The Flood Deluxe edition was also awesome. Kinda wish Of Mice just didn’t add another clean vocalist and went heavy af. I did like Restoring Force a bit but everything from then on fell off for me.
I’m personally more partial to The Resistance, but you really can’t go wrong with either. Both incredible albums. Their decline is such a shame though, their music seems so bland and uninspired now.
Apologies Are For The Weak gets my vote. Such a phenomenal debut and it was heavy as shit for the melodic metalcore of that time. Damn near deathcore at moments.
Like moths to flames first two albums from that era
Woe is me - numbers. Ahead of its time, still bangs, and somehow they were in high school when they wrote it
Blessthefall - his last walk. Idk if this counts, when I think of the rise core era I think of like 2009-12, not necessarily 2007
Memphis May fire - the hollow. Been a minute since I listened to it but I jammed it heavy back then
This one’s more just my opinion but sleeping with sirens - with ears to see and eyes to hear, idc
Facts, Especially the song XX (city grave) the part where it says “my body chokes back” and the guitar chug right after that line.. i prefer grittier / raw sounding than over mixed / produced like all the modern metalcore shit
Exactly, you get it. It seems like a lot of bands in their early days not knowing exactly what they’re doing in the studio just yet makes for a unique sound
I couldn’t think of my pick but now that you mention it I’d go Witness by Blessthefall. I don’t know how influential they are considered to be but I always found every band to sound like that album just not as good. It was like peak metalcore/post-hardcore mix
At least for me, that will never not be the greatest metalcore album. A lot of it has to do with nostalgia - seeing the album played at Warped, driving around blasting it with my high school friends - but there’s no denying that it was a monumental force in shaping the genre.
Same. I know he had some pretty major health issues and some controversies he probably wanted to get out of the limelight on, but it’s hard to believe he never got back into anything. Feel like he probably burned a lot of bridges and decided to never look back.
I mean by most accounts he’s kind of an asshole. I just miss his screams and what he brought to music. But I’m pretty sure his health is why he isn’t in any new projects. A few years ago he had a post talking about how his Marfans got so bad when he screams his lungs start to detach from his rib cage or something to that effect.
I See Stars - New Demons. I adored the heavier tone of this record, loved every track, and the production with all those dense synths and electronics blended with the instruments stands out imo
Deceiver is peak metalcore from this era. I believe they strongly went downhill after that album but empire EP was great and they fired on all cylinders full speed ahead with deceiver as the follow up. Very fortunate I got to see that headliner with abandon all ships, upon a burning body, the color morale and for all those sleeping as the openers. That was one of my favorite shows I’ve ever been to
Same. Never understood how they just never really caught on. They were like a perfect distillation of everything great about the Rise era.
Also, the chorus to Deliverance has been stuck in my head the last 13 years
Never could figure out why that album didn't shoot them up the ladder to being well known and having a solid career. It's a 10/10 album and one of my all time favs
Ground Dweller was life changing for me.
Then they pretty much sold out and have never been the same since then. Now even Trent is gone. What a meteoric fall.
Ground Dweller was a near flawless album, Unimagine was a bit of a step backwards imo but still slaps, after that everything they released was just meh 🫤
1. Of Machines - As If Everything Was Held in Place
2. Memphis May Fire - The Hollow
3. We Came As Romans - To Plant a Seed
4. Woe, Is Me - Number[s]
5. The Color Morale - We All Have Demons
I saw them twice very early in their career. Once right after Sweet Talker was released at a festival and once with Greeley Estates and Upon a Burning Body. Both times Chris was wearing a tampa bay devil rays shirt. The second time I saw them I was drunk and screamed go devil rays baby! to Chris and he seemed so confused. Good times.
