Architects

Architects

Genre: Metalcore/Mathcore/Post-Hardcore/Melodic Hardcore

Home City: Brighton/England

Members: Sam Carter (vocals), Tom Searle (guitar), Dan Searle (drums),

Alex Edwin Dean (bass), Adam Christianson (guitar)

[note: Tom Searle sadly passed away after years of struggle against cancer. R.I.P Tom.]

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2006 - Nightmares

1 - To The Death

2 - You Don't Walk Away From Dismemberment

3 - Minesweeper

4 - They'll Be Hanging Us Tonight

5 - This Confession Means Nothing

6 - In The Desert

7 - A Portrait For The Deceased

8 - The Darkest Tomb

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2008 - Ruin

1 - Buried At Sea

2 - Hunt Them Down

3 - You'll Find Safety

4 - Always

5 - Sail This Ship Alone

6 - Heartless

7 - North Lane

8 - I Can't See The Light

9 - Low

10 - Running From The Sun

11 - Save Me

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2009 - Hollow Crown

1 - Early Grave

2 - Dethroned

3 - Numbers Count For Nothing

4 - Follow The Water

5 - In Elegance

6 - We're All Alone

7 - Borrowed Time

8 - Every Last Breath

9 - One Of These Days

10 - Dead March

11 - Left With A Last Minute

12 - Hollow Crown

13 - To The Death

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2011 - The Here And Now

1 - Day In Day Out

2 - Learn To Live

3 - Delete, Rewind.

4 - Btn

5 - An Open Letter To Myself

6 - The Blues

7 - Red Eyes

8 - Stay Young Forever

9 - Heartburn

10 - Year In Year Out/Up And Away

11 - Devil's Island

12 - Untitled

13 - Day In Day Out (Big Chocolate Remix)

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2012 - Daybreaker

1 - The Bitter End

2 - Alpha Omega

3 - These Colours Don't Run

4 - Daybreak

5 - Truth, Be Told

6 - Even If You Win, You're Still A Rat

7 - Outsider Heart

8 - Behind The Throne

9 - Devil's Island

10 - Feather of Lead

11 - Unbeliever

12 - Black Blood

13 - Cracks In The Earth

14 - Blood Bank

15 - Of Dust And Nations

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2014 - Lost Forever /Lost Together

1 - Gravedigger

2 - Naysayer

3 - Broken Cross

4 - The Devil Is Near

5 - Dead Man Talking

6 - Red Hypergiant

7 - C.A.N.C.E.R

8 - Colony Collapse

9 - Castles In The Air

10 - Youth Is Wasted On The Young

11 - The Distant Blue

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2016 - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us

1 - Nihilist

2 - Deathwish

3 - Phantom Fear

4 - Downfall

5 - Gone With The Wind

6 - The Empty Hourglass

7 - A Match Made In Heaven

8 - Gravity

9 - All Love Is Lost

10 - From The Wilderness

11 - Memento Mori

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Bad Omens

Bad Omens

Genre: Post-Hardcore/Metalcore

Home City: Los Angeles/USA

Members: Noah Sebastian (vocals), Nicholas Ryan (guitar), 

Joakim Karlsson (guitar), Vincent Riquier (bass), Nick Folio (drums)

Official Page

2016 - Bad Omens

1 - Glass Houses

2 - Exit Wounds

3 - The Worst In Me

4 - Feral

5 - Enough, Enough Now

6 - Malice

7 - Hedonist

8 - Broken Youth

9 - Crawl

10 - The Letdown

11 - Reprise (The Sound Of The End)

12 - The Fountain

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blessthefall

blessthefall

Genre: Post-Hardcore/Metalcore

Home City: Phoenix/USA

Members: Beau Bokan (vocals), Eric Lambertt (guitar, vocals),

Jared Warth (bass, vocals), Matt Traynor (drums), Elliott Gruenberg (guitar)

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2007 - His Last Walk

1 - A Message To The Unknown

2 - Guys Like You Make Us Look Bad

3 - Higinia

4 - Could Tell A Love

5 - Rise Up

6 - Times Like These

7 - Pray

8 - With Eyes Wide Shut

9 - Wait For Tomorrow

10 - Black Rose Dying

11 - His Last Walk

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2009 - Witness

1 - 2.0

2 - What's Left Of Me

3 - To Hell And Back

4 - God Wears Gucci

5 - Hey Baby, Here's that Song You Wanted

6 - Witness

7 - Last Ones Left

8 - Five Ninety

9 - We'll Sleep When We're Dead

10 - Skinwalkers

11 - You Deserve Nothing And I Hope You Get Less

12 - Stay Still

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2011 - Awakening

1 - Awakening

2 - Promised Ones

3 - Bottomfeeder

4 - I'm Bad News, In The Best Way

5 - The Reign

6 - 40 Days...

