Deathcore

"In ‘05, was crazy popular. We were like OK, metalcore is cool, but what if you cut off all the singing shit and you just play the heavy shit and ? What if your drummer is a ? And what if your vocalist is more influenced by than he is by ? That’s kinda how it came to be."

"I think kids got tired of this fuckin' emo-metal bullshit. They wanted something a lot heavier, so they've made hybrids that incorporate death metal. They've learned their lessons from what we did 15 years ago from their uncles or parents and they want to capture that brutality."

"Bands like and came out saying, "Yeah, we like Cynic," and that spoke volumes to numerous kids who started researching the older bands like us."

"People are realizing that the heaviest music was definitely when death metal started. And today there are kids picking up instruments who really want to be good musicians, and death metal requires good musicianship. Kids are finally learning how to play goddamn fucking solos again."

"As it evolved and mutated, metalcore and deathcore bands including , , , , and applied elements of death metal to their own -heavy rhythms, while other purists played old-school sounds for new audiences."

"There was such a long period of time where [the genre] was so saturated [...] A large percentage of those bands sounded the same, regurgitating the same sounds and ideas. I think that's a big chunk of the negative connotations the deathcore tag had back then."