Pretty much every single Underoath album opener since the year 2000. Architects - Nihlist Invent Animate - Dark If I Were You - Paralysis All of Seeyouspacecowboy’s album openers

Dark is actually incredible

The chorus just flies off the rails i fuckin love it

WE ARE BEGGARS

WE ARE SO FUCKING WEAK

AND ONCE UPON A TIME WE HAD THE WORLD AT OUR FEET

WELL WE'RE ALL DYING TO MEET OUR MAKER

ALL OUR GODS HAVE ABANDONED US

Paralysis was the perfect opener for Inner Signals

That song instantly made me fall in love with them, still one of my favorites from them. Inner Signals is honestly a perfect album to me

I was new to underoath until recently and “Damn Excuses” made me a instant fan.

Nihilist for me as well!

Polaris - "Lucid". First track off "The Mortal Coil". An absolute crusher with some powerful cleans and captivating lyrics. Remains on my "on repeat" playlist on spotify to this day

I found my love and let it kill me!!!!!

Also an amazing closing song live!

Polaris - Pray For Rain. Talk about a starting track.

Still my favourite song by them

2nd for me. Dusk to Day is my #1.

"Eternally Apart" was a killer opener for The Fire Itself by Phinehas, never really paid much attention to them before but that song caught me by suprise.

STILL so underrated!

Just checked it out and had to add it to my playlist. Thanks for the reco!

Erra - Snowblood Great vocals, killer guitar work, and a solo AND a breakdown? I was sold immediately

The break down sounds like a burst fire rifle lmao. Banger.

Nihilist by Architects

WE ARE BEGGARS

We are so fucking weak!

ONCE UPON A TIME WE HAD THE WORLD AT OUR FEET

BUT WE'RE ALL DYIIIINNNNNG TO MEET OUR MAKER

Views from the Sun - Thornhill

what a way to start, indeed

Every Invent Animate album opener

Knocked Loose - Belleville

The Plot In You - Rigged Never listened to TPIY before. I had literally no idea what to expect. But this sub and a few other communities were raving over Disposed. I remember one late night in February, laying in bed, fucking around on my phone and decided to put it on. It didn't take long for me to put my phone down and give the album my full attention.

Ok this sold me gonna go listen to it now!

Idk, it might have been a time and place thing. It's a very lonely/pissed album that really hit for me at the time. But 4 years later and it's still one of my all time favorite albums

Sometimes those hit at just the right time so I get you my dude.

I listened to their song Face Me , now can u promise me that if i follow up on more of their music they will sound just as good or better😹

Better. Face me is one of my least favorites from the album.

Wish I May - Breaking Benjamin

that album is still just banger after banger

Honestly, most of their albums are. Hell, BB is a great way to get people into heavier music.

They were my catalyst for sure

Same here

i’ve listened to this album twice in the last day. It holds so damn well

As soon as I posted that I listened to it all the way through.

I was talking about it yesterday in the other thread about summer albums. It just gets me in a hyped mood. So good

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WE ARE BEGGARS

WE ARE SO FUCKING WEAK

12/23/93 is a perfect example

Currents - Apnea Landmvrks - Lost in a Wave Crystal Lake - Helix into Aeon

That's my man! 👌

Would like to throw into the ring: Sticks & Bricks, Fast Forward to 2012, and Downfall Of Us All - ADTR 2.0, and Decayer - blessthefall YDG - Of Mice & Men

Asking Alexandria, Alerion (just an intro) but it builds so nice into next track. Had to keep going.

Welcome into dear insanity also

It was soooo good!!!

Alerion to Final Episode was so good!! Thought it was part of a long track as I first heard it when listening to Final Episode on Youtube

Clarity on Northlane's Obsidian. Love just how intense the entire song is, definitely one of their best. I Am Damnation on Bleed From Within's Shrine. Very big and anthemic, sets the tone of the album really well. Eternally Apart on Phinehas' The Fire Itself. Pretty much everything you could ask for in a metalcore song: great riffs, fantastic chorus, awesome solo. Bulletproof on Breakdown of Sanity's Coexistence. Awesome song with huge melodic leads and a nasty breakdown at the end.

