November 2024 "Metalcore Revolution" Playlist - Metal Academy Radio

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1yFgscg5HWKGoIy2s0xRfG

Tracklisting:

1. Bury Your Dead - "Minority Report" from We Are Bury Your Dead (2019) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]

2. Rings of Saturn - "Infused" from Lugal Ki En (2014) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]

3. Fit for a King - "TECHNIUM" from TECHNIUM (2024) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]

4. Unbroken - "D4" from Life.Love.Regret. (1994) [submitted by Daniel]

5. Kingdom of Giants - "Bloodworm" from Bleeding Star (2024)

6. Loded Diper - "Rodrick Rules" from Loded Diper (2019)

7. Trivium - "Pillars of Serpents" from Ember to Inferno (2003)

8. Becoming the Archetype - "Elegy" from Terminate Damnation (2005)

9. Aviana - "Obsession" from Corporation (2022)

10. Thrown - "Fast Forward" from EXTENDED PAIN (2022)

11. Chelsea Grin - "Forever Bloom (feat. Trevor Strnad)" from Suffer in Hell (2022)

12. Shadow of Intent - "Barren and Breathless Macrocosm" from Melancholy (2019)

13. Traitors - "Burnout" from Night Terrors (2015)

14. Lorna Shore - "FVNERAL MOON" from Flesh Coffin (2017)

15. Aurorawave - "KINDNESS. (with Attila)" from Aurorawave (2024)

16. Memphis May Fire - "The American Dream" from Remade in Misery (2022)

17. Ice Nine Kills - "Rocking the Boat" from The Silver Scream (2018) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]

18. It Dies Today - "Son of Dawn" from Son of Dawn (2024)

19. The Devil Wears Prada - "To the Key of Evergreen" from Transit Blues (2016) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]

20. Imminence - "The Seventh Seal" from I (2014)

21. Bury Tomorrow - "Heretic (feat. Loz Taylor)" from The Seventh Sun (2023)

22. Pridelands - "Antipathy" from Light Bends (2022)

23. We Came as Romans - "Cold Like War" from Cold Like War (2017)

24. As I Lay Dying - "The Cave We Fear to Enter" from The Cave We Fear to Enter (2024) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]

25. Varials - ".50" from Scars for You to Remember (2022)

26. Hatebreed - "Shut Me Out" from For the Lions (2009)

27. Make Them Suffer - "27" from 27 (2018)

28. Car Bomb - "Cellophane Stiletto" from Centralia (2007)

29. Iwrestledabearonce - "The Cat's Pajamas" from It's All Happening (2009)

30. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Like a Cat" from Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear (2005) [submitted by Shadowdoom9 (Andi)]

31. The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - "Big Pun's Not Dead Because I Just Saw Him at Krispy Kreme" from The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (2005)

Here are my thoughts on all the selected tracks:

Bury Your Dead - "Minority Report" from We Are Bury Your Dead (2019)

5/5. "It's f***ing time to rock, baby!" Bury Your Dead is still alive and stirring up some dark heavy bangers. This is the kind of raging metallic hardcore you can hear in other bands like Kublai Khan. This is the perfect brutal start for this playlist to immediately get familiar with the hardcore heaviness. They've also returned to naming their songs after Tom Cruise films, this one named after Minority Report, which has been overly repeated on TV in my country.

Rings of Saturn - "Infused" from Lugal Ki En (2014)

4.5/5. Who knew brutal technical deathcore can sound beautiful?! I love the vocals and cosmic guitar fiddling! I just wish they could've added vocals to their new album.

Fit for a King - "TECHNIUM" from TECHNIUM (2024)

4/5. Once the bass drops at the "DROP IT", you're in for another wild ride.

Unbroken - "D4" from Life.Love.Regret. (1994)

3.5/5. Beginning this track is crushing sinister riffing, then it makes a slow transition to really grow on you.

Kingdom of Giants - "Bloodworm" from Bleeding Star (2024)

4/5. This banger would get you hooked from the very beginning. When the heavy riffing comes in between the two parts of the chorus near the one-minute mark, it has the destructive power of Alpha Wolf. Starting the last minute is an ominous 20-second buildup to a pulverizing breakdown. That's one thing to make a f***ing banger!

Loded Diper - "Rodrick Rules" from Loded Diper (2019)

4.5/5. The only one Loded Diper dialogue-sampled instrumental I really enjoy, with its kick-A thrashy metalcore instrumentation.

Trivium - "Pillars of Serpents" from Ember to Inferno (2003)

5/5. Then it transits to this chugging churning example of heavy metalcore, still audible enough for the ears. In fact you can hear a bit of the bass clearly in the mix.

Becoming the Archetype - "Elegy" from Terminate Damnation (2005)

5/5. A true metalcore epic that can fit well in a battle between Heaven and Hell. I would recommend it to any metalhead, whether or not they're Christian.

Aviana - "Obsession" from Corporation (2022)

4.5/5. Get ready for some more of this heavy metalcore fire! It can't surpass Lorna Shore's idea of making heaviness beautiful, but it comes f***ing close.

Thrown - "Fast Forward" from EXTENDED PAIN (2022)

4/5. Thrown can easily fast forward through face-smacking metalcore in just two minutes. The screamed lyrics actually sound so clear.

Chelsea Grin - "Forever Bloom (feat. Trevor Strnad)" from Suffer in Hell (2022)

4.5/5. RIP Trevor Strnad. I felt up to paying tribute to this melodeath vocalist with 3 deathcore songs featuring him. His vocals sound so crazily brutal here, though I also enjoy Tom Barber's vocal contributions.

