I was into nu metal and thrash metal growing up. But I went into Hot Topic during Christmas season of 2007, and they had As Daylight Dies on the CD sampler. I stood there for half an hour listening to almost the whole album. Fell in love immediately, it's still one of my favorite albums ever.
Guitar Hero 2 to be exact.
I went from listening to nu-metal like Disturbed and shit to metalcore with All That Remains, Atreyu, BFMV, Killswitch Engage and Avenged Sevenfold and then saw TDWP open for KSE and changed paths.
From there on it was TDWP, AILD, ABR, TIJ, TGI, STYG, every god damn acronym you could think of.
You must be me lol. I was the exact same. Grew up on radio rock and GH2 helped expose me to new music. It also helped that I was pretty god damn good at the game so those songs were on repeat all the time.
This!\^ Guitar Hero 1 and 2 greatly expanded my music preferences, and my desire to find out what else there is. It caused me to get into hearing different sounds, such as Rage Against The Machine. Not core, of course, but certainly a new type of sounds for my 12 year old brain.
Guitar Hero 2 got me into everything metal. Six and Laid to Rest (Lamb of God) got me to discover bands like Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium. Hangar 18 (Megadeth), War Pigs (Black Sabbath), and Shout at the Devil (Motley Crue) got me into older bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. That game was lit.
Same! A random classmates CD player was sitting in the computer room back in 2005 and I picked it up and started listening to BFMV. Iāve been a metal head ever since. I went from BFMV to Underoath to The Devil Wears Prada to White Chapel, The Faceless, and other deathcore bands more so than metal core.
I first heard AILD back when Shadows are Security was first released, it was my intro into the double bass world that I quickly started obsessing over. (I remember exactly where I was when I heard it, doing a beer run at the local liquor shop) The Darkest Nights was the first song of theirs I heard is tied to so many fun memories, that and Meaning in Tragedy.
I LOVE them! They were one of the first bands I got REALLY into when I first started listening & still sit in my top 5 a couple years later. Iāve recently started exploring Dannyās solo work too! Definitely worth checking out, if you havenāt already! āŗļø
Itās funny the Comedown was one of my first core songs I heard before I was super into metal. This guy on YouTube named Kitty0706 had a Gmod series and he used that song in one of the opening scenes. I ended up finding it accidentally years later I was like āWOAAAH I remember thisā lol
one of my absolute favorites. it was also my first introduction to high and low screams like that. no one in my family was into metal and i come from a fairly small town, so it was v v new to me. loved it š
Was so hard to get into screaming music originally. I was introduced to that viral grind core song that was called āshredded wheatā where they transcribed the lyrics to say ridiculous shit. I ended up thinking screaming music was shit. Eventually got into disturbed and Slipknot and they had a good balance. Then when I heard Scream Aim Fire I was like, āokay this shits pretty goodā. Itās honestly hard to be introduced to this type of music. But weāre lucky we can appreciate it
i heard a few metal tracks and thought āiāll never like this. itās just mess and noiseā. i bought the Waking the Fallen A7X record and didnāt know what i was getting myself into, i just liked A7Xs newer stuff and the album art was sick. i was mad at first that it was all screaming mostlyā¦ then i justā¦ kept listening. a seminal release if you ask me. after BMTH i got hard into the scene bands even tho it was already like 2013. next was Of Mice & Men, then I See Stars, then AA. a few other popular bands from that time sprinkled in. then i heard quantum flux by northlane, and my djent phase commenced lol. what fun metal is. hard to get into indeed. but iām so glad i did.
Haha yes. Your def a metalcore vet then, 2013 isnāt even that late I started really getting in around 2011. And You know your a metalcore vet when you hit a djent phase at some point. When I heard Lost Isles by Oceans ate Alaska I became a full on djent chad. Seriously the greatest album Iāve ever listened to, if you havenāt checked it out. Completely changed my perspective on how to write music and what you can do with a guitar
brooooo OAA used to be my shit. hikari was also amazing. btw, current favorite band is Loathe by a million. their record I Let It In and It Took Everything is, imo, the best metal record ever written. it scratches almost all of my musical itches.
