Yo @Finn Mckenty you should look into some open back headphones. They sound great with music and you have to talk as loud because you'll be able to hear. Look into Beyerdynamic dt 990 pro!
I was the "real metal" kid in high school by accident, the first day of high school I wore an iron maiden shirt and the real metal kids approached me, asked me if I liked some random combination of bands and I answered it right enough for them that they accepted me. Me and them actively bullied the scene kids and it wasn't until half way through high school I went to see asking Alexandria with some scene kid friends and realized I had more fun being with them than I ever did with my "real metal" friends cliche. Becoming a scene kid was so awsome, I stopped feeling like I had to pretend not to like certain bands just to fit in and dress a certain way just to gain credibility from people who enjoyed being awful individuals. Shout out to scene kids for teaching me that I should enjoy the music I enjoy regardless of whatever other people think and that conforming to fit in is not the way to live. I love death metal but would 100% rather were a neon t-shirt with dreadlocks as a weirdo than wear all black and have long hair as a uniform to fit in for some made-up credibility points for "real metal" with that audience. Life is too short to be that one dimensional, looking like an npc with npc dialogue, Id rather try as much as I can and find more things I enjoy than staying that close-minded or take myself that seriously that I cant have fun.
Saw Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, and Escape the Fate all in one year back in like, 2007. What a time.
i loved that first ETF album, but I dunno if I'd call them metalcore. they had metal elements, along with punk, emo, etc. but I never really heard any hardcore in there.
1. Parkway Drive (bread and butter early 2010s metalcore done to perfection) 2. Killswitch Engage ("easy to grasp", melodic, early vibes metalcore) 3. Architects (essentially the template for modern metalcore) 4. A Day to Remember (accessible, closer to pop, the definitive "pop punk with breakdowns" band)
@@deficharliegosseTK Also, some of their songs are hymns for kids that grew on metalcore. For example, the breakdown in "Mr Highway's Thinking About the End" is absolutely iconic. Someone who's starting at metalcore should learn where "disrespect your surroundings" comes from. Hahaha
My metalcore starter list will include Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Dillinger Escape Plan, Killswitch Engage, Architects, Every Time I Die, Spiritbox, and Parkway Drive.
Funny enough, Dillinger and ETID were not starters for me. They were too chaotic and I just couldn't get into it. As I got more into metalcore I wanted something different and ended up diving into ETID and TDEP.
I think today if I were to introduce a single metalcore-ish band to someone who might be interested, I think spiritbox would be my go-to. Especially their new album has a very approachable sound with some heaviness. Definitely a good gateway artist to heavier stuff!
i know everyone says “this music saved my life” but as a 12-14 year old kid in an addiction house hold this shit really did help me out so much. composure was a cultural reset
Parkway Drive got me into metalcore since they seem like such chill dudes that you’d wanna hang out with. Wage War made me fall in love with the genre despite not reinventing the wheel. But their execution of that style of metalcore is unmatched. They remain one of my favorite bands still
I feel Australian metalcore is probably more consistent than any other country. I Killed The Prom Queen and Parkway Drive are two of my favourite bands in general
"Playing metal at a party is the gravest mistake a metal fan can make" You should've been to some of the parties I was at in my teens. Nothing was more fun than a bunch of drunks singing Metallica's Battery.
I missed Attack Attack at the time, but I later caught onto the Japanese band Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, whose entire discography sounds like awesome attempts to make Stick Stickly again and again but more extreme in some way or another. It's the concept turned up to 11. I recommend Virtue and Vice as an introductory music video. They are best known for being used in anime (Parasyte OP, first Hunter X Hunter ed, and a bunch of lesser-known ones).
falilv was not only what got me into jrock/jmetal but what got me into music as a whole. there's really nothing else that sounds like them and to this day they're still one of my favorite bands of all time
A Norma Jean and Every Time I Die mash up called Ebola in Memphis got me into metalcore. And then I realized I actually like the mathcore elements I heard in metalcore the most. Just went straight down that rabbit hole.
I don't really listen to that much metalcore anymore, but Demon Hunter will always have a soft spot in my heart. I know a lot of people might be offput by the religious overtones, but I think they're still a great band.
Bro, same. I don't listen to metal much in general, but DH is a band that's stood the test of time for me. I don't believe the message anymore, but that doesn't really matter - In fact I almost find that side of it heightens the drama of their songwriting to a point - It's the songs, vocal duality, consistency between heavy tracks/ballads, and strong overall body of music that work for me all up (I'm finding newer material patchy, and there's definitely a formula at this point, but even on the weaker albums there'll be something great.) They bring a bit of everything I want from metal all to one place, and still going all these years later. Something of a guilty pleasure, but one I can unironically justify.
Parkway, Killswitch, As I Lay dying, ADTR are great “starter” bands to see what sound you are into. Particularly Parkway for most people because they are the most relatable band, and their content is more then just music. BMTH and Architects have got to be on the top of anyones list for the best bands overall. BMTH for pure creativity and constantly taking the music places we never expected, and Architects for being the best “pure” metal core band/sound out there. Sempiternal and Holy Hell are the two iconic albums of the genre
My metalcore starter kit at 15 years old was Killswitch Engage, For Today, August Burns Red, Memphis May Fire, The Devil Wears Prada, and Of Mice & Men. I'll always remember this life-changing music discovery. Good times!
