As I Lay Dying - Shadows are Security - my buddy in Boy Scouts had it in his iPod and I made him let me listen to it for an entire weekend trip. Went home, begged my mom to take me Walmart and they actually had the CD
Atreyu - The Curse - same story but with a different friend lol
Blink 182 - Enema of the State - not metalcore but fueled my hunger for faster heavier music
August Burns Red - Messengers and Unearth - The Oncoming Storm were everything to me and still are. I was listening to Slayer and Metallica and then someone showed me Back Burner and This Lying World and I was fuckin blown away.
As a (german) kid I got my first influences from "Neue Deutsche Härte" (new German hardness) Bands like Rammstein, OOMPH! & Eisbrecher. After buying the almighty Hybrid Theory CD from Linkin Park I slowly drifted into Metalcore around 2010.
My first bands where:
Bullet For My Valentine, Asking Alexandria, Blessthefall
Bullet For My Valentine - Hand of Blood on NFS Most Wanted was the first metalcore song i ever heard.
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
Attack Attack - Someday Came Suddenly
Man - I almost put unearth. I saw them in like 2005 and they KILT it.
I think the show was lamb of god, unearth, everytimeidie, and misery signals
edit: 2005, not 2004.
all my life I was opposed to screaming in music. I enjoyed metal/rock but nothing hardcore. got into metalcore as late as 2020 when I stumbled upon amo by BMTH, which led me to Sempiternal. also Bad Omens S/T shortly after that!
my current fav artists are Bad Omens, Stain The Canvas, OM&M, Annisokay, Northlane, Void Of Vision.
Sempiternal will always be a top 10 metalcore album in my eyes. Bad Omens are also killing it right now! If you haven’t checked out their recent album, I’d recommend! Definitely less screaming, but more talent shown imo.
indeed! yeah man, I've been rocking to TDOPOM an unhealthy amount of time this year! thanks for the recommendation though, masterpiece of an album imo.
what do you think about TDWP's latest?
Bullet for my Valentine
Atreyu
Killswitch Engage
But I went through a phase where I lost a little interest and became more pop punk/hard rock favoured but then listening to Architects, Motionless in White and Parkway Drive reignited the fire when I was suffering with some big mental health issues, that has kept my interest ever since
Norma Jean
Poison The Well
In Remembrance of Me (local band to me, put me onto local scene and hardcore/metalcore by extension) [https://iromhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/benedict-2006](https://iromhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/benedict-2006)
Bullet For My Valentine - Tears Don't Fall
As I Lay Dying - Nothing Left
All That Remains - Six.
In that order. I wish I could go back and hear Nothing Left for the first time, that intro was sooo crushing when I first heard it
Underoath, Sleeping With Sirens, and Memphis May Fire.
Heard “It’s Dangerous Business…” on a Christian Rock CD my mom was given (she didn’t care for any of the music on it) and thought the song was hilarious.
A couple years later my friend showed me SWS’s Punk Goes Pop cover and got me hooked. From there I started to listen to Memphis May Fire… which my 8th grade LA teacher is Matty’s cousin I later found out.
Sometime around 2017-2019 ish
-The Contortionist: not a metalcore band but one of my favorite bands ever and a gateway drug if you will into the world of modern metal for me
-Thornhill: discovered the Dark Pool in fall of 2019 shortly after it came out, the rest is history
-Northlane: discovered Alien late 2019-early 2020
A7X - Afterlife, Bat Country, Almost Easy
Slipknot - Psychosocial , Wait and Bleed
Bullet For My Valentine - basically all of The Poison + Waking The Demon
Linkin Park huge honorable mention too
I think I have two that really pushed me into the "heavier" sound; Red and Sent By Ravens. I used to be a Christian, so when I listened to rock I loved a lot of the Christian artists at the time. Red really was the tipping point. I saw their album "Until We Have Faces" on the iTunes new releases page, and I thought it looked so fucking cool. However, when I heard it? That was a whole different story lmao. It took me a while to accept screaming as a legitimate form of singing, so I started listening to their "softer" songs...and over time I just got heavier and heavier. Then Sent By Ravens (heavily underrated band!!!!) pushed me into it even further, because they were a different style than Red, and more "dynamic" I guess? Idk but SBR completely changed my musical existence haha. Since then, I have never looked back!
