Mathcore
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Mathcore
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| Development phase: | early 1990s |
| Place of origin: | United States |
| Stylistic precursors | |
| Jazzcore , Technical Death Metal , Metalcore , Post-Hardcore , Progressive Metal , Math-Rock | |
| Instruments typical of the genre | |
| Electric guitar · electric bass · drums | |
Mathcore (also Chaoscore ) is a music genre that developed from post-hardcore , jazzcore , extreme metal and influences from free jazz , industrial metal , progressive metal , metalcore and technical death metal in the USA in the early 1990s . The style is known for its high level of technical demands on the musician.
The subgenre was founded and essentially shaped by bands such as Botch , Kiss it Goodbye , Converge , Rorschach and Training For Utopia .
The music in Mathcore is usually characterized by dissonant , technical riffs, complex clock schemes and song structures that are perceived as hectic. The singing is usually guttural and not clearly understandable, some bands also use distortion for the singing. Typical Mathcore songs do not adhere to a common stanza-chorus structure and vary in length from a few seconds (very extreme with The Locust , which approached Grindcore in terms of tempo ) to well over 10 minutes. The genre has also been influenced by genres such as blues rock and free jazz.
In terms of content, the Mathcore bands cannot be brought to a common formula. While many popular bands like The Dillinger Escape Plan often deal with ironic elements, other bands like Protest the Hero also deal with mythological or like Norma Jean also Christian topics.