Lol oh yeah, I picked up a ESP eclipse II after listening to Parkway drive. I never really play that kind of music though,, sweet playing guitar though, I like it more then a Les Paul.
Ahh those LTD ec1000 deluxes. Abalone inlays, abalone binding, abalone studded belt, pimp my ride gon come do your whole car in abalone. Thank fuck they dialled that back in recent years, was a bit much 😅
I remember seeing God forbid, shadows fall, chimaira and killswitch (with howard) at the same show in a small rock club in Ireland. Was mayhem. Took a piss with mark hunter, met byron, howard and adam. Awesome night.
Bullet for my valentine - Four Words to Choke Upon Crawling - Linken Park A box of sharp objects - The Used Three songs that got me into hardcore music back in the day!!!
I went from pop punk, to nu-metal, to metalcore, to 'extreme' metal. It was All That Remains that stood for to me. I heard The Deepest Grey and was hooked. Their album The Fall Of Ideals still holds up, some huge songs on there, including This Calling. Don't listen to whatever they released afterwards... lol
I do like the new style of metalcore but man you just can’t beat the old school shit. I still remember the first time I heard The end of heartache by Killswitch Engaged in the credits of the second resident evil movie, love Jesse but Howard’s the goat!
For me it was A Day to Remember, We Came as Romans, and Asking Alexandria. They got me into the genre and helped me discover all the other bands in the genre
Unearth, bleeding through, norma jean, heaven shall burn, as i lay dying, from autumn to ashes, everytime i die all definitely helped me get into metalcore
I feel like music in general is not one of those things that you can just wake up one day and be like “hey I wanna get into black metal or metal core” for me it was always just stumbling across one of these bands through surfing RUclips back in like 2008 or just finding a music video on cable TV and being like oh shit that sounds cool. Next thing you know you find yourself down a rabbit hole of exploring for a bunch of these bands that sound similar but in different ways. In my opinion that’s the best way to really get into a genre.
One time my buddies and I put on Chimaira's brand new "Impossibility of Reason" at a party and every girl ran out so fast there were dust clouds and a creaky picture frame swinging on the wall
Two Metalcore bands I always recommend to people arw The Amity Affliction and Polaris, they're not that heavy, catchy and still emotional and both have awesome riffs, breakdowns, lyrics and charismatic Band members
This topic is definitely my favorite, been a metalcore fan since 2011 and I love every era of the metalcore scene, the early 2000s with Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying and All That Remains; the risecore era with Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack! And The Devil Wears Prada; lastly the butt rock era with Bring Me The Horizon, Architects and Wage War. I could add more bands to each era but I could go on forever and can't pick which era is my favorite because metalcore as a whole is my go-to, pretty much my every day music.
I wasn't aware at the time but when I made the switch from pop punk to metal I found bullet for my valentine and that was my gateway to the metalcore sound the cleans mixed with screams caught the young teenager in me
I'm not a giant Killswitch fan, but I am a fan. I finally got to see them live on the first tour back with Jesse and it was one of the very best shows I've ever been to, and I've been to 100s of shows. They are the King's for a reason.
I was heavy into punk, hard-core, and Post Hard-core when Trivium decided to unleash Ascendency on us. Like Light To Flies was the song that converted me and I haven't looked back since.
@@User-54631 Thanks for the suggestion, but Trivium are one of my favourite bands. Of course I've checked out Ember to Inferno, and I've been hounding Matt over on his twitch, and his RUclips communities tab, to play more of ETI live. I'm still waiting to witness Into The Mouth of Hell we March while I'm at a gig, but Falling to Grey would be a close second
Greeley Estates's "Go West Young Man, and Let the Evil Go East" and "No Rain, No Rainbow" not only had a large impact on my tastes in metalcore but are still some of my favorite albums to this day, not to discount their older stuff, or newer stuff.
Damn whenever I see a Greeley fan that makes me so happy. Greeley was extremely underrated, in fact Greeley is the definition of underrated. Yes those two albums slap hard
Random fact about Attack Attack: Caleb (now in Beartooth) said, nothing they've done at that time was meant to be serious, he literally confirmed that they've done everything in that Video, in the song as a joke.
you could argue the first 2 The Devil Wears Prada albums are “riff salad”, but their next 2 albums With Roots Above and Branches Below and Dead Throne are chock-full of hooks and more traditional song structures
Killswitch engage will remain the owner of "best metalcore band ever" title for me due to the fact they're literally the only NWOBHM and hardcore punk influenced band of modern day metalcore era.
@@jargonscott Yeah but my question is why they are fully accepted in metal community while bands like bmth or asking alexandria questionable as a real metal or not🤔
@@mynameislove1704 because those are bands that sometimes or used to play metal. LoG only plays metal. They don’t mix pop, synth and screamo vocals into it. Metal fans, I think, are fickle. Though they may like pop, screamo, rap, etc. they like those things separately for the most part.
One more thing about AILD: I always find it sad if people boycott them nowadays, because that also punishes the other band members. And those didn't hire a hitman.
