyeliner. To me this is what makes the genre look bad. The mall image. Things that are sold in Hot Topic to sell a music genre in form of a clothing style. Now one may ask, what about Eighteen Visions? Don't they do the same thing as the two aformentioned bands? Well the answer is a little difficult to come up with. If we can look atthe history of this band lets recall what lead vocalist James Hart did for a living. He was a hair stylist. So this is understandable as to why he looks like he stepped out of a hair salon all of the time. The man knows his hair. Keep in mind, the band doesnt always dress up. There have been performaces that I have caught where it looked as if the band just stepped out of their bus unshowered and not really taking an interest in how they looked. They just looked like twenty somethings wearing whatever. This is my defense of Eighteen Visions. But I digress from my point, these bands did not choose to be called metalcore. In fact, if you asked them, the would simply say that they are a hardcore band. It seems as if metal purists think they are trying to snake their way into their holier than thou genre. Don't flatter yourslef guys, they best described their music as hardcore and the hardcore underground embraced it. Blame that on record labels. Back to my Eighteen Visions example, the fashioncore labeling is a disgrace to music. The origins of fashioncore are simple. Since Eighteen Visions enjoyed dressing up for their shows, the merch guys as a joke put "fashioncore" on the back of one of their t-shrits for sale. Well, the prhase caught popularity and then became a way to describe a band on how they dress. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, wether it is pro or anti metalcore but take into effect of the wide range musicianship that is there. Metalcore guitarists can play with the technicality of metal guitarists and with the breakdowns, the simplicity of a hardcore punk song. It is a solid musical genre but unfortunately the bands that existed before the turn of the millenium, are the better ones of the genre. What I really hope to accomplish is to find out why the genre is hated from the standpoint of a metal purist.


As a metal purist, I'd have to say its because Metalcore has people thinking its Metal when its barely similar to Alternative Metal, let alone True Metal. When I say True Metal I mean NWOHBM, Speed Metal, Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Power Metal, etc. Its just so far removed from what Metal is all about yet it claims to be Metal. Not the bands necessarily, though I bet some do, but the media definitely does. I'm angry enough that nu-metal or post-grunge bands are labeled Metal. I personally am not fond of the genre, its far too simplistic for me. To me, it seems they took the poor vocals of Hardcore and the midtempo of Heavy Metal and made a genre that is just too lazy to be either. Its sort of the opposite of Thrash Metal, which to me took the speed and lyrical ideologues of hardcore and melded them into a new Metal form back in the early 80's. Metalcore is closer to Nirvana than Slayer or Black Flag. Oh, and the whole mallcore thing is just sad, stepping away from the music a bit. Besides some factions in Black Metal, Metal is all about a simple style of dress, one which is pretty much impossible to commercialize. My friend just reminded me of another issue. The more Metalcore and other psuedo-Metal bands which spring up means yet another True Metal band that isn't. Metalcore should be the Metal audience, but isn't for reasons I don't get. marnues 06:20, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

What makes Death Metal anymore metal than the stuff that came via Agnostic Front as both scenes brought something new to the table? If metal had stayed static at MWOBHM (itself different to Black Sabbath) then we would have a dead musical genre. Pantera obviously had hardcore influences (from Phil) and nobody would deny that they are metal. You also forget that bands such as Motley Crue were considered metal in the 80's but now are considered rock because Metal got heavier. Bands like Anthrax and Slayer both have early hardcore influences and nobody in their right mind would question whether they were metal. Ultimately the name means that it is crossover music, but its actually closer to metal since AF went in a metal direction as the riffs got heavier and they lost the rawness. And how exactly is Killswitch Engage like Nirvana? Paul Tew 12:00, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

"As a metal purist, I'd have to say its because Metalcore has people thinking its Metal when its barely similar to Alternative Metal, let alone True Metal." I disagree in terms of sound a lot of metalcore in riffing style has more in common with Melodic Death bands such as At the Gates especially their Slaughter of the Soul album and many of my favorite metalcore bands appeal to me for the same reason's At the Gates does. I agree the scene kids ruin it for everybody and give a bad image of the average fan, and i agree metal and music in general shouldn't be about the fashion but i believe media and jaded metal fans have skewed your idea of true metal and when modern metalcore is no longer a fashion genre the good bands will rise to the top while those fashion bands will disappear and i believe it will be held in as high esteem as cross-over or melodic death metal within the pure metal scene. A good example is Darkest Hour's lastest album sounding unique but stylistically alot like At the Gates with its raw production, riffing style and vocal stylings. Also Darkest Hour have lost almost all their hardcore influence other than fanbase and attitude.

