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2 [[caption-width-right:350:A small selection of bands with cool logos.]]
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4[floatboxright:
5Primary Stylistic Influences (traditional) :
6+ ThrashMetal, HardcorePunk
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9Secondary Stylistic Influences (traditional):
10+ DeathMetal, BlackMetal, {{Grindcore}}
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14Primary Stylistic Influences (Melodic Metalcore):
15+ MelodicDeathMetal, Traditional Metalcore
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18Secondary Stylistic Influences (Melodic Metalcore):
19+ PostHardcore, AlternativeMetal, New Wave Of British Heavy Metal, DeathMetal
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22Secondary Stylistic Influences (Entombedcore):
23+ {{Grindcore}}, Powerviolence, Crust Punk, DeathMetal, Sludge Metal
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26Secondary Stylistic Influences (Nu-metalcore):
27+ NuMetal, AlternativeMetal, RapMetal, ElectronicMusic
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30Metalcore (also known as "metallic hardcore" or erroneously referred to as "screamo", names given to the more punk-influenced bands) is a combination of HeavyMetal, ThrashMetal and HardcorePunk, and sometimes takes a more melodic approach to the songs than thrash. It is characterised by gratuitous use of the MetalScream, as well as breakdowns -- lots and lots of breakdowns (although due to, ahem, certain bands, this attribute has been {{Flanderized}} a bit). If you're not in the know, a "breakdown" is when the music kind-of slows down to induce moshing or "throwing down"...or something like that. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEj2Z1yfWnI Illustrated]] with Music/{{Helmet}}'s cover of the
31''Anime/{{Gigantor}}'' theme - the breakdowns are at 1:16 and 2:42.) Modern bands often tend to mix it up with clean vocals and melodic riffs (see Melodic metalcore below).
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33Metalcore began life as a blending between thrash metal and hardcore punk, and was used to describe bands such as [[Music/DirtyRottenImbeciles D.R.I.]], S.O.D., and Music/SuicidalTendencies in the 1980's, however the term changed its meaning in the 1990's to "metallic hardcore", and the genre metalcore originally defined became known as "crossover thrash". This newer "wave" of metalcore included bands such as Integrity, Earth Crisis and Converge. By the end of the nineties, metalcore had evolved into "melodic metalcore", which slowly grew in popularity until the mid-2000s, when it was a big mainstream draw. In fact, today, metalcore is the most commercially popular form of metal.
34
35There are several common styles of metalcore. These include:
36
37* '''Metallic hardcore''': The original wave of the genre, as well as newer revivalist acts. Generally involves a heavier, more mosh-friendly approach with slower tempos than crossover and a reduced thrash presence. Famous acts include Integrity, Ringworm, Overcast, Earth Crisis, All Out War, and Rorschach.
38* '''Mathcore''': Technical metalcore involving odd time signatures, dissonant chords (the fabled "panic chord"), and frequent GenreMashup tendencies. Famous acts include Music/{{Converge}}, Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, Music/{{Candiria}}, Music/TheChariot, Car Bomb, and Music/{{Botch}}.
39* '''Melodic metalcore''': ''The'' most famous style in the genre, this started out as a mix of metallic hardcore and melodic death metal, sometimes with thrash metal influences; occasional elements of post-hardcore or alternative metal may also be mixed in. Characterized by melodic death metal-style guitar riffs, faster tempos, frequent guitar solos, and (for many though not all bands) greater use of clean vocals. Famous acts include Music/KillswitchEngage, Music/ShadowsFall, Music/AllThatRemains, Bleeding Through, Music/{{Unearth}}, God Forbid, Music/ParkwayDrive, Music/AsILayDying, and Music/{{Trivium}}.
40* '''Modern metalcore''': This style of metalcore places much greater emphasis on its post-hardcore and alternative metal inclinations, generally featuring catchy choruses, somewhat greater use of breakdowns, and gratuitous use of clean vocals; many bands also embrace electronic elements. Some bands retain vestigial influences from melodic metalcore. Famous acts include Music/BulletForMyValentine, Music/TheDevilWearsPrada, Asking Alexandria, mid-era Music/BringMeTheHorizon, Music/IceNineKills, early Music/AvengedSevenfold, Atreyu, Wage War, Bad Omens, and Music/MotionlessInWhite.
41** '''Progressive metalcore''': A spinoff of modern metalcore, typically involving more technical guitar work and more atmospheric synths, as well as featuring extremely prominent djent elements. Famous acts include Architects, Erra, later Born of Osiris, Northlane, Currents, Invent Animate, and later Veil of Maya.
42* '''Beatdown hardcore''': An offshoot of metallic hardcore involving slower tempos, far more frequent breakdowns, and a generally much heavier, more mosh-centric approach. Famous acts include Music/{{Hatebreed}}, Madball, Terror, 25 ta Life, Biohazard, Kublai Khan TX, Knocked Loose, and Harm's Way.
43** '''Slamming beatdown''': A microgenre that has solidified as of the late 2010s, slamming beatdown is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: beatdown hardcore crossed with slam death metal, and is distinctive enough to get a mention. Most acts come from the hardcore side, but a few come from the death metal or deathcore side and skew closer to slam, using more traditional death metal gutturals (and, in the case of deathcore-based acts, atmospheric leads and occasional deathcore breakdowns). Famous acts include Bodysnatcher (the ''Death of Me'' reissue bonus tracks onward), No Zodiac, Dysentery, Acranius, The Merciless Concept, and Paleface Swiss.
44* '''Entombedcore''': A blend of old-school metallic hardcore, old-school death metal, and often crust punk or powerviolence, typically involving the "chainsaw" guitar sound of old-school Swedish death metal (hence the reference to Music/{{Entombed}}). Famous acts include Music/TrapThem, Music/{{Nails}}, Cursed, Fuming Mouth, All Pigs Must Die, Sect, and Wolf King.
45* '''Nu metalcore''': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: metalcore and NuMetal combined, often with a rapping presence and industrial elements, as well as prominent clean vocals in the lighter acts. Famous acts include Music/CodeOrange, Vein.fm, Music/{{Spiritbox}}, Music/OfMiceAndMen, Music/FromAshesToNew, Issues, and Music/{{Volumes}}.
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48Bands typically cited as metalcore include:
49
50[[foldercontrol]]
51[[index]]
52
53[[folder:Early metalcore/Metallic hardcore]]
54(includes beatdown hardcore and newer bands playing in the style):
55* 7 Angels 7 Plagues
56** Misery Signals
57** Dead To Fall
58* 100 Demons (also beatdown)
59* Music/{{Acme}}
60* Aftershock
61* All Else Failed
62* Music/AllOutWar (later material borders on death metal)
63* Architect (formerly Found Dead Hanging)
64* Music/ArmaAngelus (like Racetraitor, famous for its association with Music/FallOutBoy, who formed as a side project of Arma Angelus; additionally, [[Music/RiseAgainst Tim McIlrath]] and former Harm's Way guitarist Jay Jancetic were also members)
65* Music/{{Arkangel}}
66* Backstabbers Incorporated (also Grindcore)
67* Music/{{Biohazard}} (Incorporated rapping and NuMetal elements; possibly making them the UrExample for nu-metalcore that would become a trend two decades later)
68* Music/BlackTide
69* Blood Has Been Shed
70* Music/{{Bloodlet}}
71* Music/BuryYourDead
72* Music/CancerBats (also SludgeMetal)
73* Catharsis
74* Chamber (the Nashville-based one, also mathcore)
75* Crisis
76* Music/CrystalLake (Kentaro Nishimura era)
77* Music/{{Deadguy}} (some mathcore overlap, also a possible TropeCodifier for the latter genre)
78* Music/DeathRayVision (originally a SpiritualSuccessor to Overcast, now mostly its own thing)
79* Disembodied (also beatdown)
80** As is their next incarnation Martyr A.D.