Shadow of Intent - "Barren and Breathless Macrocosm" from Melancholy (2019)

5/5. Here's the second Trevor Strnad-featured track, this one practically surpassing the previous one. Insane drumming and vocals here! The riffing reminds of early Whitechapel, especially during the cinematic ending.

Traitors - "Burnout" from Night Terrors (2015)

4.5/5. And here's the 3rd Trevor Strnad-featured track, which is f***ing great, though the previous one is still the best of the trio. Once again, RIP...

Lorna Shore - "FVNERAL MOON" from Flesh Coffin (2017)

5/5. Up next is this great highlight. There are two breakdowns that would burst out of nowhere and crush your bones, then you're pulled back into speedy soloing and fantastic riffing. A much better balance than that small fraction of their debut!

Aurorawave - "KINDNESS. (with Attila)" from Aurorawave (2024)

4.5/5. Now how about some reggae-infused metalcore featuring Fronz from Attila?! Every listen is as great as the first!

Memphis May Fire - "The American Dream" from Remade in Misery (2022)

4.5/5. One word: AMERICA!!!!!!!

Ice Nine Kills - "Rocking the Boat" from The Silver Scream (2018)

5/5. This highlight is based on Jaws and features original member Jeremy Schwartz, name-drops all of the band previous albums and The Burning EP, and has a killer metalcore breakdown.

It Dies Today - "Son of Dawn" from Son of Dawn (2024)

4.5/5. This year was really the perfect time for someone who hasn't listened to American metalcore during its peak years of the 2000s to discover this band, right when they're making a comeback. Their new single certainly has the greatness of their debut!

The Devil Wears Prada - "To the Key of Evergreen" from Transit Blues (2016)

5/5. A perfect piece of metalcore with a beautiful soft bridge. Enough said!

Imminence - "The Seventh Seal" from I (2014)

4.5/5. This band is still amazing metalcore fans throughout the 10 years since their debut.

Bury Tomorrow - "Heretic (feat. Loz Taylor)" from The Seventh Sun (2023)

5/5. Bury Tomorrow's 7th album has some of the best tracks to remind me of Invent Animate and While She Sleeps. Speaking of the latter, I love the guest appearance by that band's lead vocalist Loz Taylor, though the intense harsh vocals of Daniel Winter-Bates and gritty clean vocals of Tom Prendergast work as well. A d*mn perfect banger!

Pridelands - "Antipathy" from Light Bends (2022)

4.5/5. Pridelands seems to have adopted the ambient metalcore stylings of Thornhill that was abandoned after that band's debut The Dark Pool, and it shows all the way up to the killer breakdown. It shall fuel your metalcore ears with f***ing fire! Sharptone is a great home for many impressive modern metalcore bands and their releases. The fire cools down slightly at the two and a half minute mark, then lights up f***ing higher with brutal vocals in front of a d*mn bouncy groove. Then the killer breakdown comes on.

We Came as Romans - "Cold Like War" from Cold Like War (2017)

5/5. One of the best songs I've heard from this band and melodic metalcore! Imagine skydiving while listening to this perfect song. Still missing you, Kyle Pavone. RIP

As I Lay Dying - "The Cave We Fear to Enter" from The Cave We Fear to Enter (2024)

4.5/5. As I Lay Dying is not dead yet, but it might as well be, considering all the members except Tim Lambesis have just left the band, mere weeks before the scheduled release of their upcoming album Through Storms Ahead. Nonetheless, the band's signature melodic metalcore sound has been shining since their second album Frail Words Collapse. And songs like this one empower me with strength. I have a great feeling about this album that might possibly be the band's swansong offering. I sometimes wonder what this song would sound like with their classic lineup though.

Varials - ".50" from Scars for You to Remember (2022)

5/5. The music and vocals are so savage here! Mitchell Rogers switching from lead guitar to lead vocals was a clever move because of how hard his vocals can hit.

Hatebreed - "Shut Me Out" from For the Lions (2009)

4.5/5. Jamey Jasta's vocals crash through in a f***ing hardcore blitz in this Sick of It All cover you'll never get sick of.

Make Them Suffer - "27" from 27 (2018)

4/5. D*mn, those lyrics can break you apart then build you back up again!

Car Bomb - "Cellophane Stiletto" from Centralia (2007)

3.5/5. Things go as crazy as Fantomas in this one.

Iwrestledabearonce - "The Cat's Pajamas" from It's All Happening (2009)

4/5. If there are people out there who think I've missed on metalcore/mathcore during its peak era of the late 2000s, let me ask them something. Were they 25-year-old metalcore listeners writing comments about tracks in playlists back then? Probably, but either way, this kind of music is timeless!

The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Like a Cat" from Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear (2005)

4.5/5. "What is the point of laying in a comfortable position if you can't fall asleep in it?" That sounds like another good question to relate to the past, "What is the point of reliving the past if you can't stay in it?", something I would ask those people I've mentioned in the above comment. Hardcore can have so many changes within a song.

The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza - "Big Pun's Not Dead Because I Just Saw Him at Krispy Kreme" from The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (2005)

4/5. All right, I admit it... The rapping parts are quite amusing like "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" (that aged poorly 15 years later) and "Life is so trivial... I'm cryin' in my cereal..." But I, along with the more serious metalheads around here, am here for the main mathcore song. This might remind some of Into the Moat, which I should really check out someday. I guess I could've ended this playlist slightly better....

Pretty good playlist I've made, huh? I recommend this to any metalcore fan and anyone who isn't into metalcore but is up to getting into a great start for the genre. Thanks Daniel for accepting this and your help with your submission, and I hope the rest of you enjoy it like I've had!