Metalcore. Depending on your age, tastes and relationship with heavy music, that word could spark any number of reactions. For many, it means a generation of killer bands that soundtracked their youth. For others, it's become a dirty word, shorthand for metal that started to stop really being metal.
For me? Metalcore was a foundational part of my journey into metal itself: after discovering heavy music through nu metal heavyweights like Limp Bizkit, Korn and Linkin Park, it was 2000s metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage and Avenged Sevenfold that weaned me onto a different part of the scene.
