The Deathcore Starter Kit

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

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[@matthewthompson8745]

acaia strain was pretty early too

[@RafitoOoO]

Those are all great screamo bands, Finn.

[@bolillo5013]

Now get out of my room, mom

[@jacegrant29]

Wow, Im glad Finn made this deep dive 29 and a half minute video on how Lorna Shore invented deathcore all the way back in 2021, I never would have known. That kind of insight is exactly why he deserves his title of internet's busiest music nerd!

[@bolillo5013]

The one and only busiest music nerd on the interne

[@frederickdelius1106]

This was such a fun look back. Brand of sacrofice does the new stuff justice. I love that other people are enjoying this stuff again.

[@euancmurphy]

Suicide Silence were the first deathcore band I ever properly enjoyed. I felt like they wrote actual songs, instead of just a bunch of musical moments thrown together.

[@tshred666]

Ngl my biggest grievance with SS back in the day is why i love them now. They successfully blended nu metal with powerviolence, goregrind, black metal, and slam in a way, that at first seems disjointed and haphazard, but it’s actually carefully crafted to take you back to Iowa, adrenaline, and life is peachy but also still remind you of Darkthrone, Husker Dü, infest, Charles Bronson, cannibal corpse, and disgorge

[@CodyCockyote7046]

Suicide Silence are the BEST Deathcore band. No other band in the genre sounds as raw and brutal as them bc they soubd like a nasty Grindcore band instead of EDM with growls.

[@a.pigeon]

​@donnienarco144 You haven't listened to any myspace era deathcore. The whole edm with growls thing started pretty recently in deathcore. Listen to some early whitechapel, carnifex and despised icon. They are brutal

[@CodyCockyote7046]

@@a.pigeon I like those bands but even Suicide Silence recording the Cleansing live in the studio pretty raw and real bc of the performance still sounds more polished than what Im used to in extreme music. Check Brigada do Odio (1984) for something so raw you may not even enjoy it. They were the first actually extreme band in history of hardcore punk/metal (they came later than Discharge but were way more fast agressive and heavy) and they are from Brazil which was a very harsh, violent,scary and sad place to live in then.

[@anntifurz]

Just before he died in a frenzied moshpit during a breakdown, my Dad named and aggressively gate-kept deathcore. He’s turning and spinkicking in his grave now.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

RIP in peace, pop pop

[@anntifurz]

It was a teenage muppet performing a single-armed cartwheel clench-fisted windmill that did for him

[@andrewwaugh2287]

​@@FinnMckentyPRMBARest in peace in peace?

[@rejectscorner9939]

@@andrewwaugh2287Rust* in peace … sells but whose buying

[@tonytoofast]

MGK to reinvent deathcore next. One uncomfortable shoe at a time.

[@__belial__]

Joke is burnt

[@HimothyBurton]

@@__belial__and so am I

[@Minnevan]

One by one MGK goes around systematically saving each genre of music

[@EclecticoIconoclasta]

He revives and at the same time ruins genres.

[@MrxxSelfxxDestruct]

He's gonna go Deftones nu-shoegaze like Ocean Grove, calling it.

[@FloridaHardcore813]

Shoutout to them boys in Tracheotomy & Tactosa! Florida Deathcore 😤 27:36

[@luke.6952]

Couldn’t agree more about Winds of Plague being underrated. Such a good band

[@ryanpesch6604]

Yes. Drop the Match is a strong favorite

[@bolillo5013]

Real

[@nickgappmayer5939]

Winds of plague was my first favorite deathcore band. I’ve seen them 3 times. Bakersfield CA is only 2 hours from LA and we had ilke a Midwest emo/ whatever genera you wanna put at the time. Miss those days Also an old buddy Justin Graves made the cow video lol. He lives in Washington now and he’s a tattoo artist.

