Metalcore is a fusion genre between hardcore punk and metal, borrowing the simplicity and sometimes lyrics from punk and giving it a metal sound. They remove all the technical traits (not mathcore but mathcore is completely underground).
Most metal artist are 25 years old because the music is technicaly more demanding than punk in which you need to know three chords to make a band (heck Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols failed to play the bass at all.)

Also this gives a lot of Scene Kids the feeling that they are “metal heads” even though they don’t know bands like Death, early Kryptopsy, Motorhead, they don’t anything about the 1.st and the 2.nd wave of black metal, all they get is this simplified form of metalized punk (I just made that up).

Why populised? Well, the easier the rhytms are the easier it is to follow the music (compare Technical Death Metal band Necrophagist and Metalcore band As I Lay Dying, also take a look at the size and the “quality” of the fanbase.

The lack of “quality Metalcore” ( if the term itself is not contradictive) also shows if you look at the fanbase. Lets compare Metalcore vs. Death metal.

Metalcore: You get snot-nosed kids, emos, scene kids, you know….

Death Metal: You get either lunatics, or technical maniacs or people who just want to filter their stress levels.

So thats what I think, TRVE metalheads are afraid of their subculture fanishing due to worrying amount of emos and scenes in the industry nowadays (take a look at a metalcore band photo and a *insert favourite metal genre* band ). I personaly don’t regard metalcore as a metal genre anyway.

THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION AND HOW I LOOK AT THINGS.

P.S I’d love a reply.

You’re right. Many metalheads I know are also fans of classical music, especially the music from Romantic era. Don’t know why, but this is what I have noticed. Certain metal genres, such as power metal, include elements from classical. Did you know that Metallica’s Cliff Burton was a great fan of classical music and used lots of classical elements in his bass solos and riffs. This is according to the book I have reviewed in this blog. Metal and classical sound much different, but there are common elements in both, even though metal is classified as popular music and classical is is considered as art. Can’t say if music could help to bring peace to the world, but at least it brings peace at my home If we have some arguing at home, good music (not thrash metal in this case even though it is great) can bring peace.

Thanks for your interesting comment!

So many people who enjoy classical also enjoy metal, two perfectly opposing entities in my opinion. Just goes to show you that there can be harmony in the world, no matter how different the elements are…and perhaps the solution to world peace can be achieved through music. What do you think?