Comments on: Deathcore: Who belongs and who does not?

By: Caleb

Caleb — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:53:27 +0000

About Job For A Cowboy, The first time I heard their music i thought “God this is horrible” But the more i listened to it the better it got. Job For A Cowboy is the band that really got me listening to death metal. I loved their ep “Doom” because it was so different. They sounded like no other band on that ep but when their first and second albums came out they sounded like all the other death metal bands. Entombment of a machine and Knee deep are the two songs that got job for a cowboy big. If you pay attention you will realize that in this genre the way to make it big is to shock your fans. Entombment of a machine is definatly a shocker.”Vicer exciser” By WhiteChapel, Definatly a shocker, The famous words of Carnifex “WHAT THE FUCK” a shocker. Do you see where im getting with this?

By: Matthew Grant Anson

Matthew Grant Anson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:22:31 +0000

The Faceless fucking destroys.

By: big_metal_al

big_metal_al — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:59:50 +0000

Comment from $teve {TXBC}
Time: January 25, 2009, 1:38 am
just to clairy things The Acacia Strain IS NOT DEATHCORE!
…as stated by Vince (the vocalist) <——–yer wrong btw. Seen TAS many times, and Vincent even says, "Deathcore is the new metal". Quite the thread you got here Cody, rad! Though this post really reeaaaly confuses me. First off, how is BOO, TTEOTD, and Trap Them deathcore?? Second, though the majority of this borecore genre is garbage, I do commend them a little for exposing the kids to a heavier side of music, and then hopefully (and sometimes) the kids branch off to better metal. Third, your history is wrong. Metal came from classical music, the darker romantic age that is. And forth for the first commmenters, JFAG is garbage.

By: cody

cody — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:43:32 +0000

I don’t know Cole, I think I might want to see this world that SacreBleu is referring to, therefore, Trap Them is now deathcore!!!

By: coled24

coled24 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:42:07 +0000

You’re right SacreBleu. I don’t know why I put them in there. They aren’t deathcore, but they do suck just as much.

By: SacreBleu

SacreBleu — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:03:51 +0000

Wait, how the heck are Trap Them deathcore? By the criteria given, the most certainly are not, and I’ve never heard anyone before consider them so. Is that just a mistake, or is this the land where people where shoes on their hands and hamburgers eat people?

By: Eyal Davidi

Eyal Davidi — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:39:48 +0000

Emmure is defintly not deathcore. they have no element of death in their songs whatsoever. so does Acacia Strain..
Emmure can easylie be catagorized as metalcore for their clean vocal singing and melody based riffs.
Acacia Strain can be close to deathcore but it simply sounds hardcore for me.
btw, early JFAC (the Doom EP) IS deathcore. and very well played deathcore.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:58:17 +0000

amen to cody

By: matt

matt — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:46:57 +0000

I agree with you on what makes a band Deathcore, but the problem is that most listeners (in my experience) lack the objective view to those elements you mentioned above. So many people hear one or two of those in conglomeration and its automatically thrown into this big heap of bands that could easily be divided into a multitude of subgenres, much like the rest of metal. Take As Blood Runs Black, Waking The Cadaver, Winds of Plague, and Whisteria Cottage for example. They all use many of the elements you said that classify a band as deathcore, but the end result of each band is dramatically different. To call these four bands simply deathcore would be the same as grouping Unearth, Benighted, Morbid Angel, and Dark Tranquility in the same genre. That shit would never fly.

By: cody

cody — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:58:58 +0000

Matt – There isn’t any one particular label that castes a band into “deathcore” in my opinion, it is the combination of breakdowns, stereotypical guitar tone, same vocal patterns, dramatic bass booms mixed with the breakdowns to make them sound more effective, etc etc etc. Still though, deathcore isn’t deathcore without the metalcore breakdown which really foes stick out like a sore thumb. I am a big fan of Heaven Shall Burn and I can’t think of many songs they have done, if any, that use such shifts in tempo. Death metal and metalcore breakdowns is usually the best litmus test, not regular thrash and hardcore breakdowns amongst others, but late 90’s, early 00’s metalcore breakdowns.