I cannot be clear enough on how awesome and important these videos are to the RU-vid Metal community. This is the first channel I’ve found that talks on this level consistently about Deathcore. Anyone can say whatever they want about the genre, but it brought a huge wave of metal and hardcore fans into the scene and gave it new life whether the older folks liked it or not. Being 30 years old now and watching break down the golden years of high school is amazing. 🖤
Such a beautiful comment ! That’s exactly why I’m doing all of this. Here I am, 31 years old , still wearing skinny jeans and recording heavy breakdowns , I owe it all to the amazing MySpace Deathcore Era , and all those amazing talented bands… they deserve the credit for what they accomplished and I want to tell their story in the best way possible 🤘🏻🔥
I completly agree. I'm 41 and remember when deathcore started getting bigger. It was huge for metal in general. It literally changed how i thought of what "heavy" could be and to this day it keeps pushing boundries.
Job For A Cowboy's Doom EP was definitely a milestone for Deathcore as a genre. They were pioneers of Modern Deathcore by the use of pig squealing and the insane breakdowns. Even though they became a Death Metal band, I respect them for the impact they had and understood why they went in a more Death Metal direction.
Growing up in Glendale, Arizona from 2005-2009 the metal scene was just unreal. JFAC had huge influence on many of the local bands here at the time, including mine. Great times.
So true, I was in high school in cave creek from 06-10. I remember so many local bands trying to capture lightning in a bottle like JFAC did with doom, it made for such an amazing experience, I wouldn't trade it for anything. I went to high school with a couple of guys from in the eyes of despair and last minute massacre,it was always fun to nerd out with them about deathcore.
Yeah man, those are prime damn years for this kind of music. People that came after 2009 Just literally have not a damn clue what it was like back then.
Entombment of a Machine was the first song I heard from Metal. I just started High School and this friend I just made, discovered metal at the same time, so we would always run up excited to show or introduce each other to the newest song. The best times.
As a guy who is a JFAC fan, I am glad to see people still didn't forget about them. And I am glad that someone FINALLY talked about the Entombment of a Machine MV, it's my most FAVOURITE MV of all time imo I also think that it's the best mv ever made. The whole 4:3 aspect ratio, the bad 140p quality and the fast paced editing gave that mundane-y video a massive adrenaline rush. Although I personally think that there alot of videos (whether music videos, yt videos or whatever) that tries to copy the editing style of that video but just fails miserably, I like to call those types of videos "Entombment of a Machine Camera" or "EOAMC" for short. BTW one more thing about when this video was originally posted on RU-vid, I actually was one of those few people who saw it when it was officially released on RU-vid, it was uploaded in 2008 (or somewhere around that era, can't remember the month and date) by a user named Rodrigo Ranval (not sure if he was involved with that video) but one day that video would completely be deleted. I have no idea why but that's what would happen.
This was actually my first experience with metal, like ever. I was 7, it was like 2014. My cousins loved bands like Suicide Silence, Carnifex, Emmure, and one day I come over there and I see the album downloaded on my cousins Ipod, and I ask him what it is. He then said "Oh, that's job for a cowboy. It's deathcore" I put on the first track that popped up, relinquished. I was never the same again.
Oh yeah man. Doom ruled my world and to this day Genesis is one of the best DM albums. Sadly overlooked by "real DM" fans even though it's a flawless listen that sounds amazing and came right before everything started to get edited. Huge gem.
A video of Fit For An Autopsy? imo the best deathcore band right now, is just perfect without the need of crazy vocals or just 0's, just well made songs using perfectly what they have
Ruination and down are still awesome works. Also Knee Deep will always have a special place in my heart, since it was the first deathcore song I ever heard and shout-out to the guy that did the SpongeBob music video for it back in the day 🖤 Edit: also, I'm going to a Knights Of The Abyss show tomorrow and you bet your ass I'm going to wear my Job For A Cowboy shirt 😎
i LOVED JFAC's myspace era but i'm gonna be honest, they belonged in death metal. Once i heard genesis i said okay, i get it now. And i started listening to death metal all over again😂 it's kinda funny cause death metal is getting a resurgence (mainly 90s NY) and it's full circle for the second time. anyways love JFAC every album is gold
All I was listening to at the time was Suicide Notes and Butterfly kisses along with The Curse, both by Atreyu. I have no memory on where I got Doom, Miasma by TBDM, Undoing Ruin by Darkest hour... my life changed at that point. Found Waking the Cadaver soon after, shiiiiit dude, I haven't thought about it as much though thanks for the trip back to high school.
