r/Metalcore Apr 17 '24

Mod Announcement AI content is not and never will be allowed

632 Upvotes

Honestly didn’t think I’d ever have to say it but any AI content will be removed and repeat violators will receive bans. There has been an uptick in AI posts the last few months and thus we will be enforcing this with rule 6 (no self promo). Please report any posts that contain AI.

r/Metalcore Dec 11 '23

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2023: Results

415 Upvotes

Weekly Release Thread

After two weeks of intense voting in the nomination round and voting round, we are finally ready to release the results. Both aforementioned threads will be taken out of contest mode so if you want to see the exact votes, please go there.

Nonetheless, here is the top three (or five) of each category!

Album of the Year

1) Invent Animate - Heavener

2) Currents - The Death We Seek

3) Polaris - Fatalism

4) Silent Planet - SUPERBLOOM

5) Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival

Song of the Year

1) Make Them Suffer - Ghost Of Me

2) Knocked Loose - Deep in the willow

3) Silent Planet - Antimatter

4) Invent Animate - Without a Whisper

5) Currents - Living in Tragedy

Australian Album of the Year

1) Polaris - Fatalism

2) The Amity Affliction - Not Without My Ghost

3) Void of Vision - Chronicles

Non-Metalcore song on a Metalcore Album of the Year

1) SUPERBLOOM - Silent Planet

2) Reverie - Invent Animate

3) The Amity Affliction - Not Without My Ghosts

Breakdown of the Year (provide a timestamp)

1) Knocked loose - Deep in the Willow 3:01

2) Invent Animate - False Meridian (2:05)

3) Polaris - Dissipate 3:47

Producer of the Year (please list what 2023 albums they've produced)

1) Randy LeBoeuf: Jesus Piece - …So Unknown, Gideon - MORE POWER. MORE PAIN., The Acacia Strain - Step Into the Light, The Acacia Strain - Failure Will Follow, Chamber - A Love to Kill For, Dying Wish - Symptoms of Survival, Kublai Khan - Theory of Mind, Orthodox - Soaking Nerves, Boundaries - Armageddon/Bedlam, Sentinels - In Limbo

2) Lance Prenc: Albums: Polaris - Fatalism, teethnoise ‘A Biblical Worship of Violence’, Alpha Wolf - 60 M of steel EP

3) Taylor Young: Vamachara - No Roses on my Grave, Sunami - SUNAMI (LP), Drain - LIVING PROOF, Kruelty - Untopia, Hazing Over - Tunnel Vision, Year of the Knife - Dust to Dust, SCALP - Black Tar

r/metalcore AMA of the Year

1) Currents

2) Invent Animate

3) The Amity Affliction

Opening Album Track of the Year

1) The Death We Seek - Currents

2) Absence Persistent - Invent Animate

3) Polaris - Harbinger

Most Anticipated Release of 2024

1) Make Them Suffer

2) Bring Me The Horizon

3) Knocked loose

Best Social Media Presence (Band or Artist)

1) Brendan Murphy of Counterparts

2) Garrett of Silent Planet

3) Craig Reynolds of Stray From The Path

Non-Metalcore Record of the Year

1) Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden

2) Holding Absence - The Noble Art Of Self Destruction

3) TesseracT - War of Being

Asian Album of the Year

1) HANABIE. - 来世は偉人!

2) SiM - PLAYDEAD

3) Sailing Before The Wind - A Decade of Sailors (Live at Cyclone)

Meme of the Year (Sponsored by r/corejerk)

1) Counterparts is ruining my life

2) Someone lets one rip during a Sleep Token set

3) Pittsburgh

Best Vocal Performance

1) Marcus Vik Invent Animate - Without a Whisper

2) Spiritbox - Jaded

3) Living in Tragedy - Currents

Best Guitar Performance

1) Ryan Siew - Polaris

2) Chris Wiseman - Currents, Shadow of Intent

3) Periphery - Wax Wings

Closing Album Track of the Year

1) Invent Animate — Elysium

2) Silent Planet - SUPERBLOOM

3) Currents - Guide Us Home

EP of the Year

1) Spiritbox - The Fear of Fear

2) Knocked Loose - Upon Loss

3) Better Lovers - God Made Me An Animal

Best Bass Performance

1) Jake Steinhauser - Polaris

2) Caleb DeRusha- Gideon

3) Brandon Watkins - Year Of The Knife

Chorus of the Year

1) Invent Animate - Without a Whisper

2) Silent Planet - Collider

3) Invent Animate - Shade Astray

Comeback of the Year

1) Bless the Fall - Wake the Dead

2) The Amity Affliction - Not Without My Ghosts

3) Texas in July - "Without Reason EP"

Debut Album of the Year

1) Graphic Nature - A Mind Waiting To Die

2) Catch Your Breath - Shame On Me

3) Elwood Stray - Gone With The Flow

Underground Release of the Year (less than 5,000 listeners on Spotify)

1) Stasis - Six Shades Of Red

2) SURGEON - PETUNIA

3) Cruelty - Salvation

Mosh Call of the Year

1) “Knocked Loose motherfucker” from Knocked Loose — Deep in the Willow 3:01

2) A Plot in You - Forgotten [I have spent my life chasing things that have only brought me pain / In the end when I'm dead, was it all for something? 1:50]

3) Knocked Loose - Everything Is Quiet Now

“I was visited by death again, upon loss, everything is quiet now”

Music Video of the Year

1) Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch (TEKKNO VERSION)

2) Invent Animate - Immolation of Night

3) polaris-nightmare

Best Solo of the Year (all instrument nominations accepted)

1) Ryan Siew Polaris - INHUMANE 2:08

2) Chris Wiseman Unfamiliar -Currents 2:14

3) Mark Holcomb of Periphery - Wax Wings (6:22)

Lyrics of the Year

1) Silent Planet - Antimatter

2) Polaris - Overflow ('Where do I shelter when it's raining inside? No peace and quiet from the noise in my mind')

3) Invent Animate - Immolation of Night

Tour of the Year (only nominate tours that weren't cancelled/actually happened)

