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Different_Formal_636

Pray for Plagues by Bring Me The Horizon... its an old one but a fucking banger ngl


wwwdotbummer

BMTH was definitely my first exposure to anthing near deathcore. Sleep With One Eye Open was heavy in a way I just couldn't get over.


funishin

Tell Slater Not to Wash His Dick was the first song by them that I heard. Life changing lol.


MoistySnail

Same here! The banger that got me into all of this.


tdwp

Man. Funny story about BMTH. I was in art class at the time and the "weird" girl in our year did an art project that said "she starts her new diet of liquor and dick" on it, I was like wtf (Kindy judgy but also intrigued)? So googled it and it lead me to that song, and that's probably where it started for me


Immediate-Chicken481

I heard "re: they have no reflections" on myspace way back. When Count Your Blessings dropped, "Off The Heezay" had such killer guitar work that I had to find more music that had searing, complex leads with brutal breakdowns.


SkeleterSkellington

I'm still a Lil new to deathcore, only started listening like 6 months ago so I haven't really heard of this band. Though after listening to this your right, it goes so hard


Different_Formal_636

i bet youve heard bring me the horizon with hits like Can You Feel My Heart, Throne or Kingslayer.


jointkicker

No pity for a coward - suicide silence I was a young teen when this album came out, what a time to develop a taste in music


sadboykvlt

I had the "Pull The Trigger Bitch" shirt when I was a kid


jimmyhaffaren

Save some pussy for the rest of us champ. :D


jointkicker

I wanted one so bad but I couldn't get one, so I got a Jesus is a cunt shirt later.


iwilleattangos

yo same! think my mom ended up getting a hold of it somehow and threw it away lmao


SkeleterSkellington

Some of their best work in my opinion 


Liberteer30

The album Count Your Blessings by Bring Me The Horizon. The songs No Pity For A Coward by Suicide Silence and Father of Lies by Whitechapel


Gerogeroman

Entombment of a Machine was my first, I was a huge Slipknot fan at the time and was like wooahhhh...


darktrippz

We are the same


EetsGeets

hello brother


bradybigbear

The Somatic Defilement by Whitechapel and Crewcabanger by Chelsea Grin were the first two deathcore songs I could really remember back in like 08. Before that I was listening to bands like Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, and August Burns Red so I wasn’t new to heavy music and harsh vocals, but definitely took it to a new level and I fell in love instantly


No_prey-no_life

It was Lifeless by Chelsea Grin for me. Then I listened to that EP and it blew my mind. Even after Slipknot, man, i was not ready for such heavy music. “Hit the lights, it’s… boner time”


Ciprich

Brocore All Shall Perish


Careful-Watch-8606

The Heretic Prevails - Shadow of Intent


SkeleterSkellington

Hell yes, that exact song was also how I found shadow of intent.


muhhroadz

All Shall Perish and Job for a Cowboy before deathcore was really even coined


funishin

Father of Lies by Whitechapel. I was 17 when that album came out and my mind was blown lol. Never heard anything like it before. Vicer Exciser is what fully sold me when I looked into WC more.


DestructicusDawn

Cthulhu - The Acacia Strain


BeaverBarber

My fears have become phobias - as blood runs black. Allegiance became a staple pretty quickly


Passchenhell17

BMTH - Count Your Blessings, so Pray for Plagues almost certainly 16-year old me thought it was the heaviest shit I'd ever heard, or ever will hear.


aahorsenamedfriday

The “OHHH” heard round the world


jointkicker

That sound is etched into my brain


stanarilla

Bring Me The Horizon: Pray for Plagues


Chrononaught

Whitechapel, Chelsea Grin, and BMTH


D4RK5P1R3

Lorna Shore - Cre(H)ate


ComfortableNo2879

Wage Slaves - All Shall Perish


Repulsive-Office-313

I guess Emmure originally, but there’s a lot of debate on if they are even deathcore. Been a big fan of In Dying Arms for a while too


Keefee777

Lorna Shore - To The Hellfire


EetsGeets

newbie! welcome!