81* Full Blown Chaos
82* Music/EarthCrisis (''Slither'' had some NuMetal mixed in, providing yet another UrExample for nu-metalcore)
83* Music/{{END}} (supergroup consisting of members from Shai Hulud, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Fit For An Autopsy, Reign Supreme and Counterparts; strong overlap with beatdown hardcore)
84* Great American Ghost
85* Music/GreeleyEstates
86* Music/{{Gulch}}
87* Music/{{Hatebreed}} (The most successful example)
88* Music/TheHopeConspiracy (possibly an UrExample of Entombedcore, but too heavy on the hardcore to really qualify)
89* Music/InColdBlood (side project of Aaron Melnick of Integrity fame, also known for briefly having [[Music/{{Mushroomhead}} Jason Popson]] on vocals)
90* Music/{{Integrity}} (TropeMaker, TropeCodifier, and probably the UrExample along with Ringworm)
91* Music/KnockedLoose (also beatdown)
92* Music/KublaiKhanTX (also beatdown)
93* Mutoid Man (also stoner rock and Southern rock)
94* Music/{{Overcast}} (TropeCodifier)
95* Music/{{Racetraitor}} (also powerviolence, potentially a ''very'' early UrExample of Entombedcore; also famous for their association with Music/FallOutBoy, as Andy Hurley is their longtime drummer and Pete Wentz was an on-again, off-again live bassist)
96* Music/{{Ringworm}} (TropeMaker, TropeCodifier, and most likely an UrExample along with Integrity)
97* River Black (essentially most of Burnt by the Sun plus the bassist from Revocation)
98* Music/{{Rorschach}}
99* Sanction
100* Music/{{Seeker}} (GenreBusting example with elements of deathcore, mathcore, and black metal)
101* Music/ShaiHulud (later material is mathcore)
102* Music/{{Skycamefalling}} (also PostHardcore)
103* [=SpiritWorld=]
104* Music/{{Starkweather}} (an EarlyInstallmentWeirdness[=/=]UnbuiltTrope for the entire SubGenre, drawing influences from DoomMetal, DeathMetal, ProgressiveMetal and AlternativeRock. Possibly the UrExample of the {{Soprano and Gravel}} technique as used by modern Metalcore bands )
105* Music/{{Terror}} (also beatdown)
106* Music/WhileSheSleeps (overlaps with melodic metalcore from ''You Are We'' onwards)
107[[/folder]]
108
109[[folder:Mathcore & Experimental metallic hardcore]]
110* Architect (formerly Found Dead Hanging)
111* Music/{{Architects}} (have gradually moved away from mathcore with each successive release, but still remain progressive metalcore at heart; ''The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit'' also contains elements of IndustrialMetal)
112* Music/BaringTeeth (also TechnicalDeathMetal)
113* Barishi (also post-metal)
114* The Bled
115* Music/TheBloodBrothers (also noise rock)
116* Music/{{Botch}} (TropeMaker[=/=]UrExample for mathcore along with Music/{{Converge}})
117* Music/BrainTentacles (GenreBusting example with extremely heavy jazz fusion and punk jazz overlap)
118* Burnt by the Sun
119* Music/{{Burst}} (has some overlap with ProgressiveMetal, but not enough to truly be called metal)
120* Music/CarBomb (later material has some djent elements)
121* Music/CaveIn (''Until Your Heart Stops'', later material is a mix of space rock, post-hardcore, and emo)
122* Music/TheChariot
123* Circuit of Suns
124* Music/{{Coalesce}} (along with Converge, TDEP, and Ion Dissonance, the TropeMaker for mathcore)
125* Codex Orzhova (also Nintendocore)
126* Music/{{Conforza}} (earlier material, also deathcore and djent; the Caitlin Marshall-era material is djenty TechnicalDeathMetal)
127* Music/{{Converge}} (TropeMaker)
128* Music/{{Crydebris}}
129* Music/CultLeader (''A Patient Man'', though they started moving in this direction as early as ''Lightless Walk'')
130* Music/CurlUpAndDie
131* Music/{{Daughters}}
132* Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan
133* The End
134* Fawn Limbs
135* Fear Before the March of Flames (early material)
136* Music/{{Frontierer}} (some deathcore and djent elements; ''Oxidized'' adds in elements of TechnicalDeathMetal and noise)
137* Music/{{Gaza}}
138* Gay For Johnny Depp
139* Geisterfahrer (also deathcore)
140* .gif from god (also emoviolence and grindcore)
141* Heavy Heavy Low Low
142* Into the Moat (has had run-ins with the deathcore label)
143* Music/IonDissonance (TropeMaker[=/=]TropeCodifier for mathcore with Converge, Coalesce, and The Dillinger Escape Plan; also some overlap with deathcore from ''Minus the Herd'' onward)
144* Music/{{Iwrestledabearonce}} (were known as a ''very'' GenreBusting example)
145* [[Music/KENmode KEN mode]] (bit of a GenreBusting example; changed sound to grunge/post-hardcore with ''[[NewSoundAlbum Success]]'', then reverted to their previous style for ''Loved''.)
146* Music/{{Kaonashi}} (mixed with PostHardcore)
147* Lethargy
148* Music/MeekIsMurder (mixed with screamo and noise rock)
149* [=NoiSays=]
150* Norma Jean (early material)
151* Music/TheNumber12LooksLikeYou
152* Psyopus
153* Music/{{Pyrrhon}} (also TechnicalDeathMetal)
154* Music/{{Reflections}} (very strong deathcore overlap, also {{djent}} and ProgressiveMetal)
155* Music/RoloTomassi (very technical metalcore with strong jazz and art rock elements)
156* Sectioned (the other band of Pedram Valiani of Frontierer; they mostly sound like a grindier, less djenty version of the latter)
157* [=SeeYouSpaceCowboy=] (''Songs for the Firing Squad'')
158* Sentinels
159* Sulaco (also has some death metal elements)
160* Music/TodayIsTheDay (also carries heavy {{Grindcore}} and NoiseRock influences)
161* The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (also deathcore and djent)
162* Wrestling/UltramantisBlack (strong noisegrind and mathgrind overlap, but has enough metal elements to also qualify as metalcore)
163* Uphill Battle (also grindcore)
164* Vein.fm (also beatdown and nu metal)
165* Voidbloom
166* Will Haven (also has elements of sludge metal and noise rock)
167* Wristmeetrazor (also emoviolence)
168* Music/{{Wrvth}} (has strong TechnicalDeathMetal overtones but is progressive metalcore at their core)
169* Yakuza
170* Yautja
171[[/folder]]
172
173[[folder:Modern/Melodic metalcore]]
174* Music/ThirtySixCrazyfists (early work was nu-metal)
175* Music/TheAcaciaStrain
176* The Afterimage (would later effectively turn into [[MorePopularSpinoff Brand of Sacrifice]], which shared the same founding lineup)
177* Music/AllElseFailed (UrExample)
178* Music/ALifeOnceLost (also GrooveMetal)
179* Music/TheAgonist (mixed with melodic death metal and deathcore)