7 - Bones Crew

8 - Don't Say Goodbye

9 - Undefeated

10 - Till The Death Of Me

11 - Flatline

12 - Meet Me At The Gates

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2013 - Hollow Bodies

1 - Exodus

2 - You Wear A Crown But You're No King

3 - Hollow Bodies

4 - Deja Vu

5 - Buried In These Walls

6 - See You On The Outside

7 - Youngbloods

8 - Standing On The Ashes

9 - Carry On

10 - The Sound Of Starting Over

11 - Open Water

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2015 - To Those Left Behind

1 - Decayer

2 - Walk On Water

3 - Dead Air

4 - Up In Flames

5 - Against The Waves

6 - Looking Down From The Edge

7 - Keep What We Love

8 - Burn The Rest

9 - Oathbreaker

10 - To Those Left Behind

11 - Departures

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Metalcore Needs Subgenres

For I Am King at Headbanger Bash, Amersfoot, Netherlands

If metalcore is a whole genre or just a subgenre of metal, that's already a discussion. I used to think metalcore is a whole thing itself, because it has differences from what most people listen and call metal, but today I'm more follower of the thought that metalcore is a subgenre inside of metal.

But EVEN thinking that metalcore is a subgenre, it needs its own subgenres. Let's face it: there are lots of metalcore bands that don't even sound alike, and it's easy to mention some for comparison. Let's start with Bullet For My Valentine and Miss May I. They both have metalcore elements in their sound and many call them metalcore. Although, Miss May I is lots more aggressive than BFMV ever was or will get to be. Bullet has more clean vocals, some instrumental lines that remind heavy metal, and catchy melodies. MMI has some clean vocals, but Levi does most of the job on the vocals with his screaming. So, both metalcore bands? Yes, but they do not play alike.

Metalcore has been around for some decades now, and it has changed throughout the years. What was called metalcore in the beginning of its existence is far from what us, kids that jam things like Miss May I, Bring The Horizon, We Came As Romans and so on, call metalcore. Metalcore had a more raw energy, closer to hardcore, that is one of the genres that contributed to the appearance of metalcore.

Some genres developed out of metalcore, but I don't think they are subgenres, they are just fusion genres, just like metalcore is the fusion of metal and hardcore. We can name some of the fusion genres that came out of metalcore: deathcore (fusion with death metal, duh), easycore (has elements of pop punk, simply delightful), post-hardcore (I may even be wrong on this one, but I think it has a lot of relationship with metalcore, since it is the genre metalcore bands adopt when they "mature"), crunkcore (I never stopped to listen much of this one).

The only genres I can recall that are not genres developed out of metalcore, but subgenres inside of it are mathcore and electronicore. Wikipedia describes electronicore as a fusion genre instead of subgenre, but I think that's bullshit.

Ok, so there are not much metalcore genres, or perhaps they aren't just that known. I'm writing this whole post because I think of the first option. There are some bands that call themselves "modern metalcore" or "melodic metalcore". Well, I don't think that these definitions do the job of subgenres. Even if here on this blog I label some bands as "modern metal", I don't think it is exactly a subgenre. I perceive modern metal as a kind of metal that mainstream bands nowadays play and it is accessible to those kids who are not that into metal.

I'm not gonna be the one to create new subgenres for metalcore music, because I am not that guy who knows a lot about it, I'm just a fan with a blog writing about a problem that came across my mind. My conclusion is: there are LOTS of metalcore bands and LOTS of them don't even play alike and still are labeled only as metalcore. Labeling is a important thing in music (but not the most important, the most important is listening to music you like and do not care about what other people say about your taste in music), and metalcore lacks it in a way you go deep into the web searching for metalcore bands and almost never know what will find exactly.