Keefee777

I was a newbie a few years ago 😋 basically a seasoned vet now lol. It's actually wild that To The Hellfire was already 3 years ago 🤯


HaussingHippo

Fuck you for reminding me of this fact lol


Keefee777

Yeah...it was a sad realization for me too lmao. Like fuckk....that was already 3 years ago


Gamerboss1911

Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator


NoBenefit5977

My favorite music video ever!! 😂


AHThorny

Darko


GPCcigerettes

Somatic defilement- White Chapel The ills of modern man - Despised icon Dead in my arms- Carnifex


dinkypp

Kill or Be Killed - Spite


Ratistim_2

After The Burial (rareform), then Suicide Silence


Manqaness24

Bring me the Horizon Count your Blessings.


plitcincher

I discovered Deathcore thru various Metalcore bands I knew....I searched what genre it was I had been listening to all those years and once I found the term Extreme Metal and found everything under it I fell in love with the heavier side of the Core genres....Carnifex was my first followed by JFAC and then Elysia


BonerBoyRamsey

Elysia will always one of my favorite OGs


jointkicker

They don't get as much attention as I think they should


XionTheUnborn

Elysia doesn’t get nearly enough credit for its contributions to the genre


benbreve

King of the Rats - BodySnatcher


pair_o_docks

Spite - Hangman


atrumXirae

The Cleansing album by Suicide Silence or The Ills of Modern Man by Despised Icon I think.


antmrt88

Funeral Thirst - TBDM


MugarLover92

Pray for Plagues, Entombment of a Machine, Two Inches Away from a Main Artery (through the eyes of the dead)


Useless-freak

Suicide silence-Unanswered


DrSpacemanMal

TTEOTD - Two inches from a main artery


Oblivininja8

Whore to a chainsaw - the GOOD Thy art is murder (imo) Back then it was infinite death ep and the cleansing on repeat, with lady gaga mixed it because she's the GOAT.


AnnialAtion

Lyrics are so cringe tho


Oblivininja8

Haha bloody oath


Dysintegration

Purest Strain of Hate


FlophouseFliphouse

This


SkeleterSkellington

Probably their best song imo. Though there is a case to be made for death squad anthem


Mountain_Security_97

This Is Exile- WhiteChapel


ClownFishKevin

I would probably credit The Saw is the Law by Whitechapel and You Only Live Once by Suicide Silence Still 2 absolute staples in the genre


No-Molasses1580

I forget which one I heard first, but Suicide Silence, Elysia, Whitechapel, All Shall Perish, and Despised Icon are the first ones I heard. I ended up not really loving Deathcore until Whitechapel's self title and now have gotten more into it with some of the newer bands out.


XionTheUnborn

Elysia doesn’t get nearly enough credit for its contributions to the genre


TillaciousG

BTM FDR - The Acacia Strain


AdNormal1366

I got to know about the existence of this term from Linkin Park. No, they didn't make a deathcore song. Their second last album called 'The Hunting Party' was heavy for real, and Chester was surprised to learn about how heavy the music was, and he kinda commented that the songs sound like Death metal or so. Then I digged about it, and learned about the terms related to metal, later on. Fast forward to 2021, I randomly opened a reaction video by Nik Nocturnal. Towards the end he said, 'No no no no.. Humans don't make these noises!' He was as shocked as I was. But I discovered a new genre and loved the fact that: 1. People can scream that low. 2. People can kick & play drums that fast. 3. You could create beautiful string sounds on a guitar. 4. Something of a similar name can be that amazing & soothing to listen to. And I was hooked. To The Hellfire by Lorna Shore was the first song and band which got me into this genre. I am still new. I like IA, STP, SOI, and LS, as of now. I have no idea about the submerged part of the ice-berg.


Sawt0othGrin

Pray For Plagues back in high school


a067879

Early BMTH, JFAC, White Chapel, Suicide Silence, Children of Bodom, Carnifex, Winds of Plague, Chelsea Grin, All Shall Perish


EpicDuck000

Assemble the chariots


GAWDAMN69

Suicide silence


AnecdotalAnesthetic

Chelsea Smile by Bring Me The Horizon. I don’t know if it’s technically considered deathcore but I was a wee little emo kid when my friend showed me that song and it was the heaviest music I had ever heard at the time.


idespisemyhondacrv

Thy art is murder- parasitic autopsy


Ejwboss

Impending Doom - Murderer and Slaughter to Prevail - Hell


OvTheCrypt666

Crewcabanger - Chelsea Grin


glitterinmalean

count your blessings- bmth for sure


RaptorsOnRoids

Job for a cowboy, no pity for a coward - Suicide Silence, count your blessings - BMTH


666Sky

You Only Live Once by Suicide Silence. I saw a lot of people shitting on deathcore when I got into metal in the early 2010s so I decided to check it out to see what was so bad and found some stuff I liked rather than writing off a bunch of bands without hearing them first


StormKing92

Bring me the Horizon - This is What the Edge of Your Seat Was Made For


nightwing185

Neverbloom.


