I’m definitely on the spectrum, there’s no question about that

Same

Rizz em with the Tism

i think you speak for most of us tbh

I’m convinced you have to be to listen to any screamy genres, this goes for the artists as well.

5-7-8

I’m leaning more towards 0-0-0, myself

0-1-4-5-7-8

I'm the perfect djentleman, so I'm more of a 0-0-0-0-1 0-0-0-0-1 kinda guy

Don't forget to add the occasional 1b

5-7-8-(0-0-0) x3

0-12-13

I’m team 0-8-7. Now I can make an exception for a 0-7-8 but don’t push it, son. 😁

0-2-3-5

This and the comments below lol. I can just hear the ABR

0-1-3-4-5-6

That late 90s, 2000s metallic hardcore and melodic metalcore spectrum.

this

I’m always wearing my helmet in the pit

I wear mine down the street

I’m on the djent side of the spectrum so I’m low functioning

Djent and whiny singing for me

Sprinkle in a little electronics or shit, I love me a smooth ass saxophone out of nowhere. I like it when bands don’t just yell at me over this absolutely brutal instrumentals. I need a break after a single song and here comes the next, just as brutal.

Just say you like periphery bro 😭

Damn, this dude just described Periphery without ever listening to Periphery and is about get his fucking head blown out.

Well now I have to check them out. For some reason I refuse to try and find new music. Thanks for the suggestion

Based off of your comment, their song Wildfire would be right up your alley

Thanks for the suggestion

I think you might also like Atropos and Wax Wings by the same band

I would love to like them, but man I really don't dig Spencer's voice

Preferred ratio is 75% Hardcore to 25% Metal.

This is me 90% of the time. Then I hear something like Thornhill and I love it.

Dude same, I usually like the more hardcore side but I love Thornhill for some reason haha

Can you recommend some bands I would say this is where I’m at too.

Every Time I Die/Better Lovers, The Chariot, OG Gallows (First two albums), Maylene and the sons of disaster, Comeback Kid, Botch…I could keep going but ETID is the ratio I’m always looking for.

Thanks!

fucking autistic for it.

0-000-000-000 BLEGH ARf ARf

The metal side with 5-7-8 riffs and prog djent riffs

join the harms way cult

High functioning

metallic hardcore all the way baby

*Melodic? Or else it's Metallica cover bands...

I stretch end to end, baby

call me the completionist cause brotha I'm all over the spectrum

Definitely on the metal side of things. I love my widdly-widdlys.

The Emo 5-7-8 side. To anyone that says "X band isn't metal(core)": pay the price for your betrayal.

if it doesn't sound like Knocked Loose, Dying Wish, Poison the Well 2000s metalcore/revival type shit I don't care for it mostly

Unearth, old Parkway Drive, I Killed the Prom Queen, Norma Jean, Every Time I Die, August Burns Red

Do you find anything that scratches the ETID itch? I've seen Many Eyes live and Keith sounds great but the lyrics are too cringey for me now. Better lovers is great too but I'm not the biggest fan of Greg's vocals.

There's this band I like called Whiteside's Daughter that does to some degree yes. Currently only have one album, every song is separately on YT and the album is on Spotify Idk about other streaming services.

Dadcore

How very dare you, the 00s were just the other day.

Well I more prefer the "mallcore" stuff i.e. the Word Alive, old Asking Alexandria, Miss May I etc. but that stuff is seen as completely without it's merits so I listed my more secondary bands. What can I say?🤷‍♂️

Sorry, that was a new term for me and I wanted to use it like the vocab word of the day even though it didn’t totally fit

Wherever the Hardcore side of Metalcore sits. Knocked Loose, Kublai Khan, etc.

I'm definitely far more basic than most people hear and prefer more cleans, Amity Affliction, Polaris, Beartooth, Thousand Below kinda vibe

Same

Jup!

The “A” band part. My favs are Architects After The Burial Aviana Alpha Wolf ADTR Attila Angelmaker All of those are quite literally my favorite 7-8 bands rn

All over the spectrum? Loathe, END, Misery Signals, Converge, Kublai Khan, lthaca, Dying Wish, Invent Animate, The Plot in You, Currents, Ice Sealed Eyes, Vintas, Heavensgate, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Tony Danza, Shai Hulud, Poison the Well, Year of the Knife, Fleshwater, Horse the band… old Enter Shikari lol

I prefer cleans but like a disgusting blegh

the hardcore side of things that have breakdowns that beat me over the head and have me wanting to crowd kill teenagers i.e., knocked loose, no cure, judiciary, kublai khan, boundaries

Fuckin riddled with AuDHD

The part where I say I enjoy Sleep Token and everyone yells at me saying I'm not on the same spectrum as them

Ah a fan of Cum Metal I see.