What do you think? If you found this post and has an opinion on the subject, leave a constructive comment! See ya ;D

Avenged Sevenfold

Avenged Sevenfold

Genre: Heavy Metal/Hard Rock/Modern Metal/Metalcore (early)
Home City: Huntington Beach
Members: M. Shadows (vocals), Synysters Gates (lead guitar),
Zacky Vengeance (guitar), Johnny Christ (bass), Brooks Wackerman (drums)
Official Page

2001 - Souding the Seventh Trumpet

1 - To End The Rapture
2 - Turn The Other Way
3 - Darkness Surrounding
4 - The Art Of Subconscious Illusion
5 - We Come Out At Night
6 - Lips of Deceit
7 - Warmness On The Soul
8 - An Epic of Time Wasted
9 - Breaking Their Hold
10 - Forgotten Faces
11 - Thick And Thin
12 - Streets
13 - Shattered By Broken Dreams

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2003 - Waking The Fallen

1 - Waking The Fallen
2 - Unholy Confessions
3 - Chapter Four
4 - Remenissions
5 - Desecrate Through Reverance
6 - Eternal Rest
7 - Second Hearbeat
8 - Radiant Eclipse
9 - I Won't See You Tonight (Part I)
10 - I Won't See You Tonight (Part II)
11 - Clairvoyant Disease
12 - And All Things Will End

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2005 - City Of Evil

1 - Beast And The Harlot
2 - Burn It Down
3 - Blinded In Chains
4 - Bat Country
5 - Trashed And Scattered
6 - Seize The Day
7 - Sidewinder
8 - The Wicked End
9 - Strength Of The World
10 - Betrayed
11 - M.I.A.

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2007 - Avenged Sevenfold

1 - Critical Acclaim
2 - Almost Easy
3 - Scream
4 - Afterlife
5 - Gunslinger
6 - Unbound (The Wild Ride)
7 - Brompton Cocktail
8 - Lost
9 - A Little Piece Of Heaven
10 - Dear God

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2010 - Nightmare

1 - Nightmare
2 - Welcome To The Family
3 - Danger Line
4 - Buried Alive
5 - Natural Born Killer
6 - So Far Away
7 - God hates us
8 - Victim
9 - Tonight The World Dies
10 - Fiction
11 - Save Me

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2013 - Hail To The King

1 - Shepherd Of Fire
2 - Hail To The King
3 - Doing Time
4 - This Means War
5 - Requiem
6 - Crimson Day
7 - Heretic
8 - Coming Home
9 - Planets
10 - Acid Rain
11 - St James

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Crunkasaurus Rex

Crunkasurus Rex

Genre; Easycore/Pop Punk
Home City: Indianapolis/USA
Members: Samuel Oliver, Sean Potter, Daniel Obermeyer, Austin Puckett
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2014 - Here It Comes! (EP)

1 - Buckle Up, Kids!
2 - Hero Call
3 - Winterlude
4 - F Factor
5 - Super Smashed Bros
6 - Long Story Short

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2014 - Cheers To The Years (single)

1 - Cheers To The Years

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2015 - Sayonara (EP)

1 - Best Friends And Bike Rides
2 - Jurassic Classic
3 - Umbrellas High
4 - Fed Up
5 - Sayonara
6 - Venture

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We Came As Romans

We Came As Romans

Genre; Post-Hardcore/Metalcore/Alternative Rock

Home City: Troy (Michigan)/USA
Members: Dave Stephens (vocals), Kyle Pavone (vocals), Joshua Moore (vocals),
Lou Cotton (guitar), Andy Glass (bass), Eric Choi (drums)
Official Page

2008 - Demonstrations [EP]

1 - Questions
2 - Motions
3 - Letters
4 - Number
5 - Colours

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2008 - Dreams [EP]

1 - Conditions
2 - Dreams
3 - Intentions
4 - Shapes

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2009 - To Plant A Seed

1 - To Plant A Seed
2 - Broken Statues
3 - Intentions
4 - Roads That Don't End And Views That Never Cease
5 - Dreams
6 - We Are The Reasons
7 - Beliefs
8 - I Will Not Reap Destruction
9 - Searching, Seeking, Reaching, Always
10 - An Ever-Growing Wonder

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2011 - Understanding What We've Grown To Be

1 - Mis//Understanding
2 - Everything As Planned
3 - What I Wished I Never Had
4 - Cast The First Stone
5 - The Way That We Have Been
6 - A War Inside
7 - Stay Inspired
8 - Just Keep Breathing
9 - Views That Never Cease, To Keep Me From Myself
10 - What My Heart Held
11 - I Can't Make Your Decisions For You
12 - Understanding What We've Grown To Be

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2013 - Tracing Back Roots

1 - Tracing Back Roots
2 - Fade Away
3 - I Survive
4 - Ghosts
5 - Present, Future, and Past
6 - Never Let Me Go
7 - Hope
8 - Tell Me Now
9 - A Moment
10 - I Am Free
11 - Through The Darkest Dark And The Brightest Bright

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2015 - We Came As Romans

1 - Regenerate
2 - Who Will Pray?
3 - The World I Used To Know
4 - Memories
5 - Tear It Down
6 - Blur
7 - Savior Of The Week
8 - Flatline
9 - Defiance
10 - 12-30

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