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Metalcore
Metalcore is a fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and
hardcore punk, that originated in the late 1980s. Among other styles
Metalcore
blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore, metalcore Other Metallic hardcore
is noted for its use of breakdowns, which are slow, intense passages names
conducive to moshing. Other defining instrumentation includes heavy Stylistic Extreme metal ·
guitar riffs often utilizing percussive pedal tones and double bass origins hardcore punk ·
drumming. Vocalists in the genre typically perform screaming, more crossover thrash
popular bands often combine this with the use of standard singing, usually
Cultural Late 1980s and early
during the bridge or chorus of a song. However the death growl is also a
origins 1990s, United States
popular technique within the genre.
Typical Electric guitar · bass
In the late 1980s to early 1990s pioneering bands such as Integrity, Earth instruments guitar · drums ·
Crisis and Converge, whose hardcore punk-leaning style is sometimes vocals
referred to as "metallic hardcore",[2] were founded. These pioneering Derivative Sass[1]
bands took influence from a range of styles and genres such as hardcore forms
punk, thrash metal and death metal. Journalists have dubbed records by
Subgenres
The Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch and Coalesce to be milestones in the
genre. During the early 2000s, metalcore started to gain more prominence, Mathcore
with several independent metal labels signing metalcore bands. This lead Fusion genres
to bands such as Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, Trivium, As I Lay Deathcore · electronicore ·
Dying, Bullet for My Valentine, and Parkway Drive all rising to popularity. progressive metalcore ·
melodic metalcore · nu metalcore
Regional scenes
Contents Australia · Canada · Germany ·
History United Kingdom · United States
Precursors (California · Florida · Massachusetts
Origins (1980s and 1990s) · New York · Ohio)
2000s–present
Other topics
Characteristics
Bands · breakdown · crust punk ·
Subgenres
grindcore · heavy hardcore ·
Melodic metalcore
Mathcore
moshing · post-hardcore ·
Deathcore sludge metal
Electronicore
Progressive metalcore
Nu metalcore
See also
References
Bibliography

History

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Precursors
Black Flag[3] and Bad Brains,[4] among the originators of hardcore, admired
and emulated Black Sabbath. British punk rock groups such as Discharge and
the Exploited also took inspiration from heavy metal.[5] The Misfits put out
the Earth A.D. album, becoming a crucial influence on thrash.[6] Nonetheless,
punk and metal cultures and music remained fairly separate through the first
half of the 1980s. Cross-pollination between metal and hardcore eventually
birthed the crossover thrash scene, which gestated at a Berkeley club called
1980s hardcore band Agnostic Ruthie's, in 1984.[7] The term "metalcore" was originally used to refer to these
Front crossover groups.[8] Hardcore punk groups Corrosion of Conformity,[9] D.R.I.
and Suicidal Tendencies[10] played alongside thrash metal groups like
Metallica and Slayer. This scene influenced the skinhead wing of New York
hardcore, which also began in 1984, and included groups such as Cro-Mags, Murphy's Law, Agnostic Front[11] and
Warzone.[12] The Cro-Mags were among the most influential of these bands, drawing equally from Bad Brains,
Motörhead and Black Sabbath.[13] Cro-Mags also embraced some aspects of straight edge and Krishna
consciousness.[14] Another New York metal-influenced straight edge group of this time period is the Crumbsuckers.
1985 saw the development of the hardcore breakdown, an amalgamation of Bad Brains' reggae and metal
backgrounds,[15] which encouraged moshing. Agnostic Front's 1986 album Cause for Alarm, a collaboration with
Peter Steele, was a watershed in the intertwining of hardcore and metal.[16]

Origins (1980s and 1990s)

Between 1984 and 1995, a wave of metallic hardcore bands emerged,[17]
including Hogan's Heroes,[18] Integrity,[19] Earth Crisis,[19][20] Converge,[20]
Shai Hulud,[21][22][23] Judge,[20] Strife,[19] Rorschach,[24] Vision of
Disorder[24] Hatebreed,[19][24] and Disembodied.[25]

