way back before “djent” was considered a real style of metal and bands strived to find the most complex polymetric rhythms known to man, generic deathcore was actually a fresh and popular style of music to play amongst young ppl. despite the genre’s imminent downfall, sum bands managed to bank off playing the style early enough that they are able to stay relevant in the scene today (whitechapel, suiside silence, chelsea grin etc). but most of what remains from the genre’s past existence, is a lifetime’s worth of forgotten bands who have been left to drown in a sea of br00tal obscurity.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZeLeT_Kv5g&w=420&h=315]
i ate everybody were comprised of a bunch of mexibros from cali. they were basically the quintessential generic deathcore band…
- lulzy band name
- barely legible logo
- incomprehensible lyrics via guttural and high shrieked vocals
- br00tal breakdowns
- tv/movie quotes placed randomly in song
- violent/horror imagery (even tho a cartoon pig is not dat scary)
they changed their name and became more tech (not djent thankfully, jus techy deathcore which they called “technical death metal” lolz) and then jus disappeared. couldnt find much of them online, jus the 4 crappily recorded demo songs they had and some lulzy live footage of them playing with one guitarist and the vocalist is wearing booty shorts (the other guitarist and bassist prob quit the night before the show when they found out dude was planning on wearing those shortz on stage).
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4SkeiseYc&w=420&h=315]
the uk SEEMED like it was packed with lots of siq bands, but it didnt take much time to pass for me to realize that these bands were among some of the worst in the generic deathcore genre (including dat terrible overhyped band “annotations of an autopsy”) and that australia had by far the superior and siqer scene (ill get to some of those bands in a bit).
postmortem promises were one of the decent british bandz. it seemed like they were gonna be huge in the deathcore arena but they always jus kinda barely scraped by with the same mid-level moderate-popularity for the course of their career. by the time they broke up im not sheriff many people cared or noticed sadly. but they did have some bangerz, like the song above. omg @ those pig squeals though. job for a cowboy was responsible for popularizing that horrible vocal style, but luckily there was barely any bands who used them after like 2006 (i think people quickly caught on to how retarded dey sound).
i remember a sad moment where i decided to look up the words to their songs so i culd finally know wtf the vocalist was screaming, and then i realized that all their lyrics are either retarded or dont make sense :(
ok i have to admit, this one is pretty funny caus its about killing indie girls lolololol.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzGI0FSEoqo&w=560&h=315]
till death do us part were one of the siq australian bands. tho im not sure if i can even call them that becuz this is their only good song. they started off sounding like a wannabe count your blessings-era bring me the horizon band (deathcore lite™) but then they upped the br00tality with this surprisingly epic song. they mustve taken note from thy art is murder (i can hear da influence), a super sweet band who hail from the same area as them. theyve turned more “tr00″ death metal over the years, but at the time were one of the sweetest generic deathcore bands ever.
it shouldnt come as that much of a surprise, because alot of deathcore bands adopted trendy scene fashion, but i remember being a bit flustered when i found out they look like this…
its like… how can u sing about murdering and dismembering slutz while looking like a bunch of gay hairdressers? i guess they could use the scissors that they cut hair with as a murder weapon…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxq3naMRMtg&w=420&h=315]
among the devoured were another p. sweet australian band. i remember damn near shitting my pants the first time i heard them, because their recording quality is actually really really good, unlike most d-list deathcore bands (im lookin’ at u, i ate everybody). their name kinda confuses me tho… how can u be “among” something if that thing is already devoured? is it like, you’re among the area in which it was devoured in? or like, you’re among the remnants of the devoured? these kinds of things kinda have to be overlooked when it cums to these kindsa bands…
this was in the era where bands could rack up over 100k plays on myspace but could barely get like 5 people to show up to their show. dat song theyr playing live (the harvest) was another p. sweet song they had but the lyrics are borderline-soft. theres a line where hes like “you acted wrong, you had your chances, now its time to die” and i remember thinking \m/ this is siqqq then the next line is like “die like your fucking promises you bitch”… totally cool br00tal horror movie-esque lyrics turned into an ex-girlfriend sob story :( proof that small hints of emo faggotry resonated within the deathcore genre.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44Vi1Mw4fE&w=420&h=315]
last band i’ll talk about is dissever the tyrant. they were p sweet. cant really think of anything witty to say about them. they were from bumfuck, united states. like somewhere in indiana or something like that. big chocolate did vox on a couple of their songs. the guy who did vox on this song is sum muscular ginger guy i think.
