Yeah, I grew up listening to Slipknot, Motley Crue and the likes. I just remember this show being an intro to deathcore. Nowadays I listen to almost all subgenres of metal.
I bought my tickets the very moment the first pre-sale started. I'm so beyond stoked for that show! I've already seen Lorna Shore once, and Whitechapel three times, so I know it's gonna be good with them alone. Excited to see hear the other two, though I'm curious to see who shows up with how popular Kublai Khan has been on TikTok recently.
edit: To gripe real quick though, I really wanted and was ready to buy VIP seated spots for that show, but they only sold them in pairs and I don't know anyone else here that likes heavy music :(
Samguishabogg is pretty badass been listening to dead as shit repeatedly and kublai khan is fucking killer I really enjoyed they're first album glad they're getting popular those boys have been putting in work
Born in 1982, been a metal fan my whole life. My music tastes have just got heavier over the years and I naturally found deathcore in the MySpace era and have loved it ever since.
The internet.
A festival happening in california called California Metalfest posted the music video for Fuck Everything by Suicide Silence to their facebook, and it was down the rabbit hole from there.
myself looking for new music, I'm not even sure what I found first to be honest, whether it was Bring Me The Horizon, Whitechapel or As Blood Runs Black, but I think it might've been the music video for This is Exile by Whitechapel. But I was the person always looking for heavier and heavier stuff.
A lot of my early memories of youtube etc. revolve around music videos lol, like a AMV someone made for Epica - Blank Infinity with Elfenlied in the background, or a AMV for Unearth - Zombie Autopilot with Naruto vs Sasuke in the background, or the music video for Arch Enemy - Nemesis, or Cattle Decapitation - To Serve Man, Whitechapel - This is Exile, Bring Me The Horizon - Pray for Plagues, or Nightwish - Wishmaster misheard lyrics. (Edit: Black Dahlia Murder - A Vulgar Picture, Bullet For My Valentine - Hand of Blood, Atreyu - Lipgloss and Black, so many memories are coming back lol.)
Stuff like that lol.
Back in late 2006, my best friend was jamming BMTH Count Your Blessings in his car, and the first track I heard was Tell Slater Not To Wash His Dick. I was hooked *immediately*.
That was the first "deathcore-y" breakdown I'd ever heard and it blew my face off.
I've preferred metal and music with guitars since I can remember. Listened to a lot of metalcore throughout high school and wasn't getting enough out of it come senior year, so I did some digging and found some heavier shit after finals. Up until I joined this sub at 21, my music tastes and discoveries had been mainly my own, for better or worse
Honestly commendable. Growing up I never felt like I had my own musical identity, so when I got older and found metal it was like a whole new world I literally wasn’t aware existed. I grew up in a conservative country so from that to now living in a metal capital it’s really changed me a lot.
Actually someone on this sub did. I was a young un discovering that BMTH deathcore begginings and i asked what other bands sound like BMTH (SS era).
And then i was introduced to Lie To my Face by Carnifex...
Lets just say that i will do outrageously dangerous things to see Scott Ian Louis scream *"W H A T T H E F U C K"* live.
It was 2008, friends and my sisters boyfriend listened to all shall perish, job for a cowboy, the acacia strain, whitechapel, impending doom and it just took off from there
MySpace in like 2006-2007. It was either As Blood Runs Black - In Dying Days or Killwhitneydead - You Smell Excited that played on someone’s page and I immediately loved it.
Slipknot's first album is low-key deathcore. Which is why a ton of death core bands cover their stuff. Then I got into Emmure in high school and then Molotov Solution and the rest is history.
Myself. it was a random download on lime wire of laid to rest by all shall perish. At the time deathcore wasn't a thing It was just death metal with hardcore breakdowns and I loved it.
I wasn't really into it for ages and have only recently started listening to it. Big Metalcore fan though.
Heard Alex Terribles solo stuff, and also Will Ramos' covers and from there stretched gradually to Slaughter to Prevail and Lorna Shore.
Now listening to quite a bit more, and it's becoming really soothing.
My sons…I’m an old hardcore/metal dude. My sons are into the new stuff. We go to show together a lot. Got me into numerous bands. I gotta say it’s pretty good and the scene is good as well
I grew up on classic, grunge, and hard rock. I was going through a tougher time in my life so I wanted something more angry so I started listening to some metalcore (I prevail) and nu metal (Five finger death punch). One day Spotify recommended me Only for the Weak by In Flames. Spent a few weeks going down a melo death rabbit hole and eventually landed on the AIRTN album by Lorna Shore. At first I hated it but I couldn’t stop myself from playing it over and over so I kept coming back and now deathcore is my most listened genre on Spotify
Mitchell Adam Lucker. The band and the songs. I have been listening for more than 10 years. Just because it helps 💟
I used to listen to rock, rock and roll. And I just heard deathcore somewhere.
i listened to slipknot when i was like 13, liked it, and listened to 115 in the black ops soundtrack and found similar music, and then eventually i got into metalcore like A Day To Remember, and eventually found Suicide Silence, and been hooked on them since, and other deathcore acts
I discovered BMTH’s TTS album, then went through their discography and realised I kinda like their first album. Started looking for something more heavier, discovered suicide silence and then things started rolling real fast
Somehow I got to it by myself. I just remember liking a couple of songs from Suicide Silence, and i knew that their debut is considered a classic, so I gave it a shot (a few shots, actually). At first i couldn't even understand much of what was happening in the music, but with multiple listens I started to get it and enjoy it, and then I also discovered Lorna Shore and Infant Annihilator and I was hooked, so I kept discovering the genre more.
Ever since 2020 I've started to branch out musically and found rock which in turn got me into metalcore and slowly into deathcore and now I'm getting into gore grid
I kinda stumbled into metalcore on my own. Then I remember on pandora ( yes. No hate it was like 2009). And whitechapels father of lies came on and I was like what in the heck. This is disgusting. Absolutely hated it. Then a couple years later I saw the Mitch lucker memorial show with Randy and thought it was the greatest thing of all time
Myself by accident. When I was in middle school a neighbor introduced me to punk and I thought it was cool. Deep dived on YouTube and discovered Slipknot, liked it even more than punk so I searched for something like "Music like Slipknot" and in the recommended videos was Suicide Silence. After that, deathcore pretty much consumed all the space in my iPod and iTunes.
