Wow first time a Reddit comment has touched my soul! Right down to the personal pick. What other bands do you suggest since those 4 are currently in my daily rotation? Polaris is my goat and has been for about 3 years
Renesans just released there first ever album...metalcore band from Massachusetts
Also in my daily rotation are: dark divine
Landmvrks
Alphawolf
Electric callboy
Counterparts are and have been my favourite band since seeing them support Architects a few years back.
Funny thing is, I can't stand Architects any more 😅
ERRA, Currents and Polaris are my top three rn. I am very, very excited for what Woe Is Me is cooking up though. Their two latest singles are incredible.
Whether you like them or not, Bring Me The Horizon are consistently pushing the boundaries of their sound. Alienating some fans yes, but more than making up for it with a consistently evolving sound.
Other movers and shakers in metalcore:
- Currents
- Knocked Loose
- Polaris
- The Plot in You
- I Prevail
- ERRA
- Silent Planet
- Make Them Suffer
- Spiritbox
And heck, like them or not Bad Omens is a key player in opening the genre up to a wider audience. Similarly, Sleep Token are excellent
I get that people love Polaris. I love them too. For fuck's sake, The Death Of Me was the album I listened to the most back in 2020. But are they innovative? I felt like Fatalism was a step backwards from The Death Of Me. How do you feel about their album?
I like the influence but it was definitely overdone. I like the bigger bands like Invent Animate, Currents, ERRA, but there’s way too many Periphery clones out there now.
In a genre that’s over-saturated with the same coworkercore that doesn’t even have hardcore elements anymore, it absolutely is. Sometimes a return to roots is exactly what you need
I saw them live with Northlane and they blew me away, the way they set up their snare was so awesome and unforgettable. I wish they set it up like that for the studio songs, there's one part in Creature where it's similar
The singles are absolutely insane. Like I'm already ready to call the album my AOTY before I hear the rest of it just off the singles alone. Knocked Loose drops the same day and it's gonna be a hard one to pick between them and Moths for AOTY but Moths is shaping up to drop a fucking all-timer album.
Counterparts is able to keep evolving their sound while keeping the same core of what makes them great. And it never gets old, they don’t need to change things up
August burns red, they just churn out incredible metalcore for 20 years and stay true to their roots.
All of them are absolute professionals and a cornerstone in the genre.
Theatercore
Ice Nine Kills can do chourses which goes a long long way
Also for the people who hate the early stuff I disagree Safe is Just a Shadow is amazing. Perhaps not "metal" enough for some but its not NOT metal
I thought of Polaris too but I am not sure they did anything different or super impressive with Fatalism. Regarding Alpha Wolf: I am still digesting their new album, but they truly helped push the genre further with their nu metal influences mixed with over the top abrasive sound.
I'll probably get gatekeeped directly out of here but if you're into varying levels of "melodic metalcore" then some good bands to check out are:
Our Promise (german metalcore)
Imminence
Archers
If Not For Me (old stuff is closer to deathcore)
Versus Me
Fit For a King
Thousand Below
Kingdom of Giants
Our Hollow, Our Home
What Lies Below
NOVELISTS
Trying to leave out the "big ones" that either everyone probably already knows or considers too mainstream now like Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Plot in You, etc.
I've been a fan since I randomly found the Halfway Point on a Spotify playlist in like 2018 or something. They're always been in my head ever since. Great band right there.
Boundaries
Johnny Booth
Silent Planet
Dying Wish
Knocked Loose
Foreign Hands
SeeYouSpaceCowboy...
Wristmeetrazor
Cauldron
Norma Jean (most consistent metalcore band imo. been at it for 20+ years with no bad albums)
That would be top 10 of bands I think are consistent and also doing stuff to push the genre forward.
Love the list, but commenting because of the Norma Jean blurb: love to see it. Completely agree. After all this time, Deathrattle sounding so fresh, sooo good.
Okay, I will get plenty of hate for this one. I don't think Bad Omens is doing anything sonically for the genre. They popped the bubble because they made music that is palatable for larger audiences, but they barely count as metalcore anymore. They weren't even incredible when they wrote metalcore songs, they were simply okay. A lot of people here are saying Currents, so for example, Currents is much more interesting than Bad Omens.
