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Deathcore 2004
Death metal plus metalcore breakdowns: low riffs, two vocal registers and a slow moment where the room erupts.
- Heaviness
- 10
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 4
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 120-220 bpm
- Song length
- 3-5 min
- Written about
- Nihilism, Personal collapse, Religion, hostilely, Horror imagery
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Deathcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 8 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 2004 | 100% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 4 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 93% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 6. Deathcore ties with the next, and won on being the broader of the two. 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
Entombed, Left Hand Path 1990
Entombed - Left Hand Path. The first twenty seconds explain the entire Swedish sound.
- 2The one to put on first
Whitechapel, This Is Exile 2008
Whitechapel - This Is Exile. Three guitarists, all tuned as low as they will go.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Death metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Deathcore'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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Djent 93%
The name imitates the sound: seven- or eight-string guitars, heavily compressed palm mutes and polyrhythms. Meshuggah built the vocabulary; a generation of forum users named it.
4 steps from Deathcore, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Djent -
Cyber metal 92%
Mechanised death metal with cold digital production, dual vocals and science-fiction themes.
4 steps from Deathcore, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Cyber metal
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
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 6.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 6.
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.