Suno Metalcore prompt
Metalcore in Suno lives at 120–180 BPM, usually around 150. Below is a Styles prompt that passes our Styles checker, the Exclude list that stops v6 drifting toward pop vocals, autotune, EDM drops, a 2:59 arrangement in bars and the cued lyric headers. Copy it, change the mood and the parts you hear differently, paste.
Styles
metalcore, 150 BPM, furious. 2000s metal, tight downtuned tracking, tube amp crunch. Aggressive lead: harsh screams or growls in the verses and a clean, powerful sung chorus in metalcore. Screamed verses over chugging drop-tuned riffs, a soaring clean-sung chorus, a half-time breakdown of open-string chugs with gaps, synth ambience in the intro. Arrangement: intro 8 bars, verse 1 16 bars, pre-chorus 4 bars, chorus 16 bars, verse 2 16 bars, pre-chorus 2 4 bars, chorus 16 bars, breakdown 8 bars, solo 8 bars, final chorus 16 bars. Rhythm guitars wall-to-wall with scooped mids, a clicky, tight kick that cuts through the double-kick, snare loud, bass growling under the guitars, vocals on top of the wall with a short delay. Ends cold after the final chorus.
Exclude styles
pop vocals, autotune, EDM drops, trap hi-hats, 808 bass, synth-pop, acoustic guitar strumming
Lead tag: open Styles with metalcore, word for word. It’s the wording Suno’s own tags use, so it carries more weight than a description.
Vocal: sung lead by default. Variety at 0 keeps Suno from rewriting the prompt on a final take.
What makes it Metalcore
Name the parts, not the vibe.
Suno plays what you name. “Metalcore vibes” gets you its idea of the average metalcore track; the parts below are what make the genre itself, so they go in the prompt as instructions to the band.
- screamed verses over chugging drop-tuned riffs
- a soaring clean-sung chorus
- a half-time breakdown of open-string chugs with gaps
- synth ambience in the intro
Production colour: 2000s metal, tight downtuned tracking, tube amp crunch. One phrase like this sets the era better than a list of adjectives.
Why the Exclude list matters. v6 leans toward pop and toward whatever the neighbouring genres share. For metalcore that means pop vocals, autotune and EDM drops creeping in. Put those in Exclude, never as “no …” in Styles: a negative in Styles names the thing and often adds it.
Mix placement beats quality words: “rhythm guitars wall-to-wall with scooped mids” tells Suno where things sit. “Radio-ready” or “professional” tells it nothing.
Song structure
A 2:59 radio edit at 150 BPM.
| Section | Bars | Starts | What plays |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intro | 8 | 0:00 | clean guitar figure, then the full riff with double-kick |
| Verse 1 | 16 | 0:13 | palm-muted chugging riff, harsh vocal |
| Pre-Chorus | 4 | 0:38 | riff opens, snare build |
| Chorus | 16 | 0:45 | open chords, clean sung vocal, crash on every bar |
| Verse 2 | 16 | 1:10 | — |
| Pre-Chorus 2 | 4 | 1:36 | — |
| Chorus | 16 | 1:42 | — |
| Breakdown | 8 | 2:08 | half-time open-string chugs with gaps, gang shouts |
| Solo | 8 | 2:21 | shredded lead over double-kick |
| Final Chorus | 16 | 2:34 | — |
| End | — | 2:59 | final chord hit, cymbal choke |
Lyric headers
[Intro | clean guitar figure, then the full riff with double-kick] [Verse 1 | close and conversational] [Pre-Chorus | rising, building into the hook] [Chorus | full voice, hook up front] [Verse 2 | close and conversational] [Pre-Chorus 2 | rising, building into the hook] [Chorus | full voice, hook up front] [Breakdown | half-time open-string chugs with gaps, gang shouts] [Solo | shredded lead over double-kick] [Final Chorus | full voice, biggest lift] [End | clean ending]
Every header carries a direction after the bar, [Section | how it’s performed]. A bare [Verse] leaves the delivery to chance. The last line, [End | clean ending], is what stops the fade-out and the bonus minute of noodling.
Lyrics
Writing words for metalcore.
Metal lyrics are heavy and physical: strong verbs, hard consonants, short lines the riff can hammer, and images of pressure, weight, struggle and survival grounded in one real situation rather than fantasy wallpaper. Screamed lines are short and percussive (3 to 6 syllables) so they stay intelligible; the clean chorus has longer vowels and one plain claim. The breakdown is one shouted line repeated. Skip stock darkness: name what the pressure is (a debt, a diagnosis, a town shutting down) and fight it.
Keep verse lines to about 9 syllables and hook lines to about 7. Longer lines get rushed or swallowed; our lyric checker counts them for you.
Phrases that make it sound generated
- lose control
- lose myself
- losing control
- feel the beat
- feel the music
- feel the rhythm
- hands up
- hands in the air
- all night long
- move your body
- take me higher
- on the dance floor
Every one of these turns up in thousands of AI songs. Swap each for the specific thing it stands in for: a place, an object, what someone actually said.
Borrowing
Use metalcore as an influence.
Want a touch of metalcore in another genre? Don’t put “metalcore” in the lead tag of a different song: Suno will switch genres. Borrow one part and say where it goes:
- a half-time breakdown of open-string chugs before the last chorus
- screamed lines answering the clean chorus
- drop-tuned chug riffs under the bridge
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