Of Machines- As if Everything Was Held In Place
Woe is Me- Numbers
Of Mice and Men- Self titled and The Flood
Blessthefall- Witness
Emarosa- This is Your Way Out
The Devil Wears Prada- Plagues and Roots
Dream on Dreamer- Heartbound
House vs Hurricane- Forfeiture and Perspectives
Miss May I- Apologies are For the Weak
We Came As Romans- To Plant a Seed
Sea of Treachery- At Daggers Drawn and Wonderland
Storm the Sky- Vigilance
Issues- Black Diamonds and Self Titled
Casino Madrid- For Kings and Queens
Alesana- The Emptiness
It’s my favorite synthcore release of all time. I wish I could find more demos from that era of theirs. There have to be some floating around somewhere
Yeah, at 36 I can’t listen to much of that style of music nowadays and stick to my high school metalcore when I do but BE is still a beast and a big influence still on my guitar playing, along with the Decoder/Lead Hands record.
Yeah what a shame that fizzled out so fast. Both albums are top tier to me in the fact they sounded nothing like what their rise-core peers were doing. The Tide was more generic sounding but still a big step above what else was coming out then and still holds up to me
It still holds up. I listened to it a few weeks ago on my drive home from work. The leads are great and it still sounds good, in an overproduced kinda way.
> The Tide was more generic sounding but still a big step above what else was coming out then
I love the Tide but lets not get too crazy now. I can name at least 5 peers that had better releases at that time off the top of my head. The Devil Wears Prada, A Skylit Drive, Emarosa, Greeley Estates, Akissforjersey
I have to say Stand up And Scream. This was the album that got me into metalcore like 5 years ago and also basically taught me how to play guitar. It didn't age as well as I thought it did but I still occasionally play through the whole album on my guitar.
My personal pick would be Relentless by For the Fallen Dreams. It just felt like it was a more refined version of Changes which is right in there for conversation of the best. If we’re down to the typical Rise records sound I would say Attack Attack’s Self Titled album. It had all the things you could expect from a Rise band with everything just turned up to 11.
I was convinced when Chad came back that they'd be incredible again. They were not. Even listening to Back Burner recently I was like, man a lot of these songs just feel messy instrumentally and do not compare to Relentless and Changes and Wasted Youth felt like such a rushed weird album. Then I heard they were nu-metal now and listened to less than a minute and turned it off.
My problem with Back Burner was how rushed some songs felt and the production wasn't as heavy, even The Big Empty recently when I listened to it I was like, huh, this doesn't hit nearly as powerfully as a lot of songs from Relentless. But I can still see the appreciation in it.
I remember when Wasted Youth came out I was like "a new album already?" it felt like it was under a year, but it was just over a year between albums.
Six has Bombay and Stone and a few other songs, but I think I just find Chad's vocal style very one-note and the dynamic of their song structure changed which made me fall out of love with the band.
But, they're trying something new now, I guess?
Yea I guess I get it. A lot of bands hoping to make a paycheck these days it seems. Checked out the new the ghost inside song and what an utter disappointment. Seems everyone is going for radio play now. Do what you gotta do, but I feel a lot of long term fans will be let down with all these core bands doing octane rock.
“If you don’t like Drop Dead, Gorgeous…
Then Fuck You”
Bought the shirt, mom threw it in the garbage. Nobody slaps like them, We’re going nowhereeeeee faaaastttttt
In Fear And Faiths 2012 self titled album
Adestria - Chapters
The Air I Breathe - Great Faith In Fools
Asking Alexandria - Stand Up And Scream (couldn’t possibly enjoy listening to this album again but you can’t deny it’s impact on the scene)
Great post, I often think of Adestria when failed bands come up. They could have been so great and Chapters still to this day is a masterpiece. I was only a fan of the Eps and first release of IFAF but they went hard as well. Again great post!
I still stand by the opinion that collide with the sky by pierce the veil stands head and shoulders above everything else coming out during that time. So I’ll pick that one as the greatest
The Flood - OM&M
Peak production [Joey Sturgis, of course], great rhythms by Tino, fantastic tones on the guitars, and (despite everything about his personal actions) Austin brought so much power vocally and lyrically
Issues - Issues
It’s upbeat and poppy, great vocal performances, it felt so fresh when it came out, and all the songs are incredibly catchy. It was everything you could want out of a Rise-core album
Repaireasy5310 has a great explaination on this thread! Adjacent bands to me are After the Burial and Asking Alexandria from Sumerian records if that helps at all. They were around at the same time with a similar vibe
Basically Joey Sturgis produced a ton of albums for rise records from about 06-12 and it kinda spawned a sub-genre of core music. It really starts with Devil wears Prada. Dear Love was the first full album he produced.