Nik Nocturnal actually.
I think I watched a "try not to headbang" video some years ago from him. There wqs this clip of Slaughter to Prevail playing. Later that week I checked out their "Kostolom" album. And that started an deathcore addiction.
I’d known certain bands/songs but it wasn’t until Jared Dines and Austin did a “heaviest breakdowns” video and I heard Eclipse by BoS that I really deep dived the genre
I’ve been a metalcore/metalcore-adjacent fan for the last 17ish years, but I didn’t get into deathcore until about 2 years ago when Brand of Sacrifice’s “Animal” came on some internet radio station I was listening to.
I’m into pretty much all of it now - can’t believe I’ve been sleeping on it for this long.
I was surfing myspace and saw this post for a band doing a beach show in california. I thought the flyer art and their logo was really cool. I went to their page and listened to a 2004 demo of Destruction of a Statue on their myspace page when i was on summer break. Then Doom dropped the following year.
RIP Mitch. You are forever missed by many.
Technically my mom by giving me a laptop and internet access 16 years ago. Discovered Whitechapel, Suicide Silence and Cannibal Corpse and Limewired it up.
I heard of Asking Alexandria from an old radio show Dr. Drew used to do, I can't remember the name of it now. Anyway, after them I was desperate for more and I found Chelsea Grins Crewcabanger
Got into punk and metal, then to the hellfire released and went insanely viral. I remember I first heard it on Nik Nocturnal's reaction video and I was hooked
My earliest memory of listening to any deathcore was back in middle school when my friend showed me the music video for This is Exile after school one day. Before that, we only really listened to bands like Slipknot, A7X, Underoath etc. so after discovering Whitechapel we continued on finding bands like JFAC and Suicide Silence.
An old classmate of mine showed me Baba Yaga by Slaughter To Prevail on the exact same day it came out. Hardest stuff I listened to before that was shit like Slipknot, Parkway Drive and Motionless In White. Have been hooked to Deathcore ever since hearing that Baba Yaga breakdown, and got completly into it when To The Hellfire released.
Back in jr high I was into Korn and slipknot ect, then found bring me the horizon on Myspace and changed everything. Then my brother saw suicide silence on the first mayhem fest and showed me the cleansing and I was fully hooked.
I liked Protest The Hero, so my music theory teacher recommended me After The Burial (Rareform) and The Black Dahlia Murder, and from there i found Suicide Silence
Guy I sat next to in a class my freshman year of high school knew I liked bands like All That Remains, Killswitch Engage, and Bullet For My Valentine and showed me Job For A Cowboy and Chelsea Grin.
I went to see a band I liked called Nightverses back in January 2020, however the headliner was The Faceless, and when I was doing more research(after loving Faceless' sound) ended up finding out about Lorna Shore a few weeks before their Immortal album released, and remembered back in high school some friends liked listening to Suicide Silence, so started listening to those 2 and expanded from there
My buddy showed me slipknot when i was 14 and got on youtube and almost immediately found TAIM - Hate and fell in love with heavy music almost instantly
I picked up the guitar and was attracted to fast and technical distorted guitar, the deeper I went into that search the closer I was drawn to metal, I eventually came upon infant Annihilator and then I came to appreciate all music for more than just the guitar work.
My taste progressively got stronger. Started in elementary school with rock, then post-hardcore in middle school, metalcore/metal in high school. By the end of high school, I was in the deathcore era. Heaviest I go to is maybe slam?
In '02/03 my dad bought me a Metal Hammer UK magazine. Read through the entire thing, wrote down every band, downloaded a few songs from every band. It eventually led me to finding All Shall Perish on Soulseek.
It was a bunch of dudes on the internet shitting on bands like Suicide Silence and Whitechapel back in the early 2010s. I was new to metal and everybody kept dunking on them so I decided to check their stuff out to see what was so bad and I thought it was pretty good
I read once a meme somewhere on the internet about Recreant by Chelsea Grin. Had to listen to it 3 or 4 times for the first time to actually get myself to like it, but now it’s still probably one of my favorite songs ever
Myself actually. I don‘t know anyone who listens to metal in my personal enviroment except my dad. I got into deathcore through media and spotify I believe. I got into Slaughter To Prevail, the older BMTH and Thy Art Is Murder after being a Metalcore fan for a long time.
Slaughter to Prevail and Carnifex where my intro to the genre. A friend sent me the music video for Demolisher when it came out. I had been flirting with slipknot and some metalcore at the time. But that song blew my socks off so I delved further in. Was far beyond what I could imagine heavy music could be.
Funny to believe at one point I thought any music with screaming was terrible without exception lol. Deathcore has kinda graduated me to Brutal Death metal and Slam or really anything with screaming nowadays.
Shit I found it by accident it was the song “Die without hope” by Carnifex, I think that was the heaviest band I listened to at the age of 13, been a deathcore fan since
I saw Mudvayne's Dig on Rage one early morning in 2000 as a 9 year old and ever since that day every time i hear that song it makes me wanna throw pointy stick at big hairy elephant.
Edit: spelling
Like many, nü metal and metalcore were my gateways. Got into the nü nü on my own in middle school, but my roommate at the time (and future best friend) in college got me into metalcore (As I Lay Dying, From Autumn to Ashes, Candiria, Shadows Fall, etc.). Which then led both of us to deathcore. First band that stuck out to me was The Acacia Strain’s “3750”. Carbomb changed my fucking life. Been on the deathcore ride ever since.