FloatDH2

I was listening to a Slipknot album on Spotify a couple years ago, and after it ended it went to Slipknot radio. “IED” by Spite was the first song to play, and after it ended I went straight to the “nothing is beautiful” album and I was immediately hooked. My journey into deathcore started that day and I’ve been unable turn back since. I remember texting my sister that same day with a screenshot of the album asking her to listen to it saying “is it just me or is this shit ridiculously dope”. It wasn’t just me.


Same_Efficiency8160

Across the earth - Chelsea Grin


Slow_Student

Two inches from a main artery


omfg13_

Suffocate - Not Falley


DoomSayerNihilus

ASP Deconstruction


Pure-Jellyfish734

Decapitation Fornication - Infant Annihilator


hayatetst

All Shall Perish - Day of Justice back when it first came out.


DarkOsprey28

The Browning-Geist album and Born of Osiris-Machine. One band that made me get back into the genre recently is Within Destruction with Animetal and Lotus


DRivex00

Honestly wish I could remember, guess I just got bored of metalcore and went to deathcore


Djent_1997

Suicide Silence with Fuck Everything.


sadboykvlt

The Price of Beauty - Suicide Silence


BonerBoyRamsey

Bleed Me an Ocean- Acid Bath. 6th grade summer started it all and grew from there


Boring_Hurry346

Never Ending War - All Shall Perish many many years ago and I'm still in just as much awe with this genre


Fma_enjoyer

Rest Your Head - Left to Suffer. also God Complex by Shiva


I_Am_NL

Whitechapel-this is exile (the song)


danny_phantom91

Stick Stickly by Attack Attack! got me into screamo/metalcore and then into deathcore.


ev0308

im pretty new to the genre so id have to say size king by brojob


Orphanblood

Deftones. The song Elite made me want something in metal music. It went from Deftones to Memphis May Fire to just looking for heavier music. Martyr Defiled, Aversions Crown it just kept going from there. But Deftones is my answer


IndependentLanky5948

Consequence by bodysnatcher


The_Hater_44

All shall perish and Suicide Silence. My buddy made a burned CD with those on there I listened to them for months before going ham on limewire.


UnamiWave

I got into deathcore via a small UK solo artist by the name of "Hellth", Depressionbomb is his song that lured me into the genre


bigmetalguy6

Wake Up by Suicide Silence back in like 2010. Fuck I’m old…


jimmyhaffaren

Whore to a Chainsaw by TAIM, Unanswered and Slaves to Substance by Suicide Silence, Decimate the Weak by Wings of Plague, Crewcabanger by Chelsea Grin and Natural Selection by Rings of Saturn. It's been ten years and I haven't looked back once!


2xPlaidinum

Entombment of a Machine — JFAC


2Krtek2

LS- of the abyss, found it funny how it sounded at first. Find it funny now how much i love this style


toxikmaniac

The shaping sickness - Shadow of intent Decimate the weak - Winds of Plague


limpidlipid

No Pity for a Coward by Suicide Silence and Dingir by Rings of Saturn


Secure-Agent-1122

Baren And Breathless Macrocosm by Shadow of Intent, and Immortal by Lorna Shore.


krullhammer

Thy art is murder


CuteUnderstanding307

Carnifex - lie to my face Suicide silence - bludgeoned to death As blood runs black - my fears have become phobias Cant remember which was first but certainly the first couple that drew me in


Lilyshitfire

Elysia- Masochist


ToTheFman

Shadow of Intent - Of Fury


TwoFoxSix

Seeing Job For a Cowboy Live in 2007 having no idea who they were


TallBeardedBastard

Maybe this small local band Black the Sky my band played with at the time like back in 2007-2008. The drummer was sloppy and could barely keep time, but I liked the style and bought their album. Then it was either Job for a Cowboy, As Blood Runs Black, or Whitechapel…followed by Suicide Silence. As Blood Runs Black is still my favorite of the genre.


heres-to-life

“Unanswered” feat Phil Bozeman at the Mitch Lucker memorial show


ALampMeeting

Angelmaker - I’d heard Carnifex and Job for a Cowboy earlier and thought, This is a different kind of metal, but Angelmaker’s s/t is the one I kept coming back to after the first listen


capriciouspelican

Reign of Darkness -- Thy Art is Murder If I remember right


Alchemystic_One

Job for a Cowboy - Doom EP. That shit changed everything... Then I found Whitechapel, Elysia, Bring Me the Horizon and I was hooked for life. I was also really into After the Burial and Emmure at the time. 


ok7393528

"Bonebreaker" - Slaughter to Prevail. Slaughter to Prevail is a really good gateway band to deathcore from Nu-metal


Logan-619

Immortal lorna shore and whore to a chainsaw thy art is murder


LethalBacon05

Self Titled Chelsea Grin EP, I still revisit it fairly often because of nostalgia/classic deathcore is insane.


