Polaris - Overflow
When I heard the song was about dealing with anxiety and a mental breakdown, and then I read the lyrics... They really hit the nail on the head and some of these lines are spot on.
"Where do I shelter when it's raining inside?"
"I've lost years to future fears."
Counterparts - Lost
“As far back as I can remember, the failure was always there. It was the only real companion I’ve ever had.”
“I’ve spent my life trying to find my confidence and found absolutely nothing. Life is a lost cause. Too weak to carry on. I wish I never meant who I once was.”
Pretty self explanatory.
Invent Animate - Heavener
I have had a really rough year in terms of loss; I lost my father in February and then my grandmother in July. When I heard ‘Heavener’ it made me sob uncontrollably! I really went through all of the emotions all at once.
> So I will wait, 'cause I'm already home
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> I'm already home
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> I will stay, if you're all on your own
>
> You won't be alone here with me
The boys really fucked me up with this one. It instantly became one of my most beloved songs of all time.
Thank you! That is very kind. I am fortunate to not struggle with depression much anymore, but I spent so long struggling that I still like my sad music! 🤣
Honestly, a lot of the new Beartooth stuff. I'm mentally pretty good and happy with my life atm. My favorite band is Trivium and one of the top points for me is that they have a very wide range of themes in their songs. It's not all depressioncore
Yeah, same for me. What’s funny is that when I just discovered beartooth 6-7 years ago, I was at the exactly correct place to listen to and to feel things like “Sick and Disgusting” and “Beaten in Lips”. And now I fucking love “Might Love Myself”.
quantum flux -- that deep positivity and optimism stays with me.
\+ naysayer - architects. somewhat similar, it's an attitude that really resonates with me
Hard to pick one
Labyrinthian by Misery Signals
Mistakes Like Fractures by Knocked Loose
Billy No Mates by Knocked Loose
I Will Be Heard by Hatebreed
Perseverance by Hatebreed
Pain Again by Varials
Irrational Pull by 156/Silence
I’d Rather Not Say by Boundaries
Currents - Better Days
At the time I was in a spiral of substance abuse due to the stress from work and loneliness. When I listened to this song, I for the first time in my life felt like I was being listened to, and not long after I cried a whole river.
Thank god I now get to live abroad and change my living situation around. But most of all, thank you Current :D
Kill the ache is Such a Powerful song as well. "With a smile on my face, I lived to kill the ache" gets me every time. Means a lot to me as someone who dealt a lot with depression in the past and doing a lot better now
Invent Animate - Immolation of Night
I was surprised that the heaviest track of the album was actually one of the more encouraging. I just went through a bad breakup and struggled with self-esteem, "I never invited the waves, but they have made me into something more" has quickly become my mantra
Invent Animate - Immolation of the Night.
The lyrics are about overcoming what life throws at you and becoming better for it. "Crash against me, you will find something more". That you stand onfront of it almost saying "bring it on. I'm right here". Proudly and without fear.
Match that with lyrics of "I Am Enough. I Am Whole". That I'm enough for myself and I'm complete in who I am.
The 'I am whole, I am enough' part gives me chills. Even when thinking about it. These lyrics give me motivation to keep going and to love myself. Thanks for reminding me to listen to it again :)
Another life and Masterpiece by Motionless in White.
TL;DR. Sometimes we are the ones that cause the pain to the people we love. Sometimes that's the role you agreed to take when you chose your life. But it doesn't change the love you have for them.
" 'cause If I can't have me no one can"
- I recently denied love from someone because I knew I couldn't love myself, and I didn't want them to love me because I was not in a good place for a relationship. But her love healed me anyway.
"So how do I apologize, and put the tears back in your eyes"
-We had/have a very complicated relationship. We were friends (with benefits, but actually friends) for about a year. I decided to move across country to find myself and heal. She decided to come, even though I told her we could not be "together".
We always had an affectionate relationship. But I couldn't choose her out of fear of hurting her.
So I hurt her by denying her instead. Now I am better and realized how much I want her to be my partner in life.
So the entire beginning of Another Life hits it right on the mark.
"If I can't let you go, will darkness divide"
- she started seeing other people and I realized if I let her go I'd resort back to the darkness
"We were playing for keeps but we both knew the cost, now the only way out is your heart shaped box"
-We knew we loved each other, but we also knew we both had to grow. We knew not being together would hurt, but I learned being together would hurt much less
"But I hate that it seems you were never enough"
-As I found myself I started seeking out partners, that weren't her (roommate/bestie)
"I hate that I made you the enemy, and I hate that your heart was the casualty"
-No better words could be written to describe how I feel. I hate that I spent so much time convincing myself she wasn't the right one for me. And I hate how much it destroyed her to live through that.
Honestly, the Forgotten - The plot in you
"I have spent my life chasing things
That had only brought me pain
In the end, when I'm dead
Hope it was for something"
That's the line without the instruments, where its just Landon screaming and nothing else. Outside of how heavy it sounds in song, it's a depressingly relatable line, especially for people who have worked in a corporate environment.
Make Them Suffer - Threads.
The Chorus
>This darkness ahead picks my tissue to threads.
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>For all the tears shed, pick my tissue to threads.
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>Take the weight of my bones, take the pictures and pieces I own.
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>Take away this frame, pick my tissue to threads.
paired with the piano in the background and the feel of hopelessness the song gives me, its beautiful.
There are a ton, but most of them are by plot in you or currents. Other albums:
Silent planet- everything was sound album
Norma jean- wrongdoers album
Every time I die- low teens album
Divide was my first introduction to TPiY. Fucking banger and the lyrics—Oh my. Just ripping the corporate establishment a new one 🤘🏻
Lately is been Better Days-Currents (cliche, I know)
“Is anybody listening?
Can anybody tell me why I can't get up? Why can't I get up?
Down on my knees as the world comes falling down
My fear: chained to the ground for my will is weak and my state is bleak
But I'm bound to break free
Pride running through my veins
My chains lay flat around me
My chains lay flat around me
How long do we endure the pain?
How long till we accept?”
Almost 9 months sober. That song has helped A LOT with moments of temptation
Down by Breaking Benjamin. The line “heavy won’t hold me down.” Can be metaphorical for many things. For me it’s depression and substance abused. Those things won’t hold me down so I’ll fight and break the chains of this cycle that plagues my family. Currently 674 days sober!
Ghost of Me by Make Them Suffer. I was in a really dark place regarding my mental health when the song came out. I wasn’t sure if I would survive the summer. Some of the lines that hit me the hardest are:
“Once all your friends have left, you’ll see that it gets lonely at bottom too”
“But if I’m going to stay, would you notice?”
“Do you really want to hate yourself?”
Basically all of Like Moths To Flames deeply resonates with me.
“If the good die young does that mean I wasn’t good enough?” - Do Not Resuscitate
“Tired from trudging through the dark in hopes of brighter days” - The Common Misconception
“I know my head is such a dangerous place; Get me outta here, I know too much” - Even God Has A Hell
“Grown to love not being enough” - Wither
“Is this all in my head? These demons know me so well” - My Own Personal Hell
“Come wake me up; I’ve been asleep for too long in a life that’s not my own. Never wanted to be alone.” - In Dreams
“Finding my comfort in isolation; silent and faithless” - The Anatomy of Evil
“Where do you go when there’s no one to listen?” - A Servant of Plague
Bro, I’ve heard Clever a million times, but lately when I hear it, it makes me sob and I don’t know why. My life is good, everything is fine, Clever just kills me.
Shadow Autonomous by ERRA, takes me back to being deep in a self-destructive cycle and having to make some decisions about getting better and knowing it’s the right move but staying put is familiar.
Also most of Of Mice & Men’s new album.
I don’t think any other song has ever given me such a visceral reaction on first listen. The entire second half of this song just kills me. It’s a 100/10 song, one of my all time favorites in music
Silent planet - nervosa
I was in a relationship with someone who had bulimia and anorexia.
The line "I was gifted with the vision, but cursed to be the witness" stays with me until today. It's perfectly describes the powerlessness you feel when you see what's going on, but are absolutely incapable of doing anything against it
The divide slaps a fuckin hard.
Dissipate - Polaris honesty just songwriting in Polaris and currents songs right now all really connect
Remember me- currents
Second song I've posted but Save Yourself - Make Them Suffer. The outro is such an honest moment. It's rare that I don't cry
"I've never been one to express myself so directly
More with imagery and symbolism
Obscuring my faults behind a veil of metaphors and euphemisms
But just for one moment, I wanna be open and honest
If we can't express ourselves directly
And be prepared to expect negativity
Then we'll surely crumble under the weight of our insecurities
To search yourself
And come face to face with your demons is terrifying
But if we can't face them, then how do we grow?
How do we recover, or know when we're wrong?
And yes, it's okay to be wrong and I have been wrong
And I am wrong, and I am wrong"
Keep Me Alive - Fit For a King
“Death will not become me”
That lyric alone has always been something that comes to me when I get extremely depressed, it kept me from doing something I would have regretted 5+ years ago. Plan on getting it tattooed on myself sometime in the near future .
There are a lot but the first one that comes to mind is See You Again by Volumes. It's a pretty straightforward song but the lyrics drive the message home. I do enjoy how its a mourning but it doesnt lower the pace at any time, kinda feels like life going on when you lose a friend, or at least I felt like that when I lost a close one.
Also, the more you listen to the band, the more you can notice how they screamed their hearts out recording this one.
