Post-Hardcore
Mar 21, 2020 22:00:50 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on Mar 21, 2020 22:00:50 GMT 10
When I was in high school, one genre of music that was popular with quite a few of the people in my grade was post-hardcore. It was a genre of rock music that fused elements of hardcore-punk and metal. I knew of at least ten people in my grade who were into it. In Year 9 and 10, there were five girls in my Visual Design class who would play Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens on YouTube almost every lesson, to the point where I actually got sick of hearing their songs so often. My friends and I, including the girls in my Visual Design class, only ever referred to them as "emo" bands though, the term "post hardcore" was never actually used.
The biggest bands of the scene were Bring Me The Horizon, I Prevail, A Day To Remember, The Amity Affliction, Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens. The timespan of it's popularity was from about 2012 - 2016, with it's peak having been around 2015. These bands performed very well on the album charts and here in Australia, Bring Me The Horizon and The Amity Affliction even managed to chart within the Top-40 Singles chart. The former also charted within the Top-40 over in the UK as well. Although post-hardcore was only ever on fringe of the mainstream and never received Top-40 radio airplay, each of the bands had sizable fans bases and the genre itself was significant in it's own right.
However, I rarely see the 2010s post-hardcore scene (or the bands who made up the genre) mentioned online. I just find it interesting, because It's obvious that it wasn't just a thing that people in my high school were into. It was arguably one of the very few genres of music that people around my age were ever the core target audience of. Here are a few songs that I remember being popular with people in my grade:
I'm just curious, does anyone else here have any experience with the 2010s post-hardcore scene? If you were in high school during the Mid 2010s, was it ever popular with people at your school? Were you ever into it?
The biggest bands of the scene were Bring Me The Horizon, I Prevail, A Day To Remember, The Amity Affliction, Pierce The Veil and Sleeping With Sirens. The timespan of it's popularity was from about 2012 - 2016, with it's peak having been around 2015. These bands performed very well on the album charts and here in Australia, Bring Me The Horizon and The Amity Affliction even managed to chart within the Top-40 Singles chart. The former also charted within the Top-40 over in the UK as well. Although post-hardcore was only ever on fringe of the mainstream and never received Top-40 radio airplay, each of the bands had sizable fans bases and the genre itself was significant in it's own right.
However, I rarely see the 2010s post-hardcore scene (or the bands who made up the genre) mentioned online. I just find it interesting, because It's obvious that it wasn't just a thing that people in my high school were into. It was arguably one of the very few genres of music that people around my age were ever the core target audience of. Here are a few songs that I remember being popular with people in my grade:
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I'm just curious, does anyone else here have any experience with the 2010s post-hardcore scene? If you were in high school during the Mid 2010s, was it ever popular with people at your school? Were you ever into it?