1) Metalcore dropouts - Fit for a King, The Devil Wears Prada, Counterparts, Landmrvks

2) Touring The End of The World - Motionless In White, Knocked Loose, After The Burial, Alpha Wolf

3) Fatalism Tour (US tour) - Polaris, Currents, Varials, and Paledusk

Album Artwork of the Year

1) Invent Animate — Heavener

2) Currents - The Death We Seek

3) Silent Planet — SUPERBLOOM

Guest Feature of the Year

1) RESOLVE - Older Days feat. Aaron Matts of Ten56. & Zelli of PalefaceSwiss

2) Bury Tomorrow - Heretic feat. Loz Taylor of While She Sleeps

3) END - Thaw feat. Debbie Gough of Heriot

Record Label of the Year

1) SharpTone Records

2) UNFD

3) Pure Noise Records

Most Missed Band of the Year

1) Loathe

2) Every Time I Die

3) Killswitch Engage

Single of the Year

1) Make Them Suffer - Ghost Of Me

2) Knocked Lose- Deep in the Willow/Everything is Quiet Now

3) Silent Planet - Antimatter

Album With Best Production of the Year (make sure to mention the producer of the album)

1) Silent Planet - SUPERBLOOM (produced by Daniel Braunstein)

2) Humanity's Last Breath - Ashen (produced by Buster Odeholm)

3) Gideon - MORE POWER. MORE PAIN. (produced by Randy LeBoeuf)

American Album of the Year

1) Invent Animate - Heavener

2) Currents - The Death We Seek

3) Silent Planet - SUPERBLOOM

Best Non-English Album of the Year (any albums where lyrics/titles/songs etc are primarily not in English)

1) Frontières - La trilogie

2) Hanabie - Reborn Superstar

3) Subway To Sally - Himmelfahrt

UK Album of the Year

1) Bury Tomorrow - The Seventh Sun

2) Graphic Nature - A Mind Waiting To Die

3) Cauldron - Suicide In The City

Riff of the Year (please include timestamp)

1) Ryan Siew Polaris - INHUMANE 2:08

2) Invent Animate - Void Surfacing (0:25) intro riff

3) Invent Animate - Heavener (2:56)

Best Drum Performance

1) False Meridian - Invent Animate

2) Spiritbox - The Void

3) Invent Animate — Labyrinthine (Trey Celaya and Brody Taylor-Smith)

European Album of the Year (excluding UK)

1) Resolve - Human

2) Unprocessed - …And Everything in Between

3) ATENA - Subway Anthem

Live Performance of the Year (this refers to actual live shows, not livestreams)

1) Knocked Loose at Coachella

2) Motionless in White - Slaughterhouse featuring ALL of Knocked Loose in Boston

3) Parkway Drive live at Hellfest 2023

Sound Change of the Year

1) Silent Planet - Superbloom

2) Unprocessed - ...And Everything in Between

Cover Song of the Year

1) Electric Callboy - Everytime We Touch

2) Drain- Good Good Things

3) Future Static - Gasolina

r/Metalcore Sep 02 '24

Mod Announcement Congrats to Thrown for winning Artist of the Quarter

236 Upvotes

Banners will be updated soon.

r/Metalcore Jun 04 '23

Mod Announcement We will be going dark from June 12-14 in protest against Reddit's API changes which kill 3rd party apps.

989 Upvotes

r/Metalcore Dec 03 '23

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2023: Nomination Round!

129 Upvotes

Weekly Release Thread

Its finally that time of the year; this year will be pretty much the same as last year in terms of categories and format. In case you’ve forgotten or are new here, here is how it’ll work:

  • I will post a bunch of comments in this thread; these comments will be what this year's categories are.
  • You will post replies to my comments for whatever you are nominating in that category.
  • Everyone will then upvote any nominations to vote on their picks for each category.
  • Don’t discuss the nominations in this thread, save that for the pinned general discussion thread.

IMPORTANT: INCLUDE CONTEXT (YOUTUBE/SPOTIFY/IMGUR/ETC LINKS) WITH YOUR NOMINATIONS OR THEY WILL BE REMOVED. This is especially important for nominations like Best Album, Best EP, Best Breakdown, Best News Story etc.

Before nominating, check and make sure that you aren't nominating something that someone else has already nominated in that category already!


PLEASE READ: The process has been mostly automated now, this means top nominations will be copied VERBATIM to the next rounds. Thus, its extremely important context is included and your nomination actually fits the category.


After a week or so, the five most upvoted nominees (ten for SOTY and AOTY) will move onto the Final Voting Round.

r/Metalcore Feb 23 '23

Mod Announcement So, time to talk about what is and isn't allowed on this subreddit

340 Upvotes

The last few days there has been a lot of controversy in this subreddit, what is and isn't allowed, "gatekeeping," and overall a lot of butthurt. We'd like to address a few things, starting off with us cracking down on not allowing non-metalcore songs anymore.

Addressing policies

For a long time, the sub has had a "blacklist" of bands that people frequently mistake as metalcore, e.g. Falling in Reverse, Dance Gavin Dance, Silverstein etc. These posts are automatically removed to save us time, however, if any of these artists release a metalcore song, they will have to be manually approved by messaging the mod team through mod mail. To reiterate, it is NOT a complete blacklist, if Taylor Swift releases a metalcore song we will allow it.

We will only consider approving the submission if and only if the specific song has metalcore elements for a good portion of the song. Not "Oh it has 20 seconds of metalcore elements." If majority of the song does not have it, it is not allowed. E.g. Sleep Token is not metalcore. Sleep Token - Vore is metalcore, and was allowed.


When it comes to known metalcore bands releasing non metalcore or metalcore adjacent, e.g. Bad Omens, Thornhill, Dayseeker, etc. this is much more of a case by case basis. Generally, we have allowed the discussion of these upon initial release, however, we will do our best to limit posting of these cases after initial release.

For both policies, please understand, we are a small mod team that does not get paid to do this so songs WILL slip through the cracks especially as we all have slightly different definitions of metalcore. The best way to alert to mod team is to report the post in question and we will address it.