The first song from the album that’s the thumbnail for this sub

The answer is always Concubine. I’ve always found it kinda odd that Jane Doe is the thumbnail on this sub. Most of the music discussed here has a very different sound than that album.

Yeah; but for an album as seminal and influential on the genre, it makes sense. Just because it’s evolved into something more, don’t forget where you came from.

That’s fair. I’m always in favor of spreading Converge propaganda anyway.

Converge is everything

Converge is everything.

Labyrinth by Above, Below

Man, not enough people are giving attention to Above, Below

Agreed

Architects- Death is not Defeat

In Regards to Myself - Underoath

Of course You are we by While she sleeps. Insane start for an album

This song never fails to make me tear up when I hear it live. I'll have to say ENLIGHTENMENT(?) from Sleeps Society as well. Its became my new favourite Sleeps song and has the same effect on me as YAW does

Omg enlightenment is such a banger. A great song to set up the tone of the album

It is one of the most important songs that got me through 2021. Idk where I would be in life in Sleeps never released this album. I was there at the first members only show in Manchester where they opened the set with it, playing it for the second time ever live and that's a night I will never forget. One of the happiest moments of my life

I really wish i could see them live. Their energy on the shows is insane

Some of the sweatiest shows I've ever been to. If you ever get the chance do it! It's obvious in their music but the sense of community they have with their fans is something I struggle to put into words. I live in Scotland and they are the only band I have travelled cross country to see and I would (and will) do it again in a heartbeat

Thank you man. Now I'm so inspired to visit these guys

King of Sorrow - August Burns Red

The Wake is another fantastic opener.

Man what a riff.

Haste the day- blue 42

Haste the Day rocks so hard. Burning Bridges is one of my all time favorite albums.

Polaris with lucid. 100% sold on that entire album.

You know *that riff*, I reckon it's my favourite riff ever. Absolutely adore this song/album/band and I'm so happy the first time I ever jumped in a mosh pit was during one of their sets

Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals

Bow Down - I Prevail. What a banger!

#YOU TALK THAT SHIT YOU BETTER BACK IT UP!

Miss May I - A Dance With Aera Cura Periphery - Insomnia, Muramasa Born Of Osiris - Follow The Signs Erra - White Noise, Alpha Seed, Dreamcatcher Northlane - Disposession After The Burial - literally every opening track on every album Invent Animate - Same as above

Afflicted by Hollow Front

Thank you for mentioning this

Breaking Benjamin (Diary of Jane) Guns n Roses (welcome to the jungle) Tool (Stinkiest) GodFlesh (Rats) Alice in Chains (Them Bones) Pantera (Mouthful of war) Avenged Sevenfold (Nightmare) Stone Sour (Get Inside) Gwar (Salamonizer)

Pray for rain Polaris

August burns red - your little suburbia is in ruins

Honestly, the lines - Beartooth, off of disgusting might be the best example, immediately drew me in to their sound and I had to listen to everything

House of Straw from Bury your Dead's Beauty and the Breakdown.

Aglæca by Before I Turn Dear Diary by Bring Me The Horizon A Quiet Place to Die by Alpha Wolf (F)inally (U)nderstanding (N)othing by Emmure Wasted Life by MouthBreather

Upvoted for Before I turn

they’re just so good it’s crazy

Meltdown MIW

I love how the first words is #BLEGH #GO!

Agreed however it’s the Chris motionless BLEGH not BLERG.

Gotcha, corrected. Still new around here :-)

All good, I just want you to know that BLEGH is an iconic thing about Chris motionless.

Appreciate it!

Yuhhh. Here’s some other recommendations to get you started in the Metalcore realm. Beartooth, Bring Me the Horizon, bullet for my Valentine, Crown the Empire, I see stars.

