Essential post-hardcore bands?

cj iwakura

Okay, I'll get the hard part over with: I enjoy listening to bands like Hawthorne Heights, AFI, Further Seems Forever, etc.

I like the blending of melodic and hardcore in their music.


So if this genre is considered post-hardcore like I think it is, what's some other good stuff that I'm missing?


The only Hawthorne album I've heard is The Silence in Black and White, and I really like it. I've only heard AFI's newer stuff, but I really enjoy that too.


I listen to all kinds of music(from System of a Down to Five Iron Frenzy to Dave Matthews), so feel free to suggest just about anything that's good along those lines.

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up

there are some pretty good math-core bands that you might like.

Fall of Troy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7y7B8P60A&feature=related
for one

wasted pixels

I'm not sure if we define "post-hardcore" the same way, but off the top of my head, At the Drive In, Les Savy Fav, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Finch, Thursday, and Alexisonfire might scratch your itch.

Visti

At The Drive-In - I would work backwards, but that's just me.

ATDI - Cosmonaut

cj iwakura

Yeah, I'm not really sure if post-hardcore is the right phrase for it, but I've heard it tossed around on a local indie radio station(WKPX), and it seems to apply to my tastes.

I guess the alternate classifier is 'emocore'. I've heard some Thursday and liked it.

Here's another example of what I'm into:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9VMGDW_3zI

Tav

At The Drive-In is essential.

Other less essential bands are Thrice, Glassjaw, Thursday, Fugazi, A Skilit Drive, Saosin, Funeral for a Friend, Alexisonfire, Underoath, mewithoutYou and ... And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. Maybe you'd like some of the heavier screamier stuff like Saetia, Fall Of Troy, Devil Wears Prada, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Iwresteldabearonce, Chiodos or From Autumn to Ashes.

I think you also may love Say Anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxnFz0GsDfM

Portugal.TheMark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lklRd0dIovI

Bear Vs Shark is always a good Post-Hardcore essential

Fagatron

I enjoy Envy on the Coast, even though they've only got one full album.

Also Emery is a really good band. Most of their stuff is more like what you're looking for but this is my favorite song by them.

Also if you end up liking Underoath, their drummer started his own band, The Almost.

The Crowing One

Hot Water Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmy7PZuk4E0

Alchemist449

The Blood Brothers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwZ0OuUrDes

The Dismemberment Plan?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph99zVjs1Cs

None More Black?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVApawwP4yA

Polar Bear Club?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMwtF9KIrxg

Protest the Hero?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAutUObokCM

And yeah, HWM is da bomb. Not all of this is technically "post-hardcore" but neither is what you posted so I figure and chuck everything we got at the wall approach is warranted.

urahonky

Senses Fail - Can't Be Saved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGlRicAnp7Y

I'm a huge Senses Fail fan, and if you like the bands you listed in the OP I think you'll like these guys a lot.

e: Their older stuff is a little harder if you're looking for that. But 187 is one of my favorites from them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuWOm0UZe8Q

cj iwakura

Protest The Hero is good stuff. That's pretty close to what I'm after.


If the vocalist is singing one moment and screaming his lungs out the next, then it's a great start.

VisionOfClarity

If you like Further Seems Forever you'll probably like Mineral, Appleseed Cast, Jets to Brazil and One Line Drawing/New End Original. There's more I can give heading in the post-hardcore that became emo and/or general indie rock direction if you're interested in that. Otherwise on the harder side of post-hardcore (I really dislike that term) I always liked GlassJaw.

Alchemist449

cj iwakura wrote: »

Protest The Hero is good stuff. That's pretty close to what I'm after.


If the vocalist is singing one moment and screaming his lungs out the next, then it's a great start.

Then, as another poster already said:
Alexisonfire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23Ivt-ikYIk

or maybe some melodic hardcore such as!
Older Rise Against

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiirtxKSDdc

Strike Anywhere

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MbSb2f7MP0&feature=channel

cj iwakura

Excellence. :^: 'Melodic hardcore' sounds like a much better phrase for it.

RubberDuck

Have you tried In Love and War

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpL0fyop4H4

metaghost

Just as an aside on the question of "what is post-hardcore?", I think it was originally used to classify a lot of the 2nd wave Baltimore Hardcore bands that started shifting from the more straightforward punk structure and into more extended forms while still being aggressive and abrasive. So something like Moss Icon. This then splintered off into early Emo, which had pretty much nothing to do with what we think of Emo now, and then things started to mutate with the influence of the Chicago rock scene which was itself influenced by the heavy jazz culture (leading to "Math Rock"; i.e. Cap'n Jazz/Owls, Don Caballero), and eventually you got stuff like The Dismemberment Plan and ATDI.


Moss Icon -

Guatemala

Cap'n Jazz -

Little League

The Dismemberment Plan -

I love a Magician

Universal Order of Armageddon -

Visible Distance

Unwound -

Scarlette

edit - Unwound's "Leaves Turn Inside You" is one of my favorite "Post-Hardcore" albums (going by my definition), and it's an album most people that like rock music can really get into. Strong melodies, great musicianship, and a good balance of lung-shredding screams and singing.

Matthasnopants

A few good examples of bands that are kind of melodic hardcore that I haven't see yet are:

Misery Signals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqRkYBTCv3Y

Comeback Kid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w76N9J7tZLI&feature=related

Defeater:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJFvCkjTKDw

eric.

Why hasn't Dance Gavin Dance been mentioned yet?

Gavin

Dance Gavin Dance and The Fall of Troy are the 2 bands I would've suggested.

Gavin

Misery signals sucks. Thursday sucks.

e: neither of these bands suck.

Portugal.TheMark

Gavin wrote: »

Misery signals sucks. Thursday sucks. Don't waste your time.

How dare you sir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Ml3HW0jAs

Toefoo

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6-O_N-uDY

He Is Legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dHAX1tanNM

Saosin (I dislike their new stuff, but the old EP is gold)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tJnuQkGbYE

cj iwakura

Really liking He Is Legend.

Sadly I've never heard of most of these bands, but I guess that's to be expected. I wouldn't mind giving an album or two a shot if I could find them.

Dehumanized

Have you listened to much 80s hardcore punk? Most notably I'd Husker Du which had a ton of downright pop/melody sensibilities to their music, and the Minutemen which were so eclectic as to be unclassifiable.

"In A Free Land"

"The Glory Of Man"

It's a little bit outside of what you requested in the OP, I hope you enjoy it anyways.

Scrublet

Have you tried Pandora radio? I've had some good luck before just plugging in one band I like and seeing what it pops out at me. I got into The Graduate, Saosin, My Epiphany, couple others doing this.

Matthasnopants

Gavin wrote: »

Misery signals sucks. Thursday sucks. Don't waste your time.

Dance Gavin Dance are worth checking out but for the love of god ignore this part.

i n c u b u s

I'd Fuck Chuck Lidell Up wrote: »

there are some pretty good math-core bands that you might like.

Fall of Troy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS7y7B8P60A&feature=related
for one

I fully endorse this post but would also recommend bands like Chiodos, Underoath, Norma Jean, etc.

Fizban140

This thread has pretty much just run through my entire list of artists excluding indie rock. Not sure if Blackfield and Fightstar fights here but its pretty much all I have that has not been said.