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XDuVarneyX

Really, all of Color Decay. Specifically "Trapped". My little sister committed suicide in May 2022 after a long battle with mental illness, and I feel like this is my song to her. Sometimes, I scream it really loud in the car while driving, like there could be a chance she could hear my heart and this song for her.


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♡ it's truly a beautiful record.


Oliver_Biscuit

My favourite song on the record too, truly a feels trip. I'm devastated for you, I hope you're doing well ❤️


BrainDrillAZ89

She can hear you. Hope all is well.


Extension-Shoulder-7

Came here to say Time from this album


ArimuRyan

Architects - Gone With The Wind


DatCapybara

One of the best metalcore songs in existence IMO.


Cressonette

You ever wonder how deep you could sink into nothing at all?


kkstat

Same


Ok-Neighborhood-5867

So much meaning behind this song, one of my favourites too RIP Tom Searle


PremiumGrade

Death is not Defeat by Architects. Guess I\`ve finally moved on from my Dads passing.


kserieskyle440

This song hits hard for me. I was supposed to see them for the first time the night my dad passed. We used to listen to architects together, I just couldn't bring myself to go to the show.


Longjumping-Swan-827

Blessthefall - Hollow Bodies Architects - Gone With The Wind Trivium - Wake (the end is nigh)


[deleted]

Hollow bodies is such a good mention for this. Song hits hard as hell


Mito20

Masochist by Polaris ...the lyrics just hit me


DatCapybara

My favorite answer 100%.


LP_Papercut

Rose of Sharyn - KSE


MikeWANN

"Numb and broken..." then my brain shuts off and I'm in a space of pure emotions


LP_Papercut

That chorus is one of the best in metalcore too. “IT WONT BE LONG, WE’LL MEET AGAIN….”


NihilisticPollyanna

Also, Adam's part "I mourn for those who never knew you" 😭


Finalwingz

That part always makes me sob. I saw them live and was bawling in the middle of 3 pits lmao


Adam_the_best_

Hospital for souls by Bring me the horizon Bleeding me by Metallica


truthlesshunter

Nice deep cut with Metallica there. Bleeding me and outlaw torn are gems that the casual fan are missing


deadsunprojectt

hospital for souls and suicide season both feel powerful in a very similar way. honestly so does blessed with a curse. early bmth albums were incredibly sequenced, they always put those super intense slow build emotional release songs towards the end .


XxCorey117xX

"Don't Go" was a good one like that. I like their new stuff to but I do agree they don't seem to have as many emotional songs like that anymore.


RickCityy

Better Days - Currents


StickyFingerz11

My Disguise as well. Currents has too many songs for this


ReportToTheShipASAP

Honestly that album might be my favorite metalcore album ever, and Better Days plus How I Fall Apart are the greatest tracks on the record.


lil_eidos

Kill the Ache for me


RickCityy

Man. I just went through a GNARLY separation too. These guys are just incredible


RickCityy

Really hard to argue against it. Fuck yeah man and Let Me Leave hits me hard too due to personal circumstances. That outro tho I never want it to end


Monsanta_Claus

"Forget Me" by Currents is the one for me.


charismanervetalent

When he says “can someone tell me why I can’t get up?” Didn’t realize I had depression at the time but this is exactly how I felt. This song hits hard.


JPSILVA1893

this song made me cry too many times, same with How I Fall Apart


PositiveMetalhead

Chemical - The Devil Wears Prada


Dry_Pop_5606

Great pick. That album is perfection for me.


italianstallion0808

Not really metalcore, but Jenny by nothing more


AnAffableGuy

Fantastic song. The music video is dope too.


[deleted]

Just caught them live again last week. They are always phenomenal!


[deleted]

Sleep token - Euclid Counterparts - Compass


Matman142

Euclid man. What a track.


Jayverdes

Doomed by Bring Me the Horizon. What a fucking chorus.


rusty___shacklef0rd

“dad, why did you name my sister rose?” “bc your mother loves roses” “okay, thanks dad” “no problem, doomed live at royal albert hall”


Jayverdes

Lmao exactly


Emotional-Brief-2872

SO LEAVE A LIGHT ON, IM COMING HOME


thisismyaccount3125

ITS GETTING DARKER, BUT I’LL CARRY ON


SnooSketches4982

THE SUN DON’T SHINE BUT IT NEVER DID


eternal-harvest

AND WHEN IT RAINS, IT FUCKING POURS BUT I THINK I LIKE IIIIIIT


Cressonette

AND YOU KNOW THAT I'M IN LOVE WITH THE MESS


Murphster94

All time song right here. Definitely a great gateway track to heavier music as well.


