Influential Metalcore

So I'm at the halfway mark for my required amount of blog posts, so I figured this is a good time to take a break for this week to talk about something different. As opposed to focusing on just one band, I want to talk about a couple of different bands. These bands are bands that are influential bands to not only myself but many, many other people. Instead of looking at a band that isn't well known, these bands are a little more well known and the first two are very popular today. These bands have influenced many of the youth and adults of the world in the best way possible and hopefully everyone reading will enjoy!

The Amity Affliction

The first band I want to mention is The Amity Affliction. The Amity Affliction is one of the big metalcore giants of Australia, and rightfully so with their incredibly inspirational lyrics. Despite some average instrumentals and generic breakdowns you hear from most of the popular metalcore bands, The Amity Affliction definitely makes up for this in their lyrics which is why I keep finding myself jamming out to them, that and Ahren's vocals are very bone chilling despite being a little auto tuned sounding. My favorite lyrics from them comes from the song Youngbloods. "Youngbloods run free forever, forget the death that's ever nearer. Youngbloods young hearts alike, let the fires burn inside your eyes. We won't give up these memories, and we won't go near those cemeteries." This song is about suicide prevention, which is a very common theme among The Amity's songs and I strongly encourage everyone to check them out especially their older stuff if you haven't!

Beartooth

This next band is a newer band that has found themselves a lot of success in their first few years of activity. Beartooth is a phenomenal band devoted to sending a positive message to everyone going through a rough time. Whether it's social injustice, or just going through a difficult time in life, Beartooth tackles those topics and everything in between. The song I want to talk about is from their debut album from 2013, this song is called Beaten in Lips. To sort of quote the song, this is dedicated to the kids with beaten in lips, or are just beaten in general from parents or anyone in their life. The message behind this song can be used for anyone else that suffers from any kind of domestic violence as well or just anything else that's crappy in your life. "Keep living loud and proud! They never can hold you down!"

In Fear and Faith

Finally there's one more band that I want to talk about in this post, and that's In Fear and Faith. Unlike the other two, In Fear and Faith are on a hiatus and also aren't nearly as well known as the other two, but when they were around, they made a lot of influential music in their earlier days of their career. One of those songs being, The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions. This song is your typical metalcore song with heavy and fast music and of course a good scream vocalist and clean vocalist. What makes this song special though, is that like The Amity Affliction's song from earlier, this is a song dedicated to suicide prevention. Not only that though, it's actually a story of someone wanting to commit suicide and there's two parts to it. The first part is meant to be two people talking about it, and then the second part (the part with the singing and screaming duet) are the thoughts that go through someone's mind when wanting to commit this act with the evil side (screamed parts) and good side (clean parts) of staying. To me, this is such a great and complex song with a very positive message behind that I know has helped many people, including myself even. And if that isn't enough, Craig Owens does some guest vocals on this song and Craig Owens is one of many ultimate baes.



There's so many other great metalcore bands out there that have very influential music but it would take me forever to talk about all of them so I picked the three that have really influenced my life personally and have helped keep me going when I felt like it wasn't worth it. I would talk more about it, but I don't want to get off topic and talk about myself, but for real guys, the reason I wanted to share on this topic is because this music really, really does help save some people so I highly encourage everyone to share some of these bands to anyone that you know that's got some messed up stuff going on in their life because it might just help keep them going. Anyways, thank you for taking the time to read and if you already knew about these bands, hopefully you learned something new about them! Tune in next week where I'll return with talking about a new metalcore band to be on the lookout for!