Metalcore. Depending on your age, tastes and relationship with heavy music, that word could spark any number of reactions. For many, it means a generation of killer bands that soundtracked their youth ...
Over the past few years, Lily Wilson has endured COVID-induced upheavals and the unexpected death of her father. Throughout these difficulties, she found solace in what some might consider an unlikely ...
As metalcore took over as the most prominent subgenre within metal, the new wave of bands became increasingly younger, and now nü metal is the new nostalgia. Instead of bands looking to the ’80s and ...
Metalcore did not ruin heavy music. Repetition, label formulas, polished production and streaming incentives turned a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Broken Avenue is currently pulling in 129,000+ monthly listeners on Spotify, has landed itself on a stack of playlists, and has ...
The true golden era of metalcore can—and will—be debated until the end of time, but the years between 2006 and 2011 were a notable period for our scene. Heavy music progressed into something that ...
“Music Talks” is a series in which Daily Music Writers give their takes on the biggest releases in new music. However, this time, we picked a release that’s not exactly new, and not exactly big, but ...
As drummer for US metalcore masters Killswitch Engage, Justin Foley has helped define the genre over the best part of a decade. Foley's ability to immediately switch from delicate cross sticks and ...
Swampscott High School graduate (class of '04) Spencer Charnas is making a name for himself in the punk rock music scene. The band that he started in high school, Ice Nine Kills, recently signed with ...
Everyone is selling out all the time. Henry Rollins once said, “do you have any idea what some of these bands went through to make that music? The fact that there might be some money for them all ...
Bring Me the Horizon have changed a lot over the years, but never like this. When they formed in 2003, the band played thrashy, breakdown-studded songs influenced by the screaming, slashing sound of ...