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Primary Stylistic Influences:
+ DeathMetal, {{Metalcore}}, HardcorePunk
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Secondary Stylistic Influences:
+ Melodic Metalcore, AlternativeMetal, {{Djent}}, NuMetal, BlackMetal
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Deathcore is a generic term for music that combines {{Metalcore}} with DeathMetal (usually more of the former than the latter, although there are certainly exceptions to that[[note]]Good examples being Whitechapel, Infant Annihilator, and Thy Art is Murder.[[/note]]). It usually combines blastbeat-led riffing akin to Death Metal with breakdowns influenced by both Metalcore and Brutal Death "slams". Deathcore's prominent vocal style is the [[HarshVocals growling]] of Death Metal, often juxtaposed with Metalcore-derived [[MetalScream screams]] and high-pitched backing shrieks a la Music/CannibalCorpse and Music/{{Deicide}}.

There are many subsets of the genre, and a general breakdown of them is as follows:

* '''First-wave deathcore''': The original acts in the genre and a few acts that started around that time, but took off later. Almost universally overlaps with deathgrind, often with prominent mathcore influences as well (primarily odd time signatures and heavy usage of "panic chords"). Famous acts include Music/TheRedChord, Music/DespisedIcon, Antagony, Music/{{Animosity}}, Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus, and Deadwater Drowning.
* '''[=MySpace=] deathcore''': The most famous variant of the 2000s, so named because it gained its popularity through [=MySpace=]. Heavily melodic death metal-influenced, with lots of pedalpoint riffing, a prominent high/low vocal approach, faster and more overtly hardcore-influenced breakdowns, and occasional chaotic technical passages that heavily emphasize sweep picking and tapping. Famous acts include Music/AllShallPerish, As Blood Runs Black, Winds of Plague, Music/ThroughTheEyesOfTheDead, Suffokate, Rose Funeral, and Molotov Solution.
* '''Brutal deathcore''': ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: deathcore with a far less melodic and more brutal approach, usually with faster and more overtly brutal death-influenced riffing and slower, "chuggier" breakdowns, as well as a more guttural vocal approach. Famous acts include early Music/SuicideSilence, early [[Music/WhitechapelBand Whitechapel]], Music/{{Oceano}}, early Impending Doom, I Declare War, Crown Magnetar, and early Music/SlaughterToPrevail.
* '''Technical deathcore''': Another self-evident tag: more overtly TechnicalDeathMetal-influenced deathcore. Runs the gamut from more melodic acts all the way to overlapping with brutal deathcore, but is generally on the more brutal end. Famous acts include Rings of Saturn, Music/BeneathTheMassacre, Music/InfantAnnihilator, Music/EnterpriseEarth, early Music/TheFaceless, Within the Ruins, Ovid's Withering, Aversions Crown, and Wretched.
* '''Djentcore''': Deathcore that overlaps with djent (and often also modern metalcore); clean vocals and symphonic or atmospheric synths are common, and while most of these acts are lighter, heavier examples do exist, often with some mathcore and/or downtempo overlap. Famous acts include Born of Osiris, later Music/ChelseaGrin, After the Burial, early Veil of Maya, later Ion Dissonance, Betraying the Martyrs, [=DeadVectors=], and Humanity's Last Breath.
* '''Blackened deathcore''': Deathcore with prominent blackened death metal and/or black metal influences; runs the gamut from heavily Behemoth-influenced acts all the way to acts with prominent black metal riffing and melodic ideas, and typically overlaps with SymphonicMetal. Famous acts include Music/ThyArtIsMurder, later Music/{{Carnifex}}, Music/LornaShore, later Music/MentalCruelty, later A Wake in Providence, Nitheful, The Breathing Process, and Worm Shepherd.
* '''Slamming deathcore''': An offshoot of brutal deathcore with prominent slam elements, usually involving a more gurgly vocal approach and slam breaks in addition to more traditional deathcore breakdowns. Famous acts include Music/WakingTheCadaver, Disfiguring the Goddess, Music/{{Vulvodynia}}, early Music/SignsOfTheSwarm, mid-era Within Destruction, Music/{{Acrania}}, early Music/MentalCruelty, and 9 Dead.
* '''Downtempo''': Another offshoot of brutal deathcore, focusing almost exclusively on very slow tempos (often with dissonant lead themes laid over the top) and extremely long breakdowns, while more nu metal-oriented acts tend to take a somewhat faster and groovier approach. Also frequently involves very little actual death metal influence, as many acts are far more rooted in beatdown hardcore and/or nu metal. Famous acts include Music/BlackTongue, early Bodysnatcher, Traitors, Falsifier, Bound in Fear, Distant, and CABAL.
* '''Nu deathcore''': Deathcore combined with nu metal, usually involving groovier and bouncier riffing, droning atmospheric textures, and possibly some sort of clean vocal or rapping presence. Famous examples include modern Music/SuicideSilence, Music/{{Emmure}}, Spite, Music/BrandOfSacrifice, Music/TheLastTenSecondsOfLife, To the Grave, later Within Destruction, and Left to Suffer.
* '''Spaz deathcore''': A somewhat nebulous title, but generally applied to acts with heavy mathcore and math/white belt grind elements, possibly also overlapping with AvantGardeMetal. Heavy usage of electronics are also common, while later acts also may have some nu metal elements. Famous examples include Iwrestledabearonce, Darko US, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Dr. Acula, Arsonists Get All the Girls, Methwitch, and See You Next Tuesday.

Because it borrows heavily from its commercially successful grandparent Metalcore, Deathcore is arguably more viable in the mainstream than Death Metal. It could be seen as a DarkerAndEdgier version of the former and, if [[HateDumb critics]] are to be believed, a LighterAndSofter descendant of the latter[[labelnote:*]]This isn't entirely true, as most deathcore bands are just as hard, if not harder, than most pure death metal bands, due to being primarily rooted in brutal/slam death metal and deathgrind. Examples include Suicide Silence, Methwitch, Infant Annihilator, and Thy Art Is Murder.[[/labelnote]]. Because ItsPopularNowItSucks and the genre's heavy influence from modern {{Metalcore}} supposedly makes it a "[[NoTrueScotsman bastardization]]" of HeavyMetal, the genre has become a prominent target for [[{{Hatedom}} contempt]] from purists in recent years, though this has faded as the two genres have largely become separate entities with far more limited crossover, coupled with deathcore elements bleeding into death metal and many older acts becoming VindicatedByHistory.

