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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1993 | 100% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 95% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 3 answers you gave, weighted pace 2, era 1, melody 1 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
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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 -
No wave 88%
A total refusal of melody and standard tuning. Short-lived, extreme and hugely influential on noise rock.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Beatdown / metallic hardcore.
The way into No wave
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
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 4.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 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.