but i still like ABR, not amazing by any means but a lot better than a lot of crap bands out there!

thrill seeker is good, theyre nice dudes, good live. everything other than thrill seeker is really mediocre.

Someone recommend me an ultra mainstream metalcore band plox.

emmure

pfft, their wikipedia page is non-elite.

kse

aye, already given them a try, 'As Daylight Dies' was okay.

wait you are listening to these bands?

Well, KSE is probably the only metalcore band I've ever listened to. I'm trying to work on the genre more.

ohwait, Shadows Fall as well.

Killswitch Engage is like that band that I always wanted to be good because the bands their members came from were so awesome, but they've really just become a bad parody of the bands that the members came from. :(

KsE's [I]Alive Or Just Breathing[/I] is the shiznit. I like the two albums after that as well but they are a bit more watered down.

AOJB and The End of Heartache are the only ones worth getting.


Try All That Reamains and As I Lay Dying for mainstream metalcore. They're both half decent.

[QUOTE=badtaste;17045876]Well, KSE is probably the only metalcore band I've ever listened to. I'm trying to work on the genre more.

ohwait, Shadows Fall as well.[/QUOTE]

Listen to BOTCH, all hail BOTCH.

But for mainstream try Norma Jean, Underoath, Architects, or whatever metalcore band is featured in Alternative Press.

[QUOTE=FrankieV2;17046014]AOJB and The End of Heartache are the only ones worth getting.


Try All That Reamains and As I Lay Dying for mainstream metalcore. They're both half decent.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=HighandDriving;17046076]Listen to BOTCH, all hail BOTCH.

But for mainstream try Norma Jean, Underoath, Architects, or whatever metalcore band is featured in Alternative Press.[/QUOTE]

Danks, I'll get started now. Might visit those KSE albums in the future.

gotta say it August Burns Red.

*waits for elite troll*

I agree with ABR, its fun accessible metalcore, leading you into some of the better ones.

[QUOTE=Little Android Man;17047132]gotta say it August Burns Red.

*waits for elite troll*[/QUOTE]

ABR rules hard tbh.

I'll keep them in mind.

I've just given All That Remain's 'The Fall of Ideals' and As I Lay Dying's 'An Ocean Between Us' a listen. Alright I guess, but they both kinda sound the same.

[QUOTE=HighandDriving;17046076]Listen to BOTCH, all hail BOTCH.

But for mainstream try Norma Jean, Underoath, Architects, or whatever metalcore band is featured in Alternative Press.[/QUOTE]

Botch used to be mainstream.

Also, elite mainstream: Hopesfall & Misery Signals

[QUOTE=hismajestythepope;17047544]Botch used to be mainstream.

Also, elite mainstream: Hopesfall & Misery Signals[/QUOTE]

Hopesfall is one of my favorite bands ever, but they're hardly mainstream.

I guess popularity varies state-to-state, but being in PA, metalcore is HUEG here, and back when Hopesfall was good, EVERYBODY here loved them.

haha my band just got an offer to play with mychildren mybride, stick to your guns, and parkway drive, but its outta town and we'd have to presell a bunch so its not doable

Why is it not doable? those bands are pretty damn huge. Just post mad myspace bulletins, advertise on local forums, go to the mall and solicit random scenesters.

it's kinda out in the middle of nowhere on a weeknight too =/

ohhhhhhhh.

that sounds like every time good bands come to my area. its not even worth opening for them, because nobody wants to come to allentown. :(

yeah this is up north at a well-visited metal venue but probably no one is willing to make the drive.

lameness.

sunday shows for the loss dude. but we're playing with periphery in march and im super stoked on that because they are sicckkk. some dude in the guitar forum is in that band.

guitar forum, lol.

lol i didnt know either but apparently he is. i haven't spent any time on there.