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. |
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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] |
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.
Metalcore is a broadly defined fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk, that originated in the late 1980s. Metalcore is noted for its use of breakdowns, which are slow, intense passages conducive to moshing, while other defining instrumentation includes heavy and percussive pedal point guitar riffs 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.
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.
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.