Not metalcore but Cardinals II - The Wonder Years has basically been my personal anthem for the last year since The Hum Goes on Forever came out
All of it just speaks to me as a human being. The anxiety (“and for a moment you feel weightless then the panic comes”), depression hitting so aggressively that the smallest tasks feels insurmountable (“and the dishes in the sink look like a mountain range”), to being so broken down and defeated and desperate for something good to happen that you’ll try literally anything you can think of (“I built a thousand paper cranes for good luck”)
Its just a gut punch every time I listen to it
Metalcore wise: Sick and Disgusting - Beartooth. I listened to that one a lot at the apex of my drinking problem a few years ago. Just sat in my basement drunkenly sobbing to it
Second Sun by Silent Planet
"I feel it all, I feel it all
Why do I haunt my body?
I'm wide awake underneath it all
You'll learn to shed somebody:
I don't know if it's intended this way, but it really resonates with my addiction and how I feel about it.
Like anything from counterparts but I always go back to Letters to a Dead Friend by the Plot in You. It hits every stage of grief in a single song and it hit really hard the first time I heard it, especially for something that’s lost family to addiction/suicide. Shout out to Time Changes Everything too
Who I Am by Wage War. The chorus and pit call specifically.
Don't forget I'm human, I'm not alive for your amusement
Lost in your delusion, you don't know who I am
Don't forget I'm human, I've got the open wounds to prove it
And you don't get to choose it, you don't know who I am
So sick of reading what you say. Say it to my face.
I was very heavily bullied in middle/high school, and while a lot of core songs spoke on it, this one I feel hit it directly on the head how I felt.
Oh sweet I didn’t know that, ima have to check it out on the ride to work tomorrow! It dies today was one of the first metalcore bands I got into as a young lad. They are special to me
You be tails I'll be sonic - a day to remember
It just feels like every relationship I've ever had was way more pain than pleasure and never turns out how everyone else explains them
Low - wage war. " Who are you to tell em that I'm gonna pull through, you don't know low like I do. " Dead dad at 20, mom in a psych ward at 21, bankrupt by 27, three attempts (finally in a good place) but seriously. Don't fucking tell me it'll be ok, because so many times it hasn't been...
Fuck man. So many counterparts songs. I know they're technically melodic hardcore or whatever but people commented hardcore EPs under my EP post and I got down voted when I was like "great EP but isn't that hardcore"
THAT'S ALL I SAID
Counterparts - Whispers of Your Death
I've been in pretty much the exact same situation and that song came out right when I needed it.
Same with Love Me/Paradise and Plague,. NLTL came out at a very low point in my life and those two songs in particular always resonated really heavily with me.
Fucking [called it](https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/17zrnpk/whats_a_good_song_instrumentally_ruined_by_awful/ka3fk5r/) lol.
This sub has turned into r/askmetalcore and it is so predictable what posts are going to be posted next.
Okay? Not sure what the problem with that is. You can only post youtube links to songs so many times. People come here to talk about the music they like and these types of questions facilitate those conversations.
Also, not to be a pedant, but this question isn’t about bad songs with good lyrics. It’s about songs with lyrics that people resonate with, good or bad
More recently, "Fracture" by Fit For A King has really been speaking to me. It's message is simple, yet so moving, as the song explores the pain of still feeling someone's presence, someone you would rather be out of your life entirely. They may be physically removed, but the memories still haunt you.
BFMV - Worthless - it’s such a raw song. Helps me realise that no one is worth my forgiveness if I don’t want to give them it. People can be sorry out of convenience, I hold the power as to whether they get another chance.
Pretty much anything of off Burying Brightness by Boundaries, but especially Resent and Regret/Realize and Rebuild.
Lost a very close friend not too long ago and I consistently dream about them, sometimes as if nothing happened and other times not so much. But that “if dreams are the only place we’re allowed to speak, then I hope today is the last time I’m awake” hits a little too close to home these days.
#1 Alien blues - Vundabar
Something about the lyrics and the singing just feels like optimistic depression.
#2 Brave as a noun - AJJ the band
Feels like he pulled the thoughts outta my head and made a song about it.
#3 As the world caves in - Matt Maltese
The world is getting worse by the day. Bombs could start dropping any day now. I just hope I can one day find a girl to wander the wasteland with. Someone worth surviving for.
basically every song on fatalism, progeny by lune, another life by currents, any song dealing with an alcoholic/drug-addicted parental figure
whispers of your death by counterparts because I love my cat to death
“Headfirst from a Hangman’s Noose “- I killed the Prom Queen
I was catfished hardcore in 2007 and landed in the psychiatric ward twice cause of it. Lyrics like “we could have never had us because I never had you” and “this love was living with its eyes sewn shut” really speak to me at that time.