180* The Agony Scene
181* Music/AllThatRemains (their first album was [[MelodicDeathMetal melodeath]]; briefly went into TraditionalHeavyMetal before returning to metalcore with ''Victim Of the New Disease'')
182* Alesana
183* The Amity Affliction
184* Music/AsILayDying (With a heavy ThrashMetal and MelodicDeathMetal bend on later albums)
185* Music/AskingAlexandria (overlaps with {{Electronicore}})
186* At All Cost
187* Music/{{Atreyu}} (UrExample, and a possible double UrExample for modern metalcore)
188* Music/{{Attack Attack}}! (Combines this with post hardcore and electronic music, sometimes called Electronicore)
189* Music/AugustBurnsRed (Also considered ProgressiveMetal)
190* The Autumn Offering (later material was closer to deathcore)
191* Music/AvengedSevenfold (first two albums, later became hard rock with virtually no traces of their old sound and also became far bigger that way; also probably an UrExample for the EmoMusic and PopPunk-influenced variant that wound up taking over melodic metalcore ''much'' later on and well after their GenreShift)
192** 2001 - ''Music/SoundingTheSeventhTrumpet''
193** 2003 - ''Music/WakingTheFallen''
194* Music/BadOmens
195* Music/{{Beartooth}} (combined with HardcorePunk)
196* Music/BeautifulDyingDay (about 30% this and 70% PostHardcore)
197* Becoming the Archetype (also has elements of progressive metal and technical death metal)
198* Betraying the Martyrs (also deathcore and djent)
199* Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe (also a ProgressiveDeathMetal band)
200* Music/BlackVeilBrides (first album)
201* Music/BleedingThrough (has flirted with deathcore at various points)
202* Music/BleedFromWithin (also MelodicDeathMetal)
203* Bleed the Sky
204* Music/{{Blessthefall}}
205* Blind Witness (has flirted with deathcore)
206* Born of Osiris (''Tomorrow We Die ∆live'' onward, also deathcore and djent)
207* Music/BringMeTheHorizon (started off as deathcore, then played a mix of metalcore and {{post rock}} until ''That's the Spirit'', which saw them abandoning it completely for a variety of lighter styles)
208* Music/BrokenByTheScream (also JapanesePopMusic)
209* Music/BulletForMyValentine (at first, but they changed styles after ''Scream Aim Fire'' to a more hard rock-based sound, though elements of the genre tend to still be there; the self-titled however marks a full return to metalcore with influences from ThrashMetal and GrooveMetal)
210* Music/{{Caliban}}
211* Cannae
212* Music/ChelseaGrin (''Ashes to Ashes'' and ''Self Inflicted'', also deathcore)
213* Music/{{Chimaira}} (mixed with GrooveMetal)
214* Music/ConquerDivide (a rare all-female band in this genre)
215* Music/{{Crossfaith}} (mixed with IndustrialMetal)
216* A Crowd of Rebellion (an unconventional example that blends in J-pop)
217* Currents
218* Music/{{D}}
219* Music/DarkestHour (evolved fully into MelodicDeathMetal with ''Undoing Ruin'', though the metalcore sound made a slight return with ''The Human Romance''; the self-titled was a full jump into melodic metalcore. ''Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora'' is a return to their old style that borders on Entombedcore at times.)
220* Music/ADayToRemember (notable for their prominent PopPunk elements)
221* Music/DeadByApril (possibly the only metal band ever that overlaps with BoyBand pop)
222* Music/{{Deadlock}} (Mixed with MelodicDeathMetal, with a [[GrooveMetal Djent]] sound later.)
223* Dead To Fall
224* Depths of Hatred (''Inheritance'', along with deathcore; their material prior to that album is deathcore)
225* Diecast (early work was nu-metal)
226* Music/DemonHunter (although they have strong AlternativeMetal elements and riffs resembling GrooveMetal and NuMetal)
227* Music/TheDevilWearsPrada
228* Music/DyingWish
229* Earthists (also djent, notable ambient influence. ''Have a Nice Cult'' adds in electronic elements)
230* Elitist
231* Music/{{Erra}} (also djent)
232* Music/EscapeTheFate
233* Music/ElectricCallboy (fka Eskimo Callboy, also {{Electronicore}})
234* Music/EveryTimeIDie (with quite a few SouthernRock and SludgeMetal elements)
235* Music/FallingInReverse (mixed with {{pop punk}} and {{Hair metal}}, their second release experimented with {{crunkcore}}, much to their fans' dismay)
236* Music/TheFallOfTroy (also mathcore)
237* [[Music/FearAndLoathingInLasVegasBand Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas]] (fused with HardcoreTechno and first-wave metalcore)
238* Music/TheFinalHarvest (one of the heavier examples, overlaps with DeathMetal)
239* Music/FromFirstToLast (better known retroactively for being the [[BreakupBreakout first band]] of Music/{{Skrillex}})
240* Music/TheGhostInside (overlaps with [[HardcorePunk Melodic Hardcore]])
241* Music/TheGloomInTheCorner
242* Music/GodForbid (also falls under ThrashMetal in all albums after and including ''Gone Forever'')
243* Music/HasteTheDay
244* Music/HeavenShallBurn (also MelodicDeathMetal)
245* Hell Within
246* Himsa
247* Music/HORSETheBand (Also Nintendocore)
248* The Human Abstract (some progressive elements, but mostly just melodic metalcore with far more technical musicianship than is typical for the genre)
249* Music/ISetMyFriendsOnFire (sorta, [[GenreMashup far from the only thing going on here.) ]]
250* Music/IceNineKills
251* Music/InThisMoment (only on ''Beautiful Tragedy'' and ''A Star-Crossed Wasteland''; ''The Dream'' was more alt-metal/post-hardcore, while ''Blood'' was more industrial/nu-metal, which they opted to keep)
252* Music/InventAnimate (mixed with ProgressiveMetal, {{Djent}} and {{Ambient}})
253* Invocation of Nehek
254* Music/IPrevail
255* Music/{{Jinjer}} (mixed with NuMetal, ProgressiveMetal, GrooveMetal and DeathMetal)
256* Music/KillswitchEngage (TropeMaker and TropeCodifier)
257* Music/KingdomOfGiants (mixed with ProgressiveMetal)
258* Music/LambOfGod (self-titled as Burn the Priest and ''New American Gospel'', later became GrooveMetal)
259* LANDMVRKS
260* Left to Vanish (post-reunion material is nu-metalcore)
261* Music/{{Loathe}} (mixed with NuMetal, ProgressiveMetal and [[DoomMetal post-metal]], though they flirted with {{deathcore}} as well on ''The Cold Sun''; as of ''I Let It In And It Took Everything'' they also added elements of {{Ambient}} and {{Shoegaze}})
262* Music/LornaShore (''Triumph'' EP only, became deathcore on ''Bone Kingdom'')