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!!Bands typically described as Deathcore include:
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* 9 Dead (also slam death metal)
* Music/{{Abacinate}} (not a particularly accurate label, but it's probably the easiest and most fitting one for [[GenreBusting their music]].)
* Music/AbhorrentAbomination
* Music/AbigailWilliams (first EP was this mixed with BlackMetal, later on shifted to a more ambient black metal sound)
* Music/{{Abiotic}} (also technical death metal, especially circa ''Casuistry'', which mostly but not entirely abandoned the deathcore genre)
* Music/{{Acrania}} (also slam)
* Music/{{Acranius}} (close enough to slam to essentially blur the lines, but has enough core to qualify for that as well)
* Music/{{Aegaeon}}
* Aenimus
* Aethere
* Music/AfterTheBurial (significant overlap with {{Djent}})
* Music/TheAgonist (''Lullabies for the Dormant Mind'' onward, earlier material was melodic metalcore)
* Music/AllShallPerish (one of the most loved examples)
* Music/AndHellFollowedWith
* [=AngelMaker=]
* Music/{{Animosity}} (significant overlap with technical death metal, also one of the only bands that is more or less universally liked by metal fans)
* Music/AnnotationsOfAnAutopsy (briefly took a more death metal-influenced direction before taking a left turn towards a more beatdown-oriented sound right before they broke up; their post-reunion sound is slamming deathcore)
* Music/{{Antagony}} (UrExample, albeit a very obscure one)
* Music/ApplaudTheImpaler (also technical death metal and brutal death metal)
* Music/ArsonistsGetAllTheGirls (also mathcore and electronicore)
* Music/AsBloodRunsBlack
* Music/AtlantisChronicles (some overlap with {{Djent}})
* Music/AttilaMetalcore (earlier material, later became nu metalcore)
* Aversions Crown
* Aviana (started out as djent/metalcore but went further into deathcore when Joel Holmqvist became the sole member)
* Music/AWakeInProvidence (also SymphonicMetal on ''Eternity'')
* Babirusa
* Begat the Nephilim (also melodic death metal)
* Music/BeneathTheMassacre (mostly abandoned the genre on ''Maree Noire'' in favor of full-blown TechnicalDeathMetal, but still has noticeable core elements)
* Bermuda (also djent and mathcore)
* Music/BetrayingTheMartyrs (mixed with SymphonicMetal and {{Djent}})
* Music/BeyondDeviation
* Music/BlackPegasus (also sludge metal)
* Music/BlackTongue (heavy overlap with beatdown hardcore and DoomMetal)
* Blind Witness (also metalcore)
* Music/BodiesInTheGearsOfTheApparatus (also deathgrind, an UrExample)
* Bodysnatcher (also beatdown hardcore; as of ''This Heavy Void'', they have mostly abandoned deathcore for beatdown)
* Bog Wraith (also blackened death metal)
* Bonecarver (originally Cannibal Grandpa)
* Boris the Blade
* Music/BornOfOsiris (also djent; their later material is mostly metalcore with very little deathcore remaining)
* Bound in Fear
* Music/BrandOfSacrifice (also IndustrialMetal, SymphonicMetal, and NuMetal)
* Music/TheBreathingProcess (also SymphonicMetal and IndustrialMetal; their later material is much more heavily death metal-oriented)
* Music/BringMeTheHorizon (first album and EP only; they dropped all elements of it starting with ''Suicide Season'')
* Music/{{Brojob}} (AffectionateParody of the genre as a whole, but musically serious)
* Music/TheBrowning (mixed with [[{{Dubstep}} brostep]])
* Buried Above Ground
* Music/BurningTheMasses
* Cabal
* Music/{{Caliban}} (straddle the line between deathcore and {{Metalcore}})
* Carcosa (also NuMetal)
* Music/{{Carnifex}} (combined with BlackMetal and blackened death metal)
* Music/CarrionVael (also TechnicalDeathMetal and MelodicDeathMetal)
* Music/ChelseaGrin (has had run-ins with the {{Metalcore}} and {{Djent}} labels on their later material, also some NuMetal overlap on ''Eternal Nightmare'')
* Coffin Feeder (side project of Sven de Caluwe of Music/{{Aborted}})
* Music/{{Coltcrusher}} (overlaps with tech-death)
* Music/ConductingFromTheGrave (also see [[SpiritualSuccessor Wastewalker]])
* Music/TheContortionist (earlier material, started moving towards djenty ProgressiveMetal on ''Intrinsic'' and dropped it altogether in favor of prog-tinged post-hardcore/shoegaze on ''Clairvoyant'')
* The Convalescence
* Crown Magnetar
* Music/{{Cryptopsy}} (''The Unspoken King'')
* Crowley's Deal
* Music/CrystalLake (Ryo Kinoshita era, mixed with nu-metalcore on ''Helix'')
* Music/TheDaliThunderingConcept (also ProgressiveMetal)
* Music/DanceClubMassacre
* The Dark Alamorte (also dissonant death metal)
* Darko US (side project of [[Music/ChelseaGrin Tom Barber]] and [[Music/{{Emmure}} Josh Miller]])
* Music/DarkSermon (''In Tongues'')
* Dark Watch
* Music/DeadNerves
* Dealer (also nu metal)
* Dead Eyes Always Dreaming
* [=DeadVectors=]
* Music/DeadwaterDrowning (a ''very'' little-known UrExample along with The Red Chord; to no one's surprise, the two bands were very closely associated with one another)
* Music/DepthsOfHatred (''Inheritance'' borders on {{Metalcore}})
* Music/DespisedIcon (sometimes considered a TropeMaker along with The Red Chord)
* Detestor
* Music/TheDevastated (also GrooveMetal and NuMetal)
