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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Weighted mean | 100% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 1 answer you gave, weighted pace 2 out of 2. 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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Garage rock 100%
High-school bands, a Farfisa organ and one good idea recorded badly. Attitude beats technique here, and punk descends from it directly.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Metalcore.
The way into Garage rock -
Pop punk 100%
Punk speed, garage-pop choruses and lyrics about suburban boredom.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 5 steps from Metalcore.
The way into Pop punk
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.