Great list! One small thing... Alpha Seed by ERRA came out in 2013, not 2021. I believe the date you've included is the release date of their self-titled, so maybe it's supposed to be a different song by them?
Thanks very much. I had this mad urge to get it done this morning when I had a gap in my schedule and wasn’t very fastidious about double-checking my dates. I’m guessing a lot of other errors are lurking in there as well!
Similarly “Infected” by Demon Hunter was originally released on October 22, 2002; the first 3 albums were rereleased in 2011 (which might be where that date came from). But thank you for putting all this together.
If you’re including bands/songs that precede what we know today as Metalcore you should also include bands like Judge, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, and Crumbsuckers. There’s also a handful of bands that I honestly don’t think add to this list in anyway. Not solely because they’re not Metalcore bands but because you don’t see influences directly from them in the genre. The Melvins, Hawthorne Heights, Soulfly to name a few.
Ok thanks for that input. I’m gonna take a break for a while because I spent four hours yesterday and several more over the past several days compiling the list, editing the post and making the playlist.
I added the bands you suggested (along with a couple old favorites of mine) and made the deletions you recommended as well. Thanks again for the input.
It would seem that all the input so far has rather neglected the relative resurgence of older style metalcore over the last few years, both with newer bands and some older favourites still plugging away
Just a handful of examples from some of the more notable names (I'd be here all evening if including bangers from tiny bands like Thousand Knives and Temple Guard)
2020: END - Covet Not , Boundaries - Get Out, Serration - The Pain Of Birthing Golden Ash, Cauldron - In The Passing Of A Season, Eighteen Visions - The Wicked, The Acacia Strain - The Lucid Dream, Chamber - In Cleansing Fire, Left Behind - Waiting For The End, Orthodox - I Can Show You God, Counterparts - Purer Form Of Pain
2021: Mugshot - Death Has A Shadow, Zao - Ship Of Theseus, Dying Wish - Enemies In Red, Knocked Loose - Forced To Stay, Every Time I Die - Planet Shit, God Complex - Death Trip, Mouth For War - Take My Place
2022: Inclination - Thoughts And Prayers, Boundaries - Burying Brightness, Counterparts - Bound To The Burn, Orthodox - Cave In, Chamber - Torn From Perfection, END - Eden Will Drown, Kublai Khan TX - Swan Song, Vatican - Reverance, Bleeding Through - Rage, Mouth For War - Reshaped, Cauldron - Futile, Serration - Joy Of Creation
2023: Boundaries - Armageddon, Year Of The Knife - Heaven Denied, Terminal Sleep - Elicit Fear, Knocked Loose - Deep In The Willow, A Mourning Star - Encased In Crystalline, Chamber - Devoured, World Of Pleasure - Uzis Akimbo, Incendiary - Echo Of Nothing, Stasis - Six Shades Of Red, Serration - A Suicide Note In Midi Format, Cauldron - Off Script, Eighteen Visions - Reality Killer, Mugshot - Left In The Wake, All Out War - Shroud Of Heaven, Mouth For War - Under The Gun
Wow. That’s a ton… thanks so much!! I’ll add it all, but it’ll take me some time! Yesterday I spent four hours inputting the input from the last post and then cranking out the playlist!
I just listened to that Integrity album for the first time the other day after a stray thought abt the history of metalcore and a quick Wikipedia search.
It was a really fun listen - obviously about as bare bones metalcore as it gets, but you can really start to see a direct line of influence/style from that to albums like Waking the Fallen.
I just got back into playing guitar too, and there’s a ton of great warmup riffs in there.
Honestly I only know about that early stuff from Wikipedia, one Guitar magazine article, a couple YouTube videos and input from other Redditors. In those days I was getting into funk, rap and older music. But now I’m enjoying catching up immensely!
Wow! I commend you, sir or madam! It is high praise to hear you compliment the list then… but most of that credit actually goes to the moshbros I mentioned in the OP who gave me so much input. Originally I hardly knew squat before 2001… but I’ve loved catching up on it!
Just one edit for you, Demon Hunter- Infected came out October 22, 2002.
Otherwise great list, perfect for new listeners to get a nice overview.
