Mort.
You say proto-this, I say post-that, lets call the whole thing skronk
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10.03.24 UK 2000s Indie to check08.10.24 Morty skramz
07.14.24 Mort.'s 2024 pt.1 07.05.24 Hip-Hop to check
06.26.24 Core to check06.21.24 Mort.'s top 100
06.14.24 EUROS 202406.12.24 Me me me me me me me me me me me me me
05.20.24 Noise rock to check 05.15.24 List is digs
03.19.24 Nostalgia for the American core 2000s 01.15.24 A love letter to Coalesce
12.03.23 Bands im gonna discog cos i like em11.28.23 Morty's 2023 fav listens
11.23.23 Metalcore that does suck 10.29.23 The Skronkman Cometh
09.27.23 Things ive heard in 2023 pt.309.12.23 Bands sput has 'rediscovered'
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Nostalgia for the American core 2000s

the scene burst open and it was beautiful, just a plethora of young men mixing metal, punk, emo, indie, sass, electronics, bodily fluids and whatever else and touring with eachother in a disgusting soupy mess, deathcore bands touching scene bands touching post hardcore bands, dillinger escape plan rammming heavy heavy low lows tour bus uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
1At the Drive-In
Relationship of Command


dont listen to this anymore but its more or less responsible for quite a few bands on this list and i still love it, should revisit it. shame mars volta suck big time
2Glassjaw
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence


dont listen to this anymore and probably dont still love it, but it does hit that ugly angst spot. Also, what a difference between this and Worship & Tribute
3Hot Snakes
Automatic Midnight


uuuh fun rockin daddies, make me scream and woop and holler
4Kill Sadie
Experiments in Expectation


these arms are snakes/both/related band, mathy posthardcore etc
5Faraquet
The View From This Tower


mathy posthardcore etc
6Skycamefalling
10.21


emo metalcore
7The Sawtooth Grin
Cuddlemonster


the kings of whitebelt scene grind, ridiculous skreamz and breakdowns and silly titles. please shit all over me, i love it
8Fugazi
The Argument


hey old men get out of here! its not your time anymore!!
9The End (CAN)
Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient


uhhh big skronkin canadian mathcore dillinger worship but gooood? gone sexual?
10Candiria
300 Percent Density


uhhh big skronkin new york dillinger influenced jazz hip hop unholy mess but good? gone sexual?
11Majority Rule
Interview With David Frost


skramz, skreamz YOU COULD NEVER
12Drowningman
Drowningman Still Loves You


drowningman go emo and kiss u
13Hopesfall
No Wings To Speak Of


melodic hardcore is usually pissweak but this is a classic and im glad it happened
14Converge
Jane Doe


oof
15Shiner
the egg


baby cakes, why did you break up after this? you could have been touring with the lads, the bear vs shark and the blood brothers and you could have taught fear before how to be cool and spacey
16pretty girls make graves
Good Health


smiths reference is big ewww (smiths are amazing but being into them is lame) but the cute indie vibes r cute
17Curl Up and Die
Unfortunately We're Not Robots


hell yeah metalcore with long dumb song titles etc
18Joshua Fit For Battle
To Bring Our Own End


metalcore meets skramz with short and effective results
19Norma Jean
Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child


oh fuck yeah metalcore with long song titles and swoopy fringes and big breakdowns
20Glassjaw
Worship and Tribute


Glassjaw grow up a little bit and the ugliness in Daryl's vocals go a long way
21Q and Not U
No Kill No Beep Beep


oh shit im stupid and should have put this earlier, basically get props for predating the whole spindly indie UK Foals, two door cinema club, vampire weekend movement but with punk vigour and actual fun
22Alexisonfire
Alexisonfire


throat shredding, vocal interplay, harsh and clean vox, intricate guitars, omg its just perfect summation of the era
23Botch
An Anthology of Dead Ends


swangsong of the old guard, go away old men you dont belong here!!
24Scarlet
Something To Lust About


the new guard, here to skronk and riff and do big skream with swoopy fringe and black shirt uniform, very hot
25Curl Up and Die
But The Past Ain't Through With Us


i like that video of curl up and die where theyre are wearing halloween costumes
26Off Minor
The Heat Death of the Universe


skronking emo!?!?!? sadness! abusive band member!!
27The Blood Brothers
...Burn, Piano Island, Burn


sass, sass me, sass harder
28Fear Before
Odd How People Shake


a good summation of the era. straddles the line between metalcore, posthardcore, emo and has some ridiculous song titles and sassy flourishes etc, complete nonsense
29Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack
Please Inform The Captain This Is A Hijack


little known band that was very political post-hardcore more in the vein of the old style (fugazi etc) but with a lot and i mean a lot of sampling. also had some very good squawky vocals
30Black Eyes
Black Eyes


sass, sass me, sass harder, sass all night, squawk in my ear, make me dance
31Hot Cross
Cryonics


the skramz boys adapt to the new times, squawk shout and scream, anitphony, interplay, dueling guitars, the best album of all time?!?!?!?!? one of them.
32Saosin
Translating the Name


this is so incredibly effeminate and the exact thing crusty metalheads hate and that makes it beautiful and sweet and precious
33Every Time I Die
Hot Damn!


