金属蕊（Metalcore）是一个金属乐的子类型，结合了极端金属与硬蕊庞克。金属蕊这个词大约是在1990年代中期出现，由极端金属的“金属”与硬蕊的“蕊”组成，而这些类型乐团有Earth Crisis、Deadguy、Integrity。[1]这些早期的乐团，像是Integrity，最早在1988年表演，当时玩这类型的乐团有终极杀戮乐团（Killswitch Engage）、叛客魔咒乐团（Underoath）、All That Remains、 混种魔兽乐团（Trivium）、As I Lay Dying、致命情人乐团（Bullet for My Valentine）与The Devil Wears Prada。[2]
Black Flag[7]与Bad Brains[8]这些硬蕊的先锋，相当欣赏乐团黑色安息日，进而开始模仿他们。美国街头庞克乐团，如Discharge、The Exploited都从重金属乐获得启发。[9]乐团Misfits发行的《Earth A.D.》成为影响鞭挞金属最大的一张专辑。[10]然而，庞克与金属的音乐文化在1980年代中期以前，仍有区别。
混合鞭挞 (1984–1988)
在金属与硬蕊的交互影响下，混合鞭挞（Crossover Thrash）就这么诞生了。1984年，在加州柏克莱的一间叫作Ruthie's的俱乐部。[11]，“金属蕊”这个词原先就是来形容这些混合金属与硬蕊的乐团。[12]硬蕊庞克团体Corrosion of Conformity[13]、Dirty Rotten Imbeciles和Suicidal Tendencies[14]也开始与一些鞭挞金属乐团如金属制品（Metallica）、超级杀手合唱团（Slayer）同台演出。这样的背景影响了纽约硬蕊的光头党们，纽约硬蕊始自1984年，这些团体有Cro-Mags、Murphy's Law、Agnostic Front[15]与Warzone[16]。其中受影响最大的乐团The Cro-Mags，被等同于Bad Brains、摩托头（Motörhead）和黑色安息日。[17]Cro-Mags同样融合了直刃族（straight edge），令人惊讶的还有奎师那意识（Krishna consciousness）.[18]其他纽约直刃族们，包括Gorilla Biscuits、Crumbsuckers与Youth of Today[19]，也加入了Youth Crew风格。[20]到了1985年，Breakdown开始在硬蕊音乐发展，他是一种Bad Brains的雷鬼与金属背景的结合[4]，使得观众做出“冲撞”的动作。Agnostic Front发行于1986年的专辑《Cause for Alarm》与歌德金属乐团Type O Negative成员Peter Steele合作，正是一个硬蕊与金属交融的分水岭。[21]
1989与1995年之间，一群新潮的硬蕊乐团出现了。[2]这些乐团有Merauder、All Out War、[22] 、Integrity、[23]Biohazard、Earth Crisis、[23][24]Converge、[24]Shai Hulud、[25][26][27]Starkweather、Judge、[24]Strife、[23]Rorschach、[28]Vision of Disorder、[28]与暴种乐团（Hatebreed）。[23][28][28]Integrity受到日本硬蕊团体GISM与金属乐团超级杀手合唱团（Slayer）影响，乐团Septic Death、Samhain、摩托头（Motörhead）与欢乐分队（Joy Division）多少也影响他们。[29]同时，Earth Crisis、Converge与暴种乐团（Hatebreed）[30]从死亡金属得到启发。[31]乐团Shai Hulud的作品《Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion》[25][26][27]和Earth Crisis发行于1995年的《Destroy the Machines》尤其能看见这样的影响。[32]吉他手Scott Crouse之言：
Shai Hulud, interview with Punknews.org - 05/28/08. [2008-09-21]. （原始内容存档于2008-10-16）. As far as coining the term 'metalcore' or coining a sound, I don’t think we did. There were bands before Shai Hulud started that my friends and I were referring to as 'metalcore'. Bands like Burn, Deadguy, Earth Crisis, even Integrity. These bands that were heavier than the average hardcore bands. These bands that were more progressive than the average hardcore band. My friends and I would always refer to them as 'metalcore' because it wasn’t purely hardcore and it wasn’t purely metal. It was like a heavier hardcore band with hardcore ethics and attitude but clearly a metal influence. So we would joke around and say 'Hey, it’s metalcore. Cool!' But it was definitely a tongue-in-cheek term.
"The best part of every metalcore song is the breakdown, the part where the drums drop out and the guitars slow their frantic gallop to a devastating, precise crunch-riff and everyone in the moshpit goes extra nuts." - Tom Breihan. "Status Ain't Hood". "Live: Trivium, the Jackson 5 of Underground Metal"互联网档案馆的存档，存档日期2010-01-17.. The Village Voice. Daily Voice. October 11, 2006. Access date: July 21, 2008.
"Mosh style was slower, very tribal – like a Reggae beat adapted to Hardcore. [...] It was an outbreak of dancing with a mid-tempo beat driven by floor tom and snare." - Howie Abrams, Blush, p. 193
Andersen, Mark and Mark Jenkins (2003). Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. "Positive Mental Attitude". p. 27. Akashic Books. ISBN 1-888451-44-0
"Cro-Mags were the first band to attract both Skinheads and metalhead audiences; their music at the point where Hardcore nihilism met Metal power." Blush, p. 189
"here the term (metalcore) is used in its original context, referencing the likes of Strife, Earth Crisis, and Integrity ...", Ian Glasper, Terrorizer no. 171, June 2008, p. 78
Kill Your Stereo - Reviews: Shai Hulud - Misanthropy Pure. [2011-11-01]. （原始内容存档于2012-03-27）. Shai Hulud, a name that is synonymous (in heavy music circles at least) with intelligent, provocative and most importantly unique metallic hardcore. The band’s earliest release is widely credited with influencing an entire generation of musicians
Shai Hulud - Hearts Once Nourished With Hope And Co Review - sputnikmusic. Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion is pretty much the prime in early melodic metalcore. So many bands in both the modern metalcore and hardcore scene have drawn vast influence from them, because of how perfect they blend hardcore and metal.
In At The Deep End Records. [2011-11-01]. （原始内容存档于2020-09-23）. Regardless of whether or not you liked Shai Hulud, it is undeniable that Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion was an oft-imitated and highly influential release in the mid-to-late nineties.
"It was this simple formula that's single-handedly responsible for every band you hear combining heavy metal and hardcore today." Blood Runs Deep: 23 Bands Who Shaped the Scene. Alternative Press. July 7, 2008: 110.
Karl Buechner of Earth Crisis cites Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower, and Obituary as prime influences. Mudrian also discusses Converge and Bloodlet and their relationship to death metal. See Mudrian, Albert (2000). Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore. Feral House. ISBN 1-932595-04-X. p. 222-223
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SHAI HULUD GUITARIST MATT FOX. [2008-10-09]. （原始内容存档于2008-08-17）. When we used to joke with the term, it was just a clever (or not so clever) way of describing a metallic hardcore, metal-influenced hardcore, or hardcore-influenced metal band.
"Taste of Chaos", Revolver, June 2008. p. 110. "This is the Rockstar Taste of Chaos Tour, a night when heavier melodic-metalcore bands like Atreyu and Avenged Sevenfold intend to position themselves as the next generation of bands to actually pack arenas [...]"