[@DFTRTITAN]

Also I believed they played in standard tuning which is pretty nutty

[@lucaslogg1024]

People really don’t understand how divided core and metal was. Totally different islands and no bridge between. The people on each island were very tribalistic and despised the other camp. The first bands that were first to cross the death metal and hard core were not understood or that well received.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Yes exactly

[@godwarrior3403]

Yeah I was a teen during those days. I was definitely of the opinion that deathcore was made by and for skinny jean wearing dudes who wanted to sound tough. I grew up and out of it but I remember being confused when I started watching KZbin more in my 20s and realized deathcore was suddenly accepted as legit metal haha

[@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence]

Not up in New England. I knew tons of kids listening to all kinds of bands.... from things like Dismember and Paradise Lost to early slam bands like Scattered Remnants and Suffocation. There were the At The Gates, In Flames, type fans. All the Relapse DM bands like Nile, Incantation, Dying Fetus, Soilent Green were quite popular. We also had the first incarnation of protodeathcore in full swing up here with bands like Barrit, Year of Our Lord, Fault, Shadows Fall, etc. By 1997 Relapse Records was extremely well connected to the hardcore scene, with grindcore bands being the first bridge between metal and hardcore..... Nasum, Brutal Truth, Benumb, Flesh Parade, Exhumed, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Excruciating Terror, Cattle Decapitation, or bay area LEGENDS Phobia.. etc, etc, etc.... even moving into bands like The Locust and shit.... tons of hardcore kids were listening to these bands pretty regularly. Labels like Earache and Century Media had been dabbling in hardcore and metalcore bands already.... Coalesce started off on Earache..... Century Media signed Turmoil pretty early in the 1990s as well.

[@injusticesystem5685]

Being from Europe, Belgium had some really great crossover-stuff in the mid- to late-90s. I saw Crawlspace play at Goodlife Fest and it was the most violent pit ever, as combining tough guy with death metal brought out the worst in people ;-). Friends of mine were doing Darkdayrising in the Netherlands and did trash, black and death metal with breakdowns. Whenever they played a typical metal show, the metalhead boomers often refused to move, "because they don't have long hair", while the HC scene was way more open to the mix of styles. Their song "Enemy" is killer and "Written in Blood" has riffs for days! Their discography holds up to this day. As Finn would say "10 out of 10!"

[@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence]

@@injusticesystem5685 Bro....I realized with this video that this channel is for the revisionists. The people who actively desire to re-write history into their own making. It's not left wing, right wing, liberal, conservative.... it's just this group of people who despise what we are, where we came from, and how it is.

[@underface]

I was raised with Job for a Cowboy and As blood runs black, glad to watch this deep dive into this genre

[@Arthur-wk6qc]

Happy to see Winds of Plague get some credit here. My buddies band opened for them back in 06-07. They were probably my first exposure to deathcore. I was blown away by how heavy they were. Instantly a fan.

[@FLINTmitten810]

The good old days. Man I miss that era

[@DeadTempoPromotions]

Man, this video truly showcases how much more life and character old Deathcore had compared to nowadays. It’s just so much catchier and fun.

[@gx1tar1er]

What I miss from the old deathcore is how raw that was though. Nowadays many sounds too over-produced. The same with Death Metal in the early 90's.

[@Mr.Marbles]

@@gx1tar1eryes exactly. Takes out the „punch“ those old ones had. I also think it gets so loud and fat nowadays that i can barely hear themelody in the riffs so it just sounds like „CHUN CHUN CHUN“ for 6 minutes

[@mynameislove1704]

Yes its over programmed and feels like not real music. It's like a robot playing music

[@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence]

Check out Into The Silo and Beyond The Structure... current/newer bands playing old school style deathcore without massive over production.

[@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce]

I miss when deathcore was written by hardcore kids who ripped melodeath riffs and added breakdowns. That was prime deathcore because, like you said, fun, catchy, groovy, and lively, open, but raw production.

[@Edymos1000]

I love that you gave ABRB and WoP their flowers. They both were a huge influence in my musical tastes even to this day

[@MySkilletfan]

Never forget the dude I sat next to in digital art class. Was on the football team and the complete opposite of me, but introduced me to the Messengers album. So good

[@Chanslam]

@@MySkilletfanI think you’re thinking of august burns red not as blood runs black

[@MySkilletfan]

@@Chanslam yup. Read that wrong

[@Chanslam]

@@MySkilletfan an easy mistake

[@_Marshall_7677]

​@@MySkilletfanI had to check to see if you were talking about me lol

[@Voldrani]

Man, did All Shall Perish ‘The Price of Existence’ and ‘Awaken the Dreamers’ not exist? OGs with incredible guitars and drumming.

