Bands that draw their main influence from the godfathers, Korn and Deftones and mainly from the modern textbook Nirvana and grunge created with the main rules being "keep your topics personal and introspective" and "don't show any great talent with the guitar".
Nirvana are the biggest anti heavy metal band in music history. They wanted to end all metal in 1991, not just the glam stuff. Kurt Cobain said on record that metal is "dumb kid music" and that their music was a new and better product. Jonathan Davis states the same thing about Korn & so he is the musical son of Kurt. Korn are basically Nirvana with drop tuning and attempts at "heaviness" by mindless screams and growls.
The genre as a whole is geared around challenging pop music in record sales and mass popularity,something evident with bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit attacking pop artists. Heavy Metal has no interest in this as it is cult music for it's devoted fans.
As it is trying to attract mass popularity it has to stick close to the modern rock rules and they can't step too far out of that box. Don't show too much talent on the guitar,don't play riffs that are too heavy and stick to introspective "life sucks" themes.
Mallcore is boring in style and spirit. It is geared for mass consumption and the themes of the music are always introverted and depressing. For me and hordes of other metalheads and music fans of other genres it is the worst music there is. It's false "Heaviness", it's depressing and self depricating rants, it's completely uncatchy sound, irritating riffs, lack of melody or interesting guitars. One of the worst forms of music ever.
Nirvana are the biggest anti heavy metal band in music history. They wanted to end all metal in 1991, not just the glam stuff. Kurt Cobain said on record that metal is "dumb kid music" and that their music was a new and better product. Jonathan Davis states the same thing about Korn & so he is the musical son of Kurt. Korn are basically Nirvana with drop tuning and attempts at "heaviness" by mindless screams and growls.
The genre as a whole is geared around challenging pop music in record sales and mass popularity,something evident with bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit attacking pop artists. Heavy Metal has no interest in this as it is cult music for it's devoted fans.
As it is trying to attract mass popularity it has to stick close to the modern rock rules and they can't step too far out of that box. Don't show too much talent on the guitar,don't play riffs that are too heavy and stick to introspective "life sucks" themes.
Mallcore is boring in style and spirit. It is geared for mass consumption and the themes of the music are always introverted and depressing. For me and hordes of other metalheads and music fans of other genres it is the worst music there is. It's false "Heaviness", it's depressing and self depricating rants, it's completely uncatchy sound, irritating riffs, lack of melody or interesting guitars. One of the worst forms of music ever.
by Ronnie James Dio October 25, 2006
Get the mallcoremug. A person who wears clothes and accessories all solely from the type of music they listen to, and are discreetly that. Mainstream punk kids and emo kids are usually mallcore.
by Thomas January 3, 2004
Get the mallcoremug. Bands- Slipknot, Korn, Limp Biscuit, Coal Chamber, etc.
Clothing- Anything with dragons, gay patches from Hot Topic, big spikey chains again from Hot Topic
Attitude- usually negative and mean spirited, most mallcore kids also have crappy facial hair.
Clothing- Anything with dragons, gay patches from Hot Topic, big spikey chains again from Hot Topic
Attitude- usually negative and mean spirited, most mallcore kids also have crappy facial hair.
see above
by alex June 6, 2004
Get the mallcoremug. Kids who listen to Slipknot and Korn and wear those damn baggy ass black pants with a ton of pockets and chains. Oh did i mention that they are fuking gay?
by Bob December 31, 2004
Get the mallcoremug. A derogatory term used, primarily by metalheads, to describe music that is often mistakenly considered metal.
Originally the term referred to nu-metal bands, such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Papa Roach and Slipknot. More recently the term can be applied to screamo, emo and metalcore bands such as Bullet for my Valentine, The Used, Avenged Sevenfold and Senses Fail.
The defining feature of such bands is that they make angsty, commercially-orientated hard rock targeted at "rebellious" teenagers.
Originally the term referred to nu-metal bands, such as Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Papa Roach and Slipknot. More recently the term can be applied to screamo, emo and metalcore bands such as Bullet for my Valentine, The Used, Avenged Sevenfold and Senses Fail.
The defining feature of such bands is that they make angsty, commercially-orientated hard rock targeted at "rebellious" teenagers.
14-year-old kid with dyed-red shoulder-length hair and black skinny jeans: "I'm a metalhead, fuck the world!"
26-year-old metalhead: "Fuck off kid, you don't know shit about metal! You just listen to some bullshit mallcore. Power metal, speed metal, folk metal, black metal, death metal, thrash metal... those are all real metal genres. The shit you listen to isn't even close!"
14-year-old kid: "Jeez, man, thanks for the lecture you fucking nerd!"
26-year-old metalhead: "Fuck off kid, you don't know shit about metal! You just listen to some bullshit mallcore. Power metal, speed metal, folk metal, black metal, death metal, thrash metal... those are all real metal genres. The shit you listen to isn't even close!"
14-year-old kid: "Jeez, man, thanks for the lecture you fucking nerd!"
by subcultures+genres October 20, 2012
Get the mallcoremug. A genre created by a collective group of the worlds worst social retards for use by the worlds worst social retards <aka. bogans>
<slayer666> fucking limp dick mallcore kiddies fucking pussies if tom araya saw linkin park irl he'd fucking kill them you faggot cunt faggots
<icedearth2k> fuck yeah fucking faggots fucking shit fuck shit cunt fuck
<crazn> anyone have a spare clue for these two?
<icedearth2k> fuck yeah fucking faggots fucking shit fuck shit cunt fuck
<crazn> anyone have a spare clue for these two?
by crazn April 6, 2004
Get the mallcoremug. by Special K May 22, 2004
Get the mallcoremug.