Another Metalcore List
You read the title. Focus is on "unknown jerkoff" records. |
| 1 |  | Gather
Beyond the Ruins
Breakdown-heavy chugcore of the Earth Crisis variety. |
| 2 |  | Jane (GER)
A Doorway to Elsewhere
Deathcore from before deathcore was ever really a thing, and a better version of it, too. |
| 3 |  | A Jealousy Issue
If The Flames Don't Kill Us We Will
Poison the Well offshoot from their original vocalist. Similar sound to Opposite of December. |
| 4 |  | Jesuit
Discography
Sludgy and filthy mathcore. |
| 5 |  | Swarm of the Lotus
The Sirens of Silence
More sludgy and filthy mathcore. |
| 6 |  | Heartscarved
...And Tomorrow We Escape
Melodeath-core with some prog tendencies. |
| 7 |  | Eden Maine
To You The First Star
Metalcore with a "post" angle, one of the most underrated records in the genre. |
| 8 |  | Beecher
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Botch-core, but not without its own personality. |
| 9 |  | Dragbody
Flip The Kill Switch
Scratchy, dissonant, and violently thrashy metalcore. |
| 10 |  | A Dozen Black Roses
Mental Threshold
Nashville heavy metallic hardcore. |
| 11 |  | Chamber (US)
Hatred Softly Spoken
THE BEST Nashville metalcore band around. |
| 12 |  | The Callous Daoboys
Die On Mars
Some good friends of mine. Not only hilarious and good-hearted peple, but absolute modern mathcore royalty. |
| 13 |  | Sleepsculptor
Entry: Dispersal
More spazzy, dissonant, frenetically messy mathcore. |
| 14 |  | December
The Lament Configuration
More on the death metal side of things, but ridiculously dizzying metalcore, nonetheless. |
| 15 |  | Barrit
Smiles Upon the Stroke That Murders Me
Old-school melodeath-core from the early days of the sound with tons of '90s hardcore bounce. |
| 16 |  | Aftershock
Through The Looking Glass
Pre-Killswitch Engage, but rivals their best work (if not actually exceeds it). |
| 17 |  | In Dying Days
Life As a Balancing Act
Fairly unique metalcore for the early '00s era. Equal parts intense and melodic without delving into cliche. |
| 18 |  | Taken
And They Slept
Pretty much right in the middle of Botch and Poison the Well. |
| 19 |  | Disembodied
Heretic
Beatdown-core's favorite altar to worship at, even if the bands don't know it. |
| 20 |  | Kashee Opeiah
Panic in Solitude
Noisy, heavy, occasionally sludgy, somewhat experimental metalcore. |
| 21 |  | Martyr AD
On Earth as it is in Hell
I AM INSIDE OF YOU. American Hollow is a masterclass in how to do a breakdown. |
| 22 |  | Eighteen Visions
Until the Ink Runs Out
Still the finest work the OC legacy act have ever done, possibly only rivaled by their comeback release. |
| 23 |  | Thirty Nights of Violence
To Die In Your Portrait
Other Nashville locals vying for the crown of "king of the core". |
| 24 |  | Unruh
Setting Fire to Sinking Ships
Sludgy, visceral, and undeniably raw. |
| 25 |  | One King Down
God Loves Man Kills
Manic vocals on a more chaotic template of the base '90s metallic hardcore sound. |
| 26 |  | Racetraitor
Burn the Idol of the White Messiah
Militant, abrasive, and aggressively political metalcore. |
| 27 |  | Prayer for Cleansing
Rain In Endless Fall
Arguably the finest pre-BtBaM act outside Glass Casket. |
| 28 |  | Bhimal
Deceived
Off-kilter, dissonant, and experimental prog-core. |
| 29 |  | Arma Angelus
Where Sleeplessness is Rest From Nightmares
Angry and violent Pete Wentz-core. |
| 30 |  | Anterrabae
Shakedown Tonight
Mathcore that lets itself be as fun as it is virulent. |
| 31 |  | The Blinding Light
The Ascension Attempt
Monstrously heavy and intrusive metallic hardcore. |
| 32 |  | The Killing Tree
The Romance of Helen Trent
Tim McIlrath's metallic hardcore side project. |
| 33 |  | Leeched
To Dull the Blades of Your Abuse