Killswitch engage, the curse was the first song that I heard with them, and really got me into their music. But I think bullet for my valentine tears don't fall was my Gateway band into metalcore. Can't forget InFlames come clarity and Asking Alexandria. But my journey into rock, metal and metalcore was Linkin Park 😊 Hi from Sweden btw
I would definitely recommend Wovenwar's self-titled album. It's what As I Lay Dying was up to while Tim was in prison. They're probably the most catchy and accessible metalcore I've heard. very melodic, clean vocals, barely any screaming. I'd definitely suggest them as a gateway band.
I started with Disturbed, then Five Finger Death Punch, then Slipknot, then Godsmack, then I think it was System Of A Down, Then Mudvayne, then Killswitch Engage, then A Day To Remember, then Hatebreed then came Asking Alexandria and so on, in pretty much that order specifically. Nowadays I really enjoy stuff like Shadow Of Intent, Architects, Parkway Drive, Breakdown of Sanity and Wage War etc...
My metalcore starter pack would be - Motionless In White (Creatures album specifically) - in fear and faith - bullet for my valentine - hopes die last - In This Moment’s first album and third album - Asking Alexandria - escape the fate - pierce the veil - ice nine kills - follow my lead - upon this dawning
Trivium is what got me into metalcore, and then subsequently other genres like hardcore. I heard Tread the Floods on a Shroud stream and thought it sounded pretty rad
Bullet for my valentine, Killswitch, Trivium, fit for a king, bleed from within, as I lay dying, early a7x, novelist fr, Architects, BMTH are my starter kit. They are great beginner bands because they are heavy, but not too heavy, and they are catchy as hell.
This video is nothing but fax. For me, it was Asking Alexandria that got me into metalcore. I’ve heard Killswitch and AILD before that but I didn’t really know about the genre before I heard the Risecore sound, and after that I was hooked.
Love this because My Curse is literally the song that started me getting into metalcore. That album still holds up as one of my most played albums of all time.
i remember seeing architects when they first toured the US and got on warped tour, either 2012, 2013, or 2014, i was on allot of drugs so i cant remember exactly, but i remember i bought their demo cd, or whatever they had, but they reminded me so much of the spirit of Atreyu when they first came out, it was fucking pure and hard and when they played live it had SOOO MUCH feeling, not something many artists can give, its that feeling in the singers voice that you really pick up on, and at the time, they pioneered it.
God Forbid is criminally underrated. I first seen them with Soulfly in 2005 and have been a big fan since. Their albums don't do them justice. They are way better live.
For me, it started with Atreyu and From Autumn to Ashes, and then it was a quick descent to Poison the Well and Every Time I Die. I got a Victory Records sampler and Atreyu was sandwiched between 2 songs I liked (Taking Back Sunday and Midtown iirc), so I would just let it play through even though I hated the screaming, but one day the screaming just didn't sound so bad to me and everything clicked, and it opened up a whole new world of music to explore.
My Metalcore starter kit would include: Eighteen Visions (unsung pioneers) Bleeding Through, As I Lay Dying, A Day to Remember, Parkway Drive, I Killed The Prom Queen (The Ed Butcher era was a big thing here in the UK!) Killswitch Engage & August Burns Red. Just for starters! 🤘🏾
I have to credit my taste in metalcore entirely to Unholy Confessions. Started it all for me. And that album is still in my top 3. Atreyu as well. Discovered them around the same time. 2005ish.
To your point about Southern Rock, Northerners doing it is a tradition since its inception. John Fogerty and Creedence were from the Bay Area, The Band was from Canada, and Canned Heat was from LA.
I was reminded of the story of the farmer being asked by tourists in a car how to get to a town and he said "I wouldn't start from here" With introducing a genre - you need to be aware of the background of the person inquiring about metalcore. I come from the UK and listening to hardcore punk rock from 1980 until 1 dropped out of live music in the mid 1995.
All That Remains' song "Six" was the first metalcore song I heard. I found it on Guitar Hero 2, and at first I hated it (mostly because I couldn't play it) but after trying it again and again it grew on me and made me check out the full album "The Fall of Ideals." This eventually led to Killswitch, AILD, BFMV, and Waking The Fallen-era A7X.
Stick Stickly makes perfect sense when you realize it's literally about Jesus Dying on the Cross. Also ISS did the Autotune first and Attack Attack! copied it after seeing them in an Ohio garage in 2006, when they changed their name from Ambiance to Attack Attack! Also Smokahontas was only a year after their debut album. And the TDWP video is a reference to the Plague of Locusts in Egypt in the Bible.
Unearth!! You all mentioned great bands, but Unearth was my favorite of the bunch. Don't sleep on Unearth!!! They have the breakdowns. The Endless Ep. Was my introduction to them.
Asking Alexandria’s first two albums are very accessible. A lot of it is about partying and having a good time. I got into metalcore through Asking Alexandria.
Awesome stuff! I’m sure you get requests all of the time. But Would love to see a video on the 2000s Bay Area hardcore. Life long, ceremony, sabertooth, etc..
For me my Official Top 10 Metalcore Starter List would be: As I Lay Dying August Burns Red Haste The Day Oh, Sleeper Bullet For My Valentine All That Remains Parkway Drive Killswitch Engage Miss May I Phinehas
love and appreciate your videos dude. what I like most is that I don't particularly agree with your band choices here but I do like all of them, my path just navigated around some of these bands. my choices aren't better, yours aren't better, but I'm finding the discussions highly emotional because I lived it and i was there. I may make a video response but I never have.
I never know what to say when people ask me what kind of music I listen to because I pretty much listen to everything. Metal core, all of the sub genres, death metal, post hardcore, pop punk, alternative, indie, classic rock and metal, thrash, rap. Hard to answer when it’s basically everything lol
I gotta say, I like the album version of "My Curse" A LOT more. Like, there's almost a bigger difference than is reasonable. That breakdown, "DYING! INSIDE! THESE ARMS!" - It's so much powerful when it's just screamed like on the other one (album version? - it's the one I have on Spotify). Just my $0.02, but that's the one I would recommend to people.
Pre-2010 AILD will forever be a goat in my eyes. Really sucks what happened to Tim after he started bulking up, but I like to be in my little bubble and believe that it was another person who was in Beneath, Frail Words, Shadow, Ocean and Powerless.
Literally in shock that you didn’t even mention Of Mice and Men. They were QUINTESSENTIAL crab-core and pretty much defined the Warped Tour era for a long ass time
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Finn, Do me a solid how do I get Notifications when you and others go LIVE it used to show me now it doesn't maybe you know something I don't, Cheers
No atreyu, walls of Jericho, afi, or bleeding through?
to be fair, fat mike (nofx) has been adding "blegh" to songs since the late 80s...
@@jonfarley2711 What song?
Yo @Finn Mckenty you should look into some open back headphones. They sound great with music and you have to talk as loud because you'll be able to hear. Look into Beyerdynamic dt 990 pro!
I was the "real metal" kid in high school by accident, the first day of high school I wore an iron maiden shirt and the real metal kids approached me, asked me if I liked some random combination of bands and I answered it right enough for them that they accepted me. Me and them actively bullied the scene kids and it wasn't until half way through high school I went to see asking Alexandria with some scene kid friends and realized I had more fun being with them than I ever did with my "real metal" friends cliche. Becoming a scene kid was so awsome, I stopped feeling like I had to pretend not to like certain bands just to fit in and dress a certain way just to gain credibility from people who enjoyed being awful individuals. Shout out to scene kids for teaching me that I should enjoy the music I enjoy regardless of whatever other people think and that conforming to fit in is not the way to live. I love death metal but would 100% rather were a neon t-shirt with dreadlocks as a weirdo than wear all black and have long hair as a uniform to fit in for some made-up credibility points for "real metal" with that audience. Life is too short to be that one dimensional, looking like an npc with npc dialogue, Id rather try as much as I can and find more things I enjoy than staying that close-minded or take myself that seriously that I cant have fun.
lool looking like an npc with npc dialouge spot on
Congrats for being the most open-minded metalhead in the history of ever.
You're not a metalhead you're a heavyhead
Saw Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, and Escape the Fate all in one year back in like, 2007. What a time.
What a time to be alive!!!
Man, Atreyu's SNABK album is such a banger...I still play it today. Unfortunately, their follow up efforts were never as good :\
i loved that first ETF album, but I dunno if I'd call them metalcore. they had metal elements, along with punk, emo, etc. but I never really heard any hardcore in there.
2007 is the metal core year. Can't describe why, just is
Same
1. Parkway Drive (bread and butter early 2010s metalcore done to perfection)
2. Killswitch Engage ("easy to grasp", melodic, early vibes metalcore)
3. Architects (essentially the template for modern metalcore)
4. A Day to Remember (accessible, closer to pop, the definitive "pop punk with breakdowns" band)
A day to remember isn’t metalcore they’re pop punk
@@deficharliegosseTK They mix pop punk with metalcore, ergo the expression "pop punk with breakdowns". IMO, that was an important thread of metalcore.
@@deficharliegosseTK Also, some of their songs are hymns for kids that grew on metalcore. For example, the breakdown in "Mr Highway's Thinking About the End" is absolutely iconic. Someone who's starting at metalcore should learn where "disrespect your surroundings" comes from. Hahaha
@@deficharliegosseTK they are a clean mix of both. I’d call em easycore.
@@Pedro-dn3sg DISINFECT YOUR SURROUNDINGS!
My metalcore starter list will include Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Dillinger Escape Plan, Killswitch Engage, Architects, Every Time I Die, Spiritbox, and Parkway Drive.
I’d agree this is really solid
the ascendancy album in particular
Funny enough, Dillinger and ETID were not starters for me. They were too chaotic and I just couldn't get into it. As I got more into metalcore I wanted something different and ended up diving into ETID and TDEP.
no scene bands? fair take tho.
I think today if I were to introduce a single metalcore-ish band to someone who might be interested, I think spiritbox would be my go-to. Especially their new album has a very approachable sound with some heaviness. Definitely a good gateway artist to heavier stuff!
i know everyone says “this music saved my life” but as a 12-14 year old kid in an addiction house hold this shit really did help me out so much. composure was a cultural reset
Parkway Drive got me into metalcore since they seem like such chill dudes that you’d wanna hang out with. Wage War made me fall in love with the genre despite not reinventing the wheel. But their execution of that style of metalcore is unmatched. They remain one of my favorite bands still
I agree you gotta start there
I feel Australian metalcore is probably more consistent than any other country. I Killed The Prom Queen and Parkway Drive are two of my favourite bands in general
Same here,Parkway is one of only bands I listen to like that, I love the guitar work on first few albums. I haven't listened to anything newer though.
