Metalcore
As of this writing, metalcore is the latest rage in underground metal in America. These bands combine straight hardcore singing with music often more aligned with thrash or melodic death (indeed, a lot of bands these days seem to be blurring the distinction between melodic death and metalcore).Metalcore bands:
| 36 Crazyfists | Darkest Hour | Nothingface | Trivium |
| A Perfect Murder | The Dillinger Escape Plan | Parkway Drive | Underoath |
| As I Lay Dying | God Forbid | Prayer For Cleansing | Unearth |
| Avenged Sevenfold | Hatebreed | The Red Death | Walls Of Jericho |
| Between The Buried And Me | Himsa | Scars Of Tomorrow | Waltari |
| Beyond The Sixth Seal | Hurtlocker | Shadows Fall | Watch Them Die |
| Bleeding Through | Intronaut | Sonic Syndicate | With Passion |
| Bloodsimple | Ion Dissonance | The End | Yakuza |
| Cannae | Killswitch Engage | Threat Signal | Zao |
| Cataract | Merauder | Throwdown | |
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