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 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The seventies and eighties Does it matter when it was made? | 1990 | 96% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Betrayal, Recovery and relapse, Faith, on the Christian wing, Self-loathing | 50% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 94% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1 out of 9. Metalcore leads the next by 3 points. 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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Industrial rock 88%
Guitars over programmed drums, sampling and factory noise. The bridge to industrial metal.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Metalcore.
The way into Industrial rock -
Post-hardcore 86%
Hardcore that allows itself dynamics, empty space and irregular structures. Emo, screamo and mathcore all branch off from here.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Metalcore.
The way into Post-hardcore
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 9.
- The seventies and eighties put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Kawaii metal, New nu metal, Progressive metalcore. Worth 1 of 9.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 9.
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.