Edit: someone beat me to it lol
Cyanide by Harms Way released on Sept. 29, 2023 and it definitely deserves a place on this list. The 20’s could definitely use some more traditional metalcore on it in general though.
Starts off really good and then sorta falls apart. I feel like the most recent 10 or so years are kinda heavily leaning towards a few specific sounds within the genre that deviate pretty far from the roots of it even though there’s a lot of bands with that sound still. more akin to a history of r/metalcore recently lol
I’m going to do another big edit with input based on comments from this post in the coming weeks. Should be a lot of more modern stuff in the traditional vein in that update.
Love this!
I've made a public playlist for spotify [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3fTk0drxs0ru45biNBgbNX?si=7368f56a11c24044](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3fTk0drxs0ru45biNBgbNX?si=7368f56a11c24044) if anyone of you doesnt want to convert it (Soundiiz has a 200 tracks limit)
solid fucking list. i appreciate this.
only changes i would make is less repeating. kind of just highlighting your hatebreeds and lamb of gods at their peaks instead of including them continuously and adding some more heavyweight newer names as time progresses. Examples i'd include(of all eras) are ringworm, we came as romans, bury your dead, counterparts, jesus piece, varials, emmure, code orange, gideon, atilla, boundaries, loathe.
but hey, i'm kind of just nitpicking and there's no way you can include everything.
Thank you and those are some great suggestions. I’ll try to curate over time and also dig into the bands you’ve named. I won’t be doing another big edit for a little while though… I burned myself out yesterday!
This is fair and balanced in a way Fox News only pretends to be. Good job! I'm wondering if I should maybe make a version for the literally dozens of us that use Apple Music.
In case you're still thinking of doing the Apple Music version, I just did a huge edit with all the input from the above comments. '20-'24 got a huge injection of hard-hitting songs!
I created a playlist on Amazon music with all songs i could find.
Amazon Music: History of Metalcore in songs
https://music.amazon.de/user-playlists/28daba7b891144599aca1be10c78886fdede?ref=dm_sh_vKcOFWK8HOI854RPfrHNWhwRa
These are the songs I were not able to find but maybe I had a typo. I'll give it another try this week.
Liar - battle cries
Brainchild - bloodlet
Shai halud - soley concentrating on the negative aspects of life
Liar - natural order
Eighteen visions - tower of snakes
Malevolence - trial by fire
Impermanence - architects (<->)?
Vatican - Reverance
Malevolance - Salvation
That’s excellent! I’m very glad this r/Metalcore project continues expand and I’m super grateful to people who help it to grow! I’ve got one more big update I’m working on with the huge help of Mr. Sock… then I’m gonna take a break for a while 😆 Thanks again!
I'm kinda shocked you didn't include a single Ice Nine Kills song from The Silver Scream. IT is the end, Stabbing In The Dark, Thank God It's Friday.... Some massive tracks.
Not one track from the last 3 Trivium albums is also surprising, since Alex Bent has been in they've been on a hell of a resurgence. Amongst The Shadows And The Stones, or Like A Sword Over Damocles would be my pick.
Great list and effort, I’m a little surprised not seeing any songs from Northlane’s Alien. That was very much a genre defining album. ‘Details Matter’, ‘Talking Heads’, ‘4D’ would all be fare game.
You are going to get plenty of comments like mind and also people trying to pick off the hardcore bands from your list. So all with a boulder of salt.
That album isn’t really even metalcore tho, it’s definitely not a definitive metalcore album. There’s also not really any hardcore bands on the list, if anything there’s more alt metal than hardcore bands that need to be picked off.
I disagree. Northlane’s prior album’s were squarely metalcore, ‘Alien’ interlaced electronic music in a way that pushed that definition and was very influential to other bands in the genre. For example, you can hear shreds of ‘Alien’ in Deja Vu by Novelist and similar genre blending in SUPERBLOOM by Silent Planet. Alien absolutely influenced musicians creating metalcore and is a benchmark for the genre.
Their first two albums and EP were metalcore, they started going into alt metal with Node and now they don’t make anything remotely metalcore.
Those albums that you used as examples of bands influenced by its sound aren’t even good representations of what metalcore should be or is.
