What killed post hardcore?? Back in the 2000s, bands like AFI and Thursday went to the top of the charts, with a new crop of post-hardcore bands like Taking Back Sunday, The Used and Underoath and finally Chiodos, Of Mice & Men, Sleeping With Sirens and the rest of their cohort following close behind.

That crop of post-hardcore bands (the "boy bands with breakdowns" bands) crushed it, with several of them going to the Billboard top 10-- and then suddenly they fell off, with their sales and relevance a fraction of what it once was. So what happened??

A few of the things I touch on:

- The OG post-hardcore bands like Quicksand, Dag Nasty, Texas Is The Reason, and Farside

- The "real post-hardcore" bands like AFI, Thursday, and Senses Fail

- The "mall screamo explosion" bands like From First To Last, Underoath, Taking Back Sunday, The Used and Saosin

- The peak of post-hardcore with Of Mice & Men, Sleeping With Sirens, We Came As Romans, The Word Alive and Chiodos

- Why the scene became full of gross, phony people who wanted to be famous and ultimately collapsed on itself

- How its collapse fueled the rise of a new crop of real hardcore bands like Knocked Loose, Code Orange, Turnstile, and Angel Du$t
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