Track Of The Day - The Revolution Edition

Merry metal Christmas! This is one of my favorite songs from August Burns Red's Christmas EP Winter Wilderness, and a great selection for the December Revolution playlist:

An absolute highlight of brutal technical death metal/core hellfire, something fans of The Red Chord, Gorguts, and Cryptopsy should try before they judge:

Amazing inspiring lyrics from one of the earliest Christian metal/hardcore bands besides Zao:

I also decide to take a small sneak peek at Strongarm's other album Atonement, and this song has some metalcore potential as well. I might give the rest of the album a listen if it becomes metal enough to quality for this site.

Heavy raging metalcore that pretty much all fans of the genre can enjoy:

One of only a couple highlights from metal's entry into the hardcore subgenre Krishnacore:

American trance-metalcore with a bit of Crossfaith worship:

For the best of Motionless in White's earlier horror-themed metalcore, check out the dark vicious "Snow" trilogy:

Brutal horror-themed metalcore, continuing the "Puppets" story from the band's debut:

The dark haunting finale of the killer "Puppets" trilogy:

A heavy metalcore sequel to one of the songs from the Creatures "Snow" trilogy. Maybe in a future album, they should make a sequel to the 3rd part "Scissorhands".

A diverse experimental highlight from this Georgia-based metalcore band:

The only song I really like from Stigmata's mostly poor debut, a solid blend of early hardcore/metalcore and the speed/thrash metal of early Metallica, while reminding me of Paradise Lost's Shades of God in the earlier verses:

A 7-minute epic that starts off as melodic as Unearth and Trivium before this band's usual early black/death-infused metalcore:

One of the more popular metalcore bands that somehow I keep overlooking started their career with an incredible album of underrated gems like this one:

A fantastic intersection between several of the hardcore/metal genres from earlier and later bands; the hardcore of Strife, the metalcore/melodic metalcore of August Burns Red and Parkway Drive, the deathcore of Chelsea Grin, and the melodeath of Avatar:

Empowering hardcore/metalcore from one of the leading (yet short-lived) bands in the Christian hardcore scene:

Some metalcore bands I now enjoy thanks to what I discovered when assembling the Revolution playlists:

August Burns Red's new album Death Below is a perfect return to the band's earlier form, evident in songs like this 8-minute epic featuring one of the Underoath vocalists:

Math/deathgrind/hardcore fury, the way that I prefer:

A brand new Lorna Shore-inspired epic deathcore band my brother and I both discovered, whose single is basically "To The Hellfire 2.0", in a way that sounds like far more like a tribute than the rip-off. I wonder if their next couple songs will be similar to "Of the Abyss" and "And I Return to Nothingness"...

Only halfway through metalcore's first decade, and already this legendary band has the metalcore epic:

A brutal sludgy highlight from Premonitions of War's sole full-length album:

Kick-A dissonant grind-ish mathcore:

Absolutely dexterous mathcore violence: