Worst Genre: Metalcore,Deathcore or Nu-Metal?

luckily i've been spared most of this nonsense but going on the few bands i've unfortunately heard, it's metalcore

youre too young to remember nu-metal then i assume?

wish i was

dude idk - what's nu-metal, limp biskit and the like? that's not as bad as underoath or the devil wears prada

Um... hmm.

Come to think of it I'd much rather listen to Godsmack than the Devil Wears Prada.

tough call.

I'd count botch/converge as metalcore and those bands rule.

on the nu-metal tip, I like linkin park "faint" and deftones. "let the bodies hit the flo" is pretty lolsy, too.

deathcore has no reason to exist, as far as I can tell. gonna go with that.

Botch maybe but not Converge, but yes, both rule, and even if they were metalcore, they still couldnt save it as a genre.

I like tons of others 90s metalcore bands too (rorschach, coalesce, early cave in, etc.) but different strokes for different folks.

yeah, metalcore now doesn't mean what it used to mean. now people just use it to describe all the horrible melo-death-influenced crud.

nu-metal is definitely the worst though. i can't think of a single nu-metal band i would want to listen to. the only times i could stomach some nu-metal bands is when they let their new wave flags fly. some of them were just frustrated goth bands in metal drag. and the ministry + nine inch nails elements were easier to take than the rap + pantera elements.

i still like stuff that used to be described as "metallic hardcore". not crossover stuff, but dumb riff and breakdown heavy hardcore. cuz i'm from connecticut. and i have to.

Nu-metal, though I'm not so keen on deathcore either. Could never vote for Metalcore because Calculating Infinity is one of the most bitchingly awesome albums ever.

modern day metalcore then for the purposes of this poll. the shit thats been so ubiquitous the past 5 years or so

There are exactly two bands in the nu-metal neighborhood that I fucking love. Sepultura and Will Haven. WHVN are so fucking underrated, it's sad.

nu-metal was a quick-fadded scourge that managed to simultaneously do even more to "malign the genre of metal" whilst dragging down further the mental intellect of bozos throughout the world. Metalcore wins out of the three, singularly because of Converge. Fuck knows what Deathcore is, but it doesn't sound very good.

Converge, while being a band that meld hardcore and metal, are not really anything to do with metalcore the genre as being discussed in this thread.

imo

I'd half forgotten about Botch. C. Thomas Howell as the Soul Man is a jam.

Oh come on, people. Sure, there's a lot of really crappy metalcore, but the big dogs of the genre like Shadows Fall, God Forbid, Killswitch, and All That Remains have released some seriously awesome material. I'd rather listen to the worst Shadows Fall record than the very best that nu-metal had to offer. At least those bands have killer guitar work and solos and not just "chunk chunk chunk."

All That Remains and God Forbid have turned into a couple of pretty great bands. Tough to call either metalcore anymore...those hardcore elements are minimal now.

Is Neurosis metalcore? And if not, why not?

cuz its not

Neurosis make "heavy music".

for people with beards

i had a beard once. d'ya think i'd like 'em?

Listen to Enemy of the Sun. If you don't like it, give up.

if you dont like Neurosis youre no friend of mine :)

and check out Through Silver In Blood first.

early neurosis is worth checking out too, just totally different.

(crusty hardcore instead of the later doomier slower stuff)

i thought Nate only liked the earlier stuff tbh

When they were hardcore they had no metal and when they were metal they had no hardcore

(that's why not, multiple xps)

that too

xxxpost - Word As Law and Souls at Zero are definitely the tipping points between their hardcore and metal eras. As someone who saw those early tours, I certainly remember a lot of punks crying foul that Word As Law sounded like Metallica and that Souls At Zero sounded like a movie soundtrack.

They really had me from Pain of Mind thru Enemy of the Sun. With Through Silver in Blood came Ozzfests and Pantera tours and I lost interest until Times of Grace.

No matter what they do, I like the band and respect them. But when I reach for an album to spin, it's always one of the first 4.

Just because they went on ozzfest after TSIB ,you shouldnt hate it! It rules!

Nu-metal doesn't bother me now, hated it at the time, but I am v unlikely to actually hear it.

Metalcore and Deathcore I'm not sure about yet - can somebody clarify by saying if they are True Metal or False Metal?

xpost-I don't hate it. I just didn't give it a chance. Yet.

Do it!

you wont be disappointed.

you will regret not hearing it sooner

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

does even chuck hate nu metal?

all the death metal djs at my radio station hate "core," and complain about it all the time, which is weird cause i can't even tell one from the other and i listen to deathmetal. i guess it's like how the line between emo and pop punk is really thin and ambiguous, but certain pop punk kids still the shit out of hate emo.

Horrorcore

*still hate the shit out of emo.

also by "core" i mean deathcore.

if those voting for nu-metal had heard loads of metalcore and deathcore bands im not sure they would vote nu-metal tbh. but i dont blame them for not wanting to check it out.

The thing with deathcore, while I don't think much of it as a style, is that someone who didn't fuck with DM in the first place probably wouldn't find it appreciably less likeable than grown-up DM

(the same might go for metalcore depending on what kind of thing we were talking about)

i wonder which core will finish 2nd to nu metal. Im gonna guess metalcore as deathcore is still kinda new and not as well known yet.

also misery signals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqMfm0bOFLk

The only deathcore I'll acknowledge:

http://i59.tinypic.com/255i2qh.jpg

Metalcore and deathcore don't have to suck, right? I mean the crossover era produced some good albums, why is this shit so meathead and dumb?

i don't think i actually know how to recognize deathcore, it's such a minor permutation of metalcore

The vocalists have halitosis

Iirc Corpsegrinder's breath smells like chrysanthemums

I'd imagine it smells like whatever his neck is full of

Ferrets

cool that as i lay dying let their lead singer – you know, the guy who put a hit out on his wife – back into the fold and nme called it 'controversial.' uhhh

funny zing I heard at a Ringworm show from members of the band to their fans - "those parts between the breakdowns are known as 'riffs', folks"