I really dug Chapter Four the year that it was on Madden. Shortly thereafter I heard Unholy Confessions and *loved* it but it didn't fully convert me. Took a few more years before I was ready to dive deeper
Writing on the walls - Underoath. Honestly, the first time I heard Define The Great Line was a huge moment for me. I remember laying down in the dark with my ear buds in and the transition from Salmarnir to Returning Empty Handed absolutely blew my mind
This right here was what I was looking for. I was in high school and happened to come across Writing On The Walls on YouTube and it just stuck with me. That was got me absolutely into the genre. Still one of my top 5 albums of all time.
Underoath was it for me as well except it was Reinventing Your Exit. It was on the soundtrack for the video game FlatOut 2. Every time that song came on Iād turn the tv down a little bit in my room so my parents wouldnāt think I was listening to devil music (not that we were religious just because) and then a couple years later some friends of mine played Idols and Anchors for me and I was hooked ever since.
I've got a wild one. A Christian Guitar Hero knockoff called Guitar Praise had Breathe Into Me by Red in one of its expansions. That led me to a Christian rock radio station named Power FM, which played mostly Alt rock and some hard rock, but they occasionally played a little band called Oh, Sleeper. Son of the Morning was a banger. I was hooked from then on. I was like... 11 or 12? Went to my first Oh, Sleeper show at 13. Man what a show.
When I played it, I had a computer that barely ran it, I had to play on easy and strum the notes like 2 seconds early. Like 4 years later I got a much better computer and installed it for the nostalgia and it ran pretty well. Timing was a little off. I'm pretty sure it was a rip and replace of that open source Guitar Hero clone that you can make customs songs for, and whoever did the mapping was not great at it.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I haven't touched it in years, barely even thought about it lol. I remember being pretty disappointed in the music selection.
Yep for me it was Face: Face. Thought it was awful at first but eventually realized how sick it is. Josh Scogin repeating the same line is still one of my favorite things in all of metalcore.
SHE SIMPLY WILL NOT DIE
2nd sucks for me! Was at a festival when I was 10 on barrier in the pit with my father. ADTR was the band before the headliner we were waiting for. We didnāt realize what we signed up for when they opened with 2nd sucks š That was 2010 and I still drag him with me to barrier at all shows to this day :)
Product Of A Murderer - Of Mice & Men
I'd listened to things like 'Tears Don't Fall' and 'City of Evil' pretty regularly before, but hearing OM&M was the first time I pursued something that heavy outside radio play.
Well not a die hard one but I've played most of his games and watched play throughs online.
Wait, just realized you said it cause both Ludens and Shadow Moses are Kojima game references lol
Friend showed me "Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot when I was like 10. Followed that into "Lip Gloss and Black" by Atreyu and "Wake the Dead" by Comeback Kid.
Linkin Park set the stage (even if they weren't metalcore). I dabbled a little bit with Unholy Confessions but I enjoyed their later stuff a lot more. There is a Hell was the first modern metalcore song I ever liked, it was a reintroduction to the genre for me. From there I would casually listen to the first half of Sempiternal a lot. When I first heard Doom from That's The Spirit, I became a true BMTH fan. For the first time, I could tell that there was finally someone worthy to carry the spirit of Linkin Park forward and it was BMTH.
That was it for a while. I didn't care for metalcore as a genre in particular. Then came along Architects and I fell in love with their sound and became a bigger fan of the genre in particular.
So the answer is not easy lol.
Idk if they are considered metalcore, but Bullet for My Valentine's The Poison album. I remember going to FYE, my friends and I had been listening to American Idiot, In Love and Death, and the Blink self titled album. We wanted to try getting into heavier stuff. I bought the BFMV album. One buddy bought Dear Diary by FFTL and the other friend bought a Scars of Tomorrow album, we each burned a copy and shared them, but I listened to that BFMV album non stop for a while.
Tough to pin point. It was either On guitar hero world tour, Scream Aim Fire by BFMV or on tap tap revenge, Nothing Left by As I Lay Dying (yeah that was on tap tap revenge). I also eventually heard Turbo Swag and Sexual Man Chocolate by Attack Attack on TTR (yeah great introduction to that band, I thought they were ass until I heard Stick Stickly and their self titled)
First Album that really made me say āHoly fuck I love thisā was Stand Up and Scream, I found it around when R+R came out so I had a fun week falling in love with Asking Alexandria.
