Your way in
Metalcore 1990
Hardcore and extreme metal fused: breakdowns, melodic riffing and screamed verses alternating with sung choruses.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 140-190 bpm
- Song length
- 3-5 min
- Written about
- Betrayal, Recovery and relapse, Faith, on the Christian wing, Self-loathing
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Metalcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 80% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1990 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 93% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, era 1 out of 6. Metalcore ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1The one to put on first
Killswitch Engage, Killswitch Engage 2000
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing. The album that defined a decade.
- 2Then
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is Metalcore's own entry point. After it come Metalcore's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Post-metal / atmospheric sludge 93%
Sludge with post-rock logic: long songs, crescendos and instrumental passages. Neurosis invented the form.
4 steps from Metalcore, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Post-metal / atmospheric sludge -
Slam death metal 90%
Reduces brutal death metal to slow, lurching riffs made purely for moving your head.
4 steps from Metalcore, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Slam death metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 6.
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 6.
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 6.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.