This is a tough one: The giant, misogynist slogan in Impact says deathcore, but his chin beard and 1970s birthdate says slam (or possibly even nu-metal/hard rock). It’s easy to imagine a 15 year-old girl with choppy hair and skinny jeans wearing this shirt. On the other hand, deathcore bands such as Carnifex have dozens of different merch items, almost always featuring brightly-colored cartoon illustrations and the band’s logo in some fake “death metal” font. Expect to hear a lot more of this thing in the next few years. No care, just note that if a band has gauged ears, skinny jeans and sounds like kids at Guitar Center who just heard about “polyrhythms” and bought 8-string guitars, it’s safe to say that they are nu-deathcore. I think this is a nice development, because it makes it much easier to draw a line between deathcore and slam– cue butthurt djent nerds getting up in arms about how Whitechapel is different from Periphery or whatever. The new thing in deathcore is copying Meshuggah, ala this new Whitechapel song. And that, my friends, is deathcore in a nutshell! All in all it’s just dull, predictable “death metal by the numbers” until you get to the breakdown at 3:00. This song could easily of the 9 zillion bands who regurgitated Cannibal Corpse and At The Gates riffs ad nauseum over the past 10 years or so- it has all the familiar elements like tremolo riffing, shrieks, and skank beats as well as super clean, sterile production. Like I said earlier, deathcore is basically just little Hot Topic kids playing what amounts to generic death metal. Slam is primarily mid-tempo slam riffs, with blasts/gravity blasts used as accents.
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(That said, I’m far from an authority on music theory, so please feel free to correct me on this one if I have this one wrong)Īnother note on arrangement/composition: slam never, ever uses the skank beat (sounds too much like old school dinosaur metal). Syncopation is what makes things like breakbeats sound “funky,” so that’s probably explains why people often say that slam “sounds like rap-metal,” even when it doesn’t at all. Slam often uses extensive syncopation (which is essentially accenting the up-beat, rather than the down-beat), such as many of the riffs in this song. As you can see from this song, it wouldn’t really be accurate to call the slam riffs breakdowns, because they aren’t breaking anything down– the essential characteristic of slam metal is that the whole song is nothing but slams. Deathcore songs have verses, choruses, bridges, and use breakdowns as just that: an overt “here is the mosh part” kind of thing. There’s really not much resembling a “rock song,” as opposed to deathcore, which uses more or less traditional rock song structures.
In terms of arrangement and overall songwriting, slam is more about stringing together one slam riff after the next, creating a relentless, crushing steamroller kind of feel. Basically, imagine tuning down to A or B and just kind of randomly playing power chords up and down the first 5 frets or so on the bottom strings- that’s more or less what slam is all about. They are really more about creating a chunky texture than any kind of real melody or discernable “song” in the conventional sense. SLAMS are also palm-muted riffs, but usually on the chromatic scale (as heard on Pantera “A New Level”) rather than single-note chugs. Because I enjoy giving back to my community, in this post, I will go over a few easy ways that you can tell the two apart! To me, the differences could not be more obvious, but apparently some people still have trouble making the distinction between the two. In both camps, you’ll find lots of mesh shorts, sweatpants, weed references, and merch that prominently features controversial slogans in Impact font - but that’s about where it ends. While deathcore and slam are almost completely heterogeneous, let’s acknowledge that there is a small amount of common ground (at least at a superficial level. Even diehard metal fans (like the readers of this site) hate slam, so if you are in a slam band it’s because slam is in your blood, because you are never going to make a dime or get famous from it. Slam is pure brutality: none of the pagentry or larger-than-life personas of black metal, gimmicky costumes of neo-thrash or artsy nonsense of drone, stoner rock and all that, just CRUSHING FUCKING SLAMS. On the other hand, slam metal is grimy, blue-collar death metal that is pretty much the most extreme, inaccessible and brutal metal subgenre on the planet.
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