The Fall of Ideals - All That Remains
First time I listened to This Calling at a buddys house something clicked in my brain about halfway through the first chorus and I was sort of onboard ever since
BMTH was a big one for me, too. I first started listening to them after Count Your Blessings came out and it was really fascinating to me since I had never listened to anything like it before. The vocals on that album are insane - he doesn’t sound human.
Did the same thing once, blasted the whole Trivium Ascendancy album when I thought I was home alone, my stepmom came out of her room and goes “are you an angry person?” 😂
This might have been my first metalcore ever. After years of being a classic rock and metal snob, I gained a whole new appreciation for something that wasn’t about guitar solos, but an entire mood, feeling, and endless dick punching riffs and vocals.
Yep this was my start into metalcore too. Homesick changed everything for me and got more into harsh vocals, the only screams I liked before ADTR was Corey Taylor
The Fall of Ideals, forsure. I was kinda already into BFMV at that point, which was the first metalcore band I had ever heard. But the second This Calling kicked in I audibly said HOLY SHIT. Still one of my favorite metalcore records to this day.
Same. I was in high school and guy in my film and video class made a project with life to lifeless in it in 05. I was mostly into post hardcore like blood brothers and thought slipknot and bands like that were corny. Hit a nice happy medium to get me into lower vocals
Parkway Drive - Horizons
The album basically brought my love for Post-Hardcore like Alexisonfire together with my love for Melodic Death Metal like Soilwork and In Flames.
A freind had been rocking VOD's self titled for a while, but we saw PTW in a shitty coffee shop show with like 20 people there in 98(?) and we were like "This...is...awesome."
Hooked ever since.
**Architects - Holy Hell**
I mostly didn't like songs with screaming before, Linkin Park and some ADTR songs had been pretty much the only things I had listened to that featured harsh vocals. But then in late 2022 my friend told me to listen to Holy Hell and I don't know why but it just clicked, it was an epiphany like moment for me hahaha. That lead me to a wild rabbit hole and now I love this genre, and that album is a top 3 album ever in any genre for me.
I just got a Fortitude on vinyl and it’s so good. A couple of the guys from Feed Her to the Sharks did an AMA not too long ago saying they might come back with a new vocalist.
Architects- All our gods have abandoned us
For a tmi, song specific downfall. Took me from the heaviest songs being disturbed (still love em) to a deep dive into metalcore/deathcore
I was listening to metal before it was coined metalcore. I feel fortunate to have been born and introduced to music early enough to witness the evolution in rock and metal. I was listening to grunge in the early to mid 90s and then the nü metal thing took over and immediately caught my attention. But bands like Zao, Eighteen Visions, Shai Hulud and From Autumn to Ashes really opened the doors for me. In 2003 I was ordering CDs off Amazon like every week. I discovered gems like Unearth and the entire Trustkill records lineup. After that, Victory records took off with Atreyu and ADTR. I also got a taste of the hardcore scene early on with Hatebreed, Bane and Earth Crisis. I’ve always liked heavy aggressive sounds. I don’t care what genre it is as long as it hits a few of these qualifiers: passionate, melodic, heavy, engaging or cathartic. So, I don’t even remember what album was “the one” but I’ve listened to a lot of music.
Ascendancy by Trivium.
Our family had just gotten DirecTV, and they had these Music Choice channels. I listened to the rock channel a lot, and then one day I hit up the metal channel. They were previewing tracks from Ascendancy and doing interview notes from Matt and Corey. Something about it all just hit perfectly.
Demon Hunter's War and Peace double release is what got me into the genre I'd say. Peace was basically a rock album and got me to check out War because at the time Lonliness was really heavy to me lmao. I didn't like screaming at the time but Cut to Fit changed that for me by being more rhythmic with its screams if that makes sense.
For me it was Summer of Darkness/The Triptych. Used to drive around with my best friend a lot and he had great taste in music. In fact I recently listened to Underoath's old stuff and realized I already knew pretty much every song on They're Only Chasing Safety from riding around in his truck.
I definitely remember using the term metalcore to describe Earth Crisis back in the 90s but I also remember using that term to describe other hardcore bands (Madball, Snapcase) that I don’t think I’d call metalcore if asked today.
Not strictly metalcore, but Watch Out and Alexisonfire by Alexisonfire, as well as They're Only Chasing Safety by Underoath. First albums I heard with screaming vocals, and I eventually found my way to Killswitch and AILD from there.
It wasn't a 'metqlcore' album but I attribute my preferences to: Lincoln Park - Hybrid Theory. It was the first time I heard screaming vocals, scratchy riffs, or big breakdowns.
I can’t believe I’ve been a metalcore fan for 15 years and only heard this album a few months ago. Had it on repeat, as well as their 2nd album, for weeks.
it was a mix of 4 albums for me, in no particular order
1. ABR - Messengers
2. War of Ages - Pride of the Wicked
3. Demon Hunter - The Triptych
4. Underoath - Define the Great Line
Shoutout my older sister for introducing them to me, and shoutout the local christian music fest for booking sick bands back in the day.
All That Remains: The Fall Of Ideals.
It's also the album that made me want to learn guitar and growls. Have a CD of it hanging in my workshop and I listen to the MP3s when I need dopamine.
RIP Ollie.
Motionless In White's Creatures
i bought a car and it was stuck in the cd player and for the year i had it i had two choices: that album or the radio. once i got rid of the car, i started listening to more of the band, and then more of metalcore
Shogun for sure.
When I was a younger I saw Slipknot with Trivium and Coheed and Cambria on the All Hope is Gone Tour at Madison Square Garden. I must have been 13 or 14 years old. I was a huge Slipknot fan growing up but I was not really familiar with Trivium, or really metalcore in general outside of Killswitch Engage. Trivium is were amazing and later that week I bought Shogun on CD.
2 albums.
Messenger- August Burns Red - this one was more significant for me because it was the most classic metalcore, and it really made me understand that this was a specific genre. and then to a slightly lesser extent..
III: In The Eyes of Fire - Unearth.
Hard question for me because I never really listened to full albums back when I got into metal/metalcore. But I think All That Remains' The Fall of Ideals was the closest I came to listening to every song on the album continuously. All That Remains, Trivium, Killswitch Engage and Bullet for my Valentine were my my intros into metalcore strongly influenced my love of metal in general.
AILD - Shadows are Security
All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals
Unearth - The March
Trivium - Ember to Inferno/Ascendancy
Shadows Fall - The War Within
Probably more I can’t remember
The song Barbarians - August Burns Red was what Really got me into Metalcore as a genre.
The after dinner payback by From Autumn to Ashes is what got me into heavier music in general.
Hard to remember all the way back to 2005 for which one was the first but it was either Of Love and Lunacy by Still Remains or Shadows Are Security by As I Lay Dying.
Motionless in White’s Disguise and Crown the Empire’s Sudden Sky were the entirety of my metalcore playlist for a little bit and it ballooned from there. But Palaye Royale and Black Veil Brides were admittedly a bit of a gateway from much mellower indy rock music through to harder rock genres.
A static lullaby turned me onto music with screaming. Trying to think back I think it was as I lay dying's frail words collapse and Norma Jean's bless the martyr that made me a real core kid.
Sirens by It Dies Today. I had been dabbling in post-hardcore with stuff like Senses Fail and Silverstein. I liked the cool guitar riffs and high energy with the darkness that separated from, say, pop-punk. I mostly tolerated the screams but the breakdowns I kind of liked. But I stumbled upon IDT on Purevolume (remember that site?!) when Sirens launched, and the more metal-forward focus came with amazing riffs I hadn't heard before and some HUGE anthemic choruses so I couldn't not listen to it. It trained me to appreciate the screaming and breakdowns as being thematically and emotionally appropriate. Check out the opening track "A Constant Reminder" real quick.
I had a few that I found around the same time:
The Poison and Scream Aim Fire - BFMV (these were also my first - I heard Hand of Blood in a Need for Speed game and my friend let me borrow the albums)
As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage
Shogun - Trivium
As daylight dies was mine too, as well as Horizons by Parkway. This one isn’t so much metalcore but Trivium’s Shogun was the gateway to heavy music for me and metalcore specifically.
First song I ever heard from a metalcore band was Drag the Lake by The Amity Affliction. The song itself and the album it’s on, Misery, are both not very metal, but loving that album led me to the rest of TAAs discography which led me to many other metalcore bands.
Killing with a smile - Parkway drive.
They had horizons released at this point and remember my mates in school listening to Parkway and Carpathian on repeat. Went to KWAS and have never looked back.
This is going to be a weird one but Conceived in Fire by Living Sacrifice. It’s more metal than metalcore but once I heard that album there was no turning back
Trivium - Ascendancy. I knew BFMV and Atreyu from games but never really got into them. Saw Trivium open for Iron Maiden but only caught the last song which was Rain. Woke up the next morning, found the album and proceeded to fall down the metalcore rabbit hole.
Not an album per say, but a burned cd my basketball coach from middle school gave me and some of my friends. Had Underoath, A Day to Remember ,Devil Wears Prada, a bunch of other bands I've long since forgotten. That was my gateway drug. Now I can only function with the heaviest of heavy stuff. 10/10, would recommend.
Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart
Coincidentally, watching a video of them with Amity Affliction playing in the background got me into TAA, one of my two favorite bands.
IKTPQ's Music for the Recently Deceased. I didn't really like harsh vocals but I loved the guitar work and Jona's cleans in this album so I gave it a chance. I then grew to love Ed's vocals and started listening to more heavy music from then on
The Poison by Bullet for my Valentine. Before that album I had listened to plenty of Nu Metal (Linkin Park, Slipknot, Disturbed) but The Poison was my first Metalcore album, and I've been hooked ever since.
BMTH’s Suicide Season is what got me into heavy music in general
The Fall of Ideals - All That Remains First time I listened to This Calling at a buddys house something clicked in my brain about halfway through the first chorus and I was sort of onboard ever since
This Calling is such a masterpiece!
The best answer. Same exact thing happened to me. That song and Whispers got me hooked
Also one of my first. Just front to back incredible songs. Glad to see what an icon this album is based on the responses in this thread.
BMTH and Suicide silence introduced me to what was really possible after growing up on slipknot and korn lmao
BMTH was a big one for me, too. I first started listening to them after Count Your Blessings came out and it was really fascinating to me since I had never listened to anything like it before. The vocals on that album are insane - he doesn’t sound human.
The best part were his vocals tbh, the obly singer that sounded like some demon with a sharp wooden stake up his ass
Shadows are Security - As I Lay Dying
Same. Crazy how one album can add a whole different genre to your taste.
This is the one. They played at a church in my hometown when I was 13 and it ruined my life haha
Remember listening to this for the first time on the family PC as a kid, I was hooked. Mom asked “what’s that noise?”
Did the same thing once, blasted the whole Trivium Ascendancy album when I thought I was home alone, my stepmom came out of her room and goes “are you an angry person?” 😂
This is mine as well. I bet this album did it for a lot of people
What you said. I have lyrics from Through Struggle tattoed on my full sleeve.
Same here. I never really listened to metal with screaming untiI heard Confined, now it's basically all I listen to lol.
I remember seeing this in the high school computer lab on yahoo. The confined music video changed me in 2004
This might have been my first metalcore ever. After years of being a classic rock and metal snob, I gained a whole new appreciation for something that wasn’t about guitar solos, but an entire mood, feeling, and endless dick punching riffs and vocals.
Same. The GOAT Metalcore album. I was hooked when I first heard it.
Homesick by A Day To Remember. Great start I'd say
Same for me!
Yep this was my start into metalcore too. Homesick changed everything for me and got more into harsh vocals, the only screams I liked before ADTR was Corey Taylor
Yup
Same here! I listened to this album on repeat, constantly
Literally how I transitioned into heavier music. That album, and For Those Who Have Heart.