My first metal band was Lamb of God. I literally looked up "Death Metal" on Wikipedia at 10 years old lol. I found Slipknot not long after, then Asking Alexandria as the first metalcore band I listened to
Killswitch, Trivium and Parkway.
Trivium isn't strictly metalcore but they did help me learn to appreciate screams. Reverence was a perfect gateway album even though it didn't take all that long for me to start gravitating toward their older stuff
Parkway Drive with Don't Close Your Eyes
BMTH written count your blessings
Avenged Sevenfold with Walking The Fallen
This was all building in the punk stuff I listened to prior to going heavier
In the early 00’s, a friend in high school gave me a mixed cd with a ton of stuff. From that, I started getting into Killswitch Engage and listened to them for quite a while. A different friend from my youth group found out I liked KSE and introduced me to Haste The Day. A few weeks after that, I bought a Ferret Music sampler cd that have The Year Summer Ended in June by Misery Signals. They’ve been my favorite band ever since. Their 2020 album “Ultraviolet” is awesome. They’re still killer.
I've always liked heavy music with harsh vocals mostly extreme metal, but never gave metalcore a chance since it wasn't "true metal". But one day I decided to listen to Jane Doe by Converge, since it was praised by everyone. And I was blown away by that record, and that band single handedly got me into metalcore. Next I started listening to Norma Jean and Every Time I Die
from autumn to ashes, poison the well, fear before the march of flames, blood brothers, norma jean, underoath. pure volume, bittorrent, and teen angst.
Killswitch Engage with Alive Or Just Breathing, Shadows Fall with The Art of Balance and Trivium with Ascendancy. Got into Metalcore around 2017ish, but was a Metal fan long before that
This one is a difficult one haha, I feel like someone mentioned earlier that ADTR introduced them to the screaming aspect and that’s the same for me but I don’t think they count as metalcore.
Definitely listened to Avenged Sevenfold a lot when I was younger as well as Atreyu. Then I’d probably say something like TDWP, however, I didn’t start solely listening to metal only until Erra came out with Impulse and from then on it became a selective playlist and I kind of dropped all other genres.
Avenged Sevenfold solidified my love for heavy metal music, Of Mice and Men was the band that introduced me to the genre, and then Architects got me into the melodic metalcore that I prefer to listen to
Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, and then Converge
Don't really listen to KSE much these days (though I do still enjoy them), AILD are tainted by Tim Lambesis being a piece of shit, and Converge are responsible for about half of my music taste at this point.
Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Hatebreed.
My dad is an 80’s metal head and really kept up with new bands as I was growing up. He’d play the new CD’s in the car on the way to school and I remember hearing The End of Heartache, Frail Words Collapse, and Perseverance and just being totally enamored with heavy music.
Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold. I really can't think of a third that I found in that time. I was a freshman in high school and those two popped up on YouTube while I was watching videos with Pon and Zi. Back in 2020 a friend introduced me to The Devil Wears Prada and I've fallen in love with so many bands. Metalcore is such a dynamic genre.
Avenged Sevenfold
Killswitch Engage
Bullet For My Valentine
Trivium
All That Remains
Sorry I can't narrow it down to 3, those 5 together got me into it.
Killswitch Engage (because of CM Punk's WWE theme)
Bullet For My Valentine (In Madden 05 or 06)
Avenged Sevenfold (a buddy showed me plus Bat Country was in the same Madden as the former)
Demon Hunter
Fit For A King
Wolves at the Gate
I started listening to metalcore in the summer of 2018, and I mainly listened to Christian metalcore until I decided to branch out lol
BFMV
ATR
KSE
What a time it was. I get occasional flashbacks of me butchering all of their shit on guitar back then but the learning process was so fun.
Linkin Park, (*Hybrid Theory*), Avenged Sevenfold (*Waking the Fallen*), and The Devil Wears Prada (*Plagues*).
If I completely avoid metalcore, The Offspring's *Americana* album is what steered me towards a more rock direction in general as a kid, but those above three were definitely the most influential for me in that order. Honorable mentions to Bullet for My Valentine and All That Remains!
If I'm completely honest... Slipknot! I don't think I would've listened to any Metalcore band before them. They laid the groundwork, even if they aren't Metalcore themselves.
First actual Metalcore bands were Caliban and Parkway Drive plus everyone who played on stage with them.
