Let's face it. The Myspace era of music made a comeback because we realized shit was better back then. When the world turns into a shitstorm, comebacks in music and other trends are inevitable. ~Buzz Killer, Talking Zombie From Western Pennsylvania
Reaction channels are about that feeling you get when you show someone a dope new song if you don't have anyone around you who likes the same music you do
Ya it’s like they all added a lil black metal. I know for sure that Ben (singer for Shadow of Intent) is a big Dimmu Borgir fan. He has taken a lot of influence from Shagrath the singer.
@@M4RCi92 also To The Grave, Distant, Left To Suffer, Enterprise Earth, Worm Shepherd and Mental Cruelty. They have all dropped albums within the last year and they were all really good listens to boot
I’m mid 40’s - somewhat out of touch with all the “cores” - and just discovering the genre. I can say it has me interested and excited about music in a way I haven’t been in a while. Chuga chuga wodolido!
@Call Me, BLEGH Me, If You Wanna Reach Me you sound old & sad. That band is great tho. But as a 30 year old with some slightly older gen z friends, the elitism sucks. Just let people like the shit they like and stop trying to feel superior than others. It’s really shitty.
Alex Terrible Is the only person in this genre that can do a Barbie girl cover and wear a wig and still be taken seriously. WILL STEP UP! I know you can! 😂 All great bands!
Reaction videos are a substitute for when you would hear a new song or band and want to go show your friends. You get the satisfaction of seeing someone else experience something that you also enjoyed experiencing. In the digital age, we have less human contact and interaction so it's more rare to be able to share these experiences, so reaction videos are a digital approximation of that human connection that we all crave.
Which is a pretty sad state of affairs to be honest. I personally hate reaction videos because most of the time they are contrived and faked for views. Go out to concerts when you can though get that in person human interaction, make friends with folks in the scene. Usually if you go to enough concerts you will bump into the same core groups all the time and makes it fun.
@@corail53 well, the last two years haven't been very good for concerts plus this is a pretty obscure genre of music so it's generally hard to find very many people to enjoy the music with. I've watched a couple reaction videos of people hearing ABR for the first time and watching them have the same reaction that I had when I first heard them is kinda cathartic and fun. And I live in a little town in Montana so we don't get many good bands around here.
@@corail53 not everyone has the time or desire to go to shows constantly. I’m not 20 anymore and would rather spend time and money on other things. Channels like Nik’s are great for discovering new music and discussing it with others Don’t need an entire new group of friends just to discuss heavy music haha
Seconded. I think he knows on some level that the reaction genre is kind of silly/cringe and he plays into it, but also adds some insight into the production or whatever. His new release twitch streams are fun too - honestly a great way to find some new music.
Thirded. Of the metal channels on RUclips, Nik is IMHO the best. He has serious actual skill on the guitar and he's able to pick apart videos and realistically critique in a way few others have the ability to without seeming holier than thou.
Kardovox academy makes awesome reaction content for exactly this. He’s also a vocalist/vocal teacher so he’s really good at explaining how these people make these inhuman noises
@@johnmenjes7828 mark is great. I love his content and as a hobbyist just having fun with my favorite songs, I've learned a lot from him in trying to make all the different sounds. The "cartman/goblin" voice was a dead on description for me to execute. I love his personality too. Oh. And fucking swords!!!
I was 16/17 back then and I'll always love how rough those recordings were, I was a kid who felt like he could record a really brutal song without too many resources. I also loved how everything sounded so randomize sometimes, it was like "let's take this riff, at this tempo, then this other song riff, blast those drums like your life depends on it, and paste it all together" "yeah and how do we fit it?" "just put some audio from a movie in the middle, and DON'T FORGET THE FUCKING PIGSQUEAL". There were no rules or structures yet, just kids trying to sound as brutal as they could, no matter what. And that was what made me love it! Raw home recorded music, not necessarily well played, but it had that "thing" that kept me searching for a new song every single day. Love this new wave though! It's fresh, it's brutal, it's amazing.
Not being "that guy" that gets upset with Finn when he misses a band or anything, but if you're looking for another great newer deathcore band, Fit For an Autopsy is awesome! Worth checking out imo :)
We slip through one fact. Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal happened. I think Mick Gordon's ungodly masterpiece sound is a deciding factor here. It really wasn't deathcore, but it was a mix between core and prog with a shit lode of electronics, but it was quality wise above anything that bands done at the time. It's simply gained extreme popularity just by song quality, and paff. Majority of people capable enjoying metal if it's done well. Or if it's high enough quality I should say. And what's similar with those now popular deathcore bands? They both are next level mixed, mastered and crafted. No time before could we enjoy core so high quality. Other than that is Mick's work with heavy electronics, so it was clear that you can freely experiment with classic sounds, let that be more electronics (seriously Brand of Sacrifice's new single Lifeblood basically a Doom song with growls), more orchestral like Lorna Shore, or just be more technical like Slaughter.
I could not agree with this statement more. I said almost this exact thing a little while ago when I heard some music that I thought was inspired by the doom eternal soundtrack. I loved watching my boyfriend play that game and the soundtrack made it even more enjoyable.
@@roxycocksey glad that I'm not the one noticing it! Hell, Mick's work inspired Bring Me to make a heavier album while not even close to deathcore, but significantly heavier than their previous albums. Gordon even mixed the songs for that, so yeah. The influence is unquestionable.
Doom has really mixed with metal really well, overall. Some of the imagery in the classic doom games was inspired by old iron maiden album covers, and doom E1M1’s note progression is very similar to that of some other songs at that time, particularly no remorse by Metallica. I can absolutely agree that the modern doom games have inspired a lot of deathcore bands, both with the production and some of the electronic sounds themselves. 2016 was a huge year for deathcore overall, and the first doom game in almost 13 years was released as well. Mick Gordon is an absolutely phenomenal and talented musician, there’s simply no denying it. I have come to accept Bethesda kicking him, and like Andrew Hulshult’s work with David Levy, but something about Mick Gordon’s songwriting is just so much more memorable. He’s done a myriad of other works before, but doom in particular is the most metal he has gotten. Also, I’m pretty sure some deathcore vocalists actually attended the doom eternal choir, which is part of the game’s soundtrack. I think that was a major influence too, as even Alex Terrible (guy at the beginning of the video) was aware of it and even tried joining it. Unfortunately, he wasn’t part of the OST.
Also, the doom soundtrack wasn’t even supposed to have guitars originally. Glad that didn’t happen, lol. Otherwise we wouldn’t have had this masterpiece of a soundtrack.
I've shown Lorna Shore, Slaughter to Prevail, Brand of Sacrifice, etc.. to people who never heard of deathcore and they found it oddly entertaining. I think some part is just unique and extreme it is- almost like an experience hearing something like this for the first time.
I'm loving this new generation of deathcore! I used to listen to a fair amount of deathcore back in my teens, but stopped paying attention over the last decade because it was becoming repetitive and simplistic, so I gravitated towards progressive, melodic, and technical death metal instead. But I'm glad it's made a comeback and sounding more refined than ever. 🤘🏼
The Charismatic Voice is great because she's a trained opera singer and knows tons about crazy vocal techniques and physiology. She also had a 2 hour long interview with Will Ramos and he's super charismatic.
That shot at 10:03 sums up one of the biggest reasons why bands with charismatic/attractive frontmen can pull such huge numbers; just look at how many women there are in that crowd compared to any other type of metal gathering. If your music appeals to 10% of men but only 1% of women, that's only 5.5% of the population. Even if your genre is less mainstream, appealing to just 5% of men, but it appeals to just as many women, that's still 5% of the population.