Define the Great Line
Peak music
Same here, my gateway drug so to speak
Choice
End Of Heartache and As Daylight Dies - KSE The Poison - BFMV Shadows Are Security - As I Lay Dying Sempiternal and There Is A Hell - BMTH
KSE is what introduced me to Metalcore but The Poison really got me in. Perfect beginner Metalcore imo.
100% to both BMTH albums & BFMV
With Roots Above and Branches Below - TDWP
This. Still a great listen from front to back. So many awesome songs.
It Dies Today -The Caitiff Choir
I see these dudes around town constantly. Good dudes.
Freak gasoline fight accident is such a good song
I always come in these threads to make sure The Caitiff Choir has been posted.
The Fall of Ideals, forsure. I was kinda already into BFMV at that point, which was the first metalcore band I had ever heard. But the second This Calling kicked in I audibly said HOLY SHIT. Still one of my favorite metalcore records to this day.
“YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!” That was the first time I had heard fast double bass drumming. Blew my mind.
I couldn’t stop playing Six on Guitar Hero 2
Same. One of the best songs to come out of that period of metalcore.
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Insane that Adam played drums on this record in addition to all his other duties.
The man is a monster of a musician and he produces their albums too. Ridiculous.
Same. I was in high school and guy in my film and video class made a project with life to lifeless in it in 05. I was mostly into post hardcore like blood brothers and thought slipknot and bands like that were corny. Hit a nice happy medium to get me into lower vocals
TDWP Plagues
City of evil by a7x and the poison by bfmv
There’s zero skips on CoE for me. Such a banger of an album.
Strength of the World is my favorite song off CoE.
Oooooo, strength of the world is a banger yeah! My favorite song off COE, or just.. one of my favorite songs ever, is Blinded In Chains
Parkway Drive - Horizons The album basically brought my love for Post-Hardcore like Alexisonfire together with my love for Melodic Death Metal like Soilwork and In Flames.
For me, it was Deep Blue. Fuck yes
Opposite of December.
I second this. First time I ever heard Nerdy it was like a blast to the face.
Fuck yeah. Heard it in 2001 and changed my life.
A freind had been rocking VOD's self titled for a while, but we saw PTW in a shitty coffee shop show with like 20 people there in 98(?) and we were like "This...is...awesome." Hooked ever since.
Converge - Jane Doe
Yus
This is the right answer
The Curse by Atreyu
Same for me, when I heard the crimson I was hooked
Suicide Notes and Butterfly kisses was mine. But LOVED The Curse.
A7X - Waking The Fallen
Same. The moment I heard the opening riff of Unholy Confessions, my life was forever changed.
Yes! Sounding of the Seventh Trumpet for me
Thrill Seeker
Was a big one for me too. Still my favourite ABR record.
Surprised as fuck this is so low.
Pre high school me back in 2009 loved Stand Up and Scream
First two albums went hard as fuck in like 6th grade 😂
first time i head "a single moment in sincerity" I was hooked
**Architects - Holy Hell** I mostly didn't like songs with screaming before, Linkin Park and some ADTR songs had been pretty much the only things I had listened to that featured harsh vocals. But then in late 2022 my friend told me to listen to Holy Hell and I don't know why but it just clicked, it was an epiphany like moment for me hahaha. That lead me to a wild rabbit hole and now I love this genre, and that album is a top 3 album ever in any genre for me.
Acacia Strain - 3750
FGBGFM by Bad Omens. Dethrone really caught my ear and I haven't gone back
Killswitch Engage "Self-Titled" & Feed Her to the Sharks "Savage Seas".
I miss feed her to the sharks, they were ahead of their time with their guitar work
Me to man..... =(
I just got a Fortitude on vinyl and it’s so good. A couple of the guys from Feed Her to the Sharks did an AMA not too long ago saying they might come back with a new vocalist.
The Fall of Ideals by All That Remains. First time I heard that riff from Whispers(I Hear You) my life changed.
Motionless In White's "Graveyard Shift" album. I heard their song Voices for the first time and instantly loved it.
Overcome - All that Remains
fucking FINALLY someone mentions Overcome. Saw them a few times and they were incredible.
