METALCORE THEN VS. NOW 2 - Riffs From The 2000s vs. Today (2022) Riff Battle 

I love the fact that Trivium still has this thrashy and melodic sounding riffs.

Both are very technical but 2000's Metalcore was catchier and better in my opinion

Your picks for the 2000's were so good. Definitely encapsulates a lot of my favorites.

Funny that modern metalcore is very nu metal inspired, when at the time the old school metalcore stuff came out, nu metal was considered next to shit. I grew up on the older stuff, but do enjoy both flavors, personally.

The fact that someone else listened to Darkest Hour still makes me very happy till this day. Lead guitarist Kris Norris had some of the most amazing guitar riff writing skills back then.

Old stuff beats the shit out of the new metalcore

Man, starting off with Unearth was the greatest idea ever.

Undoing Ruin, from Darkest Hour, one of the best metalcore album ever ! (Hidden hands of a sadist nation was awesome too)

A quiet place to die was easily my top album of 2020. Glad to see metalcore going back towards it's hardcore roots lately.

Metalcore in the 2030s will be played with 3 Bass Guitars and a Snare Drum and the songs gonne be 95% Breakdown in agonisingly slow 20bpm. Saves a lot of songwriting time for a 3 Minute Song.

omfg Darkest Hour Undoing Ruin is such a fucking slamming album still listen to it till this day. Matter of fact listen to the whole album through 4 times at work about 5 days ago lol.

These videos are the perfect blend of nostalgia and showing me new bands to check out! Love this series!

What you are telling me, is I already lived through the best era of Metalcore when I was a teenager.

That bleeding through riff though! And straight into Knocked Loose. Metalcore has always been great.

Chimaira was also a great Metalcore band of the early 2000’s. They had alot of great shit! “The Impossibility of Reason” was a great album. Shadows Fall and Unearth f-ing great! Especially back in the day!

Much more melody is thr classics. Groove as well. They flowed so well. There's no denying it. A fantastic Era in metal we may never see again

I'll always say Metalcore went way downhill. Deathcore has improved tremendously though.

Dude, do one more Thrash Metal then and now. You introduced me to Angelus Apatrida because of that. Can't thank you enough.

Sometimes i feel like a boomer because i can't like modern metalcore. I miss the goddamnits 00's riffs

ughhhh how freaking good was undying ruin tho 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

Love these videos for introducing me to great new songs. Keep it up!

Always love seeing you pull out the old school Myspace throwbacks. I won't get tired of seeing your guitar collection

I love that you threw in the old school bleeding through, darkest hour, and trivium. All of those albums bring me right back to high school

every old metalcore music always has the cloudy mood and gloomy weather in my imagination which is the best weather!

I’m trying my best to enjoy modern metalcore but I’m having such a hard time with it. I wonder if it’s because 2000’s metalcore has my heart when it comes to anything heavy and nothing compares. Don’t get me wrong, I fucking love chugs and 0 tabbed riffs but when that’s everything, you get kinda desentized to it and it loses its pop. I don’t know man, I feel like modern day doesn’t have that same energy and that intensity old school did. With all that said, Thomas you still absolutely crushed this video and your talent is insane!! I’m excited for the future of this channel!

Bro, the quality of your videos are absolutely S tier. Hope you get bigger soon.

As technically sound as it is, I really think current metalcore sucks balls. All flash, no substance, too clean and over-processed.

2000's were way better. Didn't need fancy backing tracks and low ass tunings to sound good.

I feel like a metalcore boomer now cause the new stuff just sounds like AI generated metalcore to me 😐

Oh man and Knocked Loose are on here too. A Tear In The Fabric of Life was one of the best EPs I’ve ever heard and made me fall in love with the band. KL fuck so hard.

Today's metalcore is tuned lower and has more chugging and I love it.

There were a lot of terrible Metalcore bands in the 2000s. I sampled many bands in those days but really only stuck with August Burns Red and Throwdown to be honest.

I think the way modern metalcore downtunes really isn't my cup of tea. I like when the riffs are tight, punchy, technical, and melodic. I get the chugginess of downtuning but I say leave that for the death core and djent fans.

I definitely prefer to metalcore of the 2000-2010 era much more than the more modern metal core. I'm still a deathcore dude all day every day though!

Oldschool metalcore took a lot of influences from melodeath and thrash, nowadays they all try to become the next meshuggah with really technical stuff

Modern metalcore = tune as low as possible with open 0 - 12 - 0- 1 riffs lol

Nice to see Unearth and Darkest Hour in there! I feel like those bands have some of the best riffs and don’t get mentioned very much at all

Old! Win!

I saw alpha wolf and instantly clicked

still prefer classic metalcore, I think its because I also really like powerful vocals (like old Queensryche, BlackBox, Lady Gaga, Dio are a few) so I want really passionate riffs if I can't have spectacular vocals. I find some gems but theyre artists that are inspired by the 80's (Air Raid, Sumerlands for ex), so I have a hard time finding newer stuff that appeals to me.

So mid 2000s metalcore was obviously better 💁‍♂️

Mad respect for choosing drowned and torn asunder, such a deep cut but I love that song. That said, idk I think Rain off that album would've been better for just showing off 2000s metalcore

Is it just me or is that Ice Nine Kills the dumbest thing ever?

