List of metalcore bands
is a broad fusion genre of extreme metal and hardcore punk. Its subgenres include mathcore and melodic metalcore. This incomplete list includes bands described as performing any of these styles, including those who also perform other styles.
List
Name | Country | Formed | Disbanded |
100 Demons | U.S. | 2000 | Active |
108 | U.S. | 1991 | Active |
25 ta Life | U.S. | 1991 | Active |
36 Crazyfists | U.S. | 1994 | Active |
50 Lions | Australia | 2005 | Active |
7 Angels 7 Plagues | U.S. | 1999 | 2006 |
Abandon All Ships | Canada | 2006 | 2016 |
The Acacia Strain | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
Across Five Aprils | U.S. | 2001 | 2008 |
Adept | Sweden | 2004 | Active |
Advent | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Affiance | U.S. | 2007 | 2017 |
After the Burial | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
The Afterimage | Canada | 2012 | 2018 |
Aftershock | U.S. | 1992 | 2004 |
The Agonist | Canada | 2004 | Active |
The Agony Scene | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
Alesana | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
All Out War | U.S. | 1991 | Active |
All Pigs Must Die | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
All That Remains | U.S. | 1998 | Active |
Alpha Wolf | Australia | 2013 | Active |
Amaranthe | Sweden | 2008 | Active |
Amatory | Russia | 2001 | Active |
American Me | U.S. | 2006 | Active |
American Standards | U.S. | 2011 | Active |
The Amity Affliction | Australia | 2003 | Active |
ANeurisma | Chile | 2001 | 2014 |
Annisokay | Germany | 2007 | Active |
Antagonist | U.S. | 1998 | Active |
Antagonist A.D. | New Zealand | 2005 | Active |
Arcane Roots | UK | 2007 | 2018 |
Architect | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Architects | UK | 2004 | Active |
Arma Angelus | U.S. | 1998 | 2002 |
The Armed | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
Arsonists Get All the Girls | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
The Arusha Accord | UK | 2005 | Active |
As I Lay Dying | U.S. | 2000 | Active |
As They Sleep | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
The Ascendicate | U.S. | 1999 | 2012 |
Asking Alexandria | UK | 2008 | Active |
Asunto | Chile | 1995 | Active |
Atreyu | U.S. | 1998 | Active |
Attack Attack! | U.S. | 2007 | 2013 |
Attila | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
August Burns Red | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
Avenged Sevenfold | U.S. | 1999 | Active |
AWS | Hungary | 2006 | Active |
AxeWound | UK | 2012 | 2013 |
Bad Omens | U.S. | 2015 | Active |
Beartooth | U.S. | 2012 | Active |
Becoming the Archetype | U.S. | 1999 | 2013 |
Behold... The Arctopus | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
Beloved | U.S. | 1999 | 2005 |
Beneath the Sky | U.S. | 2004 | 2014 |
Betraying the Martyrs | France | 2008 | Active |
Between the Buried and Me | U.S. | 2000 | Active |
Betzefer | Israel | 1998 | Active |
Bishop | U.S. | 2004 | 2011 |
Black Veil Brides | U.S. | 2006 | Active |
Blakfish | UK | 2000 | 2010 |
The Bled | U.S. | 2001 | 2012 |
Bleed from Within | UK | 2005 | Active |
Bleed the Sky | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Bleeding Through | U.S. | 1999 | Active |
Blessed by a Broken Heart | Canada | 2003 | 2014 |
Blessthefall | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
Blind Myself | Hungary | 1995 | 2016 |
Blind Witness | Canada | 2005 | Active |
Blood Has Been Shed | U.S. | 1997 | 2004 |
Bloodlined Calligraphy | U.S. | 1999 | Active |
Botch | U.S. | 1993 | 2002 |
Born from Pain | Netherlands | 1997 | Active |
Born of Osiris | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
A Breach of Silence | Australia | 2010 | Active |
Breather Resist | U.S. | 2002 | 2006 |
Bring Me the Horizon | UK | 2004 | Active |
Broken Teeth | UK | 2007 | Active |
The Browning | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Bullet for My Valentine | UK | 1998 | Active |
A Bullet for Pretty Boy | U.S. | 2006 | 2015 |
Burden of a Day | U.S. | 2000 | 2010 |
Burgerkill | Indonesia | 1995 | Active |