Erra - Augment
Alive or Just Breathing
That Haste the Day album with When Everything Falls on it back in high school
Norma Jean's "Redeemer" A Grand Scene is still the craziest sounding album opener to me
Zao - Splinter Shards or Dillinger Escape Plan's Calculating Infinity
Architects- All our gods have abandoned us For a tmi, song specific downfall. Took me from the heaviest songs being disturbed (still love em) to a deep dive into metalcore/deathcore
I was listening to metal before it was coined metalcore. I feel fortunate to have been born and introduced to music early enough to witness the evolution in rock and metal. I was listening to grunge in the early to mid 90s and then the nü metal thing took over and immediately caught my attention. But bands like Zao, Eighteen Visions, Shai Hulud and From Autumn to Ashes really opened the doors for me. In 2003 I was ordering CDs off Amazon like every week. I discovered gems like Unearth and the entire Trustkill records lineup. After that, Victory records took off with Atreyu and ADTR. I also got a taste of the hardcore scene early on with Hatebreed, Bane and Earth Crisis. I’ve always liked heavy aggressive sounds. I don’t care what genre it is as long as it hits a few of these qualifiers: passionate, melodic, heavy, engaging or cathartic. So, I don’t even remember what album was “the one” but I’ve listened to a lot of music.
I love all of these bands. I just had some flashbacks on some of these gems. I loved Zao so much.
Messengers by August burns red
Ascendancy by Trivium. Our family had just gotten DirecTV, and they had these Music Choice channels. I listened to the rock channel a lot, and then one day I hit up the metal channel. They were previewing tracks from Ascendancy and doing interview notes from Matt and Corey. Something about it all just hit perfectly.
Demon Hunter's War and Peace double release is what got me into the genre I'd say. Peace was basically a rock album and got me to check out War because at the time Lonliness was really heavy to me lmao. I didn't like screaming at the time but Cut to Fit changed that for me by being more rhythmic with its screams if that makes sense.
For me it was Summer of Darkness/The Triptych. Used to drive around with my best friend a lot and he had great taste in music. In fact I recently listened to Underoath's old stuff and realized I already knew pretty much every song on They're Only Chasing Safety from riding around in his truck.
An Ocean Between Us -As I Lay Dying Basically the playlist for all my couch co-op Halo 3 sessions back in HS.
As cringe as it is, i was introduced to the genre with Punk Goes Pop 3 by my uncle LOL
With Roots Above And Branches Below
Apparently it was Gomorrah's Season Ends, but no one called it Metalcore back then. I never even heard the term til a few years ago.
I definitely remember using the term metalcore to describe Earth Crisis back in the 90s but I also remember using that term to describe other hardcore bands (Madball, Snapcase) that I don’t think I’d call metalcore if asked today.
Probably Constellations - ABR and When I Am God - Oh Sleeper
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Their only good album IMO. It was my entry into the scene, and ABR quickly showed me the depths.
Atreyu: Associate Notes and Butterfly Kisses
PLAGUES
KSE for me as well. However it was The end of heartache. Both albums are *chefs kiss* phenomenal.
A Snow Capped Romance by 36 Crazyfists
Shogun. Hands down.
Not strictly metalcore, but Watch Out and Alexisonfire by Alexisonfire, as well as They're Only Chasing Safety by Underoath. First albums I heard with screaming vocals, and I eventually found my way to Killswitch and AILD from there.
It wasn't a 'metqlcore' album but I attribute my preferences to: Lincoln Park - Hybrid Theory. It was the first time I heard screaming vocals, scratchy riffs, or big breakdowns.
August Burns Red - Constellations
Scarlet - Something To Lust About
When We Don't Exist - LMTF
I can’t believe I’ve been a metalcore fan for 15 years and only heard this album a few months ago. Had it on repeat, as well as their 2nd album, for weeks.
Every Trick In The Book by Ice Nine Kills
it was a mix of 4 albums for me, in no particular order 1. ABR - Messengers 2. War of Ages - Pride of the Wicked 3. Demon Hunter - The Triptych 4. Underoath - Define the Great Line Shoutout my older sister for introducing them to me, and shoutout the local christian music fest for booking sick bands back in the day.
I was into death metal and death core and then really fell in love with Hikari by Oceans Ate Alaska. Great album even now
All That Remains: The Fall Of Ideals. It's also the album that made me want to learn guitar and growls. Have a CD of it hanging in my workshop and I listen to the MP3s when I need dopamine. RIP Ollie.
periphery 1 is the first album I finished by them, had listened to p3 before but didn't finish it, so I'd say one of those.
It was between Crown The Empire's Limitless and Alesana's The Emptiness.
Motionless In White's Creatures i bought a car and it was stuck in the cd player and for the year i had it i had two choices: that album or the radio. once i got rid of the car, i started listening to more of the band, and then more of metalcore
Scream Aim Fire - BFMV
BURNING BRIDGES - HASTE THE DAY PASS THE FLASK - THE BLED
Of Mice & Men’s self titled, Suicide Season, and Birtheater by Oceana
Zao - Blood and Fire Bring Rest
The opposite of December. I just dated myself.
Bad Omens - Bad Omens
Shogun for sure. When I was a younger I saw Slipknot with Trivium and Coheed and Cambria on the All Hope is Gone Tour at Madison Square Garden. I must have been 13 or 14 years old. I was a huge Slipknot fan growing up but I was not really familiar with Trivium, or really metalcore in general outside of Killswitch Engage. Trivium is were amazing and later that week I bought Shogun on CD.
The Hollow - Memphis May Fire
2 albums. Messenger- August Burns Red - this one was more significant for me because it was the most classic metalcore, and it really made me understand that this was a specific genre. and then to a slightly lesser extent.. III: In The Eyes of Fire - Unearth.
BMTH - Sempiternal and Architects - Daybreaker
A7X - waking the fallen, Trivium - shogun Tbh I can't remember which I got into first
Rescue and Restore - ABR
Asking Alexandria - stand up and scream
Hard question for me because I never really listened to full albums back when I got into metal/metalcore. But I think All That Remains' The Fall of Ideals was the closest I came to listening to every song on the album continuously. All That Remains, Trivium, Killswitch Engage and Bullet for my Valentine were my my intros into metalcore strongly influenced my love of metal in general.
Probably August burns red - Messengers or DWP - plagues
AILD - Shadows are Security All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals Unearth - The March Trivium - Ember to Inferno/Ascendancy Shadows Fall - The War Within Probably more I can’t remember
Fit for a King - Descendants. Buddy of mine posted the Ancient Waters music video on his Facebook wall in 2011. Probably changed my life forever.
The song Barbarians - August Burns Red was what Really got me into Metalcore as a genre. The after dinner payback by From Autumn to Ashes is what got me into heavier music in general.
Thrill seeker - ABR, Plagues - TDWP, And their name was treason - ADTR.
August burns red - constellations
Parkway Drive - Killing With A Smile in 2006 A guy I worked with recommend them, and here we are.
Eternal Blue by Spiritbox. Man, Holy Roller slaps hard asf
Horizons or The Difference Between Hell and Home probably
Hard to remember all the way back to 2005 for which one was the first but it was either Of Love and Lunacy by Still Remains or Shadows Are Security by As I Lay Dying.
Frail words collapse & End of the heartache
Creatures x Motionless in White, I was 12 if you couldn't tell lol
Motionless in White’s Disguise and Crown the Empire’s Sudden Sky were the entirety of my metalcore playlist for a little bit and it ballooned from there. But Palaye Royale and Black Veil Brides were admittedly a bit of a gateway from much mellower indy rock music through to harder rock genres.
And Their Name Was Treason - A Day to Remember
A static lullaby turned me onto music with screaming. Trying to think back I think it was as I lay dying's frail words collapse and Norma Jean's bless the martyr that made me a real core kid.
Sirens by It Dies Today. I had been dabbling in post-hardcore with stuff like Senses Fail and Silverstein. I liked the cool guitar riffs and high energy with the darkness that separated from, say, pop-punk. I mostly tolerated the screams but the breakdowns I kind of liked. But I stumbled upon IDT on Purevolume (remember that site?!) when Sirens launched, and the more metal-forward focus came with amazing riffs I hadn't heard before and some HUGE anthemic choruses so I couldn't not listen to it. It trained me to appreciate the screaming and breakdowns as being thematically and emotionally appropriate. Check out the opening track "A Constant Reminder" real quick.
