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The breakdown has become one of the defining ingredients of metalcore. Slow the tempo, strip everything back, let the guitars hit like bricks, and suddenly the pit has doubled in size. But some breakdowns are bigger than others. These five didn't just hit hard, they helped define what generations of heavy music would sound and feel like.

Around this time in 1991, Nirvana were in the studio working on what would become Nevermind, an album that didn’t just succeed, it completely flipped the rock world upside down.

Before Blink-182 became one of the defining bands of modern pop-punk, they were just three kids from Southern California with skate parks, cheap gear, and a shared obsession with fast, loud, funny music. Their story isn’t a straight line, it’s full of breakups, reinventions, and some of the most iconic songs of the late ’90s and 2000s.

There are bands that start with a plan, a meeting, maybe even a name before the first note is played. Wasted Society wasn’t one of them.