Track Of The Day - The Revolution Edition

Djenty progressive metalcore from LA, California:

Some more metalcore bands I now enjoy thanks to some amazing discoveries, including the deathly melodic metalcore of The Autumn Offering:

The modern alt-metalcore of Imminence:

And the melodic metalcore turned heavy/Southern/groove metal of The Showdown:

A perfect metallic attempt in throwing back to the mid-2000s post-hardcore scene:

Before gradually evolving into a progressive tech-death band, Job for a Cowboy released a deathcore classic with killer highlights like this one:

I'm already getting into the progressive death metal/core zone of bands like Job for a Cowboy and Becoming the Archetype. But one other band I haven't mentioned yet is Rings of Saturn, who can be considered space alien tech-deathcore:

I also finally gained interest in Times of Grace, a side project of Killswitch Engage members Adam Dutkiewicz and Jesse Leach, 4 years after my initial listening of their debut The Hymn of a Broken Man for the melodic metalcore clan challenge:

A memorable highlight in this otherwise bland debut:

Melancholic instrumentation gets balanced out by the uplifting lyrics in this anthemic highlight:

You gotta thank producer Jeremy McKinnon (frontman of A Day to Remember) for giving The Ghost Inside the idea of adding clean vocals for more variation of their sound in highlights like this one:

One of the many epic inspirational anthems in this astonishing modern metalcore offering:

The most metaphorical standout in The Ghost Inside's self-titled comeback album, fitting well for both their near-fatal crash and the life, death, and rebirth of a phoenix:

One of the most memorable earlier highlights of the band being given the live treatment is probably the best moment of their comeback show:

Probably one of the heaviest and most hardcore tracks the band has done to date. I mean, listen to Architects, Hatebreed, or Knocked Loose, and you might find a lot this song has in common with any of those bands:

Last year, Dragoncorpse united deathcore and power metal together at ease. This year, Jeris Johnson showed the world that melodic metalcore, power metal, and medieval folk can co-exist with each other in this fun tune. If this single had its own clans, they would be both The Guardians and The Revolution, maybe enough folk for The North.

Of Mice & Men's self-titled 2010 debut is nothing more than a post-hardcore album with barely any of the metalcore/alt-metal in subsequent albums. In saying that, there are a couple tracks in the album that I enjoy and they qualify for this thread. This one, written in memory of unclean vocalist Austin Carlile's mother who passed from a aneurysm induced by Marfan Syndrome, takes on the melodic metalcore of his previous band Attack Attack!, specifically that band's debut Someday Came Suddenly, albeit without the autotune and trance-y dance-y synths:

And this one is closer to the standard metalcore of their next album The Flood, having some vibes from 2000s A Day to Remember and The Ghost Inside here and there:

The Flood is where Of Mice & Men's journey really begins as a huge step from their post-hardcore debut with absolutely heavy fury in highlights like this one...

...And this one from their more brutal bonus CD in the reissue. What a shame this track didn't end up in the main album:

Restoring Force has a more diverse mature direction for the band, but their metalcore roots are still hitting high in this relatable highlight...

...And this bonus track from the Full Circle reissue:

Of Mice & Men return to the metalcore heaviness of The Flood in Earthandsky, and this is the ultimate standout of the album:

A heavenly highlight relatable for anyone suffering the loss of a family member and wanting to be grateful for all the memories in life, whether good or bad:

This highlight lays out a more melodic structure, while there's still as much heaviness as the hammer of Thor:

Sludgy noise-mathcore from a new band by most of the members of the band Gaza formed after their split-up:

A masterpiece highlight of the more hardcore metalcore revival from the early 2010s:

The ultimate closing epic of chaos for this offering of mathcore insanity:

My metalcore band discovery journey continues with these two bands:

One of only a couple surviving highlights of this Damnation A.D. album, this is one of the darkest and heaviest songs I've heard in metalcore: