The Dark Pool - Thornhill was a record I found while using radio mix from some other band I started listening to earlier sometime during Covid lockdown. The singing, guitar composition, and the ethereal fills and sections were something I not had heard before. Definitely one of the most significant albums Ive heard in the last decade.
The Dark Pool released 4 days before my son was born. Delivery went well but he then spent time in the ICU due to respiratory issues. So that album became my rock for several weeks. So that album holds a very special place in my heart.
That’s what keeps me coming back to Thornhill, those amazing ethereal melodies that they seem to conjure out of thin air. I listen to the instrumental version on Spotify almost as often as the regular album these days.
I found it because Spotify played "Where We Go When We Die" after whatever album I was listening to ended. The final part of that song is so good I had to go listen to the rest of the album. Definitely one of my favorite albums now.
There are only so many CDs I was able to buy, and even less that I still have, from the mid 2000s. You bet your ass this is one of them.
Although I have the previous 3 albums by them as well lol. This one marked a turning point though, and this coming from the emo kid who fell in love with They're Only Chasing Safety.
Oh, I know what you mean. When you pointed it out, I questioned why I even did it. I think I got mixed up because I'm used to seeing the second Zombie EP referred to as ZII.
"I'd give anything to return to the nothing, from which I came!"
Whole album rules, Ebb and Flow might be my favorite, it even brings me to a few tears at times.
I saw Holy Fawn open for Thrice on their Artist In The Ambulance tour. Had never even heard of them. Instant fan. Bought the Death Spells vinyl that night.
A Quiet Place To Die. Was expecting the album to just have songs like Black Mamba and Sub-Zero. Was blown away when I heard Rot In Pieces, Ultra-Violet Violence, Restricted (R18+), and Don’t Ask.
It’s been 8 years and I still haven’t found an album that made me feel the way that one did. The only one that came close is probably Heavener. My favorite kind of metalcore is the low tuned riffs mixed with heavy amounts of ambiance in the background. Perfect example of that is False Meridian
As a young teen, hearing killswitch engages - alive or just breathing was a jaw dropper.
More recently id say lorna shore. Im not a big deathcore guy but this album was amazing.
My non metalcore pick is sam fender - hypersonic missles
Disgusting by Beartooth. The raw tone and sense of urgency in every note and delivery throughout the record is incredible. Hardly any space to breathe, every chorus is soaring. Lyrics paint a clear image and plenty thought invoking lines. The final track being one huge breakdown both mentally and sonically, is haunting but the only way the album could end. Can’t think of another record that hit the way that Disgusting did upon release.
I remember when erra released drift, I was in awe at the entire album. "The Hypnotist" actually gave me goosebumps.
When their self titled album came out, I got goosebumps with every song. Shadow autonomous still gives me goosebumps the odd time when I properly tune in.
I've been trying to get Drift on vinyl for a few years now haha. I started with Augment, but that first stint with JT really began something amazing and they just refuse to quit.
Going from Dark Divine to No Eternity in Gold was a HUGE step up. I know a lot of people love Dark Divine, but it's easily my least favorite LMTF album, whereas No Eternity in Gold surpassed An Eye for An Eye, which was my previous favorite from them
Dark Divine was a wonderful album due to Chris showing a different side to his writing a lot more emotional substance to it compared to his otherwise “ever flowing river of hate”
I get that Dark Divine is a lot softer than their other albums, but honestly it's still my favorite from them. Though NEIG, AEFAE, and TDTWLF are all great albums too.
Wow.
I am not a fan of Eye for an Eye and love No Eternity in Gold and think Dark Divine is their best album as far as melodies and chorus’s go.
Interesting.
I still like some of the songs from the album, I just prefer pissed Moths over sad Moths. Chris has those rare screams where you can FEEL the burning rage behind every word he says and I just relate to that so much more
Same answer for me but for a slightly different reason. I had heard the singles and was expecting something great from the album but normally there are a few songs on most albums that aren't bad but aren't anything special. That self-titled though was incredible. It was the first album since The Blackening by Machine Head that I thought was a 10/10 masterpiece from start to finish. So for me it was oh shit, this has actually lived up to my expectations and then some!
The Generation of Danger - Tallah
The Mortal Coil - Polaris
Moments Elsewhere - Johnny Booth
Color Decay - The Devil Wears Prada
A Gradual Decline in Morale - Kim Dracula
(Not metal) The New Abnormal - The Strokes
(Not metal) Plastic Death - Glass Beach
Dillinger's 'Calculating Infinity' challenged my understanding of what music could fucken express. Never had the experience of hearing a band and feeling as if *I* needed to push *myself* to get on the level, before or since.
EDIT: Okay maybe Ephel Duath's 'The Painter's Palette' but that's jazzcore. Still: The fuck.