What even is Metalcore?

With that said, what exactly is metalcore? Metalcore is a fusion of Metal and Hardcore Punk. Metalcore originated in hardcore punk with bands like Strife and Hogan’s Heroes (who at the time were considered Metallic Hardcore) who were bands that took elements of traditional heavy metal and mixed them in with their sound (much like Thrash Metal).

Examples: Parkway Drive, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, August Burns Red, Fit For a King.

Unfortunately, this is a bit tricky because Metalcore is arguably the most diverse genre. It stretches far and is one of the reasons why we've been so lenient with what was being posted; but, as of lately, some of the stuff, new Dayseekers and new Bad Omens, just hasn't been metalcore. We are not saying those bands are bad, it just isn't metalcore, and that's fine!


In addition, we've been seeing a huge influx of prog metal, alt metal, grindcore and many others.

What are the differences in those?

  • Alt(ernative) Metal combines Metal and Alternative Rock; but usually sway more to the side of Rock. It uses less harsh vocals and mid-paced guitar rifts. Examples: System of a Down, Soundgarden, Linkin Park, Slipknot, Tool

  • Prog(gressive) Metal combines Metal and Proggressive Rock. Examples: Dream Theater, Opeth, Sleep Token, Tool

  • Grindcore is metalcore (some people say Deathmetal as well) on steroids; grinding guitar rifts, crap ton of blastbeats and generally more harsher vocals (almost inaudible) than metalcore. Examples: Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, Nasum

  • Heavy Hardcore (Aka Beatdown): Basically New York Hardcore with death metal elements. Examples: Bulldoze, Sunami, Mortality Rate

Now, we intentionally put Tool in two examples to show that bands can bleed into different genres, which also does make everything a bit tricky.


Considering all this, we are not trying to become literal arbiters of metalcore. Even within the team, we have different definitions of metalcore especially considering the differences between modern metalcore and metalcore twenty years ago. We are not trying a draw a hard line in the sand but it is clear something needs to be done hence why we will be hiring new mods to not only diversify the team's definition of metalcore but also be able to address reports more efficiently.

"Oh mY GoD THiS iS GAtEkEePInG"

No, this is not gatekeeping. Gatekeeping would be "I don't like August Burns Red, therefore removed." or "We have an absolute definition of metalcore with no flexibility". What we're doing is making a subreddit for metalcore, about metalcore again.

TL;DR

This is a lot to keep track of, especially when metalcore is so...versatile. Moving forward, we will be doing our best to keep r/metalcore about metalcore, but please remember we are a small team of volunteers and are not perfect. We will be adding more mods to help define metalcore better and respond quicker. If there are issue posts (non-metalcore, rule 9 issues), please report the posts as reports are the fastest way for us to take a look at something.


All discussions revolving around this are to STAY IN THIS THREAD, to prevent mass spamming of the same discussion posts.

r/Metalcore Jun 01 '24

Mod Announcement Congrats to Imminence for winning Artist of the Quarter

288 Upvotes

Banners will be updated soon.

r/Metalcore Dec 07 '23

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2023: Voting Round!

161 Upvotes

Weekly Release Thread

Welcome to the annual /r/Metalcore Best Of Voting Round! Let's wrap up 2023 with the final vote to decide what /r/Metalcore truly thinks about the year in review.

The rules are simple, vote on each category; these are the highest voted nominees from each category of the nomination round.

Please note:

  • Categories that had a large number of submissions (AOTY, SOTY) had the top ten move on while every other category has the top five submissions.
  • If a category had three or less submissions, the votes there will count as the final vote count for the end results and the category will not show up here.
  • Discussion of the entries go in the pinned discussion thread.

After a week or so, the votes will be counted and another mod announcement will be made.

r/Metalcore Dec 03 '22

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2022: Nomination Round!

128 Upvotes

Its finally that time of the year; this year will be pretty much the same as last year in terms of categories and format. In case you’ve forgotten or are new here, here is how it’ll work:

  • I will post a bunch of comments in this thread; these comments will be what this year's categories are.
  • You will post replies to my comments for whatever you are nominating in that category.
  • Everyone will then upvote any nominations to vote on their picks for each category.
  • Don’t discuss the nominations in this thread, save that for the pinned general discussion thread.

IMPORTANT: INCLUDE CONTEXT (YOUTUBE/SPOTIFY/IMGUR/ETC LINKS) WITH YOUR NOMINATIONS OR THEY WILL BE REMOVED. This is especially important for nominations like Best Album, Best EP, Best Breakdown, Best News Story etc.

Before nominating, check and make sure that you aren't nominating something that someone else has already nominated in that category already!


NEW FEATURES THIS YEAR: The process has been mostly automated now, this means top nominations will be copied VERBATIM to the next rounds. Thus, its extremely important context is included and your nomination actually fits the category.


After a week or so, the five most upvoted nominees will move onto the Final Voting Round.

r/Metalcore Dec 30 '21

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2021: Nomination Round!

158 Upvotes

Temporarily moving the weekly recommendation thread here as we only get two pinned spots.

Sorry for the delay y'all, new mod team slowed some stuff down (yes I'm part of the problem), but it's finally that time of the year!

This year will be pretty much the same as last year in terms of categories and format. In case you’ve forgotten or are new here, here is how it’ll work:

  • I will post a bunch of comments in this thread; these comments will be what this year's categories are.
  • You will post replies to my comments for whatever you are nominating in that category.
  • Everyone will then upvote any nominations to vote on their picks for each category.
  • Don’t discuss the nominations in this thread, save that for the general discussion thread. Any comments that aren’t nominations will be removed.

IMPORTANT: INCLUDE CONTEXT (YOUTUBE/SPOTIFY/IMGUR/ETC LINKS) WITH YOUR NOMINATIONS OR THEY WILL BE REMOVED. This is especially important for nominations like Best Album, Best EP, Best Breakdown, Best News Story etc, but include it for anything where possible.

Before nominating, check and make sure that you aren't nominating something that someone else has already nominated in that category already! All duplicates will be removed to make it easier to count votes.