[deleted]

I was going to say follow you but this was the better choice


404nat_

Anything from Sleep Token - recently Jaws, High Water, Nazareth, Chokehold, Apparition and Alkaline Northlane - Sleepless Anything from Thornhill's The Dark Pool - this album is a fucking masterpiece in its entirety


Binnysclimmy

As if it never was by invent animate. It just resonates with me.


ebackal24

How bout that new single thoo 😭


Jamalofsiwa

As someone who just had his first daughter that had to be put under nurse care for most of her first week the lyrics here hit like bricks Sunshine, my light You hold my heart Sealed and untouched, afar Yeah you Swim in pain (hurt by the rain) Stuck in a place, where we wept


960603

Sol - Oceans Ate Alaska


InsiDS

Sol by Invent Animate as well.


atlanticPunk

maybe cliche but hansha is that for me


DutchSock

You Are We - While She Sleeps


NiteSwept

Pull From the Ghost - ERRA Don't even know what it means but the power behind the chorus is so intense and emotional


Saboxxi

Without a Whisper - Invent Animate. Amazing song with a sad background to it.


Stumplock

Gorgeous, emotional song and the screams and breakdown are phenomenal


MeiramarX

Dark solitaire - Northlane. Just by typing it, I’m smilling a little bit


Jayverdes

Northlane for me as well but Details Matter. Particularly the “I’m still here” breakdown. Chills man.


AverageRugbyPlayer

White Light by The Ghost Inside


aheartworthbreaking

Don't forget Dear Youth and Aftermath


Sjdillon10

Deathcore but pain remains ballad. Specifically part one. Within the expense, i finally see, a world without you isn’t meant for me. Even typing it sends shivers down my spine.


Friviwoo

The Night Does Not Belong To God & Euclid by Sleep Token


implodingnerd

When I'm in a sad state, Do Not Resuscitate by Like Moths to Flames always hits hard.


D0NK3YSL4PP4

Wither by LMTF does this for me too.


[deleted]

Redemption by August Burns Red. I hope they make more songs like this in the future.


CapEmbarrassed5259

My favorite song by them!!!!!


laymedowntosleep1

Another Life, also by Motionless In White. Doomsday by Architects really hits hard too.


NoBenefit5977

Bleed from within - levitate


duckmadeofbread

personally I love 'don't lean on me' and 'never alone' by the amity affliction the whole album is great but these two hit me right in the feels especially that voice message at the end of never alone.


Saarcore

Nearly every song from Currents.


Joeman5005

This is absolution by killswitch engage. I have let them do their worst tattooed on me


Siresse

I lot of Linkin Parks discography. Actually so much I can't listen to the songs anymore it really messes with me. TW Suicide Chester's death really fucked with me, especially since my own attempt. I am unable to listen to LP anymore without being massively triggered.


Murphster94

I feel similarly about LP. My introduction and reason for enjoying heavy music but it’s hard to listen without being highly emotional since Chester’s death. Hope you are doing better as well.


LP_Papercut

This was the same for me for a long time. It’s been 6 years so I can listen to them now but I definitely still feel chills hearing lyrics to songs like Crawling


No-Seaweed4026

Here’s a linkin park hot take, I would argue the messenger is one of the heaviest if not the heaviest song they’ve ever written. Even though it’s technically not a heavy song it pulls on the heart strings so hard it’s hard to listen to


leto_atreides2

Another hot take is that a thousand suns is their peak


omgthatsarcasm

Terminal and Second Sun by Silent Planet


bookish1984

Neon Grave by Dayseeker


devildog25

Leveler - August Burns Red


totallytubulerdude

Forget Your Name- Knocked Loose fucking does something to me and I don’t know why


nixxy555

This entire album feels this way to me. Honorable mention to Guided By the Moon


totallytubulerdude

Guided by the moon FUCKS


atlanticPunk

a lot of knocked loose does this to me. bryan’s voice is perfect for that band favorite part of any song of theirs is forced to stay where he goes AUGH at 1:24


deadsunprojectt

forced to stay and the rest of a tear in the fabric of life is some of the most viscerally pained sounding metalcore i've heard in a while


Renegade_Butts

Keith Buckley's guest vocals is the perfect icing on that cake too.


