I disagree. I think its on a comeback. Last year Trivium and Demon Hunter put out KILLER albums. This year we got Bleeding Through, The Agony Scene, Unearth, Downpour, Death Ray Vision and even fucking All That Remains coming through with it. Not to mention KSE touring like crazy and about to drop a new album, August Burns Red got new shit soon, AND As I Lay Dying is back.
And yesterday at my show we had a bunch of people saying how happy they were that we play that style of metalcore too. Even at a local level people are starting to get burnt out with slammy Code Orange/Knocked Loose type hardcore and want more melody again
I disagree. I think its on a comeback. Last year Trivium and Demon Hunter put out KILLER albums. This year we got Bleeding Through, The Agony Scene, Unearth, Downpour, Death Ray Vision and even fucking All That Remains coming through with it. Not to mention KSE touring like crazy and about to drop a new album, August Burns Red got new shit soon, AND As I Lay Dying is back.
And yesterday at my show we had a bunch of people saying how happy they were that we play that style of metalcore too. Even at a local level people are starting to get burnt out with slammy Code Orange/Knocked Loose type hardcore and want more melody again
2000s metalcore is back bitch.
Maybe in that area. East and west coast are eating up the whole 90s metallic wave again. Theres also a LOT more newer bands adopting the style. Vein, Sanction, Knocked Loose, Code orange, Jesus Piece, Konashi, I Am, Revenge Season, Vatican, Malice At The Palace, Orthodox, Harms Way, Year Of The Knife, Candy, Trail Of Lies etc. All of them and more are going back. Even older bands like Unearth and Remembering Never are taking it back.
I used to be the biggest metalcore fag and I can't hardly listen to a lot of that stuff anymore. The few "core" shows I've been to over the last couple years just aren't the same as they used to be. I know this is anecdotal but it just seems that this is the way it's going for the genre as metalcore isn't even covered on the news sites like it used to be. The tours aren't coming around as often, it's just different.
stoner and doom are similar. they still sell pretty well, but there was a huge doom resurgence from like 2011 - 2017. for a couple years there, EVERYBODY wanted to be electric wizard lol.
I feel like region has a lot to do with it. When I was in Nashville doom was huge. Doom was never big in Chicago, it was a thrash city. Now it seems like hardcore is king everywhere.
The town i live in now has almost no music scene to speak of besides hippie jam bands. There are like 5 metal bands. Funny enough they are all metalcore
hardcore has always been pretty big out here, but bands like knocked loose and jesus piece have definitely boosted it recently.
Its interesting just cause I never thought hardcore was as big a deal on the west coast. But I know theres been a surgence oi f crossover bands that tend to do really well there. Homewrecker, Full Of Hell and Power Trip especially.
Honestly its cuz the hipsters have flooded hardcore right now. Its like how they were all about doom and shoegazey black metal 3 years ago. The hardcore scene are all angry hipster college students
I think this is it. Only ranking the top 10, dont feel assed to rank the rest. It was a tough decision, but I put Bleeding Through as my #1 because its the album I listened to the most this year.
1.
Bleeding Through – Love Will Kill All 2.
Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind of Horror 3.
GosT – Possessor 4.
Unearth – Extinction(s) 5.
Hollywood Burns – Invaders 6.
Breaking Benjamin – Ember 7.
Rabbit Junk – Rabbit Junk Will Die: Meditations
On Mortality 8.
Dance With The Dead – Loved To Death 9.
Nekrogoblikon – Welcome To Bonkers 10. Lazerpunk!