[@davyjones5698]

God, i wish they come back. My favourite deathcore band of all times.

[@FreddPhucks]

Matt Kuykendall was my favorite drummer and one of the influences that got me started drumming. He killed it in Awaken the Dreamers.

[@Chanslam]

Yusss

[@jonathanw1106]

Finn refuses to acknowledge All Shall Perish in any Dcore video lol

[@atvena]

Melodic deathcore

[@peytonsnell1803]

Tactosa has been bringing that old school suicide silence type energy back and I'm here for it

[@bolillo5013]

I feel like there’s some pretty great revival bands now, especially a lot of smaller ones

[@scotttheprobot9096]

Psycho-Frame and Tracheotomy are also similar to tactosa

[@ThatShitGood]

Psycho-frame too, that band is amazing

[@mynameislove1704]

Where they came from?

[@FloridaHardcore813]

@@mynameislove1704 Tactosa and Tracheotomy are FL

[@chrisoconnor8928]

New merch coming soon. Collab with CoreKid back of shirt says “undiagnosed mental health issues, personality disorder, possible autism and trauma response” so everyone knows they’re a real CoreKid.

[@bolillo5013]

I would legitimately buy that, no joke

[@Zrakow]

Man I wish more people would talk about Here Comes The Kraken. Their self titled is absolute gold and is the album that made me get into deathcore.

[@angshumanmaguire9217]

Don't fail me darko !!

[@MadmindTX]

Myspace era deathcore Job for a cowboy is some of the best early deathcore aswell

[@RagingTaygan]

I love old deathcore and also new deathcore, early deathcore was raw and you can tell they put all their energy into it. Nowadays really everything is like over produce. And it sounds to perfect

[@_Mike.85]

Job for a Cowboy and Annotations of an Autopsy are the two Deathcore bands i remember the most tbh..

[@cellcerocreates]

Also, Chelsea Grin is definitely "S" tear in my opinion, especially considering all the amazing talent they have had and still have ( Pablo Viveros, Jason Richardson (Born of Osiris), Tom Barber (ex-Lorna Shore)). Their merch is also huge and they also appeal to a wide audience of both men and women. Amazing songs with a lot of tight dynamics as well.

[@bolillo5013]

Chelsea is probably my all-around favorite dc band

[@MiniMagit]

I'm pretty sure Pablo left the band some time ago

[@cellcerocreates]

yes but he is a metal drumming legend. he plays for a country band now. kinda bummed but he seems happy. CG's new drummer is really good and tight obv.@@MiniMagit

[@Jamesnpk]

Tom Barber is just pure amazing. I got into Darko and Lorna's Shore within the last 3 years and it wasn't until about 8 months ago when I listened to an interview with Will that I knew Tom was the singer of LS.

[@a.pigeon]

​@@MiniMagitYeah, he's in Ameonna now along with Alex and Jacob

[@shortlivedglory3314]

The Red Chord were also part of the OGs. Loved seeing them live.

[@FLINTmitten810]

I was just listening to “dreaming in dog years” today. Forgot how sick with it they were.

[@Cheeseburger.Launch.Sequence]

In my opinion if there was a "Big Four" of Deathcore it would be The Red Chord, All Shall Perish, Animosity, and Despised Icon. Honorable mention to A Life Once Lost... forgot to add that.

[@tuwordzzforeya]

Thy Art is Murder's debut ep Infinite Death is objectively one of the best deathcore releases of all time, the incredible misogny of the OG vocalist aside, it simply just goes insanely hard.

[@JudsonParker]

Bands like Darkest Hour and The Year of Our Lord were blending metal and hardcore back in the 90s, too. There was actually a real big obsession with black metal in the hardcore scene in the late 90s.

[@jasonweddington3782]

i truly believed people actually looked at the singer's attire and what they portrayed, and didnt listen to the actual music and they were truly hated. I always really really enjoyed them

[@atvena]

I was certain the outgoing soundbite was going to be "are you even a local band if you dont have a zil bel"

[@neezytheskwatergod]

Oh man, I've been going through a deathcore phase recently, this video came just right on time! Thanks Finn.