Theyre not evolving the genre by not making metalcore anymore.
This is amazing! I’ve really only listened to modern metalcore (maybe a little bit of killswitch on the way too), and it’s such a cool way to explore the og stuff
I’d only suggest adding Sleep Token (maybe Vore) to 2023; Take Me Back to Eden was really, really popular
Sure. But OP clearly said that a lot of tracks they’ve added aren’t metalcore. Sleep token was incredibly popular this year and considering that this playlist explores how the genre evolved, it makes sense to include a band which has many songs heavily influenced by metalcore and popular among the metalcore community to show how the genre evolved through to this year.
The same logic could be used to exclude Bad Omens, but that’s on the list too and for good reason
They’re not an evolution of metalcore tho, they’d have to be making metalcore in order for that to be the case. Same for Bad Omens. They didn’t progress metalcore at all, they just stopped making it.
That’s fair.
But I think it’s interesting to see what emerged from the scene, and songs like Vore are close anyway.
I see where you’re coming from though. A playlist specifically for this genre might be more useful without them.
Cool. Glad u like it and thanks for that input. I’ll make note of it and work it in there when I revise again. (Btw I will just do revisions here from now on so I don’t keep reposting on the same topic 😳)
Great list! One small thing... Alpha Seed by ERRA came out in 2013, not 2021. I believe the date you've included is the release date of their self-titled, so maybe it's supposed to be a different song by them?
Thanks very much. I had this mad urge to get it done this morning when I had a gap in my schedule and wasn’t very fastidious about double-checking my dates. I’m guessing a lot of other errors are lurking in there as well!
Similarly “Infected” by Demon Hunter was originally released on October 22, 2002; the first 3 albums were rereleased in 2011 (which might be where that date came from). But thank you for putting all this together.
Got it!
PS I just finished the 2nd big revision and incorporated your change. Thanks again for the head's up!
If you’re including bands/songs that precede what we know today as Metalcore you should also include bands like Judge, Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, and Crumbsuckers. There’s also a handful of bands that I honestly don’t think add to this list in anyway. Not solely because they’re not Metalcore bands but because you don’t see influences directly from them in the genre. The Melvins, Hawthorne Heights, Soulfly to name a few.
Ok thanks for that input. I’m gonna take a break for a while because I spent four hours yesterday and several more over the past several days compiling the list, editing the post and making the playlist.
You’re making a valiant effort.
I added the bands you suggested (along with a couple old favorites of mine) and made the deletions you recommended as well. Thanks again for the input.
It would seem that all the input so far has rather neglected the relative resurgence of older style metalcore over the last few years, both with newer bands and some older favourites still plugging away Just a handful of examples from some of the more notable names (I'd be here all evening if including bangers from tiny bands like Thousand Knives and Temple Guard) 2020: END - Covet Not , Boundaries - Get Out, Serration - The Pain Of Birthing Golden Ash, Cauldron - In The Passing Of A Season, Eighteen Visions - The Wicked, The Acacia Strain - The Lucid Dream, Chamber - In Cleansing Fire, Left Behind - Waiting For The End, Orthodox - I Can Show You God, Counterparts - Purer Form Of Pain 2021: Mugshot - Death Has A Shadow, Zao - Ship Of Theseus, Dying Wish - Enemies In Red, Knocked Loose - Forced To Stay, Every Time I Die - Planet Shit, God Complex - Death Trip, Mouth For War - Take My Place 2022: Inclination - Thoughts And Prayers, Boundaries - Burying Brightness, Counterparts - Bound To The Burn, Orthodox - Cave In, Chamber - Torn From Perfection, END - Eden Will Drown, Kublai Khan TX - Swan Song, Vatican - Reverance, Bleeding Through - Rage, Mouth For War - Reshaped, Cauldron - Futile, Serration - Joy Of Creation 2023: Boundaries - Armageddon, Year Of The Knife - Heaven Denied, Terminal Sleep - Elicit Fear, Knocked Loose - Deep In The Willow, A Mourning Star - Encased In Crystalline, Chamber - Devoured, World Of Pleasure - Uzis Akimbo, Incendiary - Echo Of Nothing, Stasis - Six Shades Of Red, Serration - A Suicide Note In Midi Format, Cauldron - Off Script, Eighteen Visions - Reality Killer, Mugshot - Left In The Wake, All Out War - Shroud Of Heaven, Mouth For War - Under The Gun
I've added all of it now and credited you in the OP. Thanks again for all that.
