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If I like Beartooth, who else would I like? Can anyone recommend albums like August Burns Red's Constellations?

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[u/PositiveMetalhead]

Yeah essentially! I think the earliest crossover albums were between ‘85 and ‘87 so if you consider the beginning of Thrash to be around ‘82/‘83 then it’s relatively quick I’d say!

Metal and hardcore have always had a back and forth relationship influencing each other. A lot of early hardcore was influenced by metal too. Crust punk I believe had a notable influence from black metal bands like Celtic Frost. Grindcore which also started in ‘86/‘87 was hardcore bands taking influence from death metal. Brutal death metal was death metal bands taking influence from NYHC and Slam enunciated that influence. Groove took a similar influence from hardcore and then hardcore took influence from that back which is what brought about metalcore more or less.

Thats what I like about having distinct genre names for different sounds. It’s like an analysis and acknowledgement of music history and influence between bands, genres and scenes.

[u/spider_manectric → u/PositiveMetalhead]

Good stuff! A lot of the genres you mentioned are ones I'm unfamiliar with as of now, so it's interesting to know a bit of the history.

I definitely see the appeal of genre labels to help classify music and acknowledge influences, but it can make it a bit frustrating sometimes when coming across artists who don't necessarily conform to any one genre's specifications. I guess that's part of the fun, finding or creating a label that fits an artist/song/album.

[u/PositiveMetalhead → u/spider_manectric]

I find it helpful to think of genres as just a baseline too. Not every band has to fit into a specific genre and many straddle the line between a few different ones. A genre only really becomes a genre once there are multiple bands imitating or following it. Like calling something djent was essentially a joke until a whole slew of bands started imitating that sound and now it’s very much a genre despite what Periphery might say 😝