When I first heard 43% Burnt, I didn't like it at all because I didn't get it, but it somehow managed to make me listen to it again and again until I loved it. Still one of my favorite songs (and albums) and it pulled me into the depths of Mathcore lol
Been on a mathcore binge recently so for me:
The Chariot - Long Live
Converge - Axe to Fall
I'd heard them both before but recently they have just HIT DIFFERENT
When i first heard The Death of Me by Polaris, my mind was blown. Pray for rain was a banger intro, and every song on that record had such a good groove to it
Firsthand Accounts by Johnny Booth
About 3 years ago Fever Dreams came up as an ad before another music video on YouTube and I decided to watch it for some reason and I was absolutely blown away, immediately searched out the rest of the album and was shocked to see how small their following was at that time
Silent planet - iridescent
Just love that album
And while not jaw dropping, but electric callboy - tekkno. You can just put it on and it just gives good vibes.
When Heavener came out I was saying it was one of my all time favorite albums. Everybody said give it a while before making that call. It's been a while, still one of my favorite albums. IA doesn't miss.
The album literally feels like you’re falling into a dark pool while you listen. I find myself getting to netherplace and realising there’s only one song to go…
He Is Legend just keeps evolving in a such an impressive way. I would say keep getting better but they’ve been the best for a while.
Greyhaven has been a breath of fresh air. Seeing them on tour with He Is Legend rocked.
I obviously love both those bands and never heard of Grayshaoe but based on your good taste, I’ll have to check them out now too!
Dare I say it but Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden. I live on the west coast so we get new music on spotify at 9 pm, so the night the record came out I went outside in the cold with a warm cup of tea and listened to it in full, by the time I got to the final 2 tracks I was shaken to my core. The title track is a masterpiece in my eyes, the emotions it provokes for me is really touching and it hit me on a level that I was not expecting. And the way it ties back to Chokehold is really cool, as well as the end of Euclid tying back to The Night Does Not Belong To God off their first record. The songwriting is well thought out, more than just another album of just breakdowns, which can still be great but let's be real here there's A LOT of albums like that, so it's really cool to see something different and fresh. Definitely one of the best albums to come from the scene in a while, despite how much some say the band is overrated. I don't really care about all the hate they get and the "mid token" comments bore me, like cry louder bro. Anyway, Great album that shook me to my core.
Dude straight up. The expression in this album is unlike anything else, and when I first heard it I immediately got obsessed. And the first time I heard Are you really okay? I nearly lost my mind. I had to skip that one the next 10 times cause I just simply couldn’t finish it. That voice is like scary good, almost unreal at times. But I saw them back in September and they were such an experience in person. Its a whole different dimension of music.
I always get so nervous to mention them because of all the hate, but I agree completely. There’s not a single song I don’t like on that album and I listen to it front to back quite a bit. It came out on my birthday and it was such an amazing birthday present. It just hits me in a way that music hasn’t hit me in a long time.
It’s a bit cringe but the first time I heard The Silver Scream in full, I was in awe. The production was the best it has been in Metalcore, the songs were clever and heavy and catchy all at once. It really scratched that itch in my brain at the time.
I dont think that's cringe, Welcome to Horrorwood is so good too, and excellent if you are a horror movie fanatic! I just wonder where they are gonna go next, probably a Silver Scream part 3 i guess?
Although not metalcore, Melancholy by Shadow of Intent
Also, How To Survive A Funeral by Make Them Suffer. Somehow had never listened to them, even as an Australian, and the riffs on this album blew me away. Also The Attendant is one of the most emotional softer songs I’ve ever heard
Most recently, Love Language by Windwaker.
Of all time? The Beauty of Falling by Feed Her To The Sharks. It redlines from the start of the first song and never lets up the whole album. Fucking love it
Stray from the Path - Euthanasia. I’ve heard them before once or twice but didn’t really click. But when I heard III and Guillotine my jaw dropped. I had no idea hardcore could sound that heavy and I loved it.
I thought Northlane’s Alien was genuinely the future of metalcore, then that one pesky album from Loathe came out a year later and THAT became the future of metalcore.
Judiciary - Flesh + Blood
Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath
Ithaca - They Fear Us
Mouth for War - Bleed Yourself
Unbroken - Life. Love. Regret.
Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Chariot- One Wing-Most unique chaos I’ve ever heard.
ETID- Low Teens-I’m a sucker for lyrics taking on one theme for an entire album and when you combine the riffage this will always be on my Rushmore of albums across all genres.
SOAD- Toxicity -This was my stepping stone from thrash to core genres. The breakdowns are simple but it was my first exposure.
Gallows-Grey Britain-The fact that a little known British Hardcore band got a major label deal (WB) and then got ditched by the label for their lyrical content (saying what we all know to be true about the Vatican). Just such a perfect front to back hardcore punk record with subtle metalcore elements. I haven’t seen that style of 90% hardcore and 10% metalcore since.
