The 10 Best Metalcore Albums of 2004
It was an excellent and pivotal year for metalcore in 2004, but which albums rank best? The year would prove to be a major turning point for metalcore’s future viability as a genre. During its development in the mid-’90s, metalcore was largely an underground endeavor. Progenitors of the genre such as Integrity and Rorschach were less than interested in achieving huge marquee success, focusing instead on pushing the boundaries of hardcore to more extreme territories. As the genre evolved, bands such as Hatebreed wrote the playbook on heaviness, while Poison the Well explored melodic possibiliti...