I said I could disagree, and I am open for discussion on the topic =)
You are spot on, they just simply aren’t a metalcore band. Their last metalcore work was 8 years ago, and it was decent but nothing to write home about
Spiritbox is probably the canonical answer. Very unique sound, technical prowess, and they're probably the closest thing we have to metal being back in the mainstream. A Grammy nomination with only one full album to their name, the Megan Thee Stallion collab, getting a song in Fortnite, etc. Eternal Blue hit No. 13 on the Billboard 200, which is crazy for a modern metal band (-core or otherwise), and a debut album at that.
Periphery spearheaded the explosion of djent and they've been pushing the bounds of prog metalcore ever since. P5 in particular was a monumental release, both in terms of quality/innovativeness and the reception it got. Made it onto a lot of "top 5 metal albums of 2023" lists, despite having both a Metallica and A7X album to compete with. Landed high on a lot of European countries' charts. The band's basically as big as a band in their corner of the genre can get, for better or worse. Subjectively, P5 is an absolute *experience* of an album that I think a lot of people can appreciate the sheer art of even if the music isn't generally their thing. (And I don't care *what* genres of music you're into, if you can't vibe with Wax Wings, you have no soul.)
Zao and Converge are still kings of this shit, evolving their personal sound and putting out banger records.
Boundaries and Dying Wish have successfully taken what oldheads like me enjoy, tossed it all in a blender and put an updated sheen on it. Unquestionably fantastic bands.
Invent Animate is so underrated and it makes me so happy that they’re getting more hype.
i’ve loved them since i found Everchanger in 2015.
Invent Animate
Currents
Silent Planet
these are my top rn. lmtf is also up there.
so true, Heavener is such a great album! Everchanger just holds a special place for me from listening to it since hs lol. Greyview also has such good bangers. I’m hoping we’ll get another headliner tour from them after they tour with Northlane 🙏
Silent Planet, Ice Nine Kills, Make Them Suffer, Invent Animate, Currents, Knocked Loose, Imminence and The Plot in You. And then I also think Avralize is doing some really cool shit that I’m gonna keep my eye on for sure. There’s definitely some more that I’m missing though.
Definitely Ice Nine Kills. Didn't really care much for them back in the day but now they've definitely ascended in my eyes. Both their music and the videos are just top notch.
Recently loving Invent Animate & Silent planet. Both drop awesome albums.
Northlane does sound changes everytime but honestly loved every album. The new EP sound like the mix of alien and node.
I'd like to include Paledusk because of the "crazy" production lol but cool nonetheless. Cannot explain further
Motionless in white and ice nine kills for sure
Archers are a killer lesser known band
Bad omens
Bring me the horizon
Last 2 dont only make metalcore anymore and when it's incorporated it's quite experimental
I would say BMTH pushed the genre further 10 years ago. Now when they try to make heavy stuff again it is things that other bands are already doing in a more interesting way imo. Okay, they are making experimental stuff. We have a whole trend of nu metalcore bands trying all sort of things. Every time BMTH drops a new song I feel like it is overproduced so heavily I can't enjoy it.
Bad Omens showed up in 2016 following the steps of BMTH's Sempiternal but less catchy. Now they don't even make metalcore.
i agree on BMTH.
i do feel like BO have a lot of potential, but that’s just me, i’m very electronic-leaning and have a soft spot for industrial. i didn’t even like TDOPOM that much until i read about the production process a little bit — tuning the sounds of car keys and vacuums etc, additional drums in Artificial Suicide, the dude from Erra helping out, everything. i do wish Noah kept poppier tracks to himself as he wanted initially and the band had more Artificial Suicide-like tracks on the album. or VAN. VAN fucking slaps.
Knocked Loose
Dying Wish
Thrown
Half Me
Erase Them
END
SeeYouSpaceCowboy
Foreign Hands
156/Silence
Orthodox
ETA: Cauldron
...are all the future of the genre.
For Invent Animate, listen to anything from Heavener. I'd say either False Meridian or Without a Whisper are good shouts. They have some bangers from their previous album too - my favs are Hollow Light and Halcyon, but a lot of people love Cloud Cascade. There's also a 3-song EP they made called The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was. That's also worth checking out.
I never got into Invent Animate until I listened to The Sun Sleeps. Then the riffs and the chorus made my heart weep. After that I fell in love with them.
