If you told me five years ago that deathcore was on the cusp of a comeback, I’d have fled to the most remote cave on Earth and stayed there with my fingers in my ears. I remember the dark days: when a bunch of Myspace kids heard Job For A Cowboy’s Doom and said ‘We can do that!’, before churning out ‘songs’ which were overstuffed with breakdowns and pig squeals and had all the character of a paving slab. I’m blown away to report, however, that the deathcore revival has yielded far better music than the original wave which inspired it.
In the 2020s, Lorna Shore, Fit For An Autopsy and even some of the old guard have done what I previously thought impossible: approached deathcore with their own vision and a desire to break boundaries. For pulling their genre out of the quagmire, they deserve to be celebrated. So, here are the coolest new-era deathcore bands – as chosen by me, an ardent deathcore detractor.