Buried in Verona | Australia | 2006 | 2016 |
Burnt by the Sun | U.S. | 1999 | 2011 |
Burst | Sweden | 1993 | 2009 |
Bury Tomorrow | UK | 2006 | Active |
Bury Your Dead | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
Butcher Babies | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Cable | U.S. | 1994 | Active |
Caliban | Germany | 1997 | Active |
Called to Arms | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
Cancer Bats | Canada | 2004 | Active |
Candiria | U.S. | 1992 | Active |
Cane Hill | U.S. | 2011 | Active |
Capture | Australia | 2010 | Active |
Carajo | Argentina | 2000 | 2020 |
Carpathian | Australia | 2003 | 2011 |
Cataract | Switzerland | 1998 | 2013 |
Catherine | U.S. | 2003 | 2009 |
Cave In | U.S. | 1995 | Active |
Century | U.S. | 2005 | 2011 |
Changer | Iceland | 1999 | Active |
The Chariot | U.S. | 2003 | 2013 |
Chasing the Rise | Lithuania | 2012 | Active |
Chimaira | U.S. | 1998 | 2014 |
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! | France | 2007 | Active |
Coalesce | U.S. | 1994 | 2010 |
Code Orange | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Coldrain | Japan | 2007 | Active |
The Color Morale | U.S. | 2007 | 2018 |
Come the Dawn | U.S. | 2012 | Active |
Confession | Australia | 2008 | 2016 |
Confide | U.S. | 2004 | 2013 |
Conquer Divide | U.S. | 2012 | Active |
Converge | U.S. | 1990 | Active |
Corpus Christi | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Counterparts | Canada | 2007 | Active |
Cover Your Tracks | U.S. | 2014 | Active |
The Crimson Armada | U.S. | 2007 | 2012 |
Creation Is Crucifixion | U.S. | 1997 | Active |
Crossfaith | Japan | 2006 | Active |
Crown the Empire | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Cry in December | Indonesia | 2008 | Active |
Cry of the Afflicted | Canada | 2003 | 2008 |
Crystal Lake | Japan | 2002 | Active |
Cult Leader | U.S. | 2013 | Active |
Damnation A.D. | U.S. | 1992 | Active |
Dar Sangre | Argentina | 2004 | Active |
Darkest Hour | U.S. | 1995 | Active |
Darkness Divided | U.S. | 2010 | 2018 |
Darkness Dynamite | France | 2006 | Active |
Dayseeker | U.S. | 2012 | Active |
A Day to Remember | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
Dead by April | Sweden | 2007 | Active |
The Dead Rabbitts | U.S. | 2011 | Active |
Deadguy | U.S. | 1994 | 1997 |
Deathgaze | Japan | 2003 | 2014 |
Deez Nuts | Australia | 2007 | Active |
Demenzia | Bulgaria | 2003 | Active |
Demise of Eros | U.S. | 2003 | 2006 |
Demon Hunter | U.S. | 2000 | Active |
Deny | Argentina | 2007 | 2019 |
Design the Skyline | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
Destroy the Runner | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Devil Sold His Soul | UK | 2004 | Active |
The Devil Wears Prada | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Diecast | U.S. | 1997 | Active |
The Dillinger Escape Plan | U.S. | 1997 | 2017 |
Disembodied | U.S. | 1995 | Active |
Drop Dead, Gorgeous | U.S. | 2004 | 2011 |
Drowningman | U.S. | 1995 | 2005 |
Earth Crisis | U.S. | 1989 | Active |
Eighteen Visions | U.S. | 1995 | Active |
Elitist | U.S. | 2010 | 2015 |
Elysia | U.S. | 2003 | 2015 |
Embodyment | U.S. | 1993 | 2004 |
Embrace the End | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
Embrace Today | U.S. | 1998 | 2006 |
Emmure | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
En Nuestros Corazones | Argentina | 2010 | Active |
The End | Canada | 1997 | 2007 |
Enter Shikari | UK | 1999 | Active |
Erra | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
Escape the Fate | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Eskimo Callboy | Germany | 2010 | Active |
Eso-Charis | U.S. | 1995 | 2002 |
The Esoteric | U.S. | 1996 | Active |
Eternal Lord | UK | 2005 | 2008 |
Everdown | U.S. | 1992 | Active |
Evergreen Terrace | U.S. | 1999 | Active |
Every Time I Die | U.S. | 1998 | Active |
Every Knee Shall Bow | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Everyone Dies in Utah | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Evita | UK | 2006 | Active |
The Eyes of a Traitor | UK | 2006 | 2015 |
