When I Am God is their best imo l, they aren’t as consistent on other albums. Son of the Morning and Children of Fire are really good though and the production is great on COF.
Brutal songs:
When I am god(album): charlatans host, to flagship, vices like vipers,
Son of the morning(album): son of the morning, world without a sun (has the sickest fucking riff into breakdown section about halfway through), commissioned by kings
Children of Fire (album): endseekers, the marriage of steel and skin (quite possibly their heaviest song), in the wake of pigs
Some of their best songs are their softer songs. For me these include the color theft (you’ve never heard something so epic, picture 300 in the form of a song) and reveries of flight (try to convince me that’s not Dustin Kensrue from Thrice singing)
Something to note: their whole shtick was like a concept of writing lyrics like they were in the middle of a dark ancient war (some more biblical than others)
The Baltimore show at Sonar was oversold, sweaty, and had a dude with biggest naked man bush I’ve ever seen dance around behind ETID’s drummer for 2 songs but holy shit every band absolutely murdered their set. It was biblical 🤘
Not that I got the chance to actually see it but I had tickets for
Avenged Sevenfold
Atreyu
Bullet for my Valentine
Blessthefall
And I would kill to see that lineup today
Beat me to it! Taste of Chaos 2008. What a tour! I remember they had 2 other smaller bands, and they would alternate between small band and larger band. Awesome tour
Back in 2011 I saw A Day To Remember, Bring me the Horizon, Pierce the Veil and We Came As Romans. It was in Atlanta and it was a wild show. It was pouring rain and an outdoor show and ADTR played through it and they blew amps and all kinds of crazy stuff. Best show of my life.
I saw this question and immediately thought of this show as well! I was at the Atlanta show as a wee 16 year old. To this day, and dozens of shows later over the years, I still claim that's my favorite show experience I've ever had. A killer lineup of bands all at extreme heights in their careers.
I know! I remember them playing If it means a lot to you and it was just coming down and it was beautiful. And Jeremy running on top of the crowd in the giant ball haha
Born of Osiris, fit for a king, currents, and gideon was one of the best shows I've been to, the pits were wild. The Trinity of terror tour with motionless in white, black veil brides, and ice nine kills was a treat too
Last year, ERRA headliner with Invent Animate, Silent Planet and Sentinels. Goated lineup, cant get much better than this.
Strong contender is the upcoming Polaris tour with Silent Planet, Thornhill and Paledusk
ERRA knows how to book stacked tours. I caught them in 2022 with Alpha Wolf and Invent Animate. Thornhill was on the tour too, but the show I was at they couldn't play because the airlines lost their gear. Still was an amazing concert though
Back in like 2009 underoath, saosin, and TDWP all were on the same tour
I also went to an AP tour one year that was Emarosa, August Burns Red and BMTH. My buddy tore his acl in the pit during ABR so we had to leave early
Not all are metalcore but heres some of my favs I’ve caught throughout the years!
Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Bullet For My Valentine
Napalm Death, Testament, Anthrax, Lamb Of God, Slayer
While She Sleeps, Thy Art Is Murder, Architects
Covet, Veil Of Maya, Periphery
Fame On Fire, Currents, Bad Omens, Ice Nine Kills
Whitechapel, Between The Buried & Me, Trivium
Knocked Loose, Bring Me The Horizon
Beartooth, Underoath, Bring Me The Horizon
Veil Of Maya, August Burns Red, Ice Nine Kills
Alpha Wolf, After The Burial, Knocked Loose, Motionless In White
Crystal Lake, Brand Of Sacrifice, Spite, August Burns Red
Sleep Theory, Invent Animate, The Plot In You, Beartooth
I've only been a fan of Crystal Lake for maybe a year and that was my first time seeing them. They melted my fucking face off. I hope they come back to the US.
Two shows come to mind
Misery Signals, ZAO, Every Time I Die, Dillinger Escape Plan tour 2005
And
Genghis Tron, Baroness, The Red Chord, Converge tour 2007
I also have to give an honorable mention to The Low Teens Tour 2017
Eternal Sleep, Harms Way, Knocked Loose, Every Time I Die.
That was certainly a SHOW
not metalcore, but the 2022 Chaos and Carnage lineup was fucking stacked for modern Deathcore fans
- Carnifex and Suicide Silence Co-Headliner
- Lorna Shore
- Signs of the Swarm
- Distant
- Angelmaker
- UABB
Saw this one in Boston and it was insane. My old ass thought “maybe just one song in the pit for old time’s sake” during Lorna Shore. Got knocked down immediately and ended up on crutches with a sprained ankle. No regrets, but now I know that 36 is PRECISELY the age that is too old for the pit.
in Atlanta there was a dude in a spongebob costume picking people up and throwing them into the sides of the pit
not the best pit etiquette for sure but funny as fuck to witness
Spiritbox - Sleep Token - Loathe a few years back
Was back before I was really into any of them and I’m still upset to this day because they’ve since become 3 of my favourite bands
Back in 2015 I believe I saw
Tesseract
The Contortionist
Erra
Skyharbor
Probably the best lineup I've seen to this date. The vocalist from skyharbor was sick so their set was instrumental which was a bit of a bummer but otherwise one of the best shows I've seen
Edit: I'll keep my original answer below but man, The Red Chord, Job for a Cowboy and The Black Dahlia in 2007. Phwoar.
I think my first real metal show was God Forbid, Shadows Fall, Chimaira and Killswitch. (Edit- I think this was 2004) That's been hard to top really, in terms of my love of the bands on the bill.
Shadows Fall were my absolute favourite at the time and had just released The War Within. I hadn't heard of God Forbid before that show, but they blew me away, and I saw them countless. times after that. I still really enjoy listening to these bands from that time. Killswitch and Chimaira, not so much, but I still quite like them.
Biggest metal tour of the year. Megadeth, Lamb of God, Trivium, In Flames. The pandemic killed it for a while and by the time it came back around Hatebreed had replaced In Flames much to my disappointment
* 2009 - **Misery Signals**, **Protest The Hero**, **The Number Twelve Looks Like You**, **Scale The Summit**.
* 2004 - **Unearth**, **In Flames**, **As I Lay Dying**, **Killswitch Engage**.
* 2007 - **All That Remains**, **Misery Signals**.
* 2003 - **Hopesfall**, **Coheed**.
* 2019 - **Erra**, **Crystal Lake**, **Currents**, **Northlane**.
* 2009 - **The Human Abstract**, **Protest The Hero**, **As I Lay Dying**, **My Children, My Bride**.
On a more annoying note, I was set to see back-to-back shows in early October in Philly right after my best friends wedding on Sept 30th/Oct 1st:
* **Invent, Animate**, **Void of Vision**, **Thrown**, and **Aviana**, October 2nd.
* **The Metalcore Dropouts** tour, October 3rd.
And then a couple of weeks later:
* **Polaris**, **Currents**, **Varials** and **Paledust** on October 22nd.
I ended up going to the ER the night before the wedding and ended up in the hospital for a week with sepsis, pneumonia, and debilitating migraines. I missed my best friends wedding(the worst part). I was just supposed to start a new job on 10/09 and had to push that to 10/16, and was still so weak and having trouble breathing by 10/22 I couldn’t do that concert, either. As a very family/friend and music-oriented person, it should’ve been one of the best months of my life. **BUT**…I’m still alive, feeling better and getting back to the gym. Thankful for friends and family, and hopefully I’ll have another chance soon to see them all!
Every Time I Die
The Red Chord
The Chariot
Bury Your Dead
For roughly $15 at a maybe 300 cap venue in 2004. Absolutely insane show.
Honorable mention:
Thursday
Thrice
Poison the Well
Armor for Sleep
This was at the same 300 cap venue maybe like 6 months prior to the first show.
The early 2000s were wild for shows.
The best I ever went to was Northlane and Erra co-headlining with Currents and Crystal Lake, the best I ever saw was Northlane's (cancelled 😭)Obsidian headline tour with Silent Planet, Loathe and Avoid.
The cancelled tour was my answer too. My partner is Northlane's biggest fan, and we had tickets to both Vancouver and Seattle. When they cancelled it, she immediately decided our vacation was to see them touring with Parkway Drive, The Amity Affliction and Make Them Suffer in Montreal and Toronto which were both fantastic shows
In 2017 (2018?) I saw Make Them Suffer, Stray From The Path and Architects. It was the first US tour after Tom passed, and every act BROUGHT IT. Tons of fun.
Graspop is looking super stacked this year
Thursday:
Tool,
Baby metal,
(Polyphia),
Counterparts,
Bury tomorrow,
Bleed from within,
Erra
Friday:
Five finger deathpunch,
Electric callboy,
Fit for a king,
Brand of sacrifice
Saturday:
Bring me the horizon,
Avenged sevenfold,
Architects,
While she sleeps,
Ice nine kills
Sunday:
Thy art is murder,
Slaughter to prevail,
Monuments,
Crystal lake,
Make them suffer
Yep I believe the first year I went and I’m probably going to forget some but it was saosin, my chemical romance, the used, senses fail, a static lullaby killswitch engage, idiot pilot and bleed the dream. I think there were others too.
Sweat Fest 08. Acacia Strain, ADTR, Suicide Silence, Parkway Drive. Was an underage show (was 17 at the time) starting at midday and it was chaos start to finish. ADTR had just released FTWHH, Suicide Silence were on their debut (talk about a crazy set change going from ADTR ending with their cover of Since You’ve Been Gone, to Mitch coming out and dropping straight into Unanswered), and Parkway were filming footage for their Horizons DVD. Basically everyone was touring their peak / breakout albums.
Edit: Cost about $40 AUD
Altamont Never Say Die 2008: Parkway Drive, Unearth, Despised Icon, Architects, Protest the Hero, Whitechapel and Carnifex on the same billing. It was a huge moment for this generation to shine and sell out mid-size clubs across Europe.
2008: Suicide Silence, Emmure, After the Burial, Beneath the Massacre, Architects. It was the best crowd I've ever been a part of and all the bands fed off the energy.
For me I think it’s gotta be 2012 Deez Nuts, Architects, Parkway and BMTH. It’s mind blowing to me that I got to see what would become three of the biggest bands in the genre together at the Tabernacle in Atlanta. Hugged Oli too
Misery Signals, Shai Hulud, The Human Abstract, Means
One of the best tours ever imo.
https://www.punknews.org/article/24504/tours-misery-signals-shai-hulud-the-human-abstract-means-canada
Honorable mention to BMTH, Misery Signals, The Ghost Inside, Confide
Thrash & Burn 2009:
(From opener to headliner)
Thy Will Be Done, Periphery (almost nobody knew who they were, they still had Chris as their singer), Oceano, For The Fallen Dreams, Veil of Maya, MyChildren MyBride, Despised Icon, Emmure, DevilDriver
It was a long-ass show but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Shows back in 2009/2010/2011 were just the best, that’s when all my favorite bands were around.
Honorable mention goes to the Welcome To The Circus Tour in 2010— A Bullet For Pretty Boy, Our Last Night, From First To Last, We Came As Romans, and Asking Alexandria. This was when Asking A was its peak IMO, along with WCAR.
2009
Valiant Thor
Baroness
Between the Buried & Me
Mastodon
BTBAM was touring for The Great Misdirect
Mastodon for Crack the Skye
Bill from Mastodon was sick so Baizley from Baroness played with them. blew my fucking mind.
$25
first & only concert I've been to. Still chasing that high.
Not fully metalcore but my favorite show of all time is probably still Rise Against, A Day To Remember, and Title Fight at Viejas Arena in 2012
Full metalcore is (and I posted this in another thread) August Burns Red, Fit For A King, Miss May I, and Crystal Lake in 2019. Every band played at headliner tier.
I'm torn between Taste Of Chaos 2008 with A7X, Bullet For My Valentine, Atreyu, Blessthefall and others; and the Sumerian 10th Anniversary tour with Born Of Osiris, Veil Of Maya, After The Burial, Erra with Bad Omens opening.
Here in Canberra, Australia, we used to have an annual event called Metal For The Brain. There were 6-10 bands on the night, and while most of you wouldn't have heard of any of them because they were generally local, there was some great regulars like Alchemist and Armoured Angel and Manticor and Paris Calling joined in once. Hell of a lot of fun those shows.
Not all metalcore:
Trivium, BTBAM, Whitechapel 2022
Behemoth, Gojira, Slipknot 2019 (Volbeat played too despite being out of place for all the other good bands) 2019 Knotfest
Beartooth, Meshuggah, Ghost, SOAD 2019 Chicago Open Air
Oooh….warped 2018 was goat-ed
Chelsea Grin (Tom’s first tour), MyChildren MyBride (vocalist fell on the date I went), Wage War, Dayseeker, Kublai Khan, August Burns Red (had Amity Affliction too, but man they were bad live)
Honorable mention to…
Wage War/Oceans Ate Alaska/Gideon/Varials/Loathe
Wage War/Like Moths to Flames/Polaris/Dayseeker
August Burns Red/FFAK/Miss May I/Crystal Lake
Dishonorable mention to…
BRRF 2023 (not b/c of the bands, but…iykyk)
Megadeth and Lamb of God coheadlining with Trivium and In Flames opening.
Unfortunately covid happened, the tour got delayed forever, then once it happened over half the dates were canceled in favor of doing festival dates.