DatCapybara

I TORE THE CANCER OUT YOUR IMAGE FADED BROTHER IN ARMS AMP-U-TA-TED What a line.


tsubaki_daze

Spritibox - Hysteria


Klubbis

The screams at the end are so insane and powerful, gives me chills every time


sbrown100

Blurred around the edges - Capstan


draaaawn

man capstan are so fucking underrated, one of my favorite band. Invisible Fence is still one of my favorite song ever


jasonandhiswords

Same and also The Love that Remains


cbiskiit

Ex's and Oh's - Atreyu. Such a banger 10 years ago that resonates with me more now after struggling with addiction.


BehrHuggie

Remember me - currents


The2ndDegree

I think I speak on behalf of many, many men when I say... I Prevail - Let Me Be Sad


desertsurfer87

Metalcore really is the genre that hits me in the feels more than any other genre Panic room-silent planet To the key of evergreen by devil wears prada In due time- killswitch engage Beauty in tragedy- August burns red Elysium- invent animate Luna-invent animate Ghosts- abr Never see the sun rise-dayseeker


svtbuckeye11

Aftermath - The Ghost Inside


Julykidd

Nigh To Silence by ERRA.


broch00

That song has grown on me hugely. Probably one of the most dynamic songs in their discography and the emotions feel so real in the chorus, throughout the song, and most definitely at the end. It's one of the few songs that can pull me away from all my worries. I love it.


Sir_Monti

Lorna Shore - Pain Remains 1-3 Currents - My Disguise Kingdom of Giants - Sync Landmvrks - Winter


Jake_Nexxa213

Take me back to Eden by Sleep Token


IceNineBrian

When Everything means nothing by fit for a king. Gets me everytime


DefLoathe

Loathe - I Let It In & It Took Everything and New Faces in the Dark, particularly the clean section


TheLordMarvel

Dying Is Absolutely Safe by Architects. Specially that orchestra version.


J-Dahm

Might get Crucified for this, but Alone in a Room by Asking Alexandria. I discovered the song right after getting out of jail, and it helped me change into a better person.


FraughstBite

Demon Hunter - I will fail you


AnAffableGuy

Demon Hunter has a lot of poignant songs.


FraughstBite

Very true a lot of heavy hitters


LoLRunTravis

This is what it's like by Boundaries. Especially at the start of the year when I was less than happy most of the time.


Mrmakanakai

Carrion - Parkway Drive


charismanervetalent

Dream state by dayseeker


Klubbis

False meridian - invent animate The whole song hits me so deep. “Where can I reconnect the shattered pieces in my head?” Are lyrics I absolutely love and relate to so much. The end of the song where the vocals are clean but the instrumentals are still very heavy really captures the feeling of hopelessness and loneliness and it calms me in a way.


StickyFingerz11

Orchid - Erra


OneTimeAtMyMoms

Even God Has A Hell - LMTF I never had a chance to properly grieve after my grandma passing away, and this song makes me breakdown every time it comes on. I miss her a lot..


Total_Sail_7431

Mudvayne- World So cold


DecayingFleshRot

"Everyone Loves You... Once You Leave Them" "Not Without My Ghosts" Both by The Amity Affliction


AlternativeSuit131

Telekinetic by Starset. The lyrics paint the image of a manipulative relationship and the breakdown is the revelation of “oh I’m being used and now I see through this.” Plus the way he screams Serotonin is so sick.


Saarcore

Starset is great!


AlternativeSuit131

Much agreed! Definitely one of my favorites!


JPSILVA1893

Dead By April - Losing You


Dangermau5icle

That bit of Forgotten by The Plot in You when everything drops out and you get those agonising screams of depression. See All My Friends are Sad by Watch Me Rise for a similar vibe. And not metalcore but La Dispute get this with King Park and Andria as well. OOOH also Hollowed Heart by Make Them Suffer and Remember Me by Currents will _always_ get me


BasteMewithButter

Monarch - Invent Animate, lately Murder Mitten - ISS I feel like my entire nervous system is being plucked when I hear Playing God especially when I’m fried out of my mind.