It's me or the old metal core sounds a little bit like thrash metal? 🤔

METALCORE NOW IS DJENT addict

Metalcore after 2013= random fucking screeches and highs for no reason

As a guy who spent most of his musical career playing with bands from the mid to late 2000's and some early 2010's I will just always prefer the sound of that era of metalcore. Perhaps its just a nostalgia thing and I'm just biased but I can only listen to a fraction of the newer stuff compare to the earlier stuff.

i love the old pure fast and melodic metalcore riffs so much

Again, I was never a metalcore fan back in the day AT ALL, (thrash all day everyday!). But ironiclly, I like the newer stuff a lot more. More experimental and interesting imo.

Ascendancy is such a good album from start to finish

I was hoping you'd do some Norma Jean right after Knocked Loose to highlight their similarities despite a decade + between them.

A Quiet Place to Die* Undoing Ruin* 😅

Would love to see a round 3 with a song from It Dies Today - The Caitiff Choir for the older side. There's some legendary breakdowns on that album.

The light that blinds… Blew my middle school mind while playing it on guitar hero 2!

i loved see u playing darkest hour song dude

Modern metalcore is good. 2000's metalcore is CLASSIC. It's obvious

Generally I think the modern stuff is better. Silent planet, thornhill, spiritbox, invent animate and ofc architects (though not really their current album), those bands are so good!

Old school metalcore is more influenced by melodic death metal. Modern metalcore is more influenced by djent

Old metalcore better than new

I miss when metalcore was basically melodeath with breakdowns.

it really is just a completely different genre nowadays

and this is how my playlist grows... excellent

Crazy the best era of the genre was when every band just ripped off at the gates

Starting with Unearth is pretty appropriate, dude kinda looks like a young Buz lol

Woah that Unearth song at the start reminded me a lot of Born Of Osiris. Wonder if that was one of the influences for their music

I was so worried that Unearth wasn't going to make your list. Well done.

Tfw no Misery Signals for old school 😢

I’ll be that guy this one was pretty close.

That MIW riff is so old school. Glad they still doin it

My will be done is trash metalcore

I waited for this, great Video!

now its better but before it was awesome too

Isnt Knocked Loose a deathcore band?

You nailed this dude

Great picks man!! Love it!!

You always pick some pretty killer songs to use 🤘 When I saw the Bleeding Through song, all I could think of was the Willem Dafoe sample from Boondock Saints 😂

Then I was a youngin, now I am old oooooffffff.

YES! DARKEST HOUR!! Love it man. Also top notch using Unearth too. What about some Aftershock, Merauder, Reprisal, Length Of Time, Arkangel and maybe some eurocore? Heaven Shall Burn?

Crystal Lake is an awesome band, I’d recommend them in a heartbeat to anyone that wants to get into newer metalcore. And they’re awesome live, I just saw them with Spite, Brand of Sacrifice, and August Burns Red. Killer show

Funny how every modern Metalcore band basically plays a variation of the Doomsday Riff and every classic band plays a variation of that famous At The Gates record. Liked the old stuff better, tho. That alien sound sqealing in the modern stuff is kinda annoying.

Excellent video, brought back some memories. I can recall hours upon hours spent in my late teens-early 20s attempting to learn all but one the "Then" songs. Good times.

I hate that I love it all

Not the best picks for today's metalcore. That said, 2000s mc was lighter and fun, while modern slaps harder, get's more technical and is definitely darker

so good

New stuff is so down tuned !

i like like this series!

I’m so glad Ice Nine Kills got some love here. I truly think they’re the best modern metalcore band around.

Not a huge fan of modern metalcore, but the last two bleed from within albums ripp

SHADOWS FALL! missed those guys :(

Could have picked more variety besides all the at the gates core bands lol

It Dies Today would be a banger of a band to include next time 👀

Been getting into more metal again lately. Would love to see you do some riffs from Spiritbox, Sleep Token, Thornhill and Northlane. Also, not sure if Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! is metalcore enough, but they also have some pretty sick riffs. In the Pop Punk vein, Sum 41 has some heavy riffs too. ADTR is another with good breakdowns. And for an older band, Deftones has a lot of good breakdowns and riffs. Idk how much Nu Metal/Alt Metal stuff you have explored, but there is content there as well.

Love that shadows fall riff, the first metal song I ever heard! Great video

I think ice nine kills kinda bridge the gap between the old and the new style

Alright here we go :D

Not really a metal pick, but I'm hopeful. My favorite band is 5FDP. They have grown and changed over the years, and I'd love to see you do a rendition. Either way dude, you have shown me so much music I never knew existed. I wish more people were subbed so you could get the recognition you deserve

Love the videos man! Do you make your own backtracks?

These videos fucking rock! Keep doing them! Maybe do a battle of the guitarists catalogs next??

Does anyone know what guitar he's using on the right? It's gorgeous

IN THE NEXT VIDEO THERE HAS TO BE A PHINEHAS SONG FROM THE LAST ALBUM. PLEASEEEEEE