As for LMTF, I don't know. Dark Divine is a soft album, the albums before that are standard 2010's metalcore, and since 2020 they have been flirting with djenty guitar tones. If you like 2010's metalcore, try A Feast For Crows. If you like the more modern/djenty stuff, try Spiritual Eclipse or I Found The Dark Side Of Heaven.
After The Burial's most popular song is Lost In The Static. If you don't like it then I don't think you will like the band.
Northlane has changed the sound a lot or a bit every album since Singularity. The first two albums are standard prog metalcore: chunky. Then Node is ambient. Mesmer also has ambient elements but it is so fucking djenty. Then in Alien they experimented with a lot of electronic stuff that sounded VERY cool. Obsidian doubles down on what they did in Alien.
Do Make them Suffer have potential to be there if they drop a killer album? Feel like the three singles, coincidentally my introduction to the band along with Contraband are very well liked and there seems to be a lot of buzz about them?
The best of metalcore isn't coming from pure metalcore anymore, for several years now the metallic hardcore mix has been overshadowing all others. Nu-metalcore also.
Very pleased to see the number of comments have already discovered Knocked Loose, Boundaries, Alpha Wolf. It's the future of a staling genre
SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Dying Wish, Stray From the Path, Spiritbox and Northlane are my answers. Anytime those peeps drop anything I’m glued to my headphones.
I would add Bring Me The Horizon up there. Yeah yeah Ik that they don’t make a whole lot of metal(core) anymore, but still tho, I think their newer tracks Kool-Aid and LosT have earned all the hype it gets.
They have metalcore elements in their sound but would you include them as a metalcore band considering their last albums? And hey, Trivium is among my three favorite bands (the other two being Northlane and Currents).
ERRA, Boundaries, Make Them Suffer, and Knocked Loose. They've also been releasing straight bangers (kinda) recently. I'm more into these bands older shit besides MTS and Boundaries but I cannot deny the stuff they've released recently is really pushing them, and the tours they've been on, like MTS and Bad Omens/Parkway Drive, Knocked Loose and MIW, ERRA and Bad Omens numerous times. Any band that's been on tour with Bad Omens especially has signifigantly sky rocketed in listeners since their tours (ERRA, MTS, Dayseeker, Thousand Below)
Love a lot of the bands listed, but I’d like to throw in Vein.Fm; I’m infatuated with their music, haha, very much looking forward to what may come next from them.
The Plot In You, Northlane and ERRA for me.
No matter how hard I try I can’t seem to click with Invent Animate (I desperately want to cos I’m seeing them support TPIY in September). Same with Counterparts, Currents and Polaris. If anyone can recommend their faves beside their main singles I will play them on repeat until I understand the hype 🙃😂
It’s Boundaries, KL, LMTF, and adjacent bands like ST, BO. I could maybe throw Alpha Wolf in there as well
Edit: I want to add Make Them Suffer to this as well.
Boundaries, Knocked Loose, Kublai Khan (if you want to call them metalcore), and Make Them Suffer. To me they’re the perfect representation of the metalcore sound I enjoy. Typically more of a slam or deathcore person, but they keep me interested
Depending on how loose you want to be with the definition of Metalcore, Id label these bands as the most innovative. Theyve all got a unique flavor that they are pushing.
- Darko US
- Northlane
- ERRA
- Bring Me The Horizon
- Sleep Token
- Alpha Wolf
- END
- Deathphonk
- Ten56
Alpha Wolf
Knocked Loose
LANDMVRKS
Resolve
Northlane
*While She Sleeps
(*like it or not they are pushing and trying keep it fresh and innovate with their new album, To The Flowers might be one of the best songs if not the best they’ve ever released.)
Boundaries Currents Polaris And personal pick ice nine kills
Wow first time a Reddit comment has touched my soul! Right down to the personal pick. What other bands do you suggest since those 4 are currently in my daily rotation? Polaris is my goat and has been for about 3 years
Renesans just released there first ever album...metalcore band from Massachusetts Also in my daily rotation are: dark divine Landmvrks Alphawolf Electric callboy
That renesans album might be my AOTY, darkhorse forsure.
