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 |
1 | | At 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 |
2 | | Glassjaw 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 |
3 | | Hot Snakes Automatic Midnight
uuuh fun rockin daddies, make me scream and woop and holler |
4 | | Kill Sadie Experiments in Expectation
these arms are snakes/both/related band, mathy posthardcore etc |
5 | | Faraquet The View From This Tower
mathy posthardcore etc |
6 | | Skycamefalling 10.21
emo metalcore |
7 | | The Sawtooth Grin Cuddlemonster
the kings of whitebelt scene grind, ridiculous skreamz and breakdowns and silly titles. please shit all over me, i love it |
8 | | Fugazi The Argument
hey old men get out of here! its not your time anymore!! |
9 | | The End (CAN) Transfer Trachea Reverberations from Point: False Omniscient
uhhh big skronkin canadian mathcore dillinger worship but gooood? gone sexual? |
10 | | Candiria 300 Percent Density
uhhh big skronkin new york dillinger influenced jazz hip hop unholy mess but good? gone sexual? |
11 | | Majority Rule Interview With David Frost
skramz, skreamz YOU COULD NEVER |
12 | | Drowningman Drowningman Still Loves You
drowningman go emo and kiss u |
13 | | Hopesfall No Wings To Speak Of
melodic hardcore is usually pissweak but this is a classic and im glad it happened |
14 | | Converge Jane Doe
oof |
15 | | Shiner 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 |
16 | | pretty 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 |
17 | | Curl Up and Die Unfortunately We're Not Robots
hell yeah metalcore with long dumb song titles etc |
18 | | Joshua Fit For Battle To Bring Our Own End
metalcore meets skramz with short and effective results |
19 | | Norma Jean Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child
oh fuck yeah metalcore with long song titles and swoopy fringes and big breakdowns |
20 | | Glassjaw Worship and Tribute
Glassjaw grow up a little bit and the ugliness in Daryl's vocals go a long way |
21 | | Q 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 |
22 | | Alexisonfire Alexisonfire
throat shredding, vocal interplay, harsh and clean vox, intricate guitars, omg its just perfect summation of the era |
23 | | Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends
swangsong of the old guard, go away old men you dont belong here!! |
24 | | Scarlet 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 |
25 | | Curl 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 |
26 | | Off Minor The Heat Death of the Universe
skronking emo!?!?!? sadness! abusive band member!! |
27 | | The Blood Brothers ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn
sass, sass me, sass harder |
28 | | Fear 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 |
29 | | Please 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 |
30 | | Black Eyes Black Eyes
sass, sass me, sass harder, sass all night, squawk in my ear, make me dance |
31 | | Hot 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. |
32 | | Saosin Translating the Name
this is so incredibly effeminate and the exact thing crusty metalheads hate and that makes it beautiful and sweet and precious |
33 | | Every Time I Die Hot Damn!
hot damn! this band was so much better earlier on, started going bad post Ex-Lives |
34 | | Poison the Well You Come Before You
this bands magnum opus and really the only album by them you should listen to. emo metalcore |
35 | | Bear 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 |
36 | | The 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 |
37 | | Breather 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 |
38 | | converge 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 |
39 | | These 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 |
40 | | Fear Before Art Damage
raw skronking botch worship with lots of chugs and oh yeahs and slight sass, great throat shredding vox |
41 | | Off Minor Innominate
good skramz that isnt predicated on being incredibly sad which is a plus |
42 | | The Dillinger Escape Plan Miss Machine
Dillingers best album? their most inventive? their most batshit insane at parts? sunshine the werewolf goes hard? |
43 | | Misery Signals Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
i dont really like melodic metalcore but this is 'bright' and 'epic' without being overly schmaltzy |
44 | | Underoath They're Only Chasing Safety
the pinnacle of mallcore |
45 | | Alexisonfire 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) |
46 | | Hot Cross Fair Trades and Farewells
dueling guitars never sounded so good (better a corpse than a nun is perfect) |
47 | | The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower Love in the Fascist Brothel
blaring loud sass sax skronk silliness |
48 | | Five 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. |
49 | | Funeral Diner The Underdark
the pinnacle of post-rock screamo imo, very dark and foreboding. |
50 | | Gospel The Moon Is a Dead World
the pinnacle of prog screamo |
51 | | The Red Chord Clients
deathcore without being cringe |
52 | | Wow, Owls! Pick Your Patterns
underrated screamo band from virginia, really good punk sensibilities n riffs n shit |
53 | | Finch Say Hello to Sunshine
glassjaw worship at its best |
54 | | Bear vs. Shark Terrorhawk
drink ur beer boy and grow a beard and wear flannel and shout ur lil heart out |
55 | | The Fall of Troy Doppelganger
guitar hero 3 music |
56 | | A Textbook Tragedy A Partial Dialogue Between Ghost and Pri
scenegrind was so dumb but these guys had screechy vox and hard riffs |
57 | | Me 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 |
58 | | Genghis Tron Dead Mountain Mouth |
59 | | Harlots This Is the Second Death |
60 | | Daughters Hell Songs |
61 | | Alexisonfire 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 |
62 | | Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno |
63 | | Fear 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. |
64 | | Gaza I Don't Care Where I Go When I Die
misanthropic chaotic botch shit |
65 | | These Arms Are Snakes Easter |
66 | | The Blood Brothers Young Machetes |
67 | | Converge No Heroes |
68 | | Brand New The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me
Brand new on a sputnik list?!?!?! |
69 | | Dear 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 |
70 | | Psyopus Our Puzzling Encounters Considered |
71 | | Hot Cross Risk Revival |
72 | | The Locust New Erections |
73 | | Graf Orlock Destination Time Tomorrow
cinegrind |
74 | | Vanna Curses
ass production, raw shreddy vox, only like 3 good songs but goddamn those songs are good. emo posthardcore |
75 | | The fall of troy Manipulator |
76 | | Dance Gavin Dance Downtown Battle Mountain |
77 | | The Number Twelve Looks Like You Mongrel |
78 | | Destroyer Destroyer Littered With Arrows
scenegrind screechin |
79 | | HORSE the band A Natural Death |
80 | | Harlots Betrayer
deathcore/grind/metalcore mix with a zao cover (very cool) |
81 | | Capsule (US) Blue |
82 | | Genghis Tron Board Up the House |
83 | | Jacobi Wichita Bonez Malone |
84 | | Algernon Cadwallader Some Kind Of Cadwallader |
85 | | Heavy Heavy Low Low Heavy Heavy Low Low |
86 | | Loma Prieta Last City |
87 | | Narrows Narrows |
88 | | Dance Gavin Dance Dance Gavin Dance |
89 | | The Sound of Animals Fighting The Ocean and the Sun |
90 | | United Nations United Nations |
91 | | fear before Fear Before |
92 | | The Number Twelve Looks Like You Worse Than Alone |
93 | | Narrows New Distances |
94 | | Emery ...In Shallow Seas We Sail
im not even sure if i like this |
95 | | Coalesce OX
redneck seethe metal with twang and groove |
96 | | The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine |
97 | | horse the band Desperate Living |
98 | | Admiral Angry Buster
big donk gym music for big meditative bigness |
99 | | A Textbook Tragedy Rain City State of Mind - EP |
100 | | Converge Axe to Fall |
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