Metalcore

Not always my first choice of rock music or any music really. Like blogs in the past I usually can't stand the screaming, but love the music behind it. With the fast riffs and the double bass you can't go wrong. Yesterday I received a CD from a metalcore fan by the name of Ethan Hughes. He tells me it's the best CD he's ever made, and that he will convert me to metalcore music. I accepted the disc and we left class. I was actually pretty excited about listening to it. My hope was that it would sound like Killswitch Engage, the only metalcore band I like. I got home and immediately put it in the stereo. Ethan told me that the screams would get to me at first so just listen to the godly guitar. I sat through all 18 tracks on the CD. There were two songs that were not metalcore, and a song that I already knew by All that Remains called 2 weeks. I expected to only like maybe three songs, but it turns out that I liked about half of them. For the most part the screaming doesn't get to me, and some of these guitarists are really amazing. They lack solos, but are still really good. I wouldn't say I've converted to head-bashing, destroy everything music, but it is listenable. I just had to get past the screams.