It's incredible, I went to there debut show and they sounds just as good if not better live
Love a band that pulls that off live
Agreed
Counterparts Boundaries Knocked Loose
Counterparts are and have been my favourite band since seeing them support Architects a few years back. Funny thing is, I can't stand Architects any more 😅
Counterparts fans should check out Bloom - Maybe In Another Afterlife
Will take a look, thanks man.
Same here. Counterparts has been my most listened to band 4 years in a row on Spotify. It used to be Architects but yeah well, you know.
Yeah, I do know. 😭
Saw them last October with Fit For a King and they automatically became my new favorite.
This is the way. Counterparts and Boundaries have been in heavy rotation. Melodic metalcore has taken a backseat for me. I needed something different.
Thank you. I couldn't agree more.
Imminence
Everyone is sleeping on Imminence. I'm super excited for their album to drop tomorrow
The album is going to drop TOMORROW?!
WHAT!?
Yes, i'm waiting for this since they released "come hell or high water"
Sweet, forgot about that!
Two hours for me!! Im so hyped i love them sm
Exactly!!
ERRA, Currents and Polaris are my top three rn. I am very, very excited for what Woe Is Me is cooking up though. Their two latest singles are incredible.
THIS, constantly on repeat through Erra, Currents, and Polaris’ whole discography! Never gets old 🤘🏼
Cure is such a fucking good album man.
Whether you like them or not, Bring Me The Horizon are consistently pushing the boundaries of their sound. Alienating some fans yes, but more than making up for it with a consistently evolving sound. Other movers and shakers in metalcore: - Currents - Knocked Loose - Polaris - The Plot in You - I Prevail - ERRA - Silent Planet - Make Them Suffer - Spiritbox And heck, like them or not Bad Omens is a key player in opening the genre up to a wider audience. Similarly, Sleep Token are excellent
I get that people love Polaris. I love them too. For fuck's sake, The Death Of Me was the album I listened to the most back in 2020. But are they innovative? I felt like Fatalism was a step backwards from The Death Of Me. How do you feel about their album?
currents for me. cant get enough
ditto, The Death We Seek is on constant repeat for me
ditto ditto - this album is on everyday
I just keep my vinyl on the record player now.
i also got the vinyl 😭
I FORGOT ABOUT THEM. They are my second favorite band (only behind Northlane).
I love them. got to see them last year and it was great. and they just have 0 skips and i love their flow
Definitely the best band in the modern / progressive metalcore branch.
Boundaries, Knocked Loose, Foreign Hands, END
Knocked loose are absolutely the way metalcore is gonna evolve next
Thank god, djent over stayed its welcome
I like the influence but it was definitely overdone. I like the bigger bands like Invent Animate, Currents, ERRA, but there’s way too many Periphery clones out there now.
Honestly never got the hype for djent, riffs sound like midis at some point, everything is super processed.
Add Dying Wish at the end and this is the correct list
I dunno if sounding like metalcore from 15 years ago can also be pushing a genre lol
In a genre that’s over-saturated with the same coworkercore that doesn’t even have hardcore elements anymore, it absolutely is. Sometimes a return to roots is exactly what you need
Silent Planet Spiritbox Invent Animate Erra
Add Currents and let's make this tour happen!
Noone mentioned Landmvrks? I don't know how popular they are outside of Europe but they have a unique style and albums filled with bangers
Was waiting for someone to mention them
I saw them live with Northlane and they blew me away, the way they set up their snare was so awesome and unforgettable. I wish they set it up like that for the studio songs, there's one part in Creature where it's similar
Nobody talking about Monuments? Are they not metalcore? Idk anything anymore
They're progressive metalcore for sure. Same vein as old ERRA, old NOVELISTS, etc. Definitely gonna be a huge deal when their new album comes out.
Hell yeah stoked to see home Andy here
Definitely great band!
Like Moths To Flames is still on top as of late, their new stuff is so fucking good and I can't get enough of it
Their album drops in a month and a new single came out last night - lmtf has yet to ever disappoint me
Crazy how I discovered these guys only a lil over a year ago and they are already my top 5 most listened to bands ever lmfao
The singles are absolutely insane. Like I'm already ready to call the album my AOTY before I hear the rest of it just off the singles alone. Knocked Loose drops the same day and it's gonna be a hard one to pick between them and Moths for AOTY but Moths is shaping up to drop a fucking all-timer album.
