Songs are dense, lurching from one rhythm to another without warning, with screamed vocals over the top. It borrows from math rock, which also uses unusual rhythms, and from extreme metal. It developed in the American hardcore scene in the 1990s. Compared with ordinary metalcore it is far less predictable and has fewer sing-along parts.
Artists it is known for: The Dillinger Escape Plan, Converge, Botch.
About 1,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have mathcore among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Mathcore artists
Architects
Knocked Loose
156/Silence
Converge
Orchid
The Fall of TroyThe mathcore artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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