The development of metalcore was arguably the most important development within heavy music of the past 20 years. Today, when you hear double bass drums and melodic riffs over soaring clean vocals on rock radio, you have the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal — the early-’00s movement led by bands like Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, God Forbid, Lamb Of God, and more — to thank for it. But any genre that gets insanely popular is almost certainly destined to eventually collapse in on itself, and metalcore was no different.In the latest episode of our podcast Inside Track, in which the true stories behind rock music’s most unbelievable moments are told by the people who lived them, members of the biggest bands in the New Wave Of American Heavy Meta...
