WHAT KILLED MATHCORE?
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2021
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What killed mathcore? Some of what I look at:
* Early mathcore bands like Dillinger Escape Plan, Botch, Converge, Rorschach, Deadguy and Coalesce
* Later mathcore bands like Crom-Tech, Orthrelm, and Behold The Arctopus
* The arguable peak of mathcore, including bands like Fall Of Troy "FCPREMIX", Chiodos, At The Drive In and Every Time I Die
* Current artists like Frontierer, Polyphia, Chon and Belmont
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Djent & Mathcore has similar elements?
@@seraphimsforge-master5433 IMO not directly, but I can see it. I would say that the progressive songwriting approach makes it reasonably similar.
@@goner.9989 To me it's the technical aspects, very sharp precision in notes and rhythm in every
But then again I'm not that verse in Mathcore 👀
I love how it sounds tho
@@seraphimsforge-master5433 the more you delve deep, the harder to get out it becomes. Keep on digging down the rabbit hole my friend, and don’t stop.
Man,I haven't heard anybody give deadguy a shout....probably ever
I never really knew much about mathcore, but my first introduction into heavy underground music was Fall of Troy. I was 16, in high-school, picking my brother up from his super ghetto telemarketing job and his chain smoking coworker, who was eating a microwaved frozen burrito was like "dudes, you gotta come out to my car and listen to this band" and really, I think that's how everyone discovers music like that.
Sounds like your typical FOT fan
LMFAO 😂
I struggle to think of a better way to discover new music to be honest.
@@martinpetersen8695 truth. This is music discovery in its purest form.
This comment gave me so many flashbacks to moments exactly like this from my own life hahah it’s such a shared experience. Good times y’all.
Finn: "The amphetamine reptile scene"
Me: *German shepherd confused head tilt*
This statement immediately made me think of the band Showbread 🦎🦎🦎
Amphetamine Reptile were and are a really important Midwestern indie label known for releasing weird, dissonant hardcore-adjacent material, most famously Helmet, Melvins and, as noted in the video, The Jesus Lizard.
@@ConvincingPeople Not The Jeusus Lizard, they were on Touch & Go
@@naughtygawd3269 Huh, you're right. I forgot they were part of that whole Chicago scene.
Have some golf shoes ready.
Deadguy are criminal underrated. My mom knew I liked band shirts so she bought me two deadguy shirts she found at a goodwill when I was in 3rd grade. Didn’t listen to them many years later but I wish I still had those shirts.
Danza III is a masterpiece.
RGT watches Punk Rock MBA, shoulda known... get back to your Grandma's and load up on food and Switch OLED!
I got to see them live as a teenager at the eagles lodge in Wichita Kansas. I still have the hoodie I bought from the show. Seriously underrated band!
Hey look it's Steve Richards!
@RGT 85 whoa dude your channel blew up I remember when it was hella small back in 2015. Met you at a bar once in NC, siiiick!
You da man RGT
Dillinger, Converge, Botch, Coalesce. Legends and they still hold up.
I bullied a friend into seeing Dillinger in columbia, SC. He thanked me after the show.
Also can attest, dillinger shows are a giant safety hazard.
we need a 4th band to complete the 4 horsemen of mathcore
@@DYLANBROCHILL if they were bigger, Duck Duck Goose or Danza.
Listened to Danza 3 last week, still holds up.
Hard disagree. It doesn't even sound like music.
@@aperfecttool257 Coalesce ?
We need a Mathcore revival. But even more weedly weedly parts. Algebracore!
Calculuscore!!!
@@kevinerhardthansen9016 lets up the ante here. Trigonomecore!!! 4th dimension shredding!
@@ZANGELIX1263 All for it!!! 😂
Trigacore
We play in drop D-vision bro
The scream drop in "The Mullet Burden" still gets me.
Dude! Drummer from DestroyerDestroyer here, great vid! That scene was so energized when we were touring in the early 2000s, tons of great kids, great bands really pushing it, and no social media or google maps haha always love your vids great perspective and the empathy comes across. Cheers dude!
Between the Buried and Me can't really be ignored here. They're typically thought of as being a nerdy prog metal band now but their early stuff was a pure mix of mathcore and deathcore that was pretty popular at the time
My group of friends had there song Prequel to the Sequel on rockband and played the hell out of it.
