I don't know Jinn... To me, hardcore is just a louder version of emo. It is not 'anti-emo'. In many ways, hardcore is worse, because it takes the surface elements of metal (loud guitar, drums, vocals) and applies them towards making what is basically Power Emo. I can't fucking stand it. I was in a restaurant yesterday, wearing a Strapping Young Lad shirt, with my friend who was wearing his Dark Funeral shirt, and some fucker in an Atreyu shirt sat down at a table near us. He looked like a fucking hardcore fan, too. I felt like I was in the midst of mine enemy. ~_~ I felt irritated the whole time he was there. However, he arrived after us and left before us, which I took to be a metaphor for, 'Metal was here before hardcore, and will remain long after hardcore has remembered that it's time for it to go fuck itself.'