Thinking about doing a video about scenecore. What bands should I talk about?
So, I'm thinking of doing video talking about the whole scenecore/mallcore/myspacecore/Hot Topic-core movement, largely because I think it's time that we can start re-evaluating some of these bands and just start listening to them unironically again (hey, it's happening with nu-metal! Scenecore ain't too far removed from that!). My question is, what bands should I include in that list?
Also, I think I should give a definition for scenecore to help us out. Scenecore, for my purposes, denotes a style of heavy rock music that became popular in the mid-2000's thru the mid-20teens (though some bands still persist and are making some of their best music into today). It sits adjacent to the metalcore, deathcore, and hardcore boom of the same period, as well as kinda dovetails with the emo and screamo boom of the early-2000's. The bands in this "style" (it's really not a style or genre in terms of sound, but more a period in time or a shared aesthetic) vary a lot stylistically, but in general, it is a sound that has it's base in emo/post-hardcore (textured guitars and usually higher, more head-voice or nasally vocals with bursts of raw screaming over a punk backbeat), but with elements of metal (usually big, beefy breakdowns but sometimes fleet-fingered soloing), huge anthemic pop choruses, and sometimes elements of electronica..
So far, the list I want to talk about is
Asking Alexandria A Day to Remember Escape the Fate Falling in Reverse The Fall of Troy Blood on the Dance Floor Chiodos Sleeping With Sirens Attack Attack Enter Shikari
But what about these whole Risecore thing with Woe, Is Me, Of Mice and Men, and especially Crown the Empire? What about We Came as Romans? Coheed and Cambria? Saosin? From Autumn to Ashes? From a Second Story Window (I feel they have too much grind and old-school screamo to count, but I'd love an excuse to talk about them because Not One Word Has Been Omitted is one of the best eps ever made)? How about Motionless in White and Black Veil Brides? As much as it makes me want to vomit, what about Brokencyde? I know most people think Design the Skyline are a canonical scenecore band, but did they really have more to offer than just one really big, weird beast of a song? Would we consider From First to Last scenecore, or are they too early? They have a lot of the elements (a base in screamo, some heavier elements from metalcore, huge sing-along choruses, etc. They had the visual aesthetic. And the title of their debut, Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count, is both maybe the best album title ever and also the most scene title you could ever imagine, but I feel 2004 sits a bit too early. To me, scenecore really begins around 2006 with Escape the Fate and their album Dying is Your Latest Fashion-again with the ridiculously silly but ass kicking album titles!)