Listened to both of them in that time period as well, but I especially liked Killswitch Engage. I eventually discovered they were influenced by Swedish melodeth and promptly went down that rabbit hole.
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Nice. I pretty much stayed in the metalcore x deathcore scene, but I'm realizing much good music there is outside of that. Love me a good breakdown though, that will never change.
Feel free to recommend some deathcore. I've spent so much time delving into melodeath to atmospheric black metal to doom metal and a bit of power metal... So I've mostly missed out on the deathcore movement.
I did discover this the other day, and it's pretty amazing. Should satisfy your breakdown addiction.
That song is a banger, holy cow.
Lorna Shore seems like the big one in blackened deathcore right now, a lot of their singles sound the same, but they have some pretty creative songs and multi-song concepts.
I did a dive with Oceano last year, they've been around since before I got into metal and they're still making stuff.
I like some Thy Art is Murder, I'd put them pretty overlapped with metalcore.
I listened to some Whitechapel and enjoyed it, they're another that's been around forever.
My problem with a lot of the genre is the gore. I love the music, but grossout gore or explicit demonic stuff is a big turnoff.