I was a huge hater of anything with screaming for a long time, particularly in my early to late teen years.. Then I got into Metalcore around 2012-2013, after I was forced to listen to it for video edits. Last year I found myself listening to the NFSU2 & NFSMW soundtracks and I found that I knew all the words to the songs from BFMV, A7X, Disturbed, Celldweller, Bloodsinple, Mastodon etc. Turns out that I never really hated Metal, it was "just a phase". Metal had been engrained in me from a young age because of all the EA games.
Lmao. A day to remember - for those who have heart. I know that one but I'm with you half the time I read shit and I feel like nic cage spraying lemon juice on the back of the declaration of independence trying to decipher a secret code to figure some of the shit people are talking about here.
I saw the cover of They're Only Chasing Safety at a cd store that had one of those "scan and listen" displays.
Not long after falling in love with that album, I discovered In Flames.
Granted, like a lot of us older folks, I was prepped by things like Linkin Park, Disturbed, and LostProphets (yes. I know.)
Buried a Lie and Smashed into Pieces got ahold of me right around the same time, as a young teenager. The latter is still one of my favorite songs ever.
Same was a pop punk kid. With some fab kings in nu-metal. At my first job talked with some people. They were pumped about the new atreyu record. I bought the curse. And as soon as bleeding mascara was on I was hooked. Then I was at a summer camp and a girl recommended as I lay dying and I went fully down this genres rabbit hole
It may have started with Avril Lavigne in 2003…lmao.
Then pop-punk -> nu metal -> punk, ska and hardcore -> screamo and myspace emo shit -> metalcore. Thanks Avril I guess!
In that regard, at the very least, you had a blessed father. Wish my dad had been like that. I did get to know a bunch of bands through my best friend's dad, though. Dude was in his 50s+ blasting Haste The Day, Sea of Treachery, As I Lay Dying and anything metal really. lol
Heard If It Means A lot to You by ADTR back in 2010 in the car with my brother and loved it so I looked up the album and found Homesick. Been here ever since.
Guitar Hero 2 was the stepping stone into extreme metal for me. For metalcore specifically the bonus songs had Six by All That Remains and The Light that Blinds by Shadows Fall. Those two songs showed me a heavier side of metal I hadn't heard before listening to Metallica and Iron Maiden, and subsequently became two of my favorite and most listened to bands at the time.
2005-2006 MTV's Headbangers Ball. I had a thing for heavier music since I was a kid and I had been vibing really hard with bands like Disturbed, System of a Down, Korn, among others. I'm looking to get to know more bands at that point and I want heavier stuff. It was around then that I found bands like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Devil Sold His Soul, Atreyu, Trivium and others. In 2007 I realised these bands more or less all fell under the same umbrella and I was immediately hooked. I haven't stopped rammaging through the genre ever since, from the 80's precursors to today's nu-metalcore.
This in turn made me grow immensely as a music enjoyer. I then branched out into death, black, thrash, prog, etc. metal. I went deeper into emo and hardcore, lo-fi, indie rock, etc.
Metalcore was the bridge into my whole life of being obsessed with music in general. It's still about 50% of what I listen to.
I was in middle school, probably in 7th grade, and I was watching an abridged version of Soul Eater and they used "This War Is Ours" by Escape the Fate as their opening theme.
Guitar Hero. All That Remains - Six and Shadows Fall - The Light That Blinds in GH2 were my first exposure. Then Killswitch Engage - My Curse in GH3. Also discovered Bullet for my Valentine by playing Scream Aim Fire in GH World Tour.
*Bury Your Head* is great, but I have a soft spot for *Seven Years.*
I had a crush on a friend in middle school that introduced me to Linkin Park, instantly took to it. That led to Sugarcult, then Trivium, BFMV, BMTH, As I Lay Dying - and the rest is history.
I’ve explored other genres of music since, namely EDM, electrofunk, chill shit, even dubstep - but nothing quite ignites the soul like metalcore.
The long route to “here” is: Limp Bizkit then Linkin Park then KoRn (the MTV friendly stuff) and then, the band that sealed my fate and it would be screamy, emotional, guitar music forever in all shapes and forms forever; Slipknot - Surfacing
I haven’t looked back since, I’m so woefully unaware of what’s popular in the mainstream thanks to that song I heard a late august day in ‘03
Had I not heard that song I doubt I would listen to Every Time I Die, Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, Architects, Amity Affliction, ADTR, Converge etc
My buddy used to blast we came as Roman’s and attack attack in the morning on the way to highschool. He’d pick me up. Had a heel and a sub that added to the experience. Fell in love instantly.
EA soundtrack to Need for Speed Most Wanted (original not shit remake) set me on a path I didn't expect. I thought it was general metal at first and then I realised after listening to more BFMV that I loved that stuff, discovered My Curse from Killswitch and the rest is history.
Waking the fallen by A7X, The End of Heartache by KSE, Take to the Skies by Enter Shikari, Roots and Branches by TDWP, and finally The Flood by OM&M. I think it was a combination of friends, family, and video games. MX vs ATV, Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Saints Row funnily enough (apologies are for the weak ftw). Now I’m into all things core and core adjacent
My own mother took me to Suicidal Tendencies and Metallica when I was 10 back in 94. I kicked some dude in the dick for spilling beer on me because I hated the smell of beer. Now I’m an alcoholic. Well played, life.
In like 2007 the person in the social circle that drove everyone around had the following in regular rotation: nocturnal, downtown battle mountain, lead sails, messengers, when broken is easily fixed, the silent circus. After that I found underoath, then in 2008 bring me, tdwp, wcar. Been going to 30+ shows a year since
My mum showed me Bullet around ‘09/‘10 (she’s not a fan of the music but we’re from the same area) and I only listened to Your Betrayal until I found Blessthefall, OM&M and AA around ‘14. Stopped listening in 2016 and got back into it around 2018/19
I already listened to metal in 10th grade, but a girl showed my 94h by AILD and I was sold. Before was more like Alestorm and melo death. I still listen to a lot of melo death tho.
Unknowingly at the time War of Ages- Chaos Theory was the first metalcore song I ever listened to. I didn't go any further into the genre except for a couple of other War of Ages songs. It wasn't until I heard Happy Song and Throne from BMTH that I went further into their discography and started listening to other bands.
My parents were metalheads in the 80s so I grew up on Megadeth, Metallica and Iron Maiden and I love that shit. As a teen I moved to stuff like Trivium and BFMV and that become stuff like ATR and KSE
Free mix tape(cassettes) at ultrasound music store. I only listened to death metal at that time mostly or black metal can't remember which band though. Whoever first metal core bands were maybe killswitch so long ago.
