How to Start a Deathcore Band

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Listen to music to influence your band.

   Usually you should listen to death metal, grindcore, hardcore and metalcore.
   
   Try these following important genres:
   Deathcore of course! Try bands like Suicide Silence, Whitechapel, Despised Icon, Emmure, See You Next Tuesday, Thy Art is Murder, Carnifex, Job for a Cowboy (2005), Oceano and Chelsea Grin.
   
   Death metal
   - Bands:
   Death, Suffocation, Brain Drill, Possessed, Job for a Cowboy, Cannibal Corpse, Six Feet Under, Dying Fetus, Vomitory and Skinless.
   
   Slam death metal
   - Devourment, Decapitated, Dying Fetus, Skinless If you want to play complex music try technical death metal like Death (later era), Brain Drill and Opeth.
   
   If you want to play melodic deathcore, try melodic death metal bands like In Flames, Scar Symmetry, At the Gates and The Black Dahlia Murder.
   
   Grindcore
   - Napalm Death, The Red Chord (they also are deathcore), Dying Fetus, Pig Destroyer, Carcass, Rotten Sound, 55gore and Insect Warfare.
   
   Beatdown hardcore
   - Madball, Agnostic Front, Youth of Today, Terror, Stick to Your Guns, Death Before Dishonor Hardcore
   - Bad Brains, Black Flag, Minor Threat, Gallows Metalcore
   - Hatebreed, Throwdown, Unit 731, Full Blown Chaos, Integrity, Earth Crisis, Converge, Bury Your Dead, I Am War, Texas in July, For Today, The Acacia Strain
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   Step 2: Get members.

   You may find some at concerts, album stores and around town.
   
   You could even introduce some to deathcore. ,, You can get a music teacher to learn. ,,,,,
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   Step 3: Write songs.

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   Step 4: Learn to play.

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   Step 5: Make sure all your members contribute

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   Step 6: make them come in with at least one contribution to a lyrical idea.

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   Step 7: Bring a recording device to every rehearsal

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   Step 8: Give time to analyze the ideas your members have brought

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   Step 9: Review

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    Step 10: Record

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    Step 11: And there you have it that is your first rehearsal

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