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 Notes
American Standards U.S. 2011 [1]
Arcane Roots U.K. 2006 [2]
Architect U.S. 2004 [3]
The Armed U.S. 2009 [4]
Benea Reach Norway 2003 [5][6]
Blood Has Been Shed U.S. 1997 [7]
Botch U.S. 1993 [8][9][10][11]
Car Bomb U.S. 2002 [12]
The Chariot U.S. 2003 [13]
Coalesce U.S. 1994 [14]
Converge U.S. 1990 [15]
Daughters (early) U.S. 2001 [16]
The Dillinger Escape Plan U.S. 1997 [17][18]
The End Canada 1999 [19]
Eyes Upon Separation U.S. 1998 [20]
The Fall of Troy U.S. 2002 [21]
Frontierer Scotland & U.S. 2011 [22]
Heck U.K. 2009 [23]
The Human Abstract U.S. 2004 [24]
Ion Dissonance Canada 2001 [25]
Look What I Did U.S. 2001 [26]
The National Acrobat U.S. 1998 [27][28]
The Number Twelve Looks Like You U.S. 2002 [29]
Psyopus U.S. 2002 [30]
Rolo Tomassi U.K. 2005 [31]
See You Next Tuesday U.S. 2004 [32]
SeeYouSpaceCowboy U.S. 2016 [33]
SikTh U.K. 1999 [34]
Some Girls U.S. 2002 [35]
The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza U.S. 2004 [36]
Vein.fm U.S. 2013 [37]
War from a Harlots Mouth Germany 2005 [38]

See also

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