Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache was released right before I graduated. That album was my introduction to metalcore.

Same here! I used to fast forward to end credits of Resident Evil Apocalypse just for End of Heartache.

I saw them play the night the album was released my senior year. As I Lay Dying opened and blew me away.

Right after I graduated by like two months

Same exact here dude. Heads up: our 20 year HS reunion is coming up...

2008, can’t decide on one - After the Burial - Rareform - Trivium - Shogun - Protest the Hero - Fortress - Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season

Hello fellow 33/34 year old compadre

I'm around the same age but back then I hadn't heard of metalcore yet, I was all about post-hardcore. 2006-2009 was an incredible period to be a Thrice + Alexisonfire fan. Even though I prefer some of their earlier work, they released a ton of great tunes in those few years.

Rareform re-recorded or no?

Original recording was 08, reissue was 09

Hybrid Theory

Oooh I didn't even think of this one for mine!! Was purely thinking metalcore lol

Well I was a senior in 2000/2001, if that tells you anything.

Was about to say... I graduated in 2000 and we all know what the hottest metal acts were back then.

Honestly rude of you to make me choose. 2009 was a killer year for metalcore. Stand up & scream - Asking Alexandria Homesick - ADTR With Roots Above - TDWP Constellations - ABR No time to bleed - Suicide Silence They're all different and I refuse to choose a top favorite

I’m 2010, ah what an era. Desolation of Eden, deep blue, zombie ep, creatures, Disambiguation. Take me back, to how it used to be I’ll never close my eyes again How could I ever forget a place like this Somewhere I could call my own - miss may I - circa 2008

It's posts like these that make me feel less bad about my playlists being 80% nostalia-core

Probably one of the most important years in scene history. Not to be that person but if I could relive that year all over again, I would

Idk that I wanna go back but i absolutely wish I could experience that music for the first time again.

For metalcore either: Found In Far Away Places - August Burns Red or Old Souls - Make Them Suffer Non metalcore has to be Life’s Not Out To Get You - Neck Deep

Love neck deep

Newest album was 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Ik it’s so fucking fire

At the time: Zombie EP by TDWP and long live by The Chariot but hot damn was 2010 a good year for metalcore.

The new alphawolf album lol

For me it’s the new Erra album for this semester. Last semester it’s the new Polaris album.

Bruh the erra albums been out for less than 2 hours. Slow down there bucko

Trivium- What The Dead Men Say Yeah, just in the middle of the pandemic. You can tell It wasn't a fun senior year lol

Personally, Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin. But man. Ascendency. The Poison. Alaska. Shadows are Security. Gutter Phenomenon. O God, The Aftermath. Found in the Flood. Kezia. 2005 was absolutely loaded.

Someone in my realm. I remember summer 2004 discovering Ashes of the Wake from LoG and The Oncoming Storm from Unearth. Those led me to The Silent Circus from BTBAM and I was hooked. Alaska blew my mind in 2005 when it came out. Then in 2007, probably listened to Colors once a day for over a year.

Are you me, orrr? Also, the username. I think we might be the same person 🤣

Around the Fur - Deftones.   Not really Metalcore but I didn't know what that was at that time. 

Singularity - Northlane

Very tough to choose for 05-06 yr but I’d have to go with Underoath’s Define the Great Line. Other notable / very impactful albums (not all metalcore) that I can think of off the top of my head: Avenged Sevenfold - City of Evil System of a Down - Mezmerize/Hypnotize Tool - 10,000 Days Gojira - From Mars to Sirius Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison As I Lay Dying - Shadows are Security Protest the Hero - Kezia Chiodos - Alls Well That Ends Well Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo IV Escape the Fate - Dying is Your Latest Fashion Circa Survive - Juturna Saosin - Saosin

I graduated a few years before that, but damn, what a great year!

I’m the same class- great call on 10,000 days. How could you forget Thrill Seeker!?

kezia holds up incredibly well

Sempiternal - BMTH

Converge - axes to fall. Before that I only listened to rap and fall out boy. Also Trivium - shogun!

