Your way in
Beatdown / metallic hardcore 1993
Hardcore reduced to breakdowns and slow groove, with barked vocals and lyrics about loyalty and endurance.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 3
- Where from
- New York / New Jersey
- Tempo
- 90-140 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3.5 min
- Written about
- Loyalty and betrayal, The street, Violence, Self-reliance
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Beatdown / metallic hardcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Weighted mean | 95% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 2 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2 out of 4. Beatdown / metallic hardcore 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
Hatebreed, Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire 1997
Hatebreed - Satisfaction Is the Death of Desire. Twenty-seven minutes, produced by Steve Evetts.
- 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 Beatdown / metallic hardcore'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
-
Slam death metal 95%
Reduces brutal death metal to slow, lurching riffs made purely for moving your head.
5 steps from Beatdown / metallic hardcore, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Slam death metal -
Sludge metal 90%
Doom plus filthy hardcore: feedback, screamed vocals and a guitar tone like Louisiana mud.
4 steps from Beatdown / metallic hardcore, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Sludge 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
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 4.
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.