apparently this band has actually reunited… i have them liked on facebook and ive been seeing new status updates from them.. i think theyr writing new material. could this possibly foreshadow an oncoming deathcore revivial? lol nah obviously not… but atleast we still have all the tunes and abandoned myspace pages to remember the music by… actually, to pay tribute to generic deathcore, lets all find some of these bands old myspaces and give them some new plays (its probably been months since theyv gotten any plays on myspace). who knows… maybe it culd come back…
what are ur fav forgotten generic deathcore bands? wat do u think of bands that play like this today (if there r any)? do u see the style making a comeback in 2022?
Anybody remember belay my last and with dead hands rising? Total high school throwback deathcore that I used to listen to on MySpace back in 08. Man I miss those days
Among the Devoured are I Ate Everybody’s plumbers. Ba-dum-TSH!
holy shit. youre a genius.. A+
This reminds me of the old “10 MOST BROOTAL BREAKDOWNS….. EVER!!!!!” Videos from like 2008, where kids would just throw together comps of the most obscure deathcore bands out there. Found a lot of bands that way! I kinda miss those days. Good article; feels weird now that deathcore is a thing of the past :(
fun fact: uppercut613 actually made a lot of the most popular of the ‘top 10 most X’ youtube videos- check for yourself!
yea! the first one i made (of an 8-part series) has like 600-something thousand views now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFIWgSRyBA
Wow these videos were the shit when I was like 14, got me into so many obscure deathcore bands haha
fucking sweet! Haha that’s crazy man. I’m glad you went down as a vital member of a seminal moment of youtube history
Just wanted to say I’m thoroughly impressed with your Knowledge of The Scene, what this site is all about. Had no idea that was you with those top ten breakdowns either, those are the shit.
This is so rad: between D, Twostacks, Shiv, and all the other band dudes on SYWH, I can say that I am “friends with celebrities” and not be completely lying. Great work Brometheus.
Wouldn’t call deathcore a thing of the past, just that specific style of generic deathcore.
“we’re progressive deathcore”
cmon… i love nu-metal but we all know its a thing of the past when you describe that music in past tense after the 4 year mark =/
def a thing of the past, doe. Sorry.
The br00tal scene truly disappeared just as quick as it took off.
The post really reminds of the good old myspace days, back when these band douches would embed their player into bulletins hoping to get an extra few plays to rank up on the sites “top artists” section
Band worthy of a mention, the doriangray from Europe were pretty siq…
I also shamefully did the I ate everybody logo. ;(
No shame there.
I miss those days when I had just found out about deathcore and used to listen to a lot of BMTH, Suicide Silence and Job For A Cowboy.
Those are in the past for you?
Among The Devoured were sick, a couple of those dudes are in The Mung now I believe (epic sloppy/groovy as slam).
I still blast Job for a Cowboy – Doom all the time… I miss deathcore haha
i give job for a fagboy some props for that piece of work…. they invented dat gay screeching vocals thing n i give em 2 thumbs up for inventing a goddamn genre of skinny jean wearin fggtz but overall i just liked the originality of thier music back in 04 when lamb of gawd n the rest of the metalcore faggotry was blowing up =P
brb gonna dl sum mp3s on my yahoo sbcglobal dsl connection
kazaa/limewire pron 4 lyfe!!!!!!!!
