What is it?
Southern metalcore took Pantera's groove metal and added an energetic hardcore edge. A calculated stutter and stop creates the signature groovy riffs, which are as critical to the sound as the breakdown (also present here) is to metalcore as a whole. The vocals are usually yelled, with less emphasis on throaty growls.
Who's Doing It?
Every Time I Die, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Cancer Bats, He Is Legend, Ritual, Feed the Rhino, Memphis May Fire.
Where Should I Start?
For a lesson in groove, Pantera's appropriately titled The Great Southern Trendkill. Every Time I Die's catalog is absolutely essential — start with their 2014 offering, From Parts Unknown. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster's first two efforts came from Alabama and sound like it.
What's Next?
With a new one from genre masters Every Time I Die, and new/upcoming releases by Feed the Rhino, Ritual (ex-Dead and Divine) and He Is Legend, the South is rising. Meanwhile, Memphis May Fire are bringing their poppified take to the Warped Tour crowd this summer.
Southern metalcore took Pantera's groove metal and added an energetic hardcore edge. A calculated stutter and stop creates the signature groovy riffs, which are as critical to the sound as the breakdown (also present here) is to metalcore as a whole. The vocals are usually yelled, with less emphasis on throaty growls.
Who's Doing It?
Every Time I Die, Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Cancer Bats, He Is Legend, Ritual, Feed the Rhino, Memphis May Fire.
Where Should I Start?
For a lesson in groove, Pantera's appropriately titled The Great Southern Trendkill. Every Time I Die's catalog is absolutely essential — start with their 2014 offering, From Parts Unknown. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster's first two efforts came from Alabama and sound like it.
What's Next?
With a new one from genre masters Every Time I Die, and new/upcoming releases by Feed the Rhino, Ritual (ex-Dead and Divine) and He Is Legend, the South is rising. Meanwhile, Memphis May Fire are bringing their poppified take to the Warped Tour crowd this summer.