A couple years ago I remember watching your deathcore is dead video and telling you you had good points. Like a week later I saw Slaughter to Prevail, Chelsea Grin, Traitors, and Bodysnatcher. I knew it was coming back. I'm ready for the new wave of deathcore.
I would also throw Darko US into this group of bands pushing the revival and popularity of Deathcore - throwing in a mix of Nu and Prog into the musicality making it a bit more catchy and you also can't deny their insane music videos
I got to see Phil Bozeman of whitechapel on stage with Mitch Lucker during a suicide silence performance at warped tour in 2010. The crowd was already crazy, but when Phil walked out… all immortal hell broke loose. It was fucking amazing.
I really like contemporary deathcore outfits like Black Tongue and Mental Cruelty. They are pushing the genre boundary in a really nice way that has allowed me to give some of my metalhead friends an opportunity to try out deathcore.
I personally really like that whole Rose Funeral album, they're definitely my favorite deathcore band. Their heavy reliance on tremolo picking kinda makes them ahead of the whole blackened trend.
January 14th saw new releases by Enterprise Earth, SOI, Worm Shepherd and Fit For an Autopsy; all amazing albums by fantastic bands. Deathcore IS back baby!
I'm honestly a dethcore convert now. I kind of hated it during the MySpace days because it did sound like a trend, but the modern stuff is way more refined and has its own aesthetic now. It just sounds like a fully developed sub-genre now. Shadow Of Intent and Lorna Shore are just terrific bands. What Will Ramos does with his voice is inhuman, and it's kind of cool to see he's sort of a vocal nerd, taking opera lessons and just trying to be the best vocalist he can be.
Coming from a guy who listened to the Myspace OG stuff, I respect your opinion but gotta disagree, it may have been a trend for the BMTH and a few others but alot of the other bands like Chelsea Grin, As Blood Runs Black, Whitechapel, Suicide Silence among others they really were devoted to making the most intense music possible imo.
Coming from a fan of the OG stuff, I also disagree. Is kind of like a competition on who is gonna write the most random heaviest breakdown and do the nastiest pig noise nowadays. OG deathcore felt more authentic to the artists. It was fun to listen to. Nowadays for me deathcore has become that type of music where you sit down and just pay attention to the vocals just like prog kids sit down and try to figure the song structure.
To add on my previous comment, also I don’t think the songwriting in new deathcore is that crazy. The Price of Existence by All Shall Perish is an example of a record that is so well written it’s kind of unbelievable to think that we get to listen to that. Deathcore nowadays is not memorable aside from certain songs or bands that we all know
@@mr.keiser4259 As someone who never really got into OG deathcore but love modern stuff, I completely agree lol. Modern deathcore has 100% devolved into "who can write the dumbest breakdown" or "who can make the weirdest noises with their mouth", and the two "breakout" songs Finn cited - To the Hellfire for Lorna and Demolisher for STP - are perfect examples. They only got famous because of their breakdowns, and when you consider that reaction channels and tik toks are the "modern myspace", it does make sense - stuff that makes people squirm gets the most reactions and is easiest to make viral. Also to Finn's final point about who will make the next breakout song, I don't think it will ever be Shadow of Intent for that exact reason. They did their indulgent breakdown on Heretic Prevails (which, even in 2017, was a breakout song), but their last two albums don't indulge like that anymore and I think more closely fit what you described as being "more authentic". As a vocalist in a smaller, aspiring deathcore band, I massively respect that.
Deathcore is virtually indistinguishable from technical/progressive death metal or blackened death metal now...I think that's what you mean by 'fully developed.' And I don't have an issue with this, originality is kinda overrated. I'm glad deathcore can take its rightful place among other legitimate subgenres now. I've always considered it 'metal' but most people don't feel that way...or at least they didn't back in the day.
I love what bands like Whitechapel & Enterprise Earth have been doing lately, incorporating prog, atmospheric soundscapes and clean vocals into their sound that really pushes the boundaries of the genre: that’s the kind of stuff I like to see in Deathcore, both those bands are pretty popular too. I’m glad Deathcore is making a comeback
The new WhiteChapel is good as hell, I was surprised to see a acoustic song from then despite the whole album being an emotional ode to the singer’s mother
Lorna Shore's next London, UK gig has been upgraded four times and it's gonna sell out again soon enough. Fit For An Autopsy also need to seriously be paid attention to. They are incredible musicians and some of the nicest and kindest guys I've ever met.
Now that mention it last time i saw Lorna shore was with fit for an autopsy. I remember shortly after that show when cj got canned being worried if they were gonna call it quits or not. Needless to say I’m stoked for them to be blowing up. But I agree fit for an autopsy should be bigger than they are. Will pretty much does production for every band ever and I really feel like they were the first band to really do deathcore with cleans in it.
Deathcore is back because they found something that worked. That atmospheric, orchestral sound works great with traditional band instruments. It just sounds really cool. You could tell falling in reverses new single was influenced from that. It was a nice change of pace from the heaviness arms race that was going on. Its probably got a couple years before it gets stale.
Black Tongue was huge for me because it was the first deathcore band I heard that wasn’t entirely blast beats and insane speed. It was the first deathcore band I heard that used music as a sound scape and didn’t try to play as fast as possible.
After the Burial is my go-to deathcore band. Along with Veil of Maya, Make Them Suffer, and pre-2016 Attila. Although, the genre is so mixed in with other styles like djent and progressive metal nowadays it's hard to tell them apart.
I remember watching the anime for the first time and thinking it was a pretty mild fantasy, then they rescue that guy from the dungeon and he finds that egg and I was like....whu...what happened!?!? Not surprised its a big inspiration to extreme metal, Urotsukidoji had a similar effect back in 'day.
I never got into the OG death core. No shade, it just didn't do much for me. I didn't understand why the tru metal elite had such an issue with it tho. To me it seemed like the obvious evolution of what Suffocation had started. I really dig this new stuff though. They have songs, character, atmosphere, and those huge *clawed hands to the sky* moments of vast awesomeness. Like I've said before, (and will again no doubt) Will Ramos has some of the coolest vocals I've heard in extreme metal for a long time. I would argue that his vocals are memorable and hooky (along with the catchy music). Any way, I'm about to hit 40 so I'll stop enthusing about young peoples music and go complain about the price of bread or what ever people my age are supposed to do. 😅
I saw Lorna Shore at a 300 cap venue in Providence RI a few months back. A week after that show they announced they were opening for Bring Me The Horizon on they're UK/Europe tour. If that's not a blow up, I don't know what is. Side note, Lorna had to cut their set short because they set off the fire alarm. It was a memorable show
hope they hit it big, bro. sure hits me hard that this music used to be so big back then SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL is pretty sick nowadays just comfy with whatever japanese metalcore i stumble in and then go back to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas songs
I've seen STP, Lorna Shore (with Tom), Shadow of Intent, Make Them Suffer, and a few others you named off, and the hype around them is very well deserved!! Haven't seen LS yet with Will, but hope to soon
I don't love newer Lorna Shore honestly. But there are a bunch of good deathcore bands. Shadow of Intent is probably my favorite though they've definitely branched out. I dig that the Death Metal community is more accepting of deathcore now. Though I think the fact that less of it is cookie cutter and more varied in the influences, with more melodic, black, etc...really helps. Those old MySpace deathcore bands used to blend together for me.