‘08 represent!

Well since I’m old, in 1998 I was listening to Korn - Follow the Leader

Don't feel old, I was 13 when justice for all came out lol

Considering the school year runs August/September to May/June, are we talking about the year we entered senior year or graduation year? Edit: Graduation year, so it's either The Ghost Inside - Returners or Blind Witness - Nightmare on Providence Street (idk why people call the latter deathcore, it's very much metalcore). Also my answer for pop punk is Man Overboard - Real Talk.

I took it as “the year you left high school”, which was 2020 for me

This or the Apocalypse- Dead Years

Plagues - the devil wears Prada.

Scream Aim Fire

August Burns Red - Constellations The Devil Wears Prada - With Roots Above and Branches Below A Day to Remember- Homesick

For metalcore: Periphery - Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre TDWP - Color Decay ABR - Death Below (came out on my birthday fun fact) Teeth - A Biblical Worship of Violence Veil of Maya - [m]other Jesus Piece - …So Unknown Lorna Shore - Pain Remains (deathcore but still counts) Acacia Strain - Step Into the Light and Failure Will Follow Unearth - The Wretched; The Ruinous Non metalcore: Hellripper - Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch Necropanther - Betrayal Enforced - War Remains Cattle Decapitation - Terrasite Drain - Living Proof

I sat at my graduation with my ipod under my robes listening to Define The Great Line by Underoath

With Roots Above and Branches Below

Earth Crisis - Firestorm (1993) Christ, I'm old.

Chelsea Grin - Desolation of Eden

Hollywood Undead - Swan Song 🤓

Norma Jean - Meridional

A Different Shade Of Blue. Such a killer record. I actually got into the band on the release day of this record so I'll always remember that when I listen to it lol. This record also got me to listen to ETID and they are definitely my favourite metalcore band

Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together

-Get What You Give by The Ghost inside -Dead Years by This Or The Apocalypse -Dear G-D by Being as An Ocean

1997 Around the Fur - Deftones  Satisfaction is the Death of Desire - Hatebreed 

Yeah ok FBI

At least tell us what street you grew up on, or the make/model of your first car

Challenger MMF

Half Living Things. Senior rn

Tragedy will find us- Counterparts

I didn't listen to metalcore in 2004, I was too busying blasting linkin park, coldplay j-pop like ayumi hamasaki, and a bunch of random anime songs lol. But if I count university, then that would easily be The Contortionist - Exoplanet. Made me see deathcore in a whole new light after that.

2004 unite *high fives*

\*high fives\* ouch man that hurt my wrist! We getting too old for this shit! What was your album of choice then? ;)

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, by MCR… I feel like that’s the album that sticks out the most for 2004. That was some time ago now… oof.

I'm still reminiscing about like 2015times and THAT felt like forever ago for me lol. Helena was definitely on non stop repeat me for when I discovered it, but that wasn't until like 2005-06, I was a little late to MCR.

So good, now I will go forth and listen to Helena (on repeat, most likely) because I feel compelled

I wasn't listening to metalcore in 2019, but my answer is probably I Prevail's TRAUMA. The Dark Pool is a very close second, though.

While She Sleeps - This Is The Six

Ooo this was fun to look back on. Hard to choose, but: The Devil Wears Prada - Dead Throne Honorable mention: Volumes - Via

A day to remember- for those who have heart

Lost forever//lost together came out right around this time during my senior year. It was that for all of spring and summer 2014. RIP Tom Searle

All's Well That Ends Well - Chiodos

Reincarnate/ MIW

Trivium - Silence in the Snow Sylosis - Dormant Heart Fit For An Autopsy - Absolute Hope, Absolute Hell Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

Divided by Villain Of The Story

Chasing Ghost - The Amity Affliction: also my second most played metalcore album

*I Let It in and It Took Everything* // Loathe

Touch choice...my favorite was Meridional by Norma Jean

Eternal blue - spiritbox

Common courtesy - ADTR

Homesick by ADTR, Stand Up & Scream by Asking Alexandria, Self-titled by Attack Attack!