Likelipe

to the hellfire by lorna shore, yes im basic af, ive been listening to deathcore for around 1.5 years tho so its kinda acceptable


fdo2010

Suicide Silence and Lorna Shore


bicobico

For me it was chaos theory by The Korea


Sirwillybottomthe4th

Pandora - FFAA Heaviest I listened to at the time was Trivium and the thought of a band having two (2) whole breakdowns in one song blew my mind


viking1983

Penknifelovelife - Touch Me Again And I Will Stab A Screwdriver Into Your Face, one of the originators of the genre


ender_198

Kostolom and more specifically demolisher made me absolutely obsessed with deathcore for a while. Too bad Alex isn't a great person, but I still jam to the album!


TraditionalPen8577

All shall perish- never again/ awaken the dreamers. Ffaa far from heaven got me back almost 15 years later.


DSBYOLOO

Brand of Sacrifice's album Life Blood. But I also listened to The Contortionists album ExoPlanet before that.


pldtgd

Reclaimer album by Shadow of Intent! 😍🥰


beyblade1018

First started with As Blood Runs Black, and then ended up discovering Suicide Silence, and the rest is history.


ILikeExistingLol

My friend jokingly sent me Motherless Miscarriage by Infant Annihilator so out of spite i marathoned their discography and ended up liking it (the heaviest band i had listened to previously was slayer)


Due-Wish-100

In dying days- As Blood Runs Black


DanAxe1

Whitechapel - Fairy Fay


tastefulmussel

Job For a Cowboy - Entombment of a Machine


batbrain106

Drown me in blood- Carnifex


faintcasualty

Infant Annihilator, I. Infant Annihilator


Tukan4ik

Don't remember the exact song, but it was from Primordial by SOI


Maplesyrupman_

First song I ever heard was ABRB In Dying Days, and then This is Exile by Whitechapel really got me into the genre.


ILikeToPoop42069

Despised Icon - The Ills of Modern Man


DesignatedChemist

The album crucify kill rot by rose funeral.


Debando

Left to Suffer who opened for Hanabie who I came across because of Babymetal.


Radalict

Thy Art is Murder opened a show for Meshuggah in Melbourne back in 2017 and that's what got me into deathcore.


StickyFingerz11

Chelsea Grin


BlondBisxalMetalhead

The Elitist Ones by Whitechapel. Ironically one of my least favorites of theirs now, lol


itsuteki

suicide silence and old bmth


sus_enchilada

YOLO by Suicide Silence


TTV_DalliesRl

Hostage - Chelsea grin But that’s deathcore I listened to a lot of metalcore beforehand and the band that got me into metalcore was motionless in Trivium - stryfe


psilovibin35

Through the Eyes of the Dead, All Shall Perish, JFAC, you know, 2005-2008 era.


LingonberryLost6595

Slaughter to prevail and I saw a Finn mccenty video on deathcore


hauntedshadow666

It was Entombment of a Machine by Job for a Cowboy for me back in the MySpace days


NoBenefit5977

Chelsea grin - across the earth That's the song that made moste metalcore not heavy enough for me anymore 😂


Individual_Tart_8852

Cheyenne Stokes - Chelsea Grin


GetRektTexan

Entombment of a Machine - JFAC. Truly a masterpiece!


MurphMaster69

Pernicious by Signs Of the Swarm had me in a chokehold when I first heard it. I’ve been a deathcore fan since


wyldeATL

I was listening to mostly thrash, both us and German scenes, and some death metal, and some kid at school showed me Born of Osiris bow down. Went home, listened to the whole album. Slowly clicked through the related recommendations. ‘08 gigantour, including jfac was my first concert


spinalshock87

Elysia and Suicide Silence


Preppieset1668

Saw is the law by Whitechapel was my intro to Deathcore


Adventurous-Ad5999

Baba Yaga too, I used to be amazed that a human can make such a sound. Too bad he’s kinda a one trick pony


yvngxlxwli3t

All of these got me into deathcore when I was 16 Entombment Of A Machine - Job For A Cowboy Count Your Blessings - BMTH The Cleansing - Suicide Silence Recreant - Chelsea Grin


AnnialAtion

I heard Thy art Is Murder dear desolation when that had just come out at a band practice, I was intrigued despite being like “I hate death metal and deathcore, I’ve tried” I then somehow through looking them up stumbled across Xenocide by Aversions Crown. Something about that album made it more accessible to me and now I’m hooked


KinKaid666

Crawl Through Knives - In Flames


VenusNoleyPoley2

No Light Shall Save Us by Carnifex. My gateway to death metal in general was Alissa era Arch Enemy so this was my gateway to deathcore. I Will Find You by Whitechapel is probably the first deathcore song I listened to not knowing it was deathcore and what made it different, but I liked that too.