263* Music/LoveAndDeath (Mixed with NuMetal)
264* Lucrecia (jokingly call themselves "kawaii-core")
265* Music/{{Lynch}}
266* Music/MachineHead (''Through the Ashes of Empires'' to ''Bloodstone & Diamonds''; ''Burn My Eyes'' and ''The More Things Change'' are GrooveMetal that ''sometimes'' border on metallic hardcore, while the Ahrue Luster-era material and ''Catharsis'' are nu metal)
267* Music/MakeThemSuffer (later material, overlapping with {{Deathcore}}. Regarded by some as finding the line between the two genres)
268* Maylene and the Sons of Disaster (also has prominent Southern rock elements)
269* Music/MemphisMayFire (no clear consensus though since they push the genre as well as other genres present in their music (PostHardcore, SouthernRock), so this classification depends largely on who you ask)
270* Mendeed (has had run-ins with the deathcore label)
271* mildrage
272* Music/MiserySignals
273* Miss May I
274* Monument of a Memory
275* Music/MotionlessInWhite (fused with GothicMetal and IndustrialMetal, with Chris Motionless doing his best impressions of other singers)
276* [=MyChildren=] [=MyBride=]
277* Neaera (also melodic death metal)
278* Music/NormaJean (some mathcore elements)
279* Music/{{Northlane}} (also ProgressiveMetal, ''Alien'' goes in a nu-metal and rave direction)
280* Novelists FR (also djent and progressive metal, their mellower stuff goes into post-hardcore)
281* Music/OceansAteAlaska (one of the most obviously ProgressiveMetal[=-=]influenced acts)
282* Music/OceanGrove (very early material; they switched to NuMetal by their debut album)
283* [[Music/SystemDivide Oracles]]
284* Our Last Night
285* Paledusk
286* Music/ParkwayDrive (pure metalcore until ''Atlas'', and began fusing metalcore with pure HeavyMetal elements starting from ''Ire'')
287* Phinehas
288* Music/PierceTheVeil (mixed with EmoMusic and, of all things, traditional Mexican music)
289* Music/PoisonTheWell (at first, and one of the most likely contenders for UrExample; they eventually dropped the metallic elements of their sound for a more experimental hardcore feel)
290* Music/ProtestTheHero (probably the least definitive example, as they are much more ProgressiveMetal)
291* Music/{{Psychostick}} (known for their comedic lyrics)
292* Music/RedHook
293* Sacred Mother Tongue (later moved towards hard rock)
294* Music/SeaOfTreachery (also deathcore)
295* [=SeeYouSpaceCowboy=] (''The Correlation Between Entrance and Exit Wounds'', though more of a throwback to the absolute earliest bands in the genre)
296* Music/SensesFail (on ''Renacer'' and ''Pull The Thorns From Your Heart'')
297* [[Music/SevenAngelsSevenPlagues 7 Angels 7 Plagues]] (UrExample)
298* Music/ShadowsFall (overlaps with ThrashMetal, similar to God Forbid)
299* Shattered Sun
300* Music/TheShowdown (First album only; mixed with MelodicDeathMetal and ThrashMetal. They eventually became a DeathMetal tinged groove/thrash band)
301* Since the Flood
302* Music/{{Skycamefalling}} (UrExample, also PostHardcore)
303* Music/{{Slapshock}} (later material)
304* Music/SleepingWithSirens
305* Music/{{Soilwork}} (''Stabbing the Drama'' onwards, though they displayed elements of this as early as ''Natural Born Chaos'')
306* Music/SonicSyndicate (also MelodicDeathMetal)
307* Music/StraightLineStitch (early work was NuMetal)
308* Music/{{Structures}} (also djent, noticable PopPunk influence)
309* Story of Hope
310* Sworn Enemy
311* Texas in July
312* Music/{{Trivium}} (the ratio of this to ThrashMetal and MelodicDeathMetal really depends on the album, though ''Ascendancy'' was fairly core-leaning and ''In Waves'' was almost completely metalcore, with almost none of their thrash or melodic death elements present)
313* Music/{{Underoath}}
314* Music/{{Unearth}}
315* Music/VeilOfMaya (''Matriarch'' onwards)
316* Wage War
317* Music/WallsOfJericho
318* Music/WeCameAsRomans
319* Music/AlissaWhiteGluz
320* [[Music/WithinTheRuins Within the Ruins]] (later work is closer to Deathcore and overlaps with ProgressiveMetal)
321* Wolves at the Gate
322* Woe, Is Me
323* Music/TheWordAlive
324* Wovenwar
325* Music/{{Zao}} (TropeCodifier, though they may lean more towards this or traditional metalcore depending on the album)
326[[/folder]]
327
328[[folder:Beatdown Hardcore]]
329* 100 Demons
330* 108
331* [[Music/TwentyFiveTaLife 25 ta Life]] (TropeCodifier)
332* Music/TheAcaciaStrain (a GenreBusting example, but it is one of the biggest parts of their sound and is also the scene that they are most heavily identified with as of the 2010s)
333* Music/{{Acranius}} (slamming beatdown, also {{Deathcore}})
334* All Out War
335* Backtrack
336* The Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza
337* Before I Had Wings
338* Billy Club Sandwich
339* Biohazard (also rapcore)
340* Black My Heart
341* Blood For Blood
342* Bodysnatcher (also deathcore, switched to slamming beatdown on the ''Death of Me'' reissue bonus tracks)
343* Born From Pain
344* Brick By Brick
345* Brutality Will Prevail
346* Music/{{Bulldoze}} (TropeNamer and TropeMaker)
347* Buried Alive
348* Buried Dreams
349* Bury Your Dead
350* Carbine (slamming beatdown)
351* CDC
352* Chamber (the UK-based one)
353* Cipher
354* Clawhammer (slamming beatdown)
355* Crown Of Thornz
356* Cruel Hand
357* Music/CodeOrange (''I Am King'', though ''Forever'' has a few songs in that style)
358* Cold As Life
359* Cold World
360* Confusion
361* Dead End Path
362* Death Before Dishonor
363* Disembodied
364* District 9
365* Downswing
366* Drowning
367* Dysentery (slamming beatdown)
368* Earth Crisis
369* Enemy Mind
370* E.Town Concrete (also rapcore)
371* Everybody Gets Hurt
372* Expire
373* Eye of the Destroyer (also slam death metal)
374* Filth (slamming beatdown)
375* First Blood
376* Float Face Down (also deathcore)
377* Full Blown Chaos
378* Fury Of Five
379* Great American Ghost
380* Grimlock
381* Hangman
382* [[Music/HarmsWay Harm's Way]] (also Entombedcore and IndustrialMetal)
383* Music/{{Hatebreed}} (TropeCodifier)
384* Hoods
385* I Am (also Entombedcore)
386* Icepick
387* Incendiary
388* Irate
389* Jesus Piece (also Entombedcore)
390* Music/{{Judge}} (possible UrExample)
391* Judiciary
392* Jukai
393* Kharma
394* King Nine
395* Music/KnockedLoose
396* Knuckledust
397* Music/KublaiKhanTX
398* Laid 2 Rest
399* Line Of Scrimmage
400* Music/{{Madball}} (TropeMaker)
401* Malevolence
402* Malice At The Palace
403* Martyr A.D.