Saw them so many times. Amazing live band.
Without a doubt. Their self title, Silent Circus, & Alaska are heavily mathcore
EXACTLY! shouldve been on here for sure.
100% agree
Lots of young bands still out here doing it really great. Greyhaven, The Callous Daoboys, Ithaca, Employed to Serve, and The Armed are all worth listening to.
I was looking for a comment about the Callous Daoboys. I might check out The Armed, and Employed to Serve, never heard them before. Thanks dude!
Thank you
For dropping Greyhaven
I agree 100% with Greyhaven, callous daoboys and ithaca. ETS and The Armed seem to be moving away from mathcore as of late.
The armed are sick
Awesome recs, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Vein and the DGD spinoff Secret Band are some other great bands with a similar sound. They’re all more heavily mathcore influenced but still scratch the itch
I love this genre, and love Converge, so it's really refreshing that this wasn't a 20 minute Converge circlejerk.
This may be a severe hot take, but given where music is right now at this point in time I feel like the majority of Converge's discography just doesn't really hit anymore. I think maybe WFCC/JD/YFM are still their best and hold up but everything else is either just doesn't have the edge it needs because it's their older material or it's just become extremely by the numbers for them. But idk they've got a lot of records and I've heard a lot of music so maybe this is just what everyone goes through when they hit this point haha
@@waveemann8857 their newer stuff really takes a sludgier turn, which I’m not dissing it just isn’t for me. Their earlier work is much more my speed. Jane Doe will never not slap
Feel like I’m back at Furnace Fest
@@waveemann8857Converge is the only band in that realm of hardcore and whatnot that I can listen to any time any day. Everything else got a little boring for a while. But I’m also dipping my toe back in a little.
The number twelve! A blast from the past! Love what you are doing Finn, helping 35yr old's reminisce about the old scene days. Love from Scotland.
I would definitely recommend Kaonashi to anyone looking for a new and fresh taste of mathcore with that hardcore flavor, both albums "Why Did You Do It" and "Dear Lemon House, You Ruined Me: Senior Year" are golden and emotional rollercoasters
Definitely agree. Good kids too.
Ehhh wasn't a fan, it was the cookie monster vocals for me
Totally forgot they had a new album. Jammed out in a sabella pit with their vocalist a couple yrs ago
@@williamvancourt528 i literally thought the same thing but then i saw them live and it just made sense. and then i went home and watched their music videos and looked at lyrics n what not. i think that their approach is just pure passion and emotion, not just trying to have gutteral lows or fry mids or whatever it may be. it's not formulaic that's for sure.
if you wanted to give them one more try i really recommend "real leather" "my 5 year plan" and "coffees & conversations"
maybe seeing them live made me feel differently about them 🤷♂️
@@Brandon-bc5um that's how i first found out about them and sabella!! i think they were on tour together n my homies were on the bill. sabella goes dummy hard too, way underrated.
The intro reminded me of an interview Dillinger did once. They were asked "whats the craziest thing to happen at a show?" Or something to that effect and the dudes answer was "all the times we thought we killed someone"
Frontierer is doing some really interesting stuff. Unloved was one of my favorite albums of 2018.
Their new one is amazing
Frontierer is 💯
I love frontierer
I grew up in this genre as a mid 90s NJ HC kid. Thanks for the shout outs! RORSCHACH and Deadguy were huge. One of my favorites that gets very little recognition is a band called TimesUp which completely changed my life at the time. One of the best 7" records I've ever owned. ❤️
Kaonashi, Heavy Heavy Low Low, Duck Duck Goose, seeyouspacecowboy, The Fall Of Troy, The Blood Brothers, Fear Before The March Of Flames are all goat status musicians 👑🦾
Still see David from fear before at shows all the time in Denver
Ermagerd I forgot about duck duck goose
Have you heard HHLL new band “Bone Cutter?” They’re really something. Pretty brutal.
@@kingchuckfinley used to love hhll
Heavy heavy low low were nothing but a hack experimental post hardcore band.