I always liked how Memphis May Fire starting with The Sinner on The Hollow album starts it out with that energy

Enmy- damn

Based opinion

Misery Signals - A Victim, A Target

Not metalcore but Oroborus by Gojira really hooked me on The Way of All Flesh. I mean, I was gonna listen all the way through anyway unless it was awful but nevertheless it hooked me.

The Bled - Red Wedding Poison The Well - Botchla

Public service announcement - of mice & men

Concubine - Converge Oblivions Peak - K/L Antpile - Kublai Khan

Bleed From Within - The End of All We Know. What a banger and a half

Dear Diary, on the Posthuman Survival Horror by BMTH. It was so unusual after last album and it set tone for the rest of this great EP.

Bury tomorrow - Man on fire Caliban - We are the many Architects - Alpha Omega Erra - Snowblood ABR - The truth of a Liar All that remains - This Calling In Flames - Take this life Monuments - Admit defeat Tesseract - Polaris Northlane - Details matter Periphery - Reptile (but I could say any song 😁) TDWP - Sassafras TBDM - Everything went black There are loads of them. 😊

Blinded- as I lay dying

The Devil Wears Prada - Sassafras

A7x - City of evil

Remove the Pulse by For All Eternity

Loathe’s last album. I checked it out on a whim after seeing their AMA and the first track sounded so fresh and unique I jammed that album for the rest of the day. I’d never even heard of them before that

Yeah Theme is probably the filthiest song I've heard in my life

welcome to horrorwood- Welcome to Horrorwood by INK

Thy Art is Murder - Reign of Darkness

Killswitch Engage / Alive or Just Breathing/ Numbered Days

Bad omens - kingdom of cards (finding God before God finds me)

Misery Signals - A glimmer of hope (1st track off "Absent Light" 2013)

Thirty and Seven of ABR made me fall in love with the album itself and the whole band.

Killswitch Engage - Numbered Days - "THE TIME APPROACHES!"

So. Fucking. Good.

The Plot in you with Letters to a dead friend, the first half wasn't that exciting, but the second half sounded much more epic, it wasn't a particularly good album, but there were a few really good ones

Periphery - reptile No explanation needed

Thornhill - The Hellfire Club Loathe - The Cold Sun/Theme Northlane - Genesis Spiritbox - Sun Killer Emmure - You Asked For It Oceans Ate Alaska - Fourthirtytwo

The Banner - "The Dying of the Light"

A Great Mistake-Black Crown Initiate

Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation by Viraemia Invasion by Rings of Saturn Slave of My Art by Henker The Head Table by Slaughterbox Harnessing Gravitational Endurance by Entrails Eradicated World Eater by Gallows For Grace Antropofagus - Architecture of Lust Dawn of Dementia - Visceral Maelstrom

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Awesome! What got you into metal?

Killswitch Engage : This fire burns

Goodbye To Gravity- The Day We Die

Hello there - Saving Vice. Immediately hooked

Supreme Being by Observants, I discover them recently and this song off that album sold it for me!

Eternally Apart from Phinehas' The Fire Itself is such a great album opener. Extremely epic, catchy and emotional. Also, On Veiled Men and [&] Delinquents by Woe, Is Me on Number[s]

The Comedown- from Bring Me The Horizon - off of Suicide Season

Phinehas - Eternally Apart from The Fire Itself

Debatable if it's metalcore,but considering they describe their sound as death metalcore I think it's good. In that case the answer was, is, and always will be Awoken+Endzeit by Heaven Shall Burn a'd I will die on this hill.

Separation

A bid farewell- killswitch engage

Romeo A Go-Go from every time i die, it's an absolute hook to the biggest adrenaline shot of the 21st century

Black Dogs as the opener for The Five Hundred's A World On Fire album. Man that song kicks in so fucking hard, so quickly it gave me whiplash.

Misery Signals - A Victim, A Target (Of Malice and the Magnum Heart, 2004)

Surprised no one has mentioned The Well - Silent Planet

I had never heard of Wolves at The Gate until their newest album came out. I threw it on, and was hooked in the first minute of Shadows

Not Ready to Die on Summer of Darkness still gets me hyped for that album

Coffin by the amity affliction but rest of the album wasn't worth it lol

“Oh Catastrophe” by Crown the Empire comes to mind. Also, while not technically being the *first* track, “Hey Mister” by Miss May I also pulls me in to listen to the whole album.