Agreed with Lorna Shore. I can't get into Lorna Shore because of their style. I don't like that progressive sound added as well as their production for their albums. It's hard to tell what's going on. As for Will Ramos, he's such a great vocalist but this video was wrong on the Lorna Shore take as well as him. CJ is just as good, if not then much better as a vocalist than Will Ramos. CJ was one of the most talked about vocalist (before the allegations) because of his gutterals and sick nasty highs. Also Dickie Allen was doing those goblin like gutterals way before Will has. Not sure why people think Will has pioneered that style of vocals or act like he created that style Lots of Disrespect towards CJ and Dickie Allen. Those guys are sick
Refreshing to see someone else who doesn't really care for Lorna Shore instead of being in total awe of them. I personally didn't really like them before and outright hate their new approach
@@TYLERtheMAGGOT1 I don't think anyone saying CJ and Dickie Allan aren't vocalist gods. Everyone already knows they ate its just nice to see another amazing appear after what felt like a long time since the last great vocalist that got really big was probably Ben Durer and he came got big like 4 years ago so it's cool just have another monster to get hyped about.
This is my favorite video so far. 🙌🏼 Lorna Shore, Shadow of Intent, Brand of Sacrifice, Humanity's Last Breath, Archspire, Spite, etc. That's the shit I've been the most inspired by the last several years. Good to see they're getting the attention they deserve.
I think as a summary of what you said, new deathcore bands are being able to keep up with social media, being charismatic and shocking and i think that's because a lot of them are new blood and know their game. It's exhausting to say it over and over, but metal needs new blood. Just like greta van fleet or maneskin pushing old school hard rock onto a younger, social media driven audience.
I found out about slaughter to prevail via the lead singer’s RUclips channel. I saw him doing some covers of songs i Liked and thought his voice was pretty good. I was following him for a few months before I knew about STP. I thought he was just a RUclips singer. “This guy should start a band” I thought lol.
As someone who has never been into deathcore, the past few years have been amazing for the genre. There are so many bands im into at the moment that i never would have liked a few years ago. Shadow of Intent, Whitechapel, Lorna Shore, Enterprise Earth, Humanities Last Breath, Fit for an Autopsy, and the list goes on...
I've been there. Early myspace deathcore was shunned by gatekeepers despite its heaviness and difficult vocal techniques (maybe bc of their looks, handsome ppl in sleeve tattoos), but now, it's respected, revamped, and reborn. Now it's a legit metal genre and deserves one of their seats. Anw, when you're gonna review the When We Were Young Fest, Finn?
It’s great seeing some of the OG mid-tier deathcore bands like rose funeral getting back together. The new bands are awesome, but I’ve been dying for a follow up to Insurrection by Molotov Solution.
Good video! Imo Knocked Loose (and to a lesser extent Varials/Kublai Khan etc) deserves some deathcore revival credit for reinterpreting and popularizing the Acacia Strain sound. You can hear a lot of “emphasis on the core” deathcore in KL and I think it kinda primed people for this “emphasis on the death” stuff.
I would say that the current big 4 of deathcore each represent a different branch of the genre. Lorna Shore-blackend deathcore Slaughter To Prevail- nu-deathcore Shadow of Intent- more deathmetal deathcore Brand of Sacrifice- modern deathcore, also cool that they’re a themed band based around the berserk manga. Each one represents the pinnacle of each style of deathcore
I got into deathcore when it was in its decline. I found Impending Doom and After the Burial around 2017-2018 and have been listening to Deathcore ever since. Currently loving Brand of Sacrifice and Shadow of Intent. They are both incredible bands. They have literally 0 skips in their entire discography.
I honestly believe that the whole drama surrounding Lorna Shore in 2020 paved the way for their succes while people mostly skip over it. Immortal got no media coverage just because the vocalist turned out to be a giant asshole. Meanwhile the rest of the band worked their asses of for years and when they drop an amazing album they get nothing to show for it. The expectations for their new music was only heightened because people were curious if they still had it or if the drama got the better of them. To the Hellfire was really them proving their worth and they completely overdeliverd on the job. Much respect to that band and hoping they have a smooth career to come.
The thing that some people dont understand about Europe is that a band can be really big in for example Germany and have millions and millions of fans but will be pretty much unknown to the rest of Europe. Its the same for Slaughter to Prevail, they might have big numbers on RUclips and Spotify but they mainly stick to Russia, since thats were they are from, I yet have to see them on the list of any big festival in Europe.
@@lrballistics Tis a rite of passage: “come out with all of you limbs and the blood of another man”. Oh you did? Here’s your certification see you Monday
Vulvodynia got me into Slam/Deathcore ,and what's cool about them is that they are from South Africa .I myself am from South Africa and it's refreshing to hear that sort of music along with the introspective lyrics about the issues we face in South Africa .I was surprised at how many people know em internationally because we don't have too many big metal bands.
I'm glad it's making a comeback! I was one of those Core kids who used to go to Warped Tour every year and had like a million Metalcore and Deathcore tees in his closet. I never really grew out of my Core kid phase though so this is awesome.
I love vocal coach and composer reactions because you get professional insight, not to mention the validation of seeing someone who knows their shit getting excited about music you love. And shoutout to my boy Alex Hefner for bringing that genuine, self-deprecating hypemaster flash energy without the clearly put-on feeling other react channels have.
STP is probably the biggest deathcore band, they have crazy amount of average listeners and total views, across multiple platforms. EE, KoG, Evergloam, LMTF are heavily rotated for me right now outside of bands mentioned in this video and have put out banging new music since 2020. I personally like all aspects of metal music so long as the blend works, I love music that makes you think or has great audio engineering and can really come alive with high end planar headphones or speaker system. Audio imaging and instrument separation makes a HUGE difference for my enjoyment, the bass guitar chugging being very detailed is one of the first things I look for in a mix and any half decent planar headphone points out flaws in recordings.
I was never really interested in deathcore until about a year ago, when I heard slaughter to prevail song demolisher, and I loved it. Now I listen to deathcore all the time, my favorites are lorna shore ( will Ramos), slaughter to prevail, left to suffer, white chapel.
There’s an element of grandiosity and performance again. Adding orchestral, melodic bits, or black metal elements adds more depth to the music itself. Then vocalists trying new things adds that much more. Slaughter To Prevail have a different look and a different presentation - they put on a show. That’s something metal lost for awhile. Spectersoundstudios put it into perspective really well in his band photos video. Deathcore bands used to look AND sound over the top, even if it meant a goofier presentation. Then it just kinda turned into dudes standing in an abandoned building with their arms crossed while sounding largely identical to each other.
I think part of why reaction channels are so popular is because they're the modern/Internet equivalent of showing your friend something you like or a cool thing that you found. It captures that same feeling.
Brand of Sacrifice is another big player in the game. I think the whole world has heard the end breakdown in “Eclipse” at this point lol. Also, Thy Art is Murder deserves some cred for holding it down mid-late 2010’s
I've been a huge deathcore fan since the old school days and Brand of Sacrifice is already one of my all time favorites. For me they are really rejuvenating the deathcore sound.
Us highschoolers and middleschoolers that listened to the OG deathcore stuff grew up by now 🤣 its still the same of us we're just recruiting new people now
Love your take on the new Deathcore wave. I think bands like Enterprise Earth and Signs of the Swarm are also a big reason why this genre is going through a revival. Saw both last night. They are supporting Fit For An Autopsy's new cd tour and the room was PACKED with new and old fans. Really sick too see.
The electronic additions to deathcore, via bands like The Browning and We Butter the Bread With Butter, are also seemingly grabbing people's attention a bit more these days.
I live in the same city where the Slaughter To Prevail vocalist was born and continues to live, and I gotta say man, as a compatriot, I feels hell of a proud for them. ♡
I think they're the best out of the whole group. Melancholy is still my favorite album from them but Elegy was also really good, crazy arrangements. Ben also is the best vocalist out of the 4 bands mentioned. His lows are so powerful. He should do a 1 take vocal video as well.