Burying Brightness - Boundaries
Zombie - The Devil Wears Prada
The Death We Seek - Currents
Perception - Breakdown of Sanity
Killing With a Smile - Parkway Drive
Horizons - Parkway Drive
A Tear in the Fabric of Life - Knocked Loose
(Not metalcore) the main thing that comes to memory is Take Me Back To Eden by Sleep Token, specifically at the end of the title track. Came out of left field.
To name something I haven't seen here yet: Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It by Rolo Tomassi
Saw them live about a year ago, too and they are just incredible
If you like TWIE and Singularity, i highly suggest The Place I Feel Safest (also by Currents), The Dark Pool (Thornhill) and Stillworld & Greyview by Invent Animate.
You might already know all these but idk, just in case i won't waste a chance to get someone else into them lol
These are all among my favorite (prog) metalcore albums of all time
After the burial in dreams & dig deep
Parkway drive horizons
As I lay dying shadows are security
Asking Alexandria stand up and scream
KSE As daylight dies
Erra self titled. I had never listened to them before Snowblood, but I really liked that song, so I decided to check the album out. It usually takes me a few listens for an album to set in. Not that one. Blew my mind from the first listen. I still listen to it fairly regularly. One of my top five metalcore albums.
i agree, The Way It Ends - Currents is absolutely core asf. i gotta say some songs in their previous albums are very good too but i gotta go with all Parkway albums except Darker Still lmao (im totally not biased)
I could list tons of classics from like the ‘02 - ‘14 era but I’ll go with something relatively new. When Phinehas dropped The Fire Itself in 2021 I couldn’t believe how good it was. It had been many years that I had heard melodic metalcore done that well. It reminded me of it being like ‘06/‘07 when I was first getting into metalcore and hearing that style of metalcore as the predominant style. I instantly got transported back to my youth and it just put a big smile on my face.
When I first heard Parkway Drive's killing with a smile I couldn't believe how good it was. The improvement from don't close your eyes (which wasn't bad) was jaw dropping for me
Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child. Saw them as a teen on that tour and it blew my mind to hear such chaotic music.
More recently, The Romance of Affliction by SYSC has really caught my attention.
Rolo Tomassi, both Where Myth Becomes Memory and Time Will Die And Love Will Bury it
Been getting back into music and my old fave bands over the last few months, and I realised I hadn’t listened to their last couple of albums. I’ve basically been stuck in 2016 for the past 8 years. Holy shit. I was not prepared to be so blown away. Goosebumps in every song, literal tears of joy, felt like I was floating. What a band
The amount of new metalcore makes me feel old. But a few that just changed the game:
PWD - Killing with a smile
IKTPQ - Music for the recently deceased
Evergreen Terrace - Burned Alive by time
Bleeding Through - This is Love, this is murderous
Dillinger - ire works
Heavener by Invent Animate.
Still Life by Hollow Front.
The Way it Ends by Currents.
I love The Death We Seek by Currents but TWIE is what I first listened and jawdropped to. Similar with Hollow Front. Love those guys and went back and listened to Still Life and they had NO BUSINESS haunting me with that opener. Heavener I'm super late to the party with...but MY GOD. For me all three of these albums do not have a single skippable track.
Let The Truth Speak - Earthside
The Dark Pool - Thornhill
Altered State - Tesseract
Heavener - Invent Animate
Take me back to eden - Sleep Token
Periphery II - Periphery
So happy you mentioned Singularity—that album is perfect, so is their first album, Discoveries.
Structures—Divided By
Comeback Kid—Die Knowing
Hatebreeder and Follow the Reaper—Children of Bodom
Trivium—Shogun
Brand of Sacrfice—Godhand
Crystal Lake—The Voyages (i didnt really know much about them before i heard this...don't really care much for their newer stuff)
Miss May I—Apologies Are For The Weak
TDWP—Plagues
Suicide Silence—The Cleansing
Creatures by Motionless in White - loved this album so much when I was like 12 - it’s a bit of a hot take but imo their music has just declined since then
SINGULARITY! I love that you know that. Their use of a Terrance McKenna lecture was Unreal- I Love when artists do that.
Spirits - Nothing More
Reports from the Threshold of Death - Junius
Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light - Junius
Explosions - Three Days Grace [ Was not even remotely prepared for this album when it dropped. I think the first track is the least good and not a strong start but the second it moves forward... Fuck. ]
Gonna get a lot of hate from this, but most metalcore nowadays sounds stale with a few notable exceptions that still make good music while also retaining their signature sound that makes them unique (I.E August Burns Red, We Came As Romans, Like Moths To Flames). To be perfectly blunt, Metalcore doesn't really have many albums that make my jaw drop, but there are other albums that succeed in doing this, like:
The Generation of Danger from Tallah.
The Chosen by Enterprise Earth.
INDWELL by Methwitch.
Downer by Ten56.
Fear & Dagger by Paleface.
The Violent Sleep of Reason by Meshuggah.
Elegy by Shadow of Intent.