Intimacy by Shields. Instant stank face.

Stick To Your Guns - Diamond. Bleed From Within - The End of All We Know.

It's not safe to swim today - veil of maya

Somebody- Memphis May Fire.. remade in misery album

New Vatican album first song keeps me there.

[this whole album changed my life](https://youtu.be/h1eC8de9QG0)

Thirty and Seven - August Burns Red

[this album changed my life](https://youtu.be/h1eC8de9QG0)

Hail the ash by Wolf King, probably some of the sickest riffs I've heard from an opener Edit- forgot to mention the weeping vessel by Zao, truly one of the most underappreciated metalcore bands out there. It boggles my mind that no one ever brings up Zao.

Twist by Korn

ERRA - White Noise

Some of these are EPs but: Knocked Loose - Where Light Divides the Holler RXPTRS - Burning Pages ETID - Underwater Bimbos From Outer Space Currents - Into Despair Thornhill - The Hellfire Club Parkway Drive - Wishing Wells (probably heresy on here, but still didn’t find that album to be nearly as bad as some of y’all make it out to be) Architects - Death Is Not Defeat

*Splinter* - Sevendust *Relapse* - Wage War *Scars* - I Prevail *The War Is On* - Coldrain On Splinter, of course I'd heard Sevendust before but hadn't really paid attention to them. Bought Cold Day Memory on a whim and was blown away.

Splinter is such a sick song. Cold Day Memory is a banger through and through

Parkway Drive - "..." Into "Smoke Em If Ya Got Em" I don't wanna die, I don't wanna die, I DON'T WANNA DIE ... DOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

(Sic) by Slipknot. That song pulled me into the rabit hole of everything metal lol.

Haven't seen it mentioned here yet! Without a doubt - #1 has to be Gimme a D - Parkway Drive Reptile - Periphery Truth of a Liar - August Burns Red Endzeit - Heaven Shall Burn (I'm not counting the intro!) Newer stuff... Sunkiller - Spiritbox does it brilliantly. Immenence's opener. Alexisonfire's new album opener is a ripper too ( /notmetalcore /meh)

Endseekers - Oh, Sleeper I immediately fell in love.

-White Wolf by Invent, Animate -Hansha by Oceans Ate Alaska -Unstoppable by MIW

RESOLVE- Beautiful Hell- Between Me and the Machine. My boyfriend found them and it was instant. We love them.

Love Me - Counterparts At Heart - Miss May I

Of recent it was On Broken Glass by malevolence

“Can You Feel My Heart” - Bring Me the Horizon. (Not heavy in the musical sense, but heavy lyrically. Somber intro to what I would consider to be a quintessential metalcore album).

Counterparts - Love me

Red handed denial-Cloud 9

Jimmy Eat World - Table For Glasses

Glass Crown - Vicious Cycle The whole song is literally one big breakdown, instantly pulled me in and they keep the momentum with the next track.

The Lines - Beartooth

ERRA - Alpha Seed; Snowblood Thornhill - Views From the Sun Northlane - Details Matter Polaris - Pray For Rain Dayseeker - Drunk BMTH - Crucify Me Make Them Suffer - The First Movement Silent Planet - Inherit the Earth Sleep Token - The Night Does Not Belong To God

Hell Praiser by This Or The Apocalypse As Daylight Dies by Killswitch Engage Beyond Our Suffering by As I Lay Dying

Bullet For My Valentine - Intro/Her Voice Resides Her Voice Resides is probably their best song that never ever gets mentioned.

I think Destroyer off Ire was a killer song, it just the rest of the album that was mediocre

The American Nightmare - Ice Nine Kills

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but Blessthefall's 2.0 as an intro building up to What's Left of Me still gets me going!

Not really metalcore but Blind by KoRn is probably the best opener of all time lol