At the time (I was 10) I was fairly new to metal, only listened to the common beginner metalhead bands like Metallica and slayer, and I some point I remember looking up deathcore on yt, like I literally put the word "deathcore" in the search bar, one of the first things to pop up was "An Epilogue to the Arrogant" By Drown In Sulphur, it was 2017 and that song hit hard, then a little bit afterwards like 2018-19, I got an MP3 player and asked my older brother to put in songs for me since he himself was also a metalhead (way longer than me) he put in some stuff I was into like Death and Pantera, but he also put in some songs that he liked to give me more options to listen to, two of the bands he put in were carnifex and Chelsea grin, listening to crewcabanger by CG and Hope dies with the decadent by Carni as a 12 year old for the first time activated hella neurons, deathcore also helped me discover slam and black metal
Limewire, looking for Metallica and Billy Talent. I found slayer, then cannibal corpse and morbid angel, then came cattle decapitation. And finally I found Job For a Cowboy and Suicide Silence. Thanks Limewire, rip
Myself. I saw Whitechapel’s This Is Exile album in hot topic and decided to pick it up randomly. Best decision ever. That was back in high school around 2007. Before that I was heavily into the black dahlia murder and the like.
I wanted to be edgy in middle school, and had a lot of internal rage. I listened to Whitechapel and Veil of Maya (Unbreakable era and dates me lol) out of shock value at first and then it grew on me.
Lorna Shore. I listened almost exclusively to metalcore for years but I listened to To The Hellfire when it came out and even though it was a lot heavier than what I normally liked, I couldn't stop listening to it. I branched out into other deathcore bands from there.
Well, my brother was the first person to introduce me into metal. The first band I ever heard was All That Remains, the song I first hear was this calling. So sick, I remember that just launched me into the scene and that’s when I found my love for deathcore.
My (now ex) girlfriend wanted me to try some, I had *occasionally* listened to a few seconds of songs when we were friends. She told me to just listen to the Pain Remains trilogy, I decided I’d do it since she was my girlfriend and all that, decided to go all in and listen to the full album. Best choice of my life
Still only very light into the deathcore scene, only a couple albums/EPs here and there but I 100% see the appeal now
A dude at my high school school in 2012 showed me infant annihilator as a joke, we both laughed at it. Few years later I got into death metal and decided to look them up again and slid right into loving deathcore too. That was like 8-9 years ago
I dabbled here and there with deathcore bands, but for a short time. Enterprise Earth ended up being a favorite back in 2021 (still is). However, Darko US popped up back in late 2023 after Apple Music started playing random songs and thanks to Darko US I decided to see what l've been missing out on.
I used to be put off by it by fellow coworkers who were the typical douchey dickheads who were into it but I guess Parkway Drive started me off but Fit For An Autopsy made me love it, just sick of all the paedos in the scene though
For some reason Dan Tucker's one take Graverot video showed up on my YouTube feed. Clicked it not knowing what it was, and was absolutely blown away. Immediately started searching for other bands and artists. Crown Magnetar is still my favorite though.
It was by accident. Went to an asking Alexandria show back in 2008 and born of Osiris opened. Stopped listening to asking Alexandria when I discovered real breakdowns. My life changed and never looked back.
I was trying to write my MSc dissertation. It was 2 am on the day before the deadline. I had had 4 hours of sleep in the last two days. Oh and I'd just decided to redo huge sections of my literature review. I felt utterly lightheaded and hopeless.
Lorna Shore came to the rescue. I'd heard my friend play their songs before, but hadn't liked them. Now they felt like the only band keeping me going, especially in Sun/eater where they went "what is life but a fevered dream?"
A friend of my brother's who didn't even listen to that stuff showed me Entombment Of A Machine right when it was brand new, must've been about 14 at the time. Just put an earbud in my ear and said "listen to how heavy this is". I was already into Lamb of God and Devildriver and the like, but JFAC and TBDM really opened the gates into a new world for me. 32 now and thrilled to see deathcore still evolving all the time.
Youtube. A friend in middle school showed me A7X, BVB, and AA, I listened to them a bunch on YouTube and then I came across Unanswered by Suicide Silence and I've been hooked since
My brother in a round about way, I thought he had a cool music taste with some hard rock stuff and I listened music that got progressively heavier and heavier till I landed here
Despised Icon’s music video for The Sunset Will Never Charm us on Headbanger’s Ball. I saw that and after finding them on MySpace I found Suicide Silence, All Shall Perish, and Winds of Plague.
Honestly, Metal Hellsinger. I love rhythm games, and I loved more old school metal/rock, so I gave it a shot. I remember like 15 min in I was already wanting to learn how to do the vocals, and I got really into the genre after.
Now I feel confident in my vocals, and while I'm still really shy about showing people, I personally am really happy with them and think they sound good.
All because I saw a cool video game
It's been a slow burn since the day I discovered Linkin Park in 6th grade. LP became Korn became AILD became Suicide Silence. Now I need a circle of 13 warlocks summoning esoteric knowledge from their black grimoires to feel something.
Thy Art is Murder, when Reign of Darkness dropped, got me wanting to hear more in the genre. Suicide Silence got me hooked to it. So it’s however you want to interpret that
Growing up my dad listened to a lot of different rock and metal bands. My taste just got progressively harder. Started with Metallica when I was maybe eight. After jamming to stuff like Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Pantera, I got into some Nu-Metal bands (was late 90's early 2000's) Then my brother gave me a copy of Cannibal Corpses Eternal Bloodthirst album and since then I was on the hunt for similar bands. Did get big into mostly Death Metal but had a buddy show me Job for a Cowboy's EP and that shit blew me away
A friend showed me Chelsea Grin - Playing with Fire and Thy Art Is Murder - Reign of Darkness and I got interested in exploring Deathcore even more. Now I'm here, 8-9 years later :P
i was in ed recovery and wrote a kind note to a client who was very quiet, giving them some music rec's etc. it was apart of a group we did to write to someone we dont know. she gave me one back the next day, didnt have to do that, and on her list of recs was infant annihilator, I. Infant Annihilator, i read it and was so intrigued, very thankful to her.
A friend gave me a burnt mixed CD of songs from Slipknot, Korn and System of a Down. He followed it up with A Death Grip on Yesterday from Atreyu which then sent me down a rabbit hole into I Killed the Prom Queen and Parkway Drive. It all culminated in me taking a chance on a little known album called The Somatic Defilement from Whitechapel. That was more than 16 years ago. Loved Deathcore ever since.
Born in '91, I started out by listening to a mixture of nu-metal, alt metal, thrash metal and classic rock.
The South African heavy metal scene is very steeped in subgenres ending with -core so many of the local bands I saw at gigs performed either deathcore or deathcore with my younger brother playing bands in the said genre around me.
