List of mathcore bands

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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.

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NameCountryFormedRef.
The Algorithm France2009
American Standards United States2011 [1]
Antigama Poland2000
Arcane Roots United Kingdom2006 [2]
Architect United States2004 [3]
Architects (early)United Kingdom2004
The Armed United States2009 [4]
Arsonists Get All the Girls United States2005
Beecher United Kingdom2001 [5]
Benea Reach Norway2003 [6] [7]
Between the Buried and Me United States2000
The Bled United States2001 [8]
Blood Has Been Shed United States1997 [9]
Botch United States1993 [10] [11]
Burnt by the Sun United States1999
The Callous Daoboys United States2016 [12]
Car Bomb United States2002 [13]
The Chariot United States2003 [14]
Classically Handsome Brutes United Kingdom2012 [15]
Coalesce United States1994 [16]
Code Orange United States2008
The Color of Violence United States2001
Converge United States1990 [17]
Dance Club Massacre United States2004
Daughters (early)United States2001 [18]
Deadguy United States1994 [19]
Design the Skyline United States2007
The Dillinger Escape Plan United States1997 [20] [21]
The End Canada1999 [22]
The Esoteric United States1996
Every Time I Die (early)United States1998 [23]
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo United States2004
Eyes Upon Separation United States1998 [24]
The Fall of Troy United States2002 [25]
Fellsilent United Kingdom2003
Frontierer Scotland & United States2011 [26]
Gaza United States2004 [27]
Genghis Tron United States2004
Heck United Kingdom2009 [28]
The Human Abstract United States2004 [29]
Into the Moat United States2001 [30]
Ion Dissonance Canada2001 [31]
Iwrestledabearonce United States2007 [32]
Jesuit United States1995
Keelhaul United States1997 [33]
Knocked Loose United States2013
Knut Switzerland1994 [34]
Lethargy United States1992 [35]
The Locust United States1994
Look What I Did United States2001 [36]
Lye by Mistake United States2004 [37]
Narrows United States2008 [38]
The National Acrobat United States1998 [39] [40]
Norma Jean United States1997 [41]
The Number Twelve Looks Like You United States2002 [42]
The Ongoing Concept United States2009
Paria (early)United States2001
Press to Meco United Kingdom2011
Protest the Hero Canada2001
Psychofagist Italy2002
Psyopus United States2002 [43]
Pupil Slicer United Kingdom2016 [12]
Pyrrhon United States2008
Rolo Tomassi United Kingdom2005 [44]
Rorschach United States1989 [45]
See You Next Tuesday United States2004 [46]
SeeYouSpaceCowboy United States2016 [47]
SikTh United Kingdom1999 [48]
Some Girls United States2002 [49]
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza United States2004 [50]
Vein.fm United States2013 [51]
War from a Harlots Mouth Germany2005 [52]

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Metalcore</span> Genre of music

Metalcore is a 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 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.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Converge (band)</span> American metalcore band

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Botch (band)</span> American mathcore band

Botch is an American mathcore band formed in 1993 in Tacoma, Washington. The band, featuring Brian Cook, Dave Knudson, Tim Latona and Dave Verellen, spent four years as a garage band and released several demos and EPs before signing to Hydra Head Records. Through the label, Botch released two studio albums: American Nervoso (1998) and We Are the Romans (1999). The group toured extensively and internationally in support of their albums with like-minded bands such as The Blood Brothers, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Ink & Dagger and Jesuit. Botch struggled to write a third studio album, and in 2002 the group broke up due to tensions among the band members and creative differences. Hydra Head posthumously released an EP of songs the group had been working on before they split titled An Anthology of Dead Ends and a live album documenting their final show titled 061502 in 2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Melodic hardcore</span> Music genre

Melodic hardcore is a broadly defined subgenre of hardcore punk with a strong emphasis on melody in its guitar work. It generally incorporates fast rhythms, melodic and often distorted guitar riffs, and vocal styles tending towards shouting and screaming. Nevertheless, the genre has been very diverse, with different bands showcasing very different styles. Many pioneering melodic hardcore bands, have proven influential across the spectrum of punk rock, as well as rock music more generally. The term melodic punk is often used to describe both melodic hardcore and skate punk bands.

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.

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