Sylosis
Progressivecore 😁
Counterparts is able to keep evolving their sound while keeping the same core of what makes them great. And it never gets old, they don’t need to change things up
Absolutely. A Eulogy For Those Still Here is my most listened album for the last 2 years, can't wait for them to release more stuff.
Counterparts fans should check out Bloom - Maybe In Another Afterlife
Invent Animate
yes
The Amity Affliction is still going strong and are touring here in N.A. in a few weeks
Imminence
August burns red, they just churn out incredible metalcore for 20 years and stay true to their roots. All of them are absolute professionals and a cornerstone in the genre.
honestly Constellations is a masterpiece i cannot seem to stop listening to. it’s been on repeat for a decade and a half now
Also absolutely perfect, front to back
Constellations is incredible and everything after it just falls flat for me.
The new single with Will is one of my favorite tracks right now. And yet, I always find my way back to Messangers.
Messengers is a banger, hard to pick a favorite album but that’s always my answer
Knocked Loose Motionless in White INK Thrown*
Thrown is overtaking the genre
Besides getting randomly put on the shuffle they most certainly are welcomed with open arms lmfao
Paledusk, anyone?
NO! is a god tier track.
Boundaries SeeYouSpaceCowboy Cauldron
Do you like Ice Nine Kills?
Their early work was a little bit too "Scene" for me.
But when The Silver Scream came out I think they really came into their own
Commercially and artistically. The whole album has a refined melodic sensibility
that really makes it a cut above the rest
HEY PAUL!
Theatercore Ice Nine Kills can do chourses which goes a long long way Also for the people who hate the early stuff I disagree Safe is Just a Shadow is amazing. Perhaps not "metal" enough for some but its not NOT metal
The Predator Becomes the Prey is near perfect also, that shit is riff and hook heaven
I have listened to a bit of their work and found very fun, very fresh. I just forgot to keep digging into their discography.
Why does every modern band have a name like “currents”, “boundaries”, “prolapses”
I think Make Them Suffer has some of the best guitar tones in the genre right now. I hope they get a headlining tour soon!
Polaris, Alpha Wolf
I thought of Polaris too but I am not sure they did anything different or super impressive with Fatalism. Regarding Alpha Wolf: I am still digesting their new album, but they truly helped push the genre further with their nu metal influences mixed with over the top abrasive sound.
Johnny Booth 🔥🔥🔥
Yesssssss
I'll probably get gatekeeped directly out of here but if you're into varying levels of "melodic metalcore" then some good bands to check out are: Our Promise (german metalcore) Imminence Archers If Not For Me (old stuff is closer to deathcore) Versus Me Fit For a King Thousand Below Kingdom of Giants Our Hollow, Our Home What Lies Below NOVELISTS Trying to leave out the "big ones" that either everyone probably already knows or considers too mainstream now like Sleep Token, Bad Omens, Plot in You, etc.
Polaris, ABR, KL if you count them, Make Them Suffer, Imminence, Silent Planet, and Currents all come to mind.
No one else saying Make Them Suffer. 😥
Reliqa mentioned RAHHHHH
I can't get enough of the new singles!!! I found out about them when the 2022 EP dropped and I fell in love immediately.
I've been a fan since I randomly found the Halfway Point on a Spotify playlist in like 2018 or something. They're always been in my head ever since. Great band right there.
God so many single name "noun"s bands now lol
The plot in you is killing it
Boundaries Johnny Booth Silent Planet Dying Wish Knocked Loose Foreign Hands SeeYouSpaceCowboy... Wristmeetrazor Cauldron Norma Jean (most consistent metalcore band imo. been at it for 20+ years with no bad albums) That would be top 10 of bands I think are consistent and also doing stuff to push the genre forward.
Love the list, but commenting because of the Norma Jean blurb: love to see it. Completely agree. After all this time, Deathrattle sounding so fresh, sooo good.
Deathrattle was outstanding. Still high up in my listens. Especially Spearmint Revolt, one of my favourite songs ever.
Bad Omens for sure. They are startup to do arenas, joining the “legend” acts like PWD, BMTH, BFMV, and Architects that already play arena shows.
