The discourse. It’s a nightmare, but I suppose there is a price for success.
I’ve been in the heavy music scene long enough to witness the primordial awakenings of metalcore in the mid-'90s in New Jersey, watching bands like Overcast, Earth Crisis, and Cave In break the mold. I was fortunate to be in God Forbid, a band that helped usher the subgenre into mainstream recognition alongside Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, and Lamb of God. We even graced the cover of Decibel Magazine, which proclaimed that our 2005 opus IV: Constitution of Treason was “The End of Metalcore”. Despite our ambitions to intellectualize the core and transcend formula, its imminent demise was misdiagnosed.