Many metal purists become very upset at the idea of overt commercialization of their music, and while I might agree not all metalcore bands are commercial (necessarily) or fashion-based, I find myself hard pressed to find bands that aren't. And metal purists are always, always, anti-MTV to some extent (myself included). Most metalheads I hear from seem to see it as that the "hardcore" bands have a far stronger punk influence than a metal influence. I will say for the record, being a purist, seeing the scene kids at school absolutely pisses me off (I'm down in Georgia, the only metal the average guy can find is whats on MTV, and I think there's only one other guy who's even heard of venom. Hope to get down to Florida, all the bands down here SUCK!:().Having everyone think of that as metal, and knowing that very few of the kids that listen to it will find Atheist, Death, or Necrophagist through it is sad. Though, perhaps we owe it something, as we can distinguish posers from the true(IMHO) bands, and keep our music to ourselves. And imagine what great metal all that hatred will produce! Anyway, wanted to shed some light on the subject, nobody take offense to my statements, please. 72.195.182.192 02:09, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Swede-core

Very small profile on google, is swede-core article OK as is, better merged with this one (with redirect) or deleted Paul foord 10:49, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Metalcore template

I created a Metalcore template.

Metalcore
Stylistic origins: Hardcore punk – Heavy metal music - Death metal
Cultural origins: late 1980s North America
Typical instruments: Guitar - Bass - Drums (Double kick)
Mainstream popularity: Little to none during the careers of the bands, has gained much popularity in recent years
Subgenres
Deathcore - Moshcore - Mathcore - Swedecore
Other topics
Breakdown - Fashioncore - List of bands

I have some questions and uncertainties about items.

Do people prefer the heavy metal & hardcore punk templates as at present or would it be better to have a specific metalcore template? Paul foord 13:24, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

i say go with the individual template. i think having a massive template that doens't actually relate specifically to the article it's on is bad enough, but two at the same time?! --MilkMiruku 01:13, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Breakdowns

Time signatures such as 4/4 indicate rhythmic accents, not tempo. Both "Everday" by Yo La Tengo (glacial) and "Rise Above" by Black Flag (fast) are in 4/4 time. It's ridiculous to say that breakdowns "slow down" to 4/4 time. Just saying "slow down" is fine.

sorted :) --MilkMiruku 01:13, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Nuclear Assault

Nuclear Assault were added to the text. They have an article - says they are thrash metal - so are they metalcore? Paul foord 07:35, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Nuclear Assault were a mixture of hardcore and metal in the sense it had the speed of hardcore but with metal riffs, and Metalcore has the riffs of modern metal but with hardcore shouted vocals. Hence both share the same loose influences - its really for historical purposes rather than saying NA are metalcore Paul Tew 12:03, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] No Morning Again?

How can you have an article about infusing Slayer riffs in hardcore without bringing up Morning Again?


[edit] Biased

The last paragraph of the Later Scene section seems unfair. I vouch for a lather, rinse, and repeat.

70.135.2.100 18:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)Convalesce990

Be more specific.

[edit] What are you guys on?

"Contemporary metalcore scenes are notorious for immature social hierarchies, the promotion of violence, and the organization of its members into gangs typically known as "crews." Metalcore fashion is not dissimilar to that of "hipster" or "indie" college students, replete with tight shirts with band logos on them, tight jeans, and highly stylized hair. Tattoos, piercings, and an extreme devotion to the music also characterize the scene. Of course, these are just some common stereotypes of the scene."

How the hell is that able to be in a Wiki entry? Christ...

Secondly, Gothencore? Swedecore? I've never even fucking heard of these terms.--Nightside eclipse 21:35, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What is this all about?

"Against My Will Ark Angel Awaken Before She Die Cassandra Dashown Sinai Beach Undying"

[edit] So stupidly bias

The whole section on metalcore bands re-cycling riffs is a joke. Who ever edited that is just an idiot looking for a chance to talk crap about a few bands they don't like but look slightly intelligent because it's on wikipedia. The whole Arch Enemy/Trivium drum intro sums it up really. Obviously they're so busy making sure the world know they don't like metalcore that they've failed to notice bands such as Behemoth blatanly ripping off Anthrax and the millions of non-metalcore bands who sat down taking notes while listening to Reign In Blood. Learn to write in a non-bias fashion and create and argument rather than just declaring "metalcore does this" or "metalcore ripped off that".

