Your way in
Mathcore 1993
Metalcore with its wiring torn out: meter changes every few seconds, dissonance and chaos controlled to the millimetre.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 3
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 140-260 bpm
- Song length
- 1.5-4 min
- Written about
- Panic, Alienation, Language breaking down, Violence, abstractly
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Mathcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| A growl or a shriek When someone is singing, what should come out? | harsh | 100% | ×3 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Panic, Alienation, Language breaking down, Violence, abstractly | 50% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 87% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, about 1, melody 1 out of 7. Mathcore leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come 1998
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come. The title was an arrogant joke that came true.
- 2The one to put on first
Converge, Jane Doe 2001
Converge - Jane Doe. Technically mathcore, emotionally something else entirely.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
Car Bomb, Meta 2016
The first is the entry point for Post-hardcore, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Mathcore's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Death metal 86%
Guttural vocals, low tunings, blast beats and tremolo picking. Thrash pushed past the limit of legibility, with two founding schools: Florida and Stockholm.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Mathcore.
The way into Death metal -
Industrial rock 66%
Guitars over programmed drums, sampling and factory noise. The bridge to industrial metal.
5 steps from Mathcore, meeting it only at Punk rock.
The way into Industrial rock
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- A growl or a shriek put 78 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 7.
- As fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 7.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 7.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 7.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.