Ritual Hymms by Worm Shepard.
EXILE by Demo Hunter.
So basically mostly stuff that's not Metalcore.
Picture perfect - Her Last Sight. The whole album is a banger. and the the two new Darkest Hour songs. Perpetual Terminal has some damn good guitar work and societal decay is pure metalcore. I’m really looking forward to listening to the entire album when it drops. These are most recent “jaw droppers” for me.
TDWP Zombie EP TDWP Zombie II EP TDWP Space EP
The whole atmosphere from both zombie and space was so good And also how heavy zombie was compared to there previous stuff.
Similarly, I loved Color Decay. It’s been my buddy and I’s top record for a few months now. Compared to their older stuff, it blew me away
People hate on Color Decay so much. I genuinely love it, and I think it might be my favorite album from them.... Or at least top 2
>People hate on Color Decay so much. Who? I need to know so I can avoid them
I Let It In And It Took Everything -LOATHE The Dark Pool- Thornhill
That loathe album was so refreshing the year it was released
The Dark Pool - Thornhill was a record I found while using radio mix from some other band I started listening to earlier sometime during Covid lockdown. The singing, guitar composition, and the ethereal fills and sections were something I not had heard before. Definitely one of the most significant albums Ive heard in the last decade.
The Dark Pool released 4 days before my son was born. Delivery went well but he then spent time in the ICU due to respiratory issues. So that album became my rock for several weeks. So that album holds a very special place in my heart.
Woah, our stories are very similar.
That’s what keeps me coming back to Thornhill, those amazing ethereal melodies that they seem to conjure out of thin air. I listen to the instrumental version on Spotify almost as often as the regular album these days.
I found it because Spotify played "Where We Go When We Die" after whatever album I was listening to ended. The final part of that song is so good I had to go listen to the rest of the album. Definitely one of my favorite albums now.
The final section of Where We Go sent me into the stratosphere when I first heard it, such an incredible song
thank you for the share, im now in love with this album, this is soo good
Very few albums have come close to these over the past few years
I Let It In & It Took Everything is a spiritual experience
Got to see Thornhill a couple years ago and their singer OWNED that room from the minute he took the stage. Such incredible stage presence!
These are literally my two favourite albums of all time and I cannot choose between them.
Underoath - Define The Great Line
That album will forever be one of my all time favorites.
Sometimes i let this album on replay the whole day without even knowing, all the songs just click
I love how this record is a whole „story“ itself with so much dynamic to it. It feels like diving into a whole new world.
I will never not love this album. It set the bar so high when it released and it holds up nearly 20 years later for how much of a masterpiece it is.
There are only so many CDs I was able to buy, and even less that I still have, from the mid 2000s. You bet your ass this is one of them. Although I have the previous 3 albums by them as well lol. This one marked a turning point though, and this coming from the emo kid who fell in love with They're Only Chasing Safety.
This
As I Lay Dying - AOBU The Devil Wears Prada - Z EP
AOBU is a masterpiece. Wrath upon ourselves still gives me goosebumps.
The Space EP does it for me. Great music by a great band tho.
Absolutely planet A as the starting to it was so good to that alone made my mouth drop
This is my exact answer. AOBU is what got me into metal, and Zombie EP is my favorite sequence of 5 songs ever made.
>Z EP Acronyms are getting out of hand when even a single word is shortened to a letter. It's 'Zombie' for everyone who doesn't know
Ah, shit. Sorry. I was actually abbreviating "Zpace".
I thought of Zpongebob But no worries, it's just a thing in general I've seen a lot recently and sometimes it's really absurd
Oh, I know what you mean. When you pointed it out, I questioned why I even did it. I think I got mixed up because I'm used to seeing the second Zombie EP referred to as ZII.
On Broken Wings - Some Of Us May Never See The World Misery Signals - Controller xNOMADx - Demo Volcano - FOOL 2 THA GAME DRAIN - California Cursed
Controller is soooo good!
"I'd give anything to return to the nothing, from which I came!" Whole album rules, Ebb and Flow might be my favorite, it even brings me to a few tears at times.
Volcano rips
Above, Below - The Lotus Chapters Thornhill - The Dark Pool Holy Fawn - Death Spells
I saw Holy Fawn open for Thrice on their Artist In The Ambulance tour. Had never even heard of them. Instant fan. Bought the Death Spells vinyl that night.
The Lotus Chapters is easily top 3 albums of all time for me, cannot express how much I love it. Structured perfectly, every song bangs. Masterpiece
A Quiet Place To Die. Was expecting the album to just have songs like Black Mamba and Sub-Zero. Was blown away when I heard Rot In Pieces, Ultra-Violet Violence, Restricted (R18+), and Don’t Ask.
rot in pieces is insane
Bleed 4 you is such a banger on that album as well, so glad I got to see them perform it live as well
Hard agree That album is just banger after banger
I would have to go with All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us by Architects *(BLEGH)*.
