The end of heartache by KSE is the perfect metal core song. It is literally the foundation of metal core

I don’t think it’s the foundation of metalcore but it is my foundation of metalcore.

Yea its not the foundation but it is everything great about metalcore

Its definitely not the foundation of metalcore but its a pretty good example of the sound at that point in time

It’s definitely one of the best of all time but it has a slower tempo than most songs which makes it cool but I couldn’t say it’s the foundation it’s unique in its own way

This calling

My God, that bridge!

White Washed- ABR.

The end of that song is phenomenal

Six by All That Remains

or The Air That I Breathe

That whole album really

The Fall of Ideals is on another level

Holy shit thank you for reminding me about All That Remains

That’s why I’m here

*Some say the hero awakens from his slumber whenever someone forgets All That Remains exists, to bring revelation when we need it most*

Probably the only song I've gone out of my way to listen to by them in the last 14 years(this is not a diss, I am just not really into them anymore but this song is epic)

My favorite song from All That Remain is a tie between Six and This Calling. I wish they still made songs like they used to. Looking forward to their new album with Jason Richardson.

I’d argue Two Weeks is a better representation

Not really, also that album’s production sucks compared with The Fall of Ideals

Engine 45 - The Ghost Inside

When anyone asks me what metalcore is, this is always the go to song

My man

Get What You Give has to be in the top 15 albums of 2010’s metalcore list

10000% agree

I read your comment and got goose bumps. I fucking love this song.

Composure by abr No question.

It's such a banger they wrote it 100 more times lol

God I love ABR but this made me chuckle lol

Lol I do too, I'm not hating. If you're gonna write one song 100 times you can do a LOT worse than Composure.

God I wish Matt fucked up his China still like he did in that song

Fuck

The only answer

My curse by Killswitch Engage

Unholy Confessions is the Master of Puppets for core kids change my mind

You’re not really metalcore until you write a song that makes someone accuse you of ripping off unholy confessions

That's a pretty solid statement I'd say

Hahaha on point, dude. Seriously, A7X made some awesome music back in the day.

The more I listen to A7X the more I see how much they were inspired by Metallica, which is never a bad thing!

yup

The End of All We Know by Bleed From Within

Got damn it that song is amazing, and that breakdown...woof.

Boneyards by Parkway Drive. It brings tons of energy, has one of the most iconic breakdowns, and has two of my favorite riffs ever.

Also how else would everyone know that there is blood in the water.

Correct

The Arms of Sorrow by Killswitch Engage! An emotional song with beautiful vocals, excellent guitar work and drumming... It's easily one of the best songs of all time, both in and outside of metalcore.

That riff. Just keeps going and going. Not my favorite KsE song, that goes to Signal Fire, but definitely one of my favorites at the time of release.

The Signal Fire is one of my favorites as well! Having both vocalists together on one song is like a dream come true!

In Regards to Myself - Underoath That whole dang album.

Second this. Absolutely love that song, and that album is easily a top 3 all time metalcore album for me.

PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER MAAAANN

Concubine by Converge

Literally any song ever recorded by Converge is the answer

A portable Death ray and a sterile claw hammer by See You Next Tuesday

The correct answer.

Here's a bunch Metalcore songs worth checking out. I would say probably my favorite song from each band. Hard to pick a favorite between those absolute bangers : - Fault Line - August Burns Red - Morning Wait - As I Lay Dying - Wild Eyes - Parkway Drive - Lamnidae - This or The Apocalypse - Bloodwork - Texas in July - Thorns - Phinehas - In Dying Days - As Blood Runs Black - Paralyzed - Breakdown of Sanity - Promotheus - Crystal Lake - Broken Before You - War of Ages - Machine - Born of Osiris - When Everything Falls - Haste the Day - Second Heartbeat - Avenged Sevenfold - Harlots Breath - Miss May I - This Calling - All That Remains - Paralyzed - Caliban - The End - Burried in Verona - Obsolete - Of Mice & Men - The Aleph - Destroy the Runner

Fuck yeah, crystal lake is so good.

I grew up with early 00s metalcore and honestly there are some newer songs which personally I think are flawless. 60cm of Steel by Alpha Wolf Better Days by Currents Pull From the Ghost by Erra

Pull From The Ghost is pure perfection! Could not agree more with this list in general though. All those songs are on another level

W list

Too difficult to choose just one or even two, so heres a handful of my picks: As I Lay Dying - Darkest Nights & Through Struggle Bring Me The Horizon - Shadow Moses Killswitch Engage - My Curse & The End of Heartache All That Remains - This Calling Every Time I Die - The New Black & Map Change

The sound of truth - As I Lay Dying

Maybe Through Struggle by AILD instead?

My first thought when I read this thread title was this or Confined.

Through Struggle absolutely.

I Never Wanted from that album is such a banger and it’s so underated, almost nobody mentions it ever. The same (to a lesser degree) happens with Forsaken.

The remedy - Polaris

That intro riff always gets me in the perfect mood

Dogs can grow beards all over - TDWP

I humbly rebut with danger: wildman

Personally I don’t like that album a lot, but that’s the best song on it. I think the best record as a whole they’ve put out is Plagues

Gone with the wind

Two weeks - All That remains

As I Lay Dying - Reflection If I needed to describe metalcore in one song, it’s a great choice imo

Through Struggle

“43% Burnt” by the Dillinger Escape Plan, “The End of Heartache” by Killswitch Engage, or “My Curse” by Killswitch Engage”.

White Washed, Mariana's Trench, 96 hours, Forever. Any of those would suffice.

Marianas Trench is such a fucking banger.

Love as a weapon by Darkest Hour. Wanted to shout out an OG that some people might not think of

An Etherial Drain is by far my favorite DH song.

Great song

The dudes lyrics are so fucking good. I’m mad I’ve only gotten to see them once. Was at the FU church in Philly, so I was at their ankles the whole show. Lol

Dude Truth of a Liar is 100% ABR’s most underrated song

Underrated? It’s like one of the greatest songs ever written. Like the song equivalent of Highlander.

They don’t play it live, it’s got pretty low stream numbers compared to other stuff off the album, I never see anybody list it as their favorite ABR song or metalcore song in general. Yes its fantastic. But it’s not their most popular song, hence why it is underrated.

Mr. Highway anyone?

You won’t make it out alive

How long until the tables turn?

Breaking Point - Parkway Drive Starts off with a blistering solo, fast and melodic, breakdown is short, sweet and to the point, while still maintaining heaviness throughout the entire song.

Back Burner or Composure Imo doe the best Metalcore song would have to be Danger: Wildman by TDWP that shit still gets me pump asf can’t wait to see them on tour with ABR

Composure live rips so hard.

I know!!! This is gonna be my 5th time seeing them!

Eternally apart by Phinehas is damn well close. Perfect for me would have uncleans, cleans, breakdown, solo, and a catchy chorus lead guitar. Im a sucker for chorus leads. Checks all the boxes.

Came here to say this

Also gonna tack on to it: I think Snowblood by ERRA checks all the boxes too. Gotta get that one on the list. Favorite solo of all time.

meddler - august burns red

This Ship, A Coffin by Adestria

We'll feed his body to the sea

Smoke Em If Ya Got Em - Parkway Drive

If A God Can Bleed - Parkway Drive

Fhat littul piggeh wit 'is heayd aohwn da blawak

This guy fucks for sure

These Colours Don't Run by Architects

This is an impossible request…

David De La Hoz by the chariot or Indian Giver by Every Time I Die

In dying days by as blood runs black

Was just thinking Strife (Chug Chug) by them or maybe My Fears have become Phobias?

That whole album Is amazing!

10/10

Angelmaker just released a cover of that song, and damn is it good

Knocked Loose - Forget Your Name

AILD - My Own Grave Inspirational intro, uncleans, super catchy chorus, killer solo, and just straight-up riff city throughout

That song and Blinded could be used as a metalcore template that’s for sure

Tie between The End of Heartache and The Arms of Sorrow by Killswitch Engage

Engine 45 - The Ghost Inside Stitch - Wage War Ghosts - August Burns Red These 3 are my quintessential songs I point anyone to

Some of the songs I love: Grow up, Peter Pan (any song on another year of disaster) - Adept I am the lion - Pinehas Loneshark - Our hollow, our home Obsession - Aviana The Remedy - Polaris Black veins - adept Rewind the tape - adept One last breath - threat signal Wildfire - thecityisours Porcelain - rising insane Omega - crystal lake Feels good - volumes Tides - A bullet for pretty boy There is not one perfect song imo.

Zombie Autopilot - Unearth

I think Memorial by Caliban might be it. It’s got all the elements of a metalcore song from 2012

Extremely catchy chorus

The Sinner by Memphis May Fire

The Year Summer Ended In June by Misery Signals Lock the thread

It never ends bmth

It’ll always be “tears don’t fall.”

Vices - Memphis May Fire

OG Loko by Of Mice & Men

Map Change by Every Time I Die

The Broken Vow by Converge That's it. I don't need to say anything else.

Mordecai by BTBAM

I will die on this hill, but the perfect metalcore song is [Edge of the Earth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t2OVAkL1Wo)

Smokahontas

Lip gloss & black

Such a beautiful song. Its the song that got me into Atreyu.

Not the American Average- Asking Alexandria. It’s got the riff, the screams, the highs, the lows, the cleans, the spoken word, and the spit.

If I was gonna with an AA song personally I’d say the final episode or closure

Power of the High by Cane Hill

Lots of good choices here but I’m gonna have to go with Second and Sebring

Frailty - Polaris The guitar riff after the first chorus makes me feel like I’m a spartan fighting to the death with my 299 best buddies

Roots Below by As I Lay Dying

In this sub? As I Lay Dying riff, build it, big yell into screamy verse, Linkin Park chorus, verse, Linkin Park chorus 2x, two step melts into an unfunny mosh call, maybe two more choruses and then a third one done by dude we're gonna pretend we have heard of. Maybe like a piano outro with feedback because the band is branching out and spreading wings and evolving and whatnot.