Eyes Set to Kill | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
The Fall of Troy | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Falling in Reverse | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Famous Last Words | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas | Japan | 2008 | Active |
Fear Before | U.S. | 2002 | 2010 |
Feed Her to the Sharks | Australia | 2008 | 2019 |
Fellsilent | UK | 2003 | 2010 |
Few Left Standing | U.S. | 1998 | 2002 |
Figure Four | Canada | 1996 | 2006 |
Fit for a King | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
First Blood | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Focused | U.S. | 1990 | 2001 |
For All I Am | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
For All Those Sleeping | U.S. | 2007 | 2014 |
For the Fallen Dreams | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
For Today | U.S. | 2005 | 2016 |
Forevermore | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
From a Second Story Window | U.S. | 2003 | 2008 |
From Autumn to Ashes | U.S. | 2000 | Active |
From Her Eyes | UK | 2012 | 2016 |
Frontside | Poland | 1993 | Active |
The Ghost Inside | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Gaza | U.S. | 2004 | 2013 |
Get Scared | U.S. | 2008 | 2019 |
Gideon | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Glamour of the Kill | UK | 2007 | 2016 |
Glass Cloud | U.S. | 2011 | 2015 |
God Forbid | U.S. | 1996 | 2013 |
Goodbye to Gravity | Romania | 2011 | 2015 |
The Gorgeous | Canada | 2003 | 2007 |
Graf Orlock | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
Graves of Valor | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
The Great Commission | U.S. | 2007 | 2014 |
The Great Deceiver | Sweden | 1999 | Active |
Greeley Estates | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Gunmetal Grey | U.S. | 2002 | 2006 |
Gwen Stacy | U.S. | 2004 | 2014 |
Hands Like Houses | Australia | 2009 | Active |
Haste | U.S. | 1993 | 2007 |
Haste the Day | U.S. | 2001 | 2016 |
Hatebreed | U.S. | 1994 | Active |
He Is Legend | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
Heart in Hand | UK | 2008 | 2015 |
Heaven Shall Burn | Germany | 1996 | Active |
Heavy Heavy Low Low | U.S. | 2004 | 2012 |
Hesitation Wounds | U.S. | 2012 | Active |
Himsa | U.S. | 1998 | 2008 |
His Statue Falls | Germany | 2003 | 2016 |
Hogan's Heroes | U.S | 1984 | 1993 |
Hoods | U.S. | 1994 | Active |
The Hope Conspiracy | U.S. | 1999 | Active |
Hopes Die Last | Italy | 2004 | 2017 |
Horse the Band | U.S. | 1998 | Active |
House vs. Hurricane | Australia | 2006 | Active |
The Human Abstract | U.S. | 2004 | 2011 |
Hundredth | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
I Killed the Prom Queen | Australia | 2000 | 2017 |
I Prevail | U.S. | 2013 | Active |
I See Stars | U.S. | 2006 | Active |
I Set My Friends on Fire | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
I, the Breather | U.S. | 2009 | 2015 |
Ice Nine Kills | U.S. | 2006 | Active |
Imminence | Sweden | 2010 | Active |
In Dying Arms | U.S. | 2006 | 2017 |
In Fear and Faith | U.S. | 2006 | 2017 |
In Hearts Wake | Australia | 2006 | Active |
In This Moment | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Inhale Exhale | U.S. | 2005 | 2013 |
Integrity | U.S. | 1988 | Active |
Interrogate | UK | 1999 | 2011 |
Invent, Animate | U.S. | 2011 | Active |
Ion Dissonance | Canada | 2001 | Active |
Issues | U.S. | 2012 | Active |
It Dies Today | U.S. | 2001 | 2010 |
It Prevails | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Iwrestledabearonce | U.S. | 2007 | 2016 |
Jamey Jasta | U.S. | 1991 | Active |
Jamie's Elsewhere | U.S. | 2005 | 2015 |
Jesuit | U.S. | 1995 | 2011 |
Jesus Piece | U.S. | 2015 | Active |
Jinjer | Ukraine | 2009 | Active |
Johnny Truant | UK | 2000 | 2008 |
Keelhaul | U.S. | 1997 | Active |
The Killing Tree | U.S. | 1999 | 2006 |
Killswitch Engage | U.S. | 1999 | Active |
King 810 | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
Kingdom of Sorrow | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Knocked Loose | U.S. | 2013 | Active |
Knuckledust | UK | 1996 | Active |
