Metalcore

Metalcore is a metal sub-genre that combines elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk.
As with other styles blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore,
metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, slow, intense passages conducive to moshing.
Other defining instrumental qualities include heavy riffs and stop-start rhythm guitar
playing, occasional blast beats, and double bass drumming. Vocalists in the genre
typically yell or scream. Some later metalcore bands combine this with clean singing,
often during the chorus. Death growls and gang vocals are common. The first wave of
metalcore bands in the 1990s were inspired by hardcore while later metalcore bands were
inspired by melodic death metal bands, like At the Gates and In Flames.