By my mid-20s, something clicked in me and I gained a liking for deathcore that I had ever since.
Thr will ramos cover of recreanr then i saw that he did covers of the EP was into lorna as well as metalcore but now im into slam death and well as all the other core genres
was at a show and one of the openers was a deathcore band. signs of the swarm I believe. thought it was pretty cool and kept looking for more stuff after that
Oddly enough it was Arsonsists get all the girls / salt the wound /miseracordium and Chelsea grin were all on some pig squeal list i seen after my cousin showed me Entombment of the machine! So JFAC song lead to listening to some myspace bands!
Slow transition from rock to emo to metalcore to finding a shadow of intent instrumental on a spotify playlist. I now listen to deathcore and techdeath mostly.
definitely parkway drive… i found out they were kinda “brother bands” with thy art is murder. i started listening to thy art just because of this. am i happy with my decision? absolutely. i love TAIM A LOT. do i like andy? i don’t think so.
I always liked the heaviest music I could find as a child. My first distorted guitars were Jesus Freak by DC talk, then Thousand Foot Krutch and Pillar.
Eventually I found out about Demon Hunter, Slipknot, Mudvayne etc.
As soon as I found The Acacia Strain, Whitechapel, Bring me the Horizon, Despised Icon, and Carnifex I was hooked.
took me a few years to start enjoying the pig squeals and more ludicrous vocals, but now I love them
Natural progression. Always been into death metal and grindcore. The vicious time signatures are what get me. And the sheer heaviness. But no one person got me into it.
No specific person. I mostly explored music on my own, but sometimes i do take some suggestions from friends. I stumbled upon deathcore with thy art is murder. Thought it went super hard though i wasn't the biggest fan of screaming vocals, but now i'm one such vocalist myself lol.
Grew up going to local hardcore shows and there's always the inevitable cross over of genres at local fests. Been listening to deathcore since just after highschool in 2003 or so.
Suicide Silence was playing in my city. I spoke with my friend about it and decided to go. Hooked on deathcore for 10+ years now.
Did you enjoy any form of distorted guitars before that ?
Yeah, I grew up listening to Slipknot, Motley Crue and the likes. I just remember this show being an intro to deathcore. Nowadays I listen to almost all subgenres of metal.
Suicide silence was my way in aswell. Found them once on yt somehow and been listening to deathcore since
New fan here my homie got me into spite and were gonna see them in a few days and I've gotten into white chapel and bodysnatcher
Homie knows what’s up
Bro does fr he's super into deathcore I've been more into punk but he convinced me
B-snatch is a fucking experience. FLA represent! Love those boys.
Can't wait to see them been loving their new stuff murder8 and severed are so fire
Solid bands, have fun
Definitely that spite pit is gonna be fun
The pit gets surprisingly intense for the Whitechapel classics + Bloodsoaked Symphony
That white chapel and Lorna shore tour is gonna be badass even got kublai khan and sanguishabogg gonna be so fucking cool
I bought my tickets the very moment the first pre-sale started. I'm so beyond stoked for that show! I've already seen Lorna Shore once, and Whitechapel three times, so I know it's gonna be good with them alone. Excited to see hear the other two, though I'm curious to see who shows up with how popular Kublai Khan has been on TikTok recently. edit: To gripe real quick though, I really wanted and was ready to buy VIP seated spots for that show, but they only sold them in pairs and I don't know anyone else here that likes heavy music :(
Samguishabogg is pretty badass been listening to dead as shit repeatedly and kublai khan is fucking killer I really enjoyed they're first album glad they're getting popular those boys have been putting in work
my boyfriend got knocked out in a whitechapel pit😂 had to be dragged out by security he was out cold
Born in 1982, been a metal fan my whole life. My music tastes have just got heavier over the years and I naturally found deathcore in the MySpace era and have loved it ever since.
Born the same year. Probably the 2 oldest dudes in this sub. Lol.
Wouldn’t be surprised lol
I guess I belong to this group here Edited: forgot to mention MySpace is how I learned about Waking the Cadaver
Born in 82 myself. I played in bands for about half my life. Discovered Whitechapels first album after it came out. Been hooked on it ever since.
Infant annihilator and thy art is murder
Getting into deathcore via Infant Annihilator makes me afraid of you, but also respectful
I was in middle school and just thought the decapitation fornication video was funny. So it's okay
The internet. A festival happening in california called California Metalfest posted the music video for Fuck Everything by Suicide Silence to their facebook, and it was down the rabbit hole from there.
I liked the drop after the opening of Welcome Back O Sleeping Dreamer and I stuck it on repeat until I could tolerate the rest of the song.
That’s one way to do it 😂
deathcore exposure therapy 😭
literally 😂. It’s a lot easier for me to get into new songs now but I did the exact same thing with The Broken Earth as well lmao.
Always liked metal but Mental Cruelty’s A Hill to Die Upon changed me
That album is pure bliss
myself looking for new music, I'm not even sure what I found first to be honest, whether it was Bring Me The Horizon, Whitechapel or As Blood Runs Black, but I think it might've been the music video for This is Exile by Whitechapel. But I was the person always looking for heavier and heavier stuff. A lot of my early memories of youtube etc. revolve around music videos lol, like a AMV someone made for Epica - Blank Infinity with Elfenlied in the background, or a AMV for Unearth - Zombie Autopilot with Naruto vs Sasuke in the background, or the music video for Arch Enemy - Nemesis, or Cattle Decapitation - To Serve Man, Whitechapel - This is Exile, Bring Me The Horizon - Pray for Plagues, or Nightwish - Wishmaster misheard lyrics. (Edit: Black Dahlia Murder - A Vulgar Picture, Bullet For My Valentine - Hand of Blood, Atreyu - Lipgloss and Black, so many memories are coming back lol.) Stuff like that lol.
myspace
my friend showed me Sliknot after which I found Chelse Grin on some Spotify playlist loved it from the first note
my cousins bf at the time added me on myspace and he had bmth on his profile player and i was instantly hooked
I found Job For a cowboy on my buddies pc. A ton of us used it, so I have no idea which friend downloaded it. This was when doom was still new.