I've never been a huge deathcore fan, i had a short Suicide Silence phase (RIP Mitch) and also been a bit into the early days of BMTH, but still, i love scene culture and through these type of videos i can learn about the scene years (I never lived those years cause i was born in 2004). Keep the hard work, bro
I feel what you are saying bro.. I been to hundreds of concerts in my 50 yrs and being a musician myself the band's aren't the problem it's the critics and pigeon holers that want to separate music and art. People need too keep a creative open mind to art and craft and put titles, labels, genre behind them it's holding down creativity with oppressionism
This is what I tell everyone. I remember being a middle school and experiencing that shift in metal i had never heard nothing like them before. Them despised icon animosity the red chord as blood runs black that was real deathcore to me. Early impending doom came along and that when i saw the second shift Once it became Whitechapel oceano and bands like that i couldn't get into it anymore. Shout out Whitechapel tho everything from the valley till now has been phenomenal
So cool you brought up Job For A Cowboy. I have a bit of what i feel is a cool story. I was a personal trainer at 24-hour Fitness on Camelback and 32nd I see this dude with gnarly gages and his friend that was very quiet. I said you guys into H.C. they simply said absolutely. Im going to leave one name out because this is true and i do not want ruin any of the postives of this band by what could be takin wrong by others who possibly might not have compassion or never experiencing true genuine addiction.. I handed them my I pod and asked you like any of these bands. Ironically i was listening to Job For A Cowboy. Jonny looks at his buddy and they said you know this band. I said yes. They said do you know us. I saud no. I truly didnt. It was Jonny and another band member. I felt pretty stupid honestly but anyways they asked if i could train them. I saud no doubt just come in when im off work and dont say im your trainer. Johnny really took it seriously and he put some size on. I was always felt proud to see the gains or goals he was making or any of my clients for that matter. I would always get free tickets and Johnny right before they went on stage would get his pump going before he went on stage. Sadly the other band member fell victim to addiction. Im not saying what kind of addiction, maybe it was video game addiction. J.F.A.C. or Johhny worked very hard to keeo that band going. It you notice every album has a different talented guitar player and even drummer, i think ? Well, they tried working with him, but he jacked most of their band equipment in storage and sold it. Hes not a bad dude its just addiction can take away postive descions because of impulse. He was obviously not with J.F.A.C. anymore. Anyways they are and always will be a great band. I lost contact with them but i sincerely wish them all nothing but kind words for them. Oh and Johnny hated squeals thats why he stopped them. I loved them. His band mate said dont bring up squeals to him i saud why ? That was what his band mate saud but not Johhny. I never brought up squeals and respected him by not asking Johhny
It's already become a routine for me to save your videos till nighttime and having a smoke and eating dinner while I watch 😁 cheers man I agree about the raw sound from back then I feel like if you were to take these deathcore EPs from back then and re-record them now, even if it would be objectively "better" it would lose a little bit of what made it special. I even have realized that with my own stuff
Great video! Thanks for bringing some more recognition to a band that truly deserves it. You covered a lot of my high school concert experiences as an Arizona native. I have nothing but respect for JFAC going their own way after the deathcore era. The albums since Entombment of a Machine have slayed, and they seemed to follow their own musical integrity. They are like the complete opposite of a sellout band.
it's so crazy that the Doom EP is almost TWENTY YEARS OLD. it's also crazy that i'll be 39 next month. AGHHH! great video dude. just subscribed to your channel. keep doing this stuff! i'll keep watching. 😎
From my hometown Phx, AZ. Kudos to Andrew (guitarist) who wrote Doom. Also, their first name was Shadows are Statues until Johnny joined. My best friend Caroline dated Johnny and I always got first hand shlt of what was going on.
taking a joint and a beer from mexico and enjoying this is my second video today on your channel it takes me to my teenage era thanks for this.. dude i saw this guys in mexico city with all shall perish it was fucking awesome... genesis is a god damn master piece have you heard about crimson falls or as blood runs black??
I'm from Argentina and I see a JFAC performance a long time ago. Still one of my favorites Live Shows ever. I play a cover of "Entonbment of a Machine" with my first Deathcore band in 2011, no one play that song before, except that night: 3 bands plays that cover in this show hahahahha😂 I love the video!❤
Discovered them in 2006 while in school chillen with my buddies... Ever since then, they have been my favorite band and I have progressed into a fan of Death Metal alongside their progression.
im here for this video awesome one here for it love what are u doing yan keep up the good work man nice job big fan of your youtube channel man nice work man.
Man, back in highschool I was friend with this older guy in the bus and he would make me discover bands once in a while. I remember him making me listen to Entombment of a machine, that day I became a hardcore kid
can confirm. born in '92 & was in lots of deathcore bands in my teens & you were considered a joke by elitists. i heard the word "gay" a lot even with my arms around a blonde bombshell scene queen lmao
@@xtheyan haha you get it man 🤜🏼🤛🏼 somebody had to be the vocalist for these group of lads with the well kept straightened backcombed hair….it was gay come to think of it 🧐😂🖤
6:30 I’m definitely guilty of being one of the death metal fans that hated deathcore but now I like it because I heard it so much as a teenager breakdowns are like permanently burned into my brain
I bought the doom EP YEARS ago found it at a goodwill in AZ and bought it just because of the cover and it still remains one of my favorites to this day.