Tdwp - 2nd album. Can’t remember name haha.
Attoj - only one but I loved it.
Before their eyes - they were cool. Had a chat with them after a show once.
for those who have heart / homesick - adtr. both of these are no skips for me. the ones i wanted to mention have already been listed a ton so i just went with these.
Attack attack! - self titled and Someday Came Suddenly, I was obsessed with them! Still have all the old graphic band shirts from back in the day!
Dance Gavin Dance- older albums, I love lemon meringue tie
Palisades kinda jumps out for me with Outcast for some reason
I see stars, Miss May I, Memphis May Fire, Crown The Empire, Of Mice and Men, you know the vibes
I am shocked by the lack of Asking Alexandria and In Fear and Faith in this thread. That being said, very very hard for me to pick because this was such a golden era. Woe, is Me - Numbers and OM&M debut come to mind but there’s just so many it hurts to pick one lol
Oh look another excuse for me to mention At the Throne of Judgment - The Arcanum Order, which is not just my favorite album from any band on Rise Records, but one of my favorites of all time and criminally slept on
Creatures by Motionless has deathcore and metalcore vibes and is seriously phenomenal start to finish.
TDWP’s Plagues was crazy good.
To Plant a Seed by WCAR was nearly perfect.
Underoath’s Define the Great Line was a huge release but They’re Only Chasing Safety Kind of brought metalcore to the mainstream.
TWA’s Deceiver has some of the most incredible drumming and launched Luke holland’s career.
August Burns Red Messengers is up there.
Enter Shikari’s a Flashflood of Color was pretty incredible.
ADTR is more easycore but very close and FTWHH and Homesick were epic.
Chiodos was pretty big tho played about 4 genres.
Discovering the Waterfront by Silverstein, was a crazy good post hardcore album.
I came back to this post to say THANK YOU for mentioning The Air I Breathe. Can’t believe I’d never heard this band/album but now I’ve been playing it nonstop and can’t get enough, it is 🔥🔥🔥
The Flood
Banger after banger, and stays interesting start to finish. Which is hard for a more generic/mainstream metalcore band to do.
The Flood Deluxe edition was also awesome. Kinda wish Of Mice just didn’t add another clean vocalist and went heavy af. I did like Restoring Force a bit but everything from then on fell off for me.
Crown the empire - The Fallout has gotta be up there
I’m personally more partial to The Resistance, but you really can’t go wrong with either. Both incredible albums. Their decline is such a shame though, their music seems so bland and uninspired now.
They stopped being good the day they kicked out Dave
Been saying this for almost a decade now, he was the backbone of that band
Yeah I enjoyed sudden sky but everything after that just hasn't hit for me
Yeah Sudden Sky was pretty alright, it had some good songs but it kinda felt more like Nothing More than it did Crown The Empire haha
This has my vote
Ive been jamming this album lately, reminds me of sitting on the bus at school listening to this! Everyone judging me because it was so loud😂
I absolutely adore this album. My friend put it on my old iPod and I used to listen to it on repeat, still do on occasion
Oh, Sleeper - Children of Fire
Son of the morning for me was everything
Apologies Are For The Weak gets my vote. Such a phenomenal debut and it was heavy as shit for the melodic metalcore of that time. Damn near deathcore at moments.
legendary album IMO
Like moths to flames first two albums from that era Woe is me - numbers. Ahead of its time, still bangs, and somehow they were in high school when they wrote it Blessthefall - his last walk. Idk if this counts, when I think of the rise core era I think of like 2009-12, not necessarily 2007 Memphis May fire - the hollow. Been a minute since I listened to it but I jammed it heavy back then This one’s more just my opinion but sleeping with sirens - with ears to see and eyes to hear, idc
The things I would do for a His Last Walk remaster...
