Interesting take on deathcore from a review of Cryptopsy's newest album:
Although far from a pleasant listen, this album and the resulting online media circus that has followed has given me a new perspective on the deathcore genre and why it needs to die quickly. Essentially deathcore is the newly born tyranny of the Prima donna drummer, typified perfectly by the gay metalcore image and inferiority complex ridden attitude of formerly respectable kit man Flo Mounier. Every single album in this fucking genre is loaded with pointless blast beat and drum fill showboating that make Mastodon’s drummer sound like Phil Rudd. These bands might as well not have guitarists and bassists at all considering how high the vocals and drums tend to be in the mix and how their parts rob said instruments of any prominence. Metal music is a guitar riff oriented style of music, I don’t care what sub-genre you play in, which rightly justifies any questions as to whether this music even qualifies as metal since riffs take the back seat to lung spewing gibberish and throwing a thousand notes or drum hits into every minute of sound space.
