Your way in
Melodic hardcore 1985
Same speed and urgency, but with sung choruses and guitar harmonies.
- Heaviness
- 5
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 180-220 bpm
- Song length
- 2-3 min
- Written about
- Conviction, Personal politics, Community, Growing older in a young person's scene
- Vocals
- Shouted
Why this one
| You said | Melodic hardcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shouting, but I can still hear the words When someone is singing, what should come out? | shouted | 100% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1985 | 80% | ×1 |
| Normal How long should a song be? | up to 3 min | 88% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 95% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, era 1, length 1 out of 7. Melodic 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
Bad Brains, Bad Brains 1982
Bad Brains - Bad Brains (the ROIR cassette). The fastest band of the decade.
- 2The one to put on first
Kid Dynamite, Kid Dynamite 1998
Kid Dynamite - Kid Dynamite. Seventeen songs, twenty-four minutes, zero fat.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Hardcore punk, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Melodic 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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No wave 90%
A total refusal of melody and standard tuning. Short-lived, extreme and hugely influential on noise rock.
4 steps from Melodic hardcore, meeting it only at Punk rock.
The way into No wave -
Groove metal 88%
Thrash slowed to a groove that hits you in the chest: syncopated riffs, mid-tempo drums, barked vocals.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Melodic hardcore.
The way into Groove 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
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 7.
- Normal put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Progressive rock, Krautrock, Acid rock. Worth 1 of 7.
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.