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A packed crowd at the Hollywood Palladium faces a smoke-lit stage with hands and phones raised, the band small in the distance 5 chapters

Deathcore History

From late-nineties records nobody yet had a name for, through Montreal, the MySpace boom and a 2010s decade that broke the sound into splinters, to the second wave of the 2020s: how a blast beat and a breakdown learned to share one song, and kept the argument going for a quarter of a century.

By Jonah Pike · latest chapter Jul 9, 2026

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