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| "-core" bands rant (plus list)
So I'm a huge metalhead. No, really, I love metal, and I ever loved, ya know, genres like Heavy Metal; Thrash Metal; Death Metal; damn it, even Nu Metal gets to be cool from time to time. And then comes genres like Metalcore, Deathcore and Post-Hardcore, the three of which were genres within Hardcore Punk. And as much as I love these genres, something about how the modern media depicts them pisses me off now... When I was younger, it didn't bother me, as the heaviness was so cool I didn't give a damn about anything else, but now I'm older, so naturally I started to notice flaws in the modern hardcore stuff. And boy, I found lots, specially since I discovered bands like Glassjaw; Converge; At the Drive-In; Thursday and maybe one of the most recognized (maybe for those who actually know proper music), Fugazi, and boy, when I listened to them, I couldn't believe that was what it sounded like one decade before. And with that, I got pissed. I couldn't believe that one of the most creative genres ever conceived became by the media how it is today.
Nowadays all the riffs sound all the same, all I hear are the same chords, the same zeroes, the same blast beats, the horrendous use of auto-tune in clean singing by some bands (the most infamous being Attack Attack!), the same old lyrics about emotional and angsty bullshit Sunny Day Real Estate could have used in the 90s and have called it a day, and in the latter's case, it would actually work. Great post-hardcore bands got overshadowed by bands like Sleeping With Sirens; Asking Alexandria; Emmure and Bring Me the Horizon (pre-That's the Spirit), who sound almost nothing like the likings of Quicksand; The Blood Brothers, etc., and no, no matter how fun their sound is to headbang to, it's lacking what made old "core" music sound so, well, unique. Also, Suicide Silence is deathcore, you misinformed imbeciles.
Now before I stop, here are some actually good "-core" bands/albums. (core in general) | | 1 |  | Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire
(reminder: this isn't on a particular order) | | 2 |  | Glassjaw
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence
Probably one of the most chaotic albums I've ever heard | | 3 |  | Far
Water & Solutions
This is a really underrated band | | 4 |  | Fugazi
13 Songs
Probably what made all the PHxC fuzz, at least for me | | 5 |  | The Dillinger Escape Plan
Calculating Infinity
This is mathcore at its purest | | 6 |  | Fightstar
They Liked You Better When You Were Dead | | 7 |  | At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command | | 8 |  | brokeNCYDE
I'm Not a Fan, but the Kids Like It!
Just kidding! Crunkcore is an absolute travesty of a genre. | | 9 |  | Of Mice and Men
The Flood
Let me mind you this was after a decent but not so great debut, and before Restoring Force made them soften their sound, while in Cold World they butchered it completely | | 10 |  | Snapcase
Bright Flashes | | 11 |  | Converge
Axe to Fall | |
FullOfSounds
09.22.16 | 9 wasn't their debut. | Flugmorph
09.22.16 | Thx for enlightening us lad | AdoreSwancore
09.22.16 | @FullOfSounds I think you read it wrong they said that it "was AFTER a decent but not so great debut" | tempest--
09.22.16 | what a coincidence it's my 14th birthday today as well! | FullOfSounds
09.22.16 | Oh yeah, my bad. | Sinternet
09.22.16 | What an awful rant | Mort.
09.22.16 | So tryhard and telling is shit we all already know | G0atC0re
09.22.16 | Yeah I think it's because 'core' music became semi-popular and even profitable from the early 00's. It started a new wave of bands who were mostly in it for the money. Back in the 'golden age' bands made fuck all money, so it had to be all about the passion for the music. I think that's the main reason why new core music tends to be quite poor and repetitive. Lots of talent lacking bands, trying to cash in on a trend, making money off socially outcast 13 year olds'. | LotusFlower
09.22.16 | Stopped reading at "so I'm a huge metalhead" | Rowan5215
09.22.16 | 3 hard | JeetJeet
09.22.16 | Is every core list on Sputnik the same? Feel like every one is some variation of “new core sux. Listen to Converge/Dillinger/ATDI instead". | G0atC0re
09.22.16 | HA @Jeet. You hit the nail on the head. | SandwichBubble
09.22.16 | "maybe for those who actually know proper music"
http://i.imgur.com/Pt9HA7k.png | MarsKid
09.22.16 | I mean, you can complain about bad -core all you'd like, or you can just listen to the treasure trove of good -core. | LotusFlower
09.22.16 | its a shame that bad -core bands being popular makes it so people are incapable of listening to good bands...
wait. | CaptainAaarrrggghhh
09.22.16 | A really uneven list in my opinion. I used to go through the phase of digging through the actually awesome bands with "-core" usually written on the label and getting pissed on the modern mainstream version too. | UpwardSpiral
09.22.16 | I barely know any people who listen to these genres anyway. Just listen to the good stuff and don't bother | zaruyache
09.22.16 | so you're tellin me that mainstream bands got mainstream publication attention and became popular, taking attention away from the tr00 bands that were actually the ones writing good riffs? Stop the presses; this is literally entirely new information to me. | JaySpiral
09.22.16 | Its kinda funny, the older I get, the less I care about this kind of thing. | Flugmorph
09.22.16 | "dillinger and atdi rule all. every other core band sucks shit"
you are officially retarded now | porcupinetheater
09.22.16 | You are a snowflake with unique and well thought out opinions I bet your parents are proud of this list and you | torts
09.22.16 | get absolutely fucked cunt | porcupinetheater
09.22.16 | "Every other core band sucks shit"
Spoken like a true dude that's heard 3 core albums in his life | Mort.
09.22.16 | Literally everyone who ever whines core tends to have heard fuck all core | JaySpiral
09.22.16 | Categorizing bands into genres often gets really blurry. So many bands have such a wide variety of influences its pretty rare that a band fits within one definition, or even three for that matter. |
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