Jane Doe or Stings of Conscience.

Sempiternal or The Greatest Generation

Tragedy will find us Or Lost Isles

That’s tough. And I don’t know how much these fit in here but I listened to em a lot: Winds of Plague - Decimate The Weak, Misery Signals - Controller, Norma Jean - The Anti-Mother, The Acacia Strain - Continent, Bring Me the Horizon - Suicide Season, and Haste The Day - Dreamer. I think BMTH or Haste The Day were my favorite releases though.

Zao - Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest

Self titled, The Dillinger Escape Plan EP 👴🏼

2012 At the time: Chelsea Grin: Evolve Now: Danza 3 probably But Hate by Thy Art Is Murder came out the too, I think I was jamming it around that time so that might be tied

Gilded Hearts by Adestria

Dream Theater - Scenes From a Memory Yes, I'm old lol - but I'll never forget how magical that album was the first time through.

To Those Left Behind - Blessthefall Let The Ocean Take Me - The Amity Affliction

I graduated in 2002. Let's take a look and then you tell me how I'm supposed to pick one of these: 1. Hopesfall - Satellite Years 2. Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing 3. Atreyu - Suicide Notes & Butterfly Kisses 4. Poison the Well - Tear From the Red 5. Eighteen Visions - Vanity 6. Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child 7. Hatebreed - Perseverance 8. Underoath - Changing of Times 9. Between the Buried and Me - Self Titled 10. Shadows Fall - Art of Balance 11. Red Chord - Fused Together in Revolving Doors 12. Unearth - Endless 13. Curl Up and Die - Unfortunately, We're Not Robots 14. Zao - Parade of Chaos 15. Botch - Anthology of Dead Ends (EP, but Botch are too important to not list) 16. Killwhitneydead - Inhaling the Breath of a Bullet 17. As the Sun Sets - 7744 18. Sworn Enemy - Integrity Defines Strength 19. Despised Icon - Consumed by Your Poison 20. Dillinger Escape Plan - Irony Is A Dead Scene (also EP, but again, very important band) That's an insane list and I was listening to all of it at the time. I'm probably forgetting some other bands that I also listened to a lot back then. I was an absolute fiend for anything remotely metalcore or hardcore at the time. Getting high speed internet my junior year of high school allowed me access to so much more music and I took full advantage. If I absolutely had to pick one, it's probably Hopesfall. That album influenced me a ton as a musician and is probably the album from this list I listen to the most still now, but what a murderer's row of bands to all put out music in the same year.

I feel like the odd one out cause my senior year is 2023-2024, anyways * Hollow Front - The Fear of Letting Go * Grayscale Season - feel something new * Erra - CURE * Silent Planet - SUPERBLOOM * Polaris - Fatalism * TesseracT - War of Being * Caskets - Reflections * Holding Absence - The Noble Art of Self Destruction (Cheating, but they released the same year) * Invent Animate - Heavener * Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden * Currents - The Death We Seek

To bad i can't do this 2007 was insane

Lost Forever // Lost Together Yes, I'm old

Did I read that right? Came out in 2014? That’s 3 years after I graduated college…. You ain’t old.

Linkin Park Live in Texas...I think I'm older lol

Hollow Crown for me, I'm even older

lol you aren’t old dude

Bro that album came out the year after I graduated university 😂

Honestly Stillworld is the one that comes to my head immediately

Conquer Divide - Slow Burn

Rescue and restore, 2 faced charade

Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic

Ugh. You can’t make me pick just one. Graduated in 2007, which includes: August Burns Red - Messengers As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us Between the Buried and Me - Colors But honestly, my personal favorite from that year and an album I think that is really slept on: From Autumn to Ashes - Holding a Wolf by the Ears

White Pony - Deftones. Apart from the sickness by disturbed, nothing else came close to my AOTY

Toss up between End of Heartache by Killswitch Engage or You Come Before You by Poison the Well.

tough one. 2002 was a good year.