Knut | Switzerland | 1994 | 2012 |
Kublai Khan | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
Lamb of God | U.S. | 1994 | Active |
Last Chance to Reason | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Lay It on the Line | UK | 2012 | Active |
Leaders | U.S. | 2011 | 2015 |
Letlive | U.S. | 2002 | 2017 |
Life in Your Way | U.S. | 1999 | Active |
A Life Once Lost | U.S. | 1999 | 2013 |
Liferuiner | Canada | 2004 | Active |
Ligeia | U.S. | 2003 | 2011 |
Light the Torch | U.S. | 2012 | Active |
Like Moths to Flames | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Living Sacrifice | U.S. | 1989 | Active |
Loathe | UK | 2015 | Active |
Luti-Kriss | U.S. | 1997 | 2001 |
Lye By Mistake | U.S. | 2004 | 2011 |
Madball | U.S. | 1988 | Active |
Malevolence | U.K. | 2010 | Active |
Make Me Famous | Ukraine | 2009 | 2012 |
Memphis May Fire | U.S. | 2006 | Active |
Merauder | U.S. | 1990 | Active |
Misery Signals | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Miss May I | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
More Than a Thousand | Portugal | 2000 | 2015 |
Morning Again | U.S. | 1995 | 1999 |
Most Precious Blood | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
Motionless in White | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
My Ticket Home | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
MyChildren MyBride | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Myka, Relocate | U.S. | 2007 | Hiatus |
Mutiny Within | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Narrows | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Nine Shrines | U.S. | 2014 | Active |
No Innocent Victim | U.S. | 1992 | 2017 |
No Sin Evades His Gaze | UK | 2013 | Active |
Nora | U.S. | 1996 | Active |
Norma Jean | U.S. | 1997 | Active |
Northlane | Australia | 2009 | Active |
The Number Twelve Looks Like You | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Oathbreaker | Belgium | 2008 | Active |
Obey the Brave | Canada | 2012 | Active |
Oceans Ate Alaska | UK | 2011 | Active |
Odd Project | U.S. | 2000 | 2007 |
Of Mice & Men | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
Oh, Manhattan | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
Oh, Sleeper | U.S. | 2006 | Active |
Okilly Dokilly | U.S. | 2015 | Active |
On Broken Wings | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
Once Nothing | U.S. | 2000 | Active |
One Morning Left | Finland | 2008 | Active |
The Ongoing Concept | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Our Last Night | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Overcast | U.S. | 1991 | 2014 |
Overcome | U.S. | 1993 | 2017 |
The Overseer | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
Palisades | U.S. | 2011 | Active |
Paria | U.S. | 2001 | 2010 |
Parkway Drive | Australia | 2002 | Active |
Phinehas | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
A Plea for Purging | U.S. | 2005 | 2012 |
Polaris | Australia | 2012 | Active |
The Plot in You | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Point of No Return | Brazil | 1996 | 2006 |
Poison the Well | U.S. | 1997 | 2010 |
Prayer for Cleansing | U.S. | 1996 | 2003 |
Protest the Hero | Canada | 2001 | Active |
Psyopus | U.S. | 2002 | 2012 |
Pulling Teeth | U.S. | 2005 | 2012 |
Pyrrhon | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Racetraitor | U.S. | 1996 | 1999 |
Rafflesia | Belgium | 2005 | Active |
Raunchy | Denmark | 1994 | Active |
Ravenface | UK | 2008 | Active |
Reflections | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Righteous Vendetta | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Ringworm | U.S. | 1989 | Active |
Rise and Fall | Belgium | 2002 | Active |
Rise to Remain | UK | 2006 | 2015 |
Rolo Tomassi | UK | 2005 | Active |
Rorschach | U.S. | 1989 | 2012 |
The Safety Fire | UK | 2006 | 2015 |
Scarlet | U.S. | 1998 | 2014 |
Scars of Tomorrow | U.S. | 2000 | Active |
Secrets | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Senses Fail | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Sea of Treachery | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
