Rundown picks the best post-hardcore album of every year in the 2000s
The retrospective covers 2000 through 2009, the decade when the genre spread from mall storefronts to Warped Tour stages and video game soundtracks
A new Loudwire feature names the best post-hardcore album from each year between 2000 and 2009, a stretch the piece frames as the genre's commercial and creative peak. The picks mix obvious landmarks with records described as sleeper hits still worth revisiting.
Post-hardcore took shape in the 1980s, growing out of the hardcore punk of bands like Naked Raygun, Minutemen and Hüsker Dü. By the 2000s it sounded markedly different. The punk and hardcore foundation remained, but emo, screamo and even metalcore elements had worked their way in, along with screamed vocals, heavy emotional weight and the occasional breakdown.
By then, acts such as Underoath, Chiodos and The Used were driving a boom that reached mall Hot Topic racks, the Vans Warped Tour and beyond. Coheed and Cambria, From First to Last, Story of the Year and many of their peers landed songs in major video game franchises, and the style was played in professional sports stadiums during major events.
The article also ties the era to its online habits, back when lyrics were picked apart for AIM away messages and custom-coded MySpace profiles. Those same years, it argues, produced some of the most important and impressive albums the genre ever put out.
The full year-by-year list is up on Loudwire.
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