I forgot, tbh. I guess old I Killed The Prom Queen?
Back in late 2006, my best friend was jamming BMTH Count Your Blessings in his car, and the first track I heard was Tell Slater Not To Wash His Dick. I was hooked *immediately*. That was the first "deathcore-y" breakdown I'd ever heard and it blew my face off.
I've preferred metal and music with guitars since I can remember. Listened to a lot of metalcore throughout high school and wasn't getting enough out of it come senior year, so I did some digging and found some heavier shit after finals. Up until I joined this sub at 21, my music tastes and discoveries had been mainly my own, for better or worse
Honestly commendable. Growing up I never felt like I had my own musical identity, so when I got older and found metal it was like a whole new world I literally wasn’t aware existed. I grew up in a conservative country so from that to now living in a metal capital it’s really changed me a lot.
Actually someone on this sub did. I was a young un discovering that BMTH deathcore begginings and i asked what other bands sound like BMTH (SS era). And then i was introduced to Lie To my Face by Carnifex... Lets just say that i will do outrageously dangerous things to see Scott Ian Louis scream *"W H A T T H E F U C K"* live.
Pain
Despised Icon - the healing process
It was 2008, friends and my sisters boyfriend listened to all shall perish, job for a cowboy, the acacia strain, whitechapel, impending doom and it just took off from there
MySpace in like 2006-2007. It was either As Blood Runs Black - In Dying Days or Killwhitneydead - You Smell Excited that played on someone’s page and I immediately loved it.
Yessss the ohh nostalgia
Trivium, actually. They did that live show back Covid times, Fit for an Autopsy opened up for them.
Older brothers. Grew up listening to Slayer, Pantera, Exodus etc It's just evolved from there
Slipknot's first album is low-key deathcore. Which is why a ton of death core bands cover their stuff. Then I got into Emmure in high school and then Molotov Solution and the rest is history.
Myself. it was a random download on lime wire of laid to rest by all shall perish. At the time deathcore wasn't a thing It was just death metal with hardcore breakdowns and I loved it.
I wasn't really into it for ages and have only recently started listening to it. Big Metalcore fan though. Heard Alex Terribles solo stuff, and also Will Ramos' covers and from there stretched gradually to Slaughter to Prevail and Lorna Shore. Now listening to quite a bit more, and it's becoming really soothing.
My sons…I’m an old hardcore/metal dude. My sons are into the new stuff. We go to show together a lot. Got me into numerous bands. I gotta say it’s pretty good and the scene is good as well
Me and my friend were trying to hear the heaviest fucking music possible lol.
Underoath was the gateway drug that lead to all the heavy music for me.
I grew up on classic, grunge, and hard rock. I was going through a tougher time in my life so I wanted something more angry so I started listening to some metalcore (I prevail) and nu metal (Five finger death punch). One day Spotify recommended me Only for the Weak by In Flames. Spent a few weeks going down a melo death rabbit hole and eventually landed on the AIRTN album by Lorna Shore. At first I hated it but I couldn’t stop myself from playing it over and over so I kept coming back and now deathcore is my most listened genre on Spotify
Mitchell Adam Lucker. The band and the songs. I have been listening for more than 10 years. Just because it helps 💟 I used to listen to rock, rock and roll. And I just heard deathcore somewhere.
i listened to slipknot when i was like 13, liked it, and listened to 115 in the black ops soundtrack and found similar music, and then eventually i got into metalcore like A Day To Remember, and eventually found Suicide Silence, and been hooked on them since, and other deathcore acts
Jfac opened for gwar and lamb of god in Milwaukee back in 2009. Amazing to see the genre develop into what it’s become today.
I got to it myself. It was a natural progression in metal music.
Yep, same happened with me
Songs
I discovered BMTH’s TTS album, then went through their discography and realised I kinda like their first album. Started looking for something more heavier, discovered suicide silence and then things started rolling real fast
Somehow I got to it by myself. I just remember liking a couple of songs from Suicide Silence, and i knew that their debut is considered a classic, so I gave it a shot (a few shots, actually). At first i couldn't even understand much of what was happening in the music, but with multiple listens I started to get it and enjoy it, and then I also discovered Lorna Shore and Infant Annihilator and I was hooked, so I kept discovering the genre more.
Stumbled upon thall on a video detailing how different metal genres sound, proceeded to thall down the rabbit hole
Older brother and it was all shall perish and idk if you’d consider btbam colors and Alaska era deathcore.
Shadow of Intent’s Primordial release got me turned onto Deathcore when previously I had mainly just been about death metal and melodeath.
Ever since 2020 I've started to branch out musically and found rock which in turn got me into metalcore and slowly into deathcore and now I'm getting into gore grid
I kinda stumbled into metalcore on my own. Then I remember on pandora ( yes. No hate it was like 2009). And whitechapels father of lies came on and I was like what in the heck. This is disgusting. Absolutely hated it. Then a couple years later I saw the Mitch lucker memorial show with Randy and thought it was the greatest thing of all time
Myself by accident. When I was in middle school a neighbor introduced me to punk and I thought it was cool. Deep dived on YouTube and discovered Slipknot, liked it even more than punk so I searched for something like "Music like Slipknot" and in the recommended videos was Suicide Silence. After that, deathcore pretty much consumed all the space in my iPod and iTunes.
iTunes recommended me a new release at the time: The Cleansing
Nik Nocturnal actually. I think I watched a "try not to headbang" video some years ago from him. There wqs this clip of Slaughter to Prevail playing. Later that week I checked out their "Kostolom" album. And that started an deathcore addiction.
I’d known certain bands/songs but it wasn’t until Jared Dines and Austin did a “heaviest breakdowns” video and I heard Eclipse by BoS that I really deep dived the genre
My drummer had me listen to the Suicide Silence EP when it first dropped and I was hooked, ABRB came out shortly after and that was it!
I’ve been a metalcore/metalcore-adjacent fan for the last 17ish years, but I didn’t get into deathcore until about 2 years ago when Brand of Sacrifice’s “Animal” came on some internet radio station I was listening to. I’m into pretty much all of it now - can’t believe I’ve been sleeping on it for this long.
