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'''Metalcore''' is a subgenre of [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] that combines [[Thrash Metal]] with [[Hardcore Punk]], and sometimes takes a more melodic approach to the songs than thrash. It is characterised by gratuitous use of the [[Metal Scream]], as well as breakdowns. Lots and lots of breakdowns (although due to, ahem, certain bands, this attribute has been [[Flanderized]] a bit). If you're not in the know, a "breakdown" is when the music kind-of slows down to induce moshing or "throwing down"...or something like that. Modern bands often tend to mix it up with clean vocals and melodic riffs (see Melodic metalcore below).
 
Metalcore began life as a blending between thrash metal and hardcore punk, and was used to describe bands such as [[Dirty Rotten Imbeciles|D.R.I.]], S.O.D., and Suicidal Tendencies in the 1980's, however the term changed its meaning in the 1990's to "metallic hardcore", and the genre metalcore originally defined became known as "crossover thrash". This newer "wave" of metalcore included bands such as Integrity, Earth Crisis and Converge. By the end of the nineties, metalcore had evolved into "melodic metalcore", which slowly grew in popularity until the mid-2000s, when it was a big mainstream draw. In fact, today, metalcore is the most commercially popular form of metal.
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* [[The Agonist]]
* [[All That Remains]] (their first album was [[Melodic Death Metal|melodeath]])
* [[As I Lay Dying (Musicband)|As I Lay Dying]]
* Asking Alexandria
* Atreyu (early)
* Attack Attack! (Combines this with post hardcore and electronic music, sometimes called Electronicore)
* August Burns Red (Also considered [[Progressive Metal]])
* [[Avenged Sevenfold (Music)|Avenged Sevenfold]] (early; later became [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] / [[Hard Rock]])
* [[Between the Buried Andand Me]] (also a [[Progressive Death Metal]] band, so [[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to how much they belong in this subgenre)
* [[Botch]] ([[Trope Maker]]/[[Ur Example]] for mathcore along with [[Converge (Music)|Converge]])
* [[Bring Me the Horizon]] (started off as deathcore)
* Bullet for My Valentine
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* Cave-In (Earlier work, some of their later material is more [[Alternative Metal]])
* Chimaira (mixed with [[Groove Metal]])
* [[Converge (Music)|Converge]] ([[Trope Maker]] for mathcore)
* Curl Up And Die
* [[A Day to Remember (Music)|A Day to Remember]] (often leans toward [[Hardcore Punk]] and even pop-punk)
* Demon Hunter (somewhat blurs the line between metalcore, nu-metal and [[Groove Metal]]; as with Between the Buried and Me, [[Your Mileage May Vary]] as to whether they count)
* [[The Devil Wears Prada (Musicband)|The Devil Wears Prada]]
* [[The Dillinger Escape Plan]] (they are part of the sub-genre, Mathcore, so their sound somewhat differs from traditional Metalcore fare)
* Earth Crisis
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* Straight Line Stitch
* Trivium (influences also drawn from [[Thrash Metal]] and [[Melodic Death Metal]] for more recent albums)
* [[Underoath (Music)|Underoath]]
* Unearth
* Walls Of Jericho
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The following bands are often called metalcore, but are very much not metalcore. We keep this short list here because we don't want these bands put on the main metalcore list by an earnest passerby.
* [[Three Inches of Blood|3 Inches of Blood]]: The confusion comes from the dual vocalists. While switching between clean, punk styled vocals and harsh, growled and screamed vocals is common in metalcore, 3 Inches of Blood is very much a thrash-power metal band with little to no similarities to metalcore outside of common thrash elements. Furthermore, while one of their vocalists does use similar screams to some metalcore bands, their other vocalist uses a [[Judas Priest (Music)|Halfordesque]] screech that's far more in line with thrash metal, speed metal and [[Power Metal]].
* The Black Dahlia Murder: Straight-up [[Melodic Death Metal]].
* DevilDriver: Straight-up [[Groove Metal]].
* [[Five Finger Death Punch]]: Straight-up [[Groove Metal]] on their first album, [[Thrash Metal|thrashier]] groove metal along the lines of [[Pantera (Music)|Pantera]]'s faster songs on the second. Some of their mellower songs border on [[Post-Grunge]].
* Light This City: They mostly look like hardcore kids, and the other bands they've been in are mostly hardcore or pop punk, but the music is straight [[Melodic Death Metal]].
* Soul Embraced: Possibly due to being a Christian band. They started out as a straight up death metal band, but their later albums brought [[Progressive Metal]] and [[Alternative Metal]] influences into the fold.
 
=== Tropes Common In Metalcore: ===
* [[Christian Rock]]: Metalcore and [[Post Hardcore-hardcore]] are both filled with Christian bands for whatever reason. Most famously are [[The Devil Wears Prada (Musicband)|The Devil Wears Prada]], [[Underoath (Music)|Underoath]] and August Burns Red.
** [[Not Christian Rock]]: They also have a bunch of this
* [[Fan Dumb]]: While most metalcore fans are perfectly fine, there's still at least one person on Facebook, [[YouTube]], or some other site that's going to put down people putting down the band in question - typical comments include mentions of wealth and talent or jealousy on the [[Hatedom]]'s part.
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