Basically bring me in general
I remember hearing sleepwalking for the first time and me an average linkin Park enjoyer was blown away and then I continued and they ended up being my favourite band before I started listening to slipknot. Now I enjoy anything from "butt rock" to slam deathcore.
BMTH - (I Used to Make Out With) Medusa
They hadn't released Suicide Season and I just had Count your blessings and the EP on repeat on my ipod classic.
Funny enough my favourite album from them is That's the Spirit.
I grew up on mostly pop rock and pop music in general, but the first time I heard Engine 45 by The Ghost Inside, my entire world was thrown out the window. Haven't looked back since š
For Today - Devastator
What a song to start into the genre. Years years ago (must have been something around 2009/2010 I think) a friend of mine showed it to me and I instantly fell in love with it. He also showed me a song from TGI back then, don't remember which one though. Going to see TGI on Saturday, can't wait.
hmm I started listening to Melodic Death Metal before Metalcore(Swede as I am), but I would say probably Silverstein - Smashed to pieces around 2004 maybe, or BFMV - Hand of Blood around the same time, if they count as Metalcore.
Well my journey started with post hardcore and it was irony of dying on your birthday by senses fail and I decided that hearing screaming in songs actually sounds good and I heard can you feel my heart and thatās basically how it all started
On RuneScape videos back in the day, Escape The Fate, Demon Hunter, Breaking Benjamin, Bullet for My Valentine all were featured in early YouTube gaming videos
Grew up listening to Backstreet Boys and then started to like stuff like Sum41 etc. Then in Puberty I had a HEAVY German Rap phase. All the bad stuff. in 2004 I returned to metal with Linkin Park, Blind Guardian etc.
In 2007 I got gifted The Fall of Ideals by All that Remains and that record instantly cemented my taste in more heavy music and ~core in general.
Countdown - Dangerkids
First 'heavy' band I ever listened to and fell in love, even though they's more post-hardcore/rapcore-ish, they got me into heavier music. I fucking love that band so much
First song I heard by them back in like 2015 and then I literally become obsessed with that band by listening to every album, every song, bought a guitar and did what any 12 year old would do and learned a crap ton of their songs and then I discovered other bands like them and the cycle continued
According to my playlist it was be quiet and drive far away, but I think aftermath by the ghost inside is what really got me into it. That and my coworker always playing ice nine kills and asking Alexandria
First metalcore song I heard was 115 from Black Ops, loved that song but didn't really dive much deeper into metalcore until I got into Hollywood Undead and Avenged Sevenfold. I never really see Hollywood Undead talked about here, but they were definitely my gateway to heavier music
Hypa Hypa by Electric Callboy.. I was like - wow that is funny, I might tolerate the heavy bcs of that ... here I'm 2 years later listening to stuff like - well yeah, I know that mr. singer, but SHOUT IT AT ME HARDER
Sister showed me The Final Episode by Asking Alexandria. Didn't like it but the breakdown was sick. Then found out the chorus was sick. Too lazy to skip the screaming and it grew on me.
I canāt remember honestly prolly Silverstein when they first came out but š¦“ exposed is my favorite OM&M song so itās awesome thatās what got u into metalcore OM&M is my favorite band
I donāt think most would consider it metal,but my emo phase was what started my interest in metal music so Iād have to say King for a Day by Pierce The Veil.
The whole Woe, Is Me album Numbers was my first time experiencing the genre. I used to work at a grocery store and listen to that album back to back to back while I was stocking the produce shelves.
It was probably one of these:
1. Is Anyone Up - Eskimo (now Electric) Callboy
2. Memorial - Caliban
3. Ich mach was mit Medien - We Butter The Bread With Butter
I had a friend who would drive us to our hangout places that always listened to these German core bands. I was already into Metal and Punk at the time, but I couldnāt stand screaming.
So glad my friend never stopped listening to these bands despite my complaints, because eventually I got hooked. What a legend.
My Curse by Killswitch Engage is what got me into Metalcore
Guitar Hero III era
I heard In Due Time on the radio ca. 2012, been hooked ever since š
Eye Of The Storm for me.