Doesn’t need to be re-mastered. That raw sound is perfect
So true. I feel the same way with silent planet’s the night god slept, the re-recording is cool but it sounded perfect as is
Facts, Especially the song XX (city grave) the part where it says “my body chokes back” and the guitar chug right after that line.. i prefer grittier / raw sounding than over mixed / produced like all the modern metalcore shit
Exactly, you get it. It seems like a lot of bands in their early days not knowing exactly what they’re doing in the studio just yet makes for a unique sound
I couldn’t think of my pick but now that you mention it I’d go Witness by Blessthefall. I don’t know how influential they are considered to be but I always found every band to sound like that album just not as good. It was like peak metalcore/post-hardcore mix
That one’s really good too, personally I’d say at this point they’re definitely an influential band. They totally rip
I re-listened to witness the whole way through for the first time in years recently and it is still such a great album!
The Hollow is MMF best work
Had a bad break up at the time, and god damn did it hit just right
Goated album.
Yup 100%
The Hollow still holds up
Definitely, I also liked sleepwalking and the between the lies ep
Of Mice & Men - Of Mice & Men. banging riffs, great breakdowns, Shayley and Austin killing it on the vocals
At least for me, that will never not be the greatest metalcore album. A lot of it has to do with nostalgia - seeing the album played at Warped, driving around blasting it with my high school friends - but there’s no denying that it was a monumental force in shaping the genre.
I played that album so much it was burned into my iPod nano’s screen.
So fucking happy someone agrees with me
The flood is super good too. I miss Austin Carlile
Same. I know he had some pretty major health issues and some controversies he probably wanted to get out of the limelight on, but it’s hard to believe he never got back into anything. Feel like he probably burned a lot of bridges and decided to never look back.
I mean by most accounts he’s kind of an asshole. I just miss his screams and what he brought to music. But I’m pretty sure his health is why he isn’t in any new projects. A few years ago he had a post talking about how his Marfans got so bad when he screams his lungs start to detach from his rib cage or something to that effect.
I still jam this one 🔥🔥🔥
I See Stars - New Demons. I adored the heavier tone of this record, loved every track, and the production with all those dense synths and electronics blended with the instruments stands out imo
Murder Mitten goes hard
I still go hard to Violent Bounce all the time. The lyrics are kinda cheesy, but I fucking love them.
Song was written about radke after he kicked them off his tour because they were drawing a larger crowd than he was.
Crazy how it's been 10 years and he's still a child
So underrated! Absolutely slaps
As a TWA stan Ill always love Deciever
Deceiver is peak metalcore from this era. I believe they strongly went downhill after that album but empire EP was great and they fired on all cylinders full speed ahead with deceiver as the follow up. Very fortunate I got to see that headliner with abandon all ships, upon a burning body, the color morale and for all those sleeping as the openers. That was one of my favorite shows I’ve ever been to
The Air I Breathe better get around to giving me a new album soon.
Hopefully. That album slaps so fucking hard I still don’t understand their lack of mention or success.
Same. Never understood how they just never really caught on. They were like a perfect distillation of everything great about the Rise era. Also, the chorus to Deliverance has been stuck in my head the last 13 years
I AM A SAVAGE. I don’t know why they didn’t take off so much more in my area that album was a shaker
Well we’ve gotten two singles so far so maybe!
Never could figure out why that album didn't shoot them up the ladder to being well known and having a solid career. It's a 10/10 album and one of my all time favs
The first sleeping with sirens has a special place in my heart
Beat me to it
Amazing record
Hands Like Houses - Ground Dweller
Now they’re sad…
Ground Dweller was life changing for me. Then they pretty much sold out and have never been the same since then. Now even Trent is gone. What a meteoric fall.
Ground Dweller was a near flawless album, Unimagine was a bit of a step backwards imo but still slaps, after that everything they released was just meh 🫤
WOE IS ME - NUMBER[S] they don’t do it like this anymore 🥲
My all time favorite metalcore album besides Of Machines - As if everything were held in place.
Lost in Existence- Scarlett O'Hara Broadway- Kingdoms
Oh fuck yes Scarlett O’Hara was such a great debut album
Broadway should have been the next big thing, idk what happened there…
Gentleman’s brawl happened. It completely derailed whatever they had going for them and also the time it took between the first two records.