Integrity drew influence from the hardcore band G.I.S.M. and the thrash metal
band Slayer, with others like Septic Death, Samhain, Motörhead and Joy
Division. Earth Crisis, Converge and Hatebreed[26] borrowed from hardcore
punk and death metal.[27] Earth Crisis's albums Firestorm, Destroy the
1980s metallic hardcore band
Machines and Gomorrah's Season Ends were particularly influential to the
Hogan's Heroes
(further) development of the genre.[28][29][30] Biohazard, Coalesce and
Overcast were also important early metalcore groups.[31] Journalist Lars
Gotrich wrote, "Along with key records by The Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch, Give Them Rope (1997) is an
underground milestone that helped [further] what was soon [universally] called 'metalcore'. At the risk of sounding
too reductive—metalcore was the natural progression where extreme metal and hardcore met, but with spiraling time
signatures that somehow felt more aggressive."[32] Shai Hulud's 1997 album Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and
Compassion became especially influential in the latter part of the decade.[21][22][23]

2000s–present
In the early 2000s, metalcore started to gain more prominence, with several independent metal labels, including
Century Media and Metal Blade, signing metalcore bands. A new subgenre, melodic metalcore, strongly influenced by
Swedish melodic death metal, has formed and quickly came to the forefront of metalcore's rise to popularity. By 2002,
Killswitch Engage's Alive or Just Breathing,[33] was the prominent album that thrust metalcore into the spotlight. In
2004 into Shadows Fall's The War Within,[34] and Atreyu's The Curse debuted at numbers 21, 20, and 36,
respectively, on the Billboard album chart. Also, in 2006, Atreyu's third studio album, A Death-Grip on Yesterday
debuted at Number 9 on the Billboard 200, only to be followed up by 2007's Lead Sails Paper Anchor, which debuted

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at Number 8. All That Remains' single "Two Weeks" peaked at number 9 at

the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart in the U.S. The song peaked on the
Modern Rock Tracks chart at number 38. In 2007, the songs "Nothing
Left" by As I Lay Dying and "Redemption" by Shadows Fall were
nominated for a Grammy award in the "Best Metal Performance" category.
An Ocean Between Us (the album that included "Nothing Left") itself was a
commercial success, debuting at number 8 on the "Billboard 200".
Killswitch Engage are considered
In 2008 Welsh metalcore band Bullet for My Valentine's second album, one of the breakthrough bands to
Scream Aim Fire, went straight to number 4 on the Billboard 200,[35] bring metalcore to the spotlight.
which was later surpassed in 2010 by their third album Fever, which
debuted at number 3 selling more than 71,000 copies in its first week in the
United States and more than 21,000 in the United Kingdom. Bullet for My
Valentine's 2006 album The Poison was certified gold by the Recording
Industry Association of America (RIAA).[36] Underoath's fifth album Define
the Great Line, released in 2006, peaked at number 2 on the Billboard 200
charts, selling 98,000 copies in its first week.[37]

Trivium have met with success, making

the top 25 positions on charts in several Metalcore band Bullet for My
Valentine performing in 2006
countries, including the United States,
and top 10 positions in both Australia
and the United Kingdom (where it even achieved Gold status). Hatebreed, God
Forbid, and As I Lay Dying have also charted.[38][39][40] The Devil Wears Prada
achieved some commercial success with their album, With Roots Above and
Metalcore band Trivium live Branches Below, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard 200 upon its release.[41]
in 2012 Underoath's album Lost in the Sound of Separation reached number 8 on the
Billboard 200 and sold 56,000 copies in its first week of sales in the United States
alone,[42] with Killswitch Engage's self-titled fifth album reaching number 7 on
the same chart and selling 58,000 copies.[43]

By the early 2010s, metalcore was evolving to more frequently incorporate synthesizers and elements from genres
beyond rock and metal. The Devil Wears Prada's 2011 album Dead Throne (which sold 32,400 in its first week)[44]
reached number 10,[45] on the Billboard 200 chart. In 2013, British band Bring Me the Horizon released their fourth
studio album Sempiternal to critical acclaim. The album debuted at number 3 on the UK Album Chart and at number
1 in Australia. The album sold 27,522 copies in the US, and charted at number 11 on the US Billboard Chart, making it
their highest charting release in America until their follow-up album That's the Spirit, on which they abandoned
metalcore, debuted at no. 2 in 2015.

