Best Metalcore Albums Of 2005 RANKED
Another incredibly important year for the metalcore genre, probably the last before it began to see a decline. In this video, I break down a HUGE list of essential albums from the scene, including classics, underrated gems, and a few controversial takes. @darkesthourdudes @augustburnsred @BTBAMofficial #metalcore #normajean #asilaydying #avengedsevenfold #parkwaydrive
00:00 Norma Jean – O’ God, the Aftermath
00:52 Nodes Of Ranvier – The Years to Come
01:17 The Agony Scene – The Darkest Red
01:59 Ringworm – Justice Replaced by Revenge
02:29 Trivium – Ascendancy
03:01 Curl Up And Die – The One Above All, the End of All That Is
03:35 Darkest Hour – Undoing Ruin
04:20 Throwdown – Vendetta
04:41 A Day to Remember – And Their Name Was Treason
05:06 Drowningman – Don’t Push Us When We’re Hot
05:32 Symphony In Peril – The Whore’s Trophy
06:10 Evergreen Terrace – Sincerity Is an Easy Disguise in This Business
06:36 Ion Dissonance – Solace
07:04 Knut – Terraformer
07:31 Every Time I Die – Gutter Phenomenon
08:05 From Autumn To Ashes – Abandon Your Friends
08:45 Still Remains – Of Love and Lunacy
09:08 Parkway Drive – Killing with a Smile
09:49 August Burns Red – Thrill Seeker
10:41 KEEP THE SERIES GOING
12:03 The Bled – Found in the Flood
12:33 Haste the Day – When Everything Falls
13:11 God Forbid – IV: Constitution of Treason
13:11 A Life Once Lost – Hunter
13:38 Hell Within – Asylum of the Human Predator
14:07 Bullet for My Valentine – The Poison
14:50 Avenged Sevenfold – City of Evil
16:10 Winter Solstice – The Fall of Rome
16:44 Protest the Hero – Kezia
17:21 Neaera – The Rising Tide of Oblivion
17:42 Johnny Truant – In the Library of Horrific Events
18:08 On Broken Wings – It’s All a Long Goodbye
18:34 The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza – Self-Titled
19:05 Bleed the Sky – Paradigm in Entropy
19:39 Becoming the Archetype – Terminate Damnation
20:06 The Number Twelve Looks Like You – Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear.
20:46 Demon Hunter – The Triptych
21:15 As I Lay Dying – Shadows Are Security
22:05 Starkweather – Croatoan
22:35 Honorable Mentions
23:25 Between the Buried and Me – Alaska
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@GEMCITYSNOW1
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
You forgot Embrace The End
@sockwithaticket
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
As I Lay Dying hot take, their best record is the Zao-worship, largely forgotten debut Beneath The Encasing Of Ashes.
@KyleWCR
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
I adore this series and have been bingeing it and noting bands I have missed through the years. Thank you!! <3
@erikdahl9383
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
Constitution of Treason is way underrated, that album is a masterpiece!
@atvena
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
Agreed chimaira are groove metal just like devil driver
@atvena
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
Number 12 is Screamo
@atvena
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
You really love your prog/math/tech/djent
@RØBERTTĦEBRUCE
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
This is my favorite Darkest Hour album! 🤘💀🤘
@nsusaint
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
also not 2005, but everytime I die ebolarama had one of my favorite lines in any song, "when in rome, we'll do like the romans, when in hell, we'll do shots at the bar!"
@nsusaint
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
I know it's not 2005, but throwdown's intro never back down, by far my favorite intro of all time!!!
@eredrick
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
undoing ruin is great! I kinda feel like discovering the waterfront should've been on the list too??
@jaredbabilis3768
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
Thanks for continuing this series! I "rescued" a store copy for Undoing Ruin from the hot topic days since that and many others cds were going be to tossed. Its been one of my favorite metalcore since.
@chrishill9197
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
Ascendancy is way better than City Of Evil imo. I'm honestly surprised that City Of Evil is on the list because that is exactly when A7X stopped being Metalcore.
@bulkbogan6235
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
It's weird that such a huge ETID fan like me never listened to Gutter Phenomenon until this year when I went through the disgraphy, specifically noting the best stanzas. For some reason I stopped on Big Dirty initially when discovering them and never bothered going further. Gutter Phenomena is not the strongest lyricaly, Keith was still finding his style, but it was arguably the album that showed the southern twang part of the band the most.
@eyelovepain-
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
No love for:
War of ages “war of ages”
Inked in Blood “lay waste the poet”
Manntis “sleep in your grave”
Mendeed “this war will last forever”
Carpathian “carpathaian”
The daylight curse “black and white memories”
Antagonist “the architecture of discord”
Summers end “summers end”
Embrace the end “counting hallways to the left”
@vciotoli2126
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
In my small town, this was definitely the year metalcore broke. I remember seeing people that scoffed at me for wearing Slayer and Pantera (and yes, nu metal) shirts all the sudden repping As I Lay Dying, KSE, Atreyu and even A Life Once Lost. Confusing at the time, but kinda cool to think now haha.
@blackhair18
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
Putting A7X over God Forbid and BFMV is heresy
@NeroLink1107
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
Would've loved to have seen mendeed mentioned here. Please check out their 2007 album!
@robertcop8825
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
Calling City of Evil metalcore is wrong. Invalid list.
@nonesoherpetological8974
June 29, 2026 at 12:19 am
If Ascendancy is not S tier I will riot