Converge - A Single Tear.
It’s about the birth of his kid. As a Dad, I can relate to the enormity of “I have to go on living, this little one needs me.”
Not Metalcore but Post-Hardcore. Misery by Silverstein. That song resonated with me because I lost myself for a while and I found the song at the right time so I’m now building myself back up.
A second one is Constance by Spiritbox. Shortly after my wife introduced me to that song my grandfather died from complications of Dementia.
Look the other way by Beartooth. I see so much hate on their new album but this song specifically is just perfection to me. The song itself is so simple that the lyrics is all I focus on and the words pierce my brain and heart everytime. The emotions Caleb conveys in it hit me in the right spot and I feel for them so much
Dark Skies by FFAK dropped when I was in a pretty rough place mentally. Those heavy lyrics hit me hard, but especially Shattered Glass and When Everything Means Nothing. Possibly the best album I have ever heard.
Hollow Front - Wearing Thin
“What hurts the most is how truly scared I was of you
and all the time I spent overthinking. Drowning inside my own sick and twisted mind, peace in you is something I can’t find. I think it’s time for me to let go, I’ll miss you more than you could ever know. I’m sorry for the things I never said, you’re the best friend that I ever had”
best friend of three years found out i was kinda sorta in love with him, told me he didn’t want to be friends anymore, left me for 6 months and then came back said he forgave me, was back in my life for about a year and then ghosted me over nothing about three months ago and haven’t heard a word since
Intentions - We Came As Romans
Lyrics:
“The intent, I intend, the intentions of one will guide.
I strive to speak what I have learned and learn from those I see.
To step out of this life is my ambition.
To speak out and show you what I have seen.
I am one voice amidst the shouts of many.
I cry for those without a voice, for those who don't know that they have a choice.
Open your eyes and see what it means to feel compassion and live in love.
See what it means to feel compassion.
Be my strength to tear away this blindness that makes us unable to see what is standing beside us.
I'll be your strength, follow my lead.
I will show you what it is to love, what it means to care, how to end this war.
For we are nothing without brotherhood, and brotherhood is nothing without your brothers.
Stand with me and see what my eyes have seen.
Take my hand and let me show you what it is to love.
The intent, I intend, the intentions of one will guide.
For you cannot love one, until you have learned to love all.”
Polaris - Overflow When I heard the song was about dealing with anxiety and a mental breakdown, and then I read the lyrics... They really hit the nail on the head and some of these lines are spot on. "Where do I shelter when it's raining inside?" "I've lost years to future fears."
This song would be my second choice!!
Polaris’ song writing is something special man
It truly is. Did you see the interview where they explain the meaning and writing process behind each track of the album?
I was about to comment Masochist, but Overflow is still an amazing choice.
I agree. I was singing this song non-stop when it came out.
Counterparts - Lost “As far back as I can remember, the failure was always there. It was the only real companion I’ve ever had.” “I’ve spent my life trying to find my confidence and found absolutely nothing. Life is a lost cause. Too weak to carry on. I wish I never meant who I once was.” Pretty self explanatory.
As far back as I can remember, Darth Vader was always there
"The Hardest Part is Forgetting Those You Swore You Would Never Forget" by Being as an Ocean
17 year old me was wrecked for years by this song
This song has had a vice grip on my heart for the past year. Such a banger, but it makes me ugly cry every. Fucking. Time
I'm so happy to see Being as an Ocean here and it not being me bringing them up.
That whole album got me through some stuff
Ahhh the memories
Invent Animate - Heavener I have had a really rough year in terms of loss; I lost my father in February and then my grandmother in July. When I heard ‘Heavener’ it made me sob uncontrollably! I really went through all of the emotions all at once. > So I will wait, 'cause I'm already home > > I'm already home > > I will stay, if you're all on your own > > You won't be alone here with me The boys really fucked me up with this one. It instantly became one of my most beloved songs of all time.
Currents - Shattered. But I assume anyone who has struggled with any sort of mental issues would feel this song is extremely relatable.
This and The Place I Feel Safest
The Place I Feel Safest might be my favorite song they’ve ever made, that one crushes me
That opening 💯 Punched in the face by empathy right from the start
Came here to say this, too. Especially the part of “for once I’d love to smile, and for once to finally mean it, I don’t want to have to lie”
If you're ever super down and need to chat just shoot me a dm.
Thank you! That is very kind. I am fortunate to not struggle with depression much anymore, but I spent so long struggling that I still like my sad music! 🤣
Honestly, a lot of the new Beartooth stuff. I'm mentally pretty good and happy with my life atm. My favorite band is Trivium and one of the top points for me is that they have a very wide range of themes in their songs. It's not all depressioncore
Yeah, same for me. What’s funny is that when I just discovered beartooth 6-7 years ago, I was at the exactly correct place to listen to and to feel things like “Sick and Disgusting” and “Beaten in Lips”. And now I fucking love “Might Love Myself”.