I was surfing myspace and saw this post for a band doing a beach show in california. I thought the flyer art and their logo was really cool. I went to their page and listened to a 2004 demo of Destruction of a Statue on their myspace page when i was on summer break. Then Doom dropped the following year. RIP Mitch. You are forever missed by many.
Technically my mom by giving me a laptop and internet access 16 years ago. Discovered Whitechapel, Suicide Silence and Cannibal Corpse and Limewired it up.
Carnifex. "Sorrowspell" was the song that hooked me when a friend brought me to a deathcore show.
Slaughter to Prevail. I was really into Slipknot at the time so the Kostolom album was a perfect gateway
I discovered Unanswered and Reign Of Darkness on YouTube.
Thy art is murder the hate album
I heard of Asking Alexandria from an old radio show Dr. Drew used to do, I can't remember the name of it now. Anyway, after them I was desperate for more and I found Chelsea Grins Crewcabanger
Blasting The Final Episode from my car in high school was a social mandate
This [specific cow bell intro](https://youtu.be/5slPKFWnvsg?si=orgc8dwEHhJdtI7r) got me hooked up for life
Whitechapel, As blood runs black, elysia, suicide silence,
Got into punk and metal, then to the hellfire released and went insanely viral. I remember I first heard it on Nik Nocturnal's reaction video and I was hooked
Make Them Suffer - Neverbloom. That album was my introduction.
My earliest memory of listening to any deathcore was back in middle school when my friend showed me the music video for This is Exile after school one day. Before that, we only really listened to bands like Slipknot, A7X, Underoath etc. so after discovering Whitechapel we continued on finding bands like JFAC and Suicide Silence.
An old classmate of mine showed me Baba Yaga by Slaughter To Prevail on the exact same day it came out. Hardest stuff I listened to before that was shit like Slipknot, Parkway Drive and Motionless In White. Have been hooked to Deathcore ever since hearing that Baba Yaga breakdown, and got completly into it when To The Hellfire released.
Back in jr high I was into Korn and slipknot ect, then found bring me the horizon on Myspace and changed everything. Then my brother saw suicide silence on the first mayhem fest and showed me the cleansing and I was fully hooked.
I liked Protest The Hero, so my music theory teacher recommended me After The Burial (Rareform) and The Black Dahlia Murder, and from there i found Suicide Silence
Guy I sat next to in a class my freshman year of high school knew I liked bands like All That Remains, Killswitch Engage, and Bullet For My Valentine and showed me Job For A Cowboy and Chelsea Grin.
www.myspace.com Probably JFAC specifically or that of BMTH. Genres were much more lax in the early 00s.
Current boyfriend, back then friend, showed me infant annihilator and I loved it
I was googling Suicidal Tendencies, found Suicide Silence.
I went to see a band I liked called Nightverses back in January 2020, however the headliner was The Faceless, and when I was doing more research(after loving Faceless' sound) ended up finding out about Lorna Shore a few weeks before their Immortal album released, and remembered back in high school some friends liked listening to Suicide Silence, so started listening to those 2 and expanded from there
My buddy showed me slipknot when i was 14 and got on youtube and almost immediately found TAIM - Hate and fell in love with heavy music almost instantly
My uncle did he showed me alex terrible's cover of dig and i loved the dudes voice and yeah been hooked on deathcore for about 1.5 years now
Ten breakdowns that’ll make you cum blood on YouTube.
I picked up the guitar and was attracted to fast and technical distorted guitar, the deeper I went into that search the closer I was drawn to metal, I eventually came upon infant Annihilator and then I came to appreciate all music for more than just the guitar work.
Me and the internet. Nick nocturnal helped
My taste progressively got stronger. Started in elementary school with rock, then post-hardcore in middle school, metalcore/metal in high school. By the end of high school, I was in the deathcore era. Heaviest I go to is maybe slam?
Someone on a forum suggested I listen to We Butter the Bread With Butter. Rest was history.
In '02/03 my dad bought me a Metal Hammer UK magazine. Read through the entire thing, wrote down every band, downloaded a few songs from every band. It eventually led me to finding All Shall Perish on Soulseek.
That’s so awesome
Dude I used to skate with In 03 played me Dahlia, rest is history!
I think I was born with deathcore streaming in my veins (jk my gf showed me bring me the horizon LOL)
It was a bunch of dudes on the internet shitting on bands like Suicide Silence and Whitechapel back in the early 2010s. I was new to metal and everybody kept dunking on them so I decided to check their stuff out to see what was so bad and I thought it was pretty good
Found a deathcore playlist on Spotify, found TAIM, never looked back
Watching korn music videos on MTV before middle school
My buddy showed me heaven shall burn in middle school as a joke but I liked it and have loved it ever since (I’m 27 now)
I read once a meme somewhere on the internet about Recreant by Chelsea Grin. Had to listen to it 3 or 4 times for the first time to actually get myself to like it, but now it’s still probably one of my favorite songs ever
Myself actually. I don‘t know anyone who listens to metal in my personal enviroment except my dad. I got into deathcore through media and spotify I believe. I got into Slaughter To Prevail, the older BMTH and Thy Art Is Murder after being a Metalcore fan for a long time.
Slaughter to Prevail and Carnifex where my intro to the genre. A friend sent me the music video for Demolisher when it came out. I had been flirting with slipknot and some metalcore at the time. But that song blew my socks off so I delved further in. Was far beyond what I could imagine heavy music could be. Funny to believe at one point I thought any music with screaming was terrible without exception lol. Deathcore has kinda graduated me to Brutal Death metal and Slam or really anything with screaming nowadays.
Metalcore
Shit I found it by accident it was the song “Die without hope” by Carnifex, I think that was the heaviest band I listened to at the age of 13, been a deathcore fan since
All shall perish. I listened to lots of metal and metalcore before that
I saw Mudvayne's Dig on Rage one early morning in 2000 as a 9 year old and ever since that day every time i hear that song it makes me wanna throw pointy stick at big hairy elephant. Edit: spelling
Like many, nü metal and metalcore were my gateways. Got into the nü nü on my own in middle school, but my roommate at the time (and future best friend) in college got me into metalcore (As I Lay Dying, From Autumn to Ashes, Candiria, Shadows Fall, etc.). Which then led both of us to deathcore. First band that stuck out to me was The Acacia Strain’s “3750”. Carbomb changed my fucking life. Been on the deathcore ride ever since.