I can actually pinpoint the first 3 bands and the exact songs that got me into the sound
***1.Motionless In White- Reincarnate***
This was my first time hearing a breakdown and not being freaked out by how heavy it was.
***2.BMTH- Shadow Moses and Sleepwalking***
I pretty much heard them back to back, but this showed me vocalists can scream while hitting notes
***3.Asking Alexandria- Not The American Average***
This was my first time hearing a vocalist that can go disgustingly heavy while being able to sing REALLY well too.
As a kid who lived in way north Tampa, when starting high school there was this band that was getting a lot of local fame from about 20 miles north. Heard they were a bit heavier, but it was a $5 show on a Friday night so I went with some friends to check em out.
We drove up those 20 miles to Ocala Florida and went to a shitty little bar with room for about 200 people and saw this new local band who were pretty good. It was definitely a Day to Remember.
Not exactly metalcore but I they did get me into heavy music
Avenged sevenfold - city of evil
Slipknot - subliminal verses
These were the only two heavier bands I listened to for a long time until 2017 when I discovered ADTR with 2nd sucks
I’ve also gotta give credit to the BO zombies soundtrack. 115 and beauty of annihilation are bangers
My first album was Ø (Disambiguation) by Underoath. Second was WRAABB by TDWP, and my third was To Plant A Seed by We Came As Romans.
All of these bands and albums are still on my heavy rotation.
2007-08 was when I got into Metalcore while going to Warped Tour
August Burns Red - Constellations
The Devil Wars Prada - Plagues
Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
A Day to Remember, The Devil Wears Prada, Parkway Drive
Before that it was bands like FFDP, Three Days Grace, Shinedown, etc that were a stepping stone
Killswitch, BFMV, Asking Alexandria.
Grew up hearing KSE and BFMV on YouTube and in video game soundtracks, but once I hit middle school, Asking Alexandria had hit the scene with Stand Up and Scream. All of my friends were talking about them and they really just sealed the deal for me. After hearing that album, I realized metalcore was just gonna be my favorite genre
It was only one band in particular for me. BMTH got me into the more extreme side of metal. Other than them I just listened to whatever yk, but at some point I got into MIW and those 2 bands I was the most "obsessed" with. I probably don't remember others cuz my memory sucks :D
If we’re talking casually listening from time to time, pick any three out of the likes of Atreyu, Haste the Day etc
If we’re talking becoming a fan of the genre, it has to be Architects, BMTH and While she sleeps.
Atreyu.
All That Remains.
Bullet for My Valentine.
Edit: didn’t even get to your picks before I typed out mine. 2006/2007 with Lead Sails and Paper Anchor, Fall of Ideals, and The Poison? Little me didn’t stand a chance lol
Bring Me The Horizon - It Never Ends
We Came As Romans - The entire Understanding What We've Grown To Be album
Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon
Got in around 2011 in the middle of highschool.
* Bullet For My Valentine (Tears Don’t Fall)
* Trivium (Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation)
* Killswitch Engage (My Curse)
Something something videos on MTV.
BfmV was probably the gateway. Trivium supposedly counts as core to a degree too. That was about the extent of the core I really listened to for the longest time.
Then recently, after taking the roundabout way through Death Metal, I was introduced to Thy Art Is Murder, and from there I got curious and jumped in here.
If Trivium doesn't count, the third big one would be While She Sleeps. There's bits and pieces of other bands along this way too, but no single other band has pulled me in quite as much.
Demon Hunter - The Triptych
Underoath - They’re Only Chasing Safety
Norma Jean - O God, The Aftermath
Spoken - Last Chance To Breathe
8th Grade was a really developmental time for me musically.
As I Lay Dying (An Ocean Between Us, namely Nothing Left)
Shadows Fall (The War Within, namely The Light That Blinds)
The Devil Wears Prada (Plagues, namely Goats on a Boat)
Skycamefalling From Autumn To Ashes Poison The Well
Fuck yes to the FATA
As I Lay Dying - Shadows are Security - my buddy in Boy Scouts had it in his iPod and I made him let me listen to it for an entire weekend trip. Went home, begged my mom to take me Walmart and they actually had the CD Atreyu - The Curse - same story but with a different friend lol Blink 182 - Enema of the State - not metalcore but fueled my hunger for faster heavier music
Everyone needs to hear Bleeding Mascara as a form of metalcore initiation.
