List of mathcore bands

Mathcore is a dissonant style of music characterized by rhythmic complexity and tempo changes (such as those found in free jazz and math rock) with the aggressiveness of hardcore punk and extreme metal. The genre is sometimes considered a subgenre of metalcore. Notable mathcore bands are listed here in alphabetical order.

List

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Name Country Formed Ref.
The Algorithm France 2009
American Standards United States 2011 [1]
Antigama Poland 2000
Arcane Roots United Kingdom 2006 [2]
Architect United States 2004 [3]
Architects (early) United Kingdom 2004
The Armed United States 2009 [4]
Arsonists Get All the Girls United States 2005
Beecher United Kingdom 2001 [5]
Benea Reach Norway 2003 [6][7]
Between the Buried and Me United States 2000
The Bled United States 2001 [8]
Blood Has Been Shed United States 1997 [9]
Botch United States 1993 [10][11]
Burnt by the Sun United States 1999
The Callous Daoboys United States 2016 [12]
Cable United States 1994
Car Bomb United States 2002 [13]
Cave In United States 1995
The Chariot United States 2003 [14]
Classically Handsome Brutes United Kingdom 2012 [15]
Coalesce United States 1994 [16]
Code Orange United States 2008
The Color of Violence United States 2001
Converge United States 1990 [17]
Dance Club Massacre United States 2004
Daughters (early) United States 2001 [18]
Deadguy United States 1994 [19]
Design the Skyline United States 2007
The Dillinger Escape Plan United States 1997 [20][21]
Drowningman United States 1995
Employed to Serve United Kingdom 2011 [22]
The End Canada 1999 [23]
Eso-Charis United States 1995 [24]
The Esoteric United States 1996
Every Time I Die (early) United States 1998 [25]
Exotic Animal Petting Zoo United States 2004
Eyes Upon Separation United States 1998 [26]
The Fall of Troy United States 2002 [27]
Fellsilent United Kingdom 2003
Frontierer Scotland & United States 2011 [28]
Gaza United States 2004 [29]
Genghis Tron United States 2004
The Handshake Murders United States 2000 [24]
Heck United Kingdom 2009 [30]
The Human Abstract United States 2004 [31]
Into the Moat United States 2001 [32]
Ion Dissonance Canada 2001 [33]
Iwrestledabearonce United States 2007 [34]
Jesuit United States 1995
Keelhaul United States 1997 [35]
Knocked Loose United States 2013
Knut Switzerland 1994 [36]
Lethargy United States 1992 [37]
The Locust United States 1994
Look What I Did United States 2001 [38]
Lye by Mistake United States 2004 [39]
Narrows United States 2008 [40]
The National Acrobat United States 1998 [41][42]
Norma Jean United States 1997 [43]
The Number Twelve Looks Like You United States 2002 [44]
The Ongoing Concept United States 2009
Paria (early) United States 2001
Press to Meco United Kingdom 2011
Protest the Hero Canada 2001
Psychofagist Italy 2002
Psyopus United States 2002 [45]
Pupil Slicer United Kingdom 2016 [12]
Pyrrhon United States 2008
Rolo Tomassi United Kingdom 2005 [46]
Rorschach United States 1989 [47]
See You Next Tuesday United States 2004 [48]
SeeYouSpaceCowboy United States 2016 [49]
SikTh United Kingdom 1999 [50]
Some Girls United States 2002 [51]
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza United States 2004 [52]
Vein.fm United States 2013 [53]
War from a Harlots Mouth Germany 2005 [54]

See also

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