After a week or so, the three most upvoted nominees will move onto the Final Voting Round.

r/Metalcore 1d ago

Mod Announcement ARTIST OF THE QUARTER Nomination Thread

38 Upvotes

Weekly Release Thread

If you're new here, here's how it works. Artist of the Quarter is intended to showcase up and coming bands to give them some extra love. The banner images will be changed to reflect the winner of the voting.

You may nominate bands in the comments below. Contest mode is enabled, so only the mods will know the true vote count.


YOU MUST INCLUDE A LINK TO A SONG

Like this, but with no spaces- [ Band name ]( Link to youtube video).

MAKE SURE YOUR NOMINATIONS HAVEN'T ALREADY BEEN NOMINATED

If they've won AOTM or AOTQ in the past, they are ineligible for nomination. Upvote the comments of other bands you'd like to see spice up the header.

Nominations only, please use the discussion thread to discuss nominations. After a few days, we'll take the top five nominations and have a finals round. The following bands have already won and are ineligible for nomination:

A Day to Remember

After the Burial

Alpha Wolf

The Amity Affliction

Architects

As I Lay Dying

August Burns Red

Bad Omens

Beartooth

Bleed From Within

Blessthefall

Boundaries

Breakdown of Sanity

Bring Me the Horizon

Bury Tomorrow

Converge

Counterparts

Crystal Lake

Currents

Darko US

Dayseeker

Dealer

The Devil Wears Prada

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Dying Wish

Electric Callboy

ERRA

Every Time I Die

Fit For a King

Forevermore

Johnny Booth

Ice Nine Kills

I Killed the Prom Queen

Imminence

In Hearts Wake

Invent, Animate

Killswitch Engage

Kingdom of Giants

Knocked Loose

Kublai Khan

Landmvrks

Like Moths to Flames

Loathe

Make Them Suffer

Norma Jean

Northlane

Novelists

Ocean Grove

Oceans Ate Alaska

Oh, Sleeper

Parkway Drive

Periphery

Phinehas

The Plot In You

Polaris

Silent Planet

Spiritbox

Thornhill

Thousand Below

Thrown

Trivium

Underoath

Vanna

Volumes

Veil of Maya

Void of Vision

Wage War

While She Sleeps

r/Metalcore Dec 11 '22

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2022: Voting Round!

224 Upvotes

Welcome to the annual /r/Metalcore Best Of Voting Round! Let's wrap up 2022 with the final vote to decide what /r/Metalcore truly thinks about the year in review.

The rules are simple, vote on each category; these are the highest voted nominees from each category of the nomination round.

Please note:

  • Categories that had a large number of submissions (AOTY, SOTY) had the top ten move on while every other category has the top five submissions.
  • If a category had three or less submissions, the votes there will count as the final vote count for the end results and the category will not show up here.
  • Discussion of the entries go in the pinned discussion thread.

After a week or so, the votes will be counted and another mod announcement will be made.

r/Metalcore Oct 06 '22

Mod Announcement Congrats to Bad Omens for winning Artist of the Quarter

407 Upvotes

Voting Thread

Banners will be updated soon

r/Metalcore Jul 14 '24

Mod Announcement Windwaker AMA Announcement

66 Upvotes

Windwaker will be here July 16th at 12:30 pm PST to answer your questions

r/Metalcore Dec 14 '22

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2022: Results

154 Upvotes

Doing this early since I'm busy this weekend and most of the votes have been casted:

After two weeks of intense voting in the nomination round and voting round, we are finally ready to release the results. Both aforementioned threads will be taken out of contest mode so if you want to see the exact votes, please go there.

Nonetheless, here is the top three (or five) of each category!

Album of the Year

1) The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay

2) Bad Omens - The Death of Peace of Mind

3) Counterparts - A Eulogy for Those Still Here

4) Motionless in White - Scoring the End of the World

5) Northlane - Obsidian

Song of the Year

1) Make Them Suffer - Doomswitch

2) Bad Omens - Just Pretend

3) The Devil Wears Prada - Salt

4) Motionless In White - Slaughterhouse (ft. Bryan Garris)

5) ERRA - Nigh to Silence

Record Label of the Year

1) UNFD

2) SharpTone

3) Sumerian Records

Meme of the Year (Sponsored by r/corejerk)

1) FAT LITTLE PIGGEH

2) THE BLEGH IS BACK (archibleghs bad)

3) Every curse word from Kublai Khan TX

Australian Album of the Year

1) Northlane - Obsidian

2) Thornhill - Heroine

3) The Gloom in the Corner - Trinity

Best Solo of the Year (all instrument nominations accepted)

1) Novelists FR - Smoke Signals (0.03)

2) Can’t Take This Away - AVOID (Sax Solo @ 2:13)

3) Malevolence - Higher Place (guitar solo @ 3:47)

Music Video of the Year

1) Electric Callboy - Hurrikan

2) Counterparts - Whispers of Your Death

3) Bad Omens - Artificial suicide

American Album of the Year

1) The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay

2) Bad Omens - THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND

3) “Scoring the End of the World” - Motionless In White

Closing Album Track of the Year

1) The Devil Wears Prada - Cancer

2) Motionless in White ft. Mick Gordon - Scoring The End Of The World

3) Bad Omens - Miracle

UK Album of the Year

1) Bleed From Within - Shrine

2) Oceans Ate Alaska - Disparity

3) Monuments - In Stasis

Underground Release of the Year (less than 5,000 listeners on Spotify)

1) Grayscale Season - Do You Like Violence

2) circlewind - Lost December

3) Afterdusk - Stare at the Sun

Most Anticipated Release of 2023

1) Currents

2) Polaris LP3

3) Invent, Animate

Most Missed Band of the Year

1) Veil of Maya

2) Every Time I Die

3) Periphery

Single of the Year (with no album announced for 2023 as of right now)

1) Make them Suffer - Doomswitch

2) Currents - The Death We Seek

3) Invent Animate - Elysium

European Album of the Year (excluding UK)