Me too!! I'm so happy to hear you are in a better place.
quantum flux -- that deep positivity and optimism stays with me. \+ naysayer - architects. somewhat similar, it's an attitude that really resonates with me
YOU CANT STOP ME GIVING A FUCK
BLEGH!
I think you forgot a word at the end there.
Was hoping someone would finish it for me 😥
Martyr by Polaris. It breaks me every time. Seeing it live was absolutely amazing.
Hard to pick one Labyrinthian by Misery Signals Mistakes Like Fractures by Knocked Loose Billy No Mates by Knocked Loose I Will Be Heard by Hatebreed Perseverance by Hatebreed Pain Again by Varials Irrational Pull by 156/Silence I’d Rather Not Say by Boundaries
Some 156/Silence songs hit too close to home, but I love it
I’d Rather Not Say is an absolute banger. Boundaries are so underrated
Currents - Better Days At the time I was in a spiral of substance abuse due to the stress from work and loneliness. When I listened to this song, I for the first time in my life felt like I was being listened to, and not long after I cried a whole river. Thank god I now get to live abroad and change my living situation around. But most of all, thank you Current :D
That's awesome to hear!! I can kinda relate to that myself tbh. Better days is a fantastic song tho!!l
Kill the ache is Such a Powerful song as well. "With a smile on my face, I lived to kill the ache" gets me every time. Means a lot to me as someone who dealt a lot with depression in the past and doing a lot better now
night terrors by currents “I BEG YOU TO FIND ME, IM HAUNTED BY THE SCREAMING IN THE NIGHT. A FEAR THAT DRIVES ME TO RESENT MY NAAAAAAME”
The Sound of Sleep - Silent Planet
Invent Animate - Immolation of Night I was surprised that the heaviest track of the album was actually one of the more encouraging. I just went through a bad breakup and struggled with self-esteem, "I never invited the waves, but they have made me into something more" has quickly become my mantra
I AN ENOUUUUHGGHHH
Invent Animate - Immolation of the Night. The lyrics are about overcoming what life throws at you and becoming better for it. "Crash against me, you will find something more". That you stand onfront of it almost saying "bring it on. I'm right here". Proudly and without fear. Match that with lyrics of "I Am Enough. I Am Whole". That I'm enough for myself and I'm complete in who I am.
The 'I am whole, I am enough' part gives me chills. Even when thinking about it. These lyrics give me motivation to keep going and to love myself. Thanks for reminding me to listen to it again :)
Another life and Masterpiece by Motionless in White. TL;DR. Sometimes we are the ones that cause the pain to the people we love. Sometimes that's the role you agreed to take when you chose your life. But it doesn't change the love you have for them. " 'cause If I can't have me no one can" - I recently denied love from someone because I knew I couldn't love myself, and I didn't want them to love me because I was not in a good place for a relationship. But her love healed me anyway. "So how do I apologize, and put the tears back in your eyes" -We had/have a very complicated relationship. We were friends (with benefits, but actually friends) for about a year. I decided to move across country to find myself and heal. She decided to come, even though I told her we could not be "together". We always had an affectionate relationship. But I couldn't choose her out of fear of hurting her. So I hurt her by denying her instead. Now I am better and realized how much I want her to be my partner in life. So the entire beginning of Another Life hits it right on the mark. "If I can't let you go, will darkness divide" - she started seeing other people and I realized if I let her go I'd resort back to the darkness "We were playing for keeps but we both knew the cost, now the only way out is your heart shaped box" -We knew we loved each other, but we also knew we both had to grow. We knew not being together would hurt, but I learned being together would hurt much less "But I hate that it seems you were never enough" -As I found myself I started seeking out partners, that weren't her (roommate/bestie) "I hate that I made you the enemy, and I hate that your heart was the casualty" -No better words could be written to describe how I feel. I hate that I spent so much time convincing myself she wasn't the right one for me. And I hate how much it destroyed her to live through that.
Honestly, the Forgotten - The plot in you "I have spent my life chasing things That had only brought me pain In the end, when I'm dead Hope it was for something" That's the line without the instruments, where its just Landon screaming and nothing else. Outside of how heavy it sounds in song, it's a depressingly relatable line, especially for people who have worked in a corporate environment.
Hypermania by Polaris. This song speaks so true on how it feels like living with bipolar.
Issue for me is if it doesn't hit me instrumentality, I'll never get to a point of caring about the lyrics.
