
r/Deathcore

What are your favorite Acacia Strain songs pre-2020 and why
My fav albums by them are Soul Decay (2020) and You Are Safe From God Here (2025). I want to explore and appreciate their older music more. Inspire me!
Emotional Deathcore?
Pain remains 1 by Lorna remains one of my favorite cause it just has so much emotion to it, what are some other emotional deathcore songs?
Crewcabanger by Chelsea Grin cover in my car
Just moved into an apartment so I can't scream there so I went to a parking lot with a tiny microphone
David Simonich appreciation post
Just saw Signs of the Swarm live for the first time in Münster, Germany.
The entire band was absolutely crushing it and I have to note that Dave was the best live vocalist I have ever seen personally. That guy is like a well oiled machine, its like his throat is constantly, well... extremely wet i guess? No idea how he does it and that's the only way I can describe it, but it sounds absolutely incredible. The whole show was amazing, i cant even name a single flaw with their performance. Can absolutely recommend, hats off.
Distant announced a tour with Heavy//Hitter, Katywentmissing, Torn Open and Squelching
Source - https://www.instagram.com/p/DcOdd22DK-5/?igsh=amo2N2ZkMHJybWNs
I think this is a pretty solid lineup, what do you all think?
Y'all showed me Mental Cruelty
I've been off and on with Deathcore since the 2010's because I listen to so many different genres and get hyper focused on this or that. I've swung back into Deathcore, and while I really don't like the bigger acts like Lorna, I do love what everyone here is usually talking about. Someone posted about Mental Cruelty and their new single, The Serpent of Midgard. So, I went and listened to Zwielicht.
My commute to work is about 80min, perfect for this album.
It fucking moved me. It's got everything I've ever looked for in a metal album. Orchestral sections, balance, buildups, crashes, blasts, riffs, ambience, it's atmospheric at times, cleans - there are no misses. Well, except that I've been missing, totally sleeping.
So thank you, r/deathcore for blowing my fucking mind, again, with another discovery.
Cheers.
In the past couple of day i found psycho frame and i fell in love with their music recommend me more stuff like that
Other bands I like are mauled innfant annihilator, kubai khan tx and peelingflesh
Where’s the pet merch at?
I just got my dog a dope snoopy hoodie and I was thinking how cool it would be if we matched. Yeah fuck you whatever. Anyways the only bad that has official pet merch available is Lorna shore as far as my Google skills can tell. Anyone know of any stores or bands that have shit like hoodies and t shirts for dogs?
Mental cruelty - Symphony of a Dying Star (vocal cover)
Could there be another subhgenre that suits me better? I'm new here
For context, I'm newer to death core since I've only been listening to it for about 8 months. I come from a metal preference that has typically been about being heavy and angry. With artists that at least portray their on- stage character matching their sound well. Think max cavalera era of sepultura and soulfly, Pantera, early slipknot, early korn, log,etc. Basically really heavy groove. But then I randomly watched a live slaughter to prevail performance, and my ability to tolerate "deathcore vocals" instantly changed. Sending me down a delightful rabbit hole to where I am now. I use Spotify to suggest artists constantly. And I've narrowed down my favorite artists to this list, in this order:
Whitechapel
The acacia strain
Slaughter to prevail
All shall perish
Thy art is murder
Fit for an autopsy
And... Spite.
The theme seems to be mostly older deathcore. Heavy riffs with the drums being more complimentary instead of in your face. Riff Downs or beat downs ( not hating DC breakdowns, it's just like a sneeze that never comes sometimes). And consistent vocals that serve the song better, instead of hitting every vocal range just because.
Is there a genre that best suits my needs? I like deathcore, but it seems I like less than half of the artists I come across. I thought maybe it was slam, but that didn't really seem right. Old deathcore? A genre I never heard of? There's allot of terms I hear thrown around that I have no idea of what it is lol. Thanks for any discussion!
I played through all Halo games to better understand the lyrics of Shadow of Intent
The lyrics are actually really really cool now that I understand the context. For some reason I completely skipped Halo growing up and had to discover it just last year. Amazing franchise. Now I know why it inspired a whole ass band
Edit. It was really cool hearing the actual Shadow of Intent ship be called out in Halo 3
Daniel Terry from the DFT Dungeon takes a seat at the breakfast table to breakdown the 2004 Zao album; "The Funeral of God." IN TIMES GONE PAST, Daniel would have sung THE LAST SONG FROM ZION. This time, Danger sees THE LESSER LIGHTS OF HEAVEN. Monster joins Daniel to PRAISE THE WAR MACHINE.
"This band belongs to me now."
"Everybody with their tight pants and stud belts doing karate in the middle of the youth room."
"That doesn't sound like something Hillsong would write a song about does it?"
"Zao...the IPA of music?"
"This is the last song from Zion. And Tampa!"
"#notmyzao."
To those that claim deathcore is a fusion of hardcore and death metal and not metalcore with death metal, what (actual) hardcore bands have inspired deathcore bands?
I’d say it’s mostly agreed upon that deathcore is fusion of metalcore and death metal, but there are plenty that further reduce it to hardcore specifically ignoring the metal influence that metalcore brings to the table. Hardcore and metalcore go hand in hand obviously, but are fundamentally two different genres at the end of the day. That being said, you usually hear about the death metal and metalcore bands cities as influences, but hardly ever actual hardcore bands. Also deathcore bands are commonly either mistaken for death metal or metalcore, but rarely for hardcore.
Also, when I say hardcore I don’t mean hardcore leaning metalcore, I mean proper hardcore that cannot under any circumstances be confused for metalcore. It has to actually sound like a punk genre with punk riffs. This would be bands like Gorilla Biscuits, Sick Of It All, etc. Metalcore in this case also refers to that OG metalcore style to include bands like Earth Crisis, Hatebreed, Disembodied, etc. and not to melodic metalcore, scenecore, etc.
DAWNWARD - The Great Tribulation / Modern Metal, 2026. (For fans of new-wave metal: Gojira, Decapitated, Lamb of God)
Gentlemen, I'm very interested in your thoughts on my band's new single, "The Great Tribulation ." We play melodic modern metal from Kyiv, Ukraine
I'd be happy to hear what you do and don't like about it!
Psycho-frame?
what does this subreddit think of Psycho-Frame? personally, I really like them, but I’m interested to hear what you all think.
Bands with a similar sound to manifesto 1.0 - Orphan
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Shadow of Intent - No Matter The Cost. Underrated hidden gem?
Re-listened to the album recently and got hooked to this track. Have been replaying it constantly the last few days! Then I looked at Spotify and noticed it was the second least played song from the whole album.
I wonder why the song was so overlooked? How's it flying under everyone's radar? There are some really heavy hitters on this album and my favourite album by SoI so far, but this track? It's a fucking banger! I think it deserves some love.
Stoked for the new Distant drop in November
Flesh and Nails and Nothing Left to Hate go hard AF
Y’all dig these motherfuckers?