What is Mathcore? 

Songs Used: 43% Burnt by Dillinger Escape Plan. Can You Feel My Heart by Bring Me the Horizon. Empty Promises by Hatebreed. Concubine by Jane Doe. Transitions from Persona to Object. Spitting Venom by Hatebreed. Setting Fire to Sleeping Giants by Dillinger Escape Plan. Scum by Napalm Death. Good Neighbor by Dillinger Escape Plan. Numbers by Psychostick (Bodies Parody). Facepalm Mute by Periphery. Machine by Born of Osiris. Pennyweight by After the Burial. Stengah by Meshuggah. For We Are Many by All That Remains. Farewell, Mona Lisa, Milk Lizard, and One of Us is the Killer by Dillinger Escape Plan. You Can't Kill Us All by Coalesce. Divided by Candiria. Ball Tongue by KoRn. Doomtech by Vein. Anthem of the Angry Brides by Norma Jean. Buffalo Gals by Every Time I Die. Tastes like Kevin Bacon by Iwrestledabearonce. To Playact in Static by Arsonists Get All the Girls. Ants of the Sky by Between the Buried and Me. Grocery Escape Plan by Psychostick.

Old school metalcore slaps

Funnily enough i read that the band MUDVAYNE once jokingly called themselves "Math Metal", but a lot of fans took that at face value and say that's their genre ever since.

Dillinger always reminded me of a manic Schizophrenic breakdown. Just absolute madness and chaos. Calculating infinity is still an insane album.

I love mathcore so much such an underrated genre

gaza is another great mathcore-esque band, they are a kinda sludgecore/mathcore hybrid

Grindcore is just mathcore if you can’t read music Like me

Band recommendation: Car Bomb

3:17 “How is mathcore different from other genres?” Other genres on a skipping CD sounds awful, but Mathcore on a skipping CD sounds like an actual song

I think Car Bomb is currently the leading Mathcore band. Can anyone name others? I'm looking for more. Also, awesome video as always.

I played in a mathcore band around 2010-2015 and I love hearing about the history of the genre and seeing it get any acknowledgement nowadays. Great video bud.

I want to start a mathcore band just so I can call one of our songs "duck tape"

There are also mathcore bands blending in screamo like The Number 12 Looks Like You

for metallic hardcore fans trying to get into mathcore, I highly reccomend " Fixation On A Coworker" by Deadguy...sort of the missing link between both styles

Your channel has very quickly become one of my favorite channels full stop. Good shit!

Thank you for the upload man, your metal videos are like crack to me. I could just put them all in a playlist and listen to them for hours.

Love the discussion of the themes, one of the best parts of the videos!

Ah cool mathcore. I both love and hate this genre since its not the easiest thing to listen to and I have to be in the right mood to enjoy it. If you want something truly bonkers I'd reccomend Psyopus, the music is so over the top

Also I'd like to point out that the earlier iwrestledabearonce is that "Lol-so-randomz-core" you're talking about, but their latest album is pure Mathcore

i am an old boring man past mid forty but here's three albums i encourage everyone to listen to if even slightly interested in stuff like this.

Arsonist Get All The Girls is pretty good, their album Motherland was a bit more serious compared to their other work but the 42nd Ego was fucking awesome lol. The Dillinger Escape Plan was a band that took a bit for me to get into. Their newer albums helped me a lot into getting into them like you mentioned.

Because people followed the idea that Mudvayne was math metal, I tried to find bands with that same label and found stuff like this that was completely different from Mudvayne. I’m still trying to find music like them, because I really loved LD.50

🗣COLORS MENTIONED Also great video, Car Bomb definitely should have had a place on here, I would say they are pretty much distilled down to pure mathcore. Their hit album " w^w^^w^w " is extremely brutal and eclectic but has some room to breathe which is a nice change for the genre.

Petition to name the Iwabo thing ADHD-Core

I've been a Metalhead for 15 years. I love all styles of Metal. Dillinger Escape Plan was one of the first bands that got me into Metal. They were awesome. I follow Greg Puciato's music whatever that may be.

Listening to one of these tracks requires 24 hours of sleep for my brain to recover

Thanks for this! I was looking forward to hearing your thoughts on this style of music, but I wasn't sure when/if it would happen because there seems to be a near-infinite supply of subgenres these days. Good stuff as always!

Love the vids I want longer 👍👍

Man we need a funk metal video soon

Candiria 🤘🏾🤘🏾

Band recommendations: psyopus, the Hirsch Effekt, pupil slicer

Deadguy would have been a great example of early mathcore too.

cant believe you didnt mention gaza and end

How come you didn’t mention our favorite christian blackened mathcore, Drottnar?