I saw Lorna Shore and Angelmaker back in 2017. If you had told me back then that the blackened, techy Lorna Shore would be the one to break out before the high-energy Angelmaker, I probably would not believe have believed it. I am certainly not complaining about how it turned out for Lorna Shore.
Deathcore has simply reached its peak as a genre. When it first emerged, I wasn’t a huge fan but a lot of these newer bands are pretty decent. They’ve brought in more extreme metal and black metal influences, which appeals to me. The musicianship and extremety has increased significantly in the genre.
Maybe you have a very narrow view of black metal but I’m talking about bands like emperor who, compositionally speaking, play and write circles around most deathcore bands.
I actually watch a lot of these reaction channels. I am proud to say you showed clips or I saw thumbnails for almost all of my favorites. Charismatic Voice, Julia Nilon, 2 Rockin' Grannies, Alex Hefner, Too LIT Mafia, Metal BIRB, etc.
Another band that's on the rise from 2020-21 is Left to Suffer, their new EP was a masterclass, and "Anger" is up there for Deathcore tracks of the year. Edit; I just rewatched the video, and okay you did mention them. 🤘
I really feel like the educational reaction format needs some particular praise. Kardavox Academy and The Charismatic Voice both add a lot more content than just doing a reaction with the goal of helping people replicate these vocals without damaging their voice. Which is something I certainly wish was more accessible 20 years ago when I started attempting to do distorted vocals.
Its the charasmatic folks in the reaction scene that rise to the top, that and being genuine. People with big fake reactions and no insight never grow very quickly. Its sucks though, if you cuss or are a loveable weirdo like GalacticCriminal the numbers come slowly, which is BS
@@jmarth523 right, and most people don't want to watch a 30-50 minute vocal breakdown, but I think those 2 in particular do a lot for helping newcomers understand a bit more. The fact that they add some teaching points, at least to me, makes them a bit more notable than the other reactions.
I agree completely, Charismatic Voice does an actual in-depth analysis from the point of view of a vocal coach and opera singer. Showing proper technique that will keep you from destroying your vocal cords and supporting your voice effectively. Not your usual click-baity reaction video.
I was around back when deathcore was on its way up (I sang in a band called Suffokate), and it’s definitely in the best place it’s been in quite a while. Cool video!
I'm genuinely surprised bands like Venom Prison or Fuming Mouth haven't gotten as big within the Deathcore scene, especially after how big straightforward Death Metal bands like Sanguisugabogg and Frozen Soul have gotten over the course of the beginning of the decade. I'm sure they have an audience with OG Deathcore fans, but it kinda seems strange seeing Deathcore bands who take more of an OSDM sound not getting as popular as the bands mentioned in the title given the popularity of other bands of the same niche.
Also, I think Shadow Of Intent isn’t going to have that break out moment, since they are heading down a death metal path and leaving death-core there aren’t those “oh shit” moments.
Ironic because out of all these new bands, SoI is by far my fave because they broke the mold. The black/death vibes are great, why I got into metal in the first place. All this new stuff is just too cheesy, they all sound the same... Extremely fast double kick, breakdowns and super lower tunings... Just doesnt do it for me unfortunately.
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Let's face it. The Myspace era of music made a comeback because we realized shit was better back then. When the world turns into a shitstorm, comebacks in music and other trends are inevitable. ~Buzz Killer, Talking Zombie From Western Pennsylvania
Bring back KillWhitneyDead lol
What is the band at 0:19?
Reaction channels are about that feeling you get when you show someone a dope new song if you don't have anyone around you who likes the same music you do
Agreed. Don't get the hate they're getting.
I dont think reaction channels are getting enough credits for what they are doing for younger bands and newcomers.
True, but also the commentary, especially from somebody with expertise of something.
So it's a sad feed into the loneliness of the social media era. That's too bad.
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I think it should be noted that the orchestral elements in the new wave of deathcore give a huge feeling of ambient grandness to the compositions.
Ya it’s like they all added a lil black metal. I know for sure that Ben (singer for Shadow of Intent) is a big Dimmu Borgir fan. He has taken a lot of influence from Shagrath the singer.
But it can be a little to inflationary over time...
It's exactly that "blackened" element I was missing in the first wave and what makes Lorna Shore so insanely good for my taste.
This is not a new idea though. Winds of Plague did it like 10 years ago, and they didn't even invent it
@@kylepetruzziello3321 winds of plague didn't do it as well though
Brand Of Sacrifice, Lorna Shore, and Slaughter are definitely paving the way for the current gen and I couldn’t be happier about it
Carcosa might be a band you want to check out. Pretty sick
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Darko, Fit for an Autopsy and Shadow of Intent are also worth checking out. Fantastic bands, all of them.
@@M4RCi92 also To The Grave, Distant, Left To Suffer, Enterprise Earth, Worm Shepherd and Mental Cruelty. They have all dropped albums within the last year and they were all really good listens to boot
@@jacobwalters 🥰
To The Grave is definitely in my top 3 of deathcore revival band, i was hoping that finn would talked about them more
I’m mid 40’s - somewhat out of touch with all the “cores” - and just discovering the genre. I can say it has me interested and excited about music in a way I haven’t been in a while. Chuga chuga wodolido!
Nows the best time to get into it man the quality is just there
You got 30 years of core to discover... I'm 35 and started when I was 16 getting into the cores...
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Listen to Myspace deathcore...its much better than anything coming out today
My 14 year old daughter is into that crazy Russian Deathcore band. Fukn wild when your kids start to put you on to music😂
Proof of awesome parenting
stp's first ep and album are good too check em out
@Call Me, BLEGH Me, If You Wanna Reach Me omg u were born in the wrong generation!!!
My dad could never lol
@Call Me, BLEGH Me, If You Wanna Reach Me you sound old & sad. That band is great tho. But as a 30 year old with some slightly older gen z friends, the elitism sucks. Just let people like the shit they like and stop trying to feel superior than others. It’s really shitty.
Alex Terrible Is the only person in this genre that can do a Barbie girl cover and wear a wig and still be taken seriously. WILL STEP UP! I know you can! 😂 All great bands!
Reaction videos are a substitute for when you would hear a new song or band and want to go show your friends. You get the satisfaction of seeing someone else experience something that you also enjoyed experiencing.
In the digital age, we have less human contact and interaction so it's more rare to be able to share these experiences, so reaction videos are a digital approximation of that human connection that we all crave.
Which is a pretty sad state of affairs to be honest. I personally hate reaction videos because most of the time they are contrived and faked for views. Go out to concerts when you can though get that in person human interaction, make friends with folks in the scene. Usually if you go to enough concerts you will bump into the same core groups all the time and makes it fun.
@@corail53 dude 90% aren’t curated for views, that’s just delusional. It only helps grow music as well so I don’t exactly understand the hate
@@corail53 well, the last two years haven't been very good for concerts plus this is a pretty obscure genre of music so it's generally hard to find very many people to enjoy the music with.
I've watched a couple reaction videos of people hearing ABR for the first time and watching them have the same reaction that I had when I first heard them is kinda cathartic and fun.
And I live in a little town in Montana so we don't get many good bands around here.
@@corail53 not everyone has the time or desire to go to shows constantly. I’m not 20 anymore and would rather spend time and money on other things. Channels like Nik’s are great for discovering new music and discussing it with others
Don’t need an entire new group of friends just to discuss heavy music haha
Yeah I started making reactions because I have no one irl who listens to the music I do, so I wanted to share it with people online
Nik Nokturnal is great, he IS a reaction channel but he also gets into the instruments and he's the 1% imo 🖤
Seconded. I think he knows on some level that the reaction genre is kind of silly/cringe and he plays into it, but also adds some insight into the production or whatever. His new release twitch streams are fun too - honestly a great way to find some new music.