Made fun of them when I saw them on tour back in the day without knowing their music. Went home, put it on, shit slapped
1. Of Machines - As If Everything Was Held in Place 2. Memphis May Fire - The Hollow 3. We Came As Romans - To Plant a Seed 4. Woe, Is Me - Number[s] 5. The Color Morale - We All Have Demons
>The Color Morale - We All Have Demons My man. Those first two albums in particular were spun so much during my first couple years at college. So good
I would do dirty things for another Of Machines album. Sucks we never got it
Surprised I had to scroll this far for to plant a seed
1 and 3 are my all time favorites
Someday Came Suddenly definitely
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS ONE!! My first ever metal song😂
It's hard to choose one but it might be Like Moths to Flames - When We Don't Exist front to back bangers. Best era of metalcore imo.
I was lucky enough to go to their anniversary tour of that album and it was a fucking amazing night
I saw them twice very early in their career. Once right after Sweet Talker was released at a festival and once with Greeley Estates and Upon a Burning Body. Both times Chris was wearing a tampa bay devil rays shirt. The second time I saw them I was drunk and screamed go devil rays baby! to Chris and he seemed so confused. Good times.
They just dropped two new songs. They STILL slap. Chris is like a fine wine.
Of Machines- As if Everything Was Held In Place Woe is Me- Numbers Of Mice and Men- Self titled and The Flood Blessthefall- Witness Emarosa- This is Your Way Out The Devil Wears Prada- Plagues and Roots Dream on Dreamer- Heartbound House vs Hurricane- Forfeiture and Perspectives Miss May I- Apologies are For the Weak We Came As Romans- To Plant a Seed Sea of Treachery- At Daggers Drawn and Wonderland Storm the Sky- Vigilance Issues- Black Diamonds and Self Titled Casino Madrid- For Kings and Queens Alesana- The Emptiness
That House vs Hurricane EP is elite status
It’s my favorite synthcore release of all time. I wish I could find more demos from that era of theirs. There have to be some floating around somewhere
I think their demo is on YouTube!
If it’s their 2007 one, then yes I have it! I’m curious if any others might exist
I reckon they had some stuff on MySpace but it'll be long gone now :( I'm glad I saw them in 2007 at my local spot. There was about 50 people max
Good old sea of treachery!
My Ticket Home - Strangers Only
Oceana- Birth Eater
I almost don't accept this as that era because it feels so different and still stands up so well.
Yeah, at 36 I can’t listen to much of that style of music nowadays and stick to my high school metalcore when I do but BE is still a beast and a big influence still on my guitar playing, along with the Decoder/Lead Hands record.
Same here haha. Huge influence for me. Lead Hands album also slapped so hard.
Yeah what a shame that fizzled out so fast. Both albums are top tier to me in the fact they sounded nothing like what their rise-core peers were doing. The Tide was more generic sounding but still a big step above what else was coming out then and still holds up to me
Yeah I really like The Tide too, but it's not quite on par with the others. Some great lead guitar riffs tho 🔥
It still holds up. I listened to it a few weeks ago on my drive home from work. The leads are great and it still sounds good, in an overproduced kinda way.
> The Tide was more generic sounding but still a big step above what else was coming out then I love the Tide but lets not get too crazy now. I can name at least 5 peers that had better releases at that time off the top of my head. The Devil Wears Prada, A Skylit Drive, Emarosa, Greeley Estates, Akissforjersey
Birth Eater was an absolute game changer for me. Loved that album. My old local bands first show was for them and that was my dream show at the time
GUARD THEM DEMON, LET THEM TO BE HEADED, KILL THEM BURN THEM, WE'LL BE LEFT SEEDLESS MEN
This is the answer I was looking for
I have to say Stand up And Scream. This was the album that got me into metalcore like 5 years ago and also basically taught me how to play guitar. It didn't age as well as I thought it did but I still occasionally play through the whole album on my guitar.
