Mort.
You say proto-this, I say post-that, lets call the whole thing skronk
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Metalcore for good people v2

New version of an old list. Got rid of the stuff I no longer feel holds up for a more streamlined (best of the best) history. Everything on the list is a 4 or higher. I the list looks unfinished its because I submitted it so it didnt time out. Links are to what i consider the best songs. Some albums fall somewhere between the metalcore/post-hardcore/grind/emo/noisecore/screamo/etc lines or I felt like they were relevant enough to include anyway.
1Integrity
Those Who Fear Tomorrow


1991 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIMnhmu1GaQ (Judgement Day)
2Rorschach
Protestant


1993 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKAJDn_RQL8 (Mandible)
3Today Is The day
Willpower


1994 (often referred to as noisecore instead of metalcore but whatever shades of grey etc) -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J71uCxa4TBI (My First Knife)
4Deadguy
Fixation on a Coworker


1995 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljZWTjXAFgs (Pins and Needles)
5Human Remains
Using Sickness as a Hero


1996 (not strictly metalcore, more grind, but just like the above band, another new jersey outfit influential on the emergence of mathcore, and dillinger escape plan specifically) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAAPcur-lOE (Weeding out the thorns)
6Integrity
Humanity is the Devil


1996 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Z2v1t3_Tk (Abraxas Annihilation)
7Deadguy
Screamin' With the Deadguy Quintet


1996 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOoEMyVSPBQ (Escape from the fake clink)
8Kiss it Goodbye
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not


1997 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwr1x1IT7Y (What If)
9Breach
It's Me God


1997 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQRoQGMIyYQ (Deadheads)
10Today Is the Day
Temple of the Morning Star


1997 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMY6CJessJg (Blindspot)
11Coalesce
Functioning on Impatience


1998 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcdaLmlCCo4 (A New Language)
12Botch
American Nervoso


1998 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjaeFxfhAD8 (Hutton's great heat engine)
13Disembodied
If God Only Knew The Rest Were Dead


1998 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aPh848roc (Heroine Fingers)
14Cave In
Until Your Heart Stops


1998 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUXs5KujQZA (Bottom Feeder)
15Drowningman
Busy Signal At The Suicide Hotline


1998 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uXJDZxblho (Busy Signal at the suicide hotline)
16Kiss it Goodbye
Choke


1999 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIDaQT84J3Y (Choke)
17Unruh
Setting Fire to Sinking Ships


1999 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrOL3_5ZJlc&t=83s (LP)
18Zao
Liberate Te Ex Inferis


1999 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7dGeDybWP4 (Dark cold sound)
19The Dillinger Escape Plan
Calculating Infinity


1999 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aavFUKwUSXQ (Destro's secret)
20Coalesce
0:12 Revolution in Just Listening


1999 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oLY5GD9SDw (Where the hell is rick thorne)
21Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge
The Poacher Diaries


1999 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud3eUy1Kh5g (Minnesota)
22Botch
We Are the Romans


1999 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf13eQprpy4 (Frequency ass bandit)
23The End (can)
Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient


2001 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfjFjfNKdKw (Opalescence I)
24Drowningman
Drowningman Still Loves You


2001 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxzeufl6Syw (The unbearable burden of always being right)
25Hopesfall
No Wings To Speak Of


2001 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdUk4VYX-0o (The end of an era)
26Converge
Jane Doe


2001 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry5tqexEQ0A (Heaven in her arms)
27Knut
Challenger


2002 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=081Ak6wAi9Y (Neon guide)
28Joshua Fit For Battle
To Bring Our Own End


2002 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFAb1d3N3rM (Sleepwalker's guide)
29The Dillinger Escape Plan
Irony Is a Dead Scene


2002 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWz7rB4SwsY (Pig Latin)
30Keelhaul
Keelhaul II


2002 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0pL8op1hIk (360)
31Botch
An Anthology of Dead Ends


2002 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHrqlCrKK5w (Japam)
32Scarlet
Something To Lust About


2003 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg0qKfTPolg (Revolver)
33Curl Up and Die
We May Be Through With The Past...