Characteristics
Metalcore is known for its use of breakdowns, in which it was preceded by heavy
hardcore.[46] Metalcore singers typically perform screaming,[47] a vocal technique
developed in the 1980s and characteristic of 1990s metalcore. More recent bands
often combine this with the use of standard singing, usually during the bridge or
chorus of a song.[47] The death growl technique is also popular.

The instrumentation of metalcore includes heavy guitar riffs often utilizing

percussive pedal tones, double bass drumming, and breakdowns.[47] Drop guitar Metalcore band Hatebreed
tunings are often used. Most bands use tuning ranging between Drop D and A,
although lower tunings, as well as 7 and 8 string guitars are not uncommon.

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Drummers typically use a lot of double bass technique and general drumming styles across the board. Blast beats are
also heard at times. According to author James Giordano, "tempos in metalcore tend to be slower than those found in
thrash metal".[48]

Subgenres

Melodic metalcore
The early 2000s included a wave of metalcore bands who placed significantly greater emphasis on melody. Melodic
metalcore bands include Avenged Sevenfold, As I Lay Dying, Trivium, Dead by April,[49] All That Remains,[50]
Atreyu,[51][52] Bullet for My Valentine,[53] Bury Tomorrow,[54] Darkest Hour,[51] Shadows Fall, and August Burns
Red.[55][56][57] These groups took major influence, cues, and writing styles from Swedish melodic death metal bands,
particularly At the Gates,[51] In Flames, Arch Enemy and Soilwork.[58] Melodic metalcore often employs clean
vocals.[59][60]

Mathcore
Mathcore began with the mid-1990s work of Converge,[61] Botch[62][63] Eso-Charis[64] and The Dillinger Escape
Plan.[65] The term mathcore is meant to suggest an analogy with math rock. Mathcore is characterized by increased
speed, technical riffing, and unusual time signatures.[66][67] Bands such as Fear Before also combine the metalcore
sound with odd time signatures, as well as progressive elements.[68]

Deathcore
Deathcore is a fusion of metalcore and death metal.[69][70][71] Deathcore is
defined by breakdowns, blast beats and death metal riffs.[72][73] Bands may
also incorporate guitar solos and even riffs that are influenced by
metalcore.[69] New York-based death metal group Suffocation is credited as
one of the main influences for the emergence of deathcore.[74] Some examples
of deathcore bands are Suicide Silence,[75] Whitechapel,[75] Knights of the
Abyss,[76] Carnifex[75] Chelsea Grin,[77] Impending Doom,[78] and
Emmure.[75] Deathcore band Carnifex

Electronicore
Electronicore describes a stylistic fusion of electronic music and metalcore.[79] Notable artists of this genre have
originated from the United Kingdom, the United States,[80][81] Australia,[82] Canada,[83] France,[84] Hong Kong[85]
and Japan.[86]

Progressive metalcore
Progressive metalcore is a fusion of progressive metal and metalcore characterized by highly technical lead guitar and
djent-influenced breakdowns.[87][88][89][90] Practitioners of the genre often rely heavily on "atmospheric" elements
and complex instrumentation.[90][91]

Nu metalcore

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Nu metalcore is the musical fusion of nu metal and metalcore originating in the 2010s.[92] Many notable groups take
influence from deathcore, R&B,[92] post-hardcore[93] and industrial metal.[94] Metalcore and deathcore groups[95]
such as Emmure,[96][97][98] Of Mice & Men,[99][100][101] Suicide Silence,[102][103] and Issues[104][105] all gained
moderate popularity drawing influence from nu metal and metalcore.

See also

List of metalcore bands

breakdown
Crust punk
Grindcore
Heavy hardcore
Moshing
Post-hardcore
Sludge metal

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