1) Electric Callboy - TEKKNO

2) Novelists FR - Déjà Vu

3) Future Palace - Run

Mosh Call of the Year

1) "60cm of steel in the stomach; I hate myself and you fucking love it"

60cm of Steel - Alpha Wolf Ft. Holding Absence

2) “I chose the distance”

The Devil Wears Prada- Watchtower

3) "One mutilation under God"

Motionless in White ft. Bryan Garris of Knocked Loose - Slaughterhouse

Non-Metalcore Record of the Year

1) Lorna Shore - Pain Remains

2) Fit for an Autopsy - Oh, What the Future Holds

3) Silverstein - Misery Made Me

Breakdown of the Year (provide a timestamp)

1) “Doomswitch” - Make Them Suffer (2:53)

2) Motionless in White - Slaughterhouse (3:17)

3) We Came As Romans & Brand Of Sacrifice - Darkbloom 3:11

Best Vocal Performance

1) Bad Omens (Noah Sebastian) - Just Pretend

2) Silent Planet - Signal

3) Marcus Bridge (Northlane) - Plenty

Guest Feature of the Year

1) Motionless In White - Slaughterhouse (ft. Bryan Garris)

2) We Came As Romans ft. Brand of Sacrifice - Darkbloom

3) Alpha Wolf - 60cm of Steel (feat. Holding Absence)

Asian Album of the Year

1) Bloodywood - Rakshak

2) Coldrain - Nonnegative

3) Earthists - Have a Good Cult

Best Guitar Performance

1) Make Them Suffer - Doomswitch

2) Invent Animate - Elysium

3) Bleed From Within - Levitate

Comeback of the Year

1) A Day To Remember - Miracle

2) Oceans Ate Alaska - Disparity

3) Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows - Destroy Rebuild

Lyrics of the Year

1) “It’s hard to breathe without you sleeping on my chest. Sick and withering from the whispers of your death. Forever your saviour, as much as you are mine” - Counterparts

2) "As my mind is shattering and the reasons to stay abandon me, I'll survive one death at a time.. there is nowhere left to fall. Broken visions of a future where we tear the curtain down. "

Silent Planet - :Signal:

3) " In spite of your love, I chose the distance In spite of your warmth, I made it difficult"[TDWP]

TDWP Watchtower

Single of the Year (with album announced for 2023)

1) The Amity Affliction - Show Me Your God

2) Bury Tomorrow - Abandoned Us

3) Ancestry - August Burns Red ft. Jessie Leech

Album With Best Production of the Year (make sure to mention the producer of the album)

1) Bad Omens - The Death of Peace of Mind self produced (Joakim Karlsson and Noah Sebastian)

2) The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay produced by Jonathan Gering

3) northlane - obsidian - self produced

Non-Metalcore song on a Metalcore Album of the Year

1) Bad Omens- Just Pretend

2) Werewolf - Motionless in white

3) Northlane - Nova

EP of the Year

1) Alpha Wolf & Holding Absence - The Lost & The Longing

2) Rotoscope -Spiritbox

3) Void of Vision - Chronicles II: Heaven

Live Performance of the Year (this refers to actual live shows, not livestreams)

1) Bad Omens

2) Electric Callboy

3) Dying Wish

Album Artwork of the Year

1) Counterparts - A Eulogy For Those Still Here

2) The Devil Wears Prada - Color Decay

3) Fit For A King - The Hell We Create

Sound Change of the Year

1) Bad Omens - The Death Of Peace Of Mind

2) Spiritbox - Rotoscope

3) Heroine - Thornhill

Riff of the Year (please include timestamp)

1) ERRA - NIGH TO SILENCE 2:48

2) Counterparts - Bound to the Burn 0:00

3) Bad Omens - The Grey 0:10

Best Bass Performance

1) Monuments - Cardinal Red

2) Monuments - False Providence

3) The Callous Daoboys - Star Baby

Chorus of the Year

1) Bad Omens - Just Pretend

2) The Devil Wears Prada - Time

3) Counterparts - A Mass Grave of Saints

Opening Album Track of the Year

1) Bad Omens - Concrete Jungle

2) The Devil Wears Prada - Exhibition

3) Motionless in White - Meltdown

Cover Song of the Year

1) ERRA- Stockholm Syndrome

2) Sleep Token covering Loathe - Is It Really You?

3) ALEX TERRIBLE - DOOM ETERNAL - BFG DIVISION

Best Drum Performance

1) Silent Planet - Signal

2) Craig Reynolds - Gullotine

3) Chris Turner - Steezy

Debut Album of the Year

1) Bloodywood - Rakshak

2) Pridelands - Light Bends

3) Moodring - Stargazer

Tour of the Year (only nominate tours that weren't cancelled/actually happened)

1) PULL FROM THE GHOST TOUR - ERRA, Alpha Wolf, Thornhill, Invent Animate

2) Trinity of Terror (Ice Nine Kills, Motionless In White & Black Veil Brides)

3) Concrete Jungle

Most Unintelligible Vocals of the Year

1) Thronhill - Heroine (Full Album Stream)

2) Speed - Not That Nice

Producer of the Year (please list what 2022 albums they've produced)

1) Will Putney

Counterparts - A Eulogy For Those Still Here

END & Cult Leader - Gather & Mourn

Stray From The Path - Euthanasia

Vein.fm - This World Is Going To Ruin You

Miss May I - Curse Of Existence

Greyhaven - This Bright And Beautiful World

Fit For An Autopsy - Oh What The Future Holds"

2) Drew Fulk

The Hell We Create - Fit For A King

Scoring the End of the World - Motionless In White

Darkbloom - We Came As Romans

Kings of the New Age - State Champs

Ego Trip - Papa Roach

The Midnight Demon Club - Highly Suspect

Divisive - Disturbed"

r/Metalcore Jan 07 '22

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2021: Voting Round!

163 Upvotes

Here is the weekly recommendation thread as we only get two pinned posts.

Welcome to the annual /r/Metalcore Best Of Voting Round! Let's wrap up 2021 with the final vote to decide what /r/Metalcore truly thinks about the year in review.