See You Next Tuesday | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Shadows Fall | U.S. | 1995 | Active |
Shaped by Fate | UK | 2001 | 2011 |
Shai Hulud | U.S. | 1995 | Active |
Shattered Sun | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Showbread | U.S. | 1997 | Active |
The Showdown | U.S. | 1999 | 2011 |
Sikth | UK | 1999 | Active |
Silent Civilian | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Silent Planet | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Silent Screams | UK | 2007 | Active |
Silverstein | Canada | 2000 | Active |
Sirens and Sailors | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Skip the Foreplay | Canada | 2010 | 2014 |
Sky Eats Airplane | U.S. | 2005 | 2011 |
Skycamefalling | U.S. | 1996 | Active |
A Skylit Drive | U.S. | 2005 | 2017 |
Slapshock | Philippines | 1996 | Active |
Sleeping by the Riverside | U.S. | 1996 | 2003 |
Sleeping Giant | U.S. | 2006 | 2018 |
Sleeping With Sirens | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
Society's Finest | U.S. | 1997 | Active |
Some Girls | U.S. | 2002 | 2007 |
Sonic Syndicate | Sweden | 2002 | Active |
The Soulless | UK | 2006 | Active |
The Sorrow | Austria | 2005 | 2017 |
Spitfire | U.S. | 1996 | Active |
Starkweather | U.S. | 1989 | Active |
Stick to Your Guns | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
Stigmata | Russia | 2000 | Active |
Still Remains | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Straight Line Stitch | U.S. | 2000 | Active |
Stray from the Path | U.S. | 2001 | Active |
Strife | U.S. | 1991 | Active |
Sworn In | U.S. | 2011 | Active |
Sylar | U.S. | 2011 | Active |
Sylosis | UK | 2000 | Active |
Sympathy for Nothing | Austria | 2006 | Active |
System Divide | U.S. | 2008 | 2014 |
Tear Out the Heart | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Terror | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
Texas in July | U.S. | 2007 | 2015 |
Textures | Netherlands | 2001 | 2017 |
These Arms Are Snakes | U.S. | 2002 | 2009 |
This Day Forward | U.S. | 1996 | 2003 |
This or the Apocalypse | U.S. | 2005 | 2019 |
Threat Signal | Canada | 2003 | Active |
Throwdown | U.S. | 1997 | Active |
Times of Grace | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
To Speak of Wolves | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza | U.S. | 2004 | 2012 |
A Tragedy in Progress | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Training for Utopia | U.S. | 1996 | 2000 |
Trenches | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
Trivium | U.S. | 1999 | Active |
Twelve Gauge Valentine | U.S. | 2003 | 2008 |
Twelve Tribes | U.S. | 1998 | 2008 |
Unashamed | U.S. | 1993 | 2011 |
Underoath | U.S. | 1997 | Active |
Unearth | U.S. | 1998 | Active |
Upon a Burning Body | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
Upon This Dawning | Italy | 2007 | 2016 |
A Vacant Affair | Singapore | 2004 | Active |
Vanna | U.S. | 2004 | 2017 |
Varials | U.S. | 2012 | Active |
Vassline | South Korea | 1996 | Active |
Veil of Maya | U.S. | 2004 | Active |
Versus Me | U.S. | 2013 | Active |
Vision of Disorder | U.S. | 1992 | Active |
Volumes | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
Wage War | U.S. | 2010 | Active |
Walls of Jericho | U.S. | 1998 | Active |
War from a Harlots Mouth | Germany | 2005 | 2013 |
War of Ages | U.S. | 2002 | Active |
We Are Defiance | U.S. | 2009 | Active |
We Butter the Bread with Butter | Germany | 2007 | Active |
We Came as Romans | U.S. | 2005 | Active |
While She Sleeps | UK | 2006 | Active |
The White Noise | U.S. | 2009 | 2018 |
Will Haven | U.S. | 1995 | Active |
Within the Ruins | U.S. | 2003 | Active |
Woe, Is Me | U.S. | 2009 | 2013 |
Wolves at the Gate | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
The Word Alive | U.S. | 2008 | Active |
Wovenwar | U.S. | 2013 | Active |
xDeathstarx | U.S. | 2002 | 2016 |
Xibalba | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
Yashin | UK | 2006 | 2016 |
Years Since the Storm | U.S. | 2007 | Active |
Your Demise | UK | 2003 | 2014 |
Your Memorial | U.S. | 2008 | 2017 |
Zao | U.S. | 1993 | Active |