404* The Merciless Concept (slamming beatdown)
405* Merauder
406* Mourned (also Entombedcore)
407* Music/{{Neglect}} (another possible TropeMaker)
408* Music/NoFaceNoCase (slamming beatdown, also NuMetal)
409* North Side Kings
410* No Victory
411* No Wings To Speak Of
412* No Zodiac (also slam death metal)
413* Nuestra Venganza
414* Music/OnBrokenWings (coined the term "moshcore" making them another TropeNamer)
415* One King Down
416* Orthodox
417* Music/PalefaceSwiss (slamming beatdown, also NuMetal and {{Deathcore}})
418* Psycho Enhancer
419* Purgatory
420* Queensway
421* Ramallah (essentially Blood for Blood minus Erick Medina)
422* Recon
423* Regime (also nu metal)
424* Rise Of The Northstar
425* Sanction
426* Music/SheerTerror (UrExample)
427* Music/SharkPunch (an AffectionateParody of the genre)
428* Music/{{Silenus}} (mixed with SludgeMetal, IndustrialMetal, {{Ambient}} and HarshNoise)
429* Skarhead
430* Music/{{Spite}} (also NuMetal and {{Deathcore}})
431* Strangled (slamming beatdown)
432* Strength For A Reason
433* Strife
434* Swear To God
435* Sworn Enemy
436* Terror
437* Trail Of Lies
438* Trapped Under Ice
439* Unit 731
440* Varials
441* Vein.fm (also mathcore, some nu metal elements)
442* World Of Pain
443* Xibalba (also Entombedcore)
444* Year Of The Knife
445* Years Spent Cold
446[[/folder]]
447
448[[folder:Entombedcore]]
449* Music/AllPigsMustDie (side project of Ben Koller of Music/{{Converge}})
450* Baptists
451* Black Breath (also death metal)
452* Call of the Void
453* Coagula
454* Music/CodeOrange (originally known as Code Orange Kids; has a significant overlap with beatdown hardcore on ''I Am King'' before dropping this altogether on ''Forever'' for [[GenreBusting who the fuck knows]])
455* Creeping Death
456* Music/CultLeader (SpiritualSuccessor to Gaza, they started out with this sound before largely abandoning it by ''A Patient Man'')
457* Music/{{Cursed}} (UrExample and TropeCodifier for Entombedcore along with Trap Them; unlike Trap Them, they didn't stick around long enough to enjoy the fruits of their labors)
458* Music/EarlyGraves
459* Music/{{Enabler}}
460* Music/{{END}} (supergroup featuring [[Music/FitForAnAutopsy Will Putney]], Gregory Thomas (Shai Hulud), Brendan Murphy (Counterparts), Jay Pepito (Reign Supreme), and Andrew McEnaney (Trade Wind, Structures)
461* Erosion (also death metal)
462* Music/FullOfHell (mixed with powerviolence and noise; they dropped the Entombedcore for deathgrind circa the Nails split and ''Trumpeting Ecstasy'')
463* Music/FumingMouth (also DeathMetal)
464* [[Music/HarmsWay Harm's Way]] (heavy overlap with beatdown hardcore, especially on ''Rust'' which also marked the start of IndustrialMetal influences infiltrating their sound)
465* Homewrecker
466* I Am (also beatdown)
467* Jesus Piece (also beatdown)
468* Mammoth Grinder (''Cosmic Crypt'', early material was crust and mid-era material was death metal with hardcore and crust elements)
469* Mass Worship
470* Mourned (also beatdown)
471* Music/{{Nails}}
472* Music/{{Oathbreaker}} (''Eros|Anteros'', changed to a mixture of [[GenreMashup hardcore, crust punk, post-hardcore, shoegaze, and black metal]] on ''[[NewSoundAlbum Rheia]]'')
473* Of Feather and Bone (pre-''Bestial Hymns of Perversion'')
474* Music/PoisonHeadache (best known for being a side project of [[Music/AsILayDying Phil Sgrosso]])
475* Music/RottenSound (debatably - while primarily deathgrind with more emphasis on the "grind" part, they started incorporating Swedeath influences in their music a few albums in and even had LG Petrov himself as a guest; another possible UrExample)
476* The Secret
477* Music/{{Sect}} (a side project of [[Music/FallOutBoy Andy Hurley]])
478* Music/TrapThem (overlaps with crust punk and grindcore, arguably the UrExample of "Entombedcore" along with Cursed and most certainly a TropeCodifier)
479* Music/WeekendNachos (as of ''Still'', mixed with powerviolence)
480* Wolf King
481* Music/{{Wormwood}} (with particularly prominent doom metal and noise influences, best known for having [[Music/TheRedChord Greg Weeks]] on bass)
482* Wreath of Tongues
483* Music/{{Xibalba}} (also death metal as of ''Tierra y libertad'')
484* Music/YoungAndInTheWay (also BlackMetal)
485[[/folder]]
486
487[[folder:Nu-metalcore]]
488* Alpha Wolf
489* Animal
490* [[Music/AttilaMetalcore Attila]] (fifth album onward, mixed with deathcore)
491* Barrier
492* Music/CaneHill (the most Powerman 5000-influenced band within nu-metalcore; also features some minor industrial elements)
493* Capture the Crown (second album onward)
494* Music/CodeOrange (''Forever'', kinda, though it's [[GenreBusting far from the only thing going on there]])
495* Cry Excess
496* Music/CrystalLake (Ryo Kinoshita era, overlaps with {{deathcore}} on ''Helix'')
497* Dangerkids (most obvious example of the Linkin Park influence in the sub-genre)
498* Music/DarkeComplex (although they've dropped most of the "core" elements by their first album, where some SwagRap elements were picked up along the way too)
499* Defying Decay (Thailand's biggest metalcore act)
500* Music/{{DEXCORE}} (a bit of a hodgepodge of VisualKei, deathcore, and electroniccore but metalcore at their roots)
501* Music/{{Disembodied}} (Their album ''Heretic'' provides a possible UrExample)
502* Music/{{DVSR}} (mixed with RapMetal and {{Djent}})
503* Music/{{Earthshatter}} (a SpiritualSuccessor to The Afterimage with the same lineup, but with a different sound)
504* Music/{{Emmure}} (mixed with deathcore and brostep; among the first in the trend, beating Issues by three years. Probably the most Limp Bizkit-influenced on the list)
505* Music/{{Exotype}} (mixed with various EDM genres)
506* Extortionist (some deathcore elements)
507* Fire From the Gods (overlaps with djent)
508* Music/FromAshesToNew (leans more heavily towards "nu" than "core")
509* Gemini Syndrome
510* Gideon (third album onward, mixed with christian metal)
511* Gift Giver
512* Music/{{Hanabie}} (a very weird example that is a mix of deathcore and JapanesePopMusic. Also one of the few groups that is all women)
513* Music/IllNino (third album onward, the TropeMaker for the subgenre as it was in the [=2010s=])
514* Music/InfectedRain (with elements of MelodicDeathMetal and AlternativeMetal)
515* Music/{{Issues}} (mixes this with, of all things, pop music; popularized the variation with their 2012 EP ''Black Diamonds'' and the second most popular in the sub-genre overall after Of Mice & Men)
516* Music/{{Jynx}} (known for having [[WebVideo/TalesFromTheInternet Justin Whang]] on guitar)
517* Kissing Candice (the most obvious Slipknot influence within nu-metalcore; also has industrial influences)
518* Music/{{Knosis}} (Ryo Kinoshita's main project after leaving Crystal Lake. [[GenreBusting Very much not the only thing going on here]])
519* Kriminals
520* Live Conform Die
521* MAZE (mixed with JapanesePopMusic)
522* Music/MotionlessInWhite (''Graveyard Shift'' onwards)
523* My Ticket Home
524* Neurotic November (probably the most hated example)
525* Music/NocturnalBloodlust (mixed with {{Deathcore}}, ProgressiveMetal, electronicore and ThrashMetal)
526* Music/{{Nothingface}} (On ''Skeletons'', making them one of the earlier examples.)
527* Music/OfMiceAndMen (third album onwards, though by their fourth they almost completely abandoned "core" for "nu"; easily the most popular of the lot)
528* The One Hundred
529* Music/{{Showbread}}
530* SHVPES
531* Music/{{Spiritbox}} (the SpiritualSuccessor to Iwrestledabearonce, mixed with djent, AvantGardeMetal and post-metal)
532* Spite (also deathcore and beatdown hardcore)
533* Stray From the Path (sixth album onwards; mixed with hardcore punk)
534* Sworn In
535* Sylar (mixed with electronicore)
536* Music/{{Tallah}} (Noticably influenced by ProgressiveMetal due to having the son of [[Music/DreamTheater Mike Portnoy]] as the drummer.)
537* Toothgrinder (also some prog elements)
538* Twitching Tongues (some beatdown elements)
539* Music/UnlockingTheTruth
540* Vanities
541* Villains
542* Music/{{Volumes}} (mixed with djent)
543* Yüth Forever
544* Zealot
545[[/folder]]
546[[/index]]
547
548[[folder:Bands confused for Metalcore]]
549The following bands are often called metalcore, but are very much not metalcore. We keep this short list here because we don't want these bands put on the main metalcore list by an earnest passerby.