* Music/{{Deviloof}} (also VisualKei, more specifically eroguro-kei)
* DEXCORE (a mix of nu-metalcore, electronicore, and VisualKei)
* A Different Breed of Killer
* Music/DirEnGrey (Overlaps with NuMetal and TechnicalDeathMetal, also one of the more respected examples)
* Disembodied Tyrant
* Disfiguring the Goddess (major overlap with slam)
* Music/{{Distant}}
* Down the Drain (short-lived obscure side project of the late Bret Hoffmann of Malevolent Creation; notable for being one of the only (if not the only) unambiguously deathcore bands featuring a singer from the early days of death metal)
* [[Music/DrAcula Dr. Acula]] (also mathcore)
* Dragoncorpse (also PowerMetal, of all genres)
* Dr. Hell
* Elysia
* Music/{{Emmure}} (overlaps with NuMetal)
* Music/EnterpriseEarth (also ProgressiveMetal from ''The Chosen'' onward)
* Music/{{Eschaton}} (with a particularly strong undercurrent of TechnicalDeathMetal, but still deathcore as a whole)
* Music/{{Exotype}} (overlaps with a slew of HeavyMetal and ElectronicMusic genres)
* Music/TheFaceless (EP and first full-length)
* Fallen Figure
* Music/{{Fallujah}} (first few [=EPs=] and demos)
* Falsifier
* Music/{{Feign}}
* Filth (also beatdown hardcore, which they have been moving more and more towards)
* The Final Battle (short-lived continuation of Deadwater Drowning)
* Music/FitForAnAutopsy (some overlap with GrooveMetal and ProgressiveMetal on ''Absolute Hope Absolute Hell'' and expanded on those elements on ''The Great Collapse'')
* Float Face Down (also beatdown hardcore)
* Gamma Sector (also slam)
* Music/GlassCasket (overlaps with TechnicalDeathMetal)
* God of Nothing
* Gorephanage
* Graveborn (some prog and post-metal elements)
* Gravemind
* Graves of Valor
* Greylotus (also TechnicalDeathMetal)
* Music/HaloOfGunfire
* Music/{{Hanabie}} (a very unorthodox example that has elements of JapanesePopMusic. Yes, really. Also a rare all female band)
* Hate Diplomacy
* Music/HeavenShallBurn (gets described as this often since it's particularly aggressive and grind-influenced MelodicDeathMetal with some {{Metalcore}} elements, although it bears little similarity to other deathcore bands)
* Heavy//Hitter
* Music/HereComesTheKraken
* Music/HesterPrynne
* Hivesmasher (also deathgrind)
* Hollow Prophet (side project of [[Music/ShadowOfIntent Ben Duerr]] featuring [[Music/SlaughterToPrevail Jack Simmons]] and [[Music/LornaShore Austin Archey]])
* Hotoke
* Human Betrayer
* Human Error (side project of [[Music/{{Acrania}} Luke Griffin]])
* Humanity's Last Breath (also mathcore and djent, later material has prominent dissonant death metal elements)
* Hunt the Dinosaur
* Music/{{Hurakan}}
* Music/IAmDestruction
* Music/IDeclareWar
* Immoralist
* Immortal Disfigurement
* Music/ImpendingDoom ([[ChristianRock Christian]] [[{{Grindcore}} goregrind early on.]])
* Implosive Disgorgence (also deathgrind)
* Music/InDyingArms (some songs verge on {{Metalcore}})
* Music/InfantAnnihilator (mixed with brutal death and tech-death)
* Music/{{Ingested}} (also brutal death metal; the amount of deathcore really depends on the album, though ''The Surreption'' had prominent brutal deathcore elements, while their releases from ''The Level Above Human'' onward had increasingly prominent deathcore elements that culminated in the extremely deathcore-leaning ''Where Only Gods May Tread'')
* In Gloom (strong overlap with slam and beatdown hardcore)
* Into the Moat (also mathcore)
* Music/IonDissonance (''Cursed'' onward; a rare example that overlaps with [[{{Metalcore}} Mathcore]])
* Music/{{Iwrestledabearonce}} (with elements of GenreBusting akin to Music/MrBungle)
* Jerome
* Music/JobForACowboy (TropeCodifier; they were only part of this genre on their debut EP ''Doom'', after which they [[GrowingTheBeard abandoned the genre]] and moved onto straightforward DeathMetal and TechnicalDeathMetal)
* Music/{{Kalibas}} (also deathgrind, an obscure UrExample)
* Music/{{Kamikabe}} (first EP)
* Music/{{Kardashev}} (mixed with ProgressiveMetal, {{Shoegazing}} and [[DoomMetal post-metal]])
* Music/{{Killwhitneydead}}
* [=xKINGx=]
* Music/KingConquer
* Music/KnightsOfTheAbyss
* Music/{{Krosis}} (also {{Djent}})
* Music/TheLastTenSecondsOfLife (also NuMetal, GrooveMetal, beatdown hardcore, and [[DoomMetal stoner metal]])
* Music/LeftToSuffer (also NuMetal)
* Music/{{Legion}}
* Leng T'che (also deathgrind)
* Level 80
* Music/LordOfWar
* Lorelei
* Music/LornaShore (has had significant BlackMetal elements starting with ''Flesh Coffin'')
* Lowlife (also slam)
* The Machinist (notable in that Amanda Gjelaj is one of a tiny handful of female vocalists in the genre)
* Music/MakeThemSuffer (They have [[ProgressiveMetal progressive]] and [[SymphonicMetal symphonic]] influences too, and draw the line between this and {{Metalcore}})
* Music/ManMustDie
* Measmata
* Medeia (also GrooveMetal)
* Music/MentalCruelty (also slam; they almost entirely shed the slam elements on ''Inferis'' for a blackened deathcore sound)
* The Merciless Concept (also beatdown hardcore)
* Music/{{Methwitch}} (a bit of a GenreBusting example that has elements of {{Grindcore}}, NuMetal, and Main/HarshNoise. Also one of the few deathcore acts that is comprised of [[IAmTheBand one guy.]])