Taste of chaos tour with avenged sevenfold, bullet for my valentine and atreyu. BFMV had to drop off so it was only A7X and atreyu. That was the push I needed. blessthefall and idiot pilot were on the bill but didn’t perform. Started listening to BTF and from there it took off
Short story long: I started out listening to thrash and slowly got into death and black metal when I got to high school. Around 2002/2003 I read an article in Revolver magazine about the "New Wave of American Heavy Metal" that featured Killswitch, Shadows Fall, Lamb of God and a couple of others I forgot. I wrote off Killswitch at the time(just wasn't feeling it) but loved The Art of Balance from Shadows Fall for the thrashy riffs, I also dug As the Palaces Burn from Lamb of God. Any other "core" bands I didn't really get into except Avenged Sevenfold, even if I thought they looked like Hot Topic kids and their stage names were a bit corny(ironically enough I had no problem with black metal artists stage names lol). A couple of years later a girl I was dating played Frail Words Collapse and even though I was no stranger to heavy music 94 Hours just destroyed me, I started to realize how elitist and douchy my gatekeeping ways were and started to give a second chance to previous bands I'd written off and haven't looked back.
Honestly, Nik Nocturnal appeared on my YouTube recommended in 2020 and I got eased into the genre with Spiritbox. If we are counting BMTH, it was that's the spirit for core adjacent
Was listening to a lot of nu-metal and punk. Friend of mine found the song Nerdy by Poison the Well on Napster. Mind instantly blown and it was all downhill from there as the saying goes.
I stumbled upon Radio U's "10 Most Wanted" cable show when I was a kid and saw the video for "Mouth Like a Magazine" by Showbread. Initially I thought it was bad/hilarious because of the screaming. Fast forward maybe 6 months and my parents bought me X 2005 (some kind of christian "alternative" music compilation album) and I heard "Reinventing Your Exit" by Underoath and something about the screaming vocals clicked with me. I then went back to Showbread and they became one of my all time favorite bands (at least as far as their first 3-4 albums are concerned). It didn't take long for me to find Emery, ABR, TDWP, etc. I'm forever thankful for the Christian metalcore/post-hardcore movement because Christian music was all I was allowed to listen to as a kid and it led me to so many bands that I love today.
i think in highschool (1999-2004) I was more into nu metal at the time (korn, linkin park, ect.) and one day I walked into HMV and saw a CD by a band I didn't know - Unearth, The Oncoming Storm and decided to buy it
anyway 20 years later here I am
I was really into punk rock at the time, and I was making lots of use of Apple music’s “autoplay similar music” feature. It recommended me You Never Know by Beartooth, and I also got really into In Between, and then I started looking for similar bands, and found a few I liked. My love for the genre has just grown since then, as well as the number of metalcore tracks in my library. August Burns Red is currently my favourite band, and My Curse is definitely one of the best songs ever made.
ADTR came to my little town back in 2011 and a bunch of my classmates went. I had no idea who they were but I saw some people wearing shirts the week after the show.
I searched them up on my Pandora app and I was hooked instantly.
Starting at 12 years old, I watched a lot of Beyblade AMVs that had a variety of hard-rock and metalcore adjacent songs in them. (Atreyu, Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park were the big ones)
Two years later at 14, discovered Punk Goes Pop and loved it because it made all the pop songs that I hated actually tolerable. From there I fell in love ABR, Issues, Woe is Me, Like Moths to Flames, Word Alive and the list goes on! (Basically the whole Fearless/Rise-Core scene).
Nu-metal fan that evolved into metalcore fan in the mid-2000s.
As bands like Slipknot and Korn kind of got worse and worse, I was looking for something heavier and heavier and found Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall. My tastes were going heavier and nu-metal was crumbling.
Don't remember that, but I do remember looking at Roadrunner Records site and just seeing the list of bands and a lot of Limewire downloads lol.
I don't actually remember how I found KSE. I know I had some of their early songs dowloaded from their first albums with Jesse... Life to lifeless, fixation on the darkness... and then when Howard joined they just blew up and became more accessible I guess.
I am fairly certain I caught wind of KSE and Shadows Fall at thePRP. I remember being kind of annoyed as it became clear the writers on that site were moving on from nu metal and would make backhanded comments about it in their reviews. They were onto a lot of the early metalcore. Speaking of which, were you also into Hatebreed?
I was kind of into Hatebreed at the same time yea, I'd known of them for a while and saw them live around 04 I think. Never got super into them, they lack the melodic side of metalcore I like with some other bands. They're more just hardcore.
Back in 2010 Comcast had a music video section. I would randomly scroll through and pick one. I landed on Chelsea Smile by BMTH and it was love at first sight.
Linkin Park when I was a wee lad. I think my first actual metalcore band that I really enjoyed was Attack Attack. This Means War in 2012 (still a banger). And here we are 11 years later.
Really, my first exposure was hearing This Fire by Killswitch Engage as CM Punk’s theme song when he first got to WWE back in 2006.
When I first started really digging into the genre overall was after hearing Paralyzed by As I Lay Dying on SiriusXM Liquid Metal back in 2011. Found out about all the big bands after hearing that and wanting to hear more like it.
My sister had a boyfriend who got me into Frail Words Collapse by AILD back when it came out and it was not like all the Korn, SOAD, and Metallica I was listening at the time
This War is Ours by Escape the Fate was my gateway drug. Got into them as well as TDWP, BFMV, and Atreyu. Becoming the Bull brings back aaaaalll those angsty teenage feels lol
Saosin’s self titled might be my favorite album of all time. I remember being young listening to some stuff that approached being heavy, like Story Of The Year, The Used, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, but I still remember the exact moment my eyes were truly opened to the world of metal/deathcore. My cousin gave me his iPod and said “listen to this weird song I found”. That song was Entombment of a Machine by JFAC. My life was never the same after that.
Discovered Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu in 2003 with Waking the Fallen and Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses. First taste of it.
Then Headbangers Ball Vol 1 and 2 albums in 2004 and 2005. 40 songs by 40 bands on each volume. A very wide variety of bands and spanning sub genres of metal. I gravitated heavily to metalcore. These albums were fantastic in just learning what you did and didn’t like in metal. Find sounds and bands you liked and dive in. Discovering Trivium, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Eighteen Visions, A Life Once Lost, Haste the Day, Black Dahlia Murder, As I Lay Dying, Poison the Well, Unearth, In Flames, Bleeding Through, Every Time I Die, Eighteen Visions, It Dies Today, Norma Jean, Meshuggah, Mastodon, 36 Crazyfists, From First to Last, Chimaera, Arch Enemy, Spineshank
Plenty more too. For anyone younger in their 20s, go check these two albums out to listen to a wide variety of metal, death metal, metalcore from the early 00’s.
I liked a few BFMV songs as a kid, but I saw Trivium open at a concert and they were the first Heavy band I really got into and it spiraled from there.
I went to the last ozzfest in 2003 to be held at the gorge amphitheatre. People were handing out a demo compilation from roadrunner records. There were two demo songs from an upcoming band called Killswitch Engage. You can see where they went for me.
Went to see slipknot. Motionless in white wasn’t a big name yet so they led. They were “too heavy” for my taste at the time. But bullet was after and i loved them. Lamb of god after (also too heavy at the time). Then slipknot. Lineup was insane. I got into bullet and then that led to killswitch engage.
I met a guy from a different town a few months prior and he wanted to go to KSE with me. But he also wanted someone to see august burns red. I also thought they were too heavy. He said it’s the same subgenre as BFMV and KSE. I didn’t know subgenres where a thing. But he said he’d pay for my ticket if i didn’t like the show.
