Essential Metalcore Albums
Monday June 15, 2009
The origins of metalcore date back to the mid 1980s, where bands like Agnostic Front and Suicidal Tendencies were mixing thrash, punk, and hardcore together. Metalcore has quickly become one of the most popular metal genres, with bands like Bullet For My Valentine, Trivium, and Avenged Sevenfold topping charts and gaining large fan bases. Check out the list of recommended metalcore albums, then add your choices in the comments section.
Comments
Hmm I’d have to say my list would be different. Most of the bands listed got their sound from the forerunners of the metalcore movement and I wouldn’t see them as essential.
I’d probably go back to the 90ies mostly and include some European bands as well.
Hmmm I would have made a different list most likely. Earth Crisis would be on there, and most likely Shai Hulud. But I would probably replace most of the newer bands in there with the bands that really got the genre going. So mostly bands from the 90ies and I would probably include some European bands