550* Music/ThreeInchesOfBlood: The confusion comes from the dual vocalists and early tendency to tour with core acts. While switching between clean, punk styled vocals and harsh, growled and screamed vocals is common in metalcore, 3 Inches of Blood is very much a thrash-power metal band with little to no similarities to metalcore outside of common thrash elements. Furthermore, while one of their vocalists does use similar screams to some metalcore bands, their other vocalist uses a [[Music/JudasPriest Halfordesque]] screech that's far more in line with thrash metal, speed metal and PowerMetal, and Jamie Hooper's harsh vocals were more influenced by crust punk and grindcore than they were by metalcore.
551* The Absence: They became a name around the same time as a lot of melodic metalcore acts and had some stylistic similarities on their first EP, but they quickly turned into straightforward thrashy melodic death metal.
552* Austrian Death Machine: Straight ThrashMetal; they are often considered metalcore due to [[Music/AsILayDying who their singer is]].
553* Battlecross: They have some minor stylistic similarities to some of the heavier melodic metalcore acts, but overall, they're thrashy melodic death metal.
554* Music/BlackCrownInitiate: Progressive death metal. The confusion comes from their frequent usage of clean vocals and some djent elements (mostly in their earlier material).
555* Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder: They qualified on their first demo and had noticeable elements of it on ''Miasma'' (''Unhallowed'' also had bits of it pop up from time to time, but not to any major degree), but they dropped any and all elements of it with ''Nocturnal'' in favor of aggressive, brutal death-tinged melodic death metal and never looked back.
556* Capharnaum: They are occasionally lumped in with metalcore due to [[Music/{{Trivium}} Matt Heafy]] singing for them, which was how many people discovered them. However, their music is straight-up TechnicalDeathMetal with absolutely nothing in common with the genre aside from Matt's vocal style, and on top of that, they released one other album back in the 90s without Heafy that features a far more conventional death metal vocalist.
557* [=DevilDriver=]: Mixture of GrooveMetal and MelodicDeathMetal, along with some NuMetal on their self-titled. ''Pray for Villains'' was the closest that they ever actually came to metalcore.
558* Dew-Scented: Straightforward death/thrash - they are occasionally mislabeled as metalcore due to Leif Jensen's vocal style and their sometimes Gothenburg-esque melodic sections.
559* Entheos: TechnicalDeathMetal with some djent and electronic elements.
560* Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch: Straight-up GrooveMetal on their first album, [[ThrashMetal thrashier]] groove metal along the lines of Music/{{Pantera}}'s faster songs on the second, and a bit of both on the third. Some of their mellower songs border on PostGrunge.
561* Gatecreeper: Like Mammoth Grinder, they're death metal with very prominent hardcore and crust elements, and they also tend to tour with punk acts. Also like Mammoth Grinder, they're still more death metal than hardcore, which is what separates them from similar acts like Black Breath and All Pigs Must Die.
562* Music/{{Hacktivist}}: They're a mix of RapMetal, {{Djent}}, NuMetal, and [[HipHop Grime]]. They are sometimes considered metalcore (often lumped to the nu-metalcore trend) due to the SopranoAndGravel dynamics between the two lead rappers as well as the guitarist. Outside of that, they bare nothing in common with metalcore.
563* Music/TheHaunted: Often mistaken for metalcore thanks to A) forming from the ashes of Music/AtTheGates, one of if not the most influential bands on melodic metalcore, and B) both of their vocalists having a lot in common with the genre (Peter Dolving uses cleans occasionally and comes from a punk background, while Marco Aro has a very hardcore-esque tinge to his vocals). However, their music is melodic death/thrash with some influences from groove metal, with the exception of the experimental ''Unseen''. That being said, the second Dolving era does feature elements of the genre on some songs.
564* Human Remains: ''Extremely'' influential to mathcore and also helped influence multiple early deathcore acts, but was very grindy TechnicalDeathMetal with some hardcore influence.
565* Music/{{Kataklysm}}: Their albums after their move away from brutal death (''In the Arms of Devastation'' onward) are very frequently labeled as metalcore for whatever reason (their clean production possibly being a factor), but they're groove-tinged melodic death.
566* Light This City: They mostly look like hardcore kids, and the other bands they've been in are mostly hardcore or pop punk, but the music is straight MelodicDeathMetal.
567* Music/{{Marmozets}}: They are sometimes referred to as metalcore due to their use of screamed vocals contrasted by cleans. In reality, they're a heavier brand of alternative/indie rock with some progressive metal leanings. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=717esXeCB-I They even mocked metalcore with a video of their own.]]
568* Music/{{Mastodon}}: The confusion stems not from the music itself, but the timing. Their rise in popularity happened concurrently to the rise of melodic metalcore in the mid-'00s, and as such was often lumped into the scene. Musically however, they're a mix of [[DoomMetal sludge]][=/=][[GrooveMetal groove]] metal that later moved to a [[ProgressiveMetal progressive]][=/=][[AlternativeMetal alternative]] sound.
569* Music/NeObliviscaris: Some might confuse them for this due to the SopranoAndGravel dynamics between Tim Charles and Xenoyr. That's where the similarities end. Their music is rooted in ProgressiveDeathMetal, with a [[GenreBusting slew of other genres in the mix]]. Even in terms of vocals, Tim Charles' clean singing is far more operatic than that of a clean metalcore vocalist, and Xenoyr's is far more brutalizing than the average unclean one.
570* Music/{{Neuraxis}}: The confusion mostly arises from their material having a mildly influenced Gothenburg sound combined with their old vocalist's style of harsh vocals and their tendency to tour with deathcore acts, but they are [[MelodicDeathMetal Melodic]] TechnicalDeathMetal.
571* Pyrithion: Like Austrian Death Machine, they have occasionally been lumped in with metalcore due to Tim Lambesis. They're pretty straightforward death metal.
572* Music/TheRedChord: They toured with a lot of metalcore acts back when they were getting famous and had a significant amount of pull with that fanbase, but they are deathcore/deathgrind. The only real stylistic similarities would be the occasional breakdown and Guy's vocals, but again, it was mostly just a mix of timing, the bills that they were usually on, and the fact that they were from Massachusetts.
573* The Resistance: Straight-up DeathMetal; they are occasionally mistaken for metalcore thanks to Marco Aro's (from the above-mentioned The Haunted) vocals.
574* Music/{{Revocation}}: Back when they were first signed to Relapse Records, the metalcore label was thrown at them here and there due to Dave Davidson's somewhat shout-y vocal style and their occasional usage of vaguely Gothenburg-esque riffing, and they also tended to tour with a lot of metalcore, deathcore, and djent acts in their earlier days. They were always an amalgamation of melodic death, thrash, and tech-death, however, and they've moved more and more towards death metal with each album, while Dave's voice has grown progressively deeper and less shout-like.
575* Soul Embraced: Possibly due to being a Christian band. They started out as a straight up death metal band, but their later albums brought ProgressiveMetal and AlternativeMetal influences into the fold.
576* Sylosis: The confusion comes mainly from their vocalist's screaming style, as well as their time of emergence and their tendency to tour with melodic metalcore acts. Musically, however, the band is ThrashMetal with some elements of DeathMetal and ProgressiveMetal. Hilariously enough, Syslosis frontman Josh Middleton would join Architects as their lead guitarist for a few years.
577* We Are Harlot: Straight-up HardRock. They sometimes get this tag because of [[Music/AskingAlexandria who their lead singer is]].
578* Woe of Tyrants: Some minor stylistic similarities plus a tendency to tour with core acts when they were active, but they were thrashy melodic death metal.
579[[/folder]]
580
581!!Tropes Common In Metalcore:
582* ChristianRock: Metalcore and PostHardcore are both filled with Christian bands for whatever reason. Most famously are Music/TheDevilWearsPrada, Music/{{Underoath}}, Music/{{Demon Hunter}}, Music/AsILayDying, and August Burns Red.