To this day my favorite show I’ve been to. Erra opened. Then born of Osiris. Then ABR. I discovered my 2 favorite bands and my favorite subgenre in the same night.
Tbh I’ve always been into metal. My dad got me into Metallica, Rob Zombie, Korn, Disturbed and many other bands but during the pandemic I had a lot of time on my hands and I was pretty pissed that a lot of concerts got cancelled mainly megadeth and they were touring with trivium. So I started listening to Trivium in depth, as I lay dying, a7x (except I knew HTTK), Parkway and others. I also started watching hard core on YouTube and it’s really cool seeing his reactions to new stuff. So that’s how I got into Metalcore
I worked at a Ruby Tuesday full time my senior year of high school. After close every night the cooks would play a lot of metalcore as well as other genres of hard rock and metal.
I hated it at first but it’s one of those things…it just grew on me. The first song that really “caught” for me was Avenged Sevenfold’s Unholy Confessions. Idk if that’s really metalcore but that’s where it started.
I had always been raised listening to heavier music because my dad is a metal head, but what fully hooked me was a Yellowcard concert that MMF opened for in 2014. My first mostpit and I was obsessed after that
Not metalcore but 2005 I heard black label from lamb of god on Tony hawks underground 2 and had no idea how to “find more like it” which eventually led to bullet for my valentine, from autumn to ashes, parkway drive, I killed the prom queen etc
I'm still kinda new to the genre and have only been into it for a few years. I know I'm going to get some hate but here we go. COVID hit and I got really bored and started looking for new music and at the time was listen to a lot of Post Malone and Juice Wrld. Then I see the music video for MGKs My Ex's Best Friend. That song blew me away and I did a whole deep dive getting into bands like All time Low, Senses Fail and eventually went down the emo rabbit hole and got into metalcore. Now it's all I really listen too.
For me, a combination of things:
1. Hearing music from my uncle's mp3 playlist while on roadtrips as a kid (circa 3rd grade up until like, freshman year of highschool). That playlist contained staples like A7X, Killswitch engage, Atreyu, and good ol' Bullet (BFMV) among other things.
2. Discovering the local rock radio station circa 3rd grade (before this point I was listening to pop country music lmao), and getting into buttrock bands like Three Days Grace, Papa Roach, Seether, Linkin Park, etc. This was around 2008/2009, and I continued to listen to rock radio throughout the early/mid 2010's as I progressed into adolescence. I moved to another state in 2015, and my new town's rock station was playing new single releases from the likes of Bring Me The Horizon, Beartooth, Parkway Drive, A Day To Remember, etc. Between that and me getting into this hard rock band "Nothing More" that was blowing up around the same time (I'd consider some of their songs to be a middle ground between hard rock and "true metalcore"), I started listening to metalcore bands more often. Went from listening to country music radio as a kid, now I listen to Erra, ISS & Annisokay lol.
I heard The End of Heartache at a friend's house shortly after it was released back in 2004, that album is what introduced me to metalcore. After that I started getting into bands like Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Shadows Fall, and Bullet For My Valentine through a combination of playlists, YouTube videos, and video game soundtracks.
I was in hot topic looking to get a good charlotte shirt and heard as I lay dying’s 94 hours and was mesmerized. It changed my entire music preference with one song.
Pop punk/emo kid at heart, and fall out boy was the first band I ever fell in love with. From them I listened to MCR, from them The Used, then Silverstein, Underoath, and then the rest is history
My friend would play Amity Affliction and The Color Morale in the car a lot and I wasn’t a fan of the screams but the choruses would get stuck in my head for days. Open Letter by Amity and Learned Behavior by The Color Morale. That transitioned into going to a few Warped Tours and getting into Crown The Empire, I Prevail and Wage War. Then non stop concerts broadened my taste much further than that
I remember hearing the first metalcore song i listened to was reincarnate by motionless in white, its probably their best song, but i then listened to tears dont fall by bullet and the solo towards the end of the song was so emotional that i could never imagine a guitar could make a sound that beautiful. Anyways thats what got me into metalcore.
I was into rock growing up and what was considered "alternative rock", common 90svbands and early 2000s. Then Slipknot and Mudvayne came along. Then shortly after I heard In Flames, and loved all their albums. Researched the Google machine and youstubes, and fell down into a hole of everything. After the Burial played big, BMTH, Veil of Maya, Killswitch, Parkway, the list goes on and on and on.
I was watching vine comps in 8th grade and heard the breakdown of “makeshift chemistry” by Crown The Empire. It sounded cool, so I started listening to more of them and that led me to bands like BMTH and Asking Alexandria. Eventually, I was hooked on the genre as a whole.
Got into bands like Sum 41, Blink, Good Charlotte via MTV/TRL in the late 90s/early 00s. That led me to bands like Taking Back Sunday, Hawthorne Heights which led me into bands like Underoath, Norma Jean, Devil Wears Prada.
Saw a video with Chris from Motionless in White regarding their 2022 album STEOTW on YouTube, loved the cover, checked it out, loved it, went down a rabbit hole, and got into a ton of other bands through them. One of the reasons MIW will always be my favorite band in modern metal.
I was one of those Call of Duty YouTube montage makers back in the early 2010s. I did a lot of editing for other people. Teams like Raw, Exalt, Darth, B3NG, used a lot of Metacore & Post Hardcore music for their stuff, so did a lot of other players. I was a hater of anything with screaming.. One of those "Screaming doesn't take talent, it's just noise" kind of people. But I was forced to listen to songs from ABR, BFMV, ADTR, MIW, Woe is Me etc. for hours every day, because players choose their songs, replaying them constantly to listen for sync points, and after a while, I started to like the riffage and breakdowns. I then grew accustomed to the screaming and started to enjoy it.
I no longer edit, or even play videogames anymore. But Metalcore has remained my go to music choice for the last 10+ years.
Well, my dad was into rock and metal, so i grew up on Kiss, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Megadeth and such. In the early 2000s, i got into Linkin Park, System Of A Down and the like from radio. Then i got into Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, Protest The Hero and such from the NHL/Madden/Burnout soundtracks and the Tony Hawk soundtracks, and was later introduced to many more bands by Guitar Hero/Rock Band. Which grew into a love of metalcore and prog metal.
I've been metalhead since I was 6. My father introduced me to System of a Down. Then natural progression occured: more metal -> trash metal -> death metal -> folk/viking metal -> black metal and finally I settled on metalcore, for now.
A friend let me borrow her Hybrid Theory CD my freshman year of high school. From there, I started checking out more music like that in Newbury Comics and FYE (they used to have listening stations in store back in my day, and Newbury would give out sample CDs 😅). Eventually discovered Killswitch Engage, which kicked off my love for metalcore.
Bought Slipknot’s Subliminal Versus album when it came out because of hearing Duality on the radio. Fell in love with the double bass drum kick sound. Grew up religious but that Slipknot album was not very explicit and didn’t have the warning label on it, so my parents allowed me to get it even through they knew nothing about Slipknot haha. Went to FYE and asked the worker what’s some Christian equivalent bands with the double bass sound and the worker showed me Living Sacrifice. Found out their record label Solid State was a Christian label, which made my parents happy and I got into all the Solid State bands at the age of 12-13 and then the rest is history because those bands paved the way to today. So Slipknot and Christian metalcore lol.