[@charli.ward.]

Despised Icon was one of my favorite bands in high school. I remember seeing them play summer slaughter in 2008 at Peabody’s, and I bought this Despised Icon hoodie with the logo printed in gold foil that I wore way too religiously. It was my emotional support hoodie, always there for me 😂

[@ryandicksen8377]

The kings of deathcore

[@jonnylawless6797]

I had that same hoodie in high school, shit was so great. The foil finally came off like 5 years ago

[@FLINTmitten810]

Dude I remember those hoodies!!! They had gold foil shirts too. Animosity was the first metal band I saw back then do the gold foil band tee’s lol.

[@ThatShitGood]

Always wondered why finn doesn’t do a whole video on them, since they’re literally the only deathcore band with real hardcore roots and influence

[@mgw5377]

classic shirt i had the same one

[@catsandguitars1867]

As blood runs black is AMAZING!!!!

[@bolillo5013]

Absolutely

[@tylerdonnelly7031]

Tactosa is bringing back the old school Deathcore sound.

[@richievaldez]

Love that you mentioned Animosity. I grew up with those dudes. Also shot both of their music videos. Love when anyone puts respect on their name.

[@richievaldez]

And you showed my fucking As Blood Runs Black music video too. We filmed the video at the Ivar. A gnarly club in Hollywood 🥵

[@OpenCasket19]

The Cleansing got me in, and it can't be topped. Never will be.

[@jbones9308]

As Blood Runs Black is awesome. The drummer drops his stick during the breakdown and they didn't even bother to edit it.

[@dunnock343]

Jeeze! That Paul Wall reference was too good. Lmao

[@TheKlamminator]

Gotta give dying fetus recognition for their influence in deathcore. Also, shoutout to All Shall Perish, their album "the price of existence" got me into deathcore back in highschool

[@Thenewbronzeagecollapse]

Dying Fetus are the godfathers of deathcore

[@Kornysrt4]

The Price Of Existence in my opinion is the best deathcore album

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

for sure

[@leekman5299]

Cool Easter egg the drummer from animosity is Navene Koperweis. He played on animals as leaders first two albums & Now he plays in entheos. He’s a Beast 🤘

[@voxextremos22]

He’s now in Entheos with his wife Chaney Crabb

[@cisrael468]

He didn’t play on the first AAL album. Those drums were programmed by Misha from periphery :)

[@Dwheel_91]

Was in high school during these Myspace Deathcore years, I still tend to sport my fitted flat bills turned at a slight askew angle. Hadn't fully realized that was part of the uniform but damn it still works 🤘☠🤘 thanks for these flash back of hidden gems from those scene years

[@TheScreamokid99]

Jus saw lorna shore in detroit august 15th and met will ramos hes so dope and chill!!

[@kevingrems]

I saw "Dearhcore" in my notifications and got excited 😢

[@lucaslogg1024]

Embodyment “Embrace the eternal” is great proto death core! The drums were intentionally left untampered with in the production to get more living feel on the album.

[@RecklessEnterainment]

You can say what you want about slaughter to prevail but you absolutely have to see them in concert. They were hands down the stand out band of the last big concert I went too. No one is more intimidating lol.

[@bolillo5013]

They’re absolutely brutal

[@Jjcoolbreeze]

This commentary, and nostalgia has had me totally consumed.. I’m crying laughing, cringing at how relatable it is, and loving hearing some of my favorite tracks of my past 💘

[@scottybrowndotca]

Wow .. I forgot how how hard some of those Solid State bands were .. Love it .. I'm showing up for work tomorrow in a hat worn at a jaunty angle, and answering all calls on a Nokia flip phone

[@Keener_ThanYou]

Hats at a 30° angle is like the golden ratio for deathcore

[@bzchoy]

Tilted hats spoke to me on a visceral level.

[@pigsquealingcore]

surprised you didn't bring up Job For A Cowboy, Doom was pretty much the blueprint for deathcore to come, production that sounds current in 2023, and it came out in 2005, shit's crazy to think about, The Red Chord are also worth a mention as part of the precursors, and maybe Postmortem Promises from the early myspace era

[@aimeeaztec4601]

Super enjoyed this Finn - some of the bands I didn’t know so real happy you’ve made me aware of them. Really like your taste. Would love a feature on goregrind since I don’t know much about it and have been intrigued by what I’ve seen and heard. Then again, you’d prob have to censor half the show to air it! Excellent work Finn - carry on.

