I should have remembered to edit more closely.
Labels are ambiguous, I was offering my favorites.

I dunno where it came from, but its fun as hell. all the local shows I go to kids are going crazy with the kickboxing dancing, it gets pretty dangerous, but its so much fun. Almost as much fun as skanking at ska shows ;D

Bane, With Honor, Comeback Kid, Terror, Champion, Love Is Red, Modern Life Is War, Blood For Blood, Hatebreed, Give Up the Ghost/American Nightmare, Rise Against, Snapcase, The Backup Plan...

I like...happy hardcore.

Anyone heard this band "sound of animals fighting" ? pretty sweet I think.

Also, Bane. Live. Amazing. I always go see them, seen them like 7 times. Amazing show.

yea bit of a fan. it's getting a bit stale however! it seems to be becoming such a trend now and there are so many "hardcore / Metalcore" bands around at the moment and a lot of them seem to be doing the same thing!
however there are a few notable exceptions to the rule!! love most of the old stuff (black flag, circle jerks etc.) and some of the stuff like converge and the like (don't know how much of it you can really call hard core) but that's all debatable.

Come on guys! You're missing out on Canada's finest! One of the few bands who are saving the hXc scene! ... Comeback Kid!

Kalmah?? They're about the farthest from hardcore you can get, they're fucking melodic...
ps. didn't mean for that to come of offensive

yea, I really don't think you could put Converge down as a hardcore band, I mean, they're about as metalcore as they come. Though I've never liked making up all these genres to explain a band, Converge just isn't hardcore...Hardcore is, at least to me, really fast and intense punk music. Now Converge, this is just a band that is metal with Bannon screaming in the mic at the top of his lungs, and thats metalcore.

...You know the score.