2003 - see below
34Curl Up and Die
But The Past Ain't Through With Us


2003 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogbJVGQ0qqM (God is in his heaven...)
35Fear Before
Odd How People Shake


2003 (this probably doesnt hold up that well but i have nostalgia for it) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-ltAWQTSnU (On the Brightside)
36Beecher
Breaking the Fourth Wall


2003 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIvmM0X-k5Y (Dead for Weeks)
37Sikth
The Trees Are Dead and Dried Out, Wait for Something Wild


2003 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEZyWrqK47Q (Scent of the Obscene)
38Poison the Well
You Come Before You


2003 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us2ri8eQu_s (The Realist)
39Misery Signals
Of Malice and the Magnum Heart


2004 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNTb8CyTIjw (The year summer ended in June)
40The Dillinger Escape Plan
Miss Machine


2004 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dQ2-t_v25g (Setting fire to sleeping giants)
41Fear Before
Art Damage


2004 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZTHIyysZ8Q (Law of the averages)
42Converge
You Fail Me


2004 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RciZ6oi2vrs (Death king)
43Breather Resist
Charmer


2004 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyYY6_B5mfA (long nights, short fuses)
44Johnny Truant
In the Library of Horrific Events


2005 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA7PlFX7eDM (Dirty vampire feeding frenzy)
45Seeing Means More
Clouds Obscured To Hearts


2006 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otoKUqZjz10 (bernadette protti)
46Me and Him Call It Us
Loss


2006 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGC-n81UTIE (Innocent Bystanders)
47Harlots
This Is the Second Death


2006 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sNd5T8d18 (Remote Coagulation)
48Fear Before
The Always Open Mouth


2006 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3NmlbrDks (Drowning the old hag)
49Gaza
I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die


2006 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBoR8WUhj4 (Calf)
50Botch
061502


2006 (one of the only live albums i give a shit about in metalcore) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-_y3b62kD0 (John woo live)
51.crrust
Pain Is A Mere Sensation


2007 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ssDBEyXeU (LP)
52Vanna
Curses


2007 (another one that probably hasnt aged well i just have nostalgia for) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgzB1p2nAyE (This map is old news)
53Devil Sold His Soul
A Fragile Hope


2007 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTCgwwExaLU (Between two words)
54HORSE the band
A Natural Death


2007 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZR2ODCHo4Y (Murder)
55Harlots
Betrayer


2007 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbZvaMwBg1s (The Weight Unweighable)
56The Dillinger Escape Plan
Ire Works


2007 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEYLlDThZU (Milk Lizard)
57Crydebris
The Severing


2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XYpgYj6xeE (The severing)
58Admiral Angry
Buster


2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfcnssVdARA (Android)
59Capsule (us)
Blue


2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOc4cEK3-hI (Theres another word for this)
60Genghis tron
Board up the House


2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqGU6YuBjOc (Endless Teeth)
61Johnny Truant
No Tears for the Creatures


2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwiKFSpyLYM (The Grotesque)
62Narrows
Narrows


2008 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRROVlAxaak (Life vests float)
63Architects
Hollow Crown


2009 (i still think this is their best lp) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgZWEAhj3Uo (Early grave)
64Narrows
New Distances


2009 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2t3XzX7ezc (Chambered)
65HORSE the band
Desperate Living


2009 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0fcwYaABw8 (Shapeshift)
66The Dillinger Escape Plan
Option Paralysis


2010 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waOcqbpGsak (Good Neighbour)
67Narrows
Painted


2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-DB1cV0R7U (Absolute betrayer)
68Every Time I Die
Ex Lives


2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1gi_aOe334 (Underwater Bimbos from Outer Space)
69the Chariot
One Wing


2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmB0lCyX_Zs (Tongues)
70Converge
All We Love We Leave Behind


2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qrq4d7UkwdY (Trespasses)
71The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza
Danza IIII: The Alpha - The Omega


2012 (have this at a 3.5 but honestly the tracks i like of this i love and listen to a lot.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzkQU7t_WqI (Rudy x3)
72Heiress
Early Frost


2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeocNuv4IJg (All ruins)
73The Psyke Project
Guillotine


2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kykSlMm99Cs (Ghost)
74Seizures
The Sanity Universal


2013 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fGSlPN0wGo (Product of a time loss scenario)
75Frontierer
Orange Mathematics


2015 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHA0s4zYbcI (Tunnel Jumper)
76Ion Dissonance
Cast the First Stone


2016 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OkuskX7bg (To lift the dead hand of the past)
77Down I Go
Gods


2011 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEzvQFIv5MU (Atlas)
78Sectioned
Annihilated


2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57AjwlIEYII (Betrayer)
79MouthBreather (USA-MA)
Dollmeat


2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVYHakcexsA (Probortion)
80KEN mode
Loved


2018 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DioSgGMbJIE (Illusion of dignity)
81Secret Band
LP2


2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SO-BQZM1Nw (Black Dolphin)
82Seizures
Reverie of the Revolving Diamond


2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMPuXBUIik (Bedlam Blues)
83Zao
The Crimson Corridor


2021 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WzcN6xvp5g (Transitions)
84The Callous Daoboys
Celebrity Therapist


2022 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h06sXKp8yVQ (What is delicious? who swarms?)
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