Tagged Terror

With metal and hardcore so incestuous and diluted these days, it's more the exception than the rule to ever find a band who solely represents one of those scenes. And with things like the trad-metal revival going on, it's absurd but true that these once traditionalist bands have become exotic and interesting endangered species more than anything else. Lionheart, for example, are hardcore through and through --- albeit in a post-Hatebreed world of hardcore, so we would probably have to define the difference between 'metallic hardcore' and 'metalcore' just to keep the purists happy. There are some clear moments that sound distinctly metal, but they're outweighed ten to one by the moments that bring to mind Terror, Madball, Death Before Dishonour and any number of distinctly hardcore acts.