CarBomb changed the game with Centralia and are still making good stuff to this day. Burnt by the Sun, Psyopus and Ion Dissonance made some crazy s*** back in the day too
Car bomb is a worthy successor to the mathcore legacy. They fucking rip. Controlled chaos all day
That first Ion Dissonance album is really good
@@superdarly1577 all ion dissonance albums is real guud
Ion Dissonance are legendary. War From A Harlot's Mouth and Remembering Never also went way further than I thought they would. I saw Remembering Never head lining for As I Lay Dying and that's how I discovered them.
Centralia shaped me into what I am now. One of my fave all time albums
Before they called it Mathcore I remember bands like these being referred to just as like "Experimental Hardcore" or some version of that. I definitely was the kid who got in because Christian Hardcore lead me to Norma Jean and that was when Bless the Martyr came out. I remember that album actively giving me headaches and it being the first time I was really into a sound that I felt like I didn't understand. If I had to name a band I didn't hear mentioned I would probably say Fear Before the March of Flames. Great video.
Dude yes! Listening to Bless the Martyr at that point in my life was like watching a disturbing horror movie. I was so fascinated and couldn't even explain why I loved it so much
Art Damage is a 10/10 album for me!
11:57 lol "back then" I saw Dillinger for the first time in 2011 and Greg Puciato looked me square in the eyes before kicking me in the face while crowd surfing and I instantly became a fan of the band.
The Fall of Troy’s Doppelganger was when I realized I had the weedly weedly gene
Alex English by dgd was mine
I just have a picture in my head of their guitarist sitting in a guitar store noodling away while people are both annoyed and impressed.
@@timoratus_music yeah i’ve received both looks from playing their stuff in guitar stores myself 😂
Same here, I was only 14 when it came out and still remember being blown away by "Mouths Like Sidewinder Missiles", still one of my all time favorites.
Edited to correct age, I don't know why I always misremember Doppelganger coming out in 03 lol 🤦🏽
@@atlys258 it was on the 03 and 05 records but yes, that was the first song I heard by tfot and it blew my mind. Legit thought the guitars were like violins or something
Hearing Finn praise PTH and #12 felt like a victory in some form.
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.
I never got into The Number Twelve, but my first concert was them and Protest May 5, 2009. I'm 28 now and it was crazy to see just the other day that Fortress turned 13 yrs old. My brother and his group of friends who were a bit older than me got me into Protest. Still loving their sound to this day.
@@zeroethsort1071 that was a great tour UT you didn't even get the full #12 experience cause Justin had left the band already.
Protest is criminally underrated
literally watched this video just to see if he would mention PTH, i wouldnt even know the term "mathcore" without them
Poor Greg Puciato didn't get a single mention!! I think he should at least be credited for bringing vocal virtuosity to mathcore and extreme music in general.
I remember Dillinger touring with AFI in 2007. I was a diehard AFI fan and worked very hard to get front and center, so I was uniquely assaulted by the opening Dillinger set. My little baby 18 yo self thought I was going to die, I'm not even kidding.
Also one thing to say is there's a community founded in late 2000's, called "Mathcore Index", and this community really saved mathcore scene in late 2010's till now. Fallfiftyfeet, Steaksauce Mustache, Pupil Slicer, Juan Bond, Black Matter Device, same as Car Bomb and Frontierer (also they released a new album "Oxidized" few days ago), they still relevant that they influenced from Dillinger to Psyopus, or from Converge to The Number Twelve Looks Like You, but the problem except for Car Bomb, is they're still not popular like in 2000s (as you know).
P.S. Except for F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. in Guitar Hero 3, Dillinger also appeared on Saint's Row 2 with Milk Lizard.
Not enough people talk about Psyopus. Chris Arp was a fucking genius.
Shout out to Mathcore Index & Dark Trail Records
mathcore index was fucking incredible
I love Mathcore Index, they are the real ones.
Saints Row: The Third also had TDEP - Farewell, Mona Lisa
Still listening to Dillinger escape plan
I'll never stop! my all time favorite artists!
Same.
MILK LIZARD
@@dudesayHEY AND I WAS EVERY QUESTION THAT NEVER HAD AN ANSWER I SEE RIGHT THROUGH YOOOUUUUU
@@ameeerkat WE NEVER EVEN NOTICED THAT THERE ALWAYS WAS A REASON
I feel like a lot of Mathcore bands slowly turned into Djent. Ion Dissonance being a huge example. Listening to Breathing is Irrelevant or Solace, is insanely different from Cast the First Stone. Psyopus is one of my favorite bands and even they verge on the line of appreciating technicality or just being annoying to listen to.