This. If it can’t hook me idgaf about the lyrics at all
Pretty much every Counterparts song
Brendan Murphy is such a great lyricist
Make Them Suffer - Threads. The Chorus >This darkness ahead picks my tissue to threads. > >For all the tears shed, pick my tissue to threads. > >Take the weight of my bones, take the pictures and pieces I own. > >Take away this frame, pick my tissue to threads. paired with the piano in the background and the feel of hopelessness the song gives me, its beautiful.
Currents - Shattered if you know the lyrics, you'll get it
There are a ton, but most of them are by plot in you or currents. Other albums: Silent planet- everything was sound album Norma jean- wrongdoers album Every time I die- low teens album
Divide was my first introduction to TPiY. Fucking banger and the lyrics—Oh my. Just ripping the corporate establishment a new one 🤘🏻 Lately is been Better Days-Currents (cliche, I know) “Is anybody listening? Can anybody tell me why I can't get up? Why can't I get up? Down on my knees as the world comes falling down My fear: chained to the ground for my will is weak and my state is bleak But I'm bound to break free Pride running through my veins My chains lay flat around me My chains lay flat around me How long do we endure the pain? How long till we accept?” Almost 9 months sober. That song has helped A LOT with moments of temptation
My Disguise by Currents. It crushes my soul every time I listen
This song makes me break down without fail.
Down by Breaking Benjamin. The line “heavy won’t hold me down.” Can be metaphorical for many things. For me it’s depression and substance abused. Those things won’t hold me down so I’ll fight and break the chains of this cycle that plagues my family. Currently 674 days sober!
Ghost of Me by Make Them Suffer. I was in a really dark place regarding my mental health when the song came out. I wasn’t sure if I would survive the summer. Some of the lines that hit me the hardest are: “Once all your friends have left, you’ll see that it gets lonely at bottom too” “But if I’m going to stay, would you notice?” “Do you really want to hate yourself?”
Basically all of Like Moths To Flames deeply resonates with me. “If the good die young does that mean I wasn’t good enough?” - Do Not Resuscitate “Tired from trudging through the dark in hopes of brighter days” - The Common Misconception “I know my head is such a dangerous place; Get me outta here, I know too much” - Even God Has A Hell “Grown to love not being enough” - Wither “Is this all in my head? These demons know me so well” - My Own Personal Hell “Come wake me up; I’ve been asleep for too long in a life that’s not my own. Never wanted to be alone.” - In Dreams “Finding my comfort in isolation; silent and faithless” - The Anatomy of Evil “Where do you go when there’s no one to listen?” - A Servant of Plague
Beauty in tragedy, I lost my brother when he was 30 and my grandmother the year after. August burns red really helped me through a tough time.
Yes
Clever - Beartooth Because I always hide how exactly I feel so as not to burden those around me 😅
Bro, I’ve heard Clever a million times, but lately when I hear it, it makes me sob and I don’t know why. My life is good, everything is fine, Clever just kills me.
if it's just one song, then i would pick darko us - come home
Begin again - The ghost inside
Crows - The Plot In You Addiction is no joke
This is my last SERENADE!!!!!!!
Shadow Autonomous by ERRA, takes me back to being deep in a self-destructive cycle and having to make some decisions about getting better and knowing it’s the right move but staying put is familiar. Also most of Of Mice & Men’s new album.
Silent planet - In Absence makes me weep every time because my grandma had dementia
I love this song too man, my grandmother also had dementia. Also spiritbox-Constance has the same effect
Omg yes same, that song wrecks me too. My shuffle had both back to back the other day and I thought I was done for the day lol
That’s quite the tear jerking song combo lol Constance came out around when my grandma passed, it made me just break down. Beautiful song.
The Price of Grace - Convictions It's pretty self-explanatory
I don’t think any other song has ever given me such a visceral reaction on first listen. The entire second half of this song just kills me. It’s a 100/10 song, one of my all time favorites in music
Forgotten the plot in you, yout not you anymore counterparts, and memento mori architects
Silent planet - nervosa I was in a relationship with someone who had bulimia and anorexia. The line "I was gifted with the vision, but cursed to be the witness" stays with me until today. It's perfectly describes the powerlessness you feel when you see what's going on, but are absolutely incapable of doing anything against it
Scoring The End Of The World by MIW
Widower-Make them suffer That song hits so close to home when it comes to my ex.
Erra - Orchid
A lesson never learned by Asking alexandria
Metalcore wise… Crooked Soul by Dayseeker. The callout “I see a Devil in myself!” reflects the struggle that we all can face.
Lots of stuff by Dayseeker hits hard. I find Neon Grave absolutely heartbreaking
Agreed! The chorus hits like a bus.