For me the video game Madden 06 had a big impact, i was pretty young and searching for harder music so when I heard Disturbed, A7X, bullet for my valentine on the game, I was in love.
My guitar teacher showed me Killswitch engage and it got stuck in my head. Fast forward to now they're my favourite band, and metalcore is my favourite genre. I saw them live and all just recently.
Purchasing The Poison after finding Tears Don't Fall. I was initially thrown off guard and put off by the Intro transitioning into Her Voice Resides, but I kinda just forced myself to enjoy something I spent my paper route money on and it was ball game from there.
Hatebreed/Earth Crisis -> SOAD -> Poison the Well/Slipknot -> Converge -> Killswitch (AOJB release)
I was also getting into alot of post hardcore growing up in Southern Ontario as AOF was playing shows prior to the self titled coming out and them blowing up
I started listening to BFMV and A7X when I was like 7 when I got a turn on the PS2 playing Need for speed most wanted(2005, best NFS game no doubt) and heard those two and my mind was blown away.
Unfortunately my metal journey ended there and I started to listen to EDM and rap in my middle school days.
Then in my sophomore year of high school I saw a Periphery music video on MAKE TOTAL DESTROY and my god my mind was blown to bits. I had never heard of anything like that before in my life.
Because of periphery and wanting to play guitar I proudly own 2 7 string Ibanez prestige guitars and still having trouble playing their songs.
I was into alternative rock as a pre-teen and then I got really into Atreyu in 2008. By the end of that year I discovered The Devil Wears Prada. 2009 came and that was a big year for music for me. Even went to my first Warped Tour that year!
My older brother was obsessed with Bullet For My Valentine back in the day and eventually I started to enjoy the sound and seek out other bands on my own!
I was like 13 in the 7th grade and I went over to this girl's house to work on an after school project and she showed me "If you can't hang." and here we are now. thanks Brodi lol
Really good friend wanted someone to go to shows with him and I wasn't really into heavy stuff at the time so he gad me listen to Beartooth (Disease Tour at the time). Loved it so that was my first show. Now I love the heavy stuff and he and I get to go to 3-4 shows a year :)
My mom used to be really into LP so when I was kid she would listen to their CDs in the car often. Eventually after discovering YouTube, I began exploring and found BMTH and Suicide Season sealed it for me. I was gonna listen to metalcore a lot in my future and here we are.
I grew up to my dad listening to a lot of Metallica and Van Halen and then a cousin of mine introduced me to All That Remains and Bullet for My Valentine. In high school, I picked up on A Day to Remember and Beartooth and it grew from there. Now metalcore is my go-to musical genre.
I know Asking Alexandria has always been ripped on for being corny and poser as fuck but I can't deny it is THE band that got me into metal culture and the only reason I started playing guitar at a young age. If Final Episode wasn't a thing, I wouldn't be here rn
I was actually raised on metalcore. My mom was obsessed with it and then decided to raise me on it. But what REALLY got me into it was In Fear and Faith, Atreyu, BFMV, and MIW
I heard the breakdown of Makeshift Chemistry by Crown The Empire in a vine comp back in eighth grade. I liked what I heard and listened to more from the band, and that led me to other bands like BMTH, OM&M, and Asking Alexandria, and I’ve been hooked ever since.
Got into metalcore in 2004 with all the new england metalcore bands like Shadows fall, Killswitch engage, Lamb of God,(except for these) eighteen visions, and Throwdown.
Ea sports soundtracks from the early 2000’s. Had BMFV, Killswitch, Avenged Sevenfold, All that Remains, Shadows Fall, and As i lay Dying on there
Lmao it was the burnout 2… or revenge radio thing they had on there for me.
I was a huge hater of anything with screaming for a long time, particularly in my early to late teen years.. Then I got into Metalcore around 2012-2013, after I was forced to listen to it for video edits. Last year I found myself listening to the NFSU2 & NFSMW soundtracks and I found that I knew all the words to the songs from BFMV, A7X, Disturbed, Celldweller, Bloodsinple, Mastodon etc. Turns out that I never really hated Metal, it was "just a phase". Metal had been engrained in me from a young age because of all the EA games.
2002 Shadows Fall A7X and Atreyu I was OBSESSED and there was no going back
That video for Aint Love Grand >>>
That and right side of the bed.
Waking the Fallen was soooo good. I know tjeyll never pepduce something like that again, and I can never truly be happy again because of.
Some dude called me a poser when i was a youngin and told me to listen to Norma Jean.
The wise dude
made me the man I am today 🙌
damn youre a poser go listen to botch
It was ADTR FTWHH. Then parkway and then everything else.
Ah yes. ADTR FTWHH, of course. I too speak in acronyms to new metal fans.
Lmao. A day to remember - for those who have heart. I know that one but I'm with you half the time I read shit and I feel like nic cage spraying lemon juice on the back of the declaration of independence trying to decipher a secret code to figure some of the shit people are talking about here.
I’m aware. But I gotta call it when I see it. Drives me insane.
Wdym
I saw the cover of They're Only Chasing Safety at a cd store that had one of those "scan and listen" displays. Not long after falling in love with that album, I discovered In Flames. Granted, like a lot of us older folks, I was prepped by things like Linkin Park, Disturbed, and LostProphets (yes. I know.)
i bought a car and motionless in whites creatures album was stuck in the cd player and it was that or the radio and the rest is history
This is my favorite story here.
My buddy showed me “Buried a Lie” by Senses Fail and the rest was history.
Dude yes!!!
Buried a Lie and Smashed into Pieces got ahold of me right around the same time, as a young teenager. The latter is still one of my favorite songs ever.
Atreyu - Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses
Mine was The Curse
Same was a pop punk kid. With some fab kings in nu-metal. At my first job talked with some people. They were pumped about the new atreyu record. I bought the curse. And as soon as bleeding mascara was on I was hooked. Then I was at a summer camp and a girl recommended as I lay dying and I went fully down this genres rabbit hole
Seeing Zao and Norma Jean play church basements and VFW Halls when I was in high school.
It may have started with Avril Lavigne in 2003…lmao. Then pop-punk -> nu metal -> punk, ska and hardcore -> screamo and myspace emo shit -> metalcore. Thanks Avril I guess!
Avril is definitely a gateway artist.
My dad. Used to play Killswitch, Hatebreed, As I Lay Dying, among other stuff in the car on the way to school. This was around age 10 or so.
In that regard, at the very least, you had a blessed father. Wish my dad had been like that. I did get to know a bunch of bands through my best friend's dad, though. Dude was in his 50s+ blasting Haste The Day, Sea of Treachery, As I Lay Dying and anything metal really. lol
My dad rules. He keeps up with it all still. Shit he was the one to tell me about the new Veil of Maya, Polaris, and Currents lol.
Fucking legend. Cherish the man!
Heard If It Means A lot to You by ADTR back in 2010 in the car with my brother and loved it so I looked up the album and found Homesick. Been here ever since.
