I am pretty sure that Rites of Spring really fits into the legit "emo" genre. Early TBS as well as Funeral For a Friend and Silverstein, could really have fit in with an "emocore" genre, but I think it's easier to call them "post-hardcore", which is pretty much the term people used for "Emo" music, after the emo genre died out. I would personally view newer Taking Back Sunday as just alternative rock music... simple as that. They don't sound the same as they used to, and really lost a lot of the emotion, and a lot of what made them a post-hardcore band.soft-punker wrote:
Well, everyone have a different opinion about what metalcore is. I personally think bands like As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, As Blood Runs Black, etc. are real metalcore. I consider Attack! Attack! as emocore or trancecore.
Taking Back Sunday is just emo. Emocore is something like Funeral for a Friend, Silverstein, Rites of Spring, Undereoath (They're Only Chasing Safety), etc. If emocore is not a genre, please tell me what music do these bands play?
As far as Underoath goes, they are easily a metalcore band. I view them as a christian metalcore band, just like The Devil Wears Prada... I guess an argument saying they arent makes sense due to the lack of breakdowns, but I think underoath fits quite well with the metalcore genre.
Plus, if you look at it from a current perspective... music is changing. You are getting synthy autotuned bands coming in that really focus more on writing a breakdown than writing a full structural song. They have the same molds as one another, and they are getting thrown in with the post-hardcore/metalcore genres. That's why throwing bands into genres is stupid, and often tough. I don't think that Dance Gavin Dance sounds anything like Emery, but they are both in this "post-hardcore" genre, as far as I've seen. Just obviously opposite ends of the spectrum in that genre.