[@Bobman4000]

My starting deathcore band was job for a cowboy and is one of my favorite bands

[@atthecore4560]

In my view: Deathcore started as a mix of Brutal Death Metal and Hardcore. Eventually it shifted towards the modern version that began the incorporation of Technical Death Metal over the Brutal sound. One of my favorite examples of modern Deathcore is: Perceptions by What's Left Of Her and Monolith by Substructure. Two bands that never got to peak, but killed it with only one release.

[@bostonwilde8004]

I was shocked to hear you drop Tracheotomy at the end there. I'm glad more people are starting to hear about them!

[@christianrojas5757]

The Cleansing is what intro'd me to deathcore. Fully agree that album is SSS tier

[@scottymemes9264]

Reject beards and craft beer embrace flat brim hats basket ball shorts and monster.

[@alejandrorayas6215]

I totally remember the first time I heard the EP from Demolisher, man! It was freaking insane! It blew my mind, seriously! I was so pumped! And I gotta say, I'm totally on board with this starter kit

[@minechof824]

Dearhcore

[@falsedoor9556]

Dear core

[@1nc0rr1g1bl3]

Dearhcore

[@jaredwilkins4938]

Impending Doom is another band with so much energy. Their music still doesn’t sound overproduced

[@chernobylcoleslaw6698]

As Blood Runs Black are great -only got into them over last year or so from Finn's videos. Did the Shadows Fall At The Gates-core and just went a bit heavier. Great band.

[@JosephRivera588]

The “Recreant” breakdown is undefeated even still imo. Nothing is better than silence during a breakdown

[@bennymountain1]

You know a band is good when best part of the song is when they stop playing.

[@baulzzzzzzz2278]

Early deathcore was raw fucking entombment of a machine was recorded raw straight off the floor they didn’t even use a fuckin click track.

[@codyharris6622]

Living in the Chicago area in the late 2000's, early 2010's, I saw monsters, sworn in and demolisher at the unity lodge in Kenosha WI. I didn't see it then, but it's crazy how much credit you gave these Chicago bands. What a time

[@tylerjensen8126]

Of all the periods in history to be alive, I got to live as a teenager in Phoenix going to deathcore shows regularly between 2007 and 2010. I wouldnt trade it for anything because there really is nothing else like it.

[@oryanbegay7856]

One deathcore band I've gotten to is Paleface Swiss, both Deathcore and Beat down, I think their another impressive band that I recently like and found. Overall, good shit thou!

[@bolillo5013]

Paleface is the stuff, new single slaps too

[@kingvamp6664]

Tracheotomy is from South FL

[@nightchairrecords8655]

Can confirm, If your flat brim hat was not turned at a very slight to borderline extreme angle, with all the stickers still on it, you were not cool. Also this to me was when everybody started blurring everything heavy together under an umbrella as “Screamo” music. Like legit, anything and everything even remotely heavy, ESPECIALLY from the outside perspective of non-fans/ listeners of hardcore and metal, was “Screamo music”. Deathcore to me was like touted as the new kid on the block bully, coming to destroy everything before it as the Most Brutal and Intense genre, while still having somewhat mainstream success. It scratched an itch, and it still scratches said itch.

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Demolisher the best screamo band

[@jasonknoll5170]

So glad WoP get's a shoutout. I'm not even much a deathcore fan but winds of plague gets the blood pumping

[@slayabouts]

I didn’t really listen to deathcore back in the day, but I did listen to Whitechapel, Job For A Cowboy, and Winds Of Plague Some of my friends who were in a band used to joke that if they couldn’t find a vocalist, they’d just strap a mic to a pig and slap it around on stage

[@cpguy99ify]

Slam Worldwide is really carrying the flag of new deathcore bands you would never hear of

[@relyksdjoser6429]

I recently got into as blood runs black after forgetting they existed for about a decade. I must say, I’m surprised how incredibly well their albums hold up and how well they kept their sound, just improved the recording quality.

