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Metalcore (also known as metallic hardcore) is a fusion music genre that combines elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. As with other styles blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore, metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, slow, intense passages conducive to moshing. Other defining instrumental qualities include heavy riffs and stop-start rhythm guitar playing, occasional blast beats, and double bass drumming. Vocalists in the genre typically use thrash or scream vocals. Some later metalcore bands combine this with clean singing, often during the chorus. Death growls and gang vocals are common. 1990s metalcore bands were inspired by hardcore while later metalcore bands were inspired by melodic death metal bands like At the Gates and In Flames.

The roots of metalcore are in the 1980s when bands would combine hardcore punk with heavy metal. This included New York hardcore bands like Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, and Killing Time, British hardcore punk bands like the Exploited and Discharge, and American crossover thrash bands like Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Suicidal Tendencies. The genre emerged in the early 1990s and expanded in the mid–late 1990s. Metalcore bands like Integrity, Earth Crisis, Hatebreed, Converge, Shai Hulud, Vision of Disorder, Merauder, and Disembodied emerged and acquired underground success in the 1990s.

In the mid-2000s, metalcore became one of the most popular heavy metal subgenres with the success of bands like Bleeding Through, Avenged Sevenfold, Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed, Atreyu, Shadows Fall, As I Lay Dying, Unearth, Trivium, Bullet for My Valentine, and All That Remains. Metalcore's popularity continued in the 2010s with the success of bands like Asking Alexandria, August Burns Red, and the Devil Wears Prada. Metalcore subgenres like deathcore, easycore and electronicore also emerged in the 2000s decade. Other subgenres of metalcore include mathcore, nu metalcore, melodic metalcore and progressive metalcore.

Characteristics

Metalcore is known for its use of breakdowns, in which it was preceded by beatdown hardcore. Metalcore singers typically perform screaming, a vocal technique developed in the 1980s and characteristic of 1990s metalcore. Later metalcore bands often combine this with the use of standard singing, usually during the bridge or chorus of a song. The death growl technique is also popular.

The instrumentation of metalcore includes heavy guitar riffs often utilizing percussive pedal tones, stop-start rhythm guitar, double bass drumming, and breakdowns. Drop guitar tunings are often used. Most bands use tuning ranging between Drop D and A, although lower tunings, as well as 7 and 8 string guitars, are not uncommon. Drummers typically use a lot of double bass technique and general drumming styles across the board. Blast beats are also heard at times. According to author James Giordano, "tempos in metalcore tend to be slower than those found in thrash metal". Many later metalcore bands would include guitar solos in songs.

1990s metalcore bands generally had a strong influence from heavy hardcore. In the 2000s, metalcore bands began to be exclusively inspired by heavy metal. Many 2000s metalcore bands were heavily inspired by melodic death metal and used strong elements of melodic death metal in their music. Malcolm Dome of '' Revolver'' wrote that without melodic death metal band At the Gates' 1995 album ''Slaughter of the Soul'', "modern American metalcore (everyone from As I Lay Dying and Killswitch Engage to All That Remains and the Black Dahlia Murder) wouldn't even exist." Graham Hartmann of ''Loudwire'' wrote "Although metalcore broke in the early 2000s, listening to At the Gates' 1995 album feels like a Nostradamus-esque prediction of how metal would evolve."

History

Precursors (1980s)

Black Flag and Bad Brains, among the originators of hardcore punk, admired and emulated Black Sabbath. British hardcore punk groups such as Discharge and the Exploited also took inspiration from heavy metal. The Misfits put out the ''Earth A.D.'' album, becoming a crucial influence on thrash metal. Nonetheless, punk and metal cultures and music remained fairly separate through the first half of the 1980s. Cross-pollination between metal and hardcore eventually birthed the crossover thrash scene, which gestated at a Berkeley club called Ruthie's, in 1984. The term "metalcore" was originally used to refer to these crossover groups. Hardcore punk groups Corrosion of Conformity, D.R.I. and Suicidal TendenciesChriste, Ian: '' Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal'' (2003), p. 184. played alongside thrash metal groups like Metallica and Slayer. This scene influenced the skinhead wing of New York hardcore, which also began in 1984, and included groups such as Cro-Mags, Murphy's Law, Agnostic Front and Warzone. The Cro-Mags were among the most influential of these bands, drawing equally from Bad Brains, Motörhead and Black Sabbath. Cro-Mags also embraced some aspects of straight edge and Krishna consciousness. Another New York metal-influenced straight edge group of this time period is the Crumbsuckers. The year 1985 saw the development of the hardcore breakdown, an amalgamation of Bad Brains' reggae and metal backgrounds,Blush, p. 193. "Howie Abrams (NYHC scene): Mosh style was slower, very tribal – like a Reggae beat adapted to Hardcore. (...) It was an outbreak of dancing with a mid-tempo beat driven by floor tom and snare." which encouraged moshing. Agnostic Front's 1986 album '' Cause for Alarm'' showed a combination of hardcore punk with heavy metal influences.

Origins (1990s)

Between 1993 and 1995, a wave of metallic hardcore bands emerged, including Integrity, Earth Crisis, Converge, Focal Point, Strongarm, Shai Hulud,. Judge,Mudrian, Albert (2000). ''Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore''. Feral House. . p. 222-223. Strife,Ian Glasper, ''Terrorizer'' no. 171, June 2008, p. 78, "here the term (metalcore) is used in its original context, referencing the likes of Strife, Earth Crisis, and Integrity (...)". Rorschach, Vision of Disorder Hatebreed,Ross Haenfler, ''Straight Edge: Clean-living Youth, Hardcore Punk, and Social Change''. Rutgers University Press. . p. 87-88. Zao,. and Disembodied.