Oppressive, abrasive, and even atmospheric powerviolence-inflected heavy hardcore. |
| 34 |  | Fawn Limbs
Harm Remissions
Blistering, noisy mathcore with rhythmic shifts aplenty. |
| 35 |  | Earthmother
Earthmother
Blackened metalcore, and one of the finest examples of how the genres should be mixed. Beautiful, intense, and downright brutal in its assault. A personal favorite. |
| 36 |  | Sons Of Abraham
Termites In His Smile
'90s metalcore, meeting between the chugcore and "hardcore kids with Slayer riffs" styles that were prominent at the time. |
| 37 |  | Eyes Upon Separation
I Hope She's Having Nightmares
Former Zao members turned Dillinger. |
| 38 |  | Still Breathing
September
Emotive mathcore with dark atmospheres. |
| 39 |  | Tharsis They
Ominous Silence
Riffs galore, off-kilter Converge worship with character. |
| 40 |  | This is Not a Game of Who The Fuck Are You
101010
Fun and experimental metalcore that doesn't exactly take itself seriously. |
| 41 |  | River Black
River Black
Burnt By the Sun alumni make a record that sounds exactly like you'd expect members of BBtS to make. Not a bad thing, tho. |
| 42 |  | Mercury Switch
If You Love Me, You'd Take Me to the City
Another personal favorite. A melodic (?) mathcore record with some of the catchiest melodies and memorable moments the genre has to offer. |
| 43 |  | Compromise
Yesterday Was Everything
Early Misery Signals companion piece, if you know the history. |
| 44 |  | This Runs Through
Until Forever Finds Me
Pre-Underoath Spencer doing pretty much the sound he was always meant for, just a bit more unrefined. |
| 45 |  | Undying
The Whispered Lies of Angels
Melodeath-core from way before it was a cliche. More death than melo in their formula. |
| 46 |  | Serapis
Serapis
Unconventional melodic metalcore. Ignore the "meh" artwork, this is a solid album. |
| 47 |  | Will Haven
El Diablo
Sludge-driven noisecore. If early '00s Deftones went metalcore, they may have ended up sounding like this. |
| 48 |  | Acme
...To Reduce the Choir to One Soloist
One of the most underrated acts of the initial mathcore movement. Highly influential, though often under-acknowledged. |
| 49 |  | Engineer
The Dregs
Raw and unhinged sludgecore. |
| 50 |  | The Esoteric
With the Sureness of Sleepwalking
See 49 for details. |
| 51 |  | Anion
Fractions of Failure
See 50, then see 49 for details. |
| 52 |  | Nights Like These
The Faithless
Memphis' discordant take on the early sound of The Acacia Strain. Violent and inexplicably pissed off. |
| 53 |  | Blood Has Been Shed
Spirals
Pre-Killswitch Engage Howard Jones in a much more chaotic setting. Funny how he initially didn't want to join them for being "too clean" for his taste, then proceeded to make their two most polished records with As Daylight Dies and the second self-titled. |
| 54 |  | .Crrust
You Came For Everest, You'll Find Your Way Dead
Melodic for chaotic metalcore's standards. Plenty of early '00s emo influence in the clean vocals, but it's surprisingly charming. |
| 55 |  | False Accusations
Late to the Party
Rest in piss buddy 9000s, you beautiful bastards. I love these dudes, some other homies of mine that sadly disbanded last year. Check James' new band, Suck Dirt, tho, pretty please. Messy, melodic, mathy, occasionally jazzy frenetic mathcore. |
| 56 |  | Harkonen
Shake Harder Boy
Punky, spunky, and some kinda funky experimental mathcore. |
| 57 |  | Blues
Snakepit
The Botch worship is evident, but taken in a very different, somewhat darker direction. |
| 58 |  | Maharahj
Repetition
Chaotic grind-infused metalcore. |
| 59 |  | Name
Internet Killed The Audio Star
More of that Crazy techdeath-adjacent math/grindcore. |
| 60 |  | Quell
One Man's Struggle...