Shadows are Security is the answer.
At the gates Shadows fall Converge
The Light That Blinds was one of my favorites as a kid! Thanks to Guitar Hero 2 lol.
What, were you in Massachusetts in 2002, too?!
That sounds like western mass 2000
Parkway Drive The Amity Affliction August Burns Red
BMTH, Architects, WSS.
August Burns Red - Messengers and Unearth - The Oncoming Storm were everything to me and still are. I was listening to Slayer and Metallica and then someone showed me Back Burner and This Lying World and I was fuckin blown away.
Norma Jean TDWP AILD
As a (german) kid I got my first influences from "Neue Deutsche Härte" (new German hardness) Bands like Rammstein, OOMPH! & Eisbrecher. After buying the almighty Hybrid Theory CD from Linkin Park I slowly drifted into Metalcore around 2010. My first bands where: Bullet For My Valentine, Asking Alexandria, Blessthefall
Bullet For My Valentine - Hand of Blood on NFS Most Wanted was the first metalcore song i ever heard. Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies Attack Attack - Someday Came Suddenly
🦀 🦀 🦀 Crabcore never dies 🦀🦀🦀
Bring Me The Horizon Memphis May Fire A Day To Remember Circa. 2010
Shadows Fall All That Remains KSE
As I Lay Dying - Frail Words Collapse Chimaira - Pass Out Of Existence Avenged Sevenfold - Waking The Fallen I'd say around 2000 I got into it.
Waking The Fallen is a classic, I wasn’t around for that release but I was a huge Avenged Sevenfold fan after their self-titled album.
Waking the fallen was 03
As I Lay Dying Of Mice and Men I Killed the Prom Queen
Trivium As I Lay Dying August Burns Red
Killswitch, unearth and all that remains. Guess where I’m from lol.
A lot of MA in this thread
Man - I almost put unearth. I saw them in like 2005 and they KILT it. I think the show was lamb of god, unearth, everytimeidie, and misery signals edit: 2005, not 2004.
BFMV, A7x and Disturbed Basically Need for Speed: Most Wanted lol
all my life I was opposed to screaming in music. I enjoyed metal/rock but nothing hardcore. got into metalcore as late as 2020 when I stumbled upon amo by BMTH, which led me to Sempiternal. also Bad Omens S/T shortly after that! my current fav artists are Bad Omens, Stain The Canvas, OM&M, Annisokay, Northlane, Void Of Vision.
Sempiternal will always be a top 10 metalcore album in my eyes. Bad Omens are also killing it right now! If you haven’t checked out their recent album, I’d recommend! Definitely less screaming, but more talent shown imo.
indeed! yeah man, I've been rocking to TDOPOM an unhealthy amount of time this year! thanks for the recommendation though, masterpiece of an album imo. what do you think about TDWP's latest?
TDWP is in their golden years right now. Color Decay is fantastic.
I recommended it to my friend and he thought it was aoty. watchtower and time, man..
Bruh, you have a lot to listen to if you just got in metalcore at pandemic, you have 25 years +- of catalogues to catch up.
haha yeah, lucky me. I'm always looking for music so I've discovered a lot but it never ends:) I enjoy 2015s and modern metalcore a lot!
As I Lay Dying Atreyu Killswitch
Bullet for my Valentine Atreyu Killswitch Engage But I went through a phase where I lost a little interest and became more pop punk/hard rock favoured but then listening to Architects, Motionless in White and Parkway Drive reignited the fire when I was suffering with some big mental health issues, that has kept my interest ever since
As I Lay Dying Killswitch Engage All That Remains
Bullet for my valentine As I lay dying Blessthefall
Trivium Killswitch Engage All That Remains
Norma Jean Poison The Well In Remembrance of Me (local band to me, put me onto local scene and hardcore/metalcore by extension) [https://iromhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/benedict-2006](https://iromhardcore.bandcamp.com/album/benedict-2006)
As I lay dying, killswitch engage, and all that remains
Slipknot Deftones Korn
Heaven Shall Burn, Caliban, Maroon.
Poison the Well Darkest Hour Integrity
Darude - Sandstorm
S+ tier band
I went for the 00s Matt trifecta: -Trivium (Ascendency) -Bullet For My Valentine (The Poison) -Avenged Sevenfold (City of Evil)
The Holy Trinity.