Not wrong Josh travis definitely is a prime example of this.
ID was great
@@Chicagosmisfit tony danza tapdance extravaganza to emmure
Here over in Canada we’ve got a band from Montréal called Ion Dissonance that formed way back in 2001. They were (and are still) one of the best mathcore bands in my opinion after The Dillinger Escape Plan.
I'll check em out thanks
I agree Finn there is no better Mathcore album than "Calculating Infinity" by The Dillinger Escape Plan. That album still holds up today.
And it's 22 god damn years old! It still sounds fresh to my ears
Dillinger's Miss Machine is fkin classic I had that album on repeat a few days ago
Best TDEP album for sure
I love all Dillinger but MM truly bridged the gap between Calculating Infinity and the Greg era. Best album for sure
Always love the videos, and the part where you mentioned the internet and social media like Tik'Tok are bringing a new audiences to different genres really got me thinking of how much influence non-musicians have had in getting different genres out there. We hear comdies talking bands they love, or see Hollywood types walking around wearing their graphic tee's. You did some videos on Magazines and Hot Topic and how they changed the scene but have you thought about people outside the music world who have had a strong influence on music. Like famous fans that bring others to a this band or people you least expect being big punk and metal fans. I know you get pitches for videos all the time but your videos always make me go out and do my own research so I appreciate that. Thanks for the great content.
I think Psyopus was probably as far as you could push the emphasis on being technical/weird and still write somewhat memorable songs. Memorable as much as entire songs based around diminished, two handed tapping riffs can be! 😂
Yeah. Harder to liaten to and groove
The Number Twelve Looks Like You was definitely my favorite mathcore band! "Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear" and "Mongrel" are great albums! Also, not quite mathcore, but more close to just weird post-hardcore, but did anybody else like to listen to The Blood Brothers?
Blood Brothers were my fucking jam back then; 'Burn, Piano Island, Burn' was eye-opening to this then-17 year old
I know its and old comment but this is litearlly the first time i've heard someone beside me mention them.
The Number 12 is my absolute fave band of all time! They're fucking unreal. The two albums you mentioned have remained my favorites since 2008. I had a blood brothers album "Young Machetes" but it doesnt hold up for me 🤔
@@katholmquist My favorite Blood Brothers songs are "Burn Piano Island Burn", "Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck", and "Set Fire to the Face on Fire"!
How do you feel about the most recent Number 12 Looks Like You album? It's a little too much of a shift from their previous albums so I didn't really get much into it myself. Here's to hoping they release another album that returns to that "Nuclear. Sad. Nuclear" sound!
Blood brothers were mind melting dude. Such an amazing band.
To me Mathcore was always way more Interesting than Deathcore. The Chariot to me was the best live band I've ever seen.
Deathcore is one of the most unexciting genres in underground music. And I say that as a HUGE FAN of death metal and metalcore. Lol.
The Red Chord live was as good as deathcore gets
@@Babypapayaproductions oh man the red chord knew how to still put on a crazy good show
Watching The Chariot play the final breakdown of The Deaf Policeman by going down into the pit and having the entire audience climb all over them while screaming the lyrics was the best concert experience I ever had.
Damn, The Chariot... highly underrated band, used to listen to them and Norma Jean all the time.
Man I’m sorry about your throat! As a vocalist i am always so scared of this situation going down, even just in the street. I remember the one season of HBO’s vinyl, one character got knocked in the throat at the height of his career and he was done and understandably bitter forever. Hope ya heal easy and quickly!
I always felt that most of Mastadon's first album was in the Mathcore style. At the time they were on Relapse Records with Today's the Day and Neurosis.
No man, Sludge, it had HC in it but it was Sludge up until Blood Mountain then Proggy Sludge.
lmao no, it’s sludge, neurosis is sludge too
Totally agree, I’d even argue they kept the math core thing going all the way up to their 3rd album Blood Mountain. They obviously had a bunch of other stuff going on too but certainly a heavy math core influence
If you haven't heard Brann and Bill's first band Lethargy, give it a listen! Legitimate "math core"!! Its incredible!
I've only listened to some of Neurosis. god, that stuff is heavy.
