Metalcore has come a long way in the last decade-and-a-half. On the British Isles alone, Architects have ridden triumph and tragedy to ever-greater realisations of the genre’s traditional template, Bring Me The Horizon have aggressively pushed the boundaries, and a whole host of next-gen upstarts have striven to make their own mark. Stateside, old hands like Killswitch Engage, Hatebreed and Converge remain the gold standard, while the likes of Code Orange, Knocked Loose, Wage War and Year Of The Knife take us in strange new directions. Nowhere has the subgenre found more concentrated quality, though, than in Australia, with killer collectives like Northlane, In Hearts Wake, I Killed The Prom Queen, The Amity Affliction and Alpha Wolf all on the very cutting edge. Raising that sc...