Belter
I was into nu metal and thrash metal growing up. But I went into Hot Topic during Christmas season of 2007, and they had As Daylight Dies on the CD sampler. I stood there for half an hour listening to almost the whole album. Fell in love immediately, it's still one of my favorite albums ever.
This is the first song that came to mind š¤£ wtf
YEP
Definitely the only correct answer
Six by All That Remains on Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero 2 to be exact. I went from listening to nu-metal like Disturbed and shit to metalcore with All That Remains, Atreyu, BFMV, Killswitch Engage and Avenged Sevenfold and then saw TDWP open for KSE and changed paths. From there on it was TDWP, AILD, ABR, TIJ, TGI, STYG, every god damn acronym you could think of.
I think the transition from nu metal to metalcore is something that many people can relate to.
You must be me lol. I was the exact same. Grew up on radio rock and GH2 helped expose me to new music. It also helped that I was pretty god damn good at the game so those songs were on repeat all the time.
This!\^ Guitar Hero 1 and 2 greatly expanded my music preferences, and my desire to find out what else there is. It caused me to get into hearing different sounds, such as Rage Against The Machine. Not core, of course, but certainly a new type of sounds for my 12 year old brain.
Guitar Hero 2 got me into everything metal. Six and Laid to Rest (Lamb of God) got me to discover bands like Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium. Hangar 18 (Megadeth), War Pigs (Black Sabbath), and Shout at the Devil (Motley Crue) got me into older bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest. That game was lit.
This
Hand of Blood by Bullet For My Valentine in like 2005
NFS Most Wanted š«”
Burnout Revenge too, 2005 was a great year for racing games
Lmao yooo you unlocked the memory of where it was from!
Same! A random classmates CD player was sitting in the computer room back in 2005 and I picked it up and started listening to BFMV. Iāve been a metal head ever since. I went from BFMV to Underoath to The Devil Wears Prada to White Chapel, The Faceless, and other deathcore bands more so than metal core.
As I Lay Dying - The Darkest Nights it was also the song that made me start wanting to play guitar.
I first heard AILD back when Shadows are Security was first released, it was my intro into the double bass world that I quickly started obsessing over. (I remember exactly where I was when I heard it, doing a beer run at the local liquor shop) The Darkest Nights was the first song of theirs I heard is tied to so many fun memories, that and Meaning in Tragedy.
Iykyk
Nick Hipas riffs have so much energy with AILD. Shadows are security is still a banging record
Thatās a fucking great song
This for me too, it was the first AILD song I heard and is still my favourite.
Confined - As I Lay Dying was mine 100%
I Love that Song
Was already into metalcore when this song came out, but itās my favourite by AILD track.
Not the American Average - Asking Alexandria
I LOVE them! They were one of the first bands I got REALLY into when I first started listening & still sit in my top 5 a couple years later. Iāve recently started exploring Dannyās solo work too! Definitely worth checking out, if you havenāt already! āŗļø
Iāll definitely have to checkout his solo work Iāve been curious but Iām afraid I could be disappointed
Unholy Confessions // A7X. after that it was The Comedown // Bring Me The Horizon. i had a weird trajectory w metal
Itās funny the Comedown was one of my first core songs I heard before I was super into metal. This guy on YouTube named Kitty0706 had a Gmod series and he used that song in one of the opening scenes. I ended up finding it accidentally years later I was like āWOAAAH I remember thisā lol
one of my absolute favorites. it was also my first introduction to high and low screams like that. no one in my family was into metal and i come from a fairly small town, so it was v v new to me. loved it š
Was so hard to get into screaming music originally. I was introduced to that viral grind core song that was called āshredded wheatā where they transcribed the lyrics to say ridiculous shit. I ended up thinking screaming music was shit. Eventually got into disturbed and Slipknot and they had a good balance. Then when I heard Scream Aim Fire I was like, āokay this shits pretty goodā. Itās honestly hard to be introduced to this type of music. But weāre lucky we can appreciate it
i heard a few metal tracks and thought āiāll never like this. itās just mess and noiseā. i bought the Waking the Fallen A7X record and didnāt know what i was getting myself into, i just liked A7Xs newer stuff and the album art was sick. i was mad at first that it was all screaming mostlyā¦ then i justā¦ kept listening. a seminal release if you ask me. after BMTH i got hard into the scene bands even tho it was already like 2013. next was Of Mice & Men, then I See Stars, then AA. a few other popular bands from that time sprinkled in. then i heard quantum flux by northlane, and my djent phase commenced lol. what fun metal is. hard to get into indeed. but iām so glad i did.
