History Music / DespisedIcon

* {{Deathcore}}: Along with Whitechapel, All Shall Perish, and Suicide Silence, they were the poster children of the genre. With Whitechapel only tangentially representative of the genre at this point, they are probably even closer to being its face.

* MetalScream: Erian is a Type 1, while Marois is a hybrid of a Type 1 and a Type 2.

* MurderBallad: "Silver Plated Advocate", "Warm Blooded", and "Eulogy"; the first is about a madman on a shooting spree, the second is about a serial arsonist moving on to people and making his first kill, and the third is about a murder/suicide scenario.

* YourCheatingHeart: "A Fractured Hand" is about a man who (seems to) have gotten estranged from his girlfriend and has cheated on her at least once and how it hurts him, how he no longer loves her the same way he used to.

That, however, did not guarantee their continued existence, as the band announced in April of 2010 that they would be dissolving at the end of the year thanks to a desire to start a new chapter in their lives, with the band having grown too big to make this possible if it were to remain together. After a frantic barrage of farewell tours, they performed their final show at the Club Soda in Montreal on December 5, 2010. Since then, most of the members have settled down and stuck to low-key family-oriented lives, though Lavelle joined Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder in 2012, while Erian started the {{Metalcore}} band Obey the Brave. As of February 4, 2014, several reunion appearances have been announced along with the implication that there will be many more to come, and as of 2016, they have signed to Nuclear Blast Records and are preparing to release ''Beast'', their fifth full-length.

Despised Icon was a Canadian deathcore band. Characterized by their dual-vocal system, frequent use of odd time signatures and dissonant chords, and mindblowingly fast and hard-hitting drumming, they were the arguable kings of the genre in their heyday before they chose to pack it up in 2010 and burn out rather than fade away.

* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Pelletier was known for his jawdropping speed and immense power, as well as his extremely physical playing style.
* {{Deathcore}}: Along with Whitechapel, All Shall Perish, and Suicide Silence, they were the poster children of the genre.

The band contains examples of the following tropes:

* ''Day of Mourning'' (2010)

That, however, did not guarantee their continued existence, as the band announced in April of 2010 that they would be dissolving at the end of the year thanks to a desire to start a new chapter in their lives, with the band having grown too big to make this possible if it were to remain together. After a frantic barrage of farewell tours, they performed their final show at the Club Soda in Montreal on December 5, 2010. Since then, most of the members have settled down and stuck to low-key family-oriented lives, though Lavelle joined Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder in 2012, while Erian started the {{Metalcore}} band Obey the Brave. As of February 4, 2014, several reunion appearances have been announced along with the implication that there will be many more to come, though it seems likely that they are on a strictly live-only basis.

* LeadDrummer: Pelletier is known for his absolutely unbelievable speed, power, endurance, and precision, and his abstinence from using click tracks means that he usually plays even ''faster'' live ([[UpToEleven yes, this includes "MVP"]]). Along with [[Music/{{Origin}} John Longstreth]], he was also one of the first users of gravity blasts; while fellow Montreal residents [[Music/{{Cryptopsy}} Flo Mounier]] and Justin Rousselle (Beneath the Massacre) were also early adopters, Pelletier is on record as having used them as early as 2002 or 2003, while Mounier didn't pick them up until around 2005 and the latter picked them up roughly a year before him. As such, it's likely that he's the reason why so many death metal drummers from Quebec make use of them.

* LeadBassist: Piche and Lavelle were both type As.

* StartMyOwn: Erian left Music/{{Neuraxis}} to form Despised Icon and later formed Obey the Brave after Despised Icon folded.

That, however, did not guarantee their continued existence, as the band announced in April of 2010 that they would be dissolving at the end of the year thanks to a desire to start a new chapter in their lives, with the band having grown too big to make this possible if it were to remain together. After a frantic barrage of farewell tours, they performed their final show at the Club Soda in Montreal on December 5, 2010. Since then, most of the members have settled down and stuck to low-key family-oriented lives, though Lavelle joined Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder in 2012, while Erian started the {{Metalcore}} band Obey the Brave. As of February 4, 2014, several reunion appearances have been announced along with the implication that there will be many more to come.

* LighterAndSofter: Quite a few people would say this about ''Day of Mourning'', as it toned down the discordant math breaks that were their trademark in favor of a greatly increased amount of standard deathcore chug breaks, in addition to dumbing down their normally dark, introspective, and frequently political lyrics into more [[JerkJock "bro"]]-friendly ones with a [[PurpleProse fairly thin guise of sophistication]]. Depending on who you ask, ''Ills'' was also this to a lesser degree.

* TakeThat: "Made of Glass" was a not-so-subtle "fuck you" to Al Glassman for leaving the band to join Job for a Cowboy after having been a member for barely two years.

* UncommonTime: A big part of their sound.

* [[FiveManBand Six-Man Band]]:
** TheLeader: Erian
** TheLancer: Marois
** TheBigGuy: Pelletier
** TheSmartGuy: Lavelle
** TheHeart: Jarrin
** TheSixthRanger: Landreville

That, however, did not guarantee their continued existence, as the band announced in April of 2010 that they would be dissolving at the end of the year thanks to a desire to start a new chapter in their lives, with the band having grown too big to make this possible if it were to remain together. After a frantic barrage of farewell tours, they performed their final show at the Club Soda in Montreal on December 5, 2010. Since then, most of the members have settled down and stuck to low-key family-oriented lives, though Lavelle joined Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder in 2012, while Erian started the {{Metalcore}} band Obey the Brave. A reunion seems highly unlikely and is most likely completely out of the question.

* StartMyOwn: Erian started Obey the Brave sometime after the band dissolved.

That, however, did not guarantee their continued existence, as the band announced in April of 2010 that they would be dissolving at the end of the year thanks to a desire to start a new chapter in their lives, with the band having grown too big to make this possible if it were to remain together. After a frantic barrage of farewell tours, they performed their final show at the Club Soda in Montreal on December 5, 2010. Since then, most of the members have settled down and stuck to low-key family-oriented lives, though Lavelle joined The Black Dahlia Murder in 2012, while Erian started the metalcore band Obey the Brave. A reunion seems highly unlikely and is most likely completely out of the question.

* {{Deathcore}}: Along with Whitechapel and Suicide Silence, they were the poster children of the genre.

* BrokenBase: ''Like you would not believe''. Was ''Poison'' their only good album, or was it just another Red Chord clone? Was ''Ills'' a bold new progression of their sound or was it the beginning of their slide into being just another bro-pandering band? Was ''Day'' their strongest album yet, or was it a pile of wigger trash that stood as a symbol of everything wrong with the deathcore genre? Seriously, for a band with only four full-length releases, they have a very divided fanbase.