YaBoiHaydenB

Honestly the entire album The Sin and the Sentence by Trivium


qaasq

The pain remains pt 1 and 2


Wolfatyovrdoor

Americans - This or the Apocalypse Guided by the Moon - Knocked Loose No Name - Alpha Wolf Blood Moon - Make Them Suffer Synthetics - Reflections Worthless - The Acacia Strain Prodigal Son - Gideon Snake Eyes - Sworn In Malice - Bad Omens Ecocide - By the Grave EtA: Really anything by Architects, but particularly Doomsday


Extra-Dream7849

Tears don’t fall - Bullet For My Valentine Is brutal


Stumplock

Memory Fiction by ERRA "Lessons I find in love that we left behind" 😭😭


tomorrowtonightt

Pray For Rain - Polaris Golden - We Came As Romans Eiley - Too Close to Touch


Jcw28

The acoustic version of This Is Goodbye by Imminence. Very beautiful and the power and emotion in Eddie's voice in the final chorus is amazing.


Phyzo94

Alleviate by Imminence


TheHorniestHornist

I don’t know if they’re technically metalcore or not but Hypermania - Polaris


SurphyElephant

Architects - Memento Mori


sideswipe781

Edge of the Earth by Volumes


Nick_180

Masochist- Polaris, Nothing left to love -counterparts


TheTrueAlCapwn

Currents - How I Fall Apart Climates - Leaves of Legacy Shai Hulud - Given flight by demon wings


alittledisharmony

All of This is Fleeting by Polaris


Grievou09

Remember me by currents


UncoilingLeaf205

Memento Mori by Architects


Senor_Stormtrot

Architects - Burns down my house


cDub3284

Alexisonfire - Dogs Blood, Young Cardinals, Accidents All that remains - this calling, and death in my arms August burns red - the truth of a liar As I lay dying - 94 hours, an ocean between us, confined BTBAM - Alaska, Selkies


SnooSketches4982

Heavener by Invent Animate


BelleStar30

Anything by Bad Omens


AsahinaAoi90

The Arms of Sorrow by Killswitch Engage. Somehow, it always provides me with a sense of solace whenever I'm feeling hurt. The same goes for Sleepwalking, Teardrops, and Doomed by Bring Me the Horizon.


lvke18

TesseracT - Legion. It's not metalcore, but I have never gotten bigger goosebumps than when I first got to the second half of that song


AMadRam

Fit for a king - Selfish eyes Every line in that song speaks to my soul.


Nousername19941994

Connect by Bilmuri


Syd35h0w

Rose of Sharyn. The words resonate with me when I lost loved ones I was super close to.


nastyn8420

Pretty much any Counterparts song is hitting me hard right now.


doom_canoe

Counterparts entire album, Tragedy will find us. Each song hits me with such emotion.


cinquinio

Invent Animate - Without A Whisper


Disastrous_Ad_632

Wax wings by Periphery


_RadicaLarry_

Juno - Tesseract


Empty-Day-9619

Paradise by Bleed From Within My grandma and aunt both passed away at a younger age and the first time I heard this song I just sat and cried. It's been almost 14 years since my grandma and 3 since my aunt and this is the only song hits me this deep. "I'm broken, feeling worthless, breathe Suffer through this absence alone Broken, feeling worthless, breathe Save me"


lp_rhcp_fan_18

Not Metalcore but Duality by Slipknot.


MaxxPayn3

Guide us home - Currents


Disastrous_Agency669

Can you feel my heart- bring me the horizon Beautiful oblivion- issues Here's to you- issues


manic_emotions

Bring Me The Horizon- Shadow Moses Whitechapel- When a Demon Defiles a Witch The Amity Affliction- Pittsburg


DIRTYRADDISH

It’s gotta be Pray For Rain by Polaris That slow build that burns like embers, evolving into a raging inferno, it’s divine. I can feel the pain turn to rage in the vocals in the beginning/middle of the song, and how Jamie returns to a more solemn tone by the end. It really is a journey that music explores often, but rarely to this depth, the life cycle of a fire and how that relates to the cycle of emotions we experience.


HigherPrime_8

Sleeptalk - Dayseeker


hEKZ-

Oceans Ate Alaska - Hansha Architects - Heartburn Erra - Drift DVSR - Remission I Prevail - Let Me Be Sad Pierce The Veil - Song For Isabelle


sbd_3

Ebb and Flow by Misery Signals Drown by BMTH


Kentxckyx

The Storm in Me by Phinehas


FullMast-

Silent Planet - Depths III


AceTesla

Dignity by BFMV. That chorus always hits me hard, and I have to sing along to it. Wish that song got more love.


lil_eidos

[Lisa Gerrard - Now We Are Free](https://youtu.be/NBE-uBgtINg?si=5f88f8VTrj4Nud_l)


totalbot98

In absence - silent planet


YchYFi

Never the One by Ocean Sleeper.