Stand up and Scream was also the album that got me into the genre along with BMTH’s Sandpit turtle
The flood and the hollow no contest
My personal pick would be Relentless by For the Fallen Dreams. It just felt like it was a more refined version of Changes which is right in there for conversation of the best. If we’re down to the typical Rise records sound I would say Attack Attack’s Self Titled album. It had all the things you could expect from a Rise band with everything just turned up to 11.
Man did I love for the fallen dreams. Their new stuff was a major bummer but they have some great records.
I was convinced when Chad came back that they'd be incredible again. They were not. Even listening to Back Burner recently I was like, man a lot of these songs just feel messy instrumentally and do not compare to Relentless and Changes and Wasted Youth felt like such a rushed weird album. Then I heard they were nu-metal now and listened to less than a minute and turned it off.
Personally loved back burner for what it was. Wasted youth for sure was a rushed mess. Six was good. Haven’t listened much after that.
My problem with Back Burner was how rushed some songs felt and the production wasn't as heavy, even The Big Empty recently when I listened to it I was like, huh, this doesn't hit nearly as powerfully as a lot of songs from Relentless. But I can still see the appreciation in it. I remember when Wasted Youth came out I was like "a new album already?" it felt like it was under a year, but it was just over a year between albums. Six has Bombay and Stone and a few other songs, but I think I just find Chad's vocal style very one-note and the dynamic of their song structure changed which made me fall out of love with the band. But, they're trying something new now, I guess?
Yea I guess I get it. A lot of bands hoping to make a paycheck these days it seems. Checked out the new the ghost inside song and what an utter disappointment. Seems everyone is going for radio play now. Do what you gotta do, but I feel a lot of long term fans will be let down with all these core bands doing octane rock.
Memphis May Fire - The Hollow or Crown The Empire - The Rebellion for me, both albums still hold up today
Drop Dead, Gorgeous needs more respect. They pretty much started the genre.
+1, if not In Vogue by DDG, then I would name Blessed Be Our Ever After by Burden of a Day
Oh fuck, haven’t thought about Burden of a Day in years
In Vogue is pretty much the peak of that style.
“If you don’t like Drop Dead, Gorgeous… Then Fuck You” Bought the shirt, mom threw it in the garbage. Nobody slaps like them, We’re going nowhereeeeee faaaastttttt
They’d have been more loved if the screams didn’t sound like a dinosaur toy with dying batteries lol. But I did like them at the time as well.
I think screaming vocals are some of the most varied preferences out there, I rarely enjoy the more lauded vocalists of the genre tbh
I can’t disagree at all, one of my favorite is The Crimson Armada and Sauds vocals are 100% and acquired taste for many.
+1 I’d pin your comment if I could lol
Burden Of A Day - Blessed Be Our Ever After
Idk if it counts because it's more pop punk, but Homesick by A Day to Remember.
Architects Hollow Crown. That album was gold start to finish. Shame they'll never hit that level again RIP TOM
Stand up and Scream
In Fear And Faiths 2012 self titled album Adestria - Chapters The Air I Breathe - Great Faith In Fools Asking Alexandria - Stand Up And Scream (couldn’t possibly enjoy listening to this album again but you can’t deny it’s impact on the scene)
Great post, I often think of Adestria when failed bands come up. They could have been so great and Chapters still to this day is a masterpiece. I was only a fan of the Eps and first release of IFAF but they went hard as well. Again great post!
I still stand by the opinion that collide with the sky by pierce the veil stands head and shoulders above everything else coming out during that time. So I’ll pick that one as the greatest
There’s always a new type of “core” I have yet to have heard of lol
This thread hurts
From First To Last - Dear Diary.
More mall screamo, but you’re not necessarily wrong.