The Number 12 Looks Like You is one of my favorites, criminally underrated. Also, Protest The Hero, my favorite band of all-time. Great vid.
It's also hard not to put PtH at #1 for me. Cheers.
The ‘90s was wild for the genre. Many bands that topped each other while making names for themselves simultaneously.
It's like all other genres of music to me. Some bands I like, some I don't. I'm only getting a sample of these bands from this video, but I appreciate the upload even though it took a while for me to watch this (I've been busy with work). Thanks for introducing to a style of music I've never heard of. I've heard of Dillinger (probably from your other vids) but the genre itself is foreign to me...UNTIL NOW! THANKS BRO!
Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza!!!! Omg, thank you for reminding me of half my brain. I used to live outside Nashville and saw these guys anytime i could. Too cool.
“That was like 15 years ago”
*cue Matt Damon Saving Private Ryan gif*
The Dillinger Escape Plan has been one of my all time favorite bands since 2002. Chris Penny (original drummer then went to play for Coheed) was my main inspiration when I started playing drums and TDEP was the main inspiration for the band I was in in jr high. I was lucky enough to be able to see them live on 3 separate occasions, the last being when they opened for Deftones and Greg sang Maynards part in Passenger. Freakin dope.
Thank you so much for introducing me to Frontierer. They are INCREDIBLE
I didn't think I'd ever hear the name Orthrelm again. I got to see them at a local club opening for the locust in southwestern Germany. Definitely one of the craziest shows I have ever been to. And what's most exciting about that is the fact that these bands somehow got enough traction to go on worldwide tours.
Finn, this is a great video, as always. Thank you!
A lot of great bands here. Any love for Rolo Tomassi?
I was hoping you'd mention Frontierer! Really enjoyed this video, I came up through the Mathcore seen in the mid 2000's and so it was fun to see you talk about it.
Deadguy were so influential for a band that only lasted 3 years. Without them, we probably wouldn't have had TDEP, without whom we wouldn't have had Architects, who are essentially leading much of the metalcore scene these days.
Great to hear a shoutout for Protest The Hero. I always thought they were a great blend of more commercial math core and some metal core elements. Kezia is still one of my favourite albums from that era, definitely still holds up really well. In more recent years I’ve also enjoyed some more math-rock/jazz influenced stuff like Battles, Giraffes Giraffes, and to a certain degree GoGoPenguin
PtH still feels like they're on an entirely different plane of existence, but maybe that's Rody being a brilliant song writer.
@@Pslamist their first few albums' lyrics were written by arif, the now former bassist
Hell yeah!! Hangin through this video to see where Number 12 Looks Like You fits into the history and I'm stoked you also consider them one of the best bands from that mid 2000's mathcore era
Wild God's is massively underrated by the metal community but rightfully praised by the math community.
They are the reason I even watched the video lol
It’s really crazy the influence that Guitar Hero had on music and the spread it had. Everything from your standard yacht rock to power metal to mathcore.
I still have FCPREMIX caught in my head a solid decade later, man.
@@JFirecracker that was the exact song i was gonna mention from guitar hero haha
I remember seeing Dillinger Escape Plan live. They were throwing drum gear and mic stands into the crowd.
Hope you ran out with something lol
@@ButWhyMe... I wish
It's wild that dude from Botch went on to be in Minus the Bear, I mean you can hear his off time tapping style but it's just such a different vibe over all. Personally love both bands.
I just barely started listening to Dillinger Esc Plan this year, and very quickly they became one of my favorite bands! I loved the mix of heavy vocals and crazy guitars along with the lyrics as well. So to see this video was both really cool and interesting to watch! Loved seeing what happened to bands similar like this, also gives me more stuff to listen too
Their final show, I edited together my footage with all the others I found online: ua-cam.com/video/eKqcqDNoyFQ/v-deo.html
Calculating Infinity aged like fine wine, defo one of the albums that got me into playing guitar
I wouldn't even say it's aged, it still sounds like something from the future.
@@alondite215 Its absurdily Ahead of Its time that is Ahead of this time!!!
Ben said in an early interview for heart attack fanzine that he started Dillinger escape plan as a direct opposition to the hardcore scene. He said verbatim "being in an old school NYHC band would be his own personal hell!" Which got me interested in them. Then I found out they were from a few towns over and I got even more psyched that people from my county were making music like that! I saw them in 99 blowing fire and everything! The next time I saw them was their last show with Dimitri! Phenomenal show!
