Deathcore

Deathcore es un subgénero musical extremo proveniente del metalcore, que incorpora elementos del death metal.^[1]​^[2]​^[3]​^[4]​^[5]​

El género consiste en riffs de guitarra de death metal, blast beats y breakdowns de metalcore. Si bien hay algunos precursores del concepto de death metal fusionado con elementos de metalcore/hardcore vistos en la década de 1990, el deathcore en sí surgió a principios de la década de 2000 y ganó prominencia a partir de mediados de la década de 2000 en el suroeste de los Estados Unidos, especialmente en Arizona y sur de California, con bandas como The Black Dahlia Murder, Suicide Silence, Antagony, Despised Icon, Job for a Cowboy, Animosity, All Shall Perish, As Blood Runs Black, Whitechapel, Glass Casket, The Acacia Strain, The Red Chord, Through the Eyes of the Dead, entre otras.

1. ↑ allmusic.com Alex Henderson: "What is deathcore? ...it's essentially metalcore... Drawing on both death metal "
2. ↑ metalinjection.net Cosmo Lee: "...All Shall Perish...Alienacja (Poland), Despised Icon (Montreal), and Whitechapel (Knoxville, TN)... They’re all textbook “deathcore,” fusing death metal and Metalcore.
3. ↑ lambgoat.com "This is deathcore. This is what happens when death metal and hardcore, along with healthy doses of other heavy music styles, are so smoothly blended..."
4. ↑ metaleater.com Ciaran Meeks: "'Deathcore' is apparently a mixture of Death Metal, Metalcore, and Grind, all mixed 'n mashed together to create a brutal and extreme 'new' hybrid"
5. ↑ decibelmagazine.com Shane Mehling: "“Deathcore” is the subset of metalcore kids playing death metal. ...sounds pretty much like any late ’90s death. ... But what makes this more of a Hardcore Punk record is that, unlike most death metal, the songs seem spliced together."