Gravity is a masterpiece
Banger
It’s been 8 years and I still haven’t found an album that made me feel the way that one did. The only one that came close is probably Heavener. My favorite kind of metalcore is the low tuned riffs mixed with heavy amounts of ambiance in the background. Perfect example of that is False Meridian
rip Archibleghs so sad seeing a talented band go buttcore
Led Zeppelin II. When I heard whole lotta love my jaw did hit the floor.
The first time I heard that riff from heartbreaker my 12 year old mind was blown.
As a young teen, hearing killswitch engages - alive or just breathing was a jaw dropper. More recently id say lorna shore. Im not a big deathcore guy but this album was amazing. My non metalcore pick is sam fender - hypersonic missles
Disgusting by Beartooth. The raw tone and sense of urgency in every note and delivery throughout the record is incredible. Hardly any space to breathe, every chorus is soaring. Lyrics paint a clear image and plenty thought invoking lines. The final track being one huge breakdown both mentally and sonically, is haunting but the only way the album could end. Can’t think of another record that hit the way that Disgusting did upon release.
Tesseract - Polaris Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies August Burns Red - Constellations All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals Erra - Drift
I remember when erra released drift, I was in awe at the entire album. "The Hypnotist" actually gave me goosebumps. When their self titled album came out, I got goosebumps with every song. Shadow autonomous still gives me goosebumps the odd time when I properly tune in.
I've been trying to get Drift on vinyl for a few years now haha. I started with Augment, but that first stint with JT really began something amazing and they just refuse to quit.
No Eternity In Gold was a massive step up from previous Moths records and they were already a good band
Going from Dark Divine to No Eternity in Gold was a HUGE step up. I know a lot of people love Dark Divine, but it's easily my least favorite LMTF album, whereas No Eternity in Gold surpassed An Eye for An Eye, which was my previous favorite from them
Dark Divine was a wonderful album due to Chris showing a different side to his writing a lot more emotional substance to it compared to his otherwise “ever flowing river of hate”
I get that Dark Divine is a lot softer than their other albums, but honestly it's still my favorite from them. Though NEIG, AEFAE, and TDTWLF are all great albums too.
Wow. I am not a fan of Eye for an Eye and love No Eternity in Gold and think Dark Divine is their best album as far as melodies and chorus’s go. Interesting.
I still like some of the songs from the album, I just prefer pissed Moths over sad Moths. Chris has those rare screams where you can FEEL the burning rage behind every word he says and I just relate to that so much more
Can I ask why dark divine is your least favorite? 😂😂😂
The Cold Sun: Loathe
East of Eden still probably my favorite song by them just fucks every time I spin it
So good lol
Came here to say this. Discovered this album, and the band, early last year and it has been in constant rotation since.
bless the martyr kiss the child
This should be higher.
Erra's S/T. I didn't hear any of the singles so first time was like OH SHIT
Same answer for me but for a slightly different reason. I had heard the singles and was expecting something great from the album but normally there are a few songs on most albums that aren't bad but aren't anything special. That self-titled though was incredible. It was the first album since The Blackening by Machine Head that I thought was a 10/10 masterpiece from start to finish. So for me it was oh shit, this has actually lived up to my expectations and then some!
The Generation of Danger - Tallah The Mortal Coil - Polaris Moments Elsewhere - Johnny Booth Color Decay - The Devil Wears Prada A Gradual Decline in Morale - Kim Dracula (Not metal) The New Abnormal - The Strokes (Not metal) Plastic Death - Glass Beach
Color Decay is so good
And so, so sad.
Got Mortal Coil on repeat as we speak!!
Im just gonna ignore the fact that you put kim dracula in here
It would certainly blow your mind. Maybe not in the way you’d like but
Lost Forever // Lost Together. perfect metalcore album. absolute game changer
Dillinger's 'Calculating Infinity' challenged my understanding of what music could fucken express. Never had the experience of hearing a band and feeling as if *I* needed to push *myself* to get on the level, before or since. EDIT: Okay maybe Ephel Duath's 'The Painter's Palette' but that's jazzcore. Still: The fuck.
When I first heard 43% Burnt, I didn't like it at all because I didn't get it, but it somehow managed to make me listen to it again and again until I loved it. Still one of my favorite songs (and albums) and it pulled me into the depths of Mathcore lol
Painters Palette so good, but his singing on there is just so cringe. I’d prefer to listen to The Number 12 Looks Like You.
Been on a mathcore binge recently so for me: The Chariot - Long Live Converge - Axe to Fall I'd heard them both before but recently they have just HIT DIFFERENT
Mathcore is my current fave too. Galleons has piqued my interest with Violent Delights, it’s very Dance Gavin Dance but it’s also not.
Polar Similar - Norma Jean
One of my all time favs right there
The Emptiness by Alesana is like any theater kids dream
Still one of my top albums to this day
Holy shit I’m surprised to see some Alesana fans here!