* Mines of Moria
* Mire Lore (side project of [[Music/EnterpriseEarth Dan Watson]])
* Music/{{Misericordiam}}
* Music/{{Monasteries}}
* Mouth of the Serpent
* Music/{{Muramasa}} (also slam)
* A Night in Texas
* Music/{{Nitheful}}
* Music/NocturnalBloodlust (mixed with {{Metalcore}}, NuMetal, ThrashMetal and even FunkMetal)
* Music/{{Nylist}} (one of the few [[IAmTheBand one-man]] projects alongside Methwitch)
* Obliterate
* Music/{{Oceano}}
* Osiah
* [[Music/OvidsWithering Ovid's Withering]] (also {{Djent}})
* Music/OvSulfur (bordering on {{Metalcore}}, also has Ricky Hoover of Suffokate as frontman)
* Music/ThePartisanTurbine (also deathgrind)
* Music/ThePlasmarifle
* Premonitions of War (also deathgrind)
* Music/{{Proletariat}} (also {{Djent}} and {{Metalcore}})
* PROJECT: VENGEANCE (supergroup featuring the vocalists of Music/LornaShore, Music/InfantAnnihilator, Traitors, Left to Suffer, and Spite, formerly known as The Big Six)
* PSYCHO-FRAME
* Reaping Asmodeia (also djent)
* Music/TheRedChord (sometimes considered a TropeMaker along with Despised Icon; overlaps with TechnicalDeathMetal and {{Grindcore}})
* Music/TheRedDeath
* Music/TheRedShore (eventually became full-blown TechnicalDeathMetal after leaning towards it for a while)
* To Obey a Tyrant
* Music/RingsOfSaturn (also TechnicalDeathMetal)
* Music/RoseFuneral
* RØT (mixed with beatdown hardcore and depressive/suicidal black metal)
* Music/SaltTheWound
* Music/ScarletRot (side project of [[Music/InfantAnnihilator Dickie Allen]])
* Music/SnakeFather (also GrooveMetal)
* The Schoenberg Automaton
* Scumfuck (collaboration between Dickie Allen of Infant Annihilator and Andrew Zink of Brojob)
* Music/SeeYouNextTuesday
* Music/ShadowOfIntent (took a substantially more DeathMetal-oriented turn on ''Melancholy'')
* Shiva
* Shrine of Malice
* Signal the Firing Squad
* Music/SignsOfTheSwarm (some slam elements)
* Music/SlaughterToPrevail (also NuMetal circa ''Kostolom'')
* Sold Soul
* So This Is Suffering
* Spite (also nu metal and beatdown hardcore)
* Stillbirth (also slam)
* Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky (also deathgrind)
* Music/SuddenFaceDown (overlaps with NuMetal; also arguably the most famous deathcore band from Thailand)
* Music/{{Suffokate}}
* Music/SuicideSilence (TropeCodifier, later material overlaps with NuMetal)
* Summoning the Lich
* Music/{{Tactosa}}
* [=ten56.=] (Aaron Matts's current project after leaving Betraying the Martyrs, and like his former band they straddle the line between metalcore and deathcore)
* Ten Thousand Crows
* Terminally Your Aborted Ghost (also technical death metal and deathgrind)
* Those Who Lie Beneath (may or may not have turned into Vitriol, depending on who you ask; in either case, the ''Antichrist'' EP was musically identical to Vitriol's own established black/death metal sound)
* Music/ThroughTheEyesOfTheDead (first two [=EPs=] and ''Bloodlust'', though their later material still has core elements)
* Music/TheTonyDanzaTapdanceExtravaganza (also {{Djent}} and mathcore)
* Music/ThusSpokeZarathustra
* Music/ThyArtIsMurder (started off as brutal deathcore before going into a more blackened direction with ''Hate''; they largely abandoned the genre in favor of DeathMetal with ''Dear Desolation'')
* To the Grave
* Tracheotomy
* Music/{{Traitors}} (also NuMetal)
* Umbra Vitae (supergroup involving members of Converge, The Red Chord, Twitching Tongues, and Job for a Cowboy, also deathgrind)
* Music/{{Underoath}} (Their first two albums could be considered an UnbuiltTrope for the genre-they do have noticeable death metal influences, but it's generally overshadowed by the BlackMetal and {{Metalcore}} elements)
* Music/UponABurningBody (most prominent in their early material, mixed with {{Metalcore}} and GrooveMetal)
* Music/VeilOfMaya (also {{Djent}}; abandoned the genre for {{Metalcore}} with ''Matriarch'')
* Victim of Deception
* Music/{{Viscera}} (some {{Metalcore}} elements)
* Music/{{Volumes}} (also {{Djent}} and NuMetal, largely abandoned the style from ''No Sleep'' onwards)
* The Voynich Code
* Music/{{Vulvodynia}} (major brutal death/slam overlap)
* A Wake in Providence
* Music/WakingTheCadaver (also slam/brutal death metal)
* Music/WarFromAHarlotsMouth (early material, later went in a more djent-oriented direction)
* Wastewalker (essentially Conducting from the Grave with a new name and lineup)
* Music/WeAreObscurity (best known for being the original band of Alex Terrible of Music/SlaughterToPrevail)
* Music/AlissaWhiteGluz
* Music/WhitechapelBand (started moving towards GrooveMetal and NuMetal with the self-titled, though still deathcore as a whole)
* Whoretopsy (also slam)
* Music/WindsOfPlague ([[SymphonicMetal Symphonic Deathcore]], at least for a while; they seem to have become the biggest example of the "Despised-Icon-Meets-Korn" type of deathcore)
* Music/WithBloodComesCleansing
* Music/WithDeadHandsRising (little-known potential UrExample, but they never received much recognition and had a relatively minimal impact)
* Within Destruction (also slam from ''Void'' onwards and especially circa ''D E A T H W I S H'', and trapcore on ''Yokai'')
* Music/WithinTheRuins (newer material)
* World End Man (also slam)
* Music/WormShepherd
* Music/{{Wretched}}
* [=XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX=] (side project of [[Music/{{Vulvodynia}} Duncan Bentley]] and a throwback to the earliest bands of the genre)
* Xenobiotic (up to ''Prometheus''; they would shed most of their deathcore elements on ''Mordrake'')
* Yokai
* Zeolite
[[/index]]

!!Deathcore exhibits the following tropes:

* ChristianMetal: Impending Doom, With Blood Comes Cleansing and Underneath the Gun, among many, many others.
* ClusterFBomb: One of the more frequent criticisms of deathcore comes from the exceptionally high amounts of profanity in the lyrics, which are generally seen as puerile and overly simplistic. The more of a tough guy aesthetic a band has, the higher the likelihood that profanity is going to comprise a significant portion of the lyrics.
* DeadArtistsAreBetter: Many are saying this about Suicide Silence since Mitch Lucker passed away in 2012.
* DeadHorseGenre: Many have called it this, including some deathcore bands who later jumped ship and [[GenreShift changed their style]] (such as Job for a Cowboy moving onto tech-death, or Bring Me the Horizon onto straight-up metalcore).