Thirded. Of the metal channels on RUclips, Nik is IMHO the best. He has serious actual skill on the guitar and he's able to pick apart videos and realistically critique in a way few others have the ability to without seeming holier than thou.
Love nik and his content. Memes, metal, musicianship. And the slav squat video is just a must see I feel 😂
Kardovox academy makes awesome reaction content for exactly this. He’s also a vocalist/vocal teacher so he’s really good at explaining how these people make these inhuman noises
@@johnmenjes7828 mark is great. I love his content and as a hobbyist just having fun with my favorite songs, I've learned a lot from him in trying to make all the different sounds. The "cartman/goblin" voice was a dead on description for me to execute. I love his personality too. Oh. And fucking swords!!!
I was 16/17 back then and I'll always love how rough those recordings were, I was a kid who felt like he could record a really brutal song without too many resources. I also loved how everything sounded so randomize sometimes, it was like "let's take this riff, at this tempo, then this other song riff, blast those drums like your life depends on it, and paste it all together" "yeah and how do we fit it?" "just put some audio from a movie in the middle, and DON'T FORGET THE FUCKING PIGSQUEAL".
There were no rules or structures yet, just kids trying to sound as brutal as they could, no matter what. And that was what made me love it! Raw home recorded music, not necessarily well played, but it had that "thing" that kept me searching for a new song every single day.
Love this new wave though! It's fresh, it's brutal, it's amazing.
Not being "that guy" that gets upset with Finn when he misses a band or anything, but if you're looking for another great newer deathcore band, Fit For an Autopsy is awesome! Worth checking out imo :)
Fantastic band. One of my favorites
I just saw them live last week and it was phenomenal!
Eh their new album was mid.. not a huge fan of cleans on Deathcore.. it should stay in Metalcore imo
They are 15 years old bro not hating just sayin
Definitely not “new”
We slip through one fact. Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal happened. I think Mick Gordon's ungodly masterpiece sound is a deciding factor here. It really wasn't deathcore, but it was a mix between core and prog with a shit lode of electronics, but it was quality wise above anything that bands done at the time. It's simply gained extreme popularity just by song quality, and paff. Majority of people capable enjoying metal if it's done well. Or if it's high enough quality I should say. And what's similar with those now popular deathcore bands? They both are next level mixed, mastered and crafted. No time before could we enjoy core so high quality. Other than that is Mick's work with heavy electronics, so it was clear that you can freely experiment with classic sounds, let that be more electronics (seriously Brand of Sacrifice's new single Lifeblood basically a Doom song with growls), more orchestral like Lorna Shore, or just be more technical like Slaughter.
The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch also happened in 2016
I could not agree with this statement more. I said almost this exact thing a little while ago when I heard some music that I thought was inspired by the doom eternal soundtrack. I loved watching my boyfriend play that game and the soundtrack made it even more enjoyable.
@@roxycocksey glad that I'm not the one noticing it! Hell, Mick's work inspired Bring Me to make a heavier album while not even close to deathcore, but significantly heavier than their previous albums. Gordon even mixed the songs for that, so yeah. The influence is unquestionable.
Doom has really mixed with metal really well, overall. Some of the imagery in the classic doom games was inspired by old iron maiden album covers, and doom E1M1’s note progression is very similar to that of some other songs at that time, particularly no remorse by Metallica. I can absolutely agree that the modern doom games have inspired a lot of deathcore bands, both with the production and some of the electronic sounds themselves. 2016 was a huge year for deathcore overall, and the first doom game in almost 13 years was released as well. Mick Gordon is an absolutely phenomenal and talented musician, there’s simply no denying it. I have come to accept Bethesda kicking him, and like Andrew Hulshult’s work with David Levy, but something about Mick Gordon’s songwriting is just so much more memorable. He’s done a myriad of other works before, but doom in particular is the most metal he has gotten. Also, I’m pretty sure some deathcore vocalists actually attended the doom eternal choir, which is part of the game’s soundtrack. I think that was a major influence too, as even Alex Terrible (guy at the beginning of the video) was aware of it and even tried joining it. Unfortunately, he wasn’t part of the OST.
Also, the doom soundtrack wasn’t even supposed to have guitars originally. Glad that didn’t happen, lol. Otherwise we wouldn’t have had this masterpiece of a soundtrack.
I've shown Lorna Shore, Slaughter to Prevail, Brand of Sacrifice, etc.. to people who never heard of deathcore and they found it oddly entertaining. I think some part is just unique and extreme it is- almost like an experience hearing something like this for the first time.
I btought my normie party type of girl friend since I had an extra ticket and she absolutely loved it. She said it was the best concert she's been to
I'm loving this new generation of deathcore! I used to listen to a fair amount of deathcore back in my teens, but stopped paying attention over the last decade because it was becoming repetitive and simplistic, so I gravitated towards progressive, melodic, and technical death metal instead. But I'm glad it's made a comeback and sounding more refined than ever. 🤘🏼
I agree 👍🏻 this new Deathcore has grabbed my attention. I feel like a lot of these new bands listened to a lot of aborted and Cattle decapitation.
I also think Will from LS is such a genuine guy. Watch interviews. Super great dude.
He also did the live sing through of Hellfire and damn
The Charismatic Voice is great because she's a trained opera singer and knows tons about crazy vocal techniques and physiology. She also had a 2 hour long interview with Will Ramos and he's super charismatic.
I love when you cover deathcore and slam. Thanks dude
I love deathcore bands that putting slam influence on their music
I genuinely thought Slaughter peaked with Demolisher, thinking they couldn't out-do the intensity..
But boy was I glad to be proven wrong repeatedly!
Worm Shepherd also released an absolute BANGER of an album recently.
I was going to say something about WS. But you already did :)
Last weekend we had 4 deathcore bands release killer albums
Bro it's majestic. Waiting for To The Grave to drop a disgusting single within the year, deathcores back baby ;]
This is amazing. I think BMTH also contributed to this, going poppy, getting massive and then slowly (not that slowly really) getting heavier
That shot at 10:03 sums up one of the biggest reasons why bands with charismatic/attractive frontmen can pull such huge numbers; just look at how many women there are in that crowd compared to any other type of metal gathering. If your music appeals to 10% of men but only 1% of women, that's only 5.5% of the population. Even if your genre is less mainstream, appealing to just 5% of men, but it appeals to just as many women, that's still 5% of the population.
A couple years ago I remember watching your deathcore is dead video and telling you you had good points. Like a week later I saw Slaughter to Prevail, Chelsea Grin, Traitors, and Bodysnatcher. I knew it was coming back. I'm ready for the new wave of deathcore.
I would also throw Darko US into this group of bands pushing the revival and popularity of Deathcore - throwing in a mix of Nu and Prog into the musicality making it a bit more catchy and you also can't deny their insane music videos
Infant annihilator never played live but the music they make is the pure definition of perfect deathcore
I got to see Phil Bozeman of whitechapel on stage with Mitch Lucker during a suicide silence performance at warped tour in 2010.
The crowd was already crazy, but when Phil walked out…
all immortal hell broke loose.
It was fucking amazing.
I really like contemporary deathcore outfits like Black Tongue and Mental Cruelty. They are pushing the genre boundary in a really nice way that has allowed me to give some of my metalhead friends an opportunity to try out deathcore.
I personally really like that whole Rose Funeral album, they're definitely my favorite deathcore band. Their heavy reliance on tremolo picking kinda makes them ahead of the whole blackened trend.
January 14th saw new releases by Enterprise Earth, SOI, Worm Shepherd and Fit For an Autopsy; all amazing albums by fantastic bands. Deathcore IS back baby!
I'm glad deathcore is having a resurgence. It's always been my favorite genre since it became one.