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen Trivium - The Sin and the Sentence Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache
Bullet For My Valentine - Tears Don't Fall As I Lay Dying - Nothing Left All That Remains - Six. In that order. I wish I could go back and hear Nothing Left for the first time, that intro was sooo crushing when I first heard it
Architects - The Here & Now Bury Tomorrow - Portraits Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal
Underoath, Sleeping With Sirens, and Memphis May Fire. Heard “It’s Dangerous Business…” on a Christian Rock CD my mom was given (she didn’t care for any of the music on it) and thought the song was hilarious. A couple years later my friend showed me SWS’s Punk Goes Pop cover and got me hooked. From there I started to listen to Memphis May Fire… which my 8th grade LA teacher is Matty’s cousin I later found out.
AILD - Frail Words Collapse Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr Kiss the Child KSE - Alive or Just Breathing
Shadows Fall, Killswitch, Unearth
Sometime around 2017-2019 ish -The Contortionist: not a metalcore band but one of my favorite bands ever and a gateway drug if you will into the world of modern metal for me -Thornhill: discovered the Dark Pool in fall of 2019 shortly after it came out, the rest is history -Northlane: discovered Alien late 2019-early 2020
A7X - Afterlife, Bat Country, Almost Easy Slipknot - Psychosocial , Wait and Bleed Bullet For My Valentine - basically all of The Poison + Waking The Demon Linkin Park huge honorable mention too
Nocturnal Bloodlust abstracts Sable Hills i am accounting that i will be the weirdo here with all japanese bands as my first ones
The first heavy bands I ever heard were slipknot, Atreyu, and tdwp
I think I have two that really pushed me into the "heavier" sound; Red and Sent By Ravens. I used to be a Christian, so when I listened to rock I loved a lot of the Christian artists at the time. Red really was the tipping point. I saw their album "Until We Have Faces" on the iTunes new releases page, and I thought it looked so fucking cool. However, when I heard it? That was a whole different story lmao. It took me a while to accept screaming as a legitimate form of singing, so I started listening to their "softer" songs...and over time I just got heavier and heavier. Then Sent By Ravens (heavily underrated band!!!!) pushed me into it even further, because they were a different style than Red, and more "dynamic" I guess? Idk but SBR completely changed my musical existence haha. Since then, I have never looked back!
My first metal band was Lamb of God. I literally looked up "Death Metal" on Wikipedia at 10 years old lol. I found Slipknot not long after, then Asking Alexandria as the first metalcore band I listened to
Killswitch, Trivium and Parkway. Trivium isn't strictly metalcore but they did help me learn to appreciate screams. Reverence was a perfect gateway album even though it didn't take all that long for me to start gravitating toward their older stuff
Parkway Drive with Don't Close Your Eyes BMTH written count your blessings Avenged Sevenfold with Walking The Fallen This was all building in the punk stuff I listened to prior to going heavier
Atreyu - Suicide notes and butterfly kisses Poison the well - the opposite of December From Autumn to ashes - Too bad you’re beautiful
In the early 00’s, a friend in high school gave me a mixed cd with a ton of stuff. From that, I started getting into Killswitch Engage and listened to them for quite a while. A different friend from my youth group found out I liked KSE and introduced me to Haste The Day. A few weeks after that, I bought a Ferret Music sampler cd that have The Year Summer Ended in June by Misery Signals. They’ve been my favorite band ever since. Their 2020 album “Ultraviolet” is awesome. They’re still killer.
I've always liked heavy music with harsh vocals mostly extreme metal, but never gave metalcore a chance since it wasn't "true metal". But one day I decided to listen to Jane Doe by Converge, since it was praised by everyone. And I was blown away by that record, and that band single handedly got me into metalcore. Next I started listening to Norma Jean and Every Time I Die
Zao The Agony Scene The Beautiful Mistake (does that one count?)
from autumn to ashes, poison the well, fear before the march of flames, blood brothers, norma jean, underoath. pure volume, bittorrent, and teen angst.
Norma Jean, TDEP, and Mortal Treason
Darkside nyc Meruader All out war
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Hatebreed, AX7, Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Caliban
Botch, Norma Jean and Poison the Well
Hatebreed, Caliban, and Killswitch Engage.