Same here with PWD. I heard an interview with them on the radio around Deep Blue era.
@@AlexGreat321 listen to justice for the damned bro, produced by taim guitarist. picking up after PWD
I agree a lot of the bands that made “Semperternal” core were bland af but BMTH did it really well and I still love that record
One of the greatest rock albums of all time
"Playing metal at a party is the gravest mistake a metal fan can make"
You should've been to some of the parties I was at in my teens. Nothing was more fun than a bunch of drunks singing Metallica's Battery.
Man i went to the wrong parties then lol, that sounds awesome!
Would not put metal on, but playing 2000s pop punk classics is fun..
@@madperrot Oh it was epic.
I missed Attack Attack at the time, but I later caught onto the Japanese band Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, whose entire discography sounds like awesome attempts to make Stick Stickly again and again but more extreme in some way or another. It's the concept turned up to 11. I recommend Virtue and Vice as an introductory music video. They are best known for being used in anime (Parasyte OP, first Hunter X Hunter ed, and a bunch of lesser-known ones).
I listened to Fear and Loathing almost for a whole month exclusively.
I fucking love them. Was in a trance/electronic metal kick a while back. They blew me away
I discovered them and crossfaith around the same time. Both amazing bands!
falilv was not only what got me into jrock/jmetal but what got me into music as a whole. there's really nothing else that sounds like them and to this day they're still one of my favorite bands of all time
it's kind of up for debate as to whether or not they're metalcore but my first story is also an amazing japanese band
BMTH’s album Sempiternal is what got me into Metalcore. I would tell people to start there.
A Day to Remember, All That Remains, and Killswitch Engage got me into metalcore 👍
Good ol days 😭
These guys and as I lay dying definitely got me into it!
God tier bands
A Norma Jean and Every Time I Die mash up called Ebola in Memphis got me into metalcore. And then I realized I actually like the mathcore elements I heard in metalcore the most. Just went straight down that rabbit hole.
Legion of Doom RuneScape-Core. This album is so well done.
I don't really listen to that much metalcore anymore, but Demon Hunter will always have a soft spot in my heart. I know a lot of people might be offput by the religious overtones, but I think they're still a great band.
Bro, same. I don't listen to metal much in general, but DH is a band that's stood the test of time for me. I don't believe the message anymore, but that doesn't really matter - In fact I almost find that side of it heightens the drama of their songwriting to a point - It's the songs, vocal duality, consistency between heavy tracks/ballads, and strong overall body of music that work for me all up (I'm finding newer material patchy, and there's definitely a formula at this point, but even on the weaker albums there'll be something great.) They bring a bit of everything I want from metal all to one place, and still going all these years later. Something of a guilty pleasure, but one I can unironically justify.
Parkway, Killswitch, As I Lay dying, ADTR are great “starter” bands to see what sound you are into. Particularly Parkway for most people because they are the most relatable band, and their content is more then just music. BMTH and Architects have got to be on the top of anyones list for the best bands overall. BMTH for pure creativity and constantly taking the music places we never expected, and Architects for being the best “pure” metal core band/sound out there. Sempiternal and Holy Hell are the two iconic albums of the genre
My metalcore starter kit at 15 years old was Killswitch Engage, For Today, August Burns Red, Memphis May Fire, The Devil Wears Prada, and Of Mice & Men. I'll always remember this life-changing music discovery. Good times!
Almost the same but, I'll replace ABR and For Today with Asking Alexandria and Avenged Sevenfold (their early stuff). 🍻
dude mine was the exact same lol ABR is the GOAT
ESP/Schecter guitars were mandatory back then, the gaudier the fretboard inlays were the better your band was
Lol oh yeah, I picked up a ESP eclipse II after listening to Parkway drive. I never really play that kind of music though,, sweet playing guitar though, I like it more then a Les Paul.
Ahh those LTD ec1000 deluxes. Abalone inlays, abalone binding, abalone studded belt, pimp my ride gon come do your whole car in abalone. Thank fuck they dialled that back in recent years, was a bit much 😅
I remember seeing God forbid, shadows fall, chimaira and killswitch (with howard) at the same show in a small rock club in Ireland. Was mayhem. Took a piss with mark hunter, met byron, howard and adam. Awesome night.
Bullet for my valentine - Four Words to Choke Upon
Crawling - Linken Park
A box of sharp objects - The Used
Three songs that got me into hardcore music back in the day!!!
We might be music soulmates
The used is the best band ever
I went from pop punk, to nu-metal, to metalcore, to 'extreme' metal. It was All That Remains that stood for to me. I heard The Deepest Grey and was hooked. Their album The Fall Of Ideals still holds up, some huge songs on there, including This Calling. Don't listen to whatever they released afterwards... lol
I do like the new style of metalcore but man you just can’t beat the old school shit. I still remember the first time I heard The end of heartache by Killswitch Engaged in the credits of the second resident evil movie, love Jesse but Howard’s the goat!
I seem to be the only one that prefers Jesse. Howard and Jesse are both goated.