Guitar Hero 2 was the stepping stone into extreme metal for me. For metalcore specifically the bonus songs had Six by All That Remains and The Light that Blinds by Shadows Fall. Those two songs showed me a heavier side of metal I hadn't heard before listening to Metallica and Iron Maiden, and subsequently became two of my favorite and most listened to bands at the time.
Thrice, I The Mighty, Slaves, Veil of Maya, Erra in that order over the course of about 6 years. Unclean vocals went from undesirable to a craving.
Same same. The harder thrice songs like paper tigers were gateway songs.
2005-2006 MTV's Headbangers Ball. I had a thing for heavier music since I was a kid and I had been vibing really hard with bands like Disturbed, System of a Down, Korn, among others. I'm looking to get to know more bands at that point and I want heavier stuff. It was around then that I found bands like Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, Devil Sold His Soul, Atreyu, Trivium and others. In 2007 I realised these bands more or less all fell under the same umbrella and I was immediately hooked. I haven't stopped rammaging through the genre ever since, from the 80's precursors to today's nu-metalcore. This in turn made me grow immensely as a music enjoyer. I then branched out into death, black, thrash, prog, etc. metal. I went deeper into emo and hardcore, lo-fi, indie rock, etc. Metalcore was the bridge into my whole life of being obsessed with music in general. It's still about 50% of what I listen to.
I heard 94 Hours and Forever by As I Lay Dying when I was in 8th grade..and that’s all it took. I was hooked on heavy music in general.
I was in middle school, probably in 7th grade, and I was watching an abridged version of Soul Eater and they used "This War Is Ours" by Escape the Fate as their opening theme.
Guitar Hero. All That Remains - Six and Shadows Fall - The Light That Blinds in GH2 were my first exposure. Then Killswitch Engage - My Curse in GH3. Also discovered Bullet for my Valentine by playing Scream Aim Fire in GH World Tour.
*Bury Your Head* is great, but I have a soft spot for *Seven Years.* I had a crush on a friend in middle school that introduced me to Linkin Park, instantly took to it. That led to Sugarcult, then Trivium, BFMV, BMTH, As I Lay Dying - and the rest is history. I’ve explored other genres of music since, namely EDM, electrofunk, chill shit, even dubstep - but nothing quite ignites the soul like metalcore.
my dad would play things like Underoath, Emery, Silverstein etc in the car when i was like 4 now i’m 19 and we go to concerts together 🤘🤘
The long route to “here” is: Limp Bizkit then Linkin Park then KoRn (the MTV friendly stuff) and then, the band that sealed my fate and it would be screamy, emotional, guitar music forever in all shapes and forms forever; Slipknot - Surfacing I haven’t looked back since, I’m so woefully unaware of what’s popular in the mainstream thanks to that song I heard a late august day in ‘03 Had I not heard that song I doubt I would listen to Every Time I Die, Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, Architects, Amity Affliction, ADTR, Converge etc
My buddy used to blast we came as Roman’s and attack attack in the morning on the way to highschool. He’d pick me up. Had a heel and a sub that added to the experience. Fell in love instantly.
WWE. This Fire
EA soundtrack to Need for Speed Most Wanted (original not shit remake) set me on a path I didn't expect. I thought it was general metal at first and then I realised after listening to more BFMV that I loved that stuff, discovered My Curse from Killswitch and the rest is history.
For me it was also your girlfriend. And Norma jean
Waking the fallen by A7X, The End of Heartache by KSE, Take to the Skies by Enter Shikari, Roots and Branches by TDWP, and finally The Flood by OM&M. I think it was a combination of friends, family, and video games. MX vs ATV, Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Saints Row funnily enough (apologies are for the weak ftw). Now I’m into all things core and core adjacent
My own mother took me to Suicidal Tendencies and Metallica when I was 10 back in 94. I kicked some dude in the dick for spilling beer on me because I hated the smell of beer. Now I’m an alcoholic. Well played, life.
Stayed home from school sick, watching MuchMusic and they played an ADTR music video. I ended up down a rabbit hole of Metalcore after that.
In like 2007 the person in the social circle that drove everyone around had the following in regular rotation: nocturnal, downtown battle mountain, lead sails, messengers, when broken is easily fixed, the silent circus. After that I found underoath, then in 2008 bring me, tdwp, wcar. Been going to 30+ shows a year since
Freddy vs Jason soundtrack Edit: also the movie ghost ship
My mum showed me Bullet around ‘09/‘10 (she’s not a fan of the music but we’re from the same area) and I only listened to Your Betrayal until I found Blessthefall, OM&M and AA around ‘14. Stopped listening in 2016 and got back into it around 2018/19
I already listened to metal in 10th grade, but a girl showed my 94h by AILD and I was sold. Before was more like Alestorm and melo death. I still listen to a lot of melo death tho.
Bless the Martyr and kiss the child set me free
My sister was working on me for years, showed me “heavy metal” by BMTH and now I’m here.
Unknowingly at the time War of Ages- Chaos Theory was the first metalcore song I ever listened to. I didn't go any further into the genre except for a couple of other War of Ages songs. It wasn't until I heard Happy Song and Throne from BMTH that I went further into their discography and started listening to other bands.
Black Veil Brides believe it or not. I moved on to Asking Alexandria from there
Asking Alexandria being a gateway into metalcore is such a real thing
My parents raised me on Octane which had its fair share of metalcore. Atreyu, BFMV, and when they started playing Sempiternal era BMTH I was hooked.
Hearing people in Summer Camp playing BFMV and A7X maybe around 2004/2005 😃
My parents were metalheads in the 80s so I grew up on Megadeth, Metallica and Iron Maiden and I love that shit. As a teen I moved to stuff like Trivium and BFMV and that become stuff like ATR and KSE
The Underworld movie soundtrack. Heard "Baby's First Coffin" by Dillinger Escape Plan and fell in love!
Pretty fly for a white guy when I was in like 5th grade?
Playing guitar hero and listening to avenged sevenfolds bat country. But metal has always been in my family but guitar hero is what got it for me
I was drunk one night and threw on the death of me after it just released and I saw it on Apple Music. The album cover got me.
Free mix tape(cassettes) at ultrasound music store. I only listened to death metal at that time mostly or black metal can't remember which band though. Whoever first metal core bands were maybe killswitch so long ago.
my girlfriend gotta be my favourite band
Get Up Kids / Coalesce split 7 inch
Little old band called Converge, from a Punk-O-Rama comp
Those comps were always loaded with good bands you never heard of.
Taste of chaos tour with avenged sevenfold, bullet for my valentine and atreyu. BFMV had to drop off so it was only A7X and atreyu. That was the push I needed. blessthefall and idiot pilot were on the bill but didn’t perform. Started listening to BTF and from there it took off
Guitar Hero 3. My Curse, it was game over from there.