Miss there being hundreds of interchangeable bands like this :(
I still rock out to as blood runs black and abacabb lol. Sad that the new breed of 16 year olds dont know about them. Makes me feel old haha
yes same here cept i miss making fun of the band names back in HS in my tro0o0o IMN elitist phase…
as blood runs back = as cum/cock runs down your back
between the buried and me = between the berries and me
etc etc…
man i miss HS doe…. scene sluts would give da bomb head doe =D
This post needed to happen and I’m glad it did. I agree that it is bitter-sweet to think that this age of deathcore has met it’s fate, but I’m glad it’s getting some love. I was huge into deathcore back when all the swoop hair kids were writing songs about stabbing their exes and hearing someone shout “SLUT WHAT THE FUCK!?” was not uncommon. Then 2010 hit and troo hardcore took over. I love hardcore, but deathcore was the trend for my generation.
For the record, I still rock my Despised Icon mesh shorts and if the Argentinian girl I hooked up with hadn’t stolen my All Shall Perish white fitted, I’d be wearing that too.
RIP deathcore. Bree Bree.
srs repping Healing Process and Ills 4 lyef
if you consider deathcore the trend for your generation, how old are u? i loved deathcore when it was trendy, but i always felt like i was a bit older than the generation of kids who were into it (im almost 24 now). im glad all you guys liked the post! my goal was definitely just to make people feel nostalgic and remember all the sweeet bands. fuck the haters, deathcore for life!
Ha, I’m only 22 but I got into deathcore/metalcore when I was about 16. By the time deathcore “blew up” (08-09), I was borderline oldfag compared to the 15 year old DISFIGURE YOUR SLUT (etc.) frontboys of the local scene.
DISFIGURE YOUR SLUT
amaze
I was really into deathcore when I was 16-17 so around 2006 2007 I remember bmth count you’re blessings and suside silence the cleansing coming out around that time and rocking them in rotation for a while. I was a total swoop hair fag though
wtf ever happened to We are the End?
dude i was srsly considering putting them in this post. they were SWEET. dat song 1000 bodies to bury = mmm. i actually think they got signed to metalblade at one point but it fell through and they never released anything? haha deathcore bands would get signed left right and center back then.
I remember them getting signed to metal blade and then getting all siked on an upcoming full length, then 2 days later having nothing but their chubby mexican guitarist as the only member. Now that I think of it there was a mass amount of amusing beef on their myspace between members for a couple months. Regardless this post was awesome, def missing those myspace sound clip/movie quote ridden deathcore days :(
suicide silence = pioneers of tv soundclip ridden deathcore (family guy quotes!)
haha i definitely remember the beef on we are the end’s myspace. i remember them having some really angry blog entry that was funny.
aha i was all about suicide silence just for that reason alone, carnifex also had some hilarious soundclip from the 40 year old virgin in one of their demos. Kill Whitney Dead just butchered the fuck out of that trend(or pioneered?) though. fucking california had a never ending flow of sweet deathcore bands coming out of it back then.
Internet band beef is never not funny.
yeah like i was PRETTY deep into this shit back in the day, but even i couldnt keep up with the flood of deathcore bands that came out of cali. there were literally infinite. this article is getting surprisingly good feedback (i didnt know so many ppl missed deathcore!)
i might consider making a part 2 of this in the future
Actually they changed their name to Inspired By You and released a demo or something last year, mostly just rerecorded WATE stuff.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Inspired-BY-You/147852348595849
This reminds me of all those lulzy “cybergrind” or whatever the fuck it was called bands like wecamewithbrokenteeth, Preschool Tea Party Massacre, I Shot The Duck Hunt Dog, Dance Club Massacre, 100deadrabbits! etc.
atleast these bands played shows. lol
I actually loved the pedo/cybergrind more for da shock/lulz factor n shit than da defkore….
I shit rainbows/robots was perdy good IMO….
http://soundcloud.com/100deadrabbits/sea-of-dreams
DA BEST SONG EVER
Annotation and his Autopsies are a sweet band.
applaud the impaler, apparently still together and working on a full length but dat demo goes hard as fukk
jabba the slutt!
