A Word On Metalcore

Let's face it. 99% of metalcore is bollocks. I don't care if this makes me sound like a reactionary old twat, but surely the idea of fusing metal and hardcore occured years ago. Over twenty years ago. If memory recalls correctly that's what Slayer (who always sounded more like a hardcore group influenecd by metal to my ears, but anyway...), early Metallica, My War-era Black Flag, Prong, Napalm Death, Siege and countless other bands were up to throughout the 80s and beyond. As far as I can tell, the difference betwen all this stuff and metalcore (it even looks wrong written down...) is that the above bands and all those who followed/whatever took all the good stuff from metal, and all the good stuff from hardcore and slammed it together and stripped it down to create something sleeker, harder and more visceral, whereas metalcore does the opposite and melds metal's propensity for pompousness and unecessary technical posturing with hardcore's unfortunate tendency towards toecurling self-righteousness and mob pleasing one dimensionality.

Just a thought.