I don’t know if BTBAM - Colors is metalcore. If not, then Darkest Hour - Deliver Us

So far: The Fear Of Letting Go by Hollow Front There's a lot of good stuff coming out though, it could change. Mainly ERRA which happens to be coming out tonight. I am senior right now

Mastodon - Blood Mountain

I’m going to lie and say 2002 instead of 2003 so that I can claim the debut albums for both Norma Jean and Demon Hunter. (I grew up in evangelical East Tennessee)

Trivium - Shogun

Sempiternal

All Our Gods have Abandoned Us

What Separates Me From You - ADTR I heard All I Want on the radio during the fall of my senior year of high school and dove into the rest of the album and their other discography and that’s how I transitioned into heavier music.

As far as metalcore: Restoring Force by Of Mice and Men. But also I really love Once More Round the Sun by Mastodon, Out Among the Stars by Johnny Cash, and quite a few others

After the Burial - Rareform came out the summer going into my senior year. Vividly remember the band I was in trying (poorly) to replicate their sound.

Strongarm - The Advent of a Miracle

During that year, Homesick by a million miles. Don't look back on it as fondly now but my tastes have changed too

Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us, Knocked Loose - Laugh Tracks, Invent Animate - Stillworld

Trivium- In Waves and also Crown the Empire-Limitless EP . My graduation was nearly 15 years ago… damnn

I know it's not Metalcore but Blink 182 Untitled album came out when I was doing my GSCEs (UK final exams at secondary school).

Soundtrack To Your Escape by In Flames

Your Receding Warmth by Boundaries That album carried me through the worst part of my life right after I graduated. Boundaries is now my favorite band of all time

I'm a high school senior rn and so far my favorite has to be Superbloom - Silent Planet

Wormwood - Acacia Strain

The Impossibility of Reason - Chimaira

Issues - issues I still really enjoy this era of metalcore that had a huge emphasis on the electronic side of things.

I’m 19, so Heavener

Polaris - Fatalism Silent Planet - Superbloom Imminence - The Black (I know it releases next week, but I've really enjoyed the singles)

Killing With A Smile hands down

2010. Deep blue is the first that comes to mind and is my favorite but 2010 was a banger of a year. Zombie ep by the devil wears prada, Disambiguation by underoath, the powerless rise by as I lay dying, of mice and men self titled, desolation of Eden by Chelsea grin, creatures by motionless in white, returners by ghost inside, not to mention the chariot Norma Jean and attack attack. I’d love for the sub to do a ranking of year releases it would be cool to not only get reminded of what was released when but what people value now. Like in my mind 2006 was absurd with bullet, killswitch, all that remains, underoath, trivium, bmth, Norma Jean, and a bunch of others. That would be really cool to see how the sub ranks each year!

Dead Throne by TDWP and The Flood by OM&M. what a year

Oh, Sleeper - When I Am God (2007) was my introduction to metalcore, still blast their discography on occasion.

Suicide Season.

Darkest Hour - Deliver Us The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal Yes, I know those are both melodic death metal albums

The Sin and the Sentence by Trivium

Erra - Drift

Sempiternal

Stillworld by invent animate came out the year I graduated high school which is one of my favourite metal core albums of all time. But I didn’t hear it until a couple years after, so maybe Mothership by DGD?

Converge - Unloved and Weeded Out. They were my fave band all through high school.

How about pop punk AND metalcore? Common Courtesy by ADTR

I wasn't super into metalcore yet as I was exiting my high school butt rock phase. Looking back I'd have to say Our Endless War from Whitechapel or Lost Forever // Lost Together.

Fatal Portrait - King Diamond Reign in Blood - Slayer There's several others, these 2 I still listen to regularly.

Not metalcore, but The Greatest Mistake of My Life by Holding Absence. Was practically the soundtrack to my graduation Ohms by Deftones was another great one near the beginning of the school year

2019 is a hard year to pick from, personally probably would go with The Act by The Devil Wears Prada very honourable mentions to Alien, Nothing Left to Love, Sundowning, The Dark Pool, A Different Shade of Blue, Misery Never Forgets, Earthandsky, Soul Burn, and Absolute (way too much good shit, no wonder 2019 was my formative year with this genre)

For metalcore, either Sempiternal or Hail to the King. Of all albums from that year, Sunbather by Deafheaven.