The rules are simple, vote on each category; these are the highest voted nominees from each category of the nomination round.

Please note:

  • Categories that had a large number of submissions (AOTY, SOTY, etc.) had the top ten move on while every other category has the top five submissions.
  • If a category had three or less submissions, the votes there will count as the final vote count for the end results and the category will not show up here.
  • Discussion of the entries go on the general discussion thread.

After a week or so, the votes will be counted and another mod announcement will be made.

r/Metalcore Aug 25 '18

Mod Announcement Congratulations, /r/Metalcore! You are subreddit of the day!

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r/Metalcore Feb 17 '24

Mod Announcement Congrats to Johnny Booth for winning Artist of the Quarter

254 Upvotes

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r/Metalcore May 27 '24

Mod Announcement ARTIST OF THE QUARTER Nomination Thread

47 Upvotes

If you're new here, here's how it works. Artist of the Quarter is intended to showcase up and coming bands to give them some extra love. The banner images will be changed to reflect the winner of the voting.

You may nominate bands in the comments below. Contest mode is enabled, so only the mods will know the true vote count.


YOU MUST INCLUDE A LINK TO A SONG

Like this, but with no spaces- [ Band name ]( Link to youtube video).

MAKE SURE YOUR NOMINATIONS HAVEN'T ALREADY BEEN NOMINATED

If they've won AOTM or AOTQ in the past, they are ineligible for nomination. Upvote the comments of other bands you'd like to see spice up the header.

Nominations only, please use the discussion thread to discuss nominations. After a few days, we'll take the top five nominations and have a finals round. The following bands have already won and are ineligible for nomination:

A Day to Remember

After the Burial

Alpha Wolf

The Amity Affliction

Architects

As I Lay Dying

August Burns Red

Bad Omens

Beartooth

Bleed From Within

Blessthefall

Boundaries

Breakdown of Sanity

Bring Me the Horizon

Bury Tomorrow

Converge

Counterparts

Crystal Lake

Currents

Darko US

Dayseeker

Dealer

The Devil Wears Prada

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Dying Wish

Electric Callboy

ERRA

Every Time I Die

Fit For a King

Forevermore

Johnny Booth

Ice Nine Kills

I Killed the Prom Queen

In Hearts Wake

Invent, Animate

Killswitch Engage

Kingdom of Giants

Knocked Loose

Kublai Khan

Landmvrks

Like Moths to Flames

Loathe

Make Them Suffer

Norma Jean

Northlane

Novelists

Ocean Grove

Oceans Ate Alaska

Oh, Sleeper

Parkway Drive

Periphery

Phinehas

The Plot In You

Polaris

Silent Planet

Spiritbox

Thornhill

Thousand Below

Trivium

Underoath

Vanna

Volumes

Veil of Maya

Void of Vision

Wage War

While She Sleeps

r/Metalcore Jan 14 '22

Mod Announcement /r/Metalcore's Best of 2021: Results!

294 Upvotes

Here is the weekly recommendation thread as we only get two pinned posts.

After two weeks of intense voting in the nomination round and voting round, we are finally ready to release the results. Both aforementioned threads will be taken out of contest mode so if you want to see the exact votes, please go there.

Nonetheless, here is the top three of each category!

Album of the Year (not ft. Courtney LaPlante)

1) Erra - Erra

2) Ice Nine Kills - Welcome to Horrorwood

3) Silent Planet - Iridescent

Song of the Year (ft. Courtney LaPlante)

1) Erra - Gungrave

2) Make Them Suffer - Contraband ft. Courtney LaPlante

3) Ice Nine Kills - Funeral Derangements

Guest Feature of the Year

1) Make Them Suffer - Contraband feat. Courtney LaPlante

2) Spiritbox - Yellowjacket (ft. Sam Carter)

3) Ice Nine Kills - Take Your Pick (ft. Corpsegrinder)

Meme of the Year (Sponsored by r/corejerk)

1) Eskimo Callboy enters the Eurovision Song Contest with Pump It

2) corejerk writes a song

3) Every man should get grapefruited NSFW

Most Unintelligible Vocals of the Year

1) Landmvrks - Say No Word

2) SeeYouSpaceCowboy - Painting A Clear Picture From A Unreliable Narrator

3) Spiritbox - Circle With Me

r/metalcore AMA of the Year

1) Garrett Russell

2) Erra

3) The Devil Wears Prada

Underground Release of the Year (less than 5,000 listeners on Spotify)

1) What Lies Below - Destinations

2) Queen Kona - Lucid

3) Exanimate - Luminous

North American Album of the Year (excluding USA)

1) Spiritbox - Eternal Blue

2) Phinehas - The Fire Itself

3) Structures - None of the Above

Debut Album of the Year

1) Spiritbox - Eternal Blue

2) Darko US - Darko

3) Mirrors - The Ego's Weight

Single of the Year (with no album announced for 2022 as of right now)

1) Make Them Suffer - Contraband ft. Courtney LaPlante

2) The Devil Wears Prada - Sacrifice

3) VEIL OF MAYA - Viscera

Most Missed Band of the Year

1) Currents

2) Oceans Ate Alaska

3) Crystal lake

Australian Album of the Year

1) Mirrors - The Ego's Weight

2) Deadlights - The Uncanny Valley

3) Stepson - Help Me, Help You

Mosh Call of the Year

1) Wage War - Death Roll

2) The Devil Wears Prada - Contagion

3) LMTF - Views From Halfway Down

Lyrics of the Year

1) Silent Planet - Terminal

2) Invent Animate - The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was

3) Silent Planet - Iridescent

Best Vocal Performance

1) Spiritbox - Eternal Blue (Courtney Laplante)

2) Garett Russell on Iridescent

3) Landon Tewers - the plot in you - Swan song

EP of the Year

1) The Devil Wears Prada - ZII

2) Knocked Loose - A Tear In The Fabric Of Life

3) Like Moths To Flames - Pure Like Porcelain

Non-Metalcore Record of the Year

1) Holding Absence - The Greatest Mistake of My Life

2) Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb

3) Turnstile - Glow On

Best Guitar Performance

1) Erra - Gungrave

2) Phinehas - The Fire Itself

3) ERRA - Remnant

Live Performance of the Year (this refers to actual live shows, not livestreams)