Integrity drew influence from the hardcore band G.I.S.M. and the thrash metal band Slayer, with others like Septic Death, Samhain, Motörhead and Joy Division. Earth Crisis and Hatebreed borrowed from hardcore punk and took influence from death metal. Earth Crisis's albums ''Firestorm'', '' Destroy the Machines'' and '' Gomorrah's Season Ends'' were early examples of metalcore,Gabriel Cardenas Salas, "Blasts from the Past", ''Terrorizer'' 180, February 2009, p. 96. as was Vision of Disorder's self-titled full-length debut in 1996. Coalesce and Overcast were also important early metalcore groups. Journalist Lars Gotrich wrote, "Along with key records by The Dillinger Escape Plan and Botch, '' Give Them Rope'' (1997) is an underground milestone that helped urtherwhat was soon niversallycalled 'metalcore'. At the risk of sounding too reductive—metalcore was the natural progression where extreme metal and hardcore met, but with spiraling time signatures that somehow felt more aggressive." Shai Hulud's 1997 album '' Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion'' became especially influential in the latter part of the decade. Hatebreed released their debut album '' Satisfaction is the Death of Desire'' in 1997. The album helped the band achieve underground success, selling 158,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Success (2000s)

In the early 2000s, metalcore started to gain more prominence, with several independent metal labels, including Century Media, Metal Blade and Roadrunner Records, signing metalcore bands. Hatebreed released their second album '' Perseverance'' in 2002. The album sold 234,000 copies in the United States. Hatebreed's 2003 album '' The Rise of Brutality'' and 2006 album '' Supremacy'' peaked at numbers 30 and 31 on the ''Billboard'' 200, respectively. A new subgenre, melodic metalcore, strongly influenced by Swedish melodic death metal, has formed and quickly came to the forefront of metalcore's rise to popularity. In 2002, Killswitch Engage's '' Alive or Just Breathing'' reached number 37 on the Heatseekers Albums chart. In 2004, Killswitch Engage's ''The End of Heartache'', Shadows Fall's ''The War Within'', and Atreyu's ''The Curse'' peaked at numbers 21, 20, and 36 on the ''Billboard'' 200, respectively. Also, in 2006, Atreyu's third studio album, '' A Death-Grip On Yesterday'' peaked at number 9 on the Billboard 200, only to be followed up by 2007's '' Lead Sails Paper Anchor'', which peaked at number 8. Atreyu's 2002 debut album '' Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses'', as of July 3, 2004, has sold 107,000 copies in the United States. Killswitch Engage's 2004 album ''The End of Heartache'' and 2006 album ''As Daylight Dies'' were both certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Killswitch Engage's 2002 album '' Alive or Just Breathing'', as of July 3, 2004, has sold 114,000 copies in the United States. Unearth began to have success among heavy metal fans in 2004 with the release of their second album '' The Oncoming Storm'', which peaked at number 1 on the Heatseekers Albums chart on July 17, 2004. On that same day, the album peaked at number 105 on the ''Billboard'' 200. Unearth's 2006 album '' III: In the Eyes of Fire'' peaked at number 35 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The band's 2008 album ''The March'' peaked at number 45 on the ''Billboard'' 200. ''Oncoming Storm'', ''III: In the Eyes of Fire, and ''The March'' peaked at numbers 6, 2 and 3 on the Independent Albums chart, respectively. Avenged Sevenfold's first two albums ''Sounding the Seventh Trumpet'' (2001) and '' Waking the Fallen'' (2003) were both metalcore albums. On the band's 2005 album ''City of Evil'', Avenged Sevenfold moved away from metalcore and changed to a traditional heavy metal sound. On June 15, 2005, Blabbermouth.net reported that ''Waking the Fallen'' has sold 172,253 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. On July 17, 2009, ''Waking the Fallen'' was certified gold by the RIAA.

Metalcore band As I Lay Dying also achieved success among heavy metal fans. The band's 2005 album '' Shadows Are Security'' peaked at number 35 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and sold 263,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. As I Lay Dying's 2007 album ''An Ocean Between Us'' peaked at number 8 on the ''Billboard'' 200 in 2007. As of April 2005, As I Lay Dying's 2003 album '' Frail Words Collapse'' sold 118,000 copies in the United States. All That Remains achieved success with their 2006 album ''The Fall of Ideals'', which, as of October 1, 2008, sold 175,000 copies in the United States. All That Remains' 2008 album '' Overcome'' peaked at number 16 on the ''Billboard'' 200. ''Overcome'' song "Two Weeks" peaked at number 9 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart on May 16, 2009. Bullet for My Valentine's debut album ''The Poison'' was released in October 2005 in Europe and was released in February 2006 in the United States. On July 26, 2006, Blabbermouth.net reported that ''The Poison'' has sold 72,000 copies in the United States. On October 27, 2007, Blabbermouth.net reported that ''The Poison'' has sold 336,000 copies in the United States. On April 3, 2010, ''Billboard'' reported that ''The Poison'' sold 573,000 copies in the United States. ''The Poison'' was certified gold by the RIAA on January 30, 2009. Bullet for My Valentine's second album ''Scream Aim Fire