hot damn! this band was so much better earlier on, started going bad post Ex-Lives
34Poison the Well
You Come Before You


this bands magnum opus and really the only album by them you should listen to. emo metalcore
35Bear vs. Shark
Right Now You're in the Best of Hands


right now you're reading the best list, a very imaginative album with lots of post-hardcore guitar fun and big shout along moments
36The Fall of Troy
The Fall of Troy


the start of something truly heinous? this is one of the first insane noodling guitar acrobatics albums and we know how awful things are in this post-dgd world. but this album is raw and messy, a yelping teenage disaster with weirdness all over it
37Breather Resist
Charmer


gets called botch worship a lot but uhhhhhhh who cares botch rules and this band does them justice. has a lot of riffs and quite a few skronks. 'Long nights, short fuses' goes ham
38converge
you fail me


i dont really know what to say about this album. bit punchier than jane doe? more emo? punkier? i like that one track which is inspired by Knut's H/armless
39These Arms Are Snakes
Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home


post-hardcore with sass and a indie vibe, members of botch and kill sadie
40Fear Before
Art Damage


raw skronking botch worship with lots of chugs and oh yeahs and slight sass, great throat shredding vox
41Off Minor
Innominate


good skramz that isnt predicated on being incredibly sad which is a plus
42The Dillinger Escape Plan
Miss Machine


Dillingers best album? their most inventive? their most batshit insane at parts? sunshine the werewolf goes hard?
43Misery Signals
Of Malice and the Magnum Heart


i dont really like melodic metalcore but this is 'bright' and 'epic' without being overly schmaltzy
44Underoath
They're Only Chasing Safety


the pinnacle of mallcore
45Alexisonfire
Watch Out!


the pinnacle of alexisonfire (not as raw as the first album, not as boringly verse/chorus structured as the third, them at their best)
46Hot Cross
Fair Trades and Farewells


dueling guitars never sounded so good (better a corpse than a nun is perfect)
47The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower
Love in the Fascist Brothel


blaring loud sass sax skronk silliness
48Five Minute Ride
The World Needs Convincing...


kurt from dgd before dgd making good emo post-hardcore. good clean vox, small amounts of sass very nice.
49Funeral Diner
The Underdark


the pinnacle of post-rock screamo imo, very dark and foreboding.
50Gospel
The Moon Is a Dead World


the pinnacle of prog screamo
51The Red Chord
Clients


deathcore without being cringe
52Wow, Owls!
Pick Your Patterns


underrated screamo band from virginia, really good punk sensibilities n riffs n shit
53Finch
Say Hello to Sunshine


glassjaw worship at its best
54Bear vs. Shark
Terrorhawk


drink ur beer boy and grow a beard and wear flannel and shout ur lil heart out
55The Fall of Troy
Doppelganger


guitar hero 3 music
56A Textbook Tragedy
A Partial Dialogue Between Ghost and Pri


scenegrind was so dumb but these guys had screechy vox and hard riffs
57Me and Him Call It Us
Loss


scene grind was so dumb but these guys were big chugga chugga bree bree core really just in disguise
58Genghis Tron
Dead Mountain Mouth
59Harlots
This Is the Second Death
60Daughters
Hell Songs
61Alexisonfire
Crisis


eurgh i used to love this album and now have mixed feelings on it. its very of its time and emo and straightforward but goddamn the vox are good
62Dead Man In Reno
Dead Man In Reno
63Fear Before
The Always Open Mouth


one of the best albums on the list. band grows up in one album and fills it with a silly amount of different songs with very different vibes and ideas.
64Gaza
I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die


misanthropic chaotic botch shit
65These Arms Are Snakes
Easter
66The Blood Brothers
Young Machetes
67Converge
No Heroes
68Brand New
The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me


Brand new on a sputnik list?!?!?!
69Dear and the Headlights
Small Steps Heavy Hooves


equal vision signed a lot of cool bands, led to those weird lineups where indie and post-hardcore bands would all be playing together and sharing keyboards and poetry like the lil guys they were
70Psyopus
Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
71Hot Cross
Risk Revival
72The Locust
New Erections
73Graf Orlock
Destination Time Tomorrow


cinegrind
74Vanna
Curses


ass production, raw shreddy vox, only like 3 good songs but goddamn those songs are good. emo posthardcore
75The fall of troy
Manipulator
76Dance Gavin Dance
Downtown Battle Mountain
77The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Mongrel
78Destroyer Destroyer
Littered With Arrows


scenegrind screechin
79HORSE the band
A Natural Death
80Harlots
Betrayer


deathcore/grind/metalcore mix with a zao cover (very cool)
81Capsule (US)
Blue
82Genghis Tron
Board Up the House
83Jacobi Wichita
Bonez Malone
84Algernon Cadwallader
Some Kind Of Cadwallader
85Heavy Heavy Low Low
Heavy Heavy Low Low
86Loma Prieta
Last City
87Narrows
Narrows
88Dance Gavin Dance
Dance Gavin Dance
89The Sound of Animals Fighting
The Ocean and the Sun
90United Nations
United Nations
91fear before
Fear Before
92The Number Twelve Looks Like You
Worse Than Alone
93Narrows
New Distances
94Emery
...In Shallow Seas We Sail


im not even sure if i like this
95Coalesce
OX


redneck seethe metal with twang and groove
96The Red Chord
Fed Through the Teeth Machine
97horse the band
Desperate Living
98Admiral Angry
Buster


big donk gym music for big meditative bigness
99A Textbook Tragedy
Rain City State of Mind - EP
100Converge
Axe to Fall
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