For as much chaotic aggression is here, there's a surprising amount of melody. |
| 61 |  | Romans
All Those Wrists
Noisy, in-your-face, and memorable experimental hardcore. |
| 62 |  | Thumbscrew
All is Quiet
Nonstop violence in the package of death metal-inflected grinding metalcore |
| 63 |  | Reprisal
Mail Order Knife Set
Intense and unforgiving early '00s metalcore. |
| 64 |  | Under The Pier
Puff Pieces
Modern mathcore, plenty of tech riffs and chaos. |
| 65 |  | The Orangeburg Massacre
Moorea
Dynamic chaos in a southern-fried hardcore aesthetic. |
| 66 |  | Not Your Friends
Constructing A Mental Breakdown
Agonized wacko-grind for the sasscore crowd. |
| 67 |  | Harlots
Betrayer
Belligerent, spastic, and brilliant mathgrind. |
| 68 |  | Bleak
We Deserve Our Failures
Downtrodden, heavily atmospheric sludgecore. |
| 69 |  | Drowningman
Rock And Roll Killing Machine
Another one people don't realize how much has been lifted from until they hear the real thing. |
| 70 |  | Freighter
The Den
Thrashy, experimental, unorthodox, and subversive dissonant mathcore. |
| 71 |  | The Handshake Murders
Usurper
Equal measures rhythmic fuckery and off-kilter melody (or lack thereof). |
| 72 |  | Ironhide
Create Collapse Repeat
Oddly reminiscent of The Red Chord's more restrained moments, but no less intense. |
| 73 |  | Meek Is Murder
Algorithms
A mathcore masterclass, from slower, oppressive, somber melodies to hyperactive, bouncy dissonant breaks, this record reflects the extremes of the genre in style. |
| 74 |  | A Fall Farewell
Where Us Trouble Befalls and the Secrecy Enthralls
The harsh vocal style of early Zao with the musical tendencies of From Autumn to Ashes, but with a singer that doesn't sing exclusively through his nose. |
| 75 |  | Joy (NC)
No Light Below
Blackened dark hardcore for folks who like their music entirely bleak and without hope. They live up to their name. |
| 76 |  | As the Sun Sets
Each Individual Voice Is Dead in the Silence
Pre-Daughters metallic and chaotic mathgrind. |
| 77 |  | Architect
All Is Not Lost
better than Architect(s). |
| 78 |  | Achilles (USA-NY)
Hospice
Likely do not have weak spots in their heels. |
| 79 |  | The End Of Six Thousand Years
Isolation
Kinda touch on every end of the metal spectrum, really. Occasional post-metal, some blackened moments, none of it feeling shoehorned in, either. |
| 80 |  | Anodyne
Lifetime of Gray Skies
Brooding chaotic violence. Pretty much sounds like a knife fight. Harsh attacks with brief moments of calculated clarity. |
| 81 |  | Tom Violence
The Widow
Nashville blackened hardcore. |
| 82 |  | Century
Black Ocean
Layered melodies with dense and constant aggression. |
| 83 |  | The Minor Times
Summer Of Wolves
More Botch worship, but I've yet to find a time when that's really a bad thing. |
| 84 |  | Creation Is Crucifixion
In_Silico
Raw, under-produced, noisy tech-core. |
| 85 |  | Dawn of Orion
For the Lust of Prophecies Undone
Myke C-Town's late '90s death metal-esque metalcore band. |
| 86 |  | Dead Blue Sky
Symptoms of an Unwanted Emotion
Atmospheric, melodic, keyboard-heavy metalcore with a surprising lack of traditional "core" styled breakdowns. |
| 87 |  | DSGNS
Hexes
Groovy, thrashy, noisy metallic hardcore. |
| 88 |  | Flesh And Blood Robot
The Sound That Revolvers Make
Brutal, off-the-wall grinding mathcore with some tongue-in-cheek humor. |
| 89 |  | A Needle Under The Nail
The Third Impact
Chug-happy, panic-chord-playin', good ol' metalcore. |
| 90 |  | On Broken Wings
Some Of Us May Never See The World
Overly distorted vocals, stop-start rhythmic beats, "slams", and clean vocals for the moody melodic sections, yep, it is most assuredly a metalcore record from 2003. |
| 91 |  | Not Waving But Drowning
If It's Too Cute...Set It On Fire
Deceptively melodic, though hardly conventional. Bordering just between post-hardcore and metalcore. |
| 92 |  | Suicide Nation
A Requiem... for All That Ever Mattered
A blackened take on the metalcore tropes of the late '90s. One of the more ferocious records of the era. |
| 93 |  | Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon
Thirty Seconds Until Armageddon
Thrashy and only occasionally melodic metallic hardcore. |
| 94 |  | Coilguns
Watchwinders
Frenetic noisecore with genuinely creative songwriting. |
| 95 |  | The Heartland
The Stars Outnumber The Dead
If Daniel Weyandt fronted an avant-garde mathcore band. |
| 96 |  | Arise In Stability
The Future That Amnesiac Draws
Japanese progressive melodic metalcore that is not at all afraid to experiment. |
| 97 |  | Of Glaciers
Heart Museum
Yeah, I'll take this until we get that new Misery Signals record. |
| 98 |  | Empire
The Decadent Movement
Some truly creative and somewhat proggy metalcore. Lots of melody, lots of breakdowns, lots of hooks. |
| 99 |  | Forever Is Forgotten
The Architecture Is Still Burning
One of the most criminally overlooked chaotic metalcore acts of the early '00s. While everyone was losing their shit over Norma Jean, these guys were doing the chaoscore thing better (though I still love me some NJ, tho). |
| 100 |  | Daedalus
Striations
https://daedalustn.bandcamp.com/album/striations-2
And shameless plug for my own band. Blackened screamogaze metalcore bullshit. We're just four best friends that love making noise together. Please give a listen to any records on here you don't know. |
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