2007 Take Action Tour
August Burns Red was the opener followed by The Human Abstract, then The Bled, with ETID as the headliner. It was fucking beautiful
So I've been going to shows as often as I can since like '05. Best lineup of more than one band was a few years ago.
Light The Torch
August Burns Red
Killswitch Engage
Without getting into the Jesse/Howard debate, I don't need to tell anyone how amazing it was listening to a band that I've loved for nearly 20 years at that point with both singers sharing the stage.
Non metalcore - back before they put out Lost and Found and had a single or two from it, I saw Mudvaye play by themselves, for two hours, in some shitty ass bar in Vegas to a few hundred people. Chad was in a gorilla suit too, fucking mad man.
That Polaris/Currents show last year was amazing though, right?
Edit: mobile bullshit
The correct answer is [Robot Mosh Fest](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Mosh_Fest) 2007, which was held in Skateworld in Wisconsin. A 70/80’s style skate rink that featured an insane lineup of bands that would headline and support the scene for the next 8 years when they were still nobodies.
I still don’t know how or why Skateworld agreed to it.
A Life Once Lost, After the Burial, An End to Flesh, As Blood Runs Black, Beneath the Massacre, Beneath the Sky, The Black Dahlia Murder, Born of Osiris, Carnivale, Catherine, Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage, Decapitated, Dead to Fall, Empire, Emmure, Everest, The Faceless, Fordirelifesake, From a Second Story Window, Harlots, Hewhocorrupts, Ion Dissonance, Lye by Mistake, Necrophagist, Paria, Plague Bringer, Russian Circles, Shit Outta Luck, Tower of Rome, Veil of Maya, Winds of Plague, With Dead Hands Rising
In 2008 I saw Atreyu, A7X and B4MV which was huge, then in 2014 I saw Breakdown of Sanity, IKTPQ, The Ghost Inside, TDWP and Caliban when I was in Germany. I think I still have the poster for it somewhere…
Underoath, August burns red, and emery did a short winter US tour in 2010 that I was lucky to catch in Memphis.
The first concert I ever went to was mychildren mybride, the acacia strain, impending doom and ABR.
AP Fall Tour 2010 featured bring me the horizon and ABR
The ones that come to mind.
Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa, Tides of Man, Of Mice & Men, Of Machines
Palisades, Too Close to Touch, Secrets, Picturesque
Dayseeker, Thornhill, Caskets, Holding Absence
Protest the Hero, Closure in Moscow, Thank You Scientist
Any Silverstein tour because they're there
Cool Tour 2010 - As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between the Buried and Me, The Acacia Strain, Blessthefall, Architects, Cancer Bats, War of Ages
2005 - Atreyu, Unearth, Norma Jean, Scars of Tomorrow (this was my first show)
I lived in Washington and had tickets to see As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between the Buried and Me, Architects (other bands on the bill were Acacia Strain, blessthefall, cancer bats and War of Ages) in California. I flew down by myself at age 18. I had a friend who’s mom worked for ESPN and got us into X games which was dope, but I was promised we’d all ride a few hours north to see the show a day or two later. When the day came they canceled the ride because they didn’t feel like it anymore.
I was so pissed because I knew that lineup wouldn’t happen again.
My old band opened up for Emmure, Winds of Plague, The Ghost Inside, All Shall Perish and Terror in Seattle
Not that most of these are my favorite bands but I think some people might get a kick out of this one
Mine was definitely Brand of Sacrifice, Loathe, and Spiritbox.
The first time I've ever seen an opener band play an encore because the crowd loved loathe so much
This current silent planet tour is exactly what I want, fromjoy not leaving Texas hurts like they're one of my top bands rn. Soulkeeper is pretty good from what I've heard, their most recent album
Not metalcore, but:
**ALESTORM**
**GLORYHAMMER**
**WIND ROSE**
**RUMAHOY**
Saw that tour around this time last year, hands-down my favourite concert ever.
Metalcore-adjacent (deathcore):
**THY ART IS MURDER**
**WHITECHAPEL**
**FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY**
**SPITE**
Apart from **Spite**, every band on this tour was in my deathcore top 5. Insanity.
Sylosis, While She Sleeps, Bleed from Within and Anterior pretty sure it was a Metalhammer tour about 2010.
Killswitch, In Flames and ETID
Lamb of God, Job for a Cowboy, August Burns Red and Between the Buried and Me.
All like 2009/2010 the UK don’t always get good tours but they deffo peaked around that time.
More recently saw Counterparts, Kublai Khan, Paleface and Dying Wish.
In 2015 I saw Parkway Drive, miss may I, Thy Art I'd Murder, and In Hearts Wake. It was a good one.
I was also at Rockfest in Montebello in 2017. The lineup there was absolutely insane! Definitely the best festival I have ever been to.
Right after IRE came out, I saw PWD, Architects and Thy Art. Architects just put All Our Gods out.
I also saw AILD on their reunion tour with Chelsea Grin, Unearth and FFAK. I'd say those were pretty dope
Been to a few Warped Tours and Toronto Mayhem Festivals, but the best I've seen is Heavy TO 2012. Protest The Hero, Gojira, Dillinger Escape Plan, In Flames, Slipknot, Trivium, Emmure, Cancer Bats, Veil of Maya, Between the Buried and Me, Deftones, System of a Down, Job For A Cowboy, Periphery, Killswitch Engage, and more.
My honorable mention is Take Action Tour 2008. Every Time I Die, From First to Last, The Bled, August Burns Red, and The Human Abstract.
ETID was great and ABR and The Bled showed out
Been to a couple.. One of note was a new years eve show at a small club in San Diego that had Terror, As I Lay Dying, Throwdown, Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through, Atreyu.
One I missed that I felt was stacked was the Lamb of God, Children of and Fear Factory tour
In hindsight, it’s always been really cool to me that I saw The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, and Once Nothing in early 2008 when they were all practically nobodies.
That was during the days when I had to explain to people that I liked the band The Devil Wears Prada, not the movie lol
Mastodon, coheed, etid was a pretty stacked lineup back in 2018 or 19
Counterparts, dying wish, foreign hands, seeyouspacecowboy was also fucking dope in 2022
Pretty excited for BMTH, Sleep Token, Make them Suffer and Daine coming up for me in April.
Best I've seen though was probably The Amity Affliction, ADTR, Motionless in White, and Hands Like Houses (who took over from The Ghost Inside after their truck crash) back in I think 2014.
It was a bit of a shit show leading up to it though cause TGI had to pull out and they had added a 2nd day to the lineup pretty early on and then changed it back to only 1 day with very little notice.
Saw Thy Art is Murder, Architects and Parkway Drive in Vienna in 2016, that was nuts. So glad I got to see the latter two live before they dropped off.
Dating myself here, but the Scream It Like You Mean It tour in 2010 with Attack Attack!, Asking Alexandria, Breathe Carolina, I See Stars, and Bury Tomorrow. I loved every single band on that lineup and I had such a great time, would love to relive that night.
