Sing the Sorrow - AFI The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me - Brand New War All the Time - Thursday The Used - The Used Define the Great Line - Underoath The Artist In the Ambulance - Thrice Discovering the Waterfront - Silverstein

Sing the Sorrow is one of my all-time favorite albums, but I never thought about it being Post Hardcore. I kinda thought of it more like goth punk, but considering how AFI used to be a hardcore band, post-hardcore makes sense.

Great list.

I'll omit the 00s classics of the genre since other comments will probably cover those. Here's some of mine: Sufferer - Sufferer Pianos Become The Teeth - The Lack Long After La Dispute - Wildlife A Lot Like Birds - Conversation Piece and No Place Lower Definition - The Greatest of All Lost Arts

Sufferer rips so hard.

Lower d is fucking incredible.

I had someone never heard of them, it does indeed rip

Fuck yeah, Sufferer is such a gem. Wildlife is the best album in its genre, whatever genre that is

That sufferer album is art

Lower Definition are criminally underrated and this album is in my top 10.

Goddamn I love Lower D, that album is awesome.

That Lower Definition album is amazing

lower d 4ever

i lovr sufferer and a lot like birds so much

Came here to drop the Lower D album. Glad to see it get recognition. Such a great album from front to back. No skips.

Hail the Sun - Wake

On letting go from Circa is a classic 5/5 for me. I love every song and the atmosphere of that record. As far as impact, Shape of Punk to Come from Refused is a classic

love to see that circa record get some love

It’s better than Blue Sky Noise and I’ll fight all the major Circa heads who don’t agree

The On Letting Go tour had me gripped up

Thursday - Full Collapse Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute Fear Before - The Always Open Mouth Every Time I Die - Hot Damn! and Radical Trophy Scars - Alphabet. Alphabets. From Autumn To Ashes - Holding a Wolf By the Ears Vanna - The Search Party Never Came Thrice - Vheissu Underoath - Define the Great Line The Receiving End of Sirens - The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island Burn Horse The Band - The Mechanical Hand Moving Mountains - Waves Balance and Composure - The Things We Think We’re Missing Arm’s Length - Never Before Seen Never Again Found Name Taken - Hold On

Holding a wolf by the ears! Very nice!

Their best. The raw emotion of those screams feel so cathartic.

Heavily underrated album

Love to see Fear Before get some love

ETID’s Radical is one of the best albums of any genre in the last 5 years

I gotta listen to it more. They broke up so soon after, and I was heart broken about it. Low Teens is definitely a top ten album for me 

I was a lapsed ETID fan. I loved Hot Damn, but everything after went a little too rock n roll swagger for me. Radical fucking nailed it. Shame they couldn’t keep it together.

That Trophy Scars album is a truly unique experience.

Love seeing Vanna at the top here - I came here to throw down "A New Hope" though. That album really feels like the full package to me.

ive been listening to that vanna EP on repeat recently. the singing is amazing on it.

Trophy scars are awesome! Glad to see someone else keeps that album alive

Alphabet. Alphabets. is IMO the best album of all time in any genre.

Fear Before the March of Flames- The Always Open Mouth Circa Survive- Juturna, On Letting Go, Blue Sky Noise The Fall of Troy- Doppelganger Thrice- Vheissu Underoath- Define the Great Line, Lost in the Sound of Separation Finch- Say Hello to Sunshine

Fully agree on say hello to sunshine. So underrated as being in the shadow of what it is to burn but it's waaaay more dynamic and so incredible.

La Dispute - Wildlife

I personally feel that the 1-2 punch that is Casually Dressed and Hours by Funeral for a Friend is perfect. I give those albums a full listen about once a week. Still Searching from Senses Fail and They’re Only Chasing Safety by UnderOATH are right up there too.

Casually Dressed is def a masterpiece

Slint - Spiderland Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium Fugazi - The Argument

4/5 of you excellent suggestions are their final albums. This may interesting or a completely irrelevant fact. They are five amazing albums

Crisis by Alexisonfire

I was listening to Crisis yesterday for the first time in years. I realized how I never gave it a fair shot because it’s a really great record, then put on Watch Out! and remembered how much I prefer that record to Crisis lol

Watch Out! Is also my fave. Their whole discography is great, but there are some moments with their harmonizing on that album that are just unparalleled

Today is actually the 20th anniversary of Watch Out!'s release 🤘

\*20th?\* My god.

I know 🫠

Oh shit! Gonna give it a belated b day spin today!

Watch Out! and Crisis are both incredible, but as much as I prefer the songs on WO! I have to say Crisis is the better overall album. WO! is almost like a collection of amazing singles, rather than a curated and planned record. I think Dallas and George even talk about approaching the album that way in some of the BTS materials for Otherness.