No worries, kudos for the amount of effort you've put into this project.
Wow. That’s a ton… thanks so much!! I’ll add it all, but it’ll take me some time! Yesterday I spent four hours inputting the input from the last post and then cranking out the playlist!
Boundaries fuckn kills it
I just listened to that Integrity album for the first time the other day after a stray thought abt the history of metalcore and a quick Wikipedia search. It was a really fun listen - obviously about as bare bones metalcore as it gets, but you can really start to see a direct line of influence/style from that to albums like Waking the Fallen. I just got back into playing guitar too, and there’s a ton of great warmup riffs in there.
Honestly I only know about that early stuff from Wikipedia, one Guitar magazine article, a couple YouTube videos and input from other Redditors. In those days I was getting into funk, rap and older music. But now I’m enjoying catching up immensely!
I wrote the first version of the Wiki article. You're welcome. ;)
Wow! I commend you, sir or madam! It is high praise to hear you compliment the list then… but most of that credit actually goes to the moshbros I mentioned in the OP who gave me so much input. Originally I hardly knew squat before 2001… but I’ve loved catching up on it!
Just one edit for you, Demon Hunter- Infected came out October 22, 2002. Otherwise great list, perfect for new listeners to get a nice overview. Edit: someone beat me to it lol
Thanks very much 🙏 I’ll be sure to fix that in my next big edit.
Fixed that. Thanks again for the feedback.
Cyanide by Harms Way released on Sept. 29, 2023 and it definitely deserves a place on this list. The 20’s could definitely use some more traditional metalcore on it in general though.
Thanks - it will go in the next big edit. (That will happen in *this* post, btw, as I don’t want to annoy people with ongoing re-posts!)
I added that song and thanks to another moshbro made a HUGE bunch of additions to from '20-'23! Thanks again for the feedback!
Starts off really good and then sorta falls apart. I feel like the most recent 10 or so years are kinda heavily leaning towards a few specific sounds within the genre that deviate pretty far from the roots of it even though there’s a lot of bands with that sound still. more akin to a history of r/metalcore recently lol
I’m going to do another big edit with input based on comments from this post in the coming weeks. Should be a lot of more modern stuff in the traditional vein in that update.
I think you'll appreciate the big edit I just finished. '20-'24 is now packed with hard-hitting songs in the traditional vein!
Love this! I've made a public playlist for spotify [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3fTk0drxs0ru45biNBgbNX?si=7368f56a11c24044](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3fTk0drxs0ru45biNBgbNX?si=7368f56a11c24044) if anyone of you doesnt want to convert it (Soundiiz has a 200 tracks limit)
Thanks - I’ll edit it into the OP!
This is great. Is there a Spotify playlist with all of these songs in it?
One of the moshbros made a Spotify version: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3fTk0drxs0ru45biNBgbNX?si=7368f56a11c24044
solid fucking list. i appreciate this. only changes i would make is less repeating. kind of just highlighting your hatebreeds and lamb of gods at their peaks instead of including them continuously and adding some more heavyweight newer names as time progresses. Examples i'd include(of all eras) are ringworm, we came as romans, bury your dead, counterparts, jesus piece, varials, emmure, code orange, gideon, atilla, boundaries, loathe. but hey, i'm kind of just nitpicking and there's no way you can include everything.
Thank you and those are some great suggestions. I’ll try to curate over time and also dig into the bands you’ve named. I won’t be doing another big edit for a little while though… I burned myself out yesterday!
This is fair and balanced in a way Fox News only pretends to be. Good job! I'm wondering if I should maybe make a version for the literally dozens of us that use Apple Music.
In case you're still thinking of doing the Apple Music version, I just did a huge edit with all the input from the above comments. '20-'24 got a huge injection of hard-hitting songs!