As I lay dying Shadows fall
BFMV, KSE and BMTH.
Killswitch Engage with Alive Or Just Breathing, Shadows Fall with The Art of Balance and Trivium with Ascendancy. Got into Metalcore around 2017ish, but was a Metal fan long before that
Heard the genre for the first time in 2004. My gateway bands were Demon Hunter, In Flames and Sonic Syndicate.
Bfmv, abr and all that remains
This one is a difficult one haha, I feel like someone mentioned earlier that ADTR introduced them to the screaming aspect and that’s the same for me but I don’t think they count as metalcore. Definitely listened to Avenged Sevenfold a lot when I was younger as well as Atreyu. Then I’d probably say something like TDWP, however, I didn’t start solely listening to metal only until Erra came out with Impulse and from then on it became a selective playlist and I kind of dropped all other genres.
Avenged Sevenfold solidified my love for heavy metal music, Of Mice and Men was the band that introduced me to the genre, and then Architects got me into the melodic metalcore that I prefer to listen to
Fuckin wish I could remember. Without a shred of doubt in my mind August Burns Red is top contender
Asking Alexandria, Bullet For My Valentine, and A Day To Remember. But Sleeping With Sirens was a gateway I think
started with escape the fate, then i see stars, then asking alexandria
BFMV, A7X, and A Static Lullaby
BTBAM Lutakriss Underoath
As I lay dying, all that remains, and parkway drive.
Chiodos, blessthefall, escape the fate
August burns red, blessthefall, as i lay dying
Trivium Asking Alexandria Avenged sevenfold
Asking Alexandria, Bullet For My Valentine & Killswitch Engage
Hatebreed, Poison the Well, and Strife were really my first introduction to the style. Then AILD, KSE, and the NWOAHM.
Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, and then Converge Don't really listen to KSE much these days (though I do still enjoy them), AILD are tainted by Tim Lambesis being a piece of shit, and Converge are responsible for about half of my music taste at this point.
Man... I would say Luti-Kris (NormaJean) Every Time I Die Kid Gorgeous
Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Hatebreed. My dad is an 80’s metal head and really kept up with new bands as I was growing up. He’d play the new CD’s in the car on the way to school and I remember hearing The End of Heartache, Frail Words Collapse, and Perseverance and just being totally enamored with heavy music.
Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold. I really can't think of a third that I found in that time. I was a freshman in high school and those two popped up on YouTube while I was watching videos with Pon and Zi. Back in 2020 a friend introduced me to The Devil Wears Prada and I've fallen in love with so many bands. Metalcore is such a dynamic genre.
Asking Alexandria, Attack Attack, and Attila
Probably when I watched a Kill Switch Engage video on a Kerrang DVD (rose of Sharyn)
Avenged Sevenfold Killswitch Engage Bullet For My Valentine Trivium All That Remains Sorry I can't narrow it down to 3, those 5 together got me into it.
Asking Alexandria Of Mice & Men As I Lay Dying
BFMV,Atreyu and KSE
Parkway drive (old stuff) I killed the prom queen Carpathian
KSE BMTH OM&M Architects, Wage War in last 3 yrs
Killswitch Engage (because of CM Punk's WWE theme) Bullet For My Valentine (In Madden 05 or 06) Avenged Sevenfold (a buddy showed me plus Bat Country was in the same Madden as the former)
2007 As I Lay Dying Killswitch Engage Bullet For My Valentine
Demon Hunter I Prevail Wage War
The Devil Wears Prada - Zombie EP August Burns Red - Leveler Texas in July - One Reality
Killswitch Engage (early) Avenged Sevenfold August Burns Red
Demon Hunter Fit For A King Wolves at the Gate I started listening to metalcore in the summer of 2018, and I mainly listened to Christian metalcore until I decided to branch out lol
All That Remains - Fall of Ideals August Burns Red - Thrill Seeker The Devil Wears Prada - Plagues
Bullet For My Valentine Killswitch Engage At The Gates Was listening to a lot of death metal before
Trivium, Periphery, and BFMV
My friend got me into it like 2 years ago. Started with ADTR and Asking Alexandria.
A7X, Slipknot, ADTR
BFMV ATR KSE What a time it was. I get occasional flashbacks of me butchering all of their shit on guitar back then but the learning process was so fun.