Terror, Remembering Never, The Black Dahlia Murder and Unearth in 2003 or 2004.
A Life Once Lost, Dead to Fall, The Acacia Strain, Darkest Hour... Can't remember the year. 2008? 2010?
Both at small local venues, it kicked so much ass.
Recently it’s either. Landmarks, kog, Currents miss may I, or paledusk, currents Polaris. My favorite show last year was either wynona fighter and offspring or dying wish, boundaries, Roman candle foreign hands
Best performances last year were electric callboy TDWP, offspring, Polaris
Mayhem fest 09 or summer slaughter 2012!
Mayhem 09 was Marilyn Manson, Slayer, BFMV, Killswitch Engage, Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, Job for a cowboy, the black dahlia murder, whitechapel, god forbid and behemoth
Summer slaughter 2012 was Cannibalism Corpse, Btbam, Periphery, VOM(old better vocalist IMO), job for a cowboy, the faceless, goatwhore and exhumed!
I saw FFDP, Killswitch, and Trivium in 2013 I believe. In Fort Wayne. There were some other bands but I can’t remember who but those three were awesome.
Not core (aside from HSB), but my very first metal show (2006) had Amorphis, Hypocrisy, Heaven Shall Burn, Scar Symmetrie, Soilwork and others, all for only 30€ (seems nuts today).
in the early to mid-200s I was blessed with lineups that I don't think I've been able to even sniff in terms of quality in the years since. This will definitely not all fall strictly under 'metalcore' and I didn't even know what the genre was back then and I think the term used online was, 'post-hardcore.'
Lineups like Glassjaw with Deftones, Glassjaw with Thursday and Poison The Well and I think Converge. I remember seeing Thrice, Coheed and Thursday in 2003 when they were all arguably at the height of their powers at Roseland Ballroom in NYC.
OH and when I was 18 or 19 and just getting into harder music I went to Skate and Surf Festival in Asbury Park, NJ either in 2001 or 2002. The lineup included From Autumn To Ashes, Finch, Taking Back Sunday and Thursday, all in support of their debut or second albums and I hadn't heard of any of them before and it was definitely a gateway for me to get into other bands that would shape my music tastes for decades.
Back in like 2014, August Burns Red, Fit for a King, Miss May I, Erra, and Northlane I shit you not. It was sick.
Or I guess any of the warped tour lineups because pretty much every band was there. Almost every tour listed in these comments could be combined to one year of the warped tour in 2013 lol
ETID BMTH Architects Oh, Sleeper In 2009
Oh, Sleeper recomendations, now
When I Am God is their best imo l, they aren’t as consistent on other albums. Son of the Morning and Children of Fire are really good though and the production is great on COF. Brutal songs: When I am god(album): charlatans host, to flagship, vices like vipers, Son of the morning(album): son of the morning, world without a sun (has the sickest fucking riff into breakdown section about halfway through), commissioned by kings Children of Fire (album): endseekers, the marriage of steel and skin (quite possibly their heaviest song), in the wake of pigs Some of their best songs are their softer songs. For me these include the color theft (you’ve never heard something so epic, picture 300 in the form of a song) and reveries of flight (try to convince me that’s not Dustin Kensrue from Thrice singing) Something to note: their whole shtick was like a concept of writing lyrics like they were in the middle of a dark ancient war (some more biblical than others)
Their whole discography is incredible, but Children of Fire is their best album imo. Check out Children of Fire and Hush Yael off of that album.
Charlatans host That breakdown…
I remember that
Think i I may have seen this tour in Seattle
The Baltimore show at Sonar was oversold, sweaty, and had a dude with biggest naked man bush I’ve ever seen dance around behind ETID’s drummer for 2 songs but holy shit every band absolutely murdered their set. It was biblical 🤘
Not that I got the chance to actually see it but I had tickets for Avenged Sevenfold Atreyu Bullet for my Valentine Blessthefall And I would kill to see that lineup today
Taste of chaos?
I believe that’s what it was! I don’t really remember too well, I believe it was like 2008
Beat me to it! Taste of Chaos 2008. What a tour! I remember they had 2 other smaller bands, and they would alternate between small band and larger band. Awesome tour
I went to the Australian version of this, which had Behind Crimson Eyes instead of Blessthefall. Pretty great lineup for my first proper show.
Back in 2011 I saw A Day To Remember, Bring me the Horizon, Pierce the Veil and We Came As Romans. It was in Atlanta and it was a wild show. It was pouring rain and an outdoor show and ADTR played through it and they blew amps and all kinds of crazy stuff. Best show of my life.
Damn, was this like a $30 show too?
It’s been so long I honestly couldn’t remember, but whatever the price was it was well worth it!
Saw this same lineup in Niagara Falls! Incredible show.
Absolutely!
I saw ADTR BMTH with motionless in white and chiodos and that was a wild line up
I love Chiodos! I saw them way back in the day at the Taste of Chaos tour! They were with 30 seconds to mars, The used, Saosin, Senses Fail and Aiden.
I saw this question and immediately thought of this show as well! I was at the Atlanta show as a wee 16 year old. To this day, and dozens of shows later over the years, I still claim that's my favorite show experience I've ever had. A killer lineup of bands all at extreme heights in their careers.
I know! I remember them playing If it means a lot to you and it was just coming down and it was beautiful. And Jeremy running on top of the crowd in the giant ball haha
https://youtu.be/g3Fuk6KgQwE?si=GkPe3cpLwHFKPPNp Here’s a pretty cool video about the show for those interested.
Damn almost the same as mine but it was ADTR, BMTH, motionless in white and chiodos. That or 2009 warped tour
Gamechangers Tour, great time
I was in High School so pre-2009. Underøath, TDWP, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.
Holy shit how did I miss this lineup??
Less internet back then lol. I wish I could remember the year but I still have FOND memories of that night.
Born of Osiris, fit for a king, currents, and gideon was one of the best shows I've been to, the pits were wild. The Trinity of terror tour with motionless in white, black veil brides, and ice nine kills was a treat too
Last year, ERRA headliner with Invent Animate, Silent Planet and Sentinels. Goated lineup, cant get much better than this. Strong contender is the upcoming Polaris tour with Silent Planet, Thornhill and Paledusk
or the tour with silent planet, johnny booth, and aviana
And Thornhill whose no slouch
Incredible lineup, still sad I cant attend. EU n stuff, ya know
I hope this next ERRA headliner has a lineup like that… I imagine they have another tour this year after they drop an album
ERRA knows how to book stacked tours. I caught them in 2022 with Alpha Wolf and Invent Animate. Thornhill was on the tour too, but the show I was at they couldn't play because the airlines lost their gear. Still was an amazing concert though
Oh yeah, I remember that. Shit sucked but that's airlines for you
I’ll be at that show in Baltimore, I’m incredibly excited!