Amazing post, I love shitty deathcore so much. Glad to see this as a kind of continuation of that post on Jerome from forever ago. I’d rec Catalepsy as another awesome, generic d-core band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyDNTlKBAxU
Also, there’s this strange, strange band called MEMORIUM, which is probably the very first d-core 2.0 bands I can think of… i.e. one of the first to start focusing on brootaly brutal death metal rather than the melodic gothenburg-lite type that was all they had to work with in the early 2000s. Still a bit of transitioning between the two, and it’s much more metal than hardcore [I don't even remember a single breakdown on their demo :( ] but it’s a very weird and interesting release for the deathcore elite to hear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGIrHA3o24c
Also, Count Your Blessings is my favorite Atthegatescore album and possibly even my favorite d-core album ever. No fux given, BMTH rules in general, first two albums = total jizzery.
catelepsy is sweet! iniquity is an awesome “generic deathcore” album. i think theyre still around actually, last i remember they started a kickstarter to raise money for a new van and didnt reach their goal haha.
i dont mean to come off too harsh or know-it-all but i must express how little i think this “memorium” band has to do with deathcore. i dont know what you’d classify them as (sounds like some form of tr00 metal?), i just dont see how anything about them is deathcore. if we’re talking about the first bands to play this style of generic deathcore (i actually wouldnt call it deathcore 2.0 because all of that other at the gates-core stuff before it i would just call metalcore) then the first bands to play it were definitely job for a cowboy and suicide silence. both those bands released their first EPs in 2005. cant think of many other bands who were playing that style in ’05 besides them…
I can see why you’d think that; like I said, they indeed were more metal than core… but I think the similarities are there. They sound to me like all those fast riffs used by JFAC and SS, just without the breakdowns in between. Which I suppose just might make then standard ol death metal then, but there’s something just “off” enough about them to make it wrong enough to be deathcore to me. It’s the little things like that, the weird gheigh effects on the vocals in that song, the Metal Archives lists them as deathcore… idk. I heard them described as “Deicide meets Hatebreed” once and thought that was appropriate.
yeah idk. i feel like when people describe deathcore as “death metal” meets “hardcore”, they mean death metal meets the acacia strain. kinda different. and by death metal, i think it specifically stems from the type of shit that cryptopsy used to play in the 90′s. it’s funny cause all these deathcore bands seem so simple and generic now, but in the 90′s this cryptopsy album was actually considered “technical death metal”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkNbTS7uhLE
you can notice the similarity to deathcore in the riffs in that song ^ but obviously standards for what’s considered technical in metal have changed over the past decade or so.
I remember when i first heard count ur blessings by bmth.
It was the most br000tl album ever.
They used to wear cannibal corpse and necrophagist shirts
OH YEA. i remember wearing necrophagist shirts was a huge trend amongst all these -core bands. mayb they admired them for their technical skills caus they knew they couldnt cum up with or play anything of that nature?
Miss u deathcore.
Tr00 hxc kinda sucks in comparison, it’s not the same.
At least there are still some sick bands out there Aegaeon who didn’t get the memo that deathcore is done.
hah i was in some skate store this last winter and one of the kids working there had a whitechapel shirt and chelsea grin hoodie so i started talking to him about music and he recommended me that Aegaeon band. he was also telling me about his deathcore band and i was thinking like “shit this kid is totally me 5 years ago”
I remember around this time being super stoked on aborted and through the eyes of the dead and such. When i heard waking the cadaver and impending dooms first EP’s (though not technically generic deathcore), i was stuck there for a while haha
lol at all the people here talking about how “I miss being 15 and listening 2 generic deathcore bands on myspace. :(“
liek this if ur a child of the noughties
u say Periphery i say Suiside Silense! 92% of teens have switched to djent. if ur part of the 8% that still listens 2 real music copy and paste this message to 5 different videos. dont let deathcore die!!!!
hard lolz…
fuck dat shit i love the present…
I love picking and choosing wut album to pirate and take up space on my HD… mediafiring/blogging siting everything is way easier than dling individual mp3s back in da day on my netzero/msn cd =’-[
I miss We Speak Texan
What was it with deathcore bands and wearing zany things on-stage?