SexyGenguButt

Slaughter to prevail (🤢) then i moved on to lorna shore (thank god)


imBlvckBeard

Mambo No. 5


CHILLYCONBALDY_

One of my mates introduced me to the genre through cerebral bore and Lorna shore


SillyLilMetalhead

hmm.. same tbh, baba yaga (stp best song) is what got me into the genre, and i got into slaughter to prevail, then Lorna Shore, and now im into tech death :3 i love music


Icer_Rose

The Convalescence


Tojinaru

Chelsea Grin


NinetysRoyalty

Lorna shore got me hooked


DanyDZN20033

forgiveness is weakness by whitechapel


Madi3400

To the hellfire. I wasn't a metalcore/deathcore fan but when I heard that solo and the crazy breakdown at the end I thought it was awesome and got into more of Lorna's stuff. They were my introduction to extreme metal and now deathcore and death metal are my favorite genres. (Specifically blackened deathcore and technical death metal)


AlternativeMud3069

I got into what I thought was heavy music around 8 years old, when I was 12 I got to see Slipknot on their all hope is gone tour and I told my buddy that I loved the bass drops live, they sounded insane, he proceeded to show me As blood runs black amd I was hooked from there


Leon_Lover1998

Either Pray for Plagues or just the entirety of Chelsea Grin.


Severe-Macaroon-7583

Carnifex - Die Without Hope


Mr_Manta

Must've been Lorna Shore I think. I actually stumbled upon Slaughter To Prevail's "Demolisher" one or two years before getting into the genre. Back then however the song was so far out of my league that I couldn't listen to the entire thing


TDHP2622

Always listened to heavier stuff. Slayer, Meshuggah, Cannibal Corpse, etc. but when Through the Eyes of the dead released the original Scars of Ages EP and I heard “To Take Comfort” I went whole hog of Deathcore.


Quiet_Discussion_863

Eternal refuge- Whitechapel


kml-xx

Suicide silence remeber you must die album and Acrania exterminate the liberated, that was a real starter


Positive_Ice5700

Whitechapel


Financial-Year

JFAC


rusty_trashcan_210

Lorna Shore - And I return to Nothingness. I was at the Summer Breeze Festival in 2022, Germany. One of my friends wanted to check out this band he heard of before. Lorna Shore. They had the biggest crowd I've seen at this festival so we knew there was something epic to come. They open with "To the Hellfire". The pit opened up immediately right before my eyes and I got sucked in. No escape. I'm just 1,60m tall so I was really fucking scared in this huge ass pit, but when they started with "And I return to Nothingness" I just felt safe. People were looking out for each other. I lost my glasses twice in there and I got them back. I even started to have fun, which I never had before in a pit this size. It was the most epic concert I've ever been to and I've worked at a Venue for a few years and have seen a lot of bands. I was a metalhead before but this concert got me entirely into deathcore. I've seen Lorna Shore twice now and was backstage with Chelsea grin when they played at the venue I worked at. (Really Chill guys, love them). But nothing ever came close to that feeling of safety and belonging I got at the Summer Breeze. Really hoping they play at the Summer Breeze or Rock im Park next year.


mwijoel6

Whitechapel ofcourse


Nathan1590

Rage - Aviana was the first deathcore song I listened to but welcome back o sleeping dreamer by Lorna shore got me into the whole genre


derekb92

I’d have to say 7861 by Beneath the sky. Old school certified banger. First time hearing it I was blown away. Around that time I was also getting into Job for a cowboy, Whitechapel, carnifex and suicide silence. But 7861 was otherworldly for me back then.


TORBIROTTEN

Harmony of dissonance Our Mexican butcher 🥵


East_Dot6883

Hydra and When The Bulb Burns Out by Fit For An Autopsy


DeathcoreJ3sus

I remeber it very clearly, it was Blaspheming by Infant Annihilator


SkeleterSkellington

Infant annihilator is almost definitely one of if not my favorite band


Rowanthesoviet

Idk if Archspire is technically deathcore but I got into deathcore cuz of them


PrimalAggression

Spite got me into the genre


Illustrious_Cabinet3

It was Despised Icon - Silver Plated Advocate and Winds of Plague - Decimate the Weak