I agree. I'm gonna go ahead and delete that section. 68.4.212.158 06:21, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NOT Post-Hardcore

Since Post-Hardcore is being used to describe lots of so-called emo bands, there is no reason to have that on the page. In what way does As I Lay Dying sound like Taking Back Sunday? We already have an article for ones that do infuse emo into their sound, emotional metalcore.Theunknown42 21:32, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ridiculous

"Contemporary metalcore scenes are notorious for social hierarchies, the promotion of violence, and the organization of its members into gangs typically known as "crews." Metalcore fashion is not dissimilar to that of "hipster" or "indie" college students, replete with tight shirts with band logos on them, tight jeans, and highly stylized hair. Tattoos, piercings, and an extreme devotion to the music also characterize the scene. Of course, these are just some common stereotypes."

Are you freaking kidding? I'm removing it unless someone can come up with a source that is not their ass.

[edit] Melodic Metalcore

I know this just adds to the already overcrowded subgenre, but shouldn't melodic metalcore bands like .hopesfall. and 7a7p be worthy of mentioning as a distinct subgenre of music?

No. It just isn't prolific enoughKung Foo 21:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DEAR CHRIST THIS ARTICLE'S A MESS!

Ok, I am gonna do you all a favor and over the next few months talk to some of my metalhead freinds about metalcore (these guys know some obscure stuff so I trust their input somewhat), and do some independant research on metalcore and probably buy a few more metalcore albums than the few I have. I will then do my best to rewrite the joke that is this article. The grammer is horrid, it is clearly biased towards a POV, it sounds in many cases like a 5 year old wrote it, and the information is either misleading or blatantly incorrect. I don't know much about the history and development of metalcore, but I do know how to define the genre, and for Suicidal Tendencies to end up anywhere at all in this article is inane, since they are a crossover/hardcore/funkcore band and didn't even so much as influence metalcore in more than a slight peripheral way. In my mind, metalcore is sort of a hybrid between death/thrash/grind instrumentation, with a sort of hardcore emphasis on speed and raw sound, occasional emo influence, and screaming vocals that were slowly but surely derived from the New York hardcore's heavier vocalism. Breakdowns are heavily prominent in the music, gothic music styles are a heavy influence, drums put more emphasis on hitting the foot pedals at high speeds and drums are often relatively complex. Metalcore is more simplistic than other genres of metal, but still more complex than Nu Metal and hardcore. From the best of my knowledge, unlike thrash metal, metalcore bands started out as punk bands taking metal influence, while thrash bands started out as metal bands taking punk influence. With crossover thrash it was a very deliberate blending of thrash metal which was already 1/3 punk with hardcore punk, to create something that was about 3/5 punk. With metalcore, the early stuff was about 1/2 punk, 1/2 metal but as it started to develop its own scene it became 1/5 punk 3/5 metal with about a 1/5 blending with various other genres.

Anyway, like I said, I am gonna try to learn about this genre so I can clean it up a bit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.191.82.172 (talk) 16:44, 30 January 2007 (UTC).

Asking metalheads about metalcore is like asking punks about death metal. Not a good idea. And I have a feeling you know little about the early metalcore scene, since you think metalcore is, "a hybrid between death/thrash/grind instrumentation...hardcore emphasis on speed and raw sound..occasional emo influence." 68.47.13.243 22:06, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Just thought I'd let you know that somebody has filled the "metalcore" page with insulting and biased comments which I am not able to see when I open the edit page (though I am a tyro at editing Wikipedia), and it probably ought to be really cleaned up. 67.72.98.45 02:27, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

This article got cleaned up pretty nicely. I've also learned a helluva lot about metalcore since my earlier post.

[edit] Groove Metal Influence?

Groove Metal (post-thrash) definitely had a huge influence on certain elements of metalcore, namely syncopated breakdowns. Shouldn't it be included in metalcore's stylistic origins? --Zepboyo 23:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Well... not really. Groove metal, post-thrash, wutever you wanna call it has had some influence on newer bands that are being mistaken for metalcore. Band's like Lamb of God and Mudvayne that are often labelled metalcore (but are very arguably so), have a lot of groove metal influence. However, I'd argue that most of these bands share little of the background that would associate them with true metalcore.

[edit] Van Halen...

"Nuclear Assault was the second, the first being Van Halen in 1978, to call their music a heavy metal/hardcore punk hybrid, though still thought of as a metal band by most."

Van Halen sounds nothing like a hybrid of 'hardcore punk and heavy metal' nor have I ever heard of them referring to themselves as such. This comment is pointless and any influence Van Halen had on metalcore is negligible. I'd like to see a source for this comment, otherwise I'm removing it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 208.191.81.29 (talk) 18:21, 28 March 2007 (UTC).

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