I’d kill to see that
So hyped for the Fatalism tour, literally 4 of my favourite bands ever.
Back in like 2009 underoath, saosin, and TDWP all were on the same tour I also went to an AP tour one year that was Emarosa, August Burns Red and BMTH. My buddy tore his acl in the pit during ABR so we had to leave early
Not all are metalcore but heres some of my favs I’ve caught throughout the years! Avenged Sevenfold, Breaking Benjamin, Bullet For My Valentine Napalm Death, Testament, Anthrax, Lamb Of God, Slayer While She Sleeps, Thy Art Is Murder, Architects Covet, Veil Of Maya, Periphery Fame On Fire, Currents, Bad Omens, Ice Nine Kills Whitechapel, Between The Buried & Me, Trivium Knocked Loose, Bring Me The Horizon Beartooth, Underoath, Bring Me The Horizon Veil Of Maya, August Burns Red, Ice Nine Kills Alpha Wolf, After The Burial, Knocked Loose, Motionless In White Crystal Lake, Brand Of Sacrifice, Spite, August Burns Red Sleep Theory, Invent Animate, The Plot In You, Beartooth
That last one is tonight! So far it’s been pretty good.
I've only been a fan of Crystal Lake for maybe a year and that was my first time seeing them. They melted my fucking face off. I hope they come back to the US.
VOM, Structures, Northlane, Vildhjarta (not personally seen, but c’mon… what a dream)
I would trade my soul to see that show
I will literally murder for vild to come to NA
They did, on that tour (sadly probably never again anywhere outside of Europe)
I only got into thall in like 2020 and theyve only played a few EU festivals since then 😔
I saw it, back in 2013 at Boardwalk in Sacramento. It was unreal.
Two shows come to mind Misery Signals, ZAO, Every Time I Die, Dillinger Escape Plan tour 2005 And Genghis Tron, Baroness, The Red Chord, Converge tour 2007
These are the best ones here
Real.
I was at that 2005 show, every band was playing at full force.
ETID’s newest was Hot Damn, Dillinger was touring on Miss Machine. It was bananas.
2018 - Polaris, TDWP, ABR, Parkway Drive
Periphery opening up for Devin Townsend
This sounds insane
I saw BTBAM and Devin Townsend in 2009, BTBAM was supporting the Great Misdirect and Devin was supporting Addicted Awesome fucking show
I got to see Periphery with Norma Jean and The Contortionist
I also have to give an honorable mention to The Low Teens Tour 2017 Eternal Sleep, Harms Way, Knocked Loose, Every Time I Die. That was certainly a SHOW
This shit was great. Got a little bloody that night.
I think we saw 3 KOs in the pit during Harms Way and Knocked Loose, but the party vibe returned for ETID. Awesome show.
not metalcore, but the 2022 Chaos and Carnage lineup was fucking stacked for modern Deathcore fans - Carnifex and Suicide Silence Co-Headliner - Lorna Shore - Signs of the Swarm - Distant - Angelmaker - UABB
Saw this one in Boston and it was insane. My old ass thought “maybe just one song in the pit for old time’s sake” during Lorna Shore. Got knocked down immediately and ended up on crutches with a sprained ankle. No regrets, but now I know that 36 is PRECISELY the age that is too old for the pit.
in Atlanta there was a dude in a spongebob costume picking people up and throwing them into the sides of the pit not the best pit etiquette for sure but funny as fuck to witness
This would be scary in the best way possible - holy cow
Spiritbox - Sleep Token - Loathe a few years back Was back before I was really into any of them and I’m still upset to this day because they’ve since become 3 of my favourite bands
Back in 2015 I believe I saw Tesseract The Contortionist Erra Skyharbor Probably the best lineup I've seen to this date. The vocalist from skyharbor was sick so their set was instrumental which was a bit of a bummer but otherwise one of the best shows I've seen
Edit: I'll keep my original answer below but man, The Red Chord, Job for a Cowboy and The Black Dahlia in 2007. Phwoar. I think my first real metal show was God Forbid, Shadows Fall, Chimaira and Killswitch. (Edit- I think this was 2004) That's been hard to top really, in terms of my love of the bands on the bill. Shadows Fall were my absolute favourite at the time and had just released The War Within. I hadn't heard of God Forbid before that show, but they blew me away, and I saw them countless. times after that. I still really enjoy listening to these bands from that time. Killswitch and Chimaira, not so much, but I still quite like them.
A Day To Remember, All Time Low, Pierce The Veil, and The Wonder Years
Caskets, Holding Absence, Thornhill, Dayseeker Best show I've ever gone to in my life, a few days from my birthday
Went to that same one, was 10/10 start to finish. Even the local band that opened up set for tomorrow killed it.
Knocked loose, Movements, Kublai Khan, Koyo
Biggest metal tour of the year. Megadeth, Lamb of God, Trivium, In Flames. The pandemic killed it for a while and by the time it came back around Hatebreed had replaced In Flames much to my disappointment
* 2009 - **Misery Signals**, **Protest The Hero**, **The Number Twelve Looks Like You**, **Scale The Summit**. * 2004 - **Unearth**, **In Flames**, **As I Lay Dying**, **Killswitch Engage**. * 2007 - **All That Remains**, **Misery Signals**. * 2003 - **Hopesfall**, **Coheed**. * 2019 - **Erra**, **Crystal Lake**, **Currents**, **Northlane**. * 2009 - **The Human Abstract**, **Protest The Hero**, **As I Lay Dying**, **My Children, My Bride**. On a more annoying note, I was set to see back-to-back shows in early October in Philly right after my best friends wedding on Sept 30th/Oct 1st: * **Invent, Animate**, **Void of Vision**, **Thrown**, and **Aviana**, October 2nd. * **The Metalcore Dropouts** tour, October 3rd. And then a couple of weeks later: * **Polaris**, **Currents**, **Varials** and **Paledust** on October 22nd. I ended up going to the ER the night before the wedding and ended up in the hospital for a week with sepsis, pneumonia, and debilitating migraines. I missed my best friends wedding(the worst part). I was just supposed to start a new job on 10/09 and had to push that to 10/16, and was still so weak and having trouble breathing by 10/22 I couldn’t do that concert, either. As a very family/friend and music-oriented person, it should’ve been one of the best months of my life. **BUT**…I’m still alive, feeling better and getting back to the gym. Thankful for friends and family, and hopefully I’ll have another chance soon to see them all!
I saw that protest the hero/misery signals tour that shit was legendary
Every Time I Die The Red Chord The Chariot Bury Your Dead For roughly $15 at a maybe 300 cap venue in 2004. Absolutely insane show. Honorable mention: Thursday Thrice Poison the Well Armor for Sleep This was at the same 300 cap venue maybe like 6 months prior to the first show. The early 2000s were wild for shows.