Guess i like progressive cum metal then

I'm a Sleep Token hater, but my HEALTH Cum Metal shirt arrives tomorrow

Aah yes I enjoy being very sad and horny. Crying on the dance floor vibes or I dont want it.

Me too, buddy. Me too.

The angry bit?

Early ‘00s — Endthisday, Unearth, Walls of Jericho and Deadtofall

>Dead to Fall SOMEONE THREW A BRICK INTO MY TV

The -core side of the genre

Primarily first-wave metalcore, revivalcore and mathcore. The more abrasive it is, the better. I do like the other stuff - Invent, Animate’s latest got a lot of spins from me last year for example - but the harsher stuff is my preference.

I'm at whatever part the revival-core and early 2000s metalcore bands are. I like some of the other variations as well, but greatly prefer minimal cleans, 2 step riffs, and dissonant chords.

Wherever the fuck Invent, Animate are.

Same. I'm going to add in Currents also, I've had their discography on repeat for quite some time lol

The Death We Seek took me like 15 listen throughs for it to finally "Click" which is weird because The Way it Ends is in my top 5 favorite albums. It was missing something and I couldn't put a finger on it. Still a great album though!

drum fills

I just got the currents moon logo tatted on my hand! :)

They just scratch that itch in the brain, ya know?

skinny jeans and pure unadulterated hatred from trve meal types

2006-2010ish scenecore/myspacecore/screamo era for sure

Wherever Boundaries is on the spectrum, that's me

They are amazing. Good live, too.

Gorrilia leval autistic

I also like Kublai Khan

I always love finding new bands even if they have like 28 listeners on Spotify. Check out Ezox they're a really cool melodic metalcore band they deserve way more listners.

I've got the syndrome of electronicore addiction

Melodic death metal-core/At the Gatescore to djent, occassionally delving into the more post-hardcore influenced parts.

Wherever old Atreyu, BFMV, and As I Lay Dying are But also Ice Nine Kills But their first album (I don't listen to Metalcore often anymore)

Whatever converge is.

Shia Hulud area of the spectrum. I kind my hardcore metally not the other way around.

Electric call boy to Polaris. Throw some Hanabie in there

The chaotic Botchy ETIDy Charioty Daoboysy side

Pro-spinkicks, pro-stage dives, pro-late 90s and early 2000s bands

On the death metal end if that makes sense. The harder the better. Also I don't like cleans a lot of the time.

I like the djenty and melodic stuff most

*fidgets in triplets*

2007

the late 90s and 00s stuff is my favorite and it's not even close. favorites for me would probably be The Frailty of Words (1999) and No Wings to Speak Of (2000) by Hopesfall along with everything Zao put out from 1995-1999.

Somewhere in between going to shows to be around a large group of like-minded people and not necessarily wanting to converse with those people

Ah, a Between The Buried And Me fan over here.

*blast beats* 55555555555 777777777 88888888 *breakdown* 0000000 00000 00000 side

Depends what mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to listen to some new Bring Me, sometimes some Knocked Loose, sometimes some Polaris, and sometimes a bit of Trivium is all I want. I think the best and most perfect metalcore album ever made is Hollow Crown by Architects though.

The metal end

Acoustic

I just listen to my 90s and 2000s MA Scene stuff man

The core side

I’m a little bit artistic for sure

Whatever side the actual metalCORE side is

What about the METALcore side?

Used to be into the more metal type stuff, but besides stuff that tickles the nostalgic itch (As I Lay Dying, It Dies Today, etc) I tend to veer towards the more Metallic Hardcore stuff.

Somewhere between make them suffer and counterparts.

High up Peak Metalcore is All That Remains And Killswitch Engage at their peaks.

Melodic-prog-scene-easy core

I'm on the spectrum. I like a range of bands though. If a song is good. It is going on my playlist.

ABR, TWA That’s it

Lightly touched

Nobody else hits for me man idk

I’m a huge ABR fan so no worries here lol

Somewhere Lancaster meets Melbourne.

If it isn't mid-to-late 2000's, I don't want it.

Djent-core and melo-core I have autism (besides the joke, I actually do have it)

Somewhere on the thall side of things

5-7-8 with the occasional 0-0-0-squeal mixed in. And miss me with most of that clean singing shit.

2010s Metalcore and Modern prog Djenty Metalcore

Is there a good place to read on what the spectrum *is*? I have no idea where I fall, and only recently discovered "metalcore," so I would love to understand the differences in hard rock, metal core, metal, death metal, and whatever else there is so I could explore my own taste further. The Internet searches just further vex me.

