Mathcore

Glassing – Spotted Horse Review

By Dear Hollow on May 17, 2019 in 2019, American Metal, Black Metal, Brutal Panda Records, Mathcore, Noise, Post-metal, Reviews, Sludge Metal, Black Metal, Mathcore, Noise Rock, Post-Metal, Sludge Metal, 56 comments

“During my short tenure at AMG, I’ve discovered the magical terror that is the Promo Bin. While it is a World War I-esque no man’s land of one-man black metal carpet bombs, awkwardly rumbling deathcore tanks, nu-metal mustard gas, and experimental drone-doom PTSD, you can find some gems in the trenches while the good Lord Himself picks us, contributors, off one by one. It’s a trve and rvthless battle of good vs. evil, light vs. dark, Jedi vs. Sith, Kramer vs. Kramer, power metal vs. actual metal. It’s all about balance, after all.”

Rolo Tomassi – Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It [Things You Might Have Missed 2018]

By GardensTale on December 4, 2018 in 2018, Avante Garde, British Metal, Ipecac Records, Mathcore, Things You Might Have Missed 2018, Avante Garde, Mathcore, 60 comments

“Rolo Tomassi is an enigma. It’s a band that feels like it shouldn’t be metal, yet it undeniably is. Frontwoman Eva Spence, with her petite stature, sharp fashion sense and pixie haircut, seems more at home in an eco-friendly coffee bar than a metal venue. They seem to hang more around the indie scene than denim-filled dive bars. Hell, they’ve been favorably reviewed by NME, and if that’s not a condemnation of metal cred I don’t know what is.” Cred is for posers.

Noise Trail Immersion – Symbology of Shelter Review

By Kronos on November 5, 2018 in 2018, Black Metal, Italian Metal, Mathcore, Moment of Collapse Records, Reviews, Black Metal, Mathcore, 39 comments

“In the past couple of decades, metal has generated extremity along both rhythmic and harmonic paths, but the two have been largely insulated from another. Meshuggah and The Dillinger Escape Plan meticulously machined immensely complex rhythms, while Deathspell Omega and Ulcerate twisted strings to wring out sickening chords and chilling melodies. And while accusing Meshuggah or Dillinger of harmonic simplicity would be as absurd as dismissing Ulcerate or Deathspell’s considerable rhythmic weight, the approaches of the two schools are rarely invoked at once. That’s where Noise Trail Immersion come in.” New maths.

The Dali Thundering Concept – Savages Review

By Huck N Roll on April 24, 2018 in 2018, Apathia Records, Deathcore, Djent, French Metal, Mathcore, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Deathcore, Djent, Mathcore, Progressive Metal, 45 comments

“First of all, that’s a pretty cool name. The Dali Thundering Concept. Cool enough that it made me spend a couple of hours on the InterGoogle in an effort to discern its origins, but to no avail. Oh well. Here’s what I like about this French band: their music is a mish-mash of styles, including prog, deathcore, djent, and jazz. Aside from the –coreness, I’m up for it.” Loud Dali or no Dali at all!

Of the Sun – Before a Human Path Review

By Saunders on April 12, 2017 in 2017, American Metal, Groove Metal, Nu-metal, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Southern Metal, Unsigned Bands, Groove Metal, Mathcore, Nu Metal, Progressive Metal, 16 comments

“Self-proclaiming their music as ‘southern progressive metal’ sounds interesting on paper, bringing up imaginative scenarios, such as combining a dose of burly Down-styled metal with the adventure and bombast of prog. A number of similar scenarios whipped through my brain before settling in to jam Before a Human Path.” When prog-metal goes south.

The Dillinger Escape Plan – Dissociation Review

By Kronos on October 18, 2016 in 2016, American Metal, Hardcore, Mathcore, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Sporadicore, Hardcore, Mathcore, Progressive Metal, 42 comments

“There will be no encore. The hour is nigh when some lucky few will experience the last gig, the last song, the last moment of the world’s most violent performative force. And the rest will be silence – because after The Dillinger Escape Plan leave the stage, the vacuum left behind won’t fill.” ‘Nuff said.

Plebeian Grandstand – False Highs, True Lows Review

By Kronos on April 22, 2016 in 2016, Avante Garde, Black Metal, French Metal, Hardcore, Releases, Reviews, Throatruiner Records, Black Metal, Mathcore, Noise, 38 comments

Plebeian Grandstand is a name destined for immortality. Over the course of two albums – 2011’s How Hate is Hard to Define and 2014’s Lowgazers, the Tolousian group have annihilated any doubt as to their supremacy in extremity. How Hate is Hard to Define’s distillation of noise, black metal and mathcore proved their worth as ‘the angriest band on the planet,’ but the sheer ambition of Lowgazers propelled the group somewhere further.” Prepare to be destroyed.

Things You Might Have Missed 2015: Okazaki Fragments – Abandoned

By Kronos on December 8, 2015 in 2015, Avante Garde, Canadian Metal, Death Metal, Grind, Progressive Death, Releases, Things You Might Have Missed 2015, Death Metal, Mathcore, 19 comments

“If Luc Lemay wrote a deathgrind album, the early demos would sound something like Okazaki Fragments. Earlier this year, the Calgary-based extreme metal outfit’s debut Abandoned blindsided me like a drive-by at Tim Horton’s by mixing rabid grindcore with the avant-garde tendencies of Gorguts and Pyrrhon in search of an ever more deformed and disgusting style of death metal. They found it.” Colour Kronos impressed.

The Armed – Untitled Review

By Kronos on June 27, 2015 in 2015, American Metal, Hardcore, No Rest Until Ruin, Reviews, Hardcore, Mathcore, 20 comments

“Detroit’s The Armed caught fire in 2012 with their second EP, Spreading Joy and haven’t lost momentum since then; successive years have seen EPs, splits, and singles, but until now an LP has been elusive. Now we know why. This LP, left untitled, is an out-of-left-field insurgency, absolutely decimating the group’s previous output and reinventing the mosh-friendly and hard-hitting mathcore that made “Cop Friends” and “Sterling Results” smash skulls and wreck cervicals.” And worst cover of the year goes to….

Burn The Army – The Tide to Sink the Summit EP Review

By El Cuervo on October 17, 2014 in 2014, American Metal, Metalcore, Post-metal, Reviews, Mathcore, Metalcore, 10 comments

“Citing likenesses to Isis, Converge and Tool, Indianapolis’s Burn The Army drew me with its promo blurb promising technical and progressive post-metal. Someone notify The Official Metal Categorisation Agency™ because it’s taken twenty years, but technical and progressive post-metal has officially been redefined! Unfortunately, what you’ll find on The Tide to Sink the Summit, their first EP, is fantastically average metalcore.” Once there was a time when Steel Druhm had to review all the metalcore. Now, we have people who do that for him.