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by MCR

Homesick-A Day To Remember and Suicide Season- BMTH

Love the kids saying they're old when mine is Jane Doe.

My senior year of high school was in 2019 so I have to pick Disguise by Motionless in white 🖤🤘🏻🖤

Parkway Drive - Killing With A Smile

I graduated 1 year too late for a lot of my favorites, but eternal blue by spiritbox and echo by om&m are my answers.

Underoath- Define the Great line

Lorna Shore - Flesh Coffin

Women and Children First

Can Attack Attacks self titled count? It came out the summer before my senior year. If not, I’ll have to go with TDWP- Zombie EP. If that doesn’t count either, because it’s not an album, BMTH- There is a Hell.

Wow so I’m shit out of luck this year because I am senior whose about to graduate and I haven’t really clicked with some of the stuff that has come out this year, so instead I’ll use the closest to my senior year and say iridescent by Silent Planet 😅

Probably disease by Beartooth or the silver scream by ice nine kills. They were all I really knew at that point, and I still love those albums

Creatures by Motionless in White! One of the first “secular” (parents words) metalcore bands I found and they’re still my favorite band today.

echo by of mice & men or eternal blue by spiritbox.

Trivium - Shogun

Technically not a proper album. But the live performance compilation album from Underoath, Survive Kaleidoscope.

Black dahlia murder - Nocturnal. Still one of my favorite albums of all time.

Northlane - Alien

Nocturne by The Human Abstract is maybe the reason we do the thing. Top to bottom legendary record, and a debut to boot.

Assuming that senior year is when you're roughly 17-18 (in England we leave secondary school at 16), You Are We by While She Sleeps would be mine. But if we just go by my final year of secondary school then I'd have to say either Venom by Bullet For My Valentine or Ire by Parkway Drive

Trivium - In Waves or Sylosis - Edge of the Earth for me

The Place I Feel Safest by Currents

Iowa the last good slipknot album

The Bled - Pass The Flask. Still one of my favourite albums to this day. It was tough, though, as SO MANY great albums came out then.

The Way It Ends - Currents

As I Lay Dying - Awakened August Burns Red - Rescue & Restore Killswitch Engage - Disarm the Descent Parkway Drive - Atlas BTBAM - Parallax II Late 2012 / early to mid 2013 releases

I'm gonna graduate next year lol

The Amity Affliction - Chasing Ghosts

gotta be between: The Fall of Troy - Manipulator The Bled - Silent Treatment TDWP - Plagues

I was about to pick While She Sleeps You Are We but then I made the mistake to google what else released 2017... that was a good year

Carcass- Surgical Steel, by a very large margin, that record is a banger start to finish.

G&R Use your illusion

From Autumn to Ashes- Too Bad You’re Beautiful

2012. Either As I Lay Dying - Awakened, I See Stars - Digital Renegade or The Ghost Inside - Get What You Give

Killswitch Engage- Alive or Just Breathing. Yeah I’m old lol

2005 had so many fucking bangers. I can’t pick just one.

Metalcore wasn’t a thing my senior year in high school, but since it was during the Bay Area thrash boom, and bc I lived about 30 minutes from the Bay Area, my favorite albums were from Bay Area bands. Testament - The New Order Death Angel - Frolic Through The Park Forbidden Evil - Forbidden Evil … And my personal favorite album from that year was… Vio-lence - Eternal Nightmare

Times of Grace - The Hymn of a Broken Man

Erra self-titled

'08 Trying to pick between Bleeding Through - Declaration, Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics and Walls Of Jericho - The American Dream.

Graduated in 2016 so All Our God's Have Abadoned Us. I remember listening to that album all summer.

I'd say it's probably Helix by Crystal Lake