– Death And Glory
(EVERYTHING ELSE I LISTENED TO, UNRANKED) Reign – Destitute Downpour – Downpour At The Gates – To Drink From The
Night Itself Death Ray Vision – Negative Mental
Attitude Impending Doom –The Sin and Doom,
Vol. II Midnight Danger – Malignant Force Perturbator – B-Sides and Remixes,
Vol 1 Perturbator – B-Sides and Remixes,
Vol 2 All That Remains – Victim Of The
New Disease tiasu – Sanctuary Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth Gunship – Dark All Day Replicant – The Resistance Misanthropy – Abhorrent
Metamorphosis Inferi – Revenant MASTER BOOT RECORD – Direct Memory Access MASTER BOOT RECORD - Virus.DOS Mecha Maiko – Mad But Soft Glitch Black – Emergent Behavior Matt Mason – Augmented Fury Kamelot – The Shadow Theory Knichael Might – The Interstellar
Chronicles Avenir 198X – Broadcasting Bart Graft – Modern Life The Knights of Gob – The Knights
of Gob Relic – Social Drift Robert Parker – End Of The Night Deadlife – The Order Of Chaos Deadlife - Variations On The
Resolve AWITW – Tonight Amelia Arsenic – Queen of Risk Stilz – Sentient K.A.R.R. – K.A.R.R.N.A.G.E. Carbon Killer – Carbon Inc The Agony Scene – Tormenter Zardonic – Become Hubrid – Cosmic Memories FVRFVR – I FVRFVR - II The Midnight – Kids FacexHugger – Sci-Fi Violence Light The Torch – Revival Alpha Virus – Abysswalker Central Disorder –
Eradication Occams Laser – Occult 88 Occams Laser – New Blood Street Cleaner – Hardware Street Cleaner – Revenger Street Cleaner – Heatwave Sawbuck – Sativa Goremall – Graveyard Diner Cult Leader – A Patient Man Machine Head – Catharsis Contra. – Inertia Never We See – Let It Kill You Death On Fire & Corpse Paint
And Dayglo – Hope Death On Fire – Witch Hunter Cannibal Abortion – Diminished To
Subhuman Behavior Blood Of The Wolf – Album I + II Soluna – Perspectives Air Raid – Something Awful God Dementia – Curse Of The Unseen Bloodletter – Under The Dark Mark Advorsa – Corruptor Of Dead Flesh Korpiklaani – Kulkija Sleep – The Sciences Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is
Drawn Between The Buried And Me –
Automata I Between The Buried And Me –
Automata II Nighthawk – Neon Heat Alien Weaponry – Tu Obscura – Diluvium Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know
My Name Disturbed – Evolution
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And yesterday at my show we had a bunch of people saying how happy they were that we play that style of metalcore too. Even at a local level people are starting to get burnt out with slammy Code Orange/Knocked Loose type hardcore and want more melody again
2000s metalcore is back bitch.
2. Anaal Nathrakh – A New Kind of Horror
3. GosT – Possessor
4. Unearth – Extinction(s)
5. Hollywood Burns – Invaders
6. Breaking Benjamin – Ember
7. Rabbit Junk – Rabbit Junk Will Die: Meditations On Mortality
8. Dance With The Dead – Loved To Death
9. Nekrogoblikon – Welcome To Bonkers
10. Lazerpunk! – Death And Glory
(EVERYTHING ELSE I LISTENED TO, UNRANKED)
Reign – Destitute
Downpour – Downpour
At The Gates – To Drink From The Night Itself
Death Ray Vision – Negative Mental Attitude
Impending Doom –The Sin and Doom, Vol. II
Midnight Danger – Malignant Force
Perturbator – B-Sides and Remixes, Vol 1
Perturbator – B-Sides and Remixes, Vol 2
All That Remains – Victim Of The New Disease
tiasu – Sanctuary
Carpenter Brut – Leather Teeth
Gunship – Dark All Day
Replicant – The Resistance
Misanthropy – Abhorrent Metamorphosis
Inferi – Revenant
MASTER BOOT RECORD – Direct Memory Access
MASTER BOOT RECORD - Virus.DOS
Mecha Maiko – Mad But Soft
Glitch Black – Emergent Behavior
Matt Mason – Augmented Fury
Kamelot – The Shadow Theory
Knichael Might – The Interstellar Chronicles
Avenir 198X – Broadcasting
Bart Graft – Modern Life
The Knights of Gob – The Knights of Gob
Relic – Social Drift
Robert Parker – End Of The Night
Deadlife – The Order Of Chaos
Deadlife - Variations On The Resolve
AWITW – Tonight
Amelia Arsenic – Queen of Risk
Stilz – Sentient
K.A.R.R. – K.A.R.R.N.A.G.E.
Carbon Killer – Carbon Inc
The Agony Scene – Tormenter
Zardonic – Become
Hubrid – Cosmic Memories
FVRFVR – I
FVRFVR - II
The Midnight – Kids
FacexHugger – Sci-Fi Violence
Light The Torch – Revival
Alpha Virus – Abysswalker
Central Disorder – Eradication
Occams Laser – Occult 88
Occams Laser – New Blood
Street Cleaner – Hardware
Street Cleaner – Revenger
Street Cleaner – Heatwave
Sawbuck – Sativa
Goremall – Graveyard Diner
Cult Leader – A Patient Man
Machine Head – Catharsis
Contra. – Inertia
Never We See – Let It Kill You
Death On Fire & Corpse Paint And Dayglo – Hope
Death On Fire – Witch Hunter
Cannibal Abortion – Diminished To Subhuman Behavior
Blood Of The Wolf – Album I + II
Soluna – Perspectives
Air Raid – Something Awful
God Dementia – Curse Of The Unseen
Bloodletter – Under The Dark Mark
Advorsa – Corruptor Of Dead Flesh
Korpiklaani – Kulkija
Sleep – The Sciences
Bloodbath – The Arrow Of Satan Is Drawn
Between The Buried And Me – Automata I
Between The Buried And Me – Automata II
Nighthawk – Neon Heat
Alien Weaponry – Tu
Obscura – Diluvium
Rivers of Nihil – Where Owls Know My Name
Disturbed – Evolution