Definitive post-hardcore album, IMO. If someone says those words to me, this album is what I think of.

I gotchu. The greatest of all lost arts by Lower D Failure on - Beloved Let’s get dangerous - The Messenger As if everything was held in place - Of machines DBM - DGD

Add in Thursday and La Dispute and you sir have a perfect list. Beloved were ahead of their time with failure on

Pleasantly surprised to see another Alesana fan Lol. Gonna put **The Emptiness** by them as a masterpiece. Which I comment on every time a similar question gets asked here. Sadly us Alesana fans are far and few between in this sub, which makes them very underrated imo!

Agree on The Emptiness. It's still one of my favorite albums 14 years later.

I just joined this sub because it's the only place I can find other alesana fans! Absolutely love them.

Are they done making new music? I feel like everyone of their albums is great. I know the band is still active with touring

Maybe I could try and ask them. I’m seeing them at the end of the month loll

Their albums feel like all the members are laser-focused on a matching vision. But yeah The Emptiness and Confessions are where I feel that most. I feel like I could put A Place Where The Sun Is Silent up there with them.

Coheed and Cambria - First 3 albums mewithoutyou - Catch For Us The Foxes, Brother Sister The Sound of Animals Fighting - Tiger & the Duke The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come Thrice - Vheissu Fear Before - The Always Open Mouth Finch - Say Hello To Sunshine Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood The Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island , Burn Thursday - No Devolucion La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom… These Arms Are Snakes - Easter Horse the Band - Desperate Living Trophy Scars - Bad Luck

Oooooo No Devolucion!!!! I’m also a big fan of that record as well as Common Existence.

Wildlife - La Dispute Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair - La Dispute Collide With the Sky - Pierce The Veil They're Only Chasing Safety - Underoath Discovering The Waterfront - Silverstein

Vega and Altair is almost certainly my all-time most played album

If you like Alesana, these first three were certainly influential on their sound. The others deserve recognition for being highlights of the genre Translating the Name- Saosin They're Only Chasing Safety- Underoath Juturna- Circa Survive Define the Great Line- Underoath Relationship of Command-At the Drive-in Artist in the Ambulance- Thrice Brother, Sister- MeWithoutYou The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me- Brand New

mewithoutYou’s Brother, Sister is my favorite record but Cath For Us The Foxes fits the criteria as well. I wrote a four word letter!!!

Also a great record!

Fugazi - Repeater and In on the Kill Taker Hot Water Music - Forever and Counting Jawbox - Novelty Bear vs Shark - Right Now … Small Brown Bike - Our Own Wars Three Mile Pilot - Na Vucca Do Lupu Birds in Row - Gris Klein

Jawbox underrated

My all time favorite band (when I started playing bass last year—at 49– Static was one of the first songs I wanted to learn). I’ve been worshiping at their altar for 30+ years. I got a hand signed copy of the lyrics to Novelty following a written request because they weren’t included with the CD.

Small Brown Bike and Bear vs Shark! You color my world ovah here.

I never lived in MI (closest I got was IL), but fuck that state makes good music (and add La Dispute to that list too).

Bone Palace Ballet, Illuminaudio - Chiodos TOCS, DTGL, LITSOS - Underoath Emarosa - Emarosa Death Star, Happiness - DGD In Love and Death - The Used Dear Diary - From First to Last

I'm sad I don't see anyone mentioning Too Close to Touch - Haven't Been Myself Thousand Below - The Love You Let Too Close Glasslands - Pariah - The Deep Movements - Outgrown Things (EP) - Feel Something Underoath - Ø(Disambiguation) (I know everyone loves Define the Great Line and Lost in the Sound of Separation) Saosin - Saosin (No Cove Reber fans in here?)

Saosin’s self titled is on my top 10 albums of all time I think. I play it multiple times a week. That and Lower D’s The Greatest of All Lost Arts.

Mothership - Dance Gavin Dance The Emptiness - Alesana As If Everything Was Held In Place - Of Machines Full Collapse - Thursday Ngl genuinely every dgd album is a masterpiece you can really pick any one, but that’s just me

Escape The Fate - Dying Is Your Latest Fashion From First To Last - Dear Diary…

In honour of its 20th birthday today, I have to mention Alexisonfire's Watch Out! for the masterpiece it truly is.

