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Progressive metalcore 2010
Metalcore with eight-string guitars, ambient passages and structures borrowed from djent.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- Global
- Tempo
- 130-190 bpm
- Song length
- 4-7 min
- Written about
- Grief, Faith and doubt, Ecology, Mental health
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Progressive metalcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 70% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Grief, Faith and doubt, Ecology, Mental health | 100% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 8 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 91% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, about 1, melody 1 out of 9. Progressive metalcore ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Killswitch Engage, Killswitch Engage 2000
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing. The album that defined a decade.
- 2The one to put on first
Architects, All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us 2016
Architects - All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us. Devastating in both senses.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Metalcore, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Progressive metalcore's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Post-hardcore 91%
Hardcore that allows itself dynamics, empty space and irregular structures. Emo, screamo and mathcore all branch off from here.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Progressive metalcore.
The way into Post-hardcore -
New nu metal 90%
The generation raised on Korn and Slipknot brings back low tunings and electronic textures with today's production.
4 steps from Progressive metalcore, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into New nu metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 9.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 9.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.