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Many of the earliest acts, while undoubtedly a major influence on the later acts, had surprisingly little in common with them. They were a weird mix of grindy death metal with hardcore influences (Antagony, Animosity), a GenreBusting death metal/mathcore hybrid (The Red Chord, Glass Casket), brutal death with a bit of skronk (Despised Icon), mathcore with extremely prominent death metal elements (Deadwater Drowning), and deathgrind (Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus). Few of these acts sounded anything alike and it took All Shall Perish, Job for a Cowboy, Suffokate, and As Blood Runs Black to popularize a more-or-less unified style, while the earliest works of Suicide Silence and Whitechapel represented something of a bridge between the two styles.
* EmoTeen: Many deathcore musicians have an emo-esque look, with Music/BringMeTheHorizon being the primary example. In fact, the band's move away from the genre was accompanied by their shedding of the overhanging fringes. Other bands that once showcased an "emo" aesthetic include Chelsea Grin, Dir en grey and Suicide Silence, though this has faded due to the emo look being CondemnedByHistory in the 2010s. Nowadays, the rough equivalent is a more emo-trap/horrorcore-inspired look, which is rarer but still somewhat common - with Within Destruction being the most prominent example.
* FandomRivalry: DeathMetal fandom has a deep and abiding hatred of deathcore, which it sees as a creatively bankrupt [[NoTrueScotsman "bastardization"]] of its sound. Deathcore fans in turn perceive Death Metal and its fans as being out of touch with modern tastes in extreme music and highly intolerant of experimentation. This rivalry goes double for Slam-influenced Deathcore, due to Slam's own FandomRivalry with the rest of the Death Metal community, and backwash from the Deathcore fandom into Slam. Also beginning to manifest in the wake of downtempo; more traditional deathcore fans tend to see it as lazy, annoying, boring music that caters to violent douchebags who clearly care more about crowdkilling than they do about the music, while downtempo fans see it as deathcore's purest distillation that is meant to be fun, not serious, and feel that, as music that is meant for people to throw down to, it should not be maligned just because of a few jerks who like to hurt people or don't know how to be careful when near the edge of the pit.
* FollowTheLeader: The main reason for the huge amount of deathcore bands around, as well as for the periodic [[GenreShift sound shifts]]. Most of these sound shifts depend on which [[EnsembleDarkhorse band]] gains recognition.
** When Despised Icon got big, bands bumped up the douchebaggery. When Bring Me The Horizon got big, bands started adopting an {{Emo}} look. When Veil of Maya got big, bands started adding in lots of Djent. When The Faceless made it big, bands started going [[TechnicalDeathMetal tech]]. When Born of Osiris made it big, bands started infusing [[{{Ambient}} atmospheric]] and {{electronic|Music}} elements into their music. When Carnifex got big, bands started adding in blackened death elements. When Whitechapel got big, bands started including nu metal elements in their sound. When Ingested got big, bands started mixing in slam elements. When Black Tongue got big, bands began to slow down and take a more downtempo approach. When Brand of Sacrifice got big, bands began using whammy pedals heavily in their riffs and leads. In short, when a band in this genre gets big, a higher-than-normal amount of copycats show up.
* {{Gorn}}: It's ''everywhere'', from lyrics to cover art to music videos...though there are some exceptions.
* HarshVocals: ...Duh.
* {{Hatedom}}: For a while, it was the metal fandom's favorite target genre-wise. The hate died down a bit in the latter half of TheNewTens, partly due to other subgenres of metal becoming the focus of negative attention from metalheads and partly because many of the bands that showed up when the genre got popular have either incorporated elements from other subgenres, abandoned deathcore altogether, or broken up.
* IndecipherableLyrics: Like its source genre, it is infamous for unintelligible vocalists (especially in more brutal or slam-oriented acts), and the nature of the techniques used (deathcore vocalists tend to use their throat a lot more, and the "pig squeal/bree" basically ensures that no one is going to understand the lyrics) means that it is even easier to have lyrics that will completely stymie the listener even with a lyric sheet handy. Particularly major offenders include [[Music/InfantAnnihilator Dickie Allen]], [[Music/SignsOfTheSwarm Dave Simonich]], and [[Music/WakingTheCadaver Don Campan]].
* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: One of the most popular complaints from fans - deathcore is seen as a genre devoid of musical variance and progression, and it is not helped by the fact that bands frequently copy each others' styles.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: One thing that helped deathcore reach a young audience was having far more conventionally attractive musicians (mostly frontmen) than other forms of extreme metal. [[Music/BringMeTheHorizon Oli Sykes,]] [[Music/SuicideSilence Mitch Lucker,]] and Alex Koehler (ex-Chelsea Grin, before [[HairTodayGoneTomorrow he cut his hair)]] were easily the most famous for their good looks. Other examples include [[Music/EnterpriseEarth Dan Watson,]] Victor Guillet (Betraying the Martyrs), Kagami (DEXCORE), Brandon Butler (ex-Veil of Maya), and Ray (Deviloof).
* LyricalDissonance: As with NuMetal, there can at times be a rather jarring tonal contrast between the overtly "br00tal, tuff guy" music and the sometimes decidedly introspective, {{Wangst}}-y lyrics.
** LyricalShoehorn: Many songs. Some of these have become well-known through MemeticMutation and the like.
*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCBSX0XDSVI I LIKE SHREDDED WHEEEAAAT!!!!]]
* MemeticMutation: The various [[LyricalShoehorn lyrical shoehorns]] present in some bands' songs.
** A minor one would be the bizarre shot from Job For A Cowboy's "Entombment Of The Machine" video, where all the music stops, the singer gives out a blood-curdling, yet somewhat feminine scream, and the drummer practically flings himself onto the drumset to bring the sticks down. Sometimes referred to as the "WHEEEEEEEEE- WHOPP."
*** From the same song comes "PREHEAT PIZZA ROLLS/BRING ME APPLESAUCE"
*** "Knee Deep" seems to have been the song that set off the "Your favorite song, performed by [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants Spongebob's Band]]" meme.