Worm Shepherd, Signs Of The Swarm and Distant are great bands in the mix too
Worm shepherd yessss
@@arekparra9054 probably one of the most studio sounding live bands I’ve heard, they’re insane
Maaan, humanity’s last breath is an amazing band too
Worm Shepherd and Mental Cruelty have really impressed me with their most recent releases I am definitely riding that blackened hype wave
Shadow of intent dropped yet another absolute masterpiece with “elegy”
They're not deathcore anymore
I love that album
Yea it’s trash
I'm surprised Darko US didn't get a mention. They ended up being one of the highly reacted to death core bands
Heavy as fuck. Love Darko US
One of my favs next to Despised Icon 🤘🏼
I can’t enough of Darko. I’d think Finn would love them with all the Emmure influences
Darko is the best band rn IMO
Yeah but I think they're pretty bad, whereas Brand of sacrifice and Lorna shore are great
I love slaughter to prevail the most , what a vocalist
I'm honestly a dethcore convert now. I kind of hated it during the MySpace days because it did sound like a trend, but the modern stuff is way more refined and has its own aesthetic now. It just sounds like a fully developed sub-genre now.
Shadow Of Intent and Lorna Shore are just terrific bands. What Will Ramos does with his voice is inhuman, and it's kind of cool to see he's sort of a vocal nerd, taking opera lessons and just trying to be the best vocalist he can be.
Coming from a guy who listened to the Myspace OG stuff, I respect your opinion but gotta disagree, it may have been a trend for the BMTH and a few others but alot of the other bands like Chelsea Grin, As Blood Runs Black, Whitechapel, Suicide Silence among others they really were devoted to making the most intense music possible imo.
Coming from a fan of the OG stuff, I also disagree. Is kind of like a competition on who is gonna write the most random heaviest breakdown and do the nastiest pig noise nowadays. OG deathcore felt more authentic to the artists. It was fun to listen to. Nowadays for me deathcore has become that type of music where you sit down and just pay attention to the vocals just like prog kids sit down and try to figure the song structure.
To add on my previous comment, also I don’t think the songwriting in new deathcore is that crazy. The Price of Existence by All Shall Perish is an example of a record that is so well written it’s kind of unbelievable to think that we get to listen to that. Deathcore nowadays is not memorable aside from certain songs or bands that we all know
@@mr.keiser4259 As someone who never really got into OG deathcore but love modern stuff, I completely agree lol. Modern deathcore has 100% devolved into "who can write the dumbest breakdown" or "who can make the weirdest noises with their mouth", and the two "breakout" songs Finn cited - To the Hellfire for Lorna and Demolisher for STP - are perfect examples. They only got famous because of their breakdowns, and when you consider that reaction channels and tik toks are the "modern myspace", it does make sense - stuff that makes people squirm gets the most reactions and is easiest to make viral.
Also to Finn's final point about who will make the next breakout song, I don't think it will ever be Shadow of Intent for that exact reason. They did their indulgent breakdown on Heretic Prevails (which, even in 2017, was a breakout song), but their last two albums don't indulge like that anymore and I think more closely fit what you described as being "more authentic". As a vocalist in a smaller, aspiring deathcore band, I massively respect that.
Deathcore is virtually indistinguishable from technical/progressive death metal or blackened death metal now...I think that's what you mean by 'fully developed.' And I don't have an issue with this, originality is kinda overrated. I'm glad deathcore can take its rightful place among other legitimate subgenres now. I've always considered it 'metal' but most people don't feel that way...or at least they didn't back in the day.
I love what bands like Whitechapel & Enterprise Earth have been doing lately, incorporating prog, atmospheric soundscapes and clean vocals into their sound that really pushes the boundaries of the genre: that’s the kind of stuff I like to see in Deathcore, both those bands are pretty popular too. I’m glad Deathcore is making a comeback
I can't do the new Whitechapel. To each their own I guess
The new WhiteChapel is good as hell, I was surprised to see a acoustic song from then despite the whole album being an emotional ode to the singer’s mother
@@chairmanofthebored6860 Me neither. I only liked about 4 or 5 songs from Kin
Lorna Shore's next London, UK gig has been upgraded four times and it's gonna sell out again soon enough. Fit For An Autopsy also need to seriously be paid attention to. They are incredible musicians and some of the nicest and kindest guys I've ever met.
Shadow Of Intent are also fucking incredible, highly recommend their new album Elegy.
Now that mention it last time i saw Lorna shore was with fit for an autopsy. I remember shortly after that show when cj got canned being worried if they were gonna call it quits or not. Needless to say I’m stoked for them to be blowing up. But I agree fit for an autopsy should be bigger than they are. Will pretty much does production for every band ever and I really feel like they were the first band to really do deathcore with cleans in it.
Enterprise Earth and Shadow of Intent too 😤
Deathcore is back because they found something that worked. That atmospheric, orchestral sound works great with traditional band instruments. It just sounds really cool. You could tell falling in reverses new single was influenced from that. It was a nice change of pace from the heaviness arms race that was going on. Its probably got a couple years before it gets stale.
Black Tongue was huge for me because it was the first deathcore band I heard that wasn’t entirely blast beats and insane speed. It was the first deathcore band I heard that used music as a sound scape and didn’t try to play as fast as possible.
After the Burial is my go-to deathcore band. Along with Veil of Maya, Make Them Suffer, and pre-2016 Attila. Although, the genre is so mixed in with other styles like djent and progressive metal nowadays it's hard to tell them apart.
'Brand Of Sacrifice' hit so hard. 'Lifeblood' as an Album feels like a build up to the epic breakdown in the title track
Crazy how berserk manages to influence so much outside of manga.
And still can't get a decent anime 😩
@@fullswingin big facts
I remember watching the anime for the first time and thinking it was a pretty mild fantasy, then they rescue that guy from the dungeon and he finds that egg and I was like....whu...what happened!?!? Not surprised its a big inspiration to extreme metal, Urotsukidoji had a similar effect back in 'day.
I never got into the OG death core. No shade, it just didn't do much for me. I didn't understand why the tru metal elite had such an issue with it tho. To me it seemed like the obvious evolution of what Suffocation had started.
I really dig this new stuff though. They have songs, character, atmosphere, and those huge *clawed hands to the sky* moments of vast awesomeness. Like I've said before, (and will again no doubt) Will Ramos has some of the coolest vocals I've heard in extreme metal for a long time. I would argue that his vocals are memorable and hooky (along with the catchy music). Any way, I'm about to hit 40 so I'll stop enthusing about young peoples music and go complain about the price of bread or what ever people my age are supposed to do. 😅
Even infant annihilator’s third album had some berserk influence.
Carcosa is doing great for Canadian Deathcore. Love those dudes
AngelMaker as well!
To the Hellfire’s breakdown literally gives me chills every time I hear it
Lorna Shore’s new EP got me interested in deathcore again. Will Ramos’s vocals are ELITE!
I saw Lorna Shore at a 300 cap venue in Providence RI a few months back. A week after that show they announced they were opening for Bring Me The Horizon on they're UK/Europe tour. If that's not a blow up, I don't know what is.
Side note, Lorna had to cut their set short because they set off the fire alarm. It was a memorable show
hope they hit it big, bro. sure hits me hard that this music used to be so big back then
SLAUGHTER TO PREVAIL is pretty sick
nowadays just comfy with whatever japanese metalcore i stumble in and then go back to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas songs
If you want something brutal and japanese check out yomi yori
It's back :')
I've seen STP, Lorna Shore (with Tom), Shadow of Intent, Make Them Suffer, and a few others you named off, and the hype around them is very well deserved!! Haven't seen LS yet with Will, but hope to soon
I'm glad that you finally mentioned how most random shit like reaction channels helps more extreme music to reach bigger audiences.