Loved this one. Def going to check out Frontierer. Was huge into many of these bands, TDEP, TFOT, #12. Once I found myself owning Orthrelm on vinyl, I knew I had reached the edge and must turn back lol.
After seeing Deadguy play a reunion set last weekend, it was immediately obvious that not only was Keith Huckins's guitar style a huge influence on what would become mathcore, but the way that band carried themselves on stage was too. Even as old dudes they were flailing their instruments around with abandon and absolutely oozing the chaotic energy that made bands like DEP and The Chariot infamous.
I'm not a fan of the whole Christian Hardcore scene (with the exception of the ferocious Zao, and possibly Norma Jean), but ten years ago I saw IWrestledABearOnce as an opener and stuck around for The Chariot (never heard of them to that point) and was blown away by their live show. Couldn't understand why they hadn't crossed my radar before. Then I saw their bassist spruiking Hillsong on Twitter and decided they were just a bit fundie for my taste.
Still can't deny they really brought it in the live arena. I'm Australian and we're not easily impressed
@@jasonlogan5622 That must be the tour where their Perth show got cancelled so they played a living room. That footage is fun as hell and I bet you'd get a kick out of it.
The Fall of Troy was THE band for me for years. Can't say I'm a huge fan of what they've done since reforming, but the first 3 albums + Ghostship are still all time for me
You didn't like OK and Mukiltearth? I thought they were pretty damn good, way better than In the Unlikely Event
I ate, slept and breathed Manipulator... I honestly can't even begin to think of how many times I've heard that album back to front
The ghostship demos were way better than the later versions they recorded
@@Creed_fan_69 100% agree, I don't even think it's close
@@rorz999 you should try mulkiltearth, have the songs were written before doppelganger
Lol at the Motion Mosaic getting shown but not named. Some great stuff there, IMO. Loved the video breakdown. Definitely made a fan.
The Mars Volta's Deloused in the Comatorium and Francis the Mute are both masterpieces.
Dillinger, botch, and Mars Volta man. Damn. I've seen Mars Volta live, so good. Botch ended up have members create minus the bear I do believe , of which I've seen 15 times live. So good there too.
Would absolutely love to see you do a history of Protest the Hero. Super interesting band that’s done their entire career in innovative, unusual ways. From their music to their marketing and funding; would love for more be to have exposure to them.
Love this video. Named a lot of the stuff I was and currently into. I got to see See You Space Cowboy last year in my little sh!t hole west Texas town and it was amazing. Getting to talk to Connie and Ethan was a huge highlight.
finn i’m a huge fan of these videos..a video about a sub-genre i’m not super familiar with but get educated about it through you
I didn’t get into DEP until after they dissolved, but Greg Puciato is killing it lately. His two solo albums and the 2nd Killer Be Killed album were highlights of 2020.
I didn’t even know there was a 2nd Killer Be Killed album!
@@sochioranmyaku dropped about a year ago now. It’s friggin great
@@sochioranmyaku ua-cam.com/video/dMFgUWPvqsU/v-deo.html
Killer be Killed is one of the best supergroups out there
Is The Chariot mathcore? I could never classify them, but now after all these years I might finally know where they fit in.
Also, if I could resurrect one band to see live again, it’d be them. When Josh threw me the mic and I screamed the breakdown to Daggers was one of my best memories.
The Chariot along with Norma Jean are Christian mathcore and...if you really wanted to you could argue some of Underoath's stuff was too.
So so grateful for this video. I've been a huge Norma Jean fan since high school but never did a deep dive into the math core scene. Now I've got a whole bunch of bands to check out!
That Cecil Taylor comparison 🔥
Also 100% on the money about Fall of Troy, Chiodos and Norma Jean exposing a new audience to mathcore. I was too young and missed those 90s bands but in middle school and high school Fall of Troy and Norma Jean were my entry point and I came to love bands like Botch and Dillinger as a result.
Loved this video man! I have some Rorschach on vinyl! As someone who is primarily a jazz musician now (still play in a math core kinda band too) I appreciated the Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman references.
I just saw SYSC live and loved them, thanks for the recommend for Fronterier, great video as always man
Excellent episode. Glad you gave The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza a mention.