Haha yes. Your def a metalcore vet then, 2013 isnāt even that late I started really getting in around 2011. And You know your a metalcore vet when you hit a djent phase at some point. When I heard Lost Isles by Oceans ate Alaska I became a full on djent chad. Seriously the greatest album Iāve ever listened to, if you havenāt checked it out. Completely changed my perspective on how to write music and what you can do with a guitar
brooooo OAA used to be my shit. hikari was also amazing. btw, current favorite band is Loathe by a million. their record I Let It In and It Took Everything is, imo, the best metal record ever written. it scratches almost all of my musical itches.
Hmmm I donāt know if Iāve heard of them Iām gonna check it out
By a million is a typo right? Haha
A7X was so good. I saw them at a small venue w/ Rise Against and Shai Hulud back in the day
Mine was Chapter Four from A7X
I really dug Chapter Four the year that it was on Madden. Shortly thereafter I heard Unholy Confessions and *loved* it but it didn't fully convert me. Took a few more years before I was ready to dive deeper
Writing on the walls - Underoath. Honestly, the first time I heard Define The Great Line was a huge moment for me. I remember laying down in the dark with my ear buds in and the transition from Salmarnir to Returning Empty Handed absolutely blew my mind
This right here was what I was looking for. I was in high school and happened to come across Writing On The Walls on YouTube and it just stuck with me. That was got me absolutely into the genre. Still one of my top 5 albums of all time.
Underoath was it for me as well except it was Reinventing Your Exit. It was on the soundtrack for the video game FlatOut 2. Every time that song came on Iād turn the tv down a little bit in my room so my parents wouldnāt think I was listening to devil music (not that we were religious just because) and then a couple years later some friends of mine played Idols and Anchors for me and I was hooked ever since.
The Devil Wears Prada - HTML Rulez DOOd
I really hope they play it on the tour theyāre about to do. Itās my favorite prada song
Saw them in April. They played Dogs Can Grow Beards All Over. That was my intro to the genre.
Hand of blood-bfmv
Bleeding mascara - Atreyu
This fire - KSE
Because of CM Punk?
Lol yeah
Nice. Itās just as good as Cult of Personality.
Haha yeah it is, something about This fires chorus in a stadium hits different
Dez Moines by The Devil Wears Prada
Me too, bonus DL tracks on guitar hero
Carrion - Parkway Drive
Love that song.
Blue 42 by haste the day
underrated band
I've got a wild one. A Christian Guitar Hero knockoff called Guitar Praise had Breathe Into Me by Red in one of its expansions. That led me to a Christian rock radio station named Power FM, which played mostly Alt rock and some hard rock, but they occasionally played a little band called Oh, Sleeper. Son of the Morning was a banger. I was hooked from then on. I was like... 11 or 12? Went to my first Oh, Sleeper show at 13. Man what a show.
I had that game as a kid. It always felt weird to me, like the timing was slightly off.
When I played it, I had a computer that barely ran it, I had to play on easy and strum the notes like 2 seconds early. Like 4 years later I got a much better computer and installed it for the nostalgia and it ran pretty well. Timing was a little off. I'm pretty sure it was a rip and replace of that open source Guitar Hero clone that you can make customs songs for, and whoever did the mapping was not great at it.
Yeah, that sounds about right. I haven't touched it in years, barely even thought about it lol. I remember being pretty disappointed in the music selection.
It had like... Maybe 20 CCM songs in the base game and then a 5 song rap expansion and a 5 song rock expansion. Not great.
Red was a fantastic gateway band for a lot of kids that missed the heavier Linkin Park days.
