My Top 10 Favourite Metalcore Releases
Some of my personal favourites which I feel still holds up to this day (one album per band).
P.S forgive some of my grammar |
| 10 |  | A Day To Remember
Homesick
At first, pop punk with metalcore sounded weird and laughable, but this album proves the potential when the two genres are mixed. The fluidity in fusing the two genres are nothing be laughed at. This album is filled with hooks that any Blink-182 fan can enjoy and breakdowns where any fans of Parkway Drive can mosh to, it's safe to say ADTR delivered strong on this release. |
| 9 |  | August Burns Red
Constellations
The only real way I can describe this album is that it is very colourful. Unlike Messengers, the band did not try to be more brutal, but rather embraces beautiful melodies into their sound, creating a very colourful sonic soundscape. The dynamic in song structure is the highlight of this album, from going from one extreme to another, this album will captivate any listeners that gives this album a chance. |
| 8 |  | Architects
All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us
At first release, I didn't understand this album, but it's not only until guitarist Tom Searle's (RIP) passing I came to understand this album and it's lyrics. Chocked full of moody riffs and hard hitting breakdown, this is really the last metalcore output I really enjoyed. There is a lot of genuine emotion in this album which I feel is lacking in recent metalcore releases. |
| 7 |  | The Devil Wears Prada
With Roots Above and Branches Below
The band created the blueprint to late 2000s metalcore, but this album pushes it even more incorporating choruses for the first time in their discography, this album is no slouch. This is probably the most technical 'scene' album there is. Breakdowns like Assistant To The Regional Manager still goes hard to this day. |
| 6 |  | Trivium
Shogun
Finally accomplishing what the previous two albums tried to set out, Shogun is an hour long epic with intense riffing influenced by thrash and melodeath. The progressive yet also accessible nature of this album is what made me a fan, appeasing both newcomers and current listeners of the genre. |
| 5 |  | Parkway Drive
Deep Blue
This entire album has tight riffs and breakdowns which makes you feels like being dragged into the sea along with the monster the protagonist becomes in the story of this concept album. This album in my opinion is where Parkway Drive found their own sound and niche. |
| 4 |  | Lamb Of God
Ashes of the Wake
My first introduction to 'real metal', this album blends thrash, groove and melodeath influences to their metalcore groundwork. Lamb Of God came through with distinguishable and technical riffs where I feel many modern (mainstream) metal lacks in general. |
| 3 |  | Bring Me The Horizon
Sempiternal
Many metalcore bands in the 2010s tried to mix pop into their sound but ultimately sounded half-assed and uninspired. However, came BMTH in 2013 with Sempiternal, an album filled with catchy riffs, synths and hooks that not only draws form multiple influences outside of metalcore but also incorporated them in a manner where it was not sounding out of place or sounded amateur-ish. Let's hope they reincorporate metal influences back on their next album. |
| 2 |  | Between the Buried and Me
Colors
Focusing on their progressive influences, BTBAM created this masterpiece of a musical journey. This an album where you have to listen front to back. Filled with twist and turns alongside bludgeoning yet melodic riffs, this album is one of a kind. |
| 1 |  | Underoath
Define The Great Line
Although I consider this album Post-Hardcore, the unconventional song structures and the unique dynamic of soothing post-rock passages and buzzing Mathcore-esque riff creates memorable and catchy album. Too bad late 2000s metalcore were only influenced by the dynamics created by using high pitch cleans with abrasive fry screams. Imagine what the scene would have sounded like if they paid more attention to the instrumentals for influences. |
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