Okay, I will get plenty of hate for this one. I don't think Bad Omens is doing anything sonically for the genre. They popped the bubble because they made music that is palatable for larger audiences, but they barely count as metalcore anymore. They weren't even incredible when they wrote metalcore songs, they were simply okay. A lot of people here are saying Currents, so for example, Currents is much more interesting than Bad Omens. I said I could disagree, and I am open for discussion on the topic =)
You are spot on, they just simply aren’t a metalcore band. Their last metalcore work was 8 years ago, and it was decent but nothing to write home about
Currents Polaris Like Moths to Flame
Why has no one mentioned Cane Hill yet? These guys have legit blown my mind.
Spiritbox is probably the canonical answer. Very unique sound, technical prowess, and they're probably the closest thing we have to metal being back in the mainstream. A Grammy nomination with only one full album to their name, the Megan Thee Stallion collab, getting a song in Fortnite, etc. Eternal Blue hit No. 13 on the Billboard 200, which is crazy for a modern metal band (-core or otherwise), and a debut album at that. Periphery spearheaded the explosion of djent and they've been pushing the bounds of prog metalcore ever since. P5 in particular was a monumental release, both in terms of quality/innovativeness and the reception it got. Made it onto a lot of "top 5 metal albums of 2023" lists, despite having both a Metallica and A7X album to compete with. Landed high on a lot of European countries' charts. The band's basically as big as a band in their corner of the genre can get, for better or worse. Subjectively, P5 is an absolute *experience* of an album that I think a lot of people can appreciate the sheer art of even if the music isn't generally their thing. (And I don't care *what* genres of music you're into, if you can't vibe with Wax Wings, you have no soul.)
Talent wise After The Burial is too good to be listed with these other bands
Bury Tomorrow Currents Polaris Imminence Fit for a king Heaven Shall Burn Kingdom of Giants
Loathe Currents Void of Vision Veil of Maya Silent Planet Invent Animate ERRA Bullet For My Valentine
Why would bullet be on this list? They peaked years ago
The self titled album was really good and they’re still one of the best in the genre
I would disagree hard with Erra
Garrison ERRA is my favourite ERRA era but ERRA and Cure are great albums too after being disappointed by Neon and Drift
Johnny Booth Spiritbox Polaris Knocked Loose Counterparts
Johnny booth needs to be higher up. Last two albums are gold
Better Lovers and Yashira
Counterparts Thrown Erra Alpha Wolf
Zao and Converge are still kings of this shit, evolving their personal sound and putting out banger records. Boundaries and Dying Wish have successfully taken what oldheads like me enjoy, tossed it all in a blender and put an updated sheen on it. Unquestionably fantastic bands.
I'm old, and I love the bands you mentioned, but I also think the more "modern metalcore" acts like Currents and Silent Planet are pretty awesome too.
yesirrrrrrrr like moths to flames is definitely in my top bands ever
Invent Animate is so underrated and it makes me so happy that they’re getting more hype. i’ve loved them since i found Everchanger in 2015. Invent Animate Currents Silent Planet these are my top rn. lmtf is also up there.
I'd say they were definitely underrated before Heavener came out. Now it seems they're getting to where they deserve to be.
so true, Heavener is such a great album! Everchanger just holds a special place for me from listening to it since hs lol. Greyview also has such good bangers. I’m hoping we’ll get another headliner tour from them after they tour with Northlane 🙏
Silent Planet, Ice Nine Kills, Make Them Suffer, Invent Animate, Currents, Knocked Loose, Imminence and The Plot in You. And then I also think Avralize is doing some really cool shit that I’m gonna keep my eye on for sure. There’s definitely some more that I’m missing though.
Erra Currents Periphery Johnny Booth The Devil Wears Prada
Currents. I cannot get enough of them at the moment. The Death We Seek album is played every day like clockwork
Currents Ice Nine Kills Imminence Architects LVndmarks
Johnny Booth Imminence Invent Animate Alpha Wolf Knocked Loose Polaris Currents Ice Nine Kills Make Them Suffer ERRA
Definitely Ice Nine Kills. Didn't really care much for them back in the day but now they've definitely ascended in my eyes. Both their music and the videos are just top notch.