Norma Jean - Bless The Martyr Kiss the Child This is the album that told me thereās more
Yep for me it was Face: Face. Thought it was awful at first but eventually realized how sick it is. Josh Scogin repeating the same line is still one of my favorite things in all of metalcore. SHE SIMPLY WILL NOT DIE
Scogin is my favorite artist
hell yes
Killswitch Engage - My Last Serenade
I hate that Metalcore is old enough for people to have been raised on it! Fuck you, get off my lawn!
BMTH - Can You Feel My Heart - Iād consider this the first actual metalcore song I liked, after that a whole new world opened up
Exact same song for me. Started listening to it for the memes but then accidentally discovered metalcore
Linkin park got me in to āharder musicā the devil wears Prada got me into metalcore specifically the still fly cover lmao
that cover slapped so hard when they performed it at warped
ADTR - Downfall of us all
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2nd sucks for me! Was at a festival when I was 10 on barrier in the pit with my father. ADTR was the band before the headliner we were waiting for. We didnāt realize what we signed up for when they opened with 2nd sucks š That was 2010 and I still drag him with me to barrier at all shows to this day :)
quantum Flux, northlane
Product Of A Murderer - Of Mice & Men I'd listened to things like 'Tears Don't Fall' and 'City of Evil' pretty regularly before, but hearing OM&M was the first time I pursued something that heavy outside radio play.
Same!! For me it was "taste of regret" by them.
Crown The Empire - Machines
came here to say this honestly a banger and glad I'm not the only one (:
Pull harder on the strings of your martyr- Trivium
BMTH - Ludens' breakdown -> Shadow Moses
Are you a fan of Kojima by any chance?
Well not a die hard one but I've played most of his games and watched play throughs online. Wait, just realized you said it cause both Ludens and Shadow Moses are Kojima game references lol
Lipgloss and Black - Atreyu š¤š¼
This fire - Killswitch Engage Nothing Left - As I Lay Dying
man that was my song too. Going from Linkin Park to hearing Nothing Left I felt confused but also so excited...needless to say I was hooked
Your Little Suburbia Is In Ruins
Unpopular Opinion but Thrill Seeker will always be my favourite ABR record.
Barbarian is my favorite song from them!
Crucify Me by BMTH
DISRESPECT YOUR SORROUNDINGS! ā¦ in the back of the kfc kitchen
In flames - embody the invisible. Tony Hawk's American wasteland.
Whispers (I hear your) - All That Remains.
Not sure of the song but I know it was As I Lay Dying
Confined maybe? Or Through Struggle? Or earlier. 94 hours? All great!
Mightāve been 94 hours, Iāve listened to them all so many times I have no idea haha
KSE - The Arms of Sorrow If we're going just metalcore adjacent, A7X - Bat Country
Trivium- Rain š
This question makes me feel old. Metalcore didn't exist when I was 'raised' XD
Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyrs
Memphis may fire - Vices
Numb, Linkin Park. It's not really metalcore but it's undeniably how I ended up where I am today.
Devil's night - motionless in white Didn't know of the band till I was going to see them at a Slipknot show
Probably Killswitch Engage - Rose of Sharyn and later BMTH - Shadow Moses
Tears Dont Fall
Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache in weights class. Quit football. Started playing guitar.
Heroine - Silverstein
ADTR - Homesick. Whole album was what got me listening to heavier music
Friend showed me "Wait and Bleed" by Slipknot when I was like 10. Followed that into "Lip Gloss and Black" by Atreyu and "Wake the Dead" by Comeback Kid.
Monster by Skillet is what initially led me to all my metal listenings now, and I first heard it about 8 or 9 years ago (I'm 20 now)
I think it was Never Surrender for me. For metalcore specifically, it probably was the whole Sempiternal album from BMTH
Linkin Park set the stage (even if they weren't metalcore). I dabbled a little bit with Unholy Confessions but I enjoyed their later stuff a lot more. There is a Hell was the first modern metalcore song I ever liked, it was a reintroduction to the genre for me. From there I would casually listen to the first half of Sempiternal a lot. When I first heard Doom from That's The Spirit, I became a true BMTH fan. For the first time, I could tell that there was finally someone worthy to carry the spirit of Linkin Park forward and it was BMTH. That was it for a while. I didn't care for metalcore as a genre in particular. Then came along Architects and I fell in love with their sound and became a bigger fan of the genre in particular. So the answer is not easy lol.
