Bands use blast beats, very low tunings and vocals that jump between deep growls and high shrieks. The breakdowns, taken from metalcore and hardcore, are the main thing that separates it from plain death metal. It emerged in the United States in the early 2000s and became popular later that decade, and some newer bands add symphonic elements.
Artists it is known for: Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Job for a Cowboy, Lorna Shore.
About 2,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have deathcore among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Deathcore artists
Architects
Wage War
Lorna Shore
Knocked Loose
Cannibal Corpse
Suicide Silence
Slaughter to Prevail
Whitechapel
Currents
Polaris
The deathcore artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.