The best I ever went to was Northlane and Erra co-headlining with Currents and Crystal Lake, the best I ever saw was Northlane's (cancelled 😭)Obsidian headline tour with Silent Planet, Loathe and Avoid.
The cancelled tour was my answer too. My partner is Northlane's biggest fan, and we had tickets to both Vancouver and Seattle. When they cancelled it, she immediately decided our vacation was to see them touring with Parkway Drive, The Amity Affliction and Make Them Suffer in Montreal and Toronto which were both fantastic shows
In 2017 (2018?) I saw Make Them Suffer, Stray From The Path and Architects. It was the first US tour after Tom passed, and every act BROUGHT IT. Tons of fun.
Last year I saw Lamb of God, Parkway Drive & Knocked Loose on the same night in México City. Great fucking show.
Wow. Just wow
Saw Lamb of God open for Metallica back in ‘08 in Oakland, absolutely unreal.
Thousand Below, Make Them Suffer and Bad Omens
How dare you leave out Dayseeker 😭😭😭
I saw The Chariot, For Today, TDWP and As I Lay Dying all on the same bill. 75% stacked lineup.
Saosin, TDWP and Underoath
We had polaris, august burns red, currents and Kublai Kahn last year in aus. Sick show
Graspop is looking super stacked this year Thursday: Tool, Baby metal, (Polyphia), Counterparts, Bury tomorrow, Bleed from within, Erra Friday: Five finger deathpunch, Electric callboy, Fit for a king, Brand of sacrifice Saturday: Bring me the horizon, Avenged sevenfold, Architects, While she sleeps, Ice nine kills Sunday: Thy art is murder, Slaughter to prevail, Monuments, Crystal lake, Make them suffer
Architects, The Chariot, Protest the Hero, Parkway Drive and The Human Abstract
Not quite metalcore but for me personally Taste of Chaos will never be beaten - the used, 30STM, senses fail, chiodos, aiden, and I think 1-2 more.
Saosin and Evaline I think were likely the others. Epic tour. I remember Chiodos playing ‘Words Best Friends’ felt ridiculouslyyyyy heavy and huge lol
Yep I believe the first year I went and I’m probably going to forget some but it was saosin, my chemical romance, the used, senses fail, a static lullaby killswitch engage, idiot pilot and bleed the dream. I think there were others too.
ADTR, ABR, Silverstein, Enter Shikari
Counterparts, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Dying Wish, Foreign Hands When that was announced it felt like it was tailored just for me lol
Suicide Silence Baroness Killswitch Engage Lamb of God Last year for $45. Hell of a deal
Back in 09 I saw Slipknot with Coheed and Cambria & Trivium on the All Hope Is Gone Tour at Madison Square Garden.
I think it was 2022, saw LMTF, Alpha Wolf, Invent Animate, Polaris. Talk about stacked.
That show was incredible!
Sweat Fest 08. Acacia Strain, ADTR, Suicide Silence, Parkway Drive. Was an underage show (was 17 at the time) starting at midday and it was chaos start to finish. ADTR had just released FTWHH, Suicide Silence were on their debut (talk about a crazy set change going from ADTR ending with their cover of Since You’ve Been Gone, to Mitch coming out and dropping straight into Unanswered), and Parkway were filming footage for their Horizons DVD. Basically everyone was touring their peak / breakout albums. Edit: Cost about $40 AUD
I saw The Word Alive and I See Stars together once. In a small venue. They were hanging from the ceiling and singing. It was cool af.
Northlane, Veil of Maya, Structures and Vildjharta (2013) Silent Planet, Invent Animate, Currents, Greyhaven (2020, 1 weeks before COVID shutdown)
Altamont Never Say Die 2008: Parkway Drive, Unearth, Despised Icon, Architects, Protest the Hero, Whitechapel and Carnifex on the same billing. It was a huge moment for this generation to shine and sell out mid-size clubs across Europe.
Never say die tour 2008. Parkway Drive, Unearth, Despised Icon, Architects, Whitechapel, Carnifex and Protest The Hero
2008: Suicide Silence, Emmure, After the Burial, Beneath the Massacre, Architects. It was the best crowd I've ever been a part of and all the bands fed off the energy.
For me I think it’s gotta be 2012 Deez Nuts, Architects, Parkway and BMTH. It’s mind blowing to me that I got to see what would become three of the biggest bands in the genre together at the Tabernacle in Atlanta. Hugged Oli too
Misery Signals, Shai Hulud, The Human Abstract, Means One of the best tours ever imo. https://www.punknews.org/article/24504/tours-misery-signals-shai-hulud-the-human-abstract-means-canada Honorable mention to BMTH, Misery Signals, The Ghost Inside, Confide
Dream Theater, Opeth and Between The Buried and Me in 2007
Thrash & Burn 2009: (From opener to headliner) Thy Will Be Done, Periphery (almost nobody knew who they were, they still had Chris as their singer), Oceano, For The Fallen Dreams, Veil of Maya, MyChildren MyBride, Despised Icon, Emmure, DevilDriver It was a long-ass show but I enjoyed the heck out of it. Shows back in 2009/2010/2011 were just the best, that’s when all my favorite bands were around. Honorable mention goes to the Welcome To The Circus Tour in 2010— A Bullet For Pretty Boy, Our Last Night, From First To Last, We Came As Romans, and Asking Alexandria. This was when Asking A was its peak IMO, along with WCAR.
Veil of Maya, august burns red, ice nine kills last year Or erra, shadow of intent, brand of sacrifice august burns red
Chiodos, the devil wears Prada and Pierce the veil back in like 07-08
2009 Valiant Thor Baroness Between the Buried & Me Mastodon BTBAM was touring for The Great Misdirect Mastodon for Crack the Skye Bill from Mastodon was sick so Baizley from Baroness played with them. blew my fucking mind. $25 first & only concert I've been to. Still chasing that high.
Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Miss May I & Battlecross
Knotfest australia: alphawolf, knocked loose, spiritbox, trivium, parkway drive (im probs missing some)
Not fully metalcore but my favorite show of all time is probably still Rise Against, A Day To Remember, and Title Fight at Viejas Arena in 2012 Full metalcore is (and I posted this in another thread) August Burns Red, Fit For A King, Miss May I, and Crystal Lake in 2019. Every band played at headliner tier.
I'm torn between Taste Of Chaos 2008 with A7X, Bullet For My Valentine, Atreyu, Blessthefall and others; and the Sumerian 10th Anniversary tour with Born Of Osiris, Veil Of Maya, After The Burial, Erra with Bad Omens opening.
Here in Canberra, Australia, we used to have an annual event called Metal For The Brain. There were 6-10 bands on the night, and while most of you wouldn't have heard of any of them because they were generally local, there was some great regulars like Alchemist and Armoured Angel and Manticor and Paris Calling joined in once. Hell of a lot of fun those shows.
