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| Deathcore: An Evolution From Emotional Overload Back To Roots In Brutality.
People claim that deathcore isn't a genre, or is a pointless
distinction from death metal, or whatever, and those people
should shut up, because they're wrong and I'll fight them.
Here's a little history lesson and some bands that I think stand out, and or are important in
influencing deathcore. | 1 | | The Early Days Of Death Metal Dads
During the late '80s and early '90s a lot of death metal bands had more
rooting in hardcore than any bands currently posturing as hardcore and
busting out sick gutturals. | 2 | | Entombed Left Hand Path
You wanna eat, you gotta steal, keepin' it real. | 3 | | Obituary Cause Of Death
Itchoptin haugh! Feeltherblysp'l frumyr maugh!!! | 4 | | Dying Fetus Killing On Adrenaline
Arguably one of the biggest influences on the entire deathcore scene,
sometimes referred to as the forefathers of the genre, the blandly brutal
Dying Fetus definitely set the standard for the likes of ABACABB and
Hermione. | 5 | | Skinless Progression Towards Evil | 6 | | Cannibal Corpse Tomb Of The Mutilated
Cannibal Corpse worship is pretty common here. | 7 | | Fake Death Metal Silly Swedes
At some point around the turn of the millenium, a few bros decided it would
be so chill to take In Flames and At The Gates riffs and bridge them with
breakdowns. | 8 | | Prayer For Cleansing Rain In Endless Fall
In my opinion one of the most important modern metalcore releases to exist. | 9 | | Unearth The Oncoming Storm
Holy harmonies! | 10 | | Undying At Historys End
Here you have the melodic death metal equivalent to Despised Icon. Their split with Unearth is also very
good. | 11 | | Dead To Fall Everything I Touch Falls To Pieces
Dead To Fall Was that metalcore band you wanted to get the biggest, but of course it was AILD and Trivium
that played this sound the worst and made all the profit. | 12 | | Killswitch Engage Killswitch Engage
Out of the ruins of Aftershock and Overcast came one of the most promising
debuts for one of the most disappointing bands of all time. | 13 | | Southerners, Jack Daniels, Marlboro Reds They've got it down!
This past decade has shown a huge surge in the southern metal scene,
and I'm talking about metal in general, not just southern metal. Some of
the most important acts in the deathcore scene hail from the Bible Belt, and
they spout their frustration with staunch Christianity in a disgusting,
terrifying manner.
The beginnings of the Southern Deathcore scene seemed to be following
very much in the footsteps of Prayer For Cleansing and Undying, but slowly
leaned from melodic to brutal death metal. | 14 | | Through The Eyes Of The Dead The Scars Of Ages
Through The Eyes Of The Dead started out as the band that wanted you to mosh. Iron Maiden riffs, mosh
beats, and breakdowns. Pterodactyl shrieks, mid-range shouts, dry ass gutturals. Gore. A lot of it. | 15 | | Rifles At Recess To Whisper In Tongues
An unfortunately overlooked gem from Tennessee. Core, not gore. | 16 | | The Damascus Intervention Carefully Built, Carelessly Destroyed
The level of worship for Prayer For Cleansing on this is mind blowing. The
skill of the axes makes it oh so acceptable. They're Southern, Christian, and
proud, but they kiss their sweeties with their fists. | 17 | | Whitechapel The Somatic Defilement
I WILL SPIT RIGHT IN YOUR FUCKING FACE! HOW DOES IT TASTE? AFTER
THE LIPS ARE SEALED BELOW YOUR WAIST, YOU WILL NEVER FUCK AGAIN!!! | 18 | | Dead Man In Reno Dead Man In Reno | 19 | | Rich kids with good equipment California and Arizona take over the scene | 20 | | Animosity Empires
California's Animosity were mind-blowingly young for their releases, and even more-so talented than their
contemporaries in the scene. | 21 | | All Shall Perish The Price Of Existence
This might be THE deathcore album that everybody wanted, that topped the genre, with it's mix of brocore
cliches, range stretching vocals, mixing's of melodeath, brutal riffs, and breakdowns. There's everything. | 22 | | Burning The Masses Volatile Existence
What happens when young kids with rich parents play guitar and hear The
Faceless? They play tech-deathcore apparently. | 23 | | Knights Of The Abyss Juggernaut
Seemingly JFAC's often overlooked and rebelling younger brother, KOTA
went from sounding identical (but better at their instruments) to JFAC to
going in the complete opposite direction: instead of brutality, they went for
melody and Satan. | 24 | | Job For A Cowboy Doom
Arguably a death metal album, as it's really devoid of any characteristics of
hardcore. This EP does, however, fit the characteristics of the deathcore
sound and is one of the biggest influences on the current scene. | 25 | | Foreign boys and jokes Some of the jokes aren't on purpose though...
