With it's roots stretching back some 20 years, today's more popular metal strain, metal-
core, is a blend of two different genres, hardcore
punk and thrash metal. The
ratio of the blend is not defined or regulated and can sometimes rely on the particular band or fans to categorise the music. Metalcore bands such as Chimaira, for instance, rarely use
clean, melodic vocals in their tracks, as opposed to groups
like killswitch engage who regularly include a more melodic approach through the chorus sections. The latter approach is often attacked by fans of 'classic metal' for not being true to the
game, how-ever, others simply see it as an evolutionary path and the bands in question exercising their right to make the style of music they feel comfortable with. Lyrically, the metalcore
scene typically revolves around feelings of inner strength, determination, rejection, unity, personal loss and anti-authoratirianism.
Some examples of Metalcore bands :- killswitch engage,
war of ages, as i lay dying, chimaira, 36 crazyfists, devildriver, the agony
scene, darkest hour, god forbid, ill
nino, panic cell, a perfect murder, a love ends suicide, all that remains, bleeding through, carpathian, diecast, e town concrete, hatebreed, it dies today, lost eden, machinehead, shadows fall, souls harbor, still remains, throwdown, unearth, machinemade god, kataklysm, senses
fail, atreyu, endwell, mudvayne, mercury switch, dance gavin dance, sick of it all, soilwork, dry
kill logic, bury your dead, lamb of god, swift, himsa, clifton, swift, alterbridge