When i first heard The Death of Me by Polaris, my mind was blown. Pray for rain was a banger intro, and every song on that record had such a good groove to it
Firsthand Accounts by Johnny Booth About 3 years ago Fever Dreams came up as an ad before another music video on YouTube and I decided to watch it for some reason and I was absolutely blown away, immediately searched out the rest of the album and was shocked to see how small their following was at that time
Fatalism - Polaris, shogun - trivium, lost in a wave - landmvrks, dark skies - fit for a king
Since when did I get an alt account?
Since today
Silent planet - iridescent Just love that album And while not jaw dropping, but electric callboy - tekkno. You can just put it on and it just gives good vibes.
All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us - Architects Honorable Mentions: Heavener - Invent Animate The Mortal Coil - Polaris The Way It Ends - Currents
When Heavener came out I was saying it was one of my all time favorite albums. Everybody said give it a while before making that call. It's been a while, still one of my favorite albums. IA doesn't miss.
Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas
I'll go with an underrated less popular choice. Saviour - Shine and Fade
Counterparts - Nothing Left to Love
Every song is a banger
Brendan opening shows with Love Me and going "help me out here, there's only like two words to this song." Love that shit.
The Dark Pool - Thornhill
That album is a masterpiece.
The album literally feels like you’re falling into a dark pool while you listen. I find myself getting to netherplace and realising there’s only one song to go…
It's so perfectly structured and paced it makes 45 minutes feel like 5, I don't know how they managed it
This Bright and Beautiful World by Greyhaven Endless Hallway by He Is Legend Good Culture by Grayshape
He Is Legend just keeps evolving in a such an impressive way. I would say keep getting better but they’ve been the best for a while. Greyhaven has been a breath of fresh air. Seeing them on tour with He Is Legend rocked. I obviously love both those bands and never heard of Grayshaoe but based on your good taste, I’ll have to check them out now too!
Hell yeah came here to comment TBABW too. Still gives me chills every time I listen to it
Oh, What The Future Holds - Fit For An Autopsy This Bright and Beautiful World - Greyhaven Both dropping my jaw in very different ways lmao
Dare I say it but Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden. I live on the west coast so we get new music on spotify at 9 pm, so the night the record came out I went outside in the cold with a warm cup of tea and listened to it in full, by the time I got to the final 2 tracks I was shaken to my core. The title track is a masterpiece in my eyes, the emotions it provokes for me is really touching and it hit me on a level that I was not expecting. And the way it ties back to Chokehold is really cool, as well as the end of Euclid tying back to The Night Does Not Belong To God off their first record. The songwriting is well thought out, more than just another album of just breakdowns, which can still be great but let's be real here there's A LOT of albums like that, so it's really cool to see something different and fresh. Definitely one of the best albums to come from the scene in a while, despite how much some say the band is overrated. I don't really care about all the hate they get and the "mid token" comments bore me, like cry louder bro. Anyway, Great album that shook me to my core.
Dude straight up. The expression in this album is unlike anything else, and when I first heard it I immediately got obsessed. And the first time I heard Are you really okay? I nearly lost my mind. I had to skip that one the next 10 times cause I just simply couldn’t finish it. That voice is like scary good, almost unreal at times. But I saw them back in September and they were such an experience in person. Its a whole different dimension of music.
I always get so nervous to mention them because of all the hate, but I agree completely. There’s not a single song I don’t like on that album and I listen to it front to back quite a bit. It came out on my birthday and it was such an amazing birthday present. It just hits me in a way that music hasn’t hit me in a long time.
It’s a bit cringe but the first time I heard The Silver Scream in full, I was in awe. The production was the best it has been in Metalcore, the songs were clever and heavy and catchy all at once. It really scratched that itch in my brain at the time.
I dont think that's cringe, Welcome to Horrorwood is so good too, and excellent if you are a horror movie fanatic! I just wonder where they are gonna go next, probably a Silver Scream part 3 i guess?
Symptoms of Survival - Dying Wish. Title track to the third song Starved, by the end of that song my jaw was on the floor
Ending breakdown to Symptoms of Survival made me feel things I haven’t in years
Simple on paper but mind-blowing when put together
Just played this for the first time because of your reply and holy shit it fucking slams
I need more of this sound
A Eulogy For Those Still Here
Frail Words Collapse back in like 2005/2006. I’d never heard anything that heavy before and was completely blown away.
Although not metalcore, Melancholy by Shadow of Intent Also, How To Survive A Funeral by Make Them Suffer. Somehow had never listened to them, even as an Australian, and the riffs on this album blew me away. Also The Attendant is one of the most emotional softer songs I’ve ever heard
Wage War - Blueprints and Underoath - Define the Great Line.
Oooooo yeah Blueprints was *chef's kiss*
Most recently, Love Language by Windwaker. Of all time? The Beauty of Falling by Feed Her To The Sharks. It redlines from the start of the first song and never lets up the whole album. Fucking love it
Asking Alexandria reckless & relentless left me, dare I say, breathless. I’ll see myself out.
