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Deathcore joins brutal death metal’s blast beats and slam riffs with hardcore breakdowns. Montreal’s Despised Icon started from that mix in 2001, drawing on Suffocation, Devourment and Dying Fetus as much as on Hatebreed and Madball, and by the middle of the decade the new sound was challenging metalcore’s hold on the US scene. Carnifex’s “Dead In My Arms”, Suicide Silence’s “The Cleansing” and Whitechapel’s “The Somatic Defilement” all arrived in the second half of 2007. Simple breakdowns, booming digital bass and ‘pig squeal’ vocals became the style’s best-known habits and later the easiest targets of a backlash, and Job For A Cowboy turned away from the deathcore name before recording their first album.
Tennessee’s Whitechapel, part of the scene since the genre began, still lean on guttural heaviness, dive bombs and breakdowns on “Hymns in Dissonance”. Zurich quartet Paleface Swiss bring groove-heavy nu-metal elements and a hip-hop-influenced track into “Cursed”, which opens on a reworked Canarian lullaby. Polish band Awakeness started out near Oświęcim in 2019 leaning toward metalcore, and on “Low Spirits” they keep deathcore’s intensity while digging into black metal, doom and thall. Boston trio AlphaSix tell a serial sci-fi horror story about a rogue AI across the chapters of “Assimilate: Oceans”, and Radovan of Slovak band Sinner Self speaks bluntly about music media that ignore underground bands. Brec Destroyer calls “Griefeater”, his single with Void.404, the heaviest song in his catalogue; its lyrics give grief a first-person voice.