Non-American deathcore bands seem so good but so cheesy sometimes
that I can't help but laugh. | 26 | | Despised Icon The Healing Process
KEEP IT BRUTAL, EST. 2002 | 27 | | Bring Me The Horizon Count Your Blessings
I love this band for some reason, but lol fringe weaves. | 28 | | Sumatra Heliocratic Infinity
Oh my God this band is tasty, but some of the stuff they try... they just
can't pull it off, example: their clean vocals. Also, silly Russians, heliocratic
isn't even a word, hahahahhaha. | 29 | | Clone The Fragile Eternal Struggle
The Blood On My Nike Dunks | 30 | | Thy Art Is Murder Infinite Death
Some of the most hilarious, "brutal," lyrics ever. | |
witchxrapist
07.18.10 | And I just finished this, and then my friends walk in, nice. | witchxrapist
07.18.10 | Wow, I actually put effort into something and nobody cares. :c | Xplisit
07.18.10 | well i mean look at it | botb
07.18.10 | i loved it dear | witchxrapist
07.18.10 | Xplisit trying too hard?! My mind is blown.
Thanks Dan. c: | 2muchket!
07.18.10 | cool cool | AbyssalCreation
07.18.10 | Loves Bring Me the Hairstraightener but hates on Elysia
Lolwut? | Yeahtoast
07.18.10 | I like most of the stuff on here and agree with you on a lot of points. Good job. | botb
07.18.10 | tbh oli sykes' vocals on count your blessings are fucking great. if you can't get past his douchey appearance to admit that then i'm sorry. | witchxrapist
07.18.10 | Elysia is awful. :x
Count Your Blessings is so good on the other hand.
Thanks Yeahtoast. c: | AbyssalCreation
07.18.10 | I don't mind BMTH I just don't get the hate on Elysia.
I used to love Olis vocals on CYB too but then I realized most of it was just studio magic. | 2muchket!
07.18.10 | and tbh yeah
its lol that hes opting to do horrible mid rangey hardcore vocals now though, that he can't pull off. | botb
07.18.10 | mappy you missed viatrophy's chronicles ep in the non-american bands :x | witchxrapist
07.18.10 | lol frankie, you should've seen elysia live, his voice was cracking like crazy
and dan, this is only part of it, im gonna do a second part... probably same categories, different bands. | ConsiderPhlebas
07.18.10 | Good work. I know very little about deathcore and this gives me a helpful insight. I'll check out the stuff on here I haven't heard.
Love Undying, too. Have you heard The Whispered Lies of Angels by them? The production's ropey but it's still great. And I agree with you on 8. | botb
07.18.10 | ah ok | witchxrapist
07.18.10 | The Whisper Lies Of Angels is awesome. I love their whole disco tbh. And PFC rules so hard too. | Zip
07.18.10 | I know how it feels I made a list and nobody gave a shit haha | R6Rider
07.18.10 | You got 6 on here so it's all good. | eternium
07.18.10 | Ugh, deathcore. | bloc
07.18.10 | I tried to get into 28 a while back but I just could not. | NeutralThunder12
07.18.10 | you need to stop saying that Prayer for Cleansing's album is the most important metalcore releases in modern metalcore, it sounds really stupid because it's not exactly true | NeutralThunder12
07.18.10 | actually, I'd like to revise my statement. Despite it's influence, which isn't nearly as widespread as people make it out to be, it really didn't break much ground, while later bands, such as what came out of Prayer for cleansing (BTBAM), and of course earlier bands like Converge and Botch were the actual pioneers, as even their early records were awesome. | NeutralThunder12
07.18.10 | and the fact that you like Bring me the horizon is pretty funny | Inveigh
07.18.10 | list was a super cool read BUT i am disappoint in no Animosity and Red Chord :( | AnotherBrick
07.18.10 | good read | 2muchket!
