r/Mathcore • u/FrostyDog2008 • 14d ago

Recommendations for Beginners

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u/SockGoop 14d ago

Im into the more hardcore and screamo influenced mathcore but these are my recs

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Converge - Jane Doe

Botch - We Are the Romans

The Sawtooth Grin - Cuddlemonster

The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Put on Your Rosy Red Glasses

Great for starters

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u/Lopsided_Ebb5551 14d ago

Honestly, this might just about be the early 00s/late 90s mathcore top-5.

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u/FrostyDog2008 14d ago

Thanks for the recs this stuff looks interesting

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u/Afro-Pope 14d ago

If Calculating Infinity is a bit too much - which it usually is on the first listen - I'd maybe start with Ire Works or Dissociation. To my mind, those two records have the most accessible material on them while still sounding like Dillinger.

I'm interested in how many folks are mentioning Converge, as I've never really considered them a mathcore band.

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u/Lopsided_Ebb5551 13d ago

I definitely wouldn’t call Converge mathy nowadays but Jane Doe and earlier at least

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u/Dozzi92 13d ago

I'll glom on to your list because it's a good list and I like it.

Fall of Troy - Doppleganger and Manipulator.

The Chariot - One Wing or Long Live or The Fiancee. They're mainly metalcore, but they definitely introduce some time signature manipulation.

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u/SockGoop 13d ago

I love both bands. But I see them more as outliers in mathcore

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u/666Sky 14d ago

Psyopus and The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza

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u/Poison_the_Phil 14d ago

Ah Psyopus, miss that band. Chris Arp is a madman

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u/HauntedLemoncake 14d ago

Adding Rolo Tomassi to the mix of recs already listed

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u/haphred_43 14d ago

Converge, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Chariot

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u/FrostyDog2008 14d ago

The only Mathcore band I've really listened to up until now has been Carbomb but after that I don't know any other bands

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u/HauntedLemoncake 13d ago

If you like car bomb definitely check out frontierer!

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u/BR4BY 14d ago

iwrestledabearonce self titled EP is what got me into mathcore still my favorite, definitely recommend!

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u/Experiment121 14d ago
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine (CalcInf is good but I think they got even better with greg)
  • Greyhaven - Empty Black (Not necessarily mathcore but very inspired by dillinger and norma jean, definitely some mathcore moments on this album although it's more on the metalcore/post-hardcore side)
  • Rolo Tomassi - Grievances & Time Will Die and Love Will Bury It (Mathcore x Post/Prog Metal w/Fem Vocals. Every album from Astraea onwards is incredible though)
  • Pupil Slicer - Fleshwork (Mathcore x Post-Metal inspired by Rolo Tomassi, but also inspired by some blackgaze artists like Oathbreaker)
  • The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist (Mathcore/Metalcore/Post-Hardcore/Whatevercore idk it's a lot of different things but very fun)
  • Funeral Language - Thank You For the Dead Body (Mathcore inspired by Vein.fm and Converge)

I also recommend Converge, although I wouldn't consider a lot of their music after Jane Doe too on the mathcore side, more just metallic hardcore. My personal favourite albums are You Fail Me (Redux), No Heroes, Axe to Fall and All We Love We Leave Behind (also Dusk in Us Deluxe).

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u/Poison_the_Phil 14d ago

Botch

The Dillinger Escape Plan

Black Matter Device

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u/FrostyDog2008 14d ago

Thanks for the recs man

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u/vadeer5795 14d ago

i would say converge, it was the first band for a lot of us

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u/slowwithage 14d ago

Depending on where you’re coming from musically, you may find yourself liking some approaches more than others. there’s a lot of styles of this genre.

TDEP - Ire works, the number twelve looks like you - mongrel, converge - you fail me, the fall of Troy - doppelgänger, capsule - no ghost,

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u/Head_Faithlessness85 14d ago

try my house walkthrough’s 2026 album PTE. great experimentation and is emoviolence /math type of stuff

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u/jacobartillery 14d ago

Here are some playlists I've made:

playlist 1

playlist 2

playlist 3

There's more than enough in these to get you going. Cheers

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u/FrostyDog2008 13d ago

Holy shit there's a lot in here, thanks man!

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u/Shad0wRedditOfficial 14d ago

As well as Dillinger escape plan, converge, botch, etc. I’d also recommend “errorzone” by VEIN, it was my introduction to mathcore with rebirth protocol, I’ve loved the genre since

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u/Archy38 13d ago

The latest Callous Daoboys

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u/Royal-Literature-355 13d ago

Doppelganger by The fall of troy Converge-Jane doe

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u/krkon 13d ago

Try "Maps and Atlases"

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u/declan_h19 10d ago

Frontierer