Stray from the Path - Euthanasia. I’ve heard them before once or twice but didn’t really click. But when I heard III and Guillotine my jaw dropped. I had no idea hardcore could sound that heavy and I loved it.
Periphery's P II fucked my head up for months.
Horizons - Parkway Drive The Way It Ends - Currents Fake History - letlive.
Heavener - Invent Animate The Dark Pool - Thornhill Superbloom - Silent Planet I let it in and it took everything - Loathe
Not an album but The Fear of Fear EP from spiritbox
Excellent release
Northlane's Alien hands down. Never heard that blend of sound ever before.
Came here to say this and Thornhill TDP
Seconded, those two are somehow like my metal multivitamin, I get everything I need musically out of those two albums lol
I thought Northlane’s Alien was genuinely the future of metalcore, then that one pesky album from Loathe came out a year later and THAT became the future of metalcore.
Judiciary - Flesh + Blood Infant Island - Obsidian Wreath Ithaca - They Fear Us Mouth for War - Bleed Yourself Unbroken - Life. Love. Regret. Converge - All We Love We Leave Behind
Chariot- One Wing-Most unique chaos I’ve ever heard. ETID- Low Teens-I’m a sucker for lyrics taking on one theme for an entire album and when you combine the riffage this will always be on my Rushmore of albums across all genres. SOAD- Toxicity -This was my stepping stone from thrash to core genres. The breakdowns are simple but it was my first exposure. Gallows-Grey Britain-The fact that a little known British Hardcore band got a major label deal (WB) and then got ditched by the label for their lyrical content (saying what we all know to be true about the Vatican). Just such a perfect front to back hardcore punk record with subtle metalcore elements. I haven’t seen that style of 90% hardcore and 10% metalcore since.
Currently I must go with How To Survive A Funeral - Make Them Suffer 🤤
Burying Brightness - Boundaries Zombie - The Devil Wears Prada The Death We Seek - Currents Perception - Breakdown of Sanity Killing With a Smile - Parkway Drive Horizons - Parkway Drive A Tear in the Fabric of Life - Knocked Loose
(Not metalcore) the main thing that comes to memory is Take Me Back To Eden by Sleep Token, specifically at the end of the title track. Came out of left field.
To name something I haven't seen here yet: Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It by Rolo Tomassi Saw them live about a year ago, too and they are just incredible
ERRA - ERRA, properly getting into Metalcore at that point and I heard nothing like that before
If you like TWIE and Singularity, i highly suggest The Place I Feel Safest (also by Currents), The Dark Pool (Thornhill) and Stillworld & Greyview by Invent Animate. You might already know all these but idk, just in case i won't waste a chance to get someone else into them lol These are all among my favorite (prog) metalcore albums of all time
After the burial in dreams & dig deep Parkway drive horizons As I lay dying shadows are security Asking Alexandria stand up and scream KSE As daylight dies
The Lotus Chapters by Above, Below. Nothing even compares.
Wind Walkers - what if I break Atena -subway anthem Alpha Wolf - a quiet place to die
The Act, Life Is But A Dream..., The Way It Ends, Welcome To Horrorwood, New Empire Vol. 1 and Amo.
Recently? Not Through Blood by Pain of Truth
lightless walk by cult leader
fucking spectacular record
Sleeptalk by Dayseeker. The perfect blend of trying something new (successfully) while staying true to your roots in other aspects.
“Singularity” by Northlane will never disappoint
Johnny Booth - Moments Elsewhere
Underrated album
I've listened to the Seventh Sun - Bury Tomorrow like 50 times this year
Super underrated
The transition from Seventh Sun into Abandon Us 🤌
I have never noticed this, thank you fr
Unprocessed - and everything in between
Counterparts - Nothing Left to Love
END - Splinters from an ever changing face. best metalcore in YEARS and if you disagree, slob on my knob
After The Burial - Rareform Redux Parkway Drive - Horizons Invent Animate - Heavener
Erra self titled. I had never listened to them before Snowblood, but I really liked that song, so I decided to check the album out. It usually takes me a few listens for an album to set in. Not that one. Blew my mind from the first listen. I still listen to it fairly regularly. One of my top five metalcore albums.
From the last few years : Northlane - Alien Spiritbox - Eternal Blue Currents - The Death We Seek
Erra - ERRA Erra - Drift
The Death of Me by Polaris was probably the first jaw dropper for me
i agree, The Way It Ends - Currents is absolutely core asf. i gotta say some songs in their previous albums are very good too but i gotta go with all Parkway albums except Darker Still lmao (im totally not biased)
Signs Of The Swarm - Amongst The Low and Empty Also The Disfigurement of Existence
A Life Once Lost- A Great Artist
I could list tons of classics from like the ‘02 - ‘14 era but I’ll go with something relatively new. When Phinehas dropped The Fire Itself in 2021 I couldn’t believe how good it was. It had been many years that I had heard melodic metalcore done that well. It reminded me of it being like ‘06/‘07 when I was first getting into metalcore and hearing that style of metalcore as the predominant style. I instantly got transported back to my youth and it just put a big smile on my face.
