Mathcore is a dissonant style of music characterized by rhythmic complexity and tempo changes (such as those found in free jazz and math rock) with the aggressiveness of hardcore punk and extreme metal. The genre is sometimes considered a subgenre of metalcore. Notable mathcore bands are listed here in alphabetical order.
Name | Country | Formed | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
The Algorithm | France | 2009 | |
American Standards | United States | 2011 | [1] |
Antigama | Poland | 2000 | |
Arcane Roots | United Kingdom | 2006 | [2] |
Architect | United States | 2004 | [3] |
Architects (early) | United Kingdom | 2004 | |
The Armed | United States | 2009 | [4] |
Arsonists Get All the Girls | United States | 2005 | |
Beecher | United Kingdom | 2001 | [5] |
Benea Reach | Norway | 2003 | [6] [7] |
Between the Buried and Me | United States | 2000 | |
The Bled | United States | 2001 | [8] |
Blood Has Been Shed | United States | 1997 | [9] |
Botch | United States | 1993 | [10] [11] |
Burnt by the Sun | United States | 1999 | |
The Callous Daoboys | United States | 2016 | [12] |
Cable | United States | 1994 | |
Car Bomb | United States | 2002 | [13] |
Cave In | United States | 1995 | |
The Chariot | United States | 2003 | [14] |
Classically Handsome Brutes | United Kingdom | 2012 | [15] |
Coalesce | United States | 1994 | [16] |
Code Orange | United States | 2008 | |
The Color of Violence | United States | 2001 | |
Converge | United States | 1990 | [17] |
Dance Club Massacre | United States | 2004 | |
Daughters (early) | United States | 2001 | [18] |
Deadguy | United States | 1994 | [19] |
Design the Skyline | United States | 2007 | |
The Dillinger Escape Plan | United States | 1997 | [20] [21] |
Drowningman | United States | 1995 | |
Employed to Serve | United Kingdom | 2011 | [22] |
The End | Canada | 1999 | [23] |
Eso-Charis | United States | 1995 | [24] |
The Esoteric | United States | 1996 | |
Every Time I Die (early) | United States | 1998 | [25] |
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo | United States | 2004 | |
Eyes Upon Separation | United States | 1998 | [26] |
The Fall of Troy | United States | 2002 | [27] |
Fellsilent | United Kingdom | 2003 | |
Frontierer | Scotland & United States | 2011 | [28] |
Gaza | United States | 2004 | [29] |
Genghis Tron | United States | 2004 | |
The Handshake Murders | United States | 2000 | [24] |
Heck | United Kingdom | 2009 | [30] |
The Human Abstract | United States | 2004 | [31] |
Into the Moat | United States | 2001 | [32] |
Ion Dissonance | Canada | 2001 | [33] |
Iwrestledabearonce | United States | 2007 | [34] |
Jesuit | United States | 1995 | |
Keelhaul | United States | 1997 | [35] |
Knocked Loose | United States | 2013 | |
Knut | Switzerland | 1994 | [36] |
Lethargy | United States | 1992 | [37] |
The Locust | United States | 1994 | |
Look What I Did | United States | 2001 | [38] |
Lye by Mistake | United States | 2004 | [39] |
Narrows | United States | 2008 | [40] |
The National Acrobat | United States | 1998 | [41] [42] |
Norma Jean | United States | 1997 | [43] |
The Number Twelve Looks Like You | United States | 2002 | [44] |
The Ongoing Concept | United States | 2009 | |
Paria (early) | United States | 2001 | |
Press to Meco | United Kingdom | 2011 | |
Protest the Hero | Canada | 2001 | |
Psychofagist | Italy | 2002 | |
Psyopus | United States | 2002 | [45] |
Pupil Slicer | United Kingdom | 2016 | [12] |
Pyrrhon | United States | 2008 | |
Rolo Tomassi | United Kingdom | 2005 | [46] |
Rorschach | United States | 1989 | [47] |
See You Next Tuesday | United States | 2004 | [48] |
SeeYouSpaceCowboy | United States | 2016 | [49] |
SikTh | United Kingdom | 1999 | [50] |
Some Girls | United States | 2002 | [51] |
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza | United States | 2004 | [52] |
Vein.fm | United States | 2013 | [53] |
War from a Harlots Mouth | Germany | 2005 | [54] |
Celtic metal is a subgenre of folk metal that developed in the 1990s in Ireland. The genre is a fusion of heavy metal and Celtic rock. The early pioneers of the genre were the Irish bands Cruachan, Primordial and Waylander. The genre has since expanded beyond Irish shores and is known to be performed today by bands from numerous other countries.
Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles. It also sometimes features soft instrumentation influenced by folk rock.
Calculating Infinity is the debut studio album by American metalcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan. Recorded at Trax East Recording Studio in South River, New Jersey, it was produced by engineer Steve Evetts with the band's guitarist Ben Weinman and drummer Chris Pennie, and released on September 28, 1999, by Relapse Records. Calculating Infinity is the band's only full-length album to feature original vocalist Dimitri Minakakis, who left the band in 2001.
Mathcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk and metalcore influenced by post-hardcore, extreme metal and math rock that developed during the 1990s. Bands in the genre emphasize 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.
Converge is an American metalcore band formed by vocalist and artist Jacob Bannon and guitarist and producer Kurt Ballou in Salem, Massachusetts in 1990. While recording their landmark fourth album Jane Doe in 2001, the group became a four-piece with the departure of guitarist Aaron Dalbec and the addition of bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller. This lineup has remained intact since. The members have also been involved in various side-projects and collaborations, including the bands Supermachiner (Bannon), Old Man Gloom (Newton), and Mutoid Man (Koller). With their extremely aggressive and boundary-pushing sound, rooted in hardcore and heavy metal, they are pioneers of metalcore and its subgenre mathcore.
The End were a Canadian mathcore/metalcore band based in Mississauga, Ontario. Their sound has been compared to that of The Dillinger Escape Plan and deathgrind group Discordance Axis, as well as Neurosis.
Buried Inside was a Canadian band from Ottawa, Ontario.
Mathcore supergroup (ex-Botch and Unbroken) sounds too angry to calculate infinity, hulks out instead.