The canniest melocore bands have scored a permanent opening slot whenever Iron Maiden hits the MassMutual Center. What those dudes are chasing is larger-than-life arena pomp, reconnecting a genre born in YMCA basements to a hard rock lineage that doesn’t actually exist. When All That Remains or whoever add shiny twin interval harmonies to their dual lead guitar parts, it isn’t in search of a more complex emotional palette. Second-wave melocore groups like Atreyu and Bullet For My Valentine are almost certainly next up on the revival circuit now that nu metal has finally returned to the sewer.īut, also, let’s be real. Anyone with a wrist to pump up and down knows that mid-2000s melodic metalcore fucking rules, with Swedish-style riffing and vocalists that smuggle pilfered Coheed and Cambria-style choruses under death growls. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pre-emptive apologies to any past generation scene kids who locked eyes with their future beloved or found the inner courage to forgive their father at the center of a Killswitch Engage pit-a more meaningful melodic mosh was just around the corner.ĭon’t get me wrong.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |