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This is pretty much my copypasta for when people want melodic hardcore recommendations. I included albums to start with and linked my favorite songs for each artist. This is a personal list so these are just my personal recommendations. A lot of people will probably say I'm missing some bands or have differing opinions on which album to start with. Feel free to add your suggestions below. [Spotify playlist I made](https://open.spotify.com/user/1229881444/playlist/4ryTzuuneDwGpYhdv7s2xX) **General** [Counterparts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn58vDAeT_U) **(essential)** - The Current Will Carry Us (one of my favorite bands ever as well as one of my top 10 favorite albums ever) Most people would say Hell & Home or Tragedy Will Find Us but The Current just has this incredible mix of chaotic guitars and drums that come together in this beautiful soundscape that I can't get enough of. [Hundredth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n946A_o5s1g) **(essential)** - Let Go. Let Go sounds similar to Counterparts, but they distanced themselves from the generic melodic hardcore sound on the Revolt/Resist EPs and FREE and now have their own distinct sound that I can't really describe. One thing I can say is they're very fast. They've since *completely* abandoned the hardcore sound and moved on to a shoegaze/post-punk sound on their new record, *RARE*. [Capsize](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWavYIb8Cqo) **(essential)** - (The Angst In My Veins and earlier) Fast, dark, and dissonant. Simple enough, but such a great sound. [Saints Never Surrender](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRr7eX73Oj4) **(essential)** - Brutus. Big influence of Counterparts. Bright lead lines backed by full complex chords. Lots of start-stop riffs and varying time signatures. [Continuance](https://youtu.be/5le-9xphkb0) - Carry Ourselves (only one they have). Includes members of Saints Never Surrender after they broke up. Very similar to SNS. [Heart In Hand](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T19moypQZpg) - A Beautiful White. Beautiful clean melodic sections transition to chord-laden riffs under bright leads. Most songs include a type of chorus. [It Prevails](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFvpkcW1zlQ) - Stroma. Similar to Life In Your Way with a more modern melodic hardcore feel. Pretty basic with clean vocals and a big heart with positive lyrics. [Casey](https://youtu.be/zYAFge32iyw) - Love Is Not Enough. Huge emotional climactic songs seasoned with post-rock influences throughout topped with evocative lyrics both screamed and sang. [Climates](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujlU-2WTksk) - Body Clocks. Catchy leads with both screamed and sang vocals. Kicked out their vocalist (now in Napoleon) and switched their name and style recently. [Until We Are Ghosts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0T6TNU74bM) - Detach Me From You. If you imagined picking bands was picking characters in a fighting game, UWAG is like an alternate skin of Counterparts. [Life In Your Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie17wXgD1V0) **(essential)** - Waking Giants. One of my favorite bands and albums. A mid 2000s precursor to modern melodic hardcore. Mixes both styles from back in the day as well as the styles you hear today. Really positive sound both musically and lyrically. [Worthwhile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqLn_g8KeZo) **(essential)** - both albums. Passionate lyrics and vocal delivery on top of raw chord-driven positive-sounding hardcore [Conveyer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nqRMYpbAyg) - When Given Time To Grow. Fast and melodic. Pretty basic but are still fun to listen to. [Elephantis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo49Nhv9oY8) - Pining. HUGE full chords moving between beautiful clean and distorted sections seamlessly. That mixed with wonderful guitar tone, piercing leads, and clean vocals makes this band one worth checking. [No Bragging Rights](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9bqmd_VRmY) - Cycles. Another basic melodic hardcore band with a lot of clean vocals as well. [Ghost Key](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XkShrt5e28) - If I Don't Make It. Fast and rhythm-guitar driven with passionate lyrics. Not a lot of leads. **Verging into metalcore** [Misery Signals](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw9C9wstUVc) **(essential)** - Of Malice And The Magnum Heart (this is an essential metal album in *general*) If you like metalcore at all, just listen to this record. I also recommend checking out Controller. [The Ghost Inside](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFrMCaXU_b8) **(essential)** - Get What You Give. Passionate band with all around excellent musicianship. Very fast, very loud, very heavy while still retaining a melodic feel. [With Life In Mind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLDvoIQTdr0) - Grievances. Mixes the best parts of Gideon, The Ghost Inside, and early Texas In July. Ever wish TGI made more music like Fury And The Fallen Ones? Here you go. [To The Wind](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVHr3qO-hEc) - Block Out The Sun & Sleep. Dark and rhythm chord-laden with leads throughout. [Liferuiner](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j990ZEm8uLo) (Future Revisionists only). Much more metalcore, but the big thing about this band is that they used to be some shit beatdown band but then came out with this album which was a very pleasant change. Heavy full sound with melodic parts here and there. [For The Fallen Dreams](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIsuywbY130) (Changes only) **(essential)**. Low drop A# guitars playing bright leads and full chords with breakdowns and great powerful vocals. **Verging into post-hardcore** [Being As An Ocean](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf-vDgFN30c) **(essential)** - Dear G-d... Harsh emotional vocals and spoken word over clean post-rock tinged guitar tones and an amazing clean vocalist from their second album and on. [Hopesfall](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBQ47taqrsY) **(essential)** - The Satellite Years. OG early 2000s post-hardcore. Similar to Life In Your Way with a more post-hardcore sound. [Departures](https://youtu.be/m6x5GUhBBiY) - Death Touches Us, From The Moment We Begin To Love. Light guitars and passionate evocative lyrics. Structured songs with chord progressions and leads beneath. Similar to BAAO. [Touche Amore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_etGLBwbvho) **(essential)** - Stage Four. Short, raw, and passionate songs with light chords and leads. Stage Four brought the songs to a longer length than usual but the album is incredible. [Pianos Become The Teeth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cs_pT5CcjQ) **(essential)** - The Lack Long After (If you just need one album). I personally recommend listening from the first LP to the last though to hear the change and maturation they make from album to album IE: Old Pride>The Lack Long After>Hiding (single)>Keep You>Keep You deluxe edition bonus tracks. It's an incredible ride. [Hotel Books](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TULNBXSM8) - If you like BAAO, you'll like Hotel Books. I also recommend the same listening method as Pianos with Hotel Books to hear Cam's lyrics change in mood as well as the music change from different band members through the years. The music is still great but it changes constantly between albums. Start with Everything We Could Have Done Differently (collection of the early stuff) then move to I'm Almost Happy Here and the two Run Wild albums. [Household](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8utyJaUvxQ) (slightly pop punk) - Time Spent. Vocalist moves between clean and harsh vocals with songs ranging between slight pop punk-sounding to straight-up post-hardcore. [Such Gold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBv8OdmrkS8) (more pop punk) - The New Sidewalk. Pretty much pop punk but they have melodic hardcore roots and are really fucking good. [Beloved](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwX2WjckXos) **(essential)**- Failure On. Early 2000s OG post-hardcore sound with mostly clean vocals. A lot of your favorite bands probably like this band. [Defeater](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfQMCiPs2Ts) **(essential)** - All. The albums tell a story. You really need to listen to all of them, including the EP, to get the story. The band started out pretty much straight hardcore. Lots of minor chords and fast sections. They moved to a slower post-hardcore style but have maintained a recognizably unique sound throughout. [Capsize](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qyGfmHmvqU) (A Reintroduction and the 2015 singles). They're on here twice because just recently they drastically switched from the dark brooding sound of their first LP to a more mid 2000s Underoath/The Used sound. If you like The Used, you will probably like this album. [Rescuer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY9RJaUuGno) - Anxiety Answering. Similar to Pianos Become The Teeth. Harsh vocals over loud raw traditional chords and leads. [Crooks UK](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnQbATkrwKY) - Are We All The Same Distance Apart. Wonderful guitar tones with a stupid-talented vocalist devoid of screams. Intelligently written songs with every instrument fully utilized to its potential. [My Iron Lung](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3WfoEe-bOc) - Grief. Harsh vocals over raw dueling hard-panned guitars with light chords but a full sound. [Frameworks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW-TuSE_L4k) - Small Victories. Similar to My Iron Lung. Don't actually listen to this band much, but Small Victories is really good. **Avant-garde** (mixed) [Napoleon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_zFDVcn_fw) **(essential)** - All (there's not much). The self-proclaimed keepers of the melodiposipassiongroove. Incredibly crafted layered lead guitars over huge chords. Probably the best guitar work in the general -core scene at the moment. Current vocalist used to head up Climates. [Shai Hulud](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ptTVhgngO4) **(essential)** - That Within Blood Ill-Tempered. Just listen to them. Shai Hulud is one of the OGs of metalcore and its branches.
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