I know current metalcore and deathcore are considered the asscrack of all metal right now, but this is one of the several of these bands that I really enjoy.
The problem with the term metalcore is that these days it's got very far from what it was originally about....
It used to be stuff like DRI and Cryptic Slaughter, and bands like Siege and Deep Wound were metalcore (or preferred at the time, crossover)... then in the 90s stuff like Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Refused and Integrity were making waves with a different take on metallic hardcore. Later, other bands like Botch, Burnt By The Sun, Turmoil and Converge were also expanding on the sound and creating noisecore... fairly acquired taste but very good and challenging form of metalcore.
Nowadays, it seems to be the consensus that if you stick a band in a room with some Cannibal Corpse/At The Gates and some Biohazard/Killswitch Engage albums, they think they can stick the two together and come up with something different - which doesn't work. Guilty Parties: As I Lay Dying, Bring Me The Horizon, Annotations Of An Autopsy, etc.
The Red Chord, though while being lumped in with said bunch, are the exception - a deathcore band that rises above the morass of cookie-cutter pseudo-ATG-Suffocation-core bands. Also, All Shall Perish, The Black Dahlia Murder, Heaven Shall Burn are all very good latter day metalcore now known as deathcore.