Can't stand bands like them, a few years ago I worked with 2 girls who were into those bands and played them often, and I could not get into it. It really bothers me how they sound kind of like 80s metal with the power taken away over pop vocals. I'm not condemning them, I can hear that they can play their instruments and the singer is obviously good at singing emotional songs for teenagers, but I can't stand the sound personally.
It also bothers me cause, when I was a kid in the 90s, I was always getting crap from Korn fans and being made fun of for liking classic metal, and now guitar solos and Maiden type influences are cool. Just shows how fickle the mainstream is. Not that I respect any of the emo-metal bands for having Maiden influences, they play such a neutered form of them.