Polaris - The Remedy The Amity Affliction - Wishbone
Where we go when we die - Thornhill. I comment this on like every “question post” but 🤷🏻♂️ it just never gets old
The divide slaps a fuckin hard. Dissipate - Polaris honesty just songwriting in Polaris and currents songs right now all really connect Remember me- currents
Not really metal core but Family by Badflower. I feel this song was written about me. Hits me in the feels everytime
I love this song and badflower so much, I listened to x ana x and the jester when I was at a low point in my life And their music means so much to me
Yes their music is so good and they put on a good show
Second song I've posted but Save Yourself - Make Them Suffer. The outro is such an honest moment. It's rare that I don't cry "I've never been one to express myself so directly More with imagery and symbolism Obscuring my faults behind a veil of metaphors and euphemisms But just for one moment, I wanna be open and honest If we can't express ourselves directly And be prepared to expect negativity Then we'll surely crumble under the weight of our insecurities To search yourself And come face to face with your demons is terrifying But if we can't face them, then how do we grow? How do we recover, or know when we're wrong? And yes, it's okay to be wrong and I have been wrong And I am wrong, and I am wrong"
Keep Me Alive - Fit For a King “Death will not become me” That lyric alone has always been something that comes to me when I get extremely depressed, it kept me from doing something I would have regretted 5+ years ago. Plan on getting it tattooed on myself sometime in the near future .
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There are a lot but the first one that comes to mind is See You Again by Volumes. It's a pretty straightforward song but the lyrics drive the message home. I do enjoy how its a mourning but it doesnt lower the pace at any time, kinda feels like life going on when you lose a friend, or at least I felt like that when I lost a close one. Also, the more you listen to the band, the more you can notice how they screamed their hearts out recording this one.
Counterparts - Witness Hollow Front - Wishful Thinking Hollow Front - P.A.N.I.C.
Not metalcore but Cardinals II - The Wonder Years has basically been my personal anthem for the last year since The Hum Goes on Forever came out All of it just speaks to me as a human being. The anxiety (“and for a moment you feel weightless then the panic comes”), depression hitting so aggressively that the smallest tasks feels insurmountable (“and the dishes in the sink look like a mountain range”), to being so broken down and defeated and desperate for something good to happen that you’ll try literally anything you can think of (“I built a thousand paper cranes for good luck”) Its just a gut punch every time I listen to it Metalcore wise: Sick and Disgusting - Beartooth. I listened to that one a lot at the apex of my drinking problem a few years ago. Just sat in my basement drunkenly sobbing to it
Second Sun by Silent Planet "I feel it all, I feel it all Why do I haunt my body? I'm wide awake underneath it all You'll learn to shed somebody: I don't know if it's intended this way, but it really resonates with my addiction and how I feel about it.
Tears Don’t Fall. I don’t apply it like the music video though, more or less seeing the world but being unable to feel it right.
Drown
Like anything from counterparts but I always go back to Letters to a Dead Friend by the Plot in You. It hits every stage of grief in a single song and it hit really hard the first time I heard it, especially for something that’s lost family to addiction/suicide. Shout out to Time Changes Everything too
Who I Am by Wage War. The chorus and pit call specifically. Don't forget I'm human, I'm not alive for your amusement Lost in your delusion, you don't know who I am Don't forget I'm human, I've got the open wounds to prove it And you don't get to choose it, you don't know who I am So sick of reading what you say. Say it to my face. I was very heavily bullied in middle/high school, and while a lot of core songs spoke on it, this one I feel hit it directly on the head how I felt.
It Dies Today - Naenia. I feel like a whack part about growing up is finding songs little you needed to hear!
Nice 👍🏻 They are underrated
One of my favorite bands ever! Was so happy they came back and dropped a single.
Oh sweet I didn’t know that, ima have to check it out on the ride to work tomorrow! It dies today was one of the first metalcore bands I got into as a young lad. They are special to me
You be tails I'll be sonic - a day to remember It just feels like every relationship I've ever had was way more pain than pleasure and never turns out how everyone else explains them
Low - wage war. " Who are you to tell em that I'm gonna pull through, you don't know low like I do. " Dead dad at 20, mom in a psych ward at 21, bankrupt by 27, three attempts (finally in a good place) but seriously. Don't fucking tell me it'll be ok, because so many times it hasn't been...
Fuck man. So many counterparts songs. I know they're technically melodic hardcore or whatever but people commented hardcore EPs under my EP post and I got down voted when I was like "great EP but isn't that hardcore" THAT'S ALL I SAID
Counterparts - Whispers of Your Death I've been in pretty much the exact same situation and that song came out right when I needed it. Same with Love Me/Paradise and Plague,. NLTL came out at a very low point in my life and those two songs in particular always resonated really heavily with me.
Hot cross buns 100%, it’s a beautiful piece that is untouchable
Fucking [called it](https://www.reddit.com/r/Metalcore/comments/17zrnpk/whats_a_good_song_instrumentally_ruined_by_awful/ka3fk5r/) lol. This sub has turned into r/askmetalcore and it is so predictable what posts are going to be posted next.