* MetalScream: Is known for a variant of Type 2 that is colloquially referred to as "tunnel throat"; while the origins are unclear, it is likely that [[Music/WhitechapelBand Phil Bozeman]] and [[Music/{{Oceano}} Adam Warren]] popularized this approach. The "pig squeal" or "bree" is another Type 2 genre hallmark that was originally taken from slam and brutal death (primarily Devourment and Cryptopsy)[[note]][[Music/SuicideSilence Chris Garza]] personally cited Exhumed and Impaled as the most likely originators of the pig squeal, or, at the very least, the main reason why most of the early West Coast bands picked them up[[/note]] and was introduced by Steve Marois and Marie-Helene Landry of Despised Icon before being popularized by All Shall Perish and Job for a Cowboy. Type 3s are also exceedingly common and are usually screechier and more shrill than they would normally be in death metal; [[Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder Trevor Strnad]] is the most likely influence, while [[Music/JobForACowboy Jonny Davy]], [[Music/AllShallPerish Eddie Hermida]], and [[Music/SuicideSilence Mitch Lucker]] are all roughly equally responsible for popularizing it. Another variant of the Type 3 emerged in the 2010s as a throaty squawk; this was influenced almost exclusively by the vocals of [[Music/CattleDecapitation Travis Ryan]], with famous proponents of the style including [[Music/InfantAnnihilator Dickie Allen]], [[Music/SignsOfTheSwarm Dave Simonich]], [[Music/LornaShore Will Ramos]], and [[Music/MentalCruelty Lucca Schmerler]]. Type 1s are somewhat more rare, but they do still show up reasonably often; famous vocalists who primarily use them include [[Music/TheRedChord Guy Kozowyk]], [[Music/DespisedIcon Alex Erian]], [[Music/ThyArtIsMurder CJ McMahon]], [[Music/FitForAnAutopsy Joe Badolato]], Anthony Notarmaso (After the Burial), and [[Music/TheLastTenSecondsOflife John Robert Centorrino]].
* MisogynySong: ''Like you would not believe''. If a deathcore band has [[{{Gorn}} gore-based lyrics]], there was a very high chance that almost every song is going to be about torturing and murdering women. This has started to become more and more of a DeadHorseTrope as bands have steadily abandoned misogynistic lyrical themes, and outside of the odd brutal or slamming deathcore band, it was barely present by the late 2010s.
** Thy Art Is Murder used to do this, but this changed when CJ [=McMahon=] joined and changed the lyrical focus to horror and standard evil-based themes, before further shifting it to more political and introspective themes. The band as a whole is now ashamed of their early material, and CJ rather famously went off on a fan who shouted a request for "Whore to a Chainsaw" in 2017 and ranted for almost a minute straight about how uncomfortable that song was for him to sing.
** This has also extended to the merchandise; to name an example, I Declare War was ''harshly'' criticized (even by their fans, to boot) for selling a shirt that read "FUCK YOUR TITS, SHOW ME YOUR CUNT" on the back, and based on what people who know the original members have said, they are embarrassed by those shirts and the Jamie Hanks iteration of the band in general.
* Website/MySpace: It is not really a stretch to say that this was the platform that made the genre explode. Acts like Music/JobForACowboy, Music/SuicideSilence, Music/WhitechapelBand, Music/{{Carnifex}}, Oceano, As Blood Runs Black, and Born of Osiris all owed their almost overnight rises to fame to that site, while acts that took off just slightly before its rise to dominance (namely Music/AllShallPerish, Music/DespisedIcon, and Suffokate) all jumped on board and took advantage of the format. "[=MySpace=] deathcore" has also become something of a colloquialism to refer to the style of deathcore that most of those bands played, which was usually characterized by melodic death metal-influenced riffing styles, heavy usage of gang vocals, melodic and often relatively unstructured leadwork that made heavy use of sweep picking, breakdowns that were usually faster and more overtly hardcore-influenced (oftentimes also featuring extremely fast double bass rolls), the regular usage of the "pig squeal/bree" from vocalists, and chaotic technical passages that heavily featured tapping. Most of these traits were commonplace in the music of All Shall Perish and As Blood Runs Black, who are generally agreed to be the figureheads of the style.
* NoodlePeople: For some reason, there are an awful lot of real-life examples of these in the genre. The stereotype of the skinny deathcore kid exists for a reason, and on the musician side of things, [[Music/SuicideSilence Mitch Lucker]], Ricky Hoover (ex-Suffokate, before he picked up a good amount of muscle) and Aaron Matts (ex-Betraying the Martyrs) are among the more famous (and extreme) examples.
* OldShame: Lots of bands who started out as deathcore before switching to death metal tend to be embarrassed about their earlier days, with Job for a Cowboy being one of the most prominent examples; while they still play their early material live, it's less because they want to and more because people have come to expect it.
* PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy: Many of the more hardcore-oriented acts tended to have a very bro-ish aesthetic; Despised Icon may or may not have parodied this with "MVP", which is ironic because [[HypocriticalHumor they were one of the worst offenders]]. This largely faded by the late 2010s, however, as hip-hop and hardcore fashion diverged greatly.
* ReligionRantSong: Very frequent, just like its parent genre.
* RevolvingDoorBand: A number of bands have this, though many (Oceano, I Declare War, and Enterprise Earth chief among them) will retain one or two key members. Rose Funeral are perhaps the most extreme case, having gone through ''eighteen'' members since their formation in 2005, and several other now-defunct bands (namely Suffokate, As Blood Runs Black, and King Conquer) were also infamous for extremely unstable lineups that only retained one or two members over the course of their career and typically involved hard feelings when someone did leave.
* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Usually inverted, since deathcore bands often look no different than most young guys, and even kind of preppy at times (usually in the more tech-oriented groups, as the "gauges, Vans, baggy shorts, and snapback hats" look is still common among the more hardcore-oriented ones).
* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Deathcore vocalists who use highs tend to have a very shrill, screechy style; [[Music/AllShallPerish Eddie Hermida]], [[Music/SuicideSilence Mitch Lucker]], and [[Music/JobForACowboy Jonny Davy]] most likely popularized this approach. Other well-known purveyors include [[Music/{{Carnifex}} Scott Ian Lewis]], Alex Koehler (ex-Chelsea Grin), Ian Bearer (Rings of Saturn), [[Music/ShadowOfIntent Ben Duerr]], [[Music/{{Acrania}} Luke Griffin]], Guillaume Villeneuve (Beyond Deviation), Rheese Peters (ex-A Night in Texas, Babirusa), and Ray Jimenez (ex-Abiotic).