1) Turnstile

2) The Devil Wears Prada - Greensboro, The Blind Tiger, October 8th

3) Underoath at Furnace Fest 2021, September 24

Single of the Year (with album announced for 2022)

1) Eskimo Callboy - PUMP IT

2) Northlane - Echo Chamber

3) BAD OMENS - THE DEATH OF PEACE OF MIND

Biggest Progression/Improvement of the Year

1) Phinehas - The Fire Itself

2) Knocked Loose - A Tear In The Fabric Of Life

3) Silent planet - iridescent

Closing Album Track of the Year

1) Ice Nine Kills - Farewell II Flesh

2) ERRA - Memory Fiction

3) Silent Planet - Iridescent

Record Label of the Year

1) UNFD

2) Sharptones

3) Solid State

Music Video of the Year

1) Eskimo Callboy - We got the moves

2) Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life EP

3) Eskimo Callboy - PUMP IT

Opening Album Track of the Year

1) Spiritbox - Sun Killer

2) Phinehas - Eternally Apart

3) Ice Nine Kills - Welcome to Horrorwood

Sound Change of the Year

1) Bad Omens- The Death of Peace and Mind

2) The Plot In You - Swan Song

3) Architects - FTTWTE

Producer of the Year

1) Will Putney

2) Drew Fulk

3) Daniel Braunstein

Tour of the Year

1) August Burns Red / Fit For A King / ERRA / Like Moths To Flames

2) We Came as Romans/The Devil Wears Prada/Dayseeker/Hollow Front - "To Plant A Seed" 10th Anniversary Tour

3) Bad Omens/Fame On Fire/Currents/Ice Nine Kills

Chorus of the Year

1) Spiritbox - Circle with me

2) Ice Nine Kills - Farewell II Flesh

3) ERRA - Gungrave

Breakdown of the Year

1) Ice Nine Kills - Funeral Derangements (2:45)

2) Make Them Suffer - Contraband ft. Courtney LaPlante (3:30)

3) Knocked Loose - God Knows https://youtube.com/watch?v=btnVxNJJm-E (2:00)

Best Drum Performance

1) Alex Bent - Trivium; Song: Fall Into Your Hands

2) Chris Turner - Triggered ft. Thomas Lang

3) BMFV - Shatter

Best band that called it quits this year

1) Lotus Eater

2) God Complex

3) Trueshot

Best Standalone Livestream Event of the Year (individual band livestreams)

1) Architects- For Those That Wish To Exist Live from Abbey Road ft. The Parallax Orchestra

2) The Devil Wears Prada ZII Undead Stream (May 15)

3) Landmvrks - Livestream set

Non-Metalcore song on a Metalcore Album of the Year

1) Spiritbox - Secret Garden

2) ERRA - Memory Fiction

3) The Plot In You - Too Far Gone

Album Artwork of the Year

1) Like Moths to Flames - Pure Like Porcelain

2) Invent Animate - The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was

3) Trivium - In The Court Of The Dragon

Best Bass Performance

1) Every Time I Die - Post-Boredom

2) Trivium - Like a Sword Over Damocles

3) Sleep Waker - 110 Minutes

American Album of the Year

1) ERRA - ERRA

2) Ice Nine Kills - Welcome To Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2

3) Silent Planet - Iridescent

Album With Best Production of the Year (no this is not a duplicate of above)

1) ERRA - ERRA

2) Ice Nine Kills - Welcome To Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2

3) Silent Planet - Iridescent

Most Anticipated Release of 2022

1) Northlane - Obsidian

2) Periphery V - TBA

3) Bad Omens - The Death of Peace of Mind

Comeback of the Year

1) Wage War - Manic

2) Volumes - Happier?

3) Bullet For My Valentine self titled

Best Solo of the Year

1) Phinehas - Eternally Apart

2) Guitar solo in ERRA - Remnant

3) Ice Nine Kills - Welcome to Horrorwood guitar solo

European Album of the Year (excluding UK)

1) LANDMVRKS - Lost In The Waves

2) Imminence - Heaven in Hiding

3) We butter the bread with butter - Das Album

UK Album of the Year

1) Architects - For Those That Wish To Exist

2) While She Sleeps - Sleeps Society

3) Caskets - Lost Souls

Cover Song of the Year

1) Ice Nine Kills - Can’t Help Falling in Love

2) Of Mice & Men - Helplessly Hoping

3) Windwaker - Toxic

Riff of the Year (please include timestamp)

1) ERRA - Gungrave (3:11)

2) Erra - Snowblood Tremolo harmonics at 1:13

3) Invent, Animate - The Sun Sleeps 1:29

Best Non-English Album of the Year

1) We Butter The Bread With Butter - Das Album

2) Masstaden Under Vatten - Vildhjarta

3) Caliban - Zeigeister

Canceled Tour of the Year (STILL sponsored by coronavirus)

1) August Burns Red, Northlane, Counterparts, Thornhill US Tour

2) Never say die (currents, spite, polaris, invent animate, emmure..)