It feels like my community is being acknowledged! Thanks! Ive been in the math rock and mathcore scene since 2008, this is 100% accurate.
Watching Car Bomb open up for The Acacia Strain back in like 2011 definitely got me into the more mathcore esque stuff. Them being on relapse and doing a split with Dave Witte’s band Burnt By The Sun also helped me find out about Grindcore like Pig Destroyer and Discordance Axis which has become such a bug part of my life. Every band mentioned in this video rules.
Hell yes Pig Destroyer Prowler in the Yard is my ultimate album. Not the lyrical content but sonically its just insane. Also loved bands like Burnt By The Sun and Coalesce. I always hear Coalesce brought up in this convos but never Burnt by the Sun so thats awesome.
That’s ironic considering TAS has a song called Carbomb lol.
saw them supporting together with lee mckinney, the almighty animals as leaders in luxembourg, what a weird line up but car bomb smashed everything apart, it was completely hillarious
since you showed Spiritbox twice in the vid, you'd be interested to check out the bassist's old band A Textbook Tragedy. their first album is some of my favourite mathcore. they were at the centre of an underground Canadian scene of mathcore adjacent bands, as well.
I had never heard of Fall of Troy until this video. I just checked them out and I freakin' love that sound! Aside from the enjoying your thoughts and commentary on things, I always appreciate you introducing me to new bands.
Dude. This video was great. I've been a fan of the genre since the mid 2000s so it's nice to see it still getting some love. New Frontierer is pretty damn good,sounds like car bomb and that's not a bad thing.
Ill say it again, Coalesce, extremely underrated.
Better than protest the hero
Love functioning on impatience one of their best for sure
DOPPELGANGER by THE FALL OF TROY is the greatest album ever recorded, EVER. Seen Dillinger 10+ times, and they are the greatest live band EVER. Best show I saw with them was the impromptu 09 Rutgers basement show. Unbelievably to see a band that big and destructive in a new brunswick basement
Ya,----but, The Mars Volta Already exist in that parking spot.
@@Whengirlstelephoneboys lmao
Love your channel! And now even more so since i heard you say you do jiu jitsu! What belt level are you?
Great vid man, remember the first Dillinger album at the time, I could barely keep up or recognize it. It was something magical, playing it round my mates chilling. But there was a draw to it I just wanted to keep listening to it without fully knowing why.
Thank you Dillinger Escape Plan for helping me impress that one goth girl from highschool 22 years ago, we dated for months afterwards!
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Wait. Was it because you aped her in, ehem, "Punk-subculture knowledge"? This is weird! Then, is MathGoth a potential sub-sub-genre? Goth/Industrial/R&B, I can get! All of em are baby-makin' music.
@@SeymoreSparda It was more like - everyone around was a typical metalhead, everybody listened to same bands and I was seen as cool and knowledgable by bringing in some new weird shit but we were 16 my dude hahaha
@@dozerjohn Also, imho, Math Rock is really female-friendly. The twinkly-twinkly sound, especially when you bring in also the Midwest-Emo influences, trust me. The Japanese even got girl members in their Math Rock acts! Wanna try getting into the dating game again? Try exposing 'em to Math Rock! It works kinda like Lo-fi Hip Hop.
I remember going to a Dillinger Escape Plan concert here in Spain about 10 years ago. I got hit super hard on my elbow on a mosh pit. Sometimes when the weather changes it still hurts 😂
Nice, you didnt need merch from that show. You already got a souvenir!
Spain that's awesome hello from San Francisco in California
@@Kyle4OH8 I saw Dillinger and Trash talk at the DNA lounge SF!
@@bobunitone hell yeah! I love the DNA lounge seen so many great shows there
Thanks for talking about Rorschach, I remember getting that LP when it came out, and it blowing my mind, I never thought of them as mathcore - mainly because NO ONE used that term yet.
Love the Rorschach recognition! That band blew my mind. They also toured outside of NY/NJ in the early 90s and planted seeds in places like TX, CA, etc.
Hi Finn, I love you amazingly absurd taste in music. As a person from roughly the same generation as you new music has been hard to get into and you have helped me find some new stuff to get into.
I came across some videos titled “10 emo songs every emo kid will flip their shit about” and they all end up being a few years past my favorite times of pop punk, hardcore, emo, and other alternative music. I don’t know if it is in your scope but I would love to see a video or series with that theme but by generation or era. “Era Anthems” “Generation Bangers”.