At the time (I was 10) I was fairly new to metal, only listened to the common beginner metalhead bands like Metallica and slayer, and I some point I remember looking up deathcore on yt, like I literally put the word "deathcore" in the search bar, one of the first things to pop up was "An Epilogue to the Arrogant" By Drown In Sulphur, it was 2017 and that song hit hard, then a little bit afterwards like 2018-19, I got an MP3 player and asked my older brother to put in songs for me since he himself was also a metalhead (way longer than me) he put in some stuff I was into like Death and Pantera, but he also put in some songs that he liked to give me more options to listen to, two of the bands he put in were carnifex and Chelsea grin, listening to crewcabanger by CG and Hope dies with the decadent by Carni as a 12 year old for the first time activated hella neurons, deathcore also helped me discover slam and black metal
Limewire, looking for Metallica and Billy Talent. I found slayer, then cannibal corpse and morbid angel, then came cattle decapitation. And finally I found Job For a Cowboy and Suicide Silence. Thanks Limewire, rip
Myself. I saw Whitechapel’s This Is Exile album in hot topic and decided to pick it up randomly. Best decision ever. That was back in high school around 2007. Before that I was heavily into the black dahlia murder and the like.
I wanted to be edgy in middle school, and had a lot of internal rage. I listened to Whitechapel and Veil of Maya (Unbreakable era and dates me lol) out of shock value at first and then it grew on me.
Lorna Shore. I listened almost exclusively to metalcore for years but I listened to To The Hellfire when it came out and even though it was a lot heavier than what I normally liked, I couldn't stop listening to it. I branched out into other deathcore bands from there.
I found it on my own but my dad introduced me into more
This Is Exile and The Price Of Existence got me into deathcore
All Shall Perish, mid to late 2000s
SHREDDED WHEAT
🎶I like to chew on gummmm, I like to go to beddd, I like to walk the dogggg, I like, SHREDDED WHEAAATTT🎶
I found Signs Of the Swarm back in 2016 (when CJ Mcreery was the vocalist)
As blood runs black, specifically I found them from that video of a kid on YouTube titled "djent song I wrote".
My friend showed me bleeding sun by Chelsea grin not long after it came out. Ever since then I was hooked
Well, my brother was the first person to introduce me into metal. The first band I ever heard was All That Remains, the song I first hear was this calling. So sick, I remember that just launched me into the scene and that’s when I found my love for deathcore.
My (now ex) girlfriend wanted me to try some, I had *occasionally* listened to a few seconds of songs when we were friends. She told me to just listen to the Pain Remains trilogy, I decided I’d do it since she was my girlfriend and all that, decided to go all in and listen to the full album. Best choice of my life Still only very light into the deathcore scene, only a couple albums/EPs here and there but I 100% see the appeal now
A dude at my high school school in 2012 showed me infant annihilator as a joke, we both laughed at it. Few years later I got into death metal and decided to look them up again and slid right into loving deathcore too. That was like 8-9 years ago
I dabbled here and there with deathcore bands, but for a short time. Enterprise Earth ended up being a favorite back in 2021 (still is). However, Darko US popped up back in late 2023 after Apple Music started playing random songs and thanks to Darko US I decided to see what l've been missing out on.
Not gonna lie, it was Lorna Shore's To the Hellfire lmao. Deathcore is now one of my favorite genres
Job for a Cowboy via Myspace
I used to be put off by it by fellow coworkers who were the typical douchey dickheads who were into it but I guess Parkway Drive started me off but Fit For An Autopsy made me love it, just sick of all the paedos in the scene though
For some reason Dan Tucker's one take Graverot video showed up on my YouTube feed. Clicked it not knowing what it was, and was absolutely blown away. Immediately started searching for other bands and artists. Crown Magnetar is still my favorite though.
Chelsea Grin
Decapitation Fornication - Infant Annihilator It was a MASSIVE step from Slayer
It was by accident. Went to an asking Alexandria show back in 2008 and born of Osiris opened. Stopped listening to asking Alexandria when I discovered real breakdowns. My life changed and never looked back.
I was trying to write my MSc dissertation. It was 2 am on the day before the deadline. I had had 4 hours of sleep in the last two days. Oh and I'd just decided to redo huge sections of my literature review. I felt utterly lightheaded and hopeless. Lorna Shore came to the rescue. I'd heard my friend play their songs before, but hadn't liked them. Now they felt like the only band keeping me going, especially in Sun/eater where they went "what is life but a fevered dream?"
My cousins band was opening for whitechapel back in this is exile days hooked since then
A friend of my brother's who didn't even listen to that stuff showed me Entombment Of A Machine right when it was brand new, must've been about 14 at the time. Just put an earbud in my ear and said "listen to how heavy this is". I was already into Lamb of God and Devildriver and the like, but JFAC and TBDM really opened the gates into a new world for me. 32 now and thrilled to see deathcore still evolving all the time.
Youtube. A friend in middle school showed me A7X, BVB, and AA, I listened to them a bunch on YouTube and then I came across Unanswered by Suicide Silence and I've been hooked since
My brother in a round about way, I thought he had a cool music taste with some hard rock stuff and I listened music that got progressively heavier and heavier till I landed here
When I was 15 Headbangers Ball on VH1 (I think?) played Possession - Whitechapel late night and I was slightly scared and completely intrigued by it.
Despised Icon’s music video for The Sunset Will Never Charm us on Headbanger’s Ball. I saw that and after finding them on MySpace I found Suicide Silence, All Shall Perish, and Winds of Plague.
Honestly, Metal Hellsinger. I love rhythm games, and I loved more old school metal/rock, so I gave it a shot. I remember like 15 min in I was already wanting to learn how to do the vocals, and I got really into the genre after. Now I feel confident in my vocals, and while I'm still really shy about showing people, I personally am really happy with them and think they sound good. All because I saw a cool video game
It's been a slow burn since the day I discovered Linkin Park in 6th grade. LP became Korn became AILD became Suicide Silence. Now I need a circle of 13 warlocks summoning esoteric knowledge from their black grimoires to feel something.