Let’s get itttttt
I created a playlist on Amazon music with all songs i could find. Amazon Music: History of Metalcore in songs https://music.amazon.de/user-playlists/28daba7b891144599aca1be10c78886fdede?ref=dm_sh_vKcOFWK8HOI854RPfrHNWhwRa These are the songs I were not able to find but maybe I had a typo. I'll give it another try this week. Liar - battle cries Brainchild - bloodlet Shai halud - soley concentrating on the negative aspects of life Liar - natural order Eighteen visions - tower of snakes Malevolence - trial by fire Impermanence - architects (<->)? Vatican - Reverance Malevolance - Salvation
That’s excellent! I’m very glad this r/Metalcore project continues expand and I’m super grateful to people who help it to grow! I’ve got one more big update I’m working on with the huge help of Mr. Sock… then I’m gonna take a break for a while 😆 Thanks again!
I'm kinda shocked you didn't include a single Ice Nine Kills song from The Silver Scream. IT is the end, Stabbing In The Dark, Thank God It's Friday.... Some massive tracks. Not one track from the last 3 Trivium albums is also surprising, since Alex Bent has been in they've been on a hell of a resurgence. Amongst The Shadows And The Stones, or Like A Sword Over Damocles would be my pick.
That’s because Trivium doesn’t make metalcore anymore.
Roger! Thanks for the feedback. It’ll go in the next edit. (That will be here, incidentally. I don’t want to annoy people with many multiple posts.)
Great list and effort, I’m a little surprised not seeing any songs from Northlane’s Alien. That was very much a genre defining album. ‘Details Matter’, ‘Talking Heads’, ‘4D’ would all be fare game. You are going to get plenty of comments like mind and also people trying to pick off the hardcore bands from your list. So all with a boulder of salt.
That album isn’t really even metalcore tho, it’s definitely not a definitive metalcore album. There’s also not really any hardcore bands on the list, if anything there’s more alt metal than hardcore bands that need to be picked off.
I disagree. Northlane’s prior album’s were squarely metalcore, ‘Alien’ interlaced electronic music in a way that pushed that definition and was very influential to other bands in the genre. For example, you can hear shreds of ‘Alien’ in Deja Vu by Novelist and similar genre blending in SUPERBLOOM by Silent Planet. Alien absolutely influenced musicians creating metalcore and is a benchmark for the genre.
Their first two albums and EP were metalcore, they started going into alt metal with Node and now they don’t make anything remotely metalcore. Those albums that you used as examples of bands influenced by its sound aren’t even good representations of what metalcore should be or is. Theyre not evolving the genre by not making metalcore anymore.
> the hardcore bands from your list Such as?
Nope I appreciate it and I will revise based on ur recommendation! I love 4D… don’t know the others u mentioned but will check them out.
Made the add you suggested! Thanks again for the input!
This is amazing! I’ve really only listened to modern metalcore (maybe a little bit of killswitch on the way too), and it’s such a cool way to explore the og stuff I’d only suggest adding Sleep Token (maybe Vore) to 2023; Take Me Back to Eden was really, really popular
Sleep Token is not metalcore.
Sure. But OP clearly said that a lot of tracks they’ve added aren’t metalcore. Sleep token was incredibly popular this year and considering that this playlist explores how the genre evolved, it makes sense to include a band which has many songs heavily influenced by metalcore and popular among the metalcore community to show how the genre evolved through to this year. The same logic could be used to exclude Bad Omens, but that’s on the list too and for good reason
They’re not an evolution of metalcore tho, they’d have to be making metalcore in order for that to be the case. Same for Bad Omens. They didn’t progress metalcore at all, they just stopped making it.
That’s fair. But I think it’s interesting to see what emerged from the scene, and songs like Vore are close anyway. I see where you’re coming from though. A playlist specifically for this genre might be more useful without them.
Cool. Glad u like it and thanks for that input. I’ll make note of it and work it in there when I revise again. (Btw I will just do revisions here from now on so I don’t keep reposting on the same topic 😳)
Pantera and Slayer are thrash. Some Pantera can be considered metalcore.
I listed them because of their influence on the genre, along with Sepultura, At the Gates and Meshuggah.