Editing Metalcore (section)

=== Diachronics ===
There is debate as to whether metalcore is a fusion genre, a subgenre, or a genre of its own.<ref>{{cite web |date=8 January 2024 |title=Is Metalcore Metal? |url=https://loudwire.com/is-metalcore-metal/ |website=[[Loudwire]]}}</ref> 

Metalcore is not universally accepted in some traditional [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and hardcore circles.<ref name="Smialek" /> There has been debate and disagreement over whether metalcore is an authentic subgenre of heavy metal, and some in the [[heavy metal subculture#Perceived intolerance to non-metal musical styles|heavy metal community]] do not recognize it as a "true" form of metal.<ref>{{cite web |date=9 June 2020 |title=The 21 best U.S. Metalcore albums of all time |url=https://www.kerrang.com/the-21-best-us-metalcore-albums-of-all-time}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=16 April 2024 |title=Why do Metalheads Think Metalcore Isn't Real Metal? Reddit Users Answer |url=https://loudwire.com/why-metalheads-dont-like-metalcore-reddit/ |website=[[Loudwire]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Trapp |first=Philip TrappPhilip |date=2023-11-28 |title=Who Invented Metalcore? |url=https://loudwire.com/who-invented-metalcore/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Loudwire |language=en}}</ref> Traditional metalheads tend to view it as an inauthentic imitation of "real" metal, and "a diluted misinterpretation of metal's stylistic codes".<ref name="Smialek" /> Bands under the metalcore banner drew criticism for "their increasingly considered images, polished production, and what was seen as appeal to progressively more mainstream audiences".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Karjalainen |first1=Toni-Matti |title=Sounds of Origin in Heavy Metal Music |date=2018 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |pages=141-142}}</ref> Some practitioners who have expressed disillusionment with the genre's development have attempted to differentiate and constitute acts such as [[Martyr A.D.|Martyr AD]] and [[Poison the Well (band)|Poison The Well]] as representing "what true metalcore is."<ref name=":2">{{cite web |title=Renounced: "Death to false metalcore" |url=https://www.punktastic.com/radar/renounced-death-to-false-metalcore/}}</ref> Stephen Hill of ''Metal Hammer'' suggested that later metalcore bands such as [[Attila (metalcore band)|Attila]] and [[Blessthefall]] "[have] more in common with [[Airbrush|airbrushed]], cynically-minded [[Boy band|boy bands]] than the melding of two [[Counterculture|counter-cultures]]."<ref name=":0" />