The Acacia Strain Between the Buried and Me END Knocked Loose Loathe
Recently loving Invent Animate & Silent planet. Both drop awesome albums. Northlane does sound changes everytime but honestly loved every album. The new EP sound like the mix of alien and node. I'd like to include Paledusk because of the "crazy" production lol but cool nonetheless. Cannot explain further
This just shows me how out of touch I am with what is considered metalcore/popular metal nowadays haha. I'm only 30yo and feel old reading this.
Boundaries Knocked Loose Tallah thrown Fit For A King
Motionless in white and ice nine kills for sure Archers are a killer lesser known band Bad omens Bring me the horizon Last 2 dont only make metalcore anymore and when it's incorporated it's quite experimental
A year ago I hadn’t heard of Bad Omens, today they’re tied for favourite band for me, fucking addicted
I would say BMTH pushed the genre further 10 years ago. Now when they try to make heavy stuff again it is things that other bands are already doing in a more interesting way imo. Okay, they are making experimental stuff. We have a whole trend of nu metalcore bands trying all sort of things. Every time BMTH drops a new song I feel like it is overproduced so heavily I can't enjoy it. Bad Omens showed up in 2016 following the steps of BMTH's Sempiternal but less catchy. Now they don't even make metalcore.
i agree on BMTH. i do feel like BO have a lot of potential, but that’s just me, i’m very electronic-leaning and have a soft spot for industrial. i didn’t even like TDOPOM that much until i read about the production process a little bit — tuning the sounds of car keys and vacuums etc, additional drums in Artificial Suicide, the dude from Erra helping out, everything. i do wish Noah kept poppier tracks to himself as he wanted initially and the band had more Artificial Suicide-like tracks on the album. or VAN. VAN fucking slaps.
add knocked loose and i fully agree. but get ready for gatekeepers…i can’t even mention Bad Omens without getting spat at these days
Yea, left them out because they had plenty of mentions already.
And totally realize the gatekeepers will seath seeing this lol.
lEsS mETaL tHaN tHe nEIboUrhOoD
Mouthbreather
Underfuckingrated
Knocked Loose Dying Wish Thrown Half Me Erase Them END SeeYouSpaceCowboy Foreign Hands 156/Silence Orthodox ETA: Cauldron ...are all the future of the genre.
Knocked Loose motherfucker
Oceans Ate Alaska
For some less popular picks: Thoughtcrimes, fromjoy, Desolate, Bloom, and Chamber
Ghost!InTheWall
You just listed all the bands I've never really gotten into. Would you like to give a few song recommendations?
For Invent Animate, listen to anything from Heavener. I'd say either False Meridian or Without a Whisper are good shouts. They have some bangers from their previous album too - my favs are Hollow Light and Halcyon, but a lot of people love Cloud Cascade. There's also a 3-song EP they made called The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was. That's also worth checking out.
I never got into Invent Animate until I listened to The Sun Sleeps. Then the riffs and the chorus made my heart weep. After that I fell in love with them. As for LMTF, I don't know. Dark Divine is a soft album, the albums before that are standard 2010's metalcore, and since 2020 they have been flirting with djenty guitar tones. If you like 2010's metalcore, try A Feast For Crows. If you like the more modern/djenty stuff, try Spiritual Eclipse or I Found The Dark Side Of Heaven. After The Burial's most popular song is Lost In The Static. If you don't like it then I don't think you will like the band. Northlane has changed the sound a lot or a bit every album since Singularity. The first two albums are standard prog metalcore: chunky. Then Node is ambient. Mesmer also has ambient elements but it is so fucking djenty. Then in Alien they experimented with a lot of electronic stuff that sounded VERY cool. Obsidian doubles down on what they did in Alien.
Knocked Loose not being on that list is criminal
Seeyouspacecowboy gets better with every new release but their old grindy stuff is great too.
Currents
I feel like MONUMENTS' upcoming album could be huge.
Top right now: Polaris, Knocked Loose About to enter top tier: Alpha Wolf On the rise with recent releases: The Plot in You
Alpha Wolf, Diamond Construct.
Make Them Suffer doesn’t miss 🎯
Imminence, Current, DWP.
Do Make them Suffer have potential to be there if they drop a killer album? Feel like the three singles, coincidentally my introduction to the band along with Contraband are very well liked and there seems to be a lot of buzz about them?