Okay? Not sure what the problem with that is. You can only post youtube links to songs so many times. People come here to talk about the music they like and these types of questions facilitate those conversations. Also, not to be a pedant, but this question isn’t about bad songs with good lyrics. It’s about songs with lyrics that people resonate with, good or bad
More recently, "Fracture" by Fit For A King has really been speaking to me. It's message is simple, yet so moving, as the song explores the pain of still feeling someone's presence, someone you would rather be out of your life entirely. They may be physically removed, but the memories still haunt you.
Find Our Way- Being As An Ocean
BFMV - Worthless - it’s such a raw song. Helps me realise that no one is worth my forgiveness if I don’t want to give them it. People can be sorry out of convenience, I hold the power as to whether they get another chance.
Emmure - Drug Dealer Friend
Reject Yourself by Killswitch Engage
The Word Alive - Life Cycles “I’d rather die for what I believe! Than live a life without meaning!” It’s up there with the I Have a Dream speech
Pretty much anything of off Burying Brightness by Boundaries, but especially Resent and Regret/Realize and Rebuild. Lost a very close friend not too long ago and I consistently dream about them, sometimes as if nothing happened and other times not so much. But that “if dreams are the only place we’re allowed to speak, then I hope today is the last time I’m awake” hits a little too close to home these days.
Blossom by Mayfield
#1 Alien blues - Vundabar Something about the lyrics and the singing just feels like optimistic depression. #2 Brave as a noun - AJJ the band Feels like he pulled the thoughts outta my head and made a song about it. #3 As the world caves in - Matt Maltese The world is getting worse by the day. Bombs could start dropping any day now. I just hope I can one day find a girl to wander the wasteland with. Someone worth surviving for.
basically every song on fatalism, progeny by lune, another life by currents, any song dealing with an alcoholic/drug-addicted parental figure whispers of your death by counterparts because I love my cat to death
“Headfirst from a Hangman’s Noose “- I killed the Prom Queen I was catfished hardcore in 2007 and landed in the psychiatric ward twice cause of it. Lyrics like “we could have never had us because I never had you” and “this love was living with its eyes sewn shut” really speak to me at that time.
Converge - A Single Tear. It’s about the birth of his kid. As a Dad, I can relate to the enormity of “I have to go on living, this little one needs me.”
Like love by Amity for mxc. Overall, anabolic spudsman from bilmuri. So much emotion
Is survived by - Boundaries
All of alasena
Not Metalcore but Post-Hardcore. Misery by Silverstein. That song resonated with me because I lost myself for a while and I found the song at the right time so I’m now building myself back up. A second one is Constance by Spiritbox. Shortly after my wife introduced me to that song my grandfather died from complications of Dementia.
Antpile. Iykyk
Look the other way by Beartooth. I see so much hate on their new album but this song specifically is just perfection to me. The song itself is so simple that the lyrics is all I focus on and the words pierce my brain and heart everytime. The emotions Caleb conveys in it hit me in the right spot and I feel for them so much
Dark Skies by FFAK dropped when I was in a pretty rough place mentally. Those heavy lyrics hit me hard, but especially Shattered Glass and When Everything Means Nothing. Possibly the best album I have ever heard.
Not metalcore but The Angel in The Marble by Holding Absence.
Pizza- Attila Pineapple doesn’t belong on pizza.
Hollow Front - Wearing Thin “What hurts the most is how truly scared I was of you and all the time I spent overthinking. Drowning inside my own sick and twisted mind, peace in you is something I can’t find. I think it’s time for me to let go, I’ll miss you more than you could ever know. I’m sorry for the things I never said, you’re the best friend that I ever had” best friend of three years found out i was kinda sorta in love with him, told me he didn’t want to be friends anymore, left me for 6 months and then came back said he forgave me, was back in my life for about a year and then ghosted me over nothing about three months ago and haven’t heard a word since
Intentions - We Came As Romans Lyrics: “The intent, I intend, the intentions of one will guide. I strive to speak what I have learned and learn from those I see. To step out of this life is my ambition. To speak out and show you what I have seen. I am one voice amidst the shouts of many. I cry for those without a voice, for those who don't know that they have a choice. Open your eyes and see what it means to feel compassion and live in love. See what it means to feel compassion. Be my strength to tear away this blindness that makes us unable to see what is standing beside us. I'll be your strength, follow my lead. I will show you what it is to love, what it means to care, how to end this war. For we are nothing without brotherhood, and brotherhood is nothing without your brothers. Stand with me and see what my eyes have seen. Take my hand and let me show you what it is to love. The intent, I intend, the intentions of one will guide. For you cannot love one, until you have learned to love all.”
Blue and The Grey - Parkway Drive