What are 25 essential releases of a genre? - The Revolution edition
So I decided to start this fun project suggested by Sonny, which is to create a list of 25 essential releases for a clan's main genre and collaborate with other site members who know the genre and its releases well enough to help out with improving the list. It basically covers releases that are considered by many to be an essential and influential part of the genre's ongoing development. Of course, this isn't really a favorites list. I haven't even heard a few of these releases, but I know from different sources how influential people consider them to be, and I might check those albums out sometime. To make sure each band gets the spotlight equally and each year in the age of the genre's development is acknowledged, I limited the list to one release per artist and one release per year. Here's the original list of essential metalcore releases that I've come up with, in chronological order:
1. Integrity - Those Who Fear Tomorrow (1991)
2. Starkweather - Crossbearer (1992)
3. Rorschach - Protestant (1993)
4. Earth Crisis - Destroy the Machines (1995)
5. Shai Hulud - Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion (1997)
6. Zao - Where Blood and Fire Bring Rest (1998)
7. The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity (1999)
8. Converge - Jane Doe (2001)
9. Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing (2002)
10. Avenged Sevenfold - Waking the Fallen (2003)
11. Unearth - The Oncoming Storm (2004)
12. Bullet for My Valentine - The Poison (2005)
13. All That Remains - The Fall of Ideals (2006)
14. Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies (2007)
15. Trivium - Shogun (2008)
16. August Burns Red - Constellations (2009)
17. The Chariot - Long Live (2010)
18. The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - Danza IIII: The Alpha – The Omega (2012)
19. Counterparts - The Difference Between Hell and Home (2013)
20. Architects - Lost Forever // Lost Together (2014)
21. Frontierer - Orange Mathematics (2015)
22. Car Bomb - Meta (2016)
23. Vein - Errorzone (2018)
24. Knocked Loose - A Different Shade of Blue (2019)
25. Lorna Shore - Pain Remains (2022)
Any suggestions and contributions to this list are welcome. This is a collaborative project after all. Discuss!
A playlist I've made with my favorite songs from those essential releases: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3MwevI05ua7UhQmrvkKQaT