The Problem with the Term “Metal-core”

I wanna ask you..
What’s the difference between metalcore and hardcore? I just know that metal core have more double pedal in drum n more melody in guitar.. And hardcore have a simple music.. Is that right?

Well, hard-core is harder to define these days. Originally, in the late 70’s and early 80’s hard-core was just a short form of hard-core punk. Teens in California were disappointed about how punk had become mainstream and it didn’t embody their strife anymore. So they started their own bands that were what they thought punk should sound like. These were bands like Black Flag, Circle Jerks and of course Bad Brains. This music was defined by being fast, simple and aggressive. Bands like Bad Brains still managed to be talented and creative within that limited framework.

Today some bands still sound like that, but some people wanted to do something more with it. Bands like Underoath, Further Seems Forever and A Sky Lit Drive are great examples of what is known as “Post-Hardcore”. Where there is speed and aggression and a definitely punk sound mixed with clean vocals, more intricate melody and in general more creativity that can’t be captured within “Hard-core”.

Metal-core differs from straight Hard-core and Post-hardcore because Metal-core is really just metal, speedy guitars, intricate song structures and riffs. Riffs are very much what metalcore is made of and that is metal. Talent on all instruments and such. Metal core is metal that borrows elements of hard-core or vice versa. For instance Killswitch Engage does some screamed hard-core vocals and punk drum beats, the influence of hard-core is limited. Then again, with a band like say Hatebreed, they are a Hard-core band with elements of metal. Riffs, metal like precision with instrumentation, but thats pretty much where it ends.

The problem is that both bands would be considered metal-core, the term is way too general.