LOL... "As I Lay Crying" hehe ... well I kind of halfway understand that I guess, but I'm still not sure what the difference is in this "metalcore" vs. "hardcore" vs. "Grindcore" etc. etc. but then maybe it's not really worth my time to pursue it much. Not that I'm trying to be exclusive but I do want this list to be what is generally considered real metal.NeuroNomicon wrote:Metal "Core", is not a real sub-genre of metal. It's for kids that listen to hardcore, but want to be "different". Kids being the operative word. Mostly hipster and scenester sissies.
You know a metal "core" band if they spend more time trying to look and sound tough, than to just fucking rock. They're likely to be covered in tattoos, and have some sort of Tony and Guy haircut, and the chicks look like dudes, and the dudes look like chicks. They use dissonant voicings in their guitars, have "breakdowns", which real musicians refer to as a "bridge", and generally try their best to look as tough as possible, despite weighing in a whopping 97 lbs wet.
Band names are likely to be along the lines of:
As I Lay Crying
A Thousand Open Wounds on my Shattered Soul
Barbwire Heart for your Valentine
Agayu
Between the Newfound Buried Your Blood
Everytime I Cry
Dies Witin Your Cuts
Rollicking Mellifluous Gallop of Pestilence in my Dreams
From Autumn With I am the Walrus
Essentially any band that says it is "metal" but for all intents and purposes sounds absolutely nothing like metal. Especially notable are when they go from gutteral death growls, to sounding like your kid sister after someone kicked her in the boob.
Diarrheaspray, I took a look at that site and it looks like a lot of good reading... thanks. It's kind of funny that they have so many reviews of old albums... Black Sabbath, Covenant, heh... it's like the kid who just discovered Led Zeppelin writing a review of Houses of the Holy hehe.