[@3klipse1]

Allegiance has been one of my all time favorite albums since it dropped when I was in highschool, and in dying days is still one of my all time favorite songs ever. The album is just too good.

[@amulet2235]

Whitechapel is my favorite by far. Phil is nasty on vocals and they’ve been the most consistent

[@bolillo5013]

Seeing them in December and I’m hyped, they’re easily in my top three bands in dc rn

[@subparnaturedocumentary]

i forgot how dope that animosity first album was shut it down shit was fire the drums sound human and the hardcore style gang vocals were cool. suicide silence is definitely the pinnacle you start there.

[@JoSeF...]

As blood runs black is from San Pedro California

[@Pygmyer]

I'll throw Mental Cruelty into this mix. They're absolutely blowing me away right now. Their latest album is blackened deathcore on acid.

[@bolillo5013]

They’re sick but definitely not Finns vibe, Disembodied Tyrant and Worm Shepherd are some sick bands in a similar vein too if you don’t know them

[@Dragonlochd0815]

​@@bolillo5013Worm Shepherd are perfection, Devin Duarte is one of the most talented vocalists out there. The new EP will be released soon, cannot wait.

[@erikkling4791]

Yeah mental cruelty latest album slapped so fu hard

[@atvena]

They are insane

[@amphibeingmcshpongletron5026]

Thanks for turning me on to Embodyment, Finn. That was indeed crunchy and groovy af. Would've been super stoked on them back in the day. Definitely sounds ahead of its time. I'm not the biggest deathcore fan, but, as a big death metal and hardcore fan, some bands/songs really hit the spot for me in a way that more traditional death metal and hardcore doesn't.

[@dcfromthev]

6:40 Paul and Tommy were in so many killer bands back in the day! BTBAM is my all time fav band, talk about some stacked members they have always been on the top of their game.

[@BLOOM604YVR]

Embodyment is absolutely insane. It really holds up well. Thanks for the recommendation!

[@ryancurfman]

My random completely unusable skill is being able to draw deathcore fonts freehand really well because of an unfortunate hyper-focus as a teen.

[@bolillo5013]

Real

[@brandino3381]

one Guitarist of Tracheotomy here and this is CRAZY to see! Tysm! We’re from South FL 😎

[@FinnMckentyPRMBA]

Love what you guys are doing!

[@brandino3381]

@@FinnMckentyPRMBA we’re extremely grateful for this! Tysm, if you liked the ep, this single and the newer one, I guarantee what comes next soon you’ll love 🫶🏽you’re awesome 🫵🏽

[@bolillo5013]

Found you guys recently and your stuff is absolutely sick

[@brandino3381]

@@bolillo5013 thank you man! More is coming🙏🏽👀 🖤

[@worksofein6449]

The intro to this killed me dead. Never realised Despised Icon got so much flack, the singer once said some nice things about one of my stupid bands so I'll always have a soft spot for them. OG death core is cool but I vibe way more with the newer stuff. I really like the bands that do the slow discordant breakdowns with creepy atmospheres.

[@anerexicpig720]

Im so happy Tracheotomy made it into this video. Another south Florida gem.

[@brandino3381]

Ty🫶🏽

[@bolillo5013]

When he recommended them in another vid recently I checked them out and they’re sick

[@IrisGriffinMusic]

Hi Finn! Great bands. Lorna Shore, Slaughter to Prevail, Suicide Silence and Whitechapel are brutal in the best way. Thanks for mentioning some lesser known bands. I'm going to check them out.

[@jordanjoestar8839]

SPITE SPITE SPITE The one everyone seems to forget, especially their latest release that was mindblowing

[@kylestewart4444]

Bands like Whitechapel, All Shall Perish, As Blood Runs Black, Suicide Silence, The Black Dahlia Murder, Animosity, Knights of the Abyss, etc, was a huge influence on me back when I was 16. I’m 33 now and listening to some of those seminal records from that 03-07 era still hits just as hard as it did back then.

[@mdfmma123]

Don’t forget about Signs of the Swarm and Infant Annihilator!