I’m not trying to be all srs, but I felt like every local band watched too many Black Dahlia Murder videos and decided to wear banana suits and wacky-patterned pants on stage too
Looked cool for Myspace promos, not so much irl
Don’t forget dat deathcore staple – wearing Adidas cycling shorts onstage (preferably red ones), then changing back into your skinny jeans straight after you’ve finished playing.
on a note about postmortem promises, i can completely agree with their mid-level success (5 years between EP and album can kill off fans quickly) and even their last ever show was overshadowed by djent bands down the road (BOO, VoM etc)
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yeah it seems like there were lots of bands like this who seemed like they were gonna blow up and achieve the same success as say, whitechapel, but then they went in the opposite direction and just sort of faded into obscurity/irrelevance (knights of the abyss are like the perfect example of this)
Nochaa,Ennui Breathes Malice(p.sweet aussy band),A Different Breed Of Killer,The Partisan Turbine,Misericordiam(Big C. did vocals on some of their songs),The Red Shore,Darkness Dynamite,Postmortem Promises,The Irish Front,Innocents Massacre(awesome band from Chille,RIP),Belie My Burial,Far From Horizon,Labyrinthe,ABACABB,Burning The Masses,Spider Killed Bananaman,Chainsaw Disaster,Dukes Of The Kumatai,From The Shallows,Knights Of The Abyss,Animosity,Autoscan,My Autumn,Preschool Tea Party Massacre,We Came With Broken Teeth,Ingested etc.
RIP GENERIC DEATHCORE,YOU’RE THE REASON I LOVE BREAKDOWNS SO MUCH ;(
postmortem promises broke up like 2 years ago and they released an album that goes so fucking hard, only uk bros appreesh them tho. yhe drummer from asking alexandria turned up for there last show lolll the benchmark of success .
Misercordiam’s “The Thin Line Between Man And Machine” goes so fucking hard its groce.
the drummer from knights of the abyss is currently in whitechapel lol
Oh shit this comment section has taken me back. Myspace deathcore was totally my thing when it was big…half a decade ago? (Fuck! How did that happen?) I remember back when this scene was small enough that all the bands in it all used to play on single bills with one another… Still got my substantially sized deathcore folder on my iTunes, haven’t listened to anything from it in ages, I’m liveblogging this shit:
> Oh man I don’t think there’s one band mentioned on this entire page I don’t have a release for…
> Holy shit, I forgot Moria! They were another Cali band (see: almost every initially-big deathcore band) and “No Light Ahead” goes hard as fuck despite quoting Converge…
> Underneath The Gun’s first album was pretty cool – didn’t they become a super-generic metalcore band immediately after?
> There was also the coinciding wave of vaguely techy, yet totally lacking-in-songwriting-chops mathcore/deathcore bands in the exact same scene at the same time, and everyone who didn’t lump them in with deathcore insisted on calling them “grindcore” lol. Pretty sure iwrestledabearonce is the only one who survived from that wave, but I’m currently eyeing up a bunch of War From A Harlot’s Mouth/Arsonists Get All The Girls/See You Next Tuesday/The Irish Front releases I’m not too proud to own :/
> On the topic of shitty UK deathcore bands that were almost kinda sorta a little big but then weren’t, I’m seeing releases from The Argent Dawn.
> I am officially sad I deleted my old myspace, I’d totally go hunting for a bunch of the bands I friended back in the day :(
> For some reason, Carnifex got worse and worse with every release but their first EP is sweet as fuck.
> I have no idea how Chelsea Grin got so big, they were latecomers by about 2-3 years and were mediocre at best. “Crewcabanger” wasn’t TERRIBLE, I guess…
In retrospect, a bunch of these releases are pretty fun, and a few more I can still live with via pining for better times. Looks like I already got rid of a lot of the TRULY shitty ones I remember.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v35Uci8-I7k
I know this is an old post, but here’s just some of my favourite obscure acts from 2006 era Deathcore:
Clone The Fragile, Dead Man In Reno, Hades Chariot, Into The Moat, Emily Rose, Beneath The Exterior, The Haunting Of Leica…