* ScrewedByTheNetwork: ''Infamous'' for horribly exploitative record deals that left young bands touring out their asses and still being deep in the hole no matter how well they did, and on the rare chance that they actually did become profitable, the label would still likely find a way to screw them. Mediaskare Records was particularly legendary for terrible deals and has a lengthy list of bands who broke up or otherwise dropped off the radar while hopelessly in debt to the label, and Sumerian and Victory both had their own fair share of awful contracts and ruined musical careers.
* SpecialGuest: Guest vocal spots are extremely common and almost expected in the genre as of the 2010s, and most lower-level bands will have at least two or three guests per album. It has become a target of mockery, however, and the stereotype of the perpetual local opener with no real future as a band outside of their home state/province/country and the locales surrounding them who gets a big-name guest for a badly-mixed vocal spot on their first single (usually hosted on Slam Worldwide) is very TruthInTelevision.
** A special note goes out to Beyond Deviation with their song “400,” which features [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 400 guest features in one song.]]
* SpiritualSuccessor: To NuMetal, at least to it being TheScrappy and the ButtMonkey of the metal world, mainly due to its heavily derivative nature, as well as the tendency of bands to cite nu metal {{Ensemble Darkhorse}}s as primary influences - many of the genre's bands are openly influenced by, among others Korn and Deftones. Their music sounds little like those two bands though.
** It could also be seen as this to {{Metalcore}}, as the fan base is spearheaded by Metalcore fans.
* TheStoner: It would be easier to list bands who AREN'T stoners. It reflects in merch where marijuana leaves are common and bands having weed donation boxes at shows. Chelsea Grin, Suicide Silence, and ''especially'' Volumes are known for being total potheads. Might have reached critical mass with Hunt the Dinosaur's video for their song "Baked."
* SurrealMusicVideo: A fair (and increasing) number of deathcore bands, especially bands with a more [[TechnicalDeathMetal technical]] edge inject loads and loads of MindScrew in their music videos. Probably copied from Music/DirEnGrey, whose music videos (being inspired by the Eroguro art style) are nigh-infamous for both NightmareFuel and SensoryAbuse, often with a misogynistic bent.
* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: A common reaction back during the [=MySpace=] era, primarily when bands took a more death metal-oriented turn; "going Job for a Cowboy" (in reference to the polarizing GenreShift on ''Genesis'') was a (usually derisive) euphemism for the act of dialing down core elements on new releases, usually with the implication that it was done in a misguided bid for critical respectability. While some bands (particularly Carnifex) were able to avoid this, others (particularly Annotations of an Autopsy) ran right into a brick wall. Generally averted in the 2010s, as the deathcore and death metal fandoms are generally much friendlier towards one another, and bands going more death metal are unlikely to encounter much resistance. LighterAndSofter changes are still likely to split fanbases down the middle, however, as evidenced by the highly contentious nature of later releases from Suicide Silence and Whitechapel. A few bands have transitioned out of deathcore entirely (most notably Music/BringMeTheHorizon going into nu-metal and alt rock and The Contortionist going full on progressive and post-rock) and managed to keep a following, but examples of this are incredibly rare.
* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Early Bring Me The Horizon received some bad press for allegedly copying the styles of As Blood Runs Black and The Black Dahlia Murder. Perhaps more notoriously, Emmure is often accused of outright stealing The Acacia Strain's signature sound, despite the fact that Emmure's music is far groovier than TAS ever was and trades their prominent beatdown hardcore and sludge metal influences for a whole lot of nu metal. Lastly, when Winds of Plague took off, they were accused of being a Bleeding Through ripoff. And those are just a few prime examples; this is a common negative reaction to deathcore bands in general.
* TropeCodifier: For the various styles:
** First-wave deathcore: The Red Chord, Despised Icon, Antagony, Animosity, and Deadwater Drowning
** [=MySpace=]/traditional deathcore: Job for a Cowboy, All Shall Perish, As Blood Runs Black, Through the Eyes of the Dead, and Suffokate
** Technical deathcore: The Faceless and Beneath the Massacre
** Djentcore: Born of Osiris, Ion Dissonance, Veil of Maya, and After the Burial
** Slamming deathcore: Ingested, Vulvodynia, and Within Destruction
** Brutal deathcore: Impending Doom and I Declare War
** Nu-deathcore: Suicide Silence and Emmure
** Blackened deathcore: Thy Art Is Murder and Lorna Shore
** Downtempo: Black Tongue, Traitors, and Bodysnatcher[[note]]debatably also Impending Doom and I Declare War, since both had shifted to styles that predominately involved slow tempos, lots of breakdowns, and sparse, dissonant lead melodies by ''There Will Be Violence'' and ''We Are Violent People by Nature'', respectively[[/note]]
* TropeMaker: Either Despised Icon or The Red Chord. Elements of what would become deathcore can be traced back to brutal and slam death metal bands such as Suffocation, Dying Fetus, and Internal Bleeding, among others.
* UrExample: The Red Chord and Antagony, while Despised Icon, All Shall Perish, Animosity, and Deadwater Drowning came along a little later. Furthermore, while none of them have ever been deathcore (save for Cryptopsy on ''The Unspoken King'' and Aborted on ''Strychnine.213''), it can generally be agreed upon that without Music/{{Suffocation}}, Music/DyingFetus, Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder, Music/{{Cryptopsy}}, Music/{{Behemoth}}, Music/{{Devourment}}, Music/{{Decapitated}}, Music/{{Skinless}}, Music/{{Aborted}}, and Internal Bleeding, the genre probably wouldn't exist.
* VocalTagTeam: While most vocalists cover everything (aside from gang vocals and certain layered/overdubbed parts in the studio that other members help with live), this is usually the setup with bands that do clean vocals (namely Born of Osiris, Betraying the Martyrs, and Make Them Suffer), but it also happens with harsh vocals from time to time (namely Despised Icon and Angelmaker).
* {{Wangst}}: A common lyrical preoccupation, particularly among bands with a more overtly "emo" aesthetic.