Bookmarking. Ive heard of Math Rock...by route of J Rock. Im obsessed with one specific subgenre of jazz.

car bomb - meta is the best mathcore album of all time

next: Post-Hair Metal

Very good summary of the genre. Thumbs up!

When I first saw the genre's name, I thought "hold on, what on earth is this?", then once a song played I was caught completely off guard as I didn't expect something hardcore from it.

Love your videos Occulturation. You're kind of my zen master in this journey though metal "illumination". Really apreciate the great effort. I really would love to see more analysis in metalcore genres. I feel is the side of metal thats more confused and misinterpreted. Would love to heard about the progression of metal before elements aside beginning to influence it (like djent or post-hardcore). Also, i have this little theory that metalcore is, more than combination between thrash metal and hardcore punk, a really diverse fusion between extreme metal (thrash and death mainly) and punk elements (specially hardcore and post hardcore, but maybe even crust punk). For this theories i based in the work of Breakdown Of Sanity, Bleed From Within, Unearth and even Varials (which i considere sometimes make a glitchy version of metalcore really inspired in Sworn In). But those are only my views. Really thanks for the great work.

What genre would u say Sikth is? Great series btw 👍

DeadguyCore

6:48 and a bit of Neurosis influence too

Kim Dracula also mixes all kinds of genres in one song. But that doesn't do anything to me. It just seems like the guy tries to put as much as possible into one piece of music. But there is no underlying theme or emotional effect which the song is trying to achieve. That was also what I disliked about I wrestled the bear once. And that is where Dillinger stands out - it is chaotic bit the pieces fit together perfectly and make sence in that particular song.

Maybe coulda mentioned mathcore's hippy cousin: Mathrock ... but solid video Some other relevant bands for people (I haven't seen mentioned yet): Psyopus, Behold the Arctopus, Journal, Blotted Science, Hunab Ku, Last Chance to Reason, Frontierer, I Speak In Calculus, George Orwell the Musical, Dionaea

Mathcore is the musical equivalent of JG Ballard's writing.

Hey man... What about The Number 12 Looks Like You? I always thought of them of as mathcore...

btw, early BTBAM was math rock/mathcore (Shame they dropped the sound in favor of pure prog-core)

"scene kid millennials, who think Charlie the Unicorn is the funniest thing ever" Never felt so personally attacked 😂

The samples of your big 3 mathcore bands sound pretty conventional to, i didn't hear the "chaotic". Snare is clearly marking the tempos like any other genre.

Um, actually I prefer the term calculuscore thank you very much. It seems more…mathematically accurate 🤓

Smaller band but check out Lye by Mistake

Never got into mathcore. And I think I'll never will

DISCORDANCE AXIS!!!!!!! 😭

Power Metal episode when?

0:25 Great track from a great album

New sub

Is there anything "math" about Every Time I Die, though? I guess it has some of that aesthetic and production but without any of the genre defining wankery

I'm gonna start a band that combines mathcore, djentcore and technical deathcore just to make things more confusing for everyone.

MATHCORE? Meaning additional metal? I beg to differ!!!

Would you consider circle takes the square as mathcore?

Talk about early post hardcore, like from late 80s to early 2000s. Not the emo pop bands that came later.

Shout out to early Rolo Tomassi mathcore hybrid albums. French Motel is 🤌.

Thanks 🥰

Could you make one of these about nu-core? Including the band tallah possibly

Mathcore aka the best metalcore

CarBomd es Mathcore/Djent una escuchada a esa banda sin duda.

aw man i was hoping mathcore would be ppl solving complex equations but screaming over metal instrumentals

listen to Within Dividia by The End

That song from candiria kinda songs nu metalish.

I thought this was metalcore with math.

Not sure it's metal, but could investigate clowncore? Seriously.

I like how you just throw in a random album and don't bother whether the song you play is from that album or not

Btbam is not.. that? You may need to listen to something from them like Alaska or the parralax 2

What is?… a good subgenre

what song is at 1:47 ?

Noisecore

Methcore........ Laugh now

ffs, how can you judge BTBAM for 1% of their discography....

Comedycore😅

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Im usually very even-tempered and willing to say "its not for me, but its for someone else", because I hate gatekeepers, which metal has way too many of. but man do i fucking hate dillinger escape plan. it is insulting to my ears. I listen to literally hundreds of bands from all different sub genres of metal, and I fuck with periphery, born of osiris, and a handful of others from this subgenre, but i just fucking hate DEP. Sorry if this offends anyone 😎

Old school metalcore are incredible bad