For me it was A Day to Remember, We Came as Romans, and Asking Alexandria. They got me into the genre and helped me discover all the other bands in the genre
Facts, a day to remember is such a great gateway metalcore band
Literally same.
We came as Romans are so good!
Unearth, bleeding through, norma jean, heaven shall burn, as i lay dying, from autumn to ashes, everytime i die all definitely helped me get into metalcore
I adored attack attack and never realized how RELIGIOUS the lyrics were.I just sang along to what I thought they were until like last year.
Seemed to be the go-to genre for religious heavy bands, back in the 2000s at least
Ice Nine Kills was my metalcore gateway
I feel like music in general is not one of those things that you can just wake up one day and be like “hey I wanna get into black metal or metal core” for me it was always just stumbling across one of these bands through surfing RUclips back in like 2008 or just finding a music video on cable TV and being like oh shit that sounds cool. Next thing you know you find yourself down a rabbit hole of exploring for a bunch of these bands that sound similar but in different ways. In my opinion that’s the best way to really get into a genre.
My Metalcore starter kit was Killswitch Engage, August Burns Red, and All That Remains (Fall of Ideals).
All That Remains album This Darkened Heart has the best guitar riffs ever!!! In my opinion.
@@gumbydar That's a good one too!
Thanks to EA’s NHL games, Bullet For My Valentine and Avenged Sevenfold introduced me to the genre.
The variations from the Blinded by Fear riff from At the Gates are the most iconic and essential metalcore riffs
One time my buddies and I put on Chimaira's brand new "Impossibility of Reason" at a party and every girl ran out so fast there were dust clouds and a creaky picture frame swinging on the wall
Two Metalcore bands I always recommend to people arw The Amity Affliction and Polaris, they're not that heavy, catchy and still emotional and both have awesome riffs, breakdowns, lyrics and charismatic Band members
Thank you for that, I checked out Polaris based on your recommendation and love it! ❤
Poison the Well was the first metalcore band I ever heard circa 03-04ish. Mind was blown
This topic is definitely my favorite, been a metalcore fan since 2011 and I love every era of the metalcore scene, the early 2000s with Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying and All That Remains; the risecore era with Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack! And The Devil Wears Prada; lastly the butt rock era with Bring Me The Horizon, Architects and Wage War.
I could add more bands to each era but I could go on forever and can't pick which era is my favorite because metalcore as a whole is my go-to, pretty much my every day music.
I wasn't aware at the time but when I made the switch from pop punk to metal I found bullet for my valentine and that was my gateway to the metalcore sound the cleans mixed with screams caught the young teenager in me
I'm not a giant Killswitch fan, but I am a fan. I finally got to see them live on the first tour back with Jesse and it was one of the very best shows I've ever been to, and I've been to 100s of shows. They are the King's for a reason.
My personal starter bands were BFMV and Trivium for the “metal” core bands and ADTR and OM&M for the Hot Topic ones
Literally on point
Your like my long lost sibling lol
Sempiternal by bmth and blueprints by wage war were the albums that got me into metalcore
I saw killswitch engage in a really rough bar in Huntington, West Virginia when I was in sixth grade. Must have been about 2001-2002. Thanks dad 👍
"At the Gates Core" idk where I first heard that, but it was many years ago.
I was heavy into punk, hard-core, and Post Hard-core when Trivium decided to unleash Ascendency on us. Like Light To Flies was the song that converted me and I haven't looked back since.
If you enjoy that song , check out ember to inferno from their first album there is another banger on there but I can’t remember the title.
@@User-54631 Thanks for the suggestion, but Trivium are one of my favourite bands. Of course I've checked out Ember to Inferno, and I've been hounding Matt over on his twitch, and his RUclips communities tab, to play more of ETI live. I'm still waiting to witness Into The Mouth of Hell we March while I'm at a gig, but Falling to Grey would be a close second
@@widexawake_ I want My Hatred
@@User-54631ember to inferno the title track is a great song
In fear and faith was great and one of my early favorites.
their first to cds are start to finish bangers
Greeley Estates's "Go West Young Man, and Let the Evil Go East" and "No Rain, No Rainbow" not only had a large impact on my tastes in metalcore but are still some of my favorite albums to this day, not to discount their older stuff, or newer stuff.
Damn whenever I see a Greeley fan that makes me so happy. Greeley was extremely underrated, in fact Greeley is the definition of underrated.
Yes those two albums slap hard
Very underrated band
Random fact about Attack Attack:
Caleb (now in Beartooth) said, nothing they've done at that time was meant to be serious, he literally confirmed that they've done everything in that Video, in the song as a joke.
I had no idea who Knocked Loose were.
I've listened to them non-stop for last 2 hours now.
Fucking awesome
Seeing them in April. So excited
you could argue the first 2 The Devil Wears Prada albums are “riff salad”, but their next 2 albums With Roots Above and Branches Below and Dead Throne are chock-full of hooks and more traditional song structures
Killswitch engage will remain the owner of "best metalcore band ever" title for me due to the fact they're literally the only NWOBHM and hardcore punk influenced band of modern day metalcore era.
They are literally the best at combining catchy and heavy.
Is Lamb of God consider metalcore?