I don't love newer Lorna Shore honestly. But there are a bunch of good deathcore bands. Shadow of Intent is probably my favorite though they've definitely branched out. I dig that the Death Metal community is more accepting of deathcore now. Though I think the fact that less of it is cookie cutter and more varied in the influences, with more melodic, black, etc...really helps. Those old MySpace deathcore bands used to blend together for me.
Death metal bands that can gain some popularity are Gatecreeper,Creeping Death and maybe 200 Stab Wounds
Agreed with Lorna Shore. I can't get into Lorna Shore because of their style. I don't like that progressive sound added as well as their production for their albums. It's hard to tell what's going on. As for Will Ramos, he's such a great vocalist but this video was wrong on the Lorna Shore take as well as him. CJ is just as good, if not then much better as a vocalist than Will Ramos. CJ was one of the most talked about vocalist (before the allegations) because of his gutterals and sick nasty highs. Also Dickie Allen was doing those goblin like gutterals way before Will has. Not sure why people think Will has pioneered that style of vocals or act like he created that style Lots of Disrespect towards CJ and Dickie Allen. Those guys are sick
Refreshing to see someone else who doesn't really care for Lorna Shore instead of being in total awe of them. I personally didn't really like them before and outright hate their new approach
@@TYLERtheMAGGOT1 I don't think anyone saying CJ and Dickie Allan aren't vocalist gods. Everyone already knows they ate its just nice to see another amazing appear after what felt like a long time since the last great vocalist that got really big was probably Ben Durer and he came got big like 4 years ago so it's cool just have another monster to get hyped about.
This is my favorite video so far. 🙌🏼
Lorna Shore, Shadow of Intent, Brand of Sacrifice, Humanity's Last Breath, Archspire, Spite, etc. That's the shit I've been the most inspired by the last several years. Good to see they're getting the attention they deserve.
Thank you. Learned about a new band.
Archspire is Tech Death. They are dope as fuck either way.
I think as a summary of what you said, new deathcore bands are being able to keep up with social media, being charismatic and shocking and i think that's because a lot of them are new blood and know their game. It's exhausting to say it over and over, but metal needs new blood. Just like greta van fleet or maneskin pushing old school hard rock onto a younger, social media driven audience.
I found out about slaughter to prevail via the lead singer’s RUclips channel. I saw him doing some covers of songs i Liked and thought his voice was pretty good. I was following him for a few months before I knew about STP. I thought he was just a RUclips singer. “This guy should start a band” I thought lol.
As someone who has never been into deathcore, the past few years have been amazing for the genre. There are so many bands im into at the moment that i never would have liked a few years ago. Shadow of Intent, Whitechapel, Lorna Shore, Enterprise Earth, Humanities Last Breath, Fit for an Autopsy, and the list goes on...
3:04 I witnessed this rise on myspace. 🖤
I've been there. Early myspace deathcore was shunned by gatekeepers despite its heaviness and difficult vocal techniques (maybe bc of their looks, handsome ppl in sleeve tattoos), but now, it's respected, revamped, and reborn. Now it's a legit metal genre and deserves one of their seats. Anw, when you're gonna review the When We Were Young Fest, Finn?
Yeah man, I've benn waiting for this to see Finn's reaction about that line up😂
@@mynameislove1704 Yeah. 😂 It's absurdly huge with nostalgia bands with newcomers stick in it... .
@@mynameislove1704 it's on Finn's 2nd channel now. I alr check it out... .
It’s great seeing some of the OG mid-tier deathcore bands like rose funeral getting back together. The new bands are awesome, but I’ve been dying for a follow up to Insurrection by Molotov Solution.
A lot of hip hop fans are getting into this style of music too.
You are absolutely correct. I have made both Hip Hop and Metal music for years and I think they go hand in hand.
Good video!
Imo Knocked Loose (and to a lesser extent Varials/Kublai Khan etc) deserves some deathcore revival credit for reinterpreting and popularizing the Acacia Strain sound. You can hear a lot of “emphasis on the core” deathcore in KL and I think it kinda primed people for this “emphasis on the death” stuff.
Kublai Khan is just Buff Hatebreed, I'm fanatical about both lol
And kublai is definitely more hardcore than deathcore
Hot take
I would say that the current big 4 of deathcore each represent a different branch of the genre.
Lorna Shore-blackend deathcore
Slaughter To Prevail- nu-deathcore
Shadow of Intent- more deathmetal deathcore
Brand of Sacrifice- modern deathcore, also cool that they’re a themed band based around the berserk manga.
Each one represents the pinnacle of each style of deathcore
Enterprise Earth is doing some really good shit to. Dan Watson is a fucking beast and the instrumentals are insane.
@@Budd_Dwyer Dan Watson had improved greatly since his IA days, especially his lows.
"The Best"
Lorna Shore
Darko
Fit For An Autopsy
Crown Magnetar
Extra:
FRCTRD
MENTAL CRUELTY
THE VOYNICH CODE
DROWN IN SULPHUR
Slauther to Prevail 🤮
I got into deathcore when it was in its decline. I found Impending Doom and After the Burial around 2017-2018 and have been listening to Deathcore ever since. Currently loving Brand of Sacrifice and Shadow of Intent. They are both incredible bands. They have literally 0 skips in their entire discography.
I honestly believe that the whole drama surrounding Lorna Shore in 2020 paved the way for their succes while people mostly skip over it. Immortal got no media coverage just because the vocalist turned out to be a giant asshole. Meanwhile the rest of the band worked their asses of for years and when they drop an amazing album they get nothing to show for it.
The expectations for their new music was only heightened because people were curious if they still had it or if the drama got the better of them. To the Hellfire was really them proving their worth and they completely overdeliverd on the job. Much respect to that band and hoping they have a smooth career to come.
The thing that some people dont understand about Europe is that a band can be really big in for example Germany and have millions and millions of fans but will be pretty much unknown to the rest of Europe. Its the same for Slaughter to Prevail, they might have big numbers on RUclips and Spotify but they mainly stick to Russia, since thats were they are from, I yet have to see them on the list of any big festival in Europe.
45-year-old forklift drivers everywhere like Death core. Good shit man.
To be forklift certified, you first have to survive a Slaughter to Prevail moshpit
26 year old forklift driver here lmfao
@@lrballistics Tis a rite of passage: “come out with all of you limbs and the blood of another man”. Oh you did? Here’s your certification see you Monday
Vulvodynia got me into Slam/Deathcore ,and what's cool about them is that they are from South Africa .I myself am from South Africa and it's refreshing to hear that sort of music along with the introspective lyrics about the issues we face in South Africa .I was surprised at how many people know em internationally because we don't have too many big metal bands.
great band
I really like the new set up! Really nice and minimal.
I'm glad it's making a comeback! I was one of those Core kids who used to go to Warped Tour every year and had like a million Metalcore and Deathcore tees in his closet. I never really grew out of my Core kid phase though so this is awesome.
I love vocal coach and composer reactions because you get professional insight, not to mention the validation of seeing someone who knows their shit getting excited about music you love. And shoutout to my boy Alex Hefner for bringing that genuine, self-deprecating hypemaster flash energy without the clearly put-on feeling other react channels have.
"clearly put on feeling other react channels have."
*Stares in Too Lit Mafia and Devin Gibson*
Niiceee 🤘🏾
Btw I frickin love Alex
STP is probably the biggest deathcore band, they have crazy amount of average listeners and total views, across multiple platforms.
EE, KoG, Evergloam, LMTF are heavily rotated for me right now outside of bands mentioned in this video and have put out banging new music since 2020.