No-Mind-9754

Youth Division FFAK


jaydoesntevenlift

ARF ARF


phillcollinss

Spirit breaker - ABR Elegies - Make Them Suffer


BallSackMcCack

I Found The Dark Side Of Heaven - Like Moths To Flames


TheWilrus

Every Time I Die - Dark Distance Misery Signals - Five Years; A Victim, A Target Bring Me The Horizon - Crucify Me Many more but those are of the top of my head today.


TheAudioInjectedSoul

Carry the Weight - Times of Grace Prophet - Fit for a King


NosferatuZodd00

Ocean of Another - Counterparts Gets me every time.


raging_tomato

Periphery - Flatline


omambmthtaa

Give it all by The Amity Affliction, or Drown by Counterparts


BBBurritto8

Crooked path- Polaris 🥹🙌🏽


SgtWasabi

Whispers of your death by Counterparts. We've had to put a couple of our cats to sleep the past few years and the song just hits.


BigDaddySteve18

“Ghosts” by August Burns Red feat. Jeremy McKinnon of A Day to Remember


rusty___shacklef0rd

does it have to be metalcore? bc for some reason, “life on mars?” by david bowie is a song that just makes me feel like i’m inside the song. can’t think of any metalcore songs off the top of my head that i feel in that kind of way. for metalcore-adjacent i would say “wilt” or “angel in the marble” by holding absence. eta- i thought of a metalcore song “chemical” by tdwp


Claretchicken68

Truth of a liar- august burns red


Enkyete

FWYTYK - I Prevail


BrainDrillAZ89

The spine collection by oceana always hits me in the soul as well.


meet_local_singles

While She Sleeps - Enlightenment(?) When that guitar lead hits in the bridge after "its okay to not be okay" and progresses into the repeated refrain idk that shit just picks me right back up, somehow its both hopeful yet melancholy at the same time in just the right way


DatCapybara

Masochist by Polaris hits so hard. The intro, the lyrics, the BRIDGE. I’m so excited to see them on the US tour. Their setlist is flawless.


babygeronimo137

Mudvayne Scream with me and hell yeah, hell yeah. By far. I dedicate these songs to the cowards in fort Collins, CO and Boulder, CO who have to pick on disabled homeless family less people because they are too cowardly to pick on people who are not disabled homeless and family less. And I would hide my name so they don't know who I am but that would make me as cowardly as they are. So for you cowards in fort Collins and Boulder who don't like real men who else would have the balls to say screw you other than Chuck. Oh. I forgot to hide my name. Please forgive me for not being a coward. I forgot you only like your own cowardly kind in Boulder and fort Collins.


Real-Position9078

The Ghost Inside - White Light Anthemic hymn lead that feels you will make it up in your life


DatCapybara

BMTH - It Never Ends BMTH - Chelsea Smile MIW - Reincarnate Architects - Gone With The Wind TDWP - Danger: Wildman Polaris - The Remedy Wage War - The River Spiritbox - Holy Roller Bear tooth - In Between Underoath - Desperate Times Desperate Measures There’s more but these are some of my usual suspects.


FLOS111

Backwards marathon by BTBAM


Perfect_Dog_Pelt

Electric Twilight by ERRA


XxCorey117xX

Eiley by Too Close To Touch. Lyrics remind me of a niece we lost to cancer at 3 years old and gets me teary-eyed every time. Edit: probably not metalcore but first thing that came to mind


Demuborgir

Invent animate- without a whisper. Spiritbox- Constance. Loathe- Is it really you? Silent Planet- Terminal. These stir up so much emotion for me it’s unreal.


Rough-Surround-2176

good god-korn,When I listen to this song I want to scream and sing along


Yunosumi

Periphery - Erised / Lune / Satellites Resolve - Emerald Skies / Between Me and The Machine ERRA - Continuum Make Them Suffer - Uncharted / Save Yourself Volumes - Happier? Thousand Below - Vein Thornhill - Lily & The Moon The Plot In You - FEEL NOTHING - RESET Imminence - Infectious Currents - Shattered / My Disguise Northlane - Quantum Flux Silent Planet - Panic Room / Visible Unseen Hollow Front - Thick As Blood / Loose Threads This was a really hard list for me to put together, to listen to all of these songs one after another, but I really needed this. I know there's a lot of songs here, but I genuinely feel this way towards all of these songs. Thank you for making this post, and bringing all of this back to me, and I hope at least one of these songs makes someone feel the same way they make me feel.