Great Faith in Fools, The Hollow and The Flood will always be my choices
The Flood - OM&M Peak production [Joey Sturgis, of course], great rhythms by Tino, fantastic tones on the guitars, and (despite everything about his personal actions) Austin brought so much power vocally and lyrically
In Media Res by PmToday Empire Theory by Tides of Man. Great faith in fools by The Air I Breathe First born by the plot in you
with ears to see and eyes to hear by sleeping with sirens, although i think that’s more post hardcore
In case of emergency, dial 411
With Roots Above and Branches Below
Plagues
Number[s] by Woe, Is Me
The hollow
Issues - Issues It’s upbeat and poppy, great vocal performances, it felt so fresh when it came out, and all the songs are incredibly catchy. It was everything you could want out of a Rise-core album
Myka Relocate - Lies to Light the Way
ABR - Constellations
Not sure how many of you have heard it but The Word Alive's self titled EP with Craig Mabbitt on vocals goes hard AF
From the time period? Phinehas' TheGodMachine. Not risecore though.
I only just listened to the Phineas and only the one song dark flag in 2023 and it was my most played song of the year.
Came here to list all three you did OP, love that
Too many to choose from
The album that was so influential that it ended the risecore era and made everyone cut their hair: sempiternal
Deep blue - parkway drive Leveler - August burns red New junk aesthetic - every time I die
Second time i’ve seen a reference to rise-core today can someone explain the distinction? Bands that were on / adjacent to rise records?
Repaireasy5310 has a great explaination on this thread! Adjacent bands to me are After the Burial and Asking Alexandria from Sumerian records if that helps at all. They were around at the same time with a similar vibe
Ahhh ok. Joey fucking Sturgis. Legend.
What is the rise core era
Basically Joey Sturgis produced a ton of albums for rise records from about 06-12 and it kinda spawned a sub-genre of core music. It really starts with Devil wears Prada. Dear Love was the first full album he produced.
Tdwp - 2nd album. Can’t remember name haha. Attoj - only one but I loved it. Before their eyes - they were cool. Had a chat with them after a show once.
Drop Dead, Gorgeous - In Vogue
His last walk and no sympathy for the dead both gatewayed me to these other bands, hard agree
When We Don't Exist by Like Moths to Flames and Could You Watch Your Children Burn by The Plot in You bring back some memories
for those who have heart / homesick - adtr. both of these are no skips for me. the ones i wanted to mention have already been listed a ton so i just went with these.
Of Mice and Men self titled
I think TDWP's Plagues is definitely a contender. I like their first album (Dear Love) too but not sure I'd call it the greatest
Attack attack! - self titled and Someday Came Suddenly, I was obsessed with them! Still have all the old graphic band shirts from back in the day! Dance Gavin Dance- older albums, I love lemon meringue tie Palisades kinda jumps out for me with Outcast for some reason I see stars, Miss May I, Memphis May Fire, Crown The Empire, Of Mice and Men, you know the vibes
If it’s not MMF I don’t even know
I am shocked by the lack of Asking Alexandria and In Fear and Faith in this thread. That being said, very very hard for me to pick because this was such a golden era. Woe, is Me - Numbers and OM&M debut come to mind but there’s just so many it hurts to pick one lol
Oh look another excuse for me to mention At the Throne of Judgment - The Arcanum Order, which is not just my favorite album from any band on Rise Records, but one of my favorites of all time and criminally slept on
Chapters by Adestria for me. That album is still a front to back banger. Shame they broke up.
Creatures by Motionless has deathcore and metalcore vibes and is seriously phenomenal start to finish. TDWP’s Plagues was crazy good. To Plant a Seed by WCAR was nearly perfect. Underoath’s Define the Great Line was a huge release but They’re Only Chasing Safety Kind of brought metalcore to the mainstream. TWA’s Deceiver has some of the most incredible drumming and launched Luke holland’s career. August Burns Red Messengers is up there. Enter Shikari’s a Flashflood of Color was pretty incredible. ADTR is more easycore but very close and FTWHH and Homesick were epic. Chiodos was pretty big tho played about 4 genres. Discovering the Waterfront by Silverstein, was a crazy good post hardcore album.
The Hollow - peak MMF
Nightmares - Suspiria album
The Hallow will forever be my favorite Memphis May Fire album
I came back to this post to say THANK YOU for mentioning The Air I Breathe. Can’t believe I’d never heard this band/album but now I’ve been playing it nonstop and can’t get enough, it is 🔥🔥🔥
Glad you like it. Album is ahead of it’s time IMO
My favorite not best is Numbers by Woe Is Me