583* CoverVersion: The "ironic/wacky" cover choice was a staple of modern metalcore (as well as electronicore and pop-post-hardcore) during the "scene" era (roughly between 2007 and 2014), and the ''Punk Goes...'' cover compilation album series was the epicenter of this phenomenon. As of the late 2010s, however, it's fallen out of fashion, as scene itself is extremely dead, and the ''Punk Goes...'' series has not released an album of covers since 2017[[note]]''Punk Goes Acoustic 3'' was released in 2019, but all tracks on the album were acoustic renditions of original tracks from the parent bands[[/note]] after a period of sharply declining sales, and the phenomenon of covering a pop hit for the sake of it is inextricably tied to scene and something that few self-respecting bands will currently touch (aside from Our Last Night, who made it something of a SignatureStyle, but still have multiple albums of original material).
584* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The very first metalcore bands were basically thrash bands that played at slower tempos that were more conducive to moshing. This early wave of post-thrash acts would later establish the subgenre of Crossover Thrash.
585** Melodic metalcore's early years were chock-full of bands that were basically ripping off Swedish MelodicDeathMetal bands[[note]] So many bands from the time period were copying At The Gates' '' Slaughter Of The Soul'' that it has become a meme within the metalcore fanbase.[[/note]] and randomly throwing in a breakdown, clean section, or ScareChord, creating a scene full of similar-sounding bands before acts like All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage and Trivium brought back a degree of creativity that would earn the subgenre some much-needed respect.
586* {{Emo}}: Often associated with this genre, because bands like Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine and early Avenged Sevenfold were often influenced by it.
587* GatewaySeries: To extreme metal and HardcorePunk.
588* GenrePopularizer: Issues did this with nu-metalcore. While combining metalcore with nu metal dates back decades, they were the first to prove that combining the two can be a successful formula with their debut EP ''Black Diamonds''. Not surprisingly, combining them has become increasingly common afterwards, with some pre-existing metalcore bands (Of Mice & Men, Emmure, Attila) even integrating it into their sound.
589* HeavyMithril: Averted most of the time.
590* LighterAndSofter: Often characterized as such to other Extreme Metal genres, thanks mainly to the PopPunk-oriented second wave of Melodic Metalcore that became the public face of the genre (and the main target of scorn from metal purists). Many of the more aggressive traditional metalcore groups are just as heavy, if not heavier, than most death or black metal. Take Music/{{Converge}} for example.
591* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Many bands that got their start in the mid-late 2000's had this look. More specifically the "skinny teens with swoopy-emo hair" look that was popular at the time. Music/AskingAlexandria, Music/SleepingWithSirens, Attack Attack!, and We Came As Romans were the best examples of the look, but ''far'' from the only bands of long emo haired pretty boys. As groups aged, most bands started to evolve their look and shed the emo fringes. Though some bands still kept the emo look into the 2020s as an aesthetic choice, with DEXCORE being one of the more prominent examples.
592* TheQuincyPunk: A longstanding criticism of fans of beatdown acts and, often, the bands themselves; the stereotype of the violent scumbag who makes a big show of backing friendship, inclusion, and togetherness, but really just cares about crowdkilling, starting fights, breaking stuff, and generally being a hyper-macho piece of shit is sadly TruthInTelevision, and certain bands[[note]]so-called "brocore" bands like Hatebreed, The Acacia Strain, Harm's Way, Knocked Loose, Code Orange, Nails, Turnstile, and Xibalba being among the most frequently cited[[/note]] have at least gained a reputation for attracting fans like this, if not attracting criticism of their own for aiding and abetting that kind of behavior.
593* PersonaNonGrata: A number of bands have been banned from venues due to overly-aggressive fans (The Acacia Strain and On Broken Wings were particularly infamous for this); the Borg Ward venue in Milwaukee made headlines on metal sites by banning ''the entire genre'' because of property damage from fans, and then proclaiming on social media that most other venues in the area won't book metalcore bands or tours for the same reason.
594** Integrity became this in New York after arousing the ire of the mosh crew DMS.
595* RevolvingDoorBand: Not quite as bad as other forms of extreme music, but still an issue for quite a few bands. It usually comes down to bands not being financially stable (ScrewedByTheNetwork may or may not be in play), personality issues, or the fact that a lot of bands started out when the members were in high school and realized they didn't want to be in a band. Though when bands do take off they tend to stable out (We Came As Romans is a good example of this). Some of the more infamous examples of instable lineups include Zao, Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan, Music/AttilaMetalcore, Woe, Is Me, and For the Fallen Dreams.
596* ScareChord: The "panic chord" (dissonant chords usually played in odd time signatures, usually right before a breakdown or before a slowdown in a breakdown) is a genre hallmark that emerged in mathcore in the late 1990s and became almost ubiquitous in the early 2000s, and while it mostly fell out of favor when melodic metalcore (and, later, modern metalcore) took over, they have started to reemerge in the late 2010s, as bands like [=SeeYouSpaceCowboy=], Chamber, and Vein.fm have made heavy usage of them in their music.
597* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Commonly inverted. They usually dress like an average person or androgynously, but the music is still heavy metal.
598* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Quite often, especially when metalcore was gaining mainstream popularity in the mid 2000's. The main reason being that many bands gained popularity when the members were really young, without the experience to manage a band or finances for themselves. This made the metalcore scene ''ripe'' for labels to exploit and take advantage of. Trustkill, Artery, Victory, and especially Mediaskare were infamous for terrible record deals and having a long list of bands that ended up falling off the radar or breaking up, though just about any metalcore label will have bands they screwed over. Many up-and-coming metalcore bands have embraced self-publishing their own work as a result.
599* SopranoAndGravel: Most bands have this. This unfortunately causes people to assume any metal band that uses this dynamic is metalcore. Melodic Death Metal (and even regular death metal in some cases) are the usual victims of this.
600* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Almost every band on this page will have at least one of these per album. The first-wave acts and bands that sound like them usually have something post-rock-influenced, while the melodic acts usually have a PowerBallad. Mostly averted by Entombedcore, but you'll still see more melodic songs here and there.
601* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A frequent issue whenever a band changes their sound in an attempt to reach a larger audience or adapt to the changing music landscape. This is more common with the softer side of metalcore and nu-metalcore thanks to many of those bands getting on bills or festivals with larger radio rock acts. While some bands have changed sounds successfully and reached new heights of popularity (Bring Me The Horizon and Parkway Drive being good examples), others changed styles and ran right into a brick wall (particularly Memphis May Fire and The Word Alive). It should be noted this mostly happens when a band goes in a LighterAndSofter direction, rarely anyone complains if a band goes heavier (see Crystal Lake).
602* TrashTheSet: The Acacia Strain, Swear To God and On Broken Wings as well as many New York beatdown bands such as Biohazard, Sworn Enemy, Everybody Gets Hurt and Billy Club Sandwich are particularly infamous for extremely violent mosh pits which at times cause damage to venues (especially in TAS and OBW's cases)
603** Invoked by Years Spent Cold's song "Venue Killer" which actively encourages the audience to do their worst with lines such as "This is the end/of your shitty venue"
604** The raison d'etre of The Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza. Rumors often tie their antics at Hellfest 2004 to the cancellation of Hellfest 2005.
605** The Dillinger Escape Plan, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGIK5qhjdb4 case in point.]]
606* TropeCodifier:
607** Metallic hardcore: Integrity, Ringworm, Overcast, or Earth Crisis.
608** Mathcore: Music/{{Converge}} or Music/TheDillingerEscapePlan.
609** Melodic metalcore: Music/KillswitchEngage, Music/ShadowsFall, Music/AllThatRemains, Music/AvengedSevenfold, Bleeding Through, or Atreyu.