@@mynameislove1704 to me yes
@@jargonscott Yeah but my question is why they are fully accepted in metal community while bands like bmth or asking alexandria questionable as a real metal or not🤔
@@mynameislove1704 because those are bands that sometimes or used to play metal. LoG only plays metal. They don’t mix pop, synth and screamo vocals into it. Metal fans, I think, are fickle. Though they may like pop, screamo, rap, etc. they like those things separately for the most part.
Killswitch - Self Revolution
Shadows Fall - Light That Blinds
As I Lay Dying - Meaning In Tragedy
Unearth - The Great Dividers
One more thing about AILD: I always find it sad if people boycott them nowadays, because that also punishes the other band members. And those didn't hire a hitman.
Killswitch engage, the curse was the first song that I heard with them, and really got me into their music. But I think bullet for my valentine tears don't fall was my Gateway band into metalcore. Can't forget InFlames come clarity and Asking Alexandria. But my journey into rock, metal and metalcore was Linkin Park 😊
Hi from Sweden btw
I would definitely recommend Wovenwar's self-titled album. It's what As I Lay Dying was up to while Tim was in prison. They're probably the most catchy and accessible metalcore I've heard. very melodic, clean vocals, barely any screaming. I'd definitely suggest them as a gateway band.
Bmth was my introduction to metalcore then hearing killswitch kept me there
“Straight party music…yes, if you’re a nerd” 😂😂😂
I started with Disturbed, then Five Finger Death Punch, then Slipknot, then Godsmack, then I think it was System Of A Down, Then Mudvayne, then Killswitch Engage, then A Day To Remember, then Hatebreed then came Asking Alexandria and so on, in pretty much that order specifically. Nowadays I really enjoy stuff like Shadow Of Intent, Architects, Parkway Drive, Breakdown of Sanity and Wage War etc...
Dad/butt rock to breakdowns lol
@@mattmenzie pretty much
My metalcore starter pack would be
- Motionless In White (Creatures album specifically)
- in fear and faith
- bullet for my valentine
- hopes die last
- In This Moment’s first album and third album
- Asking Alexandria
- escape the fate
- pierce the veil
- ice nine kills
- follow my lead
- upon this dawning
Trivium is what got me into metalcore, and then subsequently other genres like hardcore. I heard Tread the Floods on a Shroud stream and thought it sounded pretty rad
Bullet for my valentine, Killswitch, Trivium, fit for a king, bleed from within, as I lay dying, early a7x, novelist fr, Architects, BMTH are my starter kit. They are great beginner bands because they are heavy, but not too heavy, and they are catchy as hell.
BFMV the goat
This video is nothing but fax. For me, it was Asking Alexandria that got me into metalcore. I’ve heard Killswitch and AILD before that but I didn’t really know about the genre before I heard the Risecore sound, and after that I was hooked.
Love this because My Curse is literally the song that started me getting into metalcore. That album still holds up as one of my most played albums of all time.
Finn: ABR, no songs, just breakdowns.
JB's shredding: Am I a joke to you?
12:13, you rlly just expect all of us to not acknowledge the Denny’s Grand Slam as a party😢
i remember seeing architects when they first toured the US and got on warped tour, either 2012, 2013, or 2014, i was on allot of drugs so i cant remember exactly, but i remember i bought their demo cd, or whatever they had, but they reminded me so much of the spirit of Atreyu when they first came out, it was fucking pure and hard and when they played live it had SOOO MUCH feeling, not something many artists can give, its that feeling in the singers voice that you really pick up on, and at the time, they pioneered it.
God Forbid is criminally underrated. I first seen them with Soulfly in 2005 and have been a big fan since. Their albums don't do them justice. They are way better live.
I saw them the first time with GWAR. It was a weird show.
For me avenged sevenfold got me into metalcore. Waking the fallen was my favorite album for a long time, and still holds up great today tbh.
For me, it started with Atreyu and From Autumn to Ashes, and then it was a quick descent to Poison the Well and Every Time I Die.
I got a Victory Records sampler and Atreyu was sandwiched between 2 songs I liked (Taking Back Sunday and Midtown iirc), so I would just let it play through even though I hated the screaming, but one day the screaming just didn't sound so bad to me and everything clicked, and it opened up a whole new world of music to explore.
My Metalcore starter kit would include: Eighteen Visions (unsung pioneers) Bleeding Through, As I Lay Dying, A Day to Remember, Parkway Drive, I Killed The Prom Queen (The Ed Butcher era was a big thing here in the UK!) Killswitch Engage & August Burns Red.
Just for starters! 🤘🏾
Yes! Took some scrolling for me to see someone mention bleeding through. I definitely would add Caliban to the list.
@@jaredbabilis3768 Caliban is a great shout!
I have to credit my taste in metalcore entirely to Unholy Confessions. Started it all for me. And that album is still in my top 3. Atreyu as well. Discovered them around the same time. 2005ish.
Dude, same!
To your point about Southern Rock, Northerners doing it is a tradition since its inception. John Fogerty and Creedence were from the Bay Area, The Band was from Canada, and Canned Heat was from LA.
Creedence was from sf?! I had no idea tbh
All That Remains album This Darkened Heart has my favorite guitar riffs of all time.
The sideways "crabbing" move by the Attack Attack! guitarist at 17:05 is their single greatest contribution to the genre.
