Open Mind wroteT.I.E. wrotethat was a good idea my dear O.M.but it's a crappy answer after all... I could find bands like OFFSPRING ( :shock: ), FEAR FACTORY, THRICE, METALLICA (etc) in that group's chart... not so mathy !:evil:
I don't get it. I can't see any of these names in this list:Meshuggah PsyOpus The Dillinger Escape Plan Coprofago Between the Buried and Me Glass Casket Craw Botch Converge Ion Dissonance Comity Swarm of the Lotus Terminally, Your Aborted Ghost Neuraxis The Secret Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Cephalic Carnage Alarum Coalesce Harlots Gojira Sikth Fear Before the March of Flames Daughters Eden Maine Extol Losa As The Sun Sets Behold... the Arctopus Bodies in the Gears of the Apparatus Into The Moat Origin The Hostage Heart Ephel Duath The Number Twelve Looks Like You Zero Hour Mastodon Norma Jean Misery Signals Soilwork Mnemic Five Star Prison Cell A Life Once Lost Radiation 4 Unsane The End Final Conflict The Red Chord Necrophagist The Locust Dysrhythmia Knut Crowpath The Sawtooth Grin Deadguy Pravda thumbscrew Eyes Upon Separation Thirty Called Arson Tower of Rome Breather Resist
This list adds another layer of confusion, because every name on it is already tied to another genre of music, ie, Soilwork -> Melodeath, The Locust or Cephalic Carnage -> Grind, Neuraxis or Necrophagist -> Tech-Death and Mnemic -> Thrash, or "Space Metal" if you're into meaningless genre titles..
..other bands like Behemoth, Losa and Extol just tend to do their own thing within the confines of Metal and STILL get lumped in with Metalcore. The remainder of the list seems to be metalcore, or in the case of the bands I'm not familiar with, have metalcore names.
It seems that "math metal" or "math core" is a convenient dumping ground for bands who rip off Botch and DEP, as well as bands who are hard to classify, ie Ephel Duath and Fredrik Thordendal. Frankly if you'd given me a million guesses at who is contained within "math metal" then none of them would have been Norma Jean, haha.