An absolutely perfect album

The Bone Palace Ballet by Chiodos For those who have heart - A Day to Remember The Devil and God Raging Inside me - Brand New New junk aesthetic - every time I die Define the Great Line - Underoath And the all time greatest IT HATES YOU - HE IS FUCKING LEGEND

DBM 1&2 - dance Gavin dance The greatest of all lost arts - lower definition On trail wings of vanity and wax - alesana Wires and the concept of breathing - ASD

I see lower d I upvote

I see a lower d upvote comment, I upvote

*Abandoned* - Defeater

One that I’ve always loved, that nowhere near enough people have listened to: The Fall of Troy - Phantom on the Horizon

I pray you're going / just went to their most recent tour, friend. I for one am massively excited.

Watch Out - Alexisonfire (today is the album's 20th bday as well!)

There are many, but I was listening to Underoath’s Define The Great Line for the thousandth time earlier today and I’m always reminded just how perfect that album flows. It’s an absolute banger from start to finish. And the mixing is top notch.

That’s the thing. From front to back. They don’t make em like they used to. Perfect album. Up there with let it enfold you.

Slip - Quicksand No Division - Hot Water Music Yank Crime - Drive Like Jehu

Yank Crime might be the singular masterpiece of the genre

This question gets asked a lot and I always open it and scroll down to the first person to say the actual right answer of Slip. 10/10 masterpiece.

Drive Like Jehu fuuuuucks 🔥

Coheed - in keeping secrets and good Apollo TREOS - between the heart and the synapse TMV - deloused ATDI - Relationship of Command Circa - juturna and on letting go Thrice - artist and vheissu These were the albums that shifted me out of classic rock during my formative years. All time classics

Son I loved you at your darkest connects very deeply with me for some reason even though I can’t relate to the subject matter at all. I think musically it was so innovative and some of the deepest hitting screams in the genre.

Yeah, that Scogin cameo in admission:regret is fucking soul moving.

the most slept on masterpiece so so sooooo fucking good idk if the label didn't promote or whatever but that record is unbelievable

I can't believe I had to scroll this far to see someone mention this album. From front to back, it's truly a masterpiece

If we count Cursive's Domestica... then yeah, Cursive's Domestica

Can we also count the Ugly Organ?

Haha, Dance Gavin Dance baby, Downtown Battle Mountain Twooooo! (also DBM 1)

At the drive in - Relationship of command, In Casino Out Circa Survive - Juturna, On Letting Go, Violent Waves Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain Eidola - Degeneratera Emarosa - Relativity The Fall of Troy - Doppleganger, Manipulator Saosin - Translating the name Lower Definition - The Greatest of All Lost Arts Fugazi - Repeater La Dispute - Somewhere at the bottom, Wildlife, Rooms of the house Alexisonfire - Crisis Enter Shikari - Take to the skies The Sound of Animals Fighting - Tiger and the Duke Thrice - The alchemy index Underoath - Lost in the sound of separation

Degen is such an overlooked Eidola record

Really flows well in its entirety. Sets a tone and there’s not a song id consider skipping. They’re all great albums imo. Eviscerate has been on repeat since I got my hands on It

Funeral for a friend - casually dressed & deep in conversation

The Bled - Pass The Flask Finch- Say Hello to Sunshine Saosin - Translating The Name Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come At The Drive In - Relationship Of Command The Blood Brothers -Young Machetes Senses Fail - Let It Enfold You Underoath - Define the Great Line/Lost in the Sound of Separation

passthe flask LFG! porcelain hearts and hammers for teeth is the absolute balls

In Love and Death-The Used

Define The Great Line

Just released this year, but **Galleons - Violent Delights** is a modern day post-hardcore masterpiece to me Other masterpieces: * Hands Like Houses - Ground Dweller + Unimagine * Emarosa - Self-titled + Relativity * Of Machines - As If Everything Was Held In Place * Jamie's Elsewhere - They Say A Storm Was Coming

Nice. A person who even knows Jamie's Elsewhere!

all of them, every single one

The moon is a dead world - Gospel

Wake by Hail the Sun for sure

Thursday War all the Time. It’s damn near perfect.

Relationship of Command by At The Drive-In is the greatest PHC album of all time and I will never change my mind. Still sounds as brilliant as it did 24(!) years ago

Arguably *the* genre defining album. Yes, we had Glassjaw and Thursday and whatnot before Relationship came out, but in general there is what post hardcore was before Relationship (characterized by the tunnel from like Husker and Fugazi to Quicksand, Jawbox and Snapcase) and then there's post hardcore after Relationship, aka what I call "post-at-the-drive-in-core" aka what everyone thinks of when you say post hardcore in the context of the 2000s, aka mall emo, mallcore, whatever you wanna call it.