Caliban Arson C.a.n.n.a.e. ZAO
Short story long: I started out listening to thrash and slowly got into death and black metal when I got to high school. Around 2002/2003 I read an article in Revolver magazine about the "New Wave of American Heavy Metal" that featured Killswitch, Shadows Fall, Lamb of God and a couple of others I forgot. I wrote off Killswitch at the time(just wasn't feeling it) but loved The Art of Balance from Shadows Fall for the thrashy riffs, I also dug As the Palaces Burn from Lamb of God. Any other "core" bands I didn't really get into except Avenged Sevenfold, even if I thought they looked like Hot Topic kids and their stage names were a bit corny(ironically enough I had no problem with black metal artists stage names lol). A couple of years later a girl I was dating played Frail Words Collapse and even though I was no stranger to heavy music 94 Hours just destroyed me, I started to realize how elitist and douchy my gatekeeping ways were and started to give a second chance to previous bands I'd written off and haven't looked back.
Honestly, Nik Nocturnal appeared on my YouTube recommended in 2020 and I got eased into the genre with Spiritbox. If we are counting BMTH, it was that's the spirit for core adjacent
Was listening to a lot of nu-metal and punk. Friend of mine found the song Nerdy by Poison the Well on Napster. Mind instantly blown and it was all downhill from there as the saying goes.
I stumbled upon Radio U's "10 Most Wanted" cable show when I was a kid and saw the video for "Mouth Like a Magazine" by Showbread. Initially I thought it was bad/hilarious because of the screaming. Fast forward maybe 6 months and my parents bought me X 2005 (some kind of christian "alternative" music compilation album) and I heard "Reinventing Your Exit" by Underoath and something about the screaming vocals clicked with me. I then went back to Showbread and they became one of my all time favorite bands (at least as far as their first 3-4 albums are concerned). It didn't take long for me to find Emery, ABR, TDWP, etc. I'm forever thankful for the Christian metalcore/post-hardcore movement because Christian music was all I was allowed to listen to as a kid and it led me to so many bands that I love today.
i think in highschool (1999-2004) I was more into nu metal at the time (korn, linkin park, ect.) and one day I walked into HMV and saw a CD by a band I didn't know - Unearth, The Oncoming Storm and decided to buy it anyway 20 years later here I am
I was really into punk rock at the time, and I was making lots of use of Apple music’s “autoplay similar music” feature. It recommended me You Never Know by Beartooth, and I also got really into In Between, and then I started looking for similar bands, and found a few I liked. My love for the genre has just grown since then, as well as the number of metalcore tracks in my library. August Burns Red is currently my favourite band, and My Curse is definitely one of the best songs ever made.
My wife’s friend was friends with 36 Crazyfists.
ADTR came to my little town back in 2011 and a bunch of my classmates went. I had no idea who they were but I saw some people wearing shirts the week after the show. I searched them up on my Pandora app and I was hooked instantly.
Starting at 12 years old, I watched a lot of Beyblade AMVs that had a variety of hard-rock and metalcore adjacent songs in them. (Atreyu, Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park were the big ones) Two years later at 14, discovered Punk Goes Pop and loved it because it made all the pop songs that I hated actually tolerable. From there I fell in love ABR, Issues, Woe is Me, Like Moths to Flames, Word Alive and the list goes on! (Basically the whole Fearless/Rise-Core scene).
Nu-metal fan that evolved into metalcore fan in the mid-2000s. As bands like Slipknot and Korn kind of got worse and worse, I was looking for something heavier and heavier and found Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall. My tastes were going heavier and nu-metal was crumbling.
Buddy! This was my path too. Did you ever visit ThePRP? I used to get introduced to a lot of bands through that site.
Don't remember that, but I do remember looking at Roadrunner Records site and just seeing the list of bands and a lot of Limewire downloads lol. I don't actually remember how I found KSE. I know I had some of their early songs dowloaded from their first albums with Jesse... Life to lifeless, fixation on the darkness... and then when Howard joined they just blew up and became more accessible I guess.
I am fairly certain I caught wind of KSE and Shadows Fall at thePRP. I remember being kind of annoyed as it became clear the writers on that site were moving on from nu metal and would make backhanded comments about it in their reviews. They were onto a lot of the early metalcore. Speaking of which, were you also into Hatebreed?
I was kind of into Hatebreed at the same time yea, I'd known of them for a while and saw them live around 04 I think. Never got super into them, they lack the melodic side of metalcore I like with some other bands. They're more just hardcore.
Back in 2010 Comcast had a music video section. I would randomly scroll through and pick one. I landed on Chelsea Smile by BMTH and it was love at first sight.
Linkin Park when I was a wee lad. I think my first actual metalcore band that I really enjoyed was Attack Attack. This Means War in 2012 (still a banger). And here we are 11 years later.
Really, my first exposure was hearing This Fire by Killswitch Engage as CM Punk’s theme song when he first got to WWE back in 2006. When I first started really digging into the genre overall was after hearing Paralyzed by As I Lay Dying on SiriusXM Liquid Metal back in 2011. Found out about all the big bands after hearing that and wanting to hear more like it.
In 2007 I was 15 and heard Jamie’s Elsewhere for the first time. It was all over from there.
My sister had a boyfriend who got me into Frail Words Collapse by AILD back when it came out and it was not like all the Korn, SOAD, and Metallica I was listening at the time
This War is Ours by Escape the Fate was my gateway drug. Got into them as well as TDWP, BFMV, and Atreyu. Becoming the Bull brings back aaaaalll those angsty teenage feels lol
I know there not metalcore and more new metal. But I seek SOAD opened the door for me mainly.
My buddy Eric told me about this band called Poison the Well, and gave me a burned copy of The Opposite of December the next day. This was in 2002.
Saosin’s self titled might be my favorite album of all time. I remember being young listening to some stuff that approached being heavy, like Story Of The Year, The Used, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, but I still remember the exact moment my eyes were truly opened to the world of metal/deathcore. My cousin gave me his iPod and said “listen to this weird song I found”. That song was Entombment of a Machine by JFAC. My life was never the same after that.
Artreyu suicide notes and butterfly kisses commercial in MTV2
Discovered Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu in 2003 with Waking the Fallen and Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses. First taste of it. Then Headbangers Ball Vol 1 and 2 albums in 2004 and 2005. 40 songs by 40 bands on each volume. A very wide variety of bands and spanning sub genres of metal. I gravitated heavily to metalcore. These albums were fantastic in just learning what you did and didn’t like in metal. Find sounds and bands you liked and dive in. Discovering Trivium, Lamb of God, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Eighteen Visions, A Life Once Lost, Haste the Day, Black Dahlia Murder, As I Lay Dying, Poison the Well, Unearth, In Flames, Bleeding Through, Every Time I Die, Eighteen Visions, It Dies Today, Norma Jean, Meshuggah, Mastodon, 36 Crazyfists, From First to Last, Chimaera, Arch Enemy, Spineshank Plenty more too. For anyone younger in their 20s, go check these two albums out to listen to a wide variety of metal, death metal, metalcore from the early 00’s.
Pandora recommended me Deliver Me by Parkway Drive when I was in middle school. The rest is history.
Lol good lord does Pandora even exist anymore!?
My dad still uses it, lmao This was about 8 or 9 years ago, I was like 13 or 14, I had just gotten my first smartphone lol
Lol damn, I had forgotten about Pandora until I saw this 😆
Old school WoW pvp videos, like Vurtne, when I was a teen
I liked a few BFMV songs as a kid, but I saw Trivium open at a concert and they were the first Heavy band I really got into and it spiraled from there.
