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Melodic Metalcore

Melodic metalcore is metalcore with a stronger sense of tune, borrowing its guitar melodies from Swedish melodic death metal.

A typical song has screamed verses, a sung chorus, melodic guitar lines and at least one breakdown. The style took shape in the United States in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with Massachusetts as an early center, and it brought metalcore to a mainstream audience in the 2000s. It is more tuneful and less chaotic than the hardcore-rooted metalcore that came before it.

Artists it is known for: Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, August Burns Red.

Family
Metal
On Spotify
No longer returned by Spotify’s API
What it is
A genre
From
United States, late 1990s
Trackify listeners who play it
4%

About 3,500 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have melodic metalcore among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.

Melodic Metalcore artists

The melodic metalcore artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.

Sources

The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.