A genre of good music combining metal and hardcore and sometimes the hardcore/punk attitude. In the past months it has become overly popular and was being featured on MTV's "Battle for Ozzfest". Only the watered down and/or shitty metalcore bands have become popular though: NEW Atreyu, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Unearth, Bleeding through, Avenged Sevenfold (who are possibly the poorest excuse for metalcore ever), and hatebreed. The genre has become very flooded with bands looking to become the next atreyu/KsE. There are still some great metalcore bands out there: Zao, Glass casket, The Agony Scene, Symphony in Peril, Lamb of God (even though they're popular), Martyr AD (some of the most brutal metalcore out there), Preminitions of War, The Red Chord, Dead to Fall, Haste the Day, Summer's End, etc.
by Liberate te ex Inferis February 21, 2005
A terribly overrated death metal band. They arent really that good, they just gained death metal some popularity because people had never had never heard a thing like it before and thought it was really really skull crushingly heavy. generic growls also.
if you want some good death metal with sick art and weird lyrics, go listen to cattle decapitation, at least they sound cool.
by Liberate te ex Inferis January 19, 2005
Insane extreme metal band that some dipshits at epic records thought would fare really well among an audience who think slipknot is the heaviest shit in the world.
by Liberate te ex Inferis October 11, 2004
A great christian band. It is often a subject of debate of which genre they belong in, which would depend on which vocalist you are talking about. Zao has had, if I am not mistaken, 4 vocalists. I dont't know the name of their original vocalist but the 2nd was Shawn Jonas, then Daniel Weyandt(current voaclist), then for a while Dan left and they had Corey Darst for touring and demos. They used to be hardcore, but with vocalist Dan Weyandt it is now closer to MetalCore/Grindcore/Death Metal-whatever you call it, it's some good shit. Some people say they arent christian anymore, but they still are. Up until their most recent release, The Funeral of God, they were on christian hardcore label Solid State. Their 2002 album, "Parade of Chaos", was said to be their final release, but of course that wasn't true. The Funeral of God, which was released July 13, 2004 on Ferret Music in the US/Canada amd July 12, 2004 on Roadrunner Records in Europe, has some of the most excellent and vivid lyrics ever. Zao also has no original memeber, which i guess means they arent the same band, but the lineup changes happened so gradually they still seem to be Zao. They also sound very similar to Carcass. And don't skip on them because they are christian theyre fucking awesome!
by Liberate te ex Inferis September 25, 2004
A really chaotic christian metalcore band, vocals courtesy of Shawn Jonas(ex-ZAO), some of the craziest metalcore on earth. Released one CD on Facedown Records, their new CD will be called "The Whore's Trophy". For fans of Norma Jean.
by Liberate te ex inferis November 15, 2004
by Liberate te ex Inferis March 06, 2005