Highlight a couple of songs from alternative genres starting from maybe even the late 70’s that defined that era and anyone that heard it would get nostalgic and lose their shit. Maybe split by every 5 years or so. 80-85, 85-90 and so on.
Keep doing your thing, Finn. Thanks
Car Bomb has been around since 2000, far from new. I remember finding a demo EP of theirs on an old bootleg music site back in Korea somehow.
Great video... Tony Danza is prob my fav "mathcore" band of all time. Josh Travis is straight fuckin' savage. Dillinger and Car Bomb in a close second and third, although Frontierer is slowly creepin' up there.
get all the neck stuff if you like car bomb. should my fist eye and the st album alone are enough to keep you busy.
Great vid! 😊 My only thought would be; although they’re hailed as the forefathers of what would become the Djent movement, I definitely think Sikth should’ve gotten an honorable mention here.
I guess you could also put them in a ‘tech metal’ box or a mathcore adjacent box but the math and jazz influence is super, super strong with them; and they’ve influenced thousands of bands that came after them not least of all Periphery! 😊
Personally, mathcore makes me physically sick, but because my son is a huge Dillinger fan, I’ve had waaay more exposure than I’d’ve liked. But, over time, I’ve come to appreciate the precision and musicianship of Dillinger, and I shocked my son, by telling him I thought Ben Weinman is one of the best guitarists I’ve ever heard. They were kind enough to release a song I could sing myself, One of Us is the Killer, which was a song I could really get into. Thanks for the history of mathcore. It was really interesting.
Edit: By the way, I’m 62, and used to sing Linda Ronstadt covers, and do harmony arrangements for my husband’s original material.
congrats on being a cool as heck mom, my mom wouldnt even be able to learn the names of the bands i like haha
coolest mom
love this
Into the Moats first album was amazing. Blotted Science as well 👌
I saw Dillinger play in Syracuse "99 maybe in-between them blowing the electrical breakers it was one of the most violent pits I've seen. People collectively lost there shit to them.
Sounds dope man, where'd you see them at?
I'm a native, saw crowbar, unearth, and soulful at the lost horizon
Syracuse shows were a fucking blast back in those days.
Dope. Envious that you caught that lineup
Cool video, there were few bands i haven't heard before, so thanks for that. I would only add two that are not mentioned but i think are great from this era: Sikth and Nuito ;)
Was fortunate to tour with Psyopus for a whole month. Watching Chris Arp shred everynight. One of my favorite (Math,Grind) bands of all time. Anyone that was able too experience any of these bands play during the early too mid 2000s especially live. Sure was a pleasure!
I’ve been waiting for you do a math core video. DEP is one of my fave bands of all time! Also some of the other bands of this genre seems like worth a listen to. Thanks Finn 👊🏼🤘🏼
Frontierer are absolutely smashing it right now. Just released thier third album Oxidized last week, rolling stone have constantly named them in top 20 metal albums of the year, and this one fits the bill easily!
So underrated!!! All 3 projects have been on constant rotation for me. Just fucking outstanding writing all around.
thank you!
SO good!!
I also like their off-shoot band Sectioned, basically the same crazy shit but with less electronic influence. Still filthy though.
their FOURTH* album (okay okay the first one was an EP)
The great thing about being a fan of these bands is following the musicians and the different styles of music they play besides math core. The different projects this guys do are amazing and it’s a great gate way to many different sounds.
I learn a lot of bands that i don’t know back then in the 2000’s with this videos. Very good! I only miss that you don’t talk about the chariot. Side by side with converge, they are my favorite band in the genre. Very chaotic, powerful, dissonant sound with a lot of raw shows with people fucking break things all along. Cheers!
I was one of the many unfortunate fans to feel the bite of Ben’s headstock, when I saw Dillinger and Every Time I Die at the Emerson Theatre in Indianapolis my freshman year of college. Such a good show. The crazy thing was how accurately Ben played while flinging his guitar in every direction.
Dillinger is one of my favorite bands, great video dude. You also nailed describing the type of people who this music appeals to lol maybe a bit too accurate.
Another great vid. Also did you have a cold when filming? Sound a little funny any ways take care man!