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Melodic hardcore is a broadly defined subgenre of hardcore punk with a strong emphasis on melody in its guitar work. It generally incorporates fast rhythms, melodic and often distorted guitar riffs, and vocal styles tending towards shouting and screaming.
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- American Nightmare – We’re Down Til We’re Underground (2003) By the turn of the millennium, you had some bands trying to bring hardcore back to the sound of its ’80s origins, and others pushing it in so many different directions that you couldn’t really call it “hardcore” anymore.
- With Honor – Heart Means Everything (2004) A lot of the early/mid 2000s melodic hardcore bands went under-appreciated in their time, and Connecticut’s With Honor were no exception.
- Love Is Red – The Hardest Fight (2004) Another band making a big comeback (who were also on Stillborn in 2004) is Nashville’s Love Is Red, who recently broke a 17-year-silence with the genuinely great new EP Darkness Is Waiting.
- Taken – Between Two Unseens (2004) Before bassist Nick Beard co-founded Circa Survive, he was playing in the band Taken, who Touche Amore frontman Jeremy Bolm once called “the first band I heard to blend melody with blast beats.”
May 3, 2021 · Melodic hardcore music is a blend of punk and metal with influences from rock, pop, hip-hop, and hardcore. This hybrid of sound was most prevalent during the late ’80s and early ’90s in the hardcore punk scene.
Melodic Hardcore 3,218 releases Emerged in the USA in the early to mid-1980s, placing emphasis on melodic vocals and technical guitar riffs rather than raw aggression.
- Kid Dynamite – Shorter, Faster, Louder (2000) After the 1997 breakup of Lifetime — who were a huge influence on a lot of the bands on this list — guitarist Dan Yemin formed Kid Dynamite, whose 1998 self-titled debut remains one of the finest melodic hardcore albums of the ’90s.
- Alkaline Trio – Maybe I’ll Catch Fire (2000) These days, Matt Skiba has a bigger platform than ever as Tom DeLonge’s replacement in blink-182 (though Alkaline Trio also have a solid new EP out), but back when the “All the Small Things” video was ruling TRL, Matt was the co-frontman of the burgeoning Chicago punk band Alkaline Trio, who made good on the promise of their 1998 debut album Goddamnit with their 2000 sophomore LP Maybe I’ll Catch Fire.
- Rancid – Rancid (2000) 1998’s Life Won’t Wait was Rancid’s big, genre-defying, statement-making, and least punk-sounding album, but after that one came out it appeared they had another statement to make: that they could still be a punk band.
- AFI – The Art of Drowning (2000) Black Sails is usually the AFI album that’s considered “the one that’s cool to like,” and Sing the Sorrow is usually the one that’s considered the biggest musical and cultural achievement.
Feb 10, 2024 · Melodic hardcore is a broadly defined subgenre of hardcore punk with a strong emphasis on melody in its guitar work. It generally incorporates fast rhythms, melodic and often distorted guitar riffs, and vocal styles tending towards shouting and screaming.
Modern melodic hardcore is a cool, vibrant music genre that's grown really popular lately. It's a fresh spin on traditional hardcore punk, but with a twist. The music is fast and loud, just like the hardcore we all know and love, but it also has a strong focus on melody.