07.18.10 | BTBAM are boring as fuck though.
PFC are by far better and more influential. | Zip
07.18.10 | yeah I'm def a whore for Animosity, where they at? | Thor
07.18.10 | yeah no TRC is fail mappy, otherwise great list
Sumatra is ok for a few songs but their super slow/br00tal breakdowns suck, leads are insane though especially considering how young they are | Pessimus666
07.18.10 | mine was better :D | witchxrapist
07.18.10 | Neutral Thunder full of shit, damn.
First off: IN MY OPINION.
Second off: ONE OF the most important modern metalcore albums.
And Prayer For Cleansing was important because they were one of the first metalcore bands to play At The Gates type riffs, and they influenced A LOT of southern bands that I'm into and talked to, so yeah.
Also, I love Between The Buried And Me, but they need to stop re-releasing worse, more over the top versions of Alaska.
As for TRC and Animosity, once more, I missed a lot of stuff, but I'm going to do more parts. | Thor
07.18.10 | lol Alaska's at the bottom of BTBAM's discography for me (at least overall, All Bodies is still their best song)
and definitely include a spot for Waking the Cadaver. Not for their music, BUT FOR THEIR SWEATPANTS | GenNarain
07.18.10 | I must admit CYB is a guilty pleasure of mine | Relinquished
07.18.10 | good job on this, but the only deathcore band I listen to now and again is The Acacia Strain (only for working out)
Aftershock and Overcast are underrated | brutebeard
07.18.10 | Good topic. Elysia death-core album- Masochist.
Elysia's maturer album- Lion of Judas | Emim
07.18.10 | I want to see All Shall Perish on the next one!
Also, you look like an elf in that picture. Make of that what you will; it's not an insult in the least. | cvlts
07.18.10 | yeah I listen to Elysias Masochist for the lulz from time to time.
WHO'S THE FUCKKINGG FAGGOTT NOWWWWW!!???? | bloc
07.18.10 | "Also, you look like an elf in that picture. Make of that what you will; it's not an insult in the least."
She looks like Zelda | Emim
07.18.10 | "(at least overall, All Bodies is still their best song)"
You got this part right.
Also needs some Glass Casket if you include The Red Chord or The Faceless | AbyssalCreation
07.19.10 | DIG A DITCH AND BURY THE BITCH! | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | "you look like an elf"
lol nice | Emim
07.19.10 | "She looks like Zelda"
I can see that, yeah. | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | Why ThirtySix? That album is seriously so so so good. | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | lol that's the first time i've ever gotten that
nerds :p | ThePalestMexican
07.19.10 | 30 is soooo goddamn terrible | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | Hahaha yeah it is. | Thor
07.19.10 | the song "Leach" has some good parts but yeah overall it's one of the shittiest albums of the past five years | Emim
07.19.10 | "lol that's the first time i've ever gotten that
nerds :p"
Idk, just look at your profile pic. | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | I kind of see it I guess. | KILL
07.19.10 | ooooooooooomg | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | I'm gonna split this into sections of 5, I'm dumb. | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | why won't the undying album art load. :( | KILL
07.19.10 | coz the ' | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | didn't work :/ | KILL
07.19.10 | yea theres no way to get it to work, just sputnik being dumb | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | Oh well. I'm happy with how this looks atm. | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | I'm not saying Cannibal Corpse is deathcore, I'm saying they were a huge influence on the deathcore scene, silly. | witchxrapist
07.19.10 | Yay!!! |
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