I personally like all aspects of metal music so long as the blend works, I love music that makes you think or has great audio engineering and can really come alive with high end planar headphones or speaker system. Audio imaging and instrument separation makes a HUGE difference for my enjoyment, the bass guitar chugging being very detailed is one of the first things I look for in a mix and any half decent planar headphone points out flaws in recordings.
Loved The Afterimage but they are really killing it as Brand of Sacrifice 🔥
Brand of sacrifice and zavali ebalo by slaughter and soany other bands and songs inspired by the berserk manga it's fucking great.
You still tbf can’t deny, Phil is a beast of a vocalist. Clean and harsh.
For any deathcore fans here, check out the new album "Oh What The Future Holds" by Fit For An Autopsy, it's really good 👌
It is! Been spinning it non stop!
Collateral Damage is my favourite track of that album. So heavy.
I was never really interested in deathcore until about a year ago, when I heard slaughter to prevail song demolisher, and I loved it. Now I listen to deathcore all the time, my favorites are lorna shore ( will Ramos), slaughter to prevail, left to suffer, white chapel.
Shadow Of Intent is an AMAZING band everybody should take a listen
I agree. I think they are paving the way out of deathcore into a genre of their own
The gathering of all is one of my top blackened deathcore jams
There’s an element of grandiosity and performance again. Adding orchestral, melodic bits, or black metal elements adds more depth to the music itself. Then vocalists trying new things adds that much more. Slaughter To Prevail have a different look and a different presentation - they put on a show. That’s something metal lost for awhile. Spectersoundstudios put it into perspective really well in his band photos video. Deathcore bands used to look AND sound over the top, even if it meant a goofier presentation. Then it just kinda turned into dudes standing in an abandoned building with their arms crossed while sounding largely identical to each other.
I think part of why reaction channels are so popular is because they're the modern/Internet equivalent of showing your friend something you like or a cool thing that you found. It captures that same feeling.
Brand of Sacrifice is another big player in the game. I think the whole world has heard the end breakdown in “Eclipse” at this point lol. Also, Thy Art is Murder deserves some cred for holding it down mid-late 2010’s
I've been a huge deathcore fan since the old school days and Brand of Sacrifice is already one of my all time favorites. For me they are really rejuvenating the deathcore sound.
Us highschoolers and middleschoolers that listened to the OG deathcore stuff grew up by now 🤣 its still the same of us we're just recruiting new people now
Love your take on the new Deathcore wave. I think bands like Enterprise Earth and Signs of the Swarm are also a big reason why this genre is going through a revival. Saw both last night. They are supporting Fit For An Autopsy's new cd tour and the room was PACKED with new and old fans. Really sick too see.
The new EE record is fucking amazing.
9:50 apply cold water to burned area
The electronic additions to deathcore, via bands like The Browning and We Butter the Bread With Butter, are also seemingly grabbing people's attention a bit more these days.
I live in the same city where the Slaughter To Prevail vocalist was born and continues to live, and I gotta say man, as a compatriot, I feels hell of a proud for them. ♡
Fit For an autopsy is just phenomenal.
Fit For An Autopsy and Thy Art Is Murder carried the torch in the 20teens and kept the genre alive in the between time, yet neither get mentioned.
Really glad you mentioned Shadow of intent they are seriously under rated
Shadow of Intent is definitely my second favourite band of all time. Their new album is an 11/10.
Not really into their new stuff cause it's sounds 100% like death metal, especially that melodic/symphonic stuff, just not my type of metal
Hell yeah. They're just fun to listen to. Super creative and well-balanced.
Of Fury ruined it for me
I think they're the best out of the whole group. Melancholy is still my favorite album from them but Elegy was also really good, crazy arrangements. Ben also is the best vocalist out of the 4 bands mentioned. His lows are so powerful. He should do a 1 take vocal video as well.
Who's your first?
I saw Lorna Shore and Angelmaker back in 2017. If you had told me back then that the blackened, techy Lorna Shore would be the one to break out before the high-energy Angelmaker, I probably would not believe have believed it. I am certainly not complaining about how it turned out for Lorna Shore.
Deathcore has simply reached its peak as a genre. When it first emerged, I wasn’t a huge fan but a lot of these newer bands are pretty decent. They’ve brought in more extreme metal and black metal influences, which appeals to me. The musicianship and extremety has increased significantly in the genre.
Maybe you have a very narrow view of black metal but I’m talking about bands like emperor who, compositionally speaking, play and write circles around most deathcore bands.
I actually watch a lot of these reaction channels. I am proud to say you showed clips or I saw thumbnails for almost all of my favorites. Charismatic Voice, Julia Nilon, 2 Rockin' Grannies, Alex Hefner, Too LIT Mafia, Metal BIRB, etc.
Lorna Shore isn't my thing, but really happy to see Slaughter to Prevail on the way up, they've been great from the start.
No song has ever made me cry. Until Pain Remains. Brings me to tears almost every time. Maybe people hear the music but some of us feel it.
Another band that's on the rise from 2020-21 is Left to Suffer, their new EP was a masterclass, and "Anger" is up there for Deathcore tracks of the year.
Edit; I just rewatched the video, and okay you did mention them. 🤘
Left to suffer is gonna blow up soon man
Does anybody know the band at 0:19?
First time I heard "Entombment of a Machine" by Job for a Cowboy, I was like, "This is allowed? It's so brutal..."
"99% of reaction content is absolute trash"
finally someone said it, next topic pls
I really feel like the educational reaction format needs some particular praise. Kardavox Academy and The Charismatic Voice both add a lot more content than just doing a reaction with the goal of helping people replicate these vocals without damaging their voice. Which is something I certainly wish was more accessible 20 years ago when I started attempting to do distorted vocals.
Its the charasmatic folks in the reaction scene that rise to the top, that and being genuine. People with big fake reactions and no insight never grow very quickly. Its sucks though, if you cuss or are a loveable weirdo like GalacticCriminal the numbers come slowly, which is BS
@@jmarth523 right, and most people don't want to watch a 30-50 minute vocal breakdown, but I think those 2 in particular do a lot for helping newcomers understand a bit more. The fact that they add some teaching points, at least to me, makes them a bit more notable than the other reactions.
@@TheAutoxgalant72 absolutely. They are able to humanize it to people that are apprehensive to this type of music
I agree completely, Charismatic Voice does an actual in-depth analysis from the point of view of a vocal coach and opera singer. Showing proper technique that will keep you from destroying your vocal cords and supporting your voice effectively. Not your usual click-baity reaction video.
I was around back when deathcore was on its way up (I sang in a band called Suffokate), and it’s definitely in the best place it’s been in quite a while. Cool video!
The skies were filled with fire was in my daily playlist in high school. Love suffokate my dude
I'm genuinely surprised bands like Venom Prison or Fuming Mouth haven't gotten as big within the Deathcore scene, especially after how big straightforward Death Metal bands like Sanguisugabogg and Frozen Soul have gotten over the course of the beginning of the decade. I'm sure they have an audience with OG Deathcore fans, but it kinda seems strange seeing Deathcore bands who take more of an OSDM sound not getting as popular as the bands mentioned in the title given the popularity of other bands of the same niche.
Also, I think Shadow Of Intent isn’t going to have that break out moment, since they are heading down a death metal path and leaving death-core there aren’t those “oh shit” moments.
Ironic because out of all these new bands, SoI is by far my fave because they broke the mold. The black/death vibes are great, why I got into metal in the first place. All this new stuff is just too cheesy, they all sound the same... Extremely fast double kick, breakdowns and super lower tunings... Just doesnt do it for me unfortunately.
Then they Released the Migrant and well it's full of those moments
So glad shadow of intent was included here. It’s hard to decide who is musically the best between them and Lorna shore.