Deathcore

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Deathcore

Development phase: The early 2000s years
Place of origin: United States
Stylistic precursors
Metalcore , Death Metal , Grindcore , Melodic Death Metal
Pioneers
All Shall Perish , Job for a Cowboy , Suicide Silence , Despised Icon , Carnifex , Bring Me the Horizon
Instruments typical of the genre
Electric guitar  - electric bass  - drums

Deathcore describes the mixture of the musical styles Metalcore and Death Metal .

Characteristic

Deathcore is a sub-genre of metalcore and is heavily influenced by the speed and dissonance of modern death metal. In general, the music in which the styles of metalcore and hardcore punk are mixed together with all varieties of death metal (e.g. technical death metal ) can be called deathcore; however, in order to be able to describe the music style as deathcore, the death metal influences must be clearly present. Deathcore is also seen as the extreme and more brutal variant of Metalcore. Another (colloquial) term is "Death Metal with Breakdowns", which turns out to be incorrect in terms of content. (see also important elements )

The actions in the lyrics do not always correspond to those from Death Metal. The texts mostly deal with violence and aggression, but they can also contain personal, social, socially critical or political topics. Many deathcore songs contain breakdowns and melodic guitar riffs .

Important elements

The deathcore consists of blastbeats of the drums and is characterized by an intensive and extremely fast use of the double bass . The electric guitars are mostly tuned lower, usually breakdowns are played, which in many cases can be seen as the climax of a song. The singing is characterized by deep growls and is often combined with the Metalcore-typical screaming and shouting (see guttural vocals ). In Deathcore there is a special singing technique called Pig Squeals , which comes from Grindcore . Clear singing ( After the Burial ) is rather untypical but also widespread . The lyrics are mostly about destruction and violence, political and social grievances ( All Shall Perish , Suicide Silence , Animosity , Vicious Circle), but also about personal problems ( Despised Icon , May The Force Be With You ).

history

Suffocation and Dying Fetus were the first bands to almost create a style of music that is known today as deathcore, by incorporating elements of hardcore punk (e.g. breakdowns) into their music (typical death metal).

The German grindcore band Blood released a demo tape titled Deathcore in 1986 , while another German band chose Deathcore as their band name in 1987 . However, the musical style of these two bands does not match today's deathcore.

Deathcore has been popular since the early 2000s with bands like All Shall Perish (the debut album Hate. Malice. Revenge was released in 2003) or Job for a Cowboy ( Doom EP was released in 2004). As metalcore increased in popularity, some elements of it were incorporated into death metal music.

However, there are also a few bands that have left Deathcore musically and devote themselves to rock and overflow into the mainstream; So also It Dies Today , who played Metalcore with significant Death Metal influences (Deathcore) on their first two EPs, but left out the Death Metal elements on their first two studio albums and also used clear vocals. For Job for a Cowboy, on the other hand, deathcore was musically just a transit station to get from metalcore to “pure” death metal. Bring Me the Horizon , which was musically assigned to Deathcore in the early years, developed their musical style, at the expense of the harshness of the music, with each released album with increasing commercial success. While the debut album Count Your Blessings could still be clearly assigned to Deathcore, the influences of Death Metal disappeared from the third album at the latest. In the meantime the band has even left metalcore with their two albums Sempiternal and That's the Spirit and has successfully turned to rock music suitable for the masses.

Clearly in the category of Deathcore, without influences from other genres, many bands can still be assigned today. A Night in Texas , Infant Annihilator, Despised Icon , Slaughter to Prevail , Aversions Crown and many others represent this genre, but mostly the fans, and not the band, interpret the respective musical style of the band. Most of the bands that are active in the deathcore genre, according to their own statements, do not care which music genre they are assigned to or how it is called.

criticism

Although the deathcore music genre also emerged from the underground scene , many outside the metalcore scene believe that the term “deathcore” was invented by the media alone. Furthermore, fans of this genre of music are often referred to as “ posers ” by fans of the other extreme varieties of Thrash Metal, Black Metal or Death Metal itself . In particular, with the supporters of Death Metal this behavior runs on the opinion of deathcore is only a vain imitation of death metal, would be back, and will also be mentioned that this attitude towards the deathcore by all supporters of the other extreme metal styles will be represented ; so the opinion that deathcore is the new death metal or its further development is widespread. Another reason for the rejection of deathcore and its position within the metal scene, which turns out to be difficult, is the association of the genre with certain bands such as Bring Me the Horizon and the reduction of the music to their appearance or the entire genre to a few bands; so the band members of Bring Me the Horizon belonged to the fashion phenomenon Emo at the time of the release of their debut album (2006) , which left a lasting impression on the followers of the other sub-styles and formed prejudices. Last but not least, the "mainstream" success and the associated incorporation of "mass-produced" influences from bands like Suicide Silence (see The Black Crown ) or the aforementioned Bring Me the Horizon, which published numerous remixes , are not welcomed by some critics . The criticism decreased significantly over the years and with the disappearance of the emo scene.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ metal.de: CD review: Suicide Silence (German) , accessed on August 31, 2009.
  2. ↑ arcor.de: Blood Discography ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 13, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.arcor.de
  3. ↑ metal.de: CD review: All Shall Perish (German) , accessed on October 13, 2008.
  4. ↑ heavymetal.about.com: Job for a Cowboy Album Review , accessed August 12, 2009.
  5. ↑ metalnews.de: Interview with Suicide Silence , accessed on October 25, 2008.
  6. ↑ metal.de: Interview with Matt Kuykendall from All Shall Perish , accessed on March 4, 2009.
  7. ↑ infiniteabyss.de: Interview with the singer from Despised Icon , accessed on March 4, 2009.

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