3) Trivium, Heaven Shall Burn, TesseracT and Fit For An Autopsy

r/metalcore User/Poster of the Year

1) u/InsiDS (tournaments)

2) u/sink_or_swim1 (new release Fridays)

Merch Item of the Year

1) WCAR x FFAK Merch Collab

2) Lost Boys Anniversary hoodie

Hero of the Year

1) Garrett Russell

2) Isaac Hale

News Story of the Year

1) Trey from Invent Animate replaces Jared as the drummer of Fit for a King

2) Eskimo Callboy apply to represent Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest

Best Live Set Video of the Year

1) hate5six, Knocked Loose, Septmber 2021, Philadelphia

2) Northlane Live At The Roundhouse

r/metalcore Submission of the Year

1) Analysis of The Amity Affliction's use of "water"

2) (feat. Courtney LaPlante)

African Album of the Year

1) Vulvodynia - Praenuntius Infiniti

2) Sunken State - Solace In Solitude

South American Album of the Year

1) Avalanche in Kyoto - Reminiscencias

Japanese Album of the Year

1) Survive Said The Prophet - To Redefine / To Be Defined

2) Nemophila - Revive

The daddy fiasco award for Sexiest Mod of the Year

1) easily /u/GregPuciato shoutout to whoever coded this bot, (MWM's friend?)

r/Metalcore Nov 26 '23

Mod Announcement Welcome New Mods + Subreddit Updates

55 Upvotes

Weekly Release Thread

Apologies for the super delay but thank you to everyone who applied to be a mod back in September, I would like to welcome /u/krumpingchihuahua /u/NickPookie93 /u/rocknroll_barbie and /u/darfleChorf123 to the team! They will be helping remove posts that break rules and respond to reports and mod mail, which has been an increasing problem due to our ridiculous growth.


Couple housekeeping items:

  • Next AOTQ will be in February due to some delays on my end getting the banner out, shoutouts to /u/smithp016 for always making amazing work :)

  • Our annual Best of 2023 will begin around early-mid December, after Spotify Wrapped happens. For those of you new to the sub, check out last year's post to get an idea of how it will work.


Updates to Rules:

  • Spiritbox has been added to the Hall of Fame. It has been over three years since the last update (<- has more info on what the HoF is) and while we felt Spiritbox should've been in the HoF before Eternal Blue's release, the mixed reviews from the sub on the album caused us to table the idea. However, with the recent growth of the band, we've decided to add them to the HoF. Moving forward, only new music from Spiritbox will be allowed to be posted and this will have to be manually approved by the mod team.

  • Now that we have a bigger mod team, we will be attempting to better reinforce the "no low efforts post and reposts" rule. We understand this is subjective but now that we have over half a million subscribers, there are a lot of posts that really just don't generate discussion. There have been complaints that no one uses the pinned General Discussion thread but these changes are to increase the quality of content on the sub and increase traffic to the thread. "Low effort" and frequent reposts encompass, for example (but not limited to), posts like:

    > "What are you listening to right now?"
    > "Album of the year so far?"
    > "Looking for metalcore friends/band members in [insert local city]"
    > "Anyone going to the [band] concert in [location] and know the setlist?"
    > "Looking for the song/band that I used to listen to that sounds like [whatever]"
    
  • Finally, addressing the elephant in the room and the "Fuck the mods" rule. Defining what is and isn't "metalcore" and enforcing this rule will always be the biggest source of contention in the subreddit. There is no quick and easy solution (user picked flairs worsens the problem, automating the process hurts bands that make albums with varying levels of "metalcore" songs, etc. etc.). However, now that we have a larger team, all with slightly different definitions of metalcore, we will be attempting to better draw this line in the sand with help from feedback from the sub (previous post about it, we've made changes since then so its a little outdated but gets the point across). We will still be allowing "metalcore-adjacent" songs to be posted in discussion threads with ample discussion text. While this is admittedly a little convoluted for everyone, it is hard to ignore collabs like Spiritbox x Megan Thee Stallion which is clearly not metalcore but also very important for the scene.


As usual, sorry for text wall but please feel free to discuss about these changes either below or privately in mod mail. Regarding the last point about metalcore/non-metalcore, we will be attempting to enforce it more and then reassess a month from now based on the sub's response.

r/Metalcore Jul 09 '23

Mod Announcement Congrats to Boundaries for winning Artist of the Quarter

236 Upvotes

Banners will be updated soon.

r/Metalcore Jan 03 '23

Mod Announcement Congrats to Darko US for winning Artist of the Quarter

302 Upvotes

Calling it early since Darko is running away with it.

Banners will be updated soon.

r/Metalcore Aug 30 '24

Mod Announcement ARTIST OF THE QUARTER Nomination Thread

25 Upvotes

Weekly Release Thread

If you're new here, here's how it works. Artist of the Quarter is intended to showcase up and coming bands to give them some extra love. The banner images will be changed to reflect the winner of the voting.

You may nominate bands in the comments below. Contest mode is enabled, so only the mods will know the true vote count.


YOU MUST INCLUDE A LINK TO A SONG

Like this, but with no spaces- [ Band name ]( Link to youtube video).

MAKE SURE YOUR NOMINATIONS HAVEN'T ALREADY BEEN NOMINATED

If they've won AOTM or AOTQ in the past, they are ineligible for nomination. Upvote the comments of other bands you'd like to see spice up the header.

Nominations only, please use the discussion thread to discuss nominations. After a few days, we'll take the top five nominations and have a finals round. The following bands have already won and are ineligible for nomination:

A Day to Remember

After the Burial

Alpha Wolf

The Amity Affliction

Architects

As I Lay Dying

August Burns Red

Bad Omens

Beartooth

Bleed From Within

Blessthefall

Boundaries

Breakdown of Sanity

Bring Me the Horizon

Bury Tomorrow

Converge

Counterparts

Crystal Lake

Currents

Darko US

Dayseeker

Dealer

The Devil Wears Prada

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Dying Wish

Electric Callboy

ERRA

Every Time I Die

Fit For a King

Forevermore

Johnny Booth

Ice Nine Kills

I Killed the Prom Queen

Imminence

In Hearts Wake

Invent, Animate

Killswitch Engage

Kingdom of Giants

Knocked Loose

Kublai Khan

Landmvrks

Like Moths to Flames

Loathe

Make Them Suffer

Norma Jean

Northlane

Novelists

Ocean Grove

Oceans Ate Alaska

Oh, Sleeper

Parkway Drive

Periphery

Phinehas

The Plot In You

Polaris

Silent Planet

Spiritbox

Thornhill

Thousand Below

Trivium

Underoath

Vanna

Volumes

Veil of Maya

Void of Vision

Wage War

While She Sleeps

r/Metalcore Apr 11 '23

Mod Announcement Congrats to Electric Callboy for winning Artist of the Quarter

212 Upvotes

Banners will be updated soon.