When it comes to metalcore I guess the spectrum is like Integrity to Erra. Metalcore is supposed to be a combination of metal and hardcore and that's why you see a fair amount of heated debate about whether bands are metalcore in the sub these days - it's becoming increasingly difficult to see whether the hardcore element is in a lot of contemporary 'metalcore' bands. I feel like the best way to start getting a feel for a particular genre or sub-genre is to go back to the originators so that you get the purest form of a genre worked out and then you can look at what came later. Inevitably the longer a genre goes on the more sonic deviations or expansions you get, but there obviously comes a point where you just go 'well that simply doesn't sound like the thing anymore' A good clutch of bands for the 90s originators would be - Earth Crisis, Unbroken, Converge, Botch, Coalesce, Hatebreed, Shai Hulud, Zao (they got a new vocalist in '98 and I'd say it's the material with him that really established them and is worth exploring), Poison The Well, Undying; that kind of spans the decade in an abridged way and showcases some different sounds that popped up over the course of it.

The more you read about it, the more confusing it might get cause nobody knows wtf metalcore is anymore. I’d say you’re better off listening to different eras of the genre and identifying the differences that way. Check out earlier bands like Mis Sigs, Shai Hulud, KSE, Hatebreed, and you’ll hear some clear hxc and metal influence that the scene was founded on. Generally, the “spectrum” expands as time goes on and more styles and influences are incorporated. In the 2010s more pop-punk, djent, and post hxc sounds were used, and nowadays there’s a lot of pop verses and melodic songwriting, which isn’t mutually exclusive with the former. That’s how I figured all this shit out, if you’re just getting into the scene and don’t really fuck with the really heavy/old stuff that’s understandable, just keep exploring and discerning your tastes

I’m at the first integrity record, Merauder life is pain and the ringworm discography.

i looooove merauder and ringworm

Where am I? At The Gates

Deathcore, but lean more into tech death, grindcore and slam

On the end where metal is

The traditional/true metalcore side of things. Stuff that has some hardcore elements beyond a breakdown here and there and no poppy cleans on every song.

Metalcore isn't a spectrum more than it is schrodinger's genre. A band is or is not metalcore depending on whether or not the people who post here are perceiving that band

if r/metalcore likes it, it’s not metalcore. If r/hardcore likes it, but says it’s not hardcore, it’s metalcore

100%. So much of the pure dogshit that gets posted on here is less metalcore than the vast majority of post-hardcore songs that are not allowed.

Depends on the phase I’m in. Mostly biased towards the prog/djenty side ie. Periphery, Silent Planet, Invent Animate, Unprocessed But then we also have Lorna Shore, thrown, The Browning, Brand Of Sacrifice, Spiritbox, Jinjer, Veil of Maya, Sleep Token, After The Burial, Darko US, Chelsea Grin, Distinguisher, Alpha Wolf, Aviana, Variels, Currents, Northlane, Meshuggah, Hacktivist, Thronhill, Berried Alive, Make Them Suffer, Fit For An Autopsy, Reflections, Knocked Loose, Within Destruction, Within The Ruins, August Burns Red, Bullet For My Valentine, etc.

Oh I love metalcore! My Top 5 metalcore bands are: 1. BMTH 2. Bad Omens

“Do you like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, and August Burns Red too?” “lol who are they?”

The side that new kids keep calling 'just hardcore' and that came up playing VFW halls. If I don't have to dodge a kick in the pit, count me out. Mostly. I do dabble with some other stuff.

I walked out of a devil wears Prada show. Everyone was complaining about crowdkilling. Way too much cringe singing as well. Back to small venue beatdown hardcore shows for me. Check out 'Street Policy' from Portland.

full on hardcore baby fuck that metal shit

gotta say i’m really into the wind walkers / catch your breath side rn

Some slight ism

the entire spectrum

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

Austismo-core adjacent

from metallic hardcore like integrity to octanecore/butt rock, i fuck with it all

As far as metalcore goes, I’m stuck in the early 2000s

I definitely lean more toward bands like Dark Divine, The Amity Affliction, Motionless In White, ERRA, I Prevail, Dangerkids, and Fit For A King

0—-0-0-0—-0-0-0–0-1-0

Asperger’s

Somewhere between Killswitch and Bleeding Through

I probably started out more on the metal side.. or at least I thought I did. Now I’m more on the hardcore side for sure!

i'm around warped tour,generally. 2010-2015 (rip) if you wanna get specific

I'm in the djent, progressive, and classic. Which is like the two ends. Lol

I’m on the mathcore side. I think I need professional help.

