Just wondering what the general opinion is here on "core" bands. Basically, I mean metalcore. And not old metalcore like Killswitch Engage or All That Remains or Bullet For My Valentine, I want to know what your opinion is on bands like....well,

Attack Attack
Asking Alexandria
Capture the Crown
iwrestledabearonce
Bring Me The Horizon
Of Mice & Men
Miss May I
The Word Alive
Pierce the Veil
We Came As Romans
A Skylit Drive

stuff like that. I personally.....well.....I sort of detest it. But what do you think?

iwrestledabearonce does have a very technical aspect to them which sets them apart from the other bands. I try to be fair and listen to music before I judge it but like, come on. I listened to attack attack for the first time yesterday and felt like i had been stricken with cancer. They sound so....generic. That chuggachuggachugga breakdown riff is in literally EVERY SONG. Asking Alexandria is the same, too. Pierce the Veil's singer is whiny. A skylit drive's singer sounds like a chick when he does cleans and his screams....well they're okay. I just don't understand how people like it. But hey if people like it it's their business - they don't understand how I can like cannibal corpse. Although I think Cannibal Corpse is more respectable than whiney suburban kids in skinny jeans with straightened hair.

Attack Attack is more generic than a band without a name. In all seriousness Metalcore is horrible (I feel the same way about the more metal-ish Post-Hardcore bands). Hardcore can be good. I equate Hardcore with Punk moreso than metal however.

Okay, I have a soft spot for Killswitch, but that's nostalgia more than anything. I forgot about deathcore, but I dislike that immensely.

I prefer Math Rock to Mathcore, but some Mathcore's pretty math.

I always thought of Slint as more post-rocky personally, but yeah, they're great nonetheless. My favourites types of Math Rock are the Japanese scene and the sorta Midwestern Emo stuff, like American Football.

Well the genre generally compromises of riffs that are simple open chugging.....so an accurate mimicry of the guitar lines in most asking alexandria songs would be "chuggachuggachugga chugga chugchug chug chuggachugga." Vocals are usually screamed (usually a high scream, not a low growl) and sometimes feature...well, to put it bluntly, whiny, autotuned clean vocals. All tied together by breakdowns that are the same as the aforementioned chugging riff...just slower. iwrestledabearonce doesn't use this formula, their actually pretty technical and math-rock-y, but asking alexandria, capture the crown, miss may i and of mice and men follow this formula pretty strictly. So it eliminates alot of originality from the genre.

If screaming + auto-tune it's either Metalcore or Post-Hardcore.

What would make something post-hardcore rather than metalcore then? I listen to some bands that I've heard called post-hardcore bands, but I really dont know what makes them post-hardcore. Generally I dont worry about genres much, but I am curious what other people think.

90s Post-hardcore was like that nowadays all post-hardcore is more or less scene-core.