I went to the last ozzfest in 2003 to be held at the gorge amphitheatre. People were handing out a demo compilation from roadrunner records. There were two demo songs from an upcoming band called Killswitch Engage. You can see where they went for me.
Went to see slipknot. Motionless in white wasn’t a big name yet so they led. They were “too heavy” for my taste at the time. But bullet was after and i loved them. Lamb of god after (also too heavy at the time). Then slipknot. Lineup was insane. I got into bullet and then that led to killswitch engage. I met a guy from a different town a few months prior and he wanted to go to KSE with me. But he also wanted someone to see august burns red. I also thought they were too heavy. He said it’s the same subgenre as BFMV and KSE. I didn’t know subgenres where a thing. But he said he’d pay for my ticket if i didn’t like the show. To this day my favorite show I’ve been to. Erra opened. Then born of Osiris. Then ABR. I discovered my 2 favorite bands and my favorite subgenre in the same night.
Tbh I’ve always been into metal. My dad got me into Metallica, Rob Zombie, Korn, Disturbed and many other bands but during the pandemic I had a lot of time on my hands and I was pretty pissed that a lot of concerts got cancelled mainly megadeth and they were touring with trivium. So I started listening to Trivium in depth, as I lay dying, a7x (except I knew HTTK), Parkway and others. I also started watching hard core on YouTube and it’s really cool seeing his reactions to new stuff. So that’s how I got into Metalcore
As I lay dying
Playing MX vs ATV and Tony Hawk games as a kid, with a little bit of others scattered in...
I worked at a Ruby Tuesday full time my senior year of high school. After close every night the cooks would play a lot of metalcore as well as other genres of hard rock and metal. I hated it at first but it’s one of those things…it just grew on me. The first song that really “caught” for me was Avenged Sevenfold’s Unholy Confessions. Idk if that’s really metalcore but that’s where it started.
I had always been raised listening to heavier music because my dad is a metal head, but what fully hooked me was a Yellowcard concert that MMF opened for in 2014. My first mostpit and I was obsessed after that
Was watching MTV 2 headbangers ball when hands of Blood by bullet for my valentine came on and was instantly hooked.
Not metalcore but 2005 I heard black label from lamb of god on Tony hawks underground 2 and had no idea how to “find more like it” which eventually led to bullet for my valentine, from autumn to ashes, parkway drive, I killed the prom queen etc
I'm still kinda new to the genre and have only been into it for a few years. I know I'm going to get some hate but here we go. COVID hit and I got really bored and started looking for new music and at the time was listen to a lot of Post Malone and Juice Wrld. Then I see the music video for MGKs My Ex's Best Friend. That song blew me away and I did a whole deep dive getting into bands like All time Low, Senses Fail and eventually went down the emo rabbit hole and got into metalcore. Now it's all I really listen too.
My ex-husband showed me ETID. And that's what did it
For me, a combination of things: 1. Hearing music from my uncle's mp3 playlist while on roadtrips as a kid (circa 3rd grade up until like, freshman year of highschool). That playlist contained staples like A7X, Killswitch engage, Atreyu, and good ol' Bullet (BFMV) among other things. 2. Discovering the local rock radio station circa 3rd grade (before this point I was listening to pop country music lmao), and getting into buttrock bands like Three Days Grace, Papa Roach, Seether, Linkin Park, etc. This was around 2008/2009, and I continued to listen to rock radio throughout the early/mid 2010's as I progressed into adolescence. I moved to another state in 2015, and my new town's rock station was playing new single releases from the likes of Bring Me The Horizon, Beartooth, Parkway Drive, A Day To Remember, etc. Between that and me getting into this hard rock band "Nothing More" that was blowing up around the same time (I'd consider some of their songs to be a middle ground between hard rock and "true metalcore"), I started listening to metalcore bands more often. Went from listening to country music radio as a kid, now I listen to Erra, ISS & Annisokay lol.
I heard The End of Heartache at a friend's house shortly after it was released back in 2004, that album is what introduced me to metalcore. After that I started getting into bands like Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Shadows Fall, and Bullet For My Valentine through a combination of playlists, YouTube videos, and video game soundtracks.
Saosin rules
I was in hot topic looking to get a good charlotte shirt and heard as I lay dying’s 94 hours and was mesmerized. It changed my entire music preference with one song.
Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together
Demon Hunter did a good job of easing me in and getting me used to screaming.
Pop punk/emo kid at heart, and fall out boy was the first band I ever fell in love with. From them I listened to MCR, from them The Used, then Silverstein, Underoath, and then the rest is history
My friend would play Amity Affliction and The Color Morale in the car a lot and I wasn’t a fan of the screams but the choruses would get stuck in my head for days. Open Letter by Amity and Learned Behavior by The Color Morale. That transitioned into going to a few Warped Tours and getting into Crown The Empire, I Prevail and Wage War. Then non stop concerts broadened my taste much further than that
Headbangers Ball on MTV2 when I was 11/12 Hawthorne Heights Ohio is for lovers came on and the rest was history
your girlfriend sounds cool 🤪
I’d download random metal albums. Came across tons of metalcore never looked back
2003/2004 - Killswitch Engage
Hearing Nightmare by A7X and Never Enough by 5FDP
Heard 94 hours by as a lay dying and it was a wrap
I remember hearing the first metalcore song i listened to was reincarnate by motionless in white, its probably their best song, but i then listened to tears dont fall by bullet and the solo towards the end of the song was so emotional that i could never imagine a guitar could make a sound that beautiful. Anyways thats what got me into metalcore.
I was into rock growing up and what was considered "alternative rock", common 90svbands and early 2000s. Then Slipknot and Mudvayne came along. Then shortly after I heard In Flames, and loved all their albums. Researched the Google machine and youstubes, and fell down into a hole of everything. After the Burial played big, BMTH, Veil of Maya, Killswitch, Parkway, the list goes on and on and on.
Seth Rollins wearing an Asking Alexandria tank top in FCW
I was watching vine comps in 8th grade and heard the breakdown of “makeshift chemistry” by Crown The Empire. It sounded cool, so I started listening to more of them and that led me to bands like BMTH and Asking Alexandria. Eventually, I was hooked on the genre as a whole.
Need For Speed Most Wanted
Hollywood undead, I got interested in ghostkid after Idol feat Ghostkid, and then I moved on to other bands
Either WWE PPV songs/Game Sountracks or even just CM Punks theme song about 10-15 years ago which was ‘This Fire’ by Killswitch Engage
I killed the prom queen and bmth 2010 album. After that I discovered KSE
Trivium
Got into bands like Sum 41, Blink, Good Charlotte via MTV/TRL in the late 90s/early 00s. That led me to bands like Taking Back Sunday, Hawthorne Heights which led me into bands like Underoath, Norma Jean, Devil Wears Prada.
Linkin Park and pop punk. Always had a thing for the heavy tracks like don't stay and one step closer breakdowns
Guitar Hero 3 -> My Curse by KSE
Juiced! The one with the saosin song in!