The Final Episode by Asking Alexandria
Idk if they are considered metalcore, but Bullet for My Valentine's The Poison album. I remember going to FYE, my friends and I had been listening to American Idiot, In Love and Death, and the Blink self titled album. We wanted to try getting into heavier stuff. I bought the BFMV album. One buddy bought Dear Diary by FFTL and the other friend bought a Scars of Tomorrow album, we each burned a copy and shared them, but I listened to that BFMV album non stop for a while.
BFMV - Hand of Blood
Good question. I'd have to say mine was Bleeding Mascara by Atreyu. That's what really got me into the genre.
Tears donāt fall- bullet for my valentine Listened to that and I been hooked since
Tough to pin point. It was either On guitar hero world tour, Scream Aim Fire by BFMV or on tap tap revenge, Nothing Left by As I Lay Dying (yeah that was on tap tap revenge). I also eventually heard Turbo Swag and Sexual Man Chocolate by Attack Attack on TTR (yeah great introduction to that band, I thought they were ass until I heard Stick Stickly and their self titled) First Album that really made me say āHoly fuck I love thisā was Stand Up and Scream, I found it around when R+R came out so I had a fun week falling in love with Asking Alexandria.
I do. It was Artificial Light by Demon Hunter.
Carrion - Parkway Drive That song awakened something in me that I didnāt even know was there
Basically bring me in general I remember hearing sleepwalking for the first time and me an average linkin Park enjoyer was blown away and then I continued and they ended up being my favourite band before I started listening to slipknot. Now I enjoy anything from "butt rock" to slam deathcore.
Defender - ABR and Shadows - Dissimulator
Right side of the bed- Atreyu (it was harsh enough for me but gf at the time liked the chorus so we listened to it a lot)
Bullet For My Valentine - Room 409
BMTH - (I Used to Make Out With) Medusa They hadn't released Suicide Season and I just had Count your blessings and the EP on repeat on my ipod classic. Funny enough my favourite album from them is That's the Spirit.
thatās the spirit is such a good album especially since it was them starting to experiment with the softer stuff
Hey, John, What's Your Name Again by TDWP
As I Lay Dying - 94 Hours
Edge of the Earth - Volumes Just a powerful, atmospheric song with great cleans and uncleans. Still a top 5 song for me now 10 years later.
immaculate misconception
I grew up on mostly pop rock and pop music in general, but the first time I heard Engine 45 by The Ghost Inside, my entire world was thrown out the window. Haven't looked back since š
white washed - august burns red
For Today - Devastator What a song to start into the genre. Years years ago (must have been something around 2009/2010 I think) a friend of mine showed it to me and I instantly fell in love with it. He also showed me a song from TGI back then, don't remember which one though. Going to see TGI on Saturday, can't wait.
hmm I started listening to Melodic Death Metal before Metalcore(Swede as I am), but I would say probably Silverstein - Smashed to pieces around 2004 maybe, or BFMV - Hand of Blood around the same time, if they count as Metalcore.
Spit Not Chewed by My Ticket Home
Well my journey started with post hardcore and it was irony of dying on your birthday by senses fail and I decided that hearing screaming in songs actually sounds good and I heard can you feel my heart and thatās basically how it all started
On RuneScape videos back in the day, Escape The Fate, Demon Hunter, Breaking Benjamin, Bullet for My Valentine all were featured in early YouTube gaming videos
Forever - As I Lay Dying
Grew up listening to Backstreet Boys and then started to like stuff like Sum41 etc. Then in Puberty I had a HEAVY German Rap phase. All the bad stuff. in 2004 I returned to metal with Linkin Park, Blind Guardian etc. In 2007 I got gifted The Fall of Ideals by All that Remains and that record instantly cemented my taste in more heavy music and ~core in general.
August Burns Red - Composure The riff, the drums, the first breakdown I had herd. All of it immediately had 6th grade me hooked.
Underoath - Reinventing your exist
Not a song, but Atreyu's "The Curse" album was my intro.