I was reminded of the story of the farmer
being asked by tourists in a car
how to get to a town
and he said "I wouldn't start from here"
With introducing a genre - you need to be aware of
the background of the person inquiring about metalcore.
I come from the UK and listening to hardcore punk rock
from 1980 until
1 dropped out of live music in the mid 1995.
5:47 Last summer, I went bar-hopping with a Budweiser crop top and cut off jean short shorts, and it was one of the best nights of my life.
All That Remains' song "Six" was the first metalcore song I heard. I found it on Guitar Hero 2, and at first I hated it (mostly because I couldn't play it) but after trying it again and again it grew on me and made me check out the full album "The Fall of Ideals." This eventually led to Killswitch, AILD, BFMV, and Waking The Fallen-era A7X.
Stick Stickly makes perfect sense when you realize it's literally about Jesus Dying on the Cross. Also ISS did the Autotune first and Attack Attack! copied it after seeing them in an Ohio garage in 2006, when they changed their name from Ambiance to Attack Attack!
Also Smokahontas was only a year after their debut album. And the TDWP video is a reference to the Plague of Locusts in Egypt in the Bible.
Unearth!! You all mentioned great bands, but Unearth was my favorite of the bunch. Don't sleep on Unearth!!! They have the breakdowns. The Endless Ep. Was my introduction to them.
My copy of “The Oncoming Storm” is probably physically worn down from how many times I’ve listened to it since ‘04 lol
Asking Alexandria’s first two albums are very accessible. A lot of it is about partying and having a good time. I got into metalcore through Asking Alexandria.
Someone Somewhere is the song that got me into Asking Alexandria. Reckless and Relentless is the song that got me into screamo
don't forget, The Black album too, it's very good heavy sounding (in term of mixing and mastering) compared to all early their albums
Awesome stuff! I’m sure you get requests all of the time. But Would love to see a video on the 2000s Bay Area hardcore. Life long, ceremony, sabertooth, etc..
I was gonna said start with Killswitch before I even clicked on this video that's interesting that we both would recommend that first.
For me my Official Top 10 Metalcore Starter List would be:
As I Lay Dying
August Burns Red
Haste The Day
Oh, Sleeper
Bullet For My Valentine
All That Remains
Parkway Drive
Killswitch Engage
Miss May I
Phinehas
Excellent first pick! Howard’s voice is incredible
The guy in the Smokeahontas video was the quintessential scene guy. Big gauges, scene hair, cigarette, snake bites, the whole look 😂
The first two Shadows Fall albums (the ones with Brian Fair) are S++ tier.
the 240p bit was so spot on hahah just wouldnt be as great if it was actually clear
Good vid but you forgot the GOATs: Trivium, BMTH, and Bullet for my Valentine
love and appreciate your videos dude. what I like most is that I don't particularly agree with your band choices here but I do like all of them, my path just navigated around some of these bands. my choices aren't better, yours aren't better, but I'm finding the discussions highly emotional because I lived it and i was there. I may make a video response but I never have.
lmao the "old men in metalcore videos" commentary had me in tears dude. I've had this convo w/ alot of my buddies while watching videos hahaha im dead
In a metalcore starter kit: the FFO! the Trustkill sticker on the cd with "For Fans Of..." on it.
My big 3 were Poison The Well, Underoath & Ephel Duath. Debatable weather their post hardcore/metalcore/whatever, i still listen to them today!
I never know what to say when people ask me what kind of music I listen to because I pretty much listen to everything. Metal core, all of the sub genres, death metal, post hardcore, pop punk, alternative, indie, classic rock and metal, thrash, rap. Hard to answer when it’s basically everything lol
Killswitch was ABSOLUTELY my gateway into metalcore. I heard arms of sorrow and went into a frenzy trying to find more like it.
14:05 'That pod farm guitar tone' 😂😂
Bullet for my Valentine’s the poison sold me on metalcore. As well as the 2010-2013 hottopic-core era
Just got that album cover tattooed 🙏🏻
I gotta say, I like the album version of "My Curse" A LOT more. Like, there's almost a bigger difference than is reasonable.
That breakdown, "DYING! INSIDE! THESE ARMS!" - It's so much powerful when it's just screamed like on the other one (album version? - it's the one I have on Spotify). Just my $0.02, but that's the one I would recommend to people.
At The Gates is Gothenburg riffing.. Finn, That never went away dude.
2006, I came across
As I lay Dying, Bullet For My Valentine and Atreyu and those are what started it all.
At the Gates are still around and just released a new album.
ETID, Norma Jean, Botch, Knocked Loose, Callous Daoboys. I don't need much more.
Pre-2010 AILD will forever be a goat in my eyes. Really sucks what happened to Tim after he started bulking up, but I like to be in my little bubble and believe that it was another person who was in Beneath, Frail Words, Shadow, Ocean and Powerless.
Ocean is easily top 5 metalcore albums of all time
Literally in shock that you didn’t even mention Of Mice and Men. They were QUINTESSENTIAL crab-core and pretty much defined the Warped Tour era for a long ass time
I'm old, Atreyu and Eighteen Visions got me into metalcore, around 2003..my senior year in high school.
I use to throw parties in our pole barn back in high school. We would jam ETIDs Gutter Phenomenon all the time.