From the mid-’00s to the mid-’10s, metalcore and deathcore were looking like the future of heavy music, with bands like Asking Alexandria, Of Mice & Men, Whitechapel and The Devil Wears Prada releasing albums that peaked in the Top 10 of the Billboard 200. At the turn of the last decade, Warped Tour featured as many just as many ‘core’ bands as it did traditional punk acts, and many other metalcore and deathcore package tours began popping up. Hot Topic was stuffed with T-shirts from the rosters of Rise and Sumerian Records, while other labels began signing up these breakdown-heavy bands left and right. The landscape has obviously changed quite a bit in the last half-decade: many of the genre’s biggest names either broke up or pivoted to completely different sounds, Warped Tour fo...