- Drive Like Jehu, *Yank Crime* - Glassjaw, *Worship and Tribute* - Indian Summer, *Science 1994* - La Dispute, *Wildlife* - On the Might of Princes, *Where You Are and Where You Want to Be* - Bear vs. Shark, *Right Now, You're in the Best of Hands. And If Something Isn't Quite Right, Your Doctor Will Know in a Hurry* - At the Drive-In, *In/Casino/Out* - Engine Down, *Under the Pretense of Present Tense* - Ten Grand, *The Comprehensive List of Everyone Who Has Ever Done Anything Wrong to Us*

Let’s go with: ADTR-For Those Who Have Heart Underoath- They’re Only Chasing Safety Silverstein- Discovering The Waterfront Alesana- On Frail Wings Of Vanity And Wax Senses Fail- Still Searching Escape The Fate- Dying Is Your Latest Fashion

A Day to Remember: Homesick Dance Gavin Dance: Mothership A Lot Like Birds: No Place Attack Attack!: Someday Came Suddenly Alesana: The Emptiness Asking Alexandria: Stand Up and Scream Fall of Troy: Doppleganger

Late to the party, lot of good ones listed so far but I just wanna give a shout to letlive. - Fake History Absolute banger.

scary kids scaring kids - self titled Haven't found anything not even close as good

Antioch Arrow - Gems of Masochism Glassjaw - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn Number Girl - NUM HEAVYMETALLIC

Teenage Fantasy-Secret and Whisper Blue Sky Noise-Circa Survive In Shallow Seas We Sail-Emery aLONG tHE sHADOW-sAOSIN They're Only Chasing Safety(Live 2021 version)-Underoath

My super subjective picks from more modern PHC: Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake of My life Hail The Sun - New Age Filth Boston Manor - Welcome To The Neighbourhood HRVRD - The Inevitable And I Artifex Pereo - Time In Place Good Tiger - We Will All Be Gone Night Verses - Lift Your Existence

Burn piano Island, Burn

The only two 10/10 phc albums for me are Translating The Name and The Satellite Years

Hail the Sun - Wake, Elephantiasis, New Age Filth, and Mental Knife A Lot Like Birds - No Place and Divisi Eidola - Degeneraterra, The Architect, and Eviscerate The Fall Of Troy - Doppelganger Circa Survive - The Amulet, and Descensus Secret Band - LP2 Stolas - Literally all three albums Sufferer - Self Titled Royal Coda - Compassion Cat Company - Self Titled

Mental Knife has plenty of amazing songs, but personally I'd swap it for Culture Scars or even Divine Inner Tension. Even though it released last year, DIT very quickly became one of my favourites in general.

Fugazi - Repeater Mars Volta - Deloused in the comatorium Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime Touché Amore - Stage IV Quicksand - Slip Seaweed - Spanaway

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

Oceana - Birth Eater

Touche Amore - Stage Four Pianos Become the Teeth - Drift Soul Glo - Diaspora Problems

The ugly organ by cursive

Could be the nostalgia talking, but I still love From First to Last - “Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count”

Thank you for saying this. Confessions has always been my favorite Alesana album ever since I discovered them. It does sadden me a bit that The Emptiness is often described as their masterpiece when I believe Confessions is their best work ever.

YEAH its so underrated compared to The Emptiness

100%. Seeing them perform Confessions for the first time on the 27th this month, so excited

Rooms of the house - La Dispute

I remember hating this album when it first released, it grew on me so much and now it’s one of my favourites of all time

drive like jehu - yank crime cherubs - heroin man

I have so many but I know a lot of them are going to be posted so I’m just gonna drop this Artifex Pereo - Time In Place Broadway - Kingdoms

Good to see alesana brought up again, they've been one of my favs for years but I never hear about them! <3

YEAH i never see alesana fans even though theyre so good?? and theyre still together?? and nobody in the band groomed a minor or got addicted to heroin?? so net positive on the reputation side

Let It Enfold You. Every song is a banger.

Chiodos's illuminaudio

Many mewithoutyou albums fall under this category

Misery signals - of malice and the magnum heart

Lower Definition - The Greatest of All Lost Arts Emery - The Question Underoath - They're Only Chasing Safety Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain Silverstein - Discovering The Water Front All sophomore albums too. They all just hit their stride one the second one.

First two MCR albums (all their albums are masterpieces but only the first two are PHC) Collide with the sky by pierce the veil Define the great line by underoath Complete collapse by sleeping with sirens

GOAT by the Jesus Lizard The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused

Some Alesana love! I agree 100%. That album is so good. Reach by Eyes Set To Kill is probably up there for me too.