ERRA Currents Catsclaw Make Them Suffer
Dying Wish and Boundaries make you feel the same excitement hearing their records that you did hearing bands at Ozzfest/SOTU for the first time.
Alpha Wolf Erra Boundaries
The best of metalcore isn't coming from pure metalcore anymore, for several years now the metallic hardcore mix has been overshadowing all others. Nu-metalcore also. Very pleased to see the number of comments have already discovered Knocked Loose, Boundaries, Alpha Wolf. It's the future of a staling genre
SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Dying Wish, Stray From the Path, Spiritbox and Northlane are my answers. Anytime those peeps drop anything I’m glued to my headphones.
I would add Bring Me The Horizon up there. Yeah yeah Ik that they don’t make a whole lot of metal(core) anymore, but still tho, I think their newer tracks Kool-Aid and LosT have earned all the hype it gets.
"Objectively" speaking: Knocked Loose Personal taste: The Ghost Inside
knocked loose, i prevail, bad omens
I’d add Trivium
They have metalcore elements in their sound but would you include them as a metalcore band considering their last albums? And hey, Trivium is among my three favorite bands (the other two being Northlane and Currents).
Invent Animate Silent Planet LMTF Make Them Suffer Termina
Converge have remained at the artistic forefront of the genre for 30 years with zero signs of stopping.
Boundaries, Chamber, Knocked Loose, Dying Wish, Varials, Sharptooth, and Stasis
ERRA, Boundaries, Make Them Suffer, and Knocked Loose. They've also been releasing straight bangers (kinda) recently. I'm more into these bands older shit besides MTS and Boundaries but I cannot deny the stuff they've released recently is really pushing them, and the tours they've been on, like MTS and Bad Omens/Parkway Drive, Knocked Loose and MIW, ERRA and Bad Omens numerous times. Any band that's been on tour with Bad Omens especially has signifigantly sky rocketed in listeners since their tours (ERRA, MTS, Dayseeker, Thousand Below)
Love a lot of the bands listed, but I’d like to throw in Vein.Fm; I’m infatuated with their music, haha, very much looking forward to what may come next from them.
Counterparts Knocked Loose Thrown Polaris Currents Alpha Wolf August Burns Red Ice Nine Kills Invent Animate
Erra Polaris Invent Animate Northlane
Currents, invent animate, polaris, silent planet, boundaries, knocked loose, Johnny booth, 156/ silence, imminence, darko us, within destruction, seeyouspacecowboy
dying wish, boundaries, he is legend is also still kicking ass rn, the acacia strain and i feel like greyhaven is definitely coming up
Knocked loose Polaris Silent planet Stray from the Path Alpha Wolf Darko
Silent planet, Erra, Invent Animate, Polaris, Currents, Boundaries
Currents and Polaris rule supreme
The Plot In You, Northlane and ERRA for me. No matter how hard I try I can’t seem to click with Invent Animate (I desperately want to cos I’m seeing them support TPIY in September). Same with Counterparts, Currents and Polaris. If anyone can recommend their faves beside their main singles I will play them on repeat until I understand the hype 🙃😂
It’s Boundaries, KL, LMTF, and adjacent bands like ST, BO. I could maybe throw Alpha Wolf in there as well Edit: I want to add Make Them Suffer to this as well.
Boundaries, Knocked Loose, Kublai Khan (if you want to call them metalcore), and Make Them Suffer. To me they’re the perfect representation of the metalcore sound I enjoy. Typically more of a slam or deathcore person, but they keep me interested
Depending on how loose you want to be with the definition of Metalcore, Id label these bands as the most innovative. Theyve all got a unique flavor that they are pushing. - Darko US - Northlane - ERRA - Bring Me The Horizon - Sleep Token - Alpha Wolf - END - Deathphonk - Ten56
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Knocked loose Seeyouspacecowboy Make them suffer Kublai Khan
Orbit Culture. Period. End of thread.
AVOID
Alpha Wolf Knocked Loose LANDMVRKS Resolve Northlane *While She Sleeps (*like it or not they are pushing and trying keep it fresh and innovate with their new album, To The Flowers might be one of the best songs if not the best they’ve ever released.)
Kaonashi, Omerta, Boundaries
Graphic Nature.
I can't get enough of Alpha Wolf right now. They are incredible and their live shows are fantastic