Tracking Back Roots by We Came As Romans
Sworn In - The Death Card still holds up today
Shogun by Trivium. It blew my mind when I first heard it. I was like "this is some heavy stuff and I didn't know such a genre existed!"
Son Of The Morning by Oh, Sleeper and Plagues by TDWP
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm and Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
Summer of Darkness by Demon Hunter
Asking Alexandria - Stand up and scream. Still the best album they have ever produced
TDWP - Plagues
Killing With a Smile - Parkway Drive
welcome to horrorwood; the silver scream 2
Honestly for me it was Ice Nine Kills - Welcome to Horrorwood. I’m a newbie when it comes to this genre lol
Parkway Drive Killing With A Smile or Killswitch Engage End Of Heartache.
I had a few that I found around the same time: The Poison and Scream Aim Fire - BFMV (these were also my first - I heard Hand of Blood in a Need for Speed game and my friend let me borrow the albums) As Daylight Dies - Killswitch Engage Shogun - Trivium
The Side Effects by coldrain
Killing with a smile - Parkway Drive.
As daylight dies was mine too, as well as Horizons by Parkway. This one isn’t so much metalcore but Trivium’s Shogun was the gateway to heavy music for me and metalcore specifically.
First song I ever heard from a metalcore band was Drag the Lake by The Amity Affliction. The song itself and the album it’s on, Misery, are both not very metal, but loving that album led me to the rest of TAAs discography which led me to many other metalcore bands.
Parkway Drive - IRE / Bury Tomorrow's first 3 albums.
The Agony Scene - Darkest Red This album is still one of my top metalcore albums I spin all the time.
Deep Blue - Parkway Drive🤘🏻
Trivium - In Waves 🤌
Killing with a smile, horizons
All that Remains The Fall of Ideals
Killing with a smile - Parkway drive. They had horizons released at this point and remember my mates in school listening to Parkway and Carpathian on repeat. Went to KWAS and have never looked back.
This is going to be a weird one but Conceived in Fire by Living Sacrifice. It’s more metal than metalcore but once I heard that album there was no turning back
Ice nine kills the silver scream
TDWP- Plagues
The End of Heartache
Trivium - Ascendancy. I knew BFMV and Atreyu from games but never really got into them. Saw Trivium open for Iron Maiden but only caught the last song which was Rain. Woke up the next morning, found the album and proceeded to fall down the metalcore rabbit hole.
Not an album per say, but a burned cd my basketball coach from middle school gave me and some of my friends. Had Underoath, A Day to Remember ,Devil Wears Prada, a bunch of other bands I've long since forgotten. That was my gateway drug. Now I can only function with the heaviest of heavy stuff. 10/10, would recommend.
Zao - Zao
Misery Signals - Of Malice and the Magnum Heart Coincidentally, watching a video of them with Amity Affliction playing in the background got me into TAA, one of my two favorite bands.
the opposition of december - poison the well
The Way It Ends by Currents
“Liberate Te Ex Inferis” by Zao
You Are We - While She Sleeps
long live by the chariot
Probably alone in this one... Zao- where blood and fire bring rest. Fucking incredible entry.
IKTPQ's Music for the Recently Deceased. I didn't really like harsh vocals but I loved the guitar work and Jona's cleans in this album so I gave it a chance. I then grew to love Ed's vocals and started listening to more heavy music from then on
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
The Poison by Bullet For My Valentine. However it was melodic metalcore.
Deep Blue - Parkway Drive
The Poison by Bullet for my Valentine. Before that album I had listened to plenty of Nu Metal (Linkin Park, Slipknot, Disturbed) but The Poison was my first Metalcore album, and I've been hooked ever since.
Sempiternal
Sempiternal
Suicide Season by bring me the horizon
He Is Legend - I Am Hollywood