Your way in
Mathcore 1993
Metalcore with its wiring torn out: meter changes every few seconds, dissonance and chaos controlled to the millimetre.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 3
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 140-260 bpm
- Song length
- 1.5-4 min
- Written about
- Panic, Alienation, Language breaking down, Violence, abstractly
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Mathcore | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1993 | 100% | ×1 |
| The inside of a head What should the words be about? | Panic, Alienation, Language breaking down, Violence, abstractly | 50% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 3 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 82% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 5. Mathcore leads the next by 2 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Refused, The Shape of Punk to Come 1998
Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come. The title was an arrogant joke that came true.
- 2The one to put on first
Converge, Jane Doe 2001
Converge - Jane Doe. Technically mathcore, emotionally something else entirely.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
Car Bomb, Meta 2016
The first is the entry point for Post-hardcore, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Mathcore's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Raw black metal 80%
Lo-fi production taken to the extreme, often recorded straight to tape. The noise is part of the composition.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 8 steps from Mathcore.
The way into Raw black metal -
Goregrind 78%
Grindcore with pitch-shifted vocals and lyrics from a pathology textbook. Carcass wrote the rules on their first two albums.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 8 steps from Mathcore.
The way into Goregrind
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- As fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 5.
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 5.
- The inside of a head put 88 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Black metal. Worth 1 of 5.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 5.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.