I under what you’re saying, el fap, and too a degree I’m inclined to agree with you. Most heavy music is just variations of a theme. But through those variations we find shit that sticks out to us.
Like, I know a lot of youth crew dudes that would agree 100% that all youth crew bands are just trying to be youth of today, but some do it better than others, and some do it better than the originators. I’ll never willingly put on youth of today, but I fucking adore chain of strength and judge.
Also, I gotta give you credit because you listed off a lot of guilty pleasure bands of mine, specifically hatebreed and sick of it all.
But don’t sleep on modern hardcore, because they’re is a lot of great shit coming out. In my opinion, I’d rather be catching some of these bands come up now than the ones I got to see when I was growing up.