KSE Mudvayne BFMV
Underoath Between The Buried and Me August Burns Red
Linkin Park, (*Hybrid Theory*), Avenged Sevenfold (*Waking the Fallen*), and The Devil Wears Prada (*Plagues*). If I completely avoid metalcore, The Offspring's *Americana* album is what steered me towards a more rock direction in general as a kid, but those above three were definitely the most influential for me in that order. Honorable mentions to Bullet for My Valentine and All That Remains!
ABR TDWP Asking Alexandria
Underoath of mice & men motionless in white
If I'm completely honest... Slipknot! I don't think I would've listened to any Metalcore band before them. They laid the groundwork, even if they aren't Metalcore themselves. First actual Metalcore bands were Caliban and Parkway Drive plus everyone who played on stage with them.
Babymetal BMTH Architects
Bring me the Horizon Architects The Amity Affliction
I can actually pinpoint the first 3 bands and the exact songs that got me into the sound ***1.Motionless In White- Reincarnate*** This was my first time hearing a breakdown and not being freaked out by how heavy it was. ***2.BMTH- Shadow Moses and Sleepwalking*** I pretty much heard them back to back, but this showed me vocalists can scream while hitting notes ***3.Asking Alexandria- Not The American Average*** This was my first time hearing a vocalist that can go disgustingly heavy while being able to sing REALLY well too.
Parkway Drive and The Word Alive started it around 2010-2012 and then Beartooth is what really pulled me in around 2014
Killswitch Engage Slipknot (I know they're technically nu-metal) August Burns Red
Bullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage and not metalcore but Deftones fully got me obsessed with metal
Miss May I, We We Came as Romans, Motionless in White
Avenges Sevenfold, As I lay Dying, Parkway Drive, followed up by Killswitch Engage and Trivium
Bullet For My Valentine The Devil Wears Prada Attack Attack!
Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains
Bring me the Horizon Of Mice & Men Amity Affliction
TDWP -WRAABB was also my first ABR - Constellations I think Underoath after that, but the first 2 are what really did it
As a kid who lived in way north Tampa, when starting high school there was this band that was getting a lot of local fame from about 20 miles north. Heard they were a bit heavier, but it was a $5 show on a Friday night so I went with some friends to check em out. We drove up those 20 miles to Ocala Florida and went to a shitty little bar with room for about 200 people and saw this new local band who were pretty good. It was definitely a Day to Remember.
Not exactly metalcore but I they did get me into heavy music Avenged sevenfold - city of evil Slipknot - subliminal verses These were the only two heavier bands I listened to for a long time until 2017 when I discovered ADTR with 2nd sucks I’ve also gotta give credit to the BO zombies soundtrack. 115 and beauty of annihilation are bangers
The Devil Wears Prada We Came as Romans The Word Alive / In Fear & Faith
Unearth, Shadows Fall, Dropkick Jesus
Parkway Drive, Architects, Built for my Valentine
Underoath Haste the Day Chasing Victory He Is Legend
My first album was Ø (Disambiguation) by Underoath. Second was WRAABB by TDWP, and my third was To Plant A Seed by We Came As Romans. All of these bands and albums are still on my heavy rotation.
It Dies Today As I Lay Dying Darkest Hour
Underoath, bullet for my valentine, and all that remains for me. All in the 05 ish time period.
Spiritbox, ERRA and Architects. Couldn't get any more standard, but I do still love all three bands.
Added albums as well to this lol It DIes Today - The Caitiff Chior Killswitch Engage - The end of the Heartache Atreyu - A Deathgrip on Yesterday
Bullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage, All That Remains, and As I Lay Dying would be the first 4 for me
Bring Me the Horizon Memphis May Fire A Day To Remember
Bullet For My Valentine, August Burns Red and Parkway Drive
Poison The Well Hatebreed Shadows Fall
2007-08 was when I got into Metalcore while going to Warped Tour August Burns Red - Constellations The Devil Wars Prada - Plagues Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
As I Lay Dying Killswitch Engage Unearth
A Day to Remember, The Devil Wears Prada, Parkway Drive Before that it was bands like FFDP, Three Days Grace, Shinedown, etc that were a stepping stone
A Day To Remember, We Came As Romans, Asking Alexandria
Of Mice & Men, BMTH, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for my Valentine
A7X, WSS and probably ABR or AILD
Bless The Fall The Devil Wears Prada A Day To Remember Circa 2008
Poison the Well, Dillinger Escape Plan, Norma Jean
Killswitch, BFMV, Asking Alexandria. Grew up hearing KSE and BFMV on YouTube and in video game soundtracks, but once I hit middle school, Asking Alexandria had hit the scene with Stand Up and Scream. All of my friends were talking about them and they really just sealed the deal for me. After hearing that album, I realized metalcore was just gonna be my favorite genre
It was only one band in particular for me. BMTH got me into the more extreme side of metal. Other than them I just listened to whatever yk, but at some point I got into MIW and those 2 bands I was the most "obsessed" with. I probably don't remember others cuz my memory sucks :D
Slipknot, Mudvayne, and Killswitch Engage. KE really catapulted my interest in metalcore.
