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- noun music A genre of
rock music related topunk andheavy metal
Etymologies
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Examples
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Straight – laced metalcore, which is relentless in the brutality dept. and maintains a good dose of lyrical severity, from vocalist Kevin Randel.
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Give Them Rope is an underground milestone that helped pioneer what was soon called "metalcore."
NPR Topics: News 2011
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Some may call a metalcore band suddenly pulling a 180 and becoming an electronica band a sellout.
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The Demonstration is best described as metalcore, but they come from a lot of different places.
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Dethalbum II (Williams Street), which contains some songs that go on nearly half as long as the 15-minute episodes of The word "metalcore" still makes me cringe, but some of the music is amazing-and it was CONVERGE who first proved that to me.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Dethalbum II (Williams Street), which contains some songs that go on nearly half as long as the 15-minute episodes of The word "metalcore" still makes me cringe, but some of the music is amazing-and it was CONVERGE who first proved that to me.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Dethalbum II (Williams Street), which contains some songs that go on nearly half as long as the 15-minute episodes of The word "metalcore" still makes me cringe, but some of the music is amazing-and it was CONVERGE who first proved that to me.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Unholy: Surprise of the day for me … they were really tight and had a great hybrid of metal and hardcore (but definitely not "metalcore") going on.
MetalSucks 2009
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Until a kind of metalcore-ish (but not in a bad way) breakdown at the end, it pretty much takes Chimaira's death metal influence and pushes it to the forefront; I think it might be the Chimaira song most likely to win over the kinds of close-minded "purists" who usually shun this awesome, awesome band.
MetalSucks 2009
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Rosanne Cash narrows down her father's "List" metal is getting more neurotic, and more like metalcore which is "carnival music" which likes to throw together unrelated riffs with a breakdown, Asphyx return with the today announced that Breaking Benjamin will make their Rock Band debut next week with a three pack of songs
WN.com - Articles related to Audio: New Shakira song big reason for album being out next month 2009
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