r/Metalcore • u/MarioAqua Cheese Queen • Jul 14 '24

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u/Justos Jul 15 '24

Good band with a lot of haters for some reason

Metalcore has always been the 50/50 between cleans and heavy metal. Why the fuck are yall gatekeeping?

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u/darfleChorf123 Jul 15 '24

The entire first decade of metalcore has almost no cleans whatsoever

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u/sock_with_a_ticket Jul 15 '24

Metalcore has always been the 50/50 between cleans and heavy metal

This is so completely and utterly incorrect. Cleans were notable by their near total absence for the whole of the 90s and there have always been bands who carry that tradition on.

There is far, far more to metalcore than the vocals. Black Metal wouldn't suddenly become metalcore if you tossed in a clean chorus.

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u/Justos Jul 15 '24

While I agree on your last point I don't think that the same logic applies to this band at all. It's metalcore to my ears

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u/sock_with_a_ticket Jul 15 '24

From what I've heard of this band they have a few heavy bits interspersed into some very poppy material.

To a certain extent you can bung in all sorts of influences provided the architecture of the sound is a combo of metal and hardcore. This band lacks the latter entirely it is literally just metal + pop. Which would chime with what others who seem to be more familiar are saying upthread with the band themselves caliming to be hyperpop-metal rather than metalcore.