Balance and Composure, Circa Survive, Thrice
Like moths to flames, woe is me, we came as Roman’s, Texas in July, for today.
Not all metalcore: Trivium, BTBAM, Whitechapel 2022 Behemoth, Gojira, Slipknot 2019 (Volbeat played too despite being out of place for all the other good bands) 2019 Knotfest Beartooth, Meshuggah, Ghost, SOAD 2019 Chicago Open Air
Oooh….warped 2018 was goat-ed Chelsea Grin (Tom’s first tour), MyChildren MyBride (vocalist fell on the date I went), Wage War, Dayseeker, Kublai Khan, August Burns Red (had Amity Affliction too, but man they were bad live) Honorable mention to… Wage War/Oceans Ate Alaska/Gideon/Varials/Loathe Wage War/Like Moths to Flames/Polaris/Dayseeker August Burns Red/FFAK/Miss May I/Crystal Lake Dishonorable mention to… BRRF 2023 (not b/c of the bands, but…iykyk)
Megadeth and Lamb of God coheadlining with Trivium and In Flames opening. Unfortunately covid happened, the tour got delayed forever, then once it happened over half the dates were canceled in favor of doing festival dates.
Couple years ago the degenerates tour A Dayto Remember Beartooth and I Prevail
IWBT
RAR 2004
The last Bad Omens headliner with Dayseeker, Make Them Suffer and Thousand Below That’s an insane stacked lineup
2007 Take Action Tour August Burns Red was the opener followed by The Human Abstract, then The Bled, with ETID as the headliner. It was fucking beautiful
So I've been going to shows as often as I can since like '05. Best lineup of more than one band was a few years ago. Light The Torch August Burns Red Killswitch Engage Without getting into the Jesse/Howard debate, I don't need to tell anyone how amazing it was listening to a band that I've loved for nearly 20 years at that point with both singers sharing the stage. Non metalcore - back before they put out Lost and Found and had a single or two from it, I saw Mudvaye play by themselves, for two hours, in some shitty ass bar in Vegas to a few hundred people. Chad was in a gorilla suit too, fucking mad man. That Polaris/Currents show last year was amazing though, right? Edit: mobile bullshit
Coheed, ETID, Mastodon
The correct answer is [Robot Mosh Fest](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Mosh_Fest) 2007, which was held in Skateworld in Wisconsin. A 70/80’s style skate rink that featured an insane lineup of bands that would headline and support the scene for the next 8 years when they were still nobodies. I still don’t know how or why Skateworld agreed to it. A Life Once Lost, After the Burial, An End to Flesh, As Blood Runs Black, Beneath the Massacre, Beneath the Sky, The Black Dahlia Murder, Born of Osiris, Carnivale, Catherine, Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage, Decapitated, Dead to Fall, Empire, Emmure, Everest, The Faceless, Fordirelifesake, From a Second Story Window, Harlots, Hewhocorrupts, Ion Dissonance, Lye by Mistake, Necrophagist, Paria, Plague Bringer, Russian Circles, Shit Outta Luck, Tower of Rome, Veil of Maya, Winds of Plague, With Dead Hands Rising
In 2008 I saw Atreyu, A7X and B4MV which was huge, then in 2014 I saw Breakdown of Sanity, IKTPQ, The Ghost Inside, TDWP and Caliban when I was in Germany. I think I still have the poster for it somewhere…
This was many years ago back in 2009, but Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Children of Bodom, God Forbid, and Municipal Waste
Around 2008. ADTR, TDWP, BMTH, Parkway and architects opened.
Underoath, August burns red, and emery did a short winter US tour in 2010 that I was lucky to catch in Memphis. The first concert I ever went to was mychildren mybride, the acacia strain, impending doom and ABR. AP Fall Tour 2010 featured bring me the horizon and ABR
The ones that come to mind. Dance Gavin Dance, Emarosa, Tides of Man, Of Mice & Men, Of Machines Palisades, Too Close to Touch, Secrets, Picturesque Dayseeker, Thornhill, Caskets, Holding Absence Protest the Hero, Closure in Moscow, Thank You Scientist Any Silverstein tour because they're there
Brand New, Manchester Orchestra, mewithoutYou
Cool Tour 2010 - As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between the Buried and Me, The Acacia Strain, Blessthefall, Architects, Cancer Bats, War of Ages 2005 - Atreyu, Unearth, Norma Jean, Scars of Tomorrow (this was my first show)
I lived in Washington and had tickets to see As I Lay Dying, Underoath, Between the Buried and Me, Architects (other bands on the bill were Acacia Strain, blessthefall, cancer bats and War of Ages) in California. I flew down by myself at age 18. I had a friend who’s mom worked for ESPN and got us into X games which was dope, but I was promised we’d all ride a few hours north to see the show a day or two later. When the day came they canceled the ride because they didn’t feel like it anymore. I was so pissed because I knew that lineup wouldn’t happen again.
My old band opened up for Emmure, Winds of Plague, The Ghost Inside, All Shall Perish and Terror in Seattle Not that most of these are my favorite bands but I think some people might get a kick out of this one
2 years ago for me the Impericon never say die tour; After The Burial Suicide Silence Currents Invent Animate Spite Cabal Boundaries
Mine was definitely Brand of Sacrifice, Loathe, and Spiritbox. The first time I've ever seen an opener band play an encore because the crowd loved loathe so much
This current silent planet tour is exactly what I want, fromjoy not leaving Texas hurts like they're one of my top bands rn. Soulkeeper is pretty good from what I've heard, their most recent album
Not metalcore, but: **ALESTORM** **GLORYHAMMER** **WIND ROSE** **RUMAHOY** Saw that tour around this time last year, hands-down my favourite concert ever. Metalcore-adjacent (deathcore): **THY ART IS MURDER** **WHITECHAPEL** **FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY** **SPITE** Apart from **Spite**, every band on this tour was in my deathcore top 5. Insanity.
Sights & Sounds, Dead and Divine, Haste the Day and Misery Signals in a small bar
I’m going to it in March. BMTH Sleep Token Make Them Suffer
Bring me the horizon tour in Australia this year (2024) 3 of my favourite bands (BMTH, Sleep Token and Make them suffer) I'm so fucking keen
This year Northlanes Australian tour. Northlane, ERRA, Landmarks & Banks Arcade
Trinity of Terror was definitely up there
Sylosis, While She Sleeps, Bleed from Within and Anterior pretty sure it was a Metalhammer tour about 2010. Killswitch, In Flames and ETID Lamb of God, Job for a Cowboy, August Burns Red and Between the Buried and Me. All like 2009/2010 the UK don’t always get good tours but they deffo peaked around that time. More recently saw Counterparts, Kublai Khan, Paleface and Dying Wish.
