Between vocalist Bryan Garris’ throat-searing scream, Isaac Hale and Cole Crutchfield’s razory guitar tones, and one of the most uncompromisingly nasty rhythm sections in the game, Knocked Loose’s pit hymns are genuinely unmatched in their field. The Kentucky five-piece are emblematic of the path the genre took throughout the decade, as their sound winds through the lands of late-’90s metalcore and nu-metal while always returning to their homeland of snarling hardcore. In 20 years, when people talk about the sound of hardcore in the 2010s, Knocked Loose should be the first band they mention. And since Turnstile’s melodic brilliance and friendly yet reckless live shows erected them as the era’s premiere gateway band, many of the genre’s current and future forerunners will be creating in Turnstile’s unrestricted image. Although some old-heads bemoaned their seemingly limitless tank of ideas that challenged the perception of what NYHC “should” sound like, the kids fuckin’ loved it. Nonstop Feeling (2015), the band’s earnest embrace of Rage Against The Machine-indebted riffs, 311 bounce, and their celebration of everything from ’90s alt.rock to ’60s surf jangle, set the template for a new order of boundary-smashing within the hardcore universe. The Baltimore posse began as a casual opportunity for Trapped Under Ice drummer Brendan Yates to try his hand at frontman, and after dropping two of the best EPs of the decade they released the most notorious hardcore album of the ’10s. (And don’t forget to check out our Spotify playlist featuring all of the bands included!)Īlthough other bands are more demonstrative of hardcore’s sound by the finale of the 2010s, Turnstile are the poster children of the era’s spirit. Now, without further ado… let’s open up this pit. The band can’t have been listed on our metal list. Likewise, grindcore bands must lean more heavily on punk than metal to be considered.)ĥ. Vocals and lyrics are considered, too - bands like Cult Leader, Full of Hell, and Varials are great but ultimately crossed the admittedly arbitrary “metal” threshold we’ve set. (Apologies to fantastic artists like Iron Reagan and Enforced - crossover thrash bands that are just a bit too rooted in metal. The band may have metal influences, but must be discernibly hardcore or have hardcore punk roots. (For those looking for Incendiary or Harm’s Way, this is why they didn’t make the list.)Ĥ. The band’s debut full-length or EP must have come out in 2010 or later. bands like Sunstroke and Impalers that have been less active recently were left off)ģ. The band must be still actively playing shows, releasing albums. And while some bands on this list embody the more traditional crush-kill-destroy sound of bands like Terror and Hatebreed, others take a noticeable left turn when it comes to what hardcore is, or at the very least can be.Īssuming we’re going to have all of hardcore Twitter down our throats the moment we press “publish,” here, in advance of your outrage, were the self-imposed ground rules for our selections:Ģ. For both America and hardcore, the times are changing, with unorthodox opinions and previously-marginalized voices rising to the surface within the scene. What we perhaps didn’t anticipate was the diversity of music we’d end up debating. The next step was clear: publish a list of the 50 best American hardcore bands blowing up the scene right now. This, of course, resulted in us having to disqualify plenty of talented acts, as well as a lot of teeth gnashing among Internet historians and scene veterans. One of the rules we used to narrow our list was that these bands had to be metal on a gut level - specifically, they couldn’t have their roots in hardcore. team decided to put its collective clubfoot down and declare our choices for the 50 best American metal bands from the past decade.
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