At 11/10/11 03:08 AM, Sepultura123 wrote:
-I Dont know why you say metalcore its not metal when theyre the words in it ... Its just fucking hardcore mixed with heavy metal I dont know whats your problem but if You say metalcore its not metal its because you have a fucking problem its like saying Stoner metal its not metal because they have stoner elements in it................
I lol'ed.
You haven't heard my argument but you can already tell I have a problem. That's cool, and it's totaly not hypocritical.
The fact that the word metal is in metalcore is irrelevant. This is music we are talking about. People have created a new musical genre, and people have named the genre. They could have named it improperly. And I think it's the case. Sure metalcore share elements with metal. Just like rock shares elements with metal. We have to draw a line somewhere. And we have good reasons to think that there is a line to be drawn between core and metal.
While the first few real metalcore bands were heavily influenced by metal, I feel the core genre and metal have evolved in completely different ways. The fanbase of both genres are completely different, the main focus and goal of the music isn't the same, the styles and tastes of people from both community are completely different. I'm not going to write you an essay here. What I mean is that I see a very important difference between metal and core. I'm not going to describe the whole thing in depth. I really don't feel like it. But core and metal are intrinsically different.
Not really a part of my argument, but whatever :
I have friends who listen to core only, or mostly core... I hate it when they say they like metal. They just don't...
I mean... I was talking with this kid online on Diablo 2 (yeah, I still play D2) and he was talking about music. He said he liked Bury Your Dead, Bullet For My Valentine and the likes. He then mentionned Despised Icon and asked me if I liked them. Told him I didn't really like Deathcore and that I liked Death Metal more. So I then named Benighted and Blood Red Throne. No reaction from the kid. Then is friend goes like "Oh, you like Death Metal? Do you like The Black Dahlia Murder?" Later, the first kid ask me what I listen to. I tell him I'm into Prog Rock and Prog Metal a lot these days. I name Kansas, Dream Theater, Symphony X, Labyrithn, UFO and... Mastodon. So the kid goes "Oh, Mastodon! They are awesome!" (For some reason, core kids love Mastodon). Notice he didn't react to all the Metal bands I listed, except for the core bands...
I also have friend who like to say they listen to Metal. We discuss music... they say they like August Burns Red, Killswitch Engage, Bullet For My Valentine, All That Remains, Between The Buried And Me, The Black Dahlia Murder, Parkway Drive, As Blood Runs Black, Protest The Hero, Underoath, Born Of Osiris, Bless The Fall, The Devil Wears Prada... and so on.
What do we have here... Metalcore... more metalcore... more metalcore, than some progressive metal/metalcore, than more metalcore, some melodeath/metalcore, metalcore once more, deathcore, some more metalcore, more metalcore, than some deathcore, more metalcore and finaly metalcore.
Then I say what I like. Let's just take the top 14 bands I listenned to this week (only metal and metalcore, I'll exclude rock and the likes because I know core kids listen to some other music two).
Office Of Strategic Influence, Labyrinth, Cynic, Jacobs Dream, Blotted Science, Mastodon, Blood Red Throne, Scale The Summit, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Symphony X, Origin, Forteresse, Bullet For My Valentine, Between The Buried And Me.
So... Progressive Metal/Rock, Progressive Power Metal, Progressive Death/Fusion Metal, Progressive Power Metal, Progressive (Death) Metal, Progressive Metal/Sludge, Death Metal, Progressive Metal/Rock, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Black Metal, Metalcore, Progressive Metal/Metalcore.
This last part of my post really shouldn't be in my argument. It's just something I have observed. Core kids tend to stay within the core genre, while metalheads REALLY listen to different metal genres.
You problably dont listen to these bands but metal core its one of the best genre of metal I think , At Least something hearable not like death,black , and all symphonic and stuff like that......... and its really technical..
Listennable? What do you know about dm and bm to say shit like that?
The only way you can say metalcore is "more something" than bm and dm is more commercial, more radio-friendly, more inexperienced music auditor friendly. It's mainly a genre for kiddos who want to hear poppish song structures but in a more agressive form of music. You have happy sing-along chorus, catchy repetitive melodies, very simple song structures with a lot of choruses, a mix of clean vocals and generic core screams (no bm shrieks, cause that's not sexy enough for these fashion victims) teenage angst lyrical themes, and abusive amount of skulls in their logos, artworks and album covers.
Core is 90% shit.