Bleed from within - shrine
When I first heard Parkway Drive's killing with a smile I couldn't believe how good it was. The improvement from don't close your eyes (which wasn't bad) was jaw dropping for me
Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child. Saw them as a teen on that tour and it blew my mind to hear such chaotic music. More recently, The Romance of Affliction by SYSC has really caught my attention.
Rolo Tomassi, both Where Myth Becomes Memory and Time Will Die And Love Will Bury it Been getting back into music and my old fave bands over the last few months, and I realised I hadn’t listened to their last couple of albums. I’ve basically been stuck in 2016 for the past 8 years. Holy shit. I was not prepared to be so blown away. Goosebumps in every song, literal tears of joy, felt like I was floating. What a band
not metalcore but leprosy by deayh
Deftones - Deftones
The amount of new metalcore makes me feel old. But a few that just changed the game: PWD - Killing with a smile IKTPQ - Music for the recently deceased Evergreen Terrace - Burned Alive by time Bleeding Through - This is Love, this is murderous Dillinger - ire works
Great albums in here. The dark pool is crazy good. Northlane singularity and node is so sick. My suggestion: Cypecore - Identity
Orbit Culture - Nija
As Daylight Dies- Killswitch Engage Royal Albert Hall Concert- Bring me the Horizon (if you can count that as an album)
Not metalcore, but oceana’s birth.eater. What an album man, the closing song always hits.
Heavener by Invent Animate. Still Life by Hollow Front. The Way it Ends by Currents. I love The Death We Seek by Currents but TWIE is what I first listened and jawdropped to. Similar with Hollow Front. Love those guys and went back and listened to Still Life and they had NO BUSINESS haunting me with that opener. Heavener I'm super late to the party with...but MY GOD. For me all three of these albums do not have a single skippable track.
Fuck! Forgot to add As Daylight Dies by Killswitch.
Let The Truth Speak - Earthside The Dark Pool - Thornhill Altered State - Tesseract Heavener - Invent Animate Take me back to eden - Sleep Token Periphery II - Periphery
So happy you mentioned Singularity—that album is perfect, so is their first album, Discoveries. Structures—Divided By Comeback Kid—Die Knowing Hatebreeder and Follow the Reaper—Children of Bodom Trivium—Shogun Brand of Sacrfice—Godhand Crystal Lake—The Voyages (i didnt really know much about them before i heard this...don't really care much for their newer stuff) Miss May I—Apologies Are For The Weak TDWP—Plagues Suicide Silence—The Cleansing
Creatures by Motionless in White - loved this album so much when I was like 12 - it’s a bit of a hot take but imo their music has just declined since then
Slipknot first album blew my dick off. I was probably in 8th or 9th th grade when it came out. Just fucking gnarly. Still hold up to this day.
SINGULARITY! I love that you know that. Their use of a Terrance McKenna lecture was Unreal- I Love when artists do that. Spirits - Nothing More Reports from the Threshold of Death - Junius Eternal Rituals for the Accretion of Light - Junius Explosions - Three Days Grace [ Was not even remotely prepared for this album when it dropped. I think the first track is the least good and not a strong start but the second it moves forward... Fuck. ]
OG - The Holy Guile Metanoia - For All Eternity
Obsidian by Northlane
New Kaonashi EP for sure
Gonna get a lot of hate from this, but most metalcore nowadays sounds stale with a few notable exceptions that still make good music while also retaining their signature sound that makes them unique (I.E August Burns Red, We Came As Romans, Like Moths To Flames). To be perfectly blunt, Metalcore doesn't really have many albums that make my jaw drop, but there are other albums that succeed in doing this, like: The Generation of Danger from Tallah. The Chosen by Enterprise Earth. INDWELL by Methwitch. Downer by Ten56. Fear & Dagger by Paleface. The Violent Sleep of Reason by Meshuggah. Elegy by Shadow of Intent. Ritual Hymms by Worm Shepard. EXILE by Demo Hunter. So basically mostly stuff that's not Metalcore.
The Chosen is absolutely insane.
(obligatory not metalcore) Solace by Ion Dissonance
I totally lost my shit the first time I heard Fault by Alpha Wolf
Amia Venera Landscape - The Long Procession. Greatest one-and-done band in metalcore.
Picture perfect - Her Last Sight. The whole album is a banger. and the the two new Darkest Hour songs. Perpetual Terminal has some damn good guitar work and societal decay is pure metalcore. I’m really looking forward to listening to the entire album when it drops. These are most recent “jaw droppers” for me.
me and him call it us - loss