610** Modern metalcore: Music/BringMeTheHorizon,[[note]]At least until ''[[NewSoundAlbum That's the Spirit]]''[[/note]] Music/AskingAlexandria, Music/TheDevilWearsPrada, or Music/ADayToRemember.
611** Beatdown hardcore: Hatebreed, Madball, 25 ta Life, Disembodied, or Strife.
612** Entombedcore: Music/TrapThem or Cursed.
613** Nu-metalcore: Music/{{Issues}}, Music/{{Emmure}}, or Of Mice & Men
614* UrExample: Either Integrity or Ringworm for the genre in general, Starkweather for mathcore, either Atreyu or Poison the Well for melodic metalcore, The Devil Wears Prada and Bullet for My Valentine for modern metalcore, either Trap Them or Cursed for entombedcore (''maybe'' also Racetraitor or Backstabbers Incorporated), and Biohazard for nu-metalcore (or Emmure and Issues for the modern version we know today).
615** All Else Failed is another possible candidate for UrExample of melodic metalcore as their material dates back to 1996, though more melodic elements of their sound started appearing in their 1998 EP, ''In My God's Eye''
616*** Skycamefalling might be another good candidate as their debut EP was out in 1997
617* VocalTagTeam: A common trope due to the SopranoAndGravel dynamics. One is usually the screamer who serves as the primary vocalist, while other provides clean vocals (often in the chorus) for contrast. Though one-man variations exist.
618* {{Wangst}}: Occasionally, especially common with emo-influenced bands. Nu-metalcore, being that it's a fusion of metalcore and the normally angsty nu metal, can fall into this.
619
620!!Metalcore songs (including metallic hardcore, mathcore, modern/melodic metalcore, beatdown, entombedcore, and nu-metalcore):
621
622* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsdpB5tuJ88 25 ta Life - Wise to da Game]] (beatdown)
623* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TjY54LKTbQ All Pigs Must Die - God Is War]] (entombedcore)
624* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_aMp-MvLE All That Remains - Six]] (melodic metalcore)
625* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh-RgX_2U9w As I Lay Dying - Nothing Left]] (melodic metalcore)
626* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl1lS6B9pMc Asking Alexandria - The Death of Me]] (modern metalcore)
627* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWhJcrrjQs Architects - Animals]] (modern metalcore)
628* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCtjhpaDb7A August Burns Red - White Washed]] (melodic metalcore)
629* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=433S3tuuB94 Avenged Sevenfold - Chapter Four]] (melodic metalcore)
630* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCESufY8hMc Beartooth - Beaten In Lips]] (modern metalcore)
631* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n-XnSoAneU Biohazard - Punishment]] (metallic hardcore)
632* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmFmpa5StqY Bleeding Through - Death Anxiety]] (melodic metalcore)
633* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8sJN_amczc Blood Has Been Shed - She Speaks to Me]] (metallic hardcore)
634* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3mzZd76TFs Bodysnatcher - Ego Killer]] (beatdown)
635* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AVRCQBc59w Bring Me the Horizon - Can You Feel My Heart?]] (modern metalcore)
636* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff2ync9k918 Candiria - Without Water]] (mathcore)
637* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORSM7q1dZXQ Car Bomb - M^6]] (mathcore)
638* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybBzQsMfFvs Code Orange - Underneath]] (nu-metalcore)
639* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjZMySPcQfI Converge - Eagles Become Vultures]] (mathcore)
640* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX8RTjUUcLE Crystal Lake - Apollo]] (nu-metalcore)
641* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-86VbIDOlLo Dangerkids - Paper Thin]] (nu-metalcore)
642* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCwAPhoX5sU The Devil Wears Prada - Vengeance]] (modern metalcore)
643* [[https://youtu.be/yowFw63cc7I DEXCORE - Self-Hatred]] (nu-metalcore)
644* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiKjcrniJKY The Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt]] (mathcore)
645* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_VgFUfjho Disembodied - Anvil Chandelier]] (beatdown)
646* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQPzgE5Mtv4 Earth Crisis - Nemesis]] (metallic hardcore)
647* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDoKVlePMS0 Earthists. - Suicidal Temple]] (modern metalcore)
648* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NdGBldg3w Electric Callboy - We Got The Moves]] (modern metalcore)
649* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK8cjJ8kv8I Erra - Breach]] (modern metalcore)
650* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEgAo9FoIOw Frontierer - Gower St.]] (mathcore)
651* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QiSOswZO_Y Great American Ghost - Ann Arbor (Be Safe)]] (beatdown)
652* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsCO4M5nXi4 Gulch - Lie, Deny, Sanctify]] (metallic hardcore)
653* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpj5A_SyUlQ Harm's Way - Become a Machine]] (beatdown)
654* [[https://youtu.be/G18yyvPCiTM Hanabie - We Love Sweets]] (nu-metalcore)
655* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt616BtpD-w Hatebreed - Before Dishonor]] (beatdown)
656* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_4qFSVVeac I Am - Burn Slow]] (beatdown)
657* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iwNEukbK48 Invent Animate - Immolation of Night]] (modern metalcore)
658* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDpg6Om4oc Ion Dissonance - Substantial Guilt vs. The Irony of Enjoying]] (mathcore)
659* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn55oxf6gCg Issues - Stingray Affliction]] (nu-metalcore)
660* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiaOSGZTwtY Jinjer - Vortex]] (modern metalcore)
661* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPW9AbRMwFU Killswitch Engage - My Curse (Howard Jones)]] (melodic metalcore)
662* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HANCzu70us4 Killswitch Engage - In Due Time (Jesse Leach)]] (melodic metalcore)
663* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOB3IYBcJEE Knocked Loose - Mistakes Like Fractures]] (beatdown)
664* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqdZpxkzNvc Lamb of God - Redneck]] (melodic metalcore)
665* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGcb28aqJjo Loathe - Aggressive Evolution]] (nu-metalcore)
666* [[https://youtu.be/5KcRpxRnJ60?si=kF9XCKPXX5LFJU0v MAZE - Silent Witness]] (nu-metalcore)
667* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itvfFlDrDaM Misery Signals - Coma]] (melodic metalcore)
668* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFj-xNT2MhI Nails - Violence Is Forever]] (entombedcore)
669* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwyvWR25FsE Northlane - Clockwork]] (modern metalcore)
670* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfmiGE0hEh0 No Zodiac - Hung by the Tongue]] (beatdown)
671* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO-JbFtgeX4 Of Mice & Men - Bones Exposed]] (nu-metalcore)
672* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNvOVey0MSs Parkway Drive - Carrion]] (melodic metalcore)
673* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icXUkIfZxyg Pierce the Veil ft. Kellin Quinn - King for a Day]] (modern metalcore)
674* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkARbDMEMEQ Shadows Fall - Redemption]] (melodic metalcore)
675* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pGQR9Q5oPg Shai Hulud - My Heart Bleeds the Darkest Blood]] (metallic hardcore)
676* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1Bzo6SdS3c Spiritbox - Rule of Nines]] (nu-metalcore)
677* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS71RSMN_4E Straight Line Stitch - Black Veil]] (melodic metalcore)
678* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzVWGZvadg0 Sylar - Mirrors]] (nu-metalcore)
679* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkE_-zYHDCk Tallah - L.E.D.]] (nu-metalcore)
680* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZ2Q8vlI6E Trap Them - Salted Crypts]] (entombedcore)
681* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quzemO3LW8o Vein.fm - Errorzone]] (nu-metalcore)
682* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht-wkF1TcTM Volumes - On Her Mind ft. Pouya]] (nu-metalcore)
683* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5780Gn_3Q0 Wolf King - Greater Power]] (entombedcore)

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