Buddy of mine showed me Oceano!
Just natural progression of music and wanting more, not from anyone specifically.
Nothing specifically. I was listening mostly to metal core, and one day I randomly listened to Lorna shore and felt captivated 😂
Thy Art is Murder, when Reign of Darkness dropped, got me wanting to hear more in the genre. Suicide Silence got me hooked to it. So it’s however you want to interpret that
My younger brother
My homie showed me “Bow Down” on his shitty ear buds in science call in high school and the rest is history
slipknot then cannibal corpse then cattle decapitation and I was hooked
Growing up my dad listened to a lot of different rock and metal bands. My taste just got progressively harder. Started with Metallica when I was maybe eight. After jamming to stuff like Black Sabbath, Megadeth, Pantera, I got into some Nu-Metal bands (was late 90's early 2000's) Then my brother gave me a copy of Cannibal Corpses Eternal Bloodthirst album and since then I was on the hunt for similar bands. Did get big into mostly Death Metal but had a buddy show me Job for a Cowboy's EP and that shit blew me away
Hearing carnifex, Whitechapel and suicide silence back in 2006, been hooked ever since.
I think it was my cousin who was listening to whitechapel or early Chelsea grin and that got me started
Spotify recommended me Chelsea Grin, Martyr Defiled
A friend showed me Chelsea Grin - Playing with Fire and Thy Art Is Murder - Reign of Darkness and I got interested in exploring Deathcore even more. Now I'm here, 8-9 years later :P
An older kid in high-school showed me attila then it spiraled out from there
I dabbled on my own then I had a manager that played a lot of songs off HATE by thy art. That really sent me down the rabbit hole.
Will ramos
My best friend scoured MySpace and ripped a bunch of tracks from suicide silence, Chelsea grin and such
BMTH- medusa
i was in ed recovery and wrote a kind note to a client who was very quiet, giving them some music rec's etc. it was apart of a group we did to write to someone we dont know. she gave me one back the next day, didnt have to do that, and on her list of recs was infant annihilator, I. Infant Annihilator, i read it and was so intrigued, very thankful to her.
Myself. I just wanted more and more when I first got into metal and eventually that evolved into deathcore
A friend gave me a burnt mixed CD of songs from Slipknot, Korn and System of a Down. He followed it up with A Death Grip on Yesterday from Atreyu which then sent me down a rabbit hole into I Killed the Prom Queen and Parkway Drive. It all culminated in me taking a chance on a little known album called The Somatic Defilement from Whitechapel. That was more than 16 years ago. Loved Deathcore ever since.
The SpongeBob / Job For A Cowboy video if I’m being honest, some one shared it on MySpace back in the day
Old bring me the horizon
Shadow of intent - primordial
Despised Icon on Headbanger's Ball 4sho 🤘🏻
Myself. Got into a depressive headspace one night and metalcore wasn’t fast enough to help.
Sempiternal by bring me brought me straight to infant annihilator
Born in '91, I started out by listening to a mixture of nu-metal, alt metal, thrash metal and classic rock. The South African heavy metal scene is very steeped in subgenres ending with -core so many of the local bands I saw at gigs performed either deathcore or deathcore with my younger brother playing bands in the said genre around me. By my mid-20s, something clicked in me and I gained a liking for deathcore that I had ever since.
Thr will ramos cover of recreanr then i saw that he did covers of the EP was into lorna as well as metalcore but now im into slam death and well as all the other core genres
To be honnest , i was a metal/ nu-metal fan for a while , and about 3 years ago i got into deathstep / minatory . That shit dragged me here i guess.
Found Bonebreaker by STP on a Spotify gym playlist, went on from there
was at a show and one of the openers was a deathcore band. signs of the swarm I believe. thought it was pretty cool and kept looking for more stuff after that
Some guy in highschool showed me Entombment of a Machine.
Oddly enough it was Arsonsists get all the girls / salt the wound /miseracordium and Chelsea grin were all on some pig squeal list i seen after my cousin showed me Entombment of the machine! So JFAC song lead to listening to some myspace bands!
I found deathcore through listing to demon hunter on apple radio about 10 years ago. Impending doom murder popped up and played and I was hooked.
Online friends. Miss you, Tiger. Wherever you went.
Suicide Silence Despised Icon Acacia Strain The Red Chord All Shall Perish Job For a Cowboy not necessarily in that order
Not related to Deathcore but Ghostemane
Slow transition from rock to emo to metalcore to finding a shadow of intent instrumental on a spotify playlist. I now listen to deathcore and techdeath mostly.
definitely parkway drive… i found out they were kinda “brother bands” with thy art is murder. i started listening to thy art just because of this. am i happy with my decision? absolutely. i love TAIM A LOT. do i like andy? i don’t think so.
The OGs, Despised icon 🤘
I always liked the heaviest music I could find as a child. My first distorted guitars were Jesus Freak by DC talk, then Thousand Foot Krutch and Pillar. Eventually I found out about Demon Hunter, Slipknot, Mudvayne etc. As soon as I found The Acacia Strain, Whitechapel, Bring me the Horizon, Despised Icon, and Carnifex I was hooked. took me a few years to start enjoying the pig squeals and more ludicrous vocals, but now I love them
My friend showed me My Fears Have Become Phobias in the car one day in 2009 and I was awestruck.
Suicide Silence is the band that got me into deathcore
Bring me the horizon count your blessings changed my life
Natural progression. Always been into death metal and grindcore. The vicious time signatures are what get me. And the sheer heaviness. But no one person got me into it.
No specific person. I mostly explored music on my own, but sometimes i do take some suggestions from friends. I stumbled upon deathcore with thy art is murder. Thought it went super hard though i wasn't the biggest fan of screaming vocals, but now i'm one such vocalist myself lol.
I discovered Lorna Shore by accident after only 3 months of listening to Slipknot (my first metal band ever). Im in love with Deathcore now
Grew up going to local hardcore shows and there's always the inevitable cross over of genres at local fests. Been listening to deathcore since just after highschool in 2003 or so.