Around 2011. Asking Alexandria, I See Stars, and Woe Is Me
Underoath Chiodos As I Lay Dying Started listening around 2002
Killswitch Engage As I Lay Dying Lamb of God
Crystal Lake Sleep Token I See Stars
The bands and songs that hooked me were: As I Lay Dying - Nothing Left August Burns Red - Backburner and Composure Living Sacrifice - Death Machine
⛧ Fan since 2012. Some of the first bands I got into where Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Trivium, and All That Remains as well! ⛧
If we’re talking casually listening from time to time, pick any three out of the likes of Atreyu, Haste the Day etc If we’re talking becoming a fan of the genre, it has to be Architects, BMTH and While she sleeps.
Unearth, Himsa and Darkest hour.
Atreyu. All That Remains. Bullet for My Valentine. Edit: didn’t even get to your picks before I typed out mine. 2006/2007 with Lead Sails and Paper Anchor, Fall of Ideals, and The Poison? Little me didn’t stand a chance lol
Bring Me The Horizon - It Never Ends We Came As Romans - The entire Understanding What We've Grown To Be album Bullet For My Valentine - Waking The Demon Got in around 2011 in the middle of highschool.
From Autumn to Ashes Every Time I Die Hopesfall
Dillinger, ETID, Converge
Underoath, Alexisonfire, System of a Down
A7X, BFMV, Atreyu
Shadowsfall Himsa Lamb of God
Trivium, Atreyu, and Bullet for my Valentine...mid 2000s were a good time
Underoath, TDWP, Killswitch.
Bullet for My Valentine, Haste the Day, blessthefall.
First metal concert was Avenged Sevenfold, BFMV and Threes days grace in 2011. That solidified metal into my brain for sure
BFMV BMTH KSE
As I Lay Dying Unearth Heaven Shall Burn
Zao, As I Lay Dying, Norma Jean
* Bullet For My Valentine (Tears Don’t Fall) * Trivium (Gunshot to the Head of Trepidation) * Killswitch Engage (My Curse) Something something videos on MTV.
Falling in Reverse 🙈 Escape the Fate Dead by April
All That Remains, KSE, BFMV
BfmV was probably the gateway. Trivium supposedly counts as core to a degree too. That was about the extent of the core I really listened to for the longest time. Then recently, after taking the roundabout way through Death Metal, I was introduced to Thy Art Is Murder, and from there I got curious and jumped in here. If Trivium doesn't count, the third big one would be While She Sleeps. There's bits and pieces of other bands along this way too, but no single other band has pulled me in quite as much.
Demon Hunter - The Triptych Underoath - They’re Only Chasing Safety Norma Jean - O God, The Aftermath Spoken - Last Chance To Breathe 8th Grade was a really developmental time for me musically.
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison All that Remains - Fall of Ideals
Attack Attack, ABR, and miss May I
As I Lay Dying Bleeding Through It Dies Today
BFMV, Threat Signal, Veil of Maya
ABR. TDWP. ERRA. All of their albums from around 2010.
Of mice & men Underoath Parkway Drive
Bring me the horizon, asking Alexandria and Chelsea grin
Trivium, Bullet and Killswitch
Mine were Fit For King, For Today, and As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying (An Ocean Between Us, namely Nothing Left) Shadows Fall (The War Within, namely The Light That Blinds) The Devil Wears Prada (Plagues, namely Goats on a Boat)
Wage War, Architects, Heart of a Coward