S Tier Deathcore albums

[will_shred]

Show me your absoulte top tier deathcore albums. looking for new stuff to listen to. Here's some of mine.

FFAO- The Great Collapse

All Shall Perish- Awaken the Dreamers

Suicide Silence- No Time To Bleed

Winds of Plague- The Great Stone War

 

[gunshow86de]

Agree with just about any FFAO albums. Probably my favorite band of the genre.

The self-titled Whitechapel is up there for me as well.

 

[MaxOfMetal]

As Blood Runs Black - Allegiance: It's like if you took All Shall Perish and overproduced it and made it with children, but there are some pretty solid moments and hooks. Worth a listen if you haven't before. Even back then it was pretty generic.

Animosity - Shut It Down: This was Deathcore done right, IMO. Raw and grindy. Bonus points for featuring a young Navene Koperweis.

Job For A Cowboy - Doom: You had to have heard it, but you didn't list it so I am. Really shows that production and nuance makes a song, an album, and pretty much a band.

 

[somethingsomething]

I think Whitechapel is one of the few deathcore bands with songwriting chops that go beyond "hurr durr, breakdowns go brrrrrr." And their more recent stuff is solidly ambitious. Both The Valley and Kin are excellent, beyond just being "good deathcore albums."

 

[makesexnotwar]

Here is my short list:

Despised Icon - Day of Mourning
Whitechapel - Whitechapel
All Shall Perish - This Is Where It Ends
Between The Buried And Me - Colors

last one is quite different from others but it's so damn great!

 

[MaxOfMetal]

 

[profwoot]

Not really a deathcore guy, but does Veil of Maya - False Idol count? The transitions between death metal verses and boy band pop choruses make me cackle with delight.

 

[ArtDecade]

In any order, these are the best Winger albums:

Winger
In In The Heart Of The Young
Pull
IV
Karma
Better Days Comin'
Seven

 

[CanserDYI]

Did someone put fucking colors on a deathcore list? Jesus Christ what?

And Max had it right, the two best deathcore albums are Doom-JFAC, and ABRB-Allegiance. First time I heard that squeal in Entombment of a Machine, my life changed, same with the opening riff to In Dying Days.

Honorable mention: Acacia Strain's Dead Walk

 

[Wc707]

The Acacia Strain - 3750

Whitechapel - either the Somatic Defilement or This Is Exile

Gotta mention these two..

 

[crushingpetal]

Thy Art is Murder - Hate

Carnifex - Dead in My Arms (I also have been digging their newer Graveside Confessions)

Any FFAA

Acacia Strain - Wormwood

 

[crushingpetal]

Animosity - Shut It Down: This was Deathcore done right, IMO. Raw and grindy. Bonus points for featuring a young Navene Koperweis.

100%. I also dig their Animal.

 

[Metropolis]

Shadow Of Intent - Reclaimer and Melancholy

Lorna Shore - Pain Remains

 

[gunch]

Somatic Defilement and The Cleansing. If you want to count Sumeriancore too all them bands' first couple of ablums too. There's just something fun and earnest about The New Reign before BoO got all shreddy.

 

[Grindspine]

The Acacia Strain - Wormwood is pretty much the archetype of deathcore albums for me, although apparently the band disowns that label.

I will probably get some hate for this, but Emmure's Speaker of the Dead, Goodbye to the Gallows, and Felony are solid. Though that band gets a lot of hate too.

 

[will_shred]

Just realized that Fit For an Autopsy is FFAA not FFAO. Don't post before coffee.

 

[gunch]

 

[Pingu]

Frequent back to front listens:

The Contortionist - Exoplanet
Vulvodynia - Psychosadistic Design
Gravemind - The Hateful One
Infant Annihilator - The Elysian Grandeval Galeriarch
Infant Annihilator - The Battle Of Yaldabaoth
Thy Art Is Murder - Infinite Death
Abiotic - Symbiosis

 

[CanserDYI]

I have come back to put in another vote for the somatic defilement, such a filthy album.

I will also note that 99% of death core that's good also has terrible misogynist lyrics that often borderline pop punk/emo incel whineyness.

 

[Wc707]

A man of culture, I see.


Yeah, the lyrics weren't the best and/or don't age well. That felt like the shtick at that time, though.

I have come back to put in another vote for the somatic defilement, such a filthy album.

I will also note that 99% of death core that's good also has terrible misogynist lyrics that often borderline pop punk/emo incel whineyness.