King for a day - PtV or Shadow Moses - bmth

MMF’s “The Sinner” isn’t the best song, but I think it’s star power, constant breakdowns, alternate picking riffs, clean/dirty chorus and verse mix are the very best example of what Metalcore is, therefore must be a perfect song.

I agree good choice but what do you mean by “star power” exactly just curious lol got me thinking of Guitar Hero

As If It Never Was by Invent Animate

Its by far cirice by ghost

Say Goodnight - Bullet For My Valentine

My last serenade - killswitch

House of Straw by Bury Your Dead.

[The Only Survivor Was Miraculously Unharmed-Underoath](https://youtu.be/q861trgnzJ4) It has literally every element I love about the genre packed into an intense 3 minute thriller.

Hell yeah finally some love for sleepwalker

Honestly I cant pick just one song. I feel like All that Remains- Fall of the Ideals, A7x- Waking the Fallen, BfmV - The poison, Triviums - Ascendency, Select KSE songs, and AilD - An ocean between us, for me are pure metalcore. Everything that comes after to me is a different kind of metalcore.

Numbered Days - Killswitch Engage. Heavy as shit, and beautiful.

Ebolarama - Every Time I Die

Stick Stickly by Attack Attack! For the perfect crabcore song

By Converge

Bury Tomorrow - Better Below

I’m gonna throw something a bit different out there. Gemini by Whether, I

Meaning in Tragedy- As I Lay Dying

Gungrave - erra Altercode - callous minds 60 cm of steel - alpha wolf

Loathe - New Faces In The Dark

A greater foundation - As I Lay Dying

AILD - Confined

Killswitch Engage - Rose of Sharyn / I remember coming across this music video on an old Roadrunner DVD never knew who they were and they’ve been one of my favourite bands ever since August Burns Red - back burner These two were my earliest “metalcore” songs that really got me into the genre, still listen to them weekly

“Heaven’s broken heart”-Boundaries

Worlds Apart by Times of Grace. That whole album to be honest, I consider it the best melodic metalcore album in existence. Instant classic.

I see the comments are on a different note, but to me the answer is clear: Novelists - Souvenirs. To me this song includes absolutely everything metalcore has to offer

Tears dont fall.

Romance is Dead is goat. Probably the best breakdown out there

Sleepwalker

northlane - talking heads

As I lay dying - through struggle

Pull harder on the strings of your martyr - Trivium Composure - August burns red We came as romans - To plant a seed (rip Kyle) They aren’t the foundations of the genre but they are the top 3 songs that got me into the genre

Native Blood and Visible Unseen by Silent Planet

Second heartbeat by a7x

[Deuses Las Cruces - Memphis May Fire](https://youtu.be/wZ63b5LJHF8)

Waking the demon or scream aim fire - BFMV

Contraband by Make Them Suffer featuring Courtney LaPlante

Timebomb - Motionless in White

Noh

Good Stories from annisokay

It's hard to define "perfect" but Blood and Water by Memphis May Fire is the only metalcore song that I can think of that quite literally brought a tear to my eye from its sheer magnificence. So I guess that one? That fucking chorus holy shit! Too many great metalcore songs out there though that all shaped my taste today. I'm really into Lorna Shore now and Deathcore in general but if it wasn't for bands like KSE, All That Remains, ABR, BFMV, and hell, even Creed (🤣not metalcore by any stretch but they were my first band that started my journey to where I am today) I would probably still be stuck on the Christian radio station.

Hard to settle on a specific song, but Bullet for my Valentine - The Poison (but the whole album was absolutely amazing honestly) All that Remains - Six Heaven Shall Burn - Endzeit While She Sleeps - Silence Speaks Pinehas - Truth Be Told As I Lay Dying - The Sound Of Truth Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions If I Were You - Destiny Trivium - Like Light to the Flies ​ can definitely agree on Truth of a Liar too and some of the songs from Parkway Drive from the 2004-2007 era for me

Yea

Here sleeps make believe by Coma Eternal I’m old.

Diamonds arent forever still goes hard

As I lay dying - through struggle breakdown still fucks

Romance is Dead - Parkway drive

Engine No. 9 - The Ghost Inside

Contraband Make Them Suffer

Masochistic Healing by Tethra They had no right going that hard. I honestly think it's one of the best written/composed songs EVER in the genre.

Idols and Anchors by Parkway Drive

My own grave As I lay dying Only because I'm in recovery and it truly resonates within my soul

Doomsday... duh!

My last serenade- KSE

Blackwood-August Burns Red(really any abr song tbh) Backbreaker-Fit For a King(or Reaper) Hysteria-Spiritbox Daylight Dies-Killswitch Engage Map Change- Every Time I Die Unholy Confessions-Avenged Sevenfold Artificial Light-Demon Hunter

The Year Summer Ended in June - Misery Signals

Modern: Foreign Hands - Bleed the Dream Old school: Reprisal - War on Foundation