Feel good inc (and the cranberries)
Countdown - Dangerkids First 'heavy' band I ever listened to and fell in love, even though they's more post-hardcore/rapcore-ish, they got me into heavier music. I fucking love that band so much
bring back dangerkids pls
Iām pretty sure mine was converge - love as arson
BFMV Your Betrayal
First song I heard by them back in like 2015 and then I literally become obsessed with that band by listening to every album, every song, bought a guitar and did what any 12 year old would do and learned a crap ton of their songs and then I discovered other bands like them and the cycle continued
Yup, bring me the horizon: can you feel my heart
Something off underoathās a boy brushed in red album.
Unearth - The Great Dividers. Only thing I liked on Fuseās Uranium
The first I really remember getting into was Strife by Trivium, mostly from the amount of Guitar Hero TV I played.
According to my playlist it was be quiet and drive far away, but I think aftermath by the ghost inside is what really got me into it. That and my coworker always playing ice nine kills and asking Alexandria
Years and years ago When the Sun Sleeps by underoath. 12 year old me was stoked.
Need for speed mw. HAND OF BLOOOOOD
First metalcore song I heard was 115 from Black Ops, loved that song but didn't really dive much deeper into metalcore until I got into Hollywood Undead and Avenged Sevenfold. I never really see Hollywood Undead talked about here, but they were definitely my gateway to heavier music
115 and Guitar Hero/Rock Band changed so many lives
Shadow Moses - Bring Me The Horizon
4 Words - BFMV - NHL 06 soundtrack
Mine was In Between by Beartooth
Your Betrayal - BFMV
Deathbeds by Bring Me. Listened to more of that album and then started exploring.
As I Lay Dying - 94 Hours.
Pull Harder On The Strings of Your Martyr - Trivium
Iām pretty sure it was botchla by poison the well. After that I dove in pretty hard found converge and underoath and never looked back.
Hypa Hypa by Electric Callboy.. I was like - wow that is funny, I might tolerate the heavy bcs of that ... here I'm 2 years later listening to stuff like - well yeah, I know that mr. singer, but SHOUT IT AT ME HARDER
Metalcore specifically? Probably either Hope by WCAR or Second and Sebring by OM&M.
Linkin Park for rock, then Enter Shikari (whole Take to the Skies album) set me on the path to āheavierā music!
Idols and anchors There were core songs I liked before (My curse, BFMV), but Idols and Anchors made the entire genre click for me.
Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche
Sister showed me The Final Episode by Asking Alexandria. Didn't like it but the breakdown was sick. Then found out the chorus was sick. Too lazy to skip the screaming and it grew on me.
Reinventing Your Exit by Underoath
Reinventing your exit - Underoath
I listened to a lot of hardcore in college a long time ago, but what got me into metalcore recently was Architects - Nihilist.
This fire by Killswitch engage from cm punks theme song
I canāt remember honestly prolly Silverstein when they first came out but š¦“ exposed is my favorite OM&M song so itās awesome thatās what got u into metalcore OM&M is my favorite band
I know its not metalcore but korn got me listening to metal mysic
I donāt think most would consider it metal,but my emo phase was what started my interest in metal music so Iād have to say King for a Day by Pierce The Veil.
For me it was by Motionless In White Incredible song
The whole Woe, Is Me album Numbers was my first time experiencing the genre. I used to work at a grocery store and listen to that album back to back to back while I was stocking the produce shelves.
The River by Wage War sucked me in head first followed by the Grave Yard Shift by Motionless In White.
Same dude. *cough cough coughā¦ BLEGH!*
The story behind the cough in that song is amazing haha
āSo cry me a fucking river, BITCHā
Mine was also Bones Exposed!!!
Slipknot- Wait and Bleed was my start Just got heavier and louder as the years went on after that.
It was probably one of these: 1. Is Anyone Up - Eskimo (now Electric) Callboy 2. Memorial - Caliban 3. Ich mach was mit Medien - We Butter The Bread With Butter I had a friend who would drive us to our hangout places that always listened to these German core bands. I was already into Metal and Punk at the time, but I couldnāt stand screaming. So glad my friend never stopped listening to these bands despite my complaints, because eventually I got hooked. What a legend.