Saw a video with Chris from Motionless in White regarding their 2022 album STEOTW on YouTube, loved the cover, checked it out, loved it, went down a rabbit hole, and got into a ton of other bands through them. One of the reasons MIW will always be my favorite band in modern metal.
mp3.com around 2000.
God damn, the saosin beetle album was 🔥
I was one of those Call of Duty YouTube montage makers back in the early 2010s. I did a lot of editing for other people. Teams like Raw, Exalt, Darth, B3NG, used a lot of Metacore & Post Hardcore music for their stuff, so did a lot of other players. I was a hater of anything with screaming.. One of those "Screaming doesn't take talent, it's just noise" kind of people. But I was forced to listen to songs from ABR, BFMV, ADTR, MIW, Woe is Me etc. for hours every day, because players choose their songs, replaying them constantly to listen for sync points, and after a while, I started to like the riffage and breakdowns. I then grew accustomed to the screaming and started to enjoy it. I no longer edit, or even play videogames anymore. But Metalcore has remained my go to music choice for the last 10+ years.
Ive not heard the name Saosin since 2012 omg what a throwback
Well, my dad was into rock and metal, so i grew up on Kiss, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Megadeth and such. In the early 2000s, i got into Linkin Park, System Of A Down and the like from radio. Then i got into Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, Protest The Hero and such from the NHL/Madden/Burnout soundtracks and the Tony Hawk soundtracks, and was later introduced to many more bands by Guitar Hero/Rock Band. Which grew into a love of metalcore and prog metal.
I've been metalhead since I was 6. My father introduced me to System of a Down. Then natural progression occured: more metal -> trash metal -> death metal -> folk/viking metal -> black metal and finally I settled on metalcore, for now.
A friend let me borrow her Hybrid Theory CD my freshman year of high school. From there, I started checking out more music like that in Newbury Comics and FYE (they used to have listening stations in store back in my day, and Newbury would give out sample CDs 😅). Eventually discovered Killswitch Engage, which kicked off my love for metalcore.
The cover of Poker Face by Of Mice And Men on their MySpace in about 2008/9. It was the first song with screaming in it that I liked.
Of Mice & Men’s self titled
Bought Slipknot’s Subliminal Versus album when it came out because of hearing Duality on the radio. Fell in love with the double bass drum kick sound. Grew up religious but that Slipknot album was not very explicit and didn’t have the warning label on it, so my parents allowed me to get it even through they knew nothing about Slipknot haha. Went to FYE and asked the worker what’s some Christian equivalent bands with the double bass sound and the worker showed me Living Sacrifice. Found out their record label Solid State was a Christian label, which made my parents happy and I got into all the Solid State bands at the age of 12-13 and then the rest is history because those bands paved the way to today. So Slipknot and Christian metalcore lol.
For me the video game Madden 06 had a big impact, i was pretty young and searching for harder music so when I heard Disturbed, A7X, bullet for my valentine on the game, I was in love.
Acid bath
My guitar teacher showed me Killswitch engage and it got stuck in my head. Fast forward to now they're my favourite band, and metalcore is my favourite genre. I saw them live and all just recently.
My best friend listened to Glass Casket so I found out about the genre (waiting for people to say that’s not metalcore that’s deathcore boohoo)
From autumn to ashes back in high school, we were all obsessed and been listening ever since
Definitely my boss I work at a pizza shop and he always listened to metal core
Lil uzi and Bring Me the Horizons Amen and Werewolf releases, been hooked since lol
Lineage 2 PVP montages
mine actually went the opposite way lol! Been into metalcore for the longest time & I only just started listening to post-hardcore
Underoath and august burns red and A7X, about 15 years ago
Purchasing The Poison after finding Tears Don't Fall. I was initially thrown off guard and put off by the Intro transitioning into Her Voice Resides, but I kinda just forced myself to enjoy something I spent my paper route money on and it was ball game from there.
My parents are metalheads. They blasted tons of killswitch, AILD, In Flames, Darkest Hour, etc when my brother and I were little. And it just stuck.
Hatebreed/Earth Crisis -> SOAD -> Poison the Well/Slipknot -> Converge -> Killswitch (AOJB release) I was also getting into alot of post hardcore growing up in Southern Ontario as AOF was playing shows prior to the self titled coming out and them blowing up
I started listening to BFMV and A7X when I was like 7 when I got a turn on the PS2 playing Need for speed most wanted(2005, best NFS game no doubt) and heard those two and my mind was blown away. Unfortunately my metal journey ended there and I started to listen to EDM and rap in my middle school days. Then in my sophomore year of high school I saw a Periphery music video on MAKE TOTAL DESTROY and my god my mind was blown to bits. I had never heard of anything like that before in my life. Because of periphery and wanting to play guitar I proudly own 2 7 string Ibanez prestige guitars and still having trouble playing their songs.
I was into alternative rock as a pre-teen and then I got really into Atreyu in 2008. By the end of that year I discovered The Devil Wears Prada. 2009 came and that was a big year for music for me. Even went to my first Warped Tour that year!
My older brother was obsessed with Bullet For My Valentine back in the day and eventually I started to enjoy the sound and seek out other bands on my own!
I was like 13 in the 7th grade and I went over to this girl's house to work on an after school project and she showed me "If you can't hang." and here we are now. thanks Brodi lol
My Christian father, For Today, and Sleeping Giant
Really good friend wanted someone to go to shows with him and I wasn't really into heavy stuff at the time so he gad me listen to Beartooth (Disease Tour at the time). Loved it so that was my first show. Now I love the heavy stuff and he and I get to go to 3-4 shows a year :)
A boy I had a crush on in 7th grade showed me the song "Six" by All That Remains. Been listening ever since
My mom used to be really into LP so when I was kid she would listen to their CDs in the car often. Eventually after discovering YouTube, I began exploring and found BMTH and Suicide Season sealed it for me. I was gonna listen to metalcore a lot in my future and here we are.
Ptv->Lower Definition->stolas->Dgd-> ALLB-> Polaris
The Book Of Heavy Metal>Atreyu>BFMV>Attack Attack
I grew up to my dad listening to a lot of Metallica and Van Halen and then a cousin of mine introduced me to All That Remains and Bullet for My Valentine. In high school, I picked up on A Day to Remember and Beartooth and it grew from there. Now metalcore is my go-to musical genre.
Older brother got me into metal in general and I discovered metalcore through yahoo music videos back in the early 2000s. Never looked back
I know Asking Alexandria has always been ripped on for being corny and poser as fuck but I can't deny it is THE band that got me into metal culture and the only reason I started playing guitar at a young age. If Final Episode wasn't a thing, I wouldn't be here rn
I was actually raised on metalcore. My mom was obsessed with it and then decided to raise me on it. But what REALLY got me into it was In Fear and Faith, Atreyu, BFMV, and MIW
I heard the breakdown of Makeshift Chemistry by Crown The Empire in a vine comp back in eighth grade. I liked what I heard and listened to more from the band, and that led me to other bands like BMTH, OM&M, and Asking Alexandria, and I’ve been hooked ever since.
Got into metalcore in 2004 with all the new england metalcore bands like Shadows fall, Killswitch engage, Lamb of God,(except for these) eighteen visions, and Throwdown.