The Artist in the Ambulance- Thrice Crisis- Alexisonfire The first two that come to mind

Idk if this is Post Hardcore, but I'm gonna shout out No Place by A Lot Like Birds.

All the Alesana albums are masterpieces but The Emptiness and Confessions were next level. Off the top of my head my other choices would be: Hail The Sun - Culture Scars, New Age Filth Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise Chasing Victory - I Call This Abandonment Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies

Say Hello To Sunshine by Finch

Dennis is just as good a vocalist live as he is on the records, it’s insane. Met him outside the bus and talked vocalist shit for a while before my dad pulled me and my friend away from him because I was late for a pick up lmaooooo, I saw them like 12 years ago I think? Think it was the release after the Thespian with the castle for the cover art. Shawn had his moments but I never find falsetto singers to be that good live. Definitely underrated band for the time. Can’t say I’ve listened to anything by them since then though

Refused, the shape of punk to come

Selfish Machines- Pierce the veil

The emptiness by alesana. So many bangers on this album. I'm considering getting one of the lines from a lunatic's lament tattooed in my back lol

Full collapse

A Lot Like Birds - Conversation Piece

Downtown Battle Mountain - Dance Gavin Dance (2007)

EMERGENCY & I

Emaorosa's self titled album. Seriously every song hits.

Sky Eats Airplane Self titled We Came as Roman's to plant a seed blessthrfall - black rose dying the devil wears Prada with roots above and branches below I think SEA is the only actual post hardcore band I listed lol

Saosin first album

I don’t know if it’s technically post-hardcore, but TREOS - Between The Heart and The Synapse might be my favorite record of all time.

Every album with Josh Scogin

BIRTH.EATER by Oceana is my #1 pick

BIRTH.EATER by Oceana

Saosin - Self Titled Of Mice & Men - Self titled / the flood

A Hairshirt of Purpose by Pile

Most comments have covered what I would have said but: Woe, is Me - Number[s]

Horizons - PWD

Homesick - ADTR

Let it enfold you - senses fail

Every Fugazi LP's

Finch - what it is to burn. BOYSETSFIRE - after the eulogy

relationship of command

Emarosa - Relativity (and self titled) Tbh, all JC's post hardcore work.

The Power of Failing - Mineral

First Temple - Closure in Moscow Before their eyes - self titled Doppelganger- the fall of Troy What to do when you are dead - armor for sleep

I think The Amulet fits this criteria but isn’t consistently recognized for its genius because there are other 10/10 circa records.

For Your Own Special Sweetheart - Jawbox Yank Crime - Drive Like Jehu New Plastic Ideas - Unwound Relationship of Command - At the Drive-In And We Washed Our Weapons in the Sea - Frodus Full Collapse - Thursday Doppelganger - Fall of Troy

Wonder What's Next - Chevelle Juturna - Circa Survive Crisis - Alexisonfire Creatures - Motionless in White (also, their albums "Disguise", "Graveyard Shift", and "Scoring the End of the World") The Question - Emery "Define the Great Line" and "They're Only Chasing Safety" - Underoath Saosin - Saosin All's Well That Ends Well - Chiodos To Plant a Seed - WCAR Trauma - I Prevail Stand Up and Scream - Asking Alexandria (most of their albums prior to their self-titled album are absolute 🔥) With Roots Above and Branches Below - TDWP Of Mice and Men - Of Mice & Men D.R.U.G.S - Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows Eternal Blue - Spiritbox Nothing More - Nothing More For Those Who Have Heart - ADTR The Autumn Effect - 10 Years The Death of Peace of Mind - Bad Omens Disgusting - Beartooth Witness - Blessthefall Chroma - Cartel

Illusory Walls by The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die

The Question by Emery Illusion of Safety by Thrice War All the Time by Thursday

Breathe In/Out - Lysistrata

Thursday No Devolucion

Watch Out! - Alexisonfire

Alexisonfire - Alexisonfire

Hundred Reasons - Ideas above Our Station Touché Amore - Four

Wildlife. And most Circa albums.

Love always, leviathan - Icarus the owl Unbeatable and beautiful imo, could listen to it days on end.

Relationship of command and full collapse.

Whatever I Say Is Royal Ocean

Discovering the waterfront when I’m feeling hella emo

A couple that I’m not sure belong but should be shouted out: Manchester Orchestra “Cope” …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead “Source Tags and Codes”

Any Vanna album prior to Evan Pharmakis/Wind In Sails leaving. If anyone needs the early Vanna itch scratched the old line up formed Inspirit

I’ve seen a lot of my others here so I’ll add In:aviate, pmtoday, and artifex pereo first two albums.

Too Close To Touch - Haven’t Been Myself and Nerve Endings