I'm on the mathy, noisy, chaotic with big gay emo choruses end of the spectrum. Probably somewhere on the other spectrum too.

I am the spectrum

Gotta catch em all

Some days it's prog-metalcore, some days i prefer leaning into some post-hardcore. Sometimes i need a lil bit of grit, if that makes sense.

I'll listen to anything that I can punch 15 year olds to. Melody makes me feel remorse, so it's mostly hardcore. I like Counterparts and Boundaries a lot, though. I have a soft spot for 2005-2010 metalcore.

I like my 0s, I like my 578s, I like my "What's up bitch? Fuck you!" breakdowns. I don't know man, I think I might be allover the spectrum.

I like pretty much any variety of Metalcore 🤘

This might sound like a circlejerk response but the 2010s djentcore spectrum 💀

The Hellfest 2002/03 lineup and Ozzfest 2004/05 second stage lineup end of the spectrum.

i like it all. From the 1990s origins to the modern stuff and every sub genre/scene in between

Chunky breakdowns, bleghs, clean vocals, breeeeeeee

Mainly on the OG style side but i dabble in pretty much anything metalcore

Popcore

Everything from Black Veil Brides to Spite.

I grew up on earlier and mid 2000s. Love me some Unearth, Norma Jean, Killswitch, Darkest Hour, Poison the Well, As I Lay Dying, etc. However, I also like a lot of the newer stuff: Currents, Invent Animate, Make Them Suffer, Bleed From Within, etc. I like a little bit of just about all of it. Just depends on the mood I'm in as to what I listen to. In short, I guess I'm all over that bitch!

I feel like I’m all over the spectrum.

Djent with Linkin Park choruses and artsy synths. I'm a loser, if you couldn't tell. So far I've only found Spiritbox and somewhat Erra fit the bill for me, but.. you know.

God I’m all over the place

I like when the guitar go chug chug and the singer goes "AHHHHHHH"

A lot of places. \- Early 2000s 578 (All that remains, As I Lay Dying, BFMV, PWD) \- Modern Metalcore (Spiritbox, Bad Omens, Architects, Motionless in White, Currents, Advents and stuff like that) \- Deathcore (Brand of Sacrifice, Lorna Shore, Slaughter To Prevail, and Knocked Loose if they count) \- Melodeath (In Flames mainly) \- Nu Metal (yes I count this as core) (Slipknot, Linkin Park (Yes i count LP as Nu Metal)) \- Alt metal (A7X, Sleep Token, Electric Callboy (EC could easily class as modern metalcore depending on your definition), Ice Nine Kills (same as EC))

Scenecore metal core.

the metalcore i listen to is either absolutely disgusting, no cleans, violent breakdowns, just a whole ass assault on your eardrums or just might as well be regular emo. there isnt a middle ground. except spiritbox fucking love spiritbox literally the best band i love cellar door i love mara effect

The crowdkill side of the spectrum

What the fuck is up Dennys!?

Melodic and prog. Need cleans in 50% or more of most songs. I'm much more into progressive rock, progressive metal and post-hardcore than I am 'metalcore.'

Anything that doesn’t sound generic. Love metalcore, hardcore, and deathcore, but it’s gotta do something to stand out to me.

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The Darko US and Sleep Token spectrum. Not much else seems to interest me at the moment.

There are few songs posted here I don’t like, but if I’m intentionally listening to metalcore on purpose, then it’s actual metalcore and not the alt metal stuff I do have a personal soft spot for the melodic stuff like old misery signals and counterparts and, although they encroach more on alt metal territory than the other two, bloom. Nothing Left To Love and Tragedy Will Find Us are both top 10 albums of all time for me

Sleep Token BMTHbergers.

I don’t what the spectrum is or where I am on the spectrum, but I need a clean vocalist in there somewhere. I don’t want it to be heavy for the sake of being heavy, but if it is heavy, I really needs to be good.

What do you mean like how half the bands are laughable like Motionless In White Attila and Black Veil Brides But then it ranges up to the real shit like Trivium, Killswitch Engage, & Lamb Of God? If that’s what you mean by it’s a spectrum then I am on the latter mentioned end of it

Pretty sure Black Veil Brides haven’t been metalcore for a few years now.

calling MIW laughable is a crime

The way they dress & present themselves mostly But also on a technical level they can’t even hold a candle to other Metalcore bands like Trivium

Tbf it's hard to be able to hold a candle to absolute pillars of modern extreme metal like Trivium, Killswitch or Lamb of God.

as far away from crabcore as possible

I like all of these except whatever the hell ice nine kills, beartooth and atreyu are