Dysphoria (band)

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Dysphoria
Origin Kiev, Ukraine
Genres Mathcore, deathcore
Years active2010–present
LabelsTotal Deathcore
Members
  • Max
  • Alex
  • Sergey
  • Vladimir
Past members
  • Igor
  • Vadim

Dysphoria is a Ukrainian mathcore band from Kiev. Formed in 2010, they released three full-length albums, one single, and three music videos.

Mathcore is a genre of music often seen as a subgenre of metalcore that combines the speed and aggression of hardcore punk and extreme metal. The genres roots can also be traced to post-hardcore and math rock bands of the early 1990s. Bands in the genre emphasizes complex and fluctuant rhythms through the use of irregular time signatures, polymeters, syncopations and tempo changes. Early mathcore lyrics were addressed from a realistic worldview and with a pessimistic, defiant, resentful or sarcastic point of view.

Kiev City with special status in Kiev City Municipality, Ukraine

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine, located in the north-central part of the country on the Dnieper. The population in July 2015 was 2,887,974, making Kiev the 7th most populous city in Europe.

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Style and influences

Dysphoria play an extreme metal musical style known as deathcore, [1] which is a fusion between the genres death metal and metalcore. Their style is also heavily influenced by mathcore, because of the fast, technical riffs, varied speed changes and complex time signatures in the band's music. The vocalist fluctuates between death growls and high-pitched screamed vocals. The drumming is very fast-paced and uses double bass drumming and blast beats.

Deathcore is an extreme metal fusion genre that combines musical elements of death metal and metalcore and sometimes hardcore punk. It makes use of death metal riffs and blast beats, as well as metalcore breakdowns. Deathcore gained most prominence within the southwestern United States, especially Arizona and inland southern California, which are home to many notable bands and various festivals.

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, aggressive, powerful drumming featuring double kick and blast beat techniques, minor keys or atonality, abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes, and chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may invoke slasher film-stylized violence, religion, occultism, Lovecraftian horror, nature, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, science fiction, and politics, and they may describe extreme acts, including mutilation, dissection, torture, rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.

Metalcore is a fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk, that originated in the late 1980s. Among other styles blending metal and hardcore, such as crust punk and grindcore, metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, which are slow, intense passages conducive to moshing. Other defining instrumentation includes heavy guitar riffs often utilizing percussive pedal tones and double bass drumming. Vocalists in the genre typically perform screaming, more popular bands often combine this with the use of standard singing, usually during the bridge or chorus of a song. However the death growl is also a popular technique within the genre.

Three of the four of Dysphoria's members also play in the technical death metal/deathcore band Hedonistic Exility.

Band members

Current

Former

Discography

Studio albums

YearDetails
2010

Satyriasis XXI

  • Released: July 22, 2010
  • Formats: digital download
2012

To the Perfect Form of Modern Species

  • Released: September 13, 2012
  • Formats: digital download
2014

The Apogee

  • Released: November 13, 2014
  • Formats: CD, digital download

Singles

YearDetails
2012

Hit the Snow Jack (Frank Sinatra/Ray Charles Cover)

  • Released: December 30, 2012
  • Formats: digital download

Music videos

YearTitleFrom the album
2012"War Precursor"To the Perfect Form of Modern Species
2013"Such a Beautiful Failure"To the Perfect Form of Modern Species
2015"Self-Diseased"The Apogee

Concert tours

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References

  1. "Dysphoria (UKR) - discography, line-up, biography, interviews, photos". www.spirit-of-metal.com. Retrieved 2016-02-05.