Episode 6 - Hardcore, Part 2: Metal

Americanhardmind and Synchronicity introduce our Top Hardcore Bands, as in the essence of each musical sub-genre, beginning with Part 2: Metal.Show more

Metal (djent/thrash/industrial), or "the essence":
Metal embodies djent, thrash and industrial sounds, but its span is all metal subs (see wiki for more). This is the basest sub of all hardcore music in Instrument, Mood-Image and Lyric. There is tribality, as sounds flow from one and into another and are reciprocally-influenced as such. Later Metal was more produced and technical yet retained the speediest and heaviest sound of all subs. Metal began as industrial, hence the sound produced - downtuned, grinding and sonic. That core was merged with a faster, shorter, imperfect edge as punk and later developed into thrash through metal. Eventually, a protoype sound combined of these elements (tribality/flow/reciprocity/technique/production/speed/heavy/downtuned/grinding/sonic) was later called djent and is a common riff of all bands included.

djent:
Black Sabbath (68/70) "Iron Man"-"Paranoid"
Venom (78/81) "Witching Hour"
Metallica (81/83) "One"
KARP-Big Business (90/94) "We Ate Sand"-"Cold Lunch"

thrash:
Pantera (81/83) "Walk"-"Fuckin' Hostile"
Slayer (81/83) "Black Magic"
Sepultura-Soulfly (84/86) "Ratamahatta"-"Terrorist"
Boris(92/96) "Ibitsu"

industrial:
Ministry (79/83) "TV II"
NIN (88/89) "Wish"-"14 Ghosts II"
Deftones (88/95) "Knife Prty"-"You've Seen The Butcher"
Slipknot (95/99) "Surfacing"

This is what to expect in Episode 7:
Hardcore, Part 3: Punk