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Metalcore for Dummies

Weekly Release Thread

This thread is used to discuss recommendations and all things metalcore.

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If I like Beartooth, who else would I like? Can anyone recommend albums like August Burns Red's Constellations?

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I absolutely love People Watching by these guys and it caused me to go back through their catalog to check out their previous album, Narrative. These are both great albums, but I don’t think that they sound as different from each other as the band thinks. There’s definitely still a horror movie atmosphere on both albums. I do think that People Watching has slightly better production and benefits from the guest vocalists. What do you guys think?

A proud metalhead moment for all of us I actually landed a date with a real girl! Jokes aside, this girl and I will basically be spending the whole day together and doing a lot of driving from place to place. I’m cool to listening to any type of music with other people but as far as myself I only listen to metalcore and deathcore all over the spectrum from chill to disgusting heavy. But I think we can all agree that what we consider chill can still be a bit off putting to someone who’s never been exposed to our type of music before. Anyways, my plan is to just let her aux as she’s a guest in my car and that way she can feel comfortable. However my friends say it’s my car and I should play what I like and if she’s a real one she won’t mind or be weirded out. What do you all think?

I just love Converge. I think they're neat. What do you think of the gods of metalcore?

Look I understand this is a fucked up individual. More so I understand the gentlemen playing the instruments in this band are complacent with regard to this individual’s behavior. But god damn I love Dealer’s music. The same goes for AILD, the list goes on. How do you guys feel about this? I’ve always been for holding people accountable and I will never worship these bands to the same degree I might if they were all clear of allegation/conviction, but I have to separate the art from the artist sometimes — and the fact is I fucking love Dealer’s sound.

EDIT: I will amend this because someone made a fair point; I’m not the arbiter of justice, but I will avoid people in my personal life if I disagree with how they’ve acted — that said, maybe I have indicated that I hold artists to a different standard. The fact is I truly did not give a fuck who they are before I heard the song and I still don’t.

I was very active in the first half of 2024 in terms of Metalcore and listened to many New Albums, but i didnt hear any New Releases in the second half of this year. What are, in your option, the best Albums in the second half of 2024?

No hate I'm just wondering

Does anyone have any tabs for Death Is All Around by The Amity Affliction they could share with me?

Everyone I meet I feel like listens to music differently. How do you prefer to consume your music? do you exclusively only listen to albums front to back, do you shuffle playlists, make a queue of songs, or do you do a bit of all? Personally for me I love listening to albums front to back but every once in awhile ill just throw in a queue of songs, im not a big fan of shuffling a playlist unless im out in public somewhere.

I'll start: for me it's ERRA. I have other favorite bands but this is one band to me where every album from their beginning is a masterpiece.

Trying to be as clear as possible, what band do you think is not consistent enough with the quality of their music and only have a few good songs?

For me, I have to say is The Plot In You. There's quite a lot to like in their first album, but after that, I only like a couple of songs. I think they don't have a consistent style and that hurts my enjoyment.

Bmth with motionless in white, spirit box and the plot in you put out a hell of show. Everything you can imagine was top level all of the bands went all in with their performances.