can't wait to see what they bring out tomorrow for their new single and what the future holds, I do not like their albums after Doom anywhere near as much as Doom but we will see what they produce
Cant wait for Moon Healer to Drop. The song they just dropped from the Album is ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥 Theyre back and better than EVER
Genesis is an album i can listen to beginning to end. I think Jon Rice was the percussionist on that album. He also played for behemoth recently, after JFAC.
man ur like my new favourite channel bro u doing so much great vids that like it is not only like enjoyable to watch but like also it feels like u are also having good time talking about it man its great stuff
I really hope you continue to make videos for a long time. The MySpace era of deathcore and metalcore was by far one of the best and most innovative times for the genres. So many great bands popped up and I'm happy to see someone with the same love for those bands. Would love for you to do a video on As Blood Runs Black and the whole scene of bands that signed to Mediaskare like A Breath Before Surfacing or Blind Witness.
Gloom EP was the best stuff they did for me ! Hope We will see some videos about underground bands Ennui Breathes Malice, With Blood Comes Cleansing, The Crimson Armada etc. They need more recognition for sure.
Another great video. JOB is another band that has had a huge influence on me. Can't wait for these guys to drop new music. Thank you for this amazing video!!!!!
Pretty sure it was like 05 i turned 15 that January and I was a freshman that year and had got my dl so I was ridin around blastin this song and also remember the video
I remember being like 14 and people hating on deathcore so much I started trying to be like the older dudes and gained this shitty elitist mentality that I liked death metal so much more even though I didn't understand how anyone could like it better than deathcore. Glad it's being appreciated.
I was 15 when I discovered the Doom EP. I wasn't really into Deathcore at this time ( i liked the heaviness, but I missed cleverly written songs in the Genre. Which, to me, should come a few years later with bands like Carnifex around 2010). But man, I loved this EP. The songs had such a good flow, kinda reminding me of Morbid Angel in a strange way. It definetly was my gateway into the genre.
Death Metal is the next step from Deathcore. As you improve you move away from just chugging in drop tuning. Their last 2 albums and the 2 singles in the last month or so are so good.
Don't know if you don't take requests but could you do a video for the band Antagony they are credited being one the earliest pioneers of deathcore fromed in 1998 and released their first album in 2001?
@@xtheyan Yeah me neither just found out about them 3 weeks ago the band had quite similar history with JFAC how two of their guitarists/vocalists formed a death metal band called Oblivion
One of the big reasons for their HUGE sound change is lead guitarist Andrew Arcurio left the band just as they were starting to write a full length album. He was (in my opinion) the one responsible for that classic deathcore sound. The song "Entities" was written almost entirely by him (hands down my favorite JFAC song) then he left the band for personal reasons. Remaining guitarist Ravi Bhadriraju's playing had more of a straight death metal vibe, leaving Entities a stand alone track that wouldn't fit in with the overall sound of Genesis, and the track was shelved until later being added as a bonus track to the Metal Blade Re-release of the DOOM EP. What a bummer.
Hey these videos are great. I’m 31 and this was definitely my era of music. I still play the these songs on Guitar and I still have inch and a half plugs lol you should do a video on the acacia strain. They’ve been super influential on the scene and they’re still making music today. Definitely a grandfather band of the genre
As a fellow metalhead I love anything from JFAC to Judas Priest to Morbid angel to Dream Theater to Mayhem. There's greatness in every genre. Thanks for these nostalgic vids.
Jon Rice is one helluva drummer! I think they made their best music with him on the kit! I heard they are supposed to release a new album in 2023! I love their concept to their music, Armageddon, new world order, one world government, digital currency, a police state, mass surveillance, the antichrist. A new album is needed, because so much about the world has been exposed since their last album!
JFAC were my introduction to Deathcore, then Suicide Silence & Whitechapel. Never really saw myself as a Deathcore fan but god damn those bands mid-late 2000s were everything! I loved the direction JFAC took and it was a huge jump to make and made me enjoy Death Metal a hell of a lot more. I don't really dabble in much Deathcore anymore, mostly listen to Metalcore/Tech Death/Melodic Death Metal/Prog Metal (just as examples but listen to a lot of stuff lol) but I have been giving Infant Annihilator a listen just love how chaotic and melodic the music is but it also just makes sense, also laugh at the lyrics Dickie Allen comes up with. Really hope JFAC makes a return someday!
Can't believe I haven't watched this one yet! This is one of those bands that was really good, but I don't think metal was ready for them yet. Deathcore was a thing, but it was unrefined and unestablished. There were bands like Emodyment, who definitely had an impact, but they weren't popular. So no one understood where Job For a Cowboy was coming from. It felt like deathcore came out of nowhere to metalheads. Partially because this band took the initiative to be a pure deathcore band on their first EP Edit: the backlash these bands recieved cannot be understated. Deathcore was resisted by metalheads all over. It was "cool" to hate on deathcore by losers who didn't understand it