!!Deathcore songs (includes tracks from all the above styles):

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM307UjoY7I Abiotic - Facades]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31uUpj8euyw Acrania - Festering with Dishonesty]] (slamming deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT0fk3H9Anc After the Burial - A Wolf Amongst Ravens]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkSAK4f_bSQ All Shall Perish - There Is No Business to Be Done on a Dead Planet]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujj6EwsHAxY And Hell Followed With - This Night Is the Coroner's]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQtDIaWabec A Night in Texas - Feed The Lions]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOZvc42RlgA Animosity - Terrorstorm]] (first-wave deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYVld6MMi7A Antagony - A Killing]] (first-wave deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USbZ-wqPUYs Applaud the Impaler - Trenchrot]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqll3l_2ykI As Blood Runs Black - My Fears Have Become Phobias]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH4U9wdh1uM Aversions Crown - The Soulless Acolyte]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://youtu.be/LlPO4ccQZzM Aviana - Rage]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFQdWlMT5gM Beneath the Massacre - Reign of Terror]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEo10EIxaLo Betraying the Martyrs - Unregistered]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjoYp3EWcgA Black Tongue - I'm So Tired of Sighing, Please Lord Let it Be Night]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxjDsKx3V7I Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus - Xenophobic Hate Machine]] (first-wave deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIlwKm38S0 Bog Wraith - Omen]] (blackened deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYK-T3foPgs Born of Osiris - Devastate]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIXvntuiT08 Bound in Fear - Left to Drown]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km09hI2iOb8 Brand of Sacrifice - Fortress]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ice2zv7NRpQ The Breathing Process - Grimoire]] (blackened deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROULvjlMhSM Bring Me The Horizon - Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZTy94qJqFk Cabal - Tongues]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNkqVGQ4Wkw Carcosa - Descensus]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQXuq5-638g Carnifex - Drown Me in Blood]] (blackened deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMfsZ1KoDJg Chelsea Grin - Playing with Fire]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktp09BJJrg The Contortionist - Primal Directive]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw-PNukRCxg Crown Magnetar - Deciphering]] (brutal deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKHsfceVK2g Crystal Lake - Aeon]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndy8KXh9wb0 Darko US - Dragon Chaser]] (nu-deathcore/spaz-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf205tBJ3GE Deadwater Drowning - The Best Sex I Ever Had Started with a 900 Number and a Credit Card Verification]] (first-wave deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULUQ35j4E0 Despised Icon - Retina]] (first-wave deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12a9Mf9ww-0 The Devastated - Drip. Drip.]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWDENni6Pbc Deviloof - Goujinzangoku]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://youtu.be/KhFABTm6OUQ DEXCORE - Earthworm feat. Makito]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaitGDY9LUU Distant - Heirs of Torment]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn2A_dXoIAA Emmure - Solar Flare Homicide]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Feh5bA_9VNw The Faceless - An Autopsy]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYQAhjfwWKA Falsifier - Choke]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPgDapaLxRw God of Nothing - 1075]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62tSYZHqhy8 Humanity's Last Breath - Abyssal Mouth]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1BO682UwRQ Hunt the Dinosaur - Baked]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sin0h5JkXlo I Declare War - Grieve for No One]] (brutal deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85SUCBCD5Rk Impending Doom - Nailed. Dead. Risen.]] (brutal deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogebfujVeFw In Dying Arms - May I Have This Dance]] (Myspace deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63GussP4OiA Infant Annihilator - Unholy Gravebirth]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ2S1p7wUfQ In Gloom - God The Animal]] (downtempo deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo4jjOsQA9k Ion Dissonance - Kneel]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fhynBZ96zo Job for a Cowboy - Knee Deep]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60pfBAv6rOc Krosis - Psychoticlysm]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwpG4i8TTDs The Last Ten Seconds of Life - Dirt Nap Atrophy]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5k7ufSe0k4&ab_channel=Level80Official Level 80 - Chaosbringer]] (brutal deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxBUTX0g4RE Lorna Shore - FVNERAL MOON]] (blackened deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaXeCVhMy3A Man Must Die - Kill It Skin It Wear It]] (first-wave deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRv2S-JSSps Mental Cruelty - Vicarius Filii Dei]] (slamming deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI7lt_xtP3k Methwitch - Burn Victim]] (brutal/spaz deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVQapo3RPR8 Molotov Solution - The Harbinger]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rJlGKwrdtM Monasteries - Lilac]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCcYj_8oI0E Oceano - District of Misery]] (brutal deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVmYj2r5Wcc Osiah - The March]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqnB9ffcpfk The Red Chord - Lay the Tarp]] (first-wave deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynTQRvGHnVI The Red Shore - The Garden of Impurity]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmZmpPS2i0Y Rings of Saturn - Shards of Scorched Flesh]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1LLalZr8GQ&ab_channel=BeheadingTheTraitor RØT - De Rerum Natura]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VW1Ve3O1Hc Signs of the Swarm - Nightcrawler]] (slamming deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_tlvr51lI Slaughter to Prevail - Bonebreaker]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idjlPTvtaIw Spite - The Root of All Evil]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiixXpEV_Hw Stillbirth - Panem et Circenses]] (slamming deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzm3eiF2xUM Suffokate - Slaughter Your Enemies]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QScDSAoXlNs Suicide Silence - Fuck Everything]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJO76xE6qqE ten56. - Diazepam]] (nu-deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTTeo1R26m0 Terminally Your Aborted Ghost - Transplant Fixture]] (first-wave deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0v_BYbApyE Thy Art Is Murder - Light Bearer]] (blackened deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFdfB13_RsI Through the Eyes of the Dead - Two Inches from a Main Artery]] ([=MySpace=] deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3jVTf9ySTI Traitors - Lashing Out]] (downtempo)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkaSKkHYpJA Veil of Maya - It's Not Safe to Swim Today]] (djentcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqBSGMLDXY Vulvodynia - Unveiling the Abomination]] (slamming deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US2LnkOxlm8 A Wake in Providence - The Blvck Sun]] (blackened deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jt2Pd6Ggys Waking the Cadaver - Terminate with Extreme Prejudice]] (slamming deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3uB0jV2s48 Whitechapel - Vicer Exciser]] (brutal deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0-1mcileAw Within Destruction - Human Defect]] (slamming deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RCBA2Q0LLM Within the Ruins - Gods Amongst Men]] (technical deathcore)
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu5BZ9BmdzU Worm Shepherd - Ov Sword and Nail]] (blackened deathcore)
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