[@atvena]

That's slamcore/downtempo territory

[@bolillo5013]

@@atvenawith how much deathcore varies I think it counts but fair enough

[@mdfmma123]

@@atvena ehhh… I’ve always heard them referred to as deathcore and heard interviews where they themselves refer to themselves as deathcore but I guess it’s hard to put any sort of definitive label on a band.

[@uppercut613]

Deathcore advanced kit = my breakdown compilation videos from 2007. I think they legit have every band lol

[@damonddukes8266]

Damn no love for through the eyes of dead, early deathcore , they was one of the first with double bass blast rolls . Anthony's vocals sound like a hell hound .

[@Chanslam]

Was hoping to hear that name as well

[@damonddukes8266]

@@Chanslam I personally know most of the members and was talking their original drummer about the fact they get left of the discussion on founding deathcore bands

[@billg708]

Man did I love this video!! It took me 2 hours to get though it due to making playlists!!

[@voxextremos22]

Shadow of Intent deserves more credit imo. They way they mix Dimmu with Flseshgid and whitechapel.

[@bolillo5013]

Absolutely

[@Axemang]

All Shall Perish arguably started it all, and their album The Price of Existence was waaaaay too good for its time. Job For A Cowboy released the DOOM EP in 2005 and it fucking dominated my high school listening, I can't believe there was no mention of JFAC! Thy Art Is Murder, The Acacia Strain, and Fit For an Autopsy started out in that era as well, and those bands are aging like fine wine, growing the complexity of their songwriting and musicianship without compromising their sound. They're fucking killing it right now.

[@Thenewbronzeagecollapse]

The Acacia Strain went full-on sludge metal this year...

[@eatassonthefirstdate]

Rose Funeral, Cholera, I Declare War omg IDW was so damn hard

[@needsLITHIUM]

It's all about that splash blast, into the fill, then PING on the Zil-Bel, then onto the breakdown with the slow, dark china.

[@djcj]

Really enjoyed this one! Thx Finn!

[@DethFadeProductions]

Finn out here fucking murdering me in the first 10 seconds. God damn😂

[@john-michaeldietz1302]

Shoutout to Embodyment. One of the first harsh vocals I ever heard. Scared middle school me.

[@taylorbradley6968]

I agree with everything you said Finn, but especially bring back the dewrag and jaunty hat. I work in agriculture and I rock it every day, unashamed.

[@metalgod542]

Yo. These are some absolutely SOLID picks. Excellent list indeed! As for your point at 13:00, I completely agree there does seem to be quite a bit of contest vs content, BUT it's still an absolute blast when you hear something stankface filthy. While deathcore is not what it used to be, I still believe it's in its prime.

[@ThatShitGood]

Very few bands from deathcore are able to bring that stank face these days, Crown Magnetar, Impending Doom and Physco-Frame are like the only ones i can remember at the moment

[@chrisgirth7373]

Despised Icon was the only deathcore band I was really into back then. I went and saw them open for Job for a Cowboy and left after them. The venues AC was broken and it was a sauna. Along with those 2 it was Terror and A Life Once Lost. I dont remember people hating on them but I'll take your word for it. They are still my fav deathcore band to this day.

[@BigSleep3750]

I swear, venues always have “broken AC” when shows come thru. Sweating your ass off in a room full of people moshing is a rite of passage

[@James-7str]

Its crazy how far despise icon have came. The first time I ever seen them they were in a skate park playing on top of a Box jump in huber heights ohio with terror and couple other bands And that same month i seen bleeding through two different times and he was still rocking the hell out of the Danzig shirt . The good old days. Lol

[@uppercut613]

I saw Undying in like 2002 in a legion hall basement and there were no more than 50 kids there. Can confirm they were a very small band but super ahead of their time

[@Prozacnatiion]

For anyone looking for more bands, atrocia is sick ass deathcore formed in the corner of texas with a new (AND EVEN BETTER) ep on Halloween

[@anguslewry6956]

Content idea: A genre series where you stick bands on a world/state map based on who you thought put x genre “on the map”

[@zachlasseter9788]

Damn that intro cut deep. For a moment, it was like Finn knows me.

[@bolillo5013]

He knows his audience a bit too well

[@linkgobrrr3358]

Honestly, BMTH was my starter kit. Suicide season dropped and I went deeeeeeep into the scene from there.