Genre Directory
Metalcore
Browse Dork's album & ep review coverage for Metalcore, plus artists and albums connected to the genre.
Recent Reviews
GALLOWS
Blessthefall
For fans itching for a metalcore fix, this record will satisfy the craving tenfold.
I Don’t Want to See You in Heaven
The Callous Daoboys
A gloriously unhinged rollercoaster that treats genre boundaries like suggestions and time signatures like confetti.
Even In Arcadia
Sleep Token
When they’re good, Sleep Token are untouchable.
Tsunami Sea
Spiritbox
Metal's most fascinating evolution story continues with glorious defiance, as Spiritbox return with a second album that treats expectations like fragile china, then hurls them against the wall just to hear the satisfying smash.
POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
Bring Me The Horizon
A thoroughly modern emo record, Bring Me snarl, gnash and rage through 16 tracks.
The Fear Of Fear EP
Spiritbox
New EP 'The Fear Of Fear' is as brutal as they come.
The Surface
Beartooth
If 'Below' was Caleb Shomo's death notes from rock bottom, 'The Surface' are his postcards from recovery.
Take Me Back To Eden
Sleep Token
This is the most inventive metal has sounded in a long time.
A Kiss For the Whole World
Enter Shikari
Enter Shikari reassert their credentials as one of the UK’s most important rock bands.
The Seventh Sun
Bury Tomorrow
Tasting ‘The Seventh Sun’ is a sensory experience, cinematic in its scope.
A Mind Waiting To Die
Graphic Nature
An unflinchingly raw report on mental health.
the classic symptoms of a broken spirit
Architects
Potentially massive.
Darker Still
Parkway Drive
Parkway Drive once again prove that they do nothing by halves. Massively impressive.
Reaching Hypercritical
Palisades
Hypercritically acclaimed.
Otherness
Alexisonfire
Proving themselves a band still deserving of the throne, if change really is as good as a rest, it’s no shock that - with both now under their belt - Alexisonfire sound fresher than ever.
Misery Made Me
Silverstein
‘Misery Made Me’ proves Silverstein still have plenty in the tank.
New Skin
Graphic Nature
Satisfyingly brilliant.
Voyeurist
Underoath
A band completely reinvigorated.
Happier?
Volumes
A record that can live both above and below in a way so many struggle to match.
The Romance Of Affliction
SeeYouSpaceCowboy
In your face, tense and essential, it’s an album of juxtapositions that makes perfect sense.