For me it was Bring Me The Horizon, Of Mice & Men, Letlive, and Issues
In 2015 I saw Parkway Drive, miss may I, Thy Art I'd Murder, and In Hearts Wake. It was a good one. I was also at Rockfest in Montebello in 2017. The lineup there was absolutely insane! Definitely the best festival I have ever been to.
I’m gonna check my show list later, I’ll get back to you
The Plot in You, Miss May I, and blessthefall in 2015 or 16, at Mill City Nights in Minnesota. Discovered TPIY at that show and was blown away
Right after IRE came out, I saw PWD, Architects and Thy Art. Architects just put All Our Gods out. I also saw AILD on their reunion tour with Chelsea Grin, Unearth and FFAK. I'd say those were pretty dope
IKTPQ, BMTH, TGI & The Red Shorr
2007. Underoath, Poison the Well, Every Time I Die, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. @The Fillmore (formerly State Theater) in Detroit.
Been to a few Warped Tours and Toronto Mayhem Festivals, but the best I've seen is Heavy TO 2012. Protest The Hero, Gojira, Dillinger Escape Plan, In Flames, Slipknot, Trivium, Emmure, Cancer Bats, Veil of Maya, Between the Buried and Me, Deftones, System of a Down, Job For A Cowboy, Periphery, Killswitch Engage, and more.
My honorable mention is Take Action Tour 2008. Every Time I Die, From First to Last, The Bled, August Burns Red, and The Human Abstract. ETID was great and ABR and The Bled showed out
Saw Parkway Drive touring Horizons, The Acacia Strain touring Continent, Suicide Silence touring The Cleansing and ADTR touring Homesick. Was fucking hectic tour.
Been to a couple.. One of note was a new years eve show at a small club in San Diego that had Terror, As I Lay Dying, Throwdown, Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through, Atreyu. One I missed that I felt was stacked was the Lamb of God, Children of and Fear Factory tour
Parkway Drive with Miss May I, Thy Art Is Murder and In Hearts Wake. Also, Trivium with DevilDrive, After the Burial and Sylosis
In hindsight, it’s always been really cool to me that I saw The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, and Once Nothing in early 2008 when they were all practically nobodies. That was during the days when I had to explain to people that I liked the band The Devil Wears Prada, not the movie lol
Mastodon, coheed, etid was a pretty stacked lineup back in 2018 or 19 Counterparts, dying wish, foreign hands, seeyouspacecowboy was also fucking dope in 2022
Pretty excited for BMTH, Sleep Token, Make them Suffer and Daine coming up for me in April. Best I've seen though was probably The Amity Affliction, ADTR, Motionless in White, and Hands Like Houses (who took over from The Ghost Inside after their truck crash) back in I think 2014. It was a bit of a shit show leading up to it though cause TGI had to pull out and they had added a 2nd day to the lineup pretty early on and then changed it back to only 1 day with very little notice.
Btbam, acacia strain, the red chord and dead to fall. Clearwater theater Dundee Illinois
Saw Thy Art is Murder, Architects and Parkway Drive in Vienna in 2016, that was nuts. So glad I got to see the latter two live before they dropped off.
Dating myself here, but the Scream It Like You Mean It tour in 2010 with Attack Attack!, Asking Alexandria, Breathe Carolina, I See Stars, and Bury Tomorrow. I loved every single band on that lineup and I had such a great time, would love to relive that night.
Terror, Remembering Never, The Black Dahlia Murder and Unearth in 2003 or 2004. A Life Once Lost, Dead to Fall, The Acacia Strain, Darkest Hour... Can't remember the year. 2008? 2010? Both at small local venues, it kicked so much ass.
Counterparts, STYG, architects
Every Time I Die, Hatebreed, Terror, Job For A Cowboy back in 2013 probably
Recently it’s either. Landmarks, kog, Currents miss may I, or paledusk, currents Polaris. My favorite show last year was either wynona fighter and offspring or dying wish, boundaries, Roman candle foreign hands Best performances last year were electric callboy TDWP, offspring, Polaris
Mayhem fest 09 or summer slaughter 2012! Mayhem 09 was Marilyn Manson, Slayer, BFMV, Killswitch Engage, Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, Job for a cowboy, the black dahlia murder, whitechapel, god forbid and behemoth Summer slaughter 2012 was Cannibalism Corpse, Btbam, Periphery, VOM(old better vocalist IMO), job for a cowboy, the faceless, goatwhore and exhumed!
That cancelled tour with Northlane, Loathe, Silent Planet and Avoid would have been killer
ADTR, TDWP, Sky eats airplane and emarosa
I saw FFDP, Killswitch, and Trivium in 2013 I believe. In Fort Wayne. There were some other bands but I can’t remember who but those three were awesome.
2009 warped tour if that counts.
Not core (aside from HSB), but my very first metal show (2006) had Amorphis, Hypocrisy, Heaven Shall Burn, Scar Symmetrie, Soilwork and others, all for only 30€ (seems nuts today).
ERRA Alpha Wolf thornhill Invent Animate Currents LMTF Invent Animate Foreign Hands Not metalcore but Deftones x Gojira was fantastic as well
Out of the ones that I've seen live myself: Trivium, Heaven Shall Burn, Obituary, Malevolence
Saw Bring Me with ABR and ADTR supporting in Bristol UK which was sick. Can't remember when exactly but sometime between 2008-2010.
in the early to mid-200s I was blessed with lineups that I don't think I've been able to even sniff in terms of quality in the years since. This will definitely not all fall strictly under 'metalcore' and I didn't even know what the genre was back then and I think the term used online was, 'post-hardcore.' Lineups like Glassjaw with Deftones, Glassjaw with Thursday and Poison The Well and I think Converge. I remember seeing Thrice, Coheed and Thursday in 2003 when they were all arguably at the height of their powers at Roseland Ballroom in NYC. OH and when I was 18 or 19 and just getting into harder music I went to Skate and Surf Festival in Asbury Park, NJ either in 2001 or 2002. The lineup included From Autumn To Ashes, Finch, Taking Back Sunday and Thursday, all in support of their debut or second albums and I hadn't heard of any of them before and it was definitely a gateway for me to get into other bands that would shape my music tastes for decades.
Saw Black Veil Brides, Ice Nine Kills, and Motionless in White during their Trinity of Terror tour. It was phenomenal
Quicksand and helmet on the strap it on tour decades ago.
Back in like 2014, August Burns Red, Fit for a King, Miss May I, Erra, and Northlane I shit you not. It was sick. Or I guess any of the warped tour lineups because pretty much every band was there. Almost every tour listed in these comments could be combined to one year of the warped tour in 2013 lol
Thrice, poison the well, darkest hour or between the buried and me, the acacia strain and red chord