a band that uses a formula to write a song. Usually referring to bands influenced by Rush, Helmet, King Crimson, etc, which use complicated repeating rhythms, or highly intellecutalized beats based on some kind of math formula.
Dude, those guys are the sons of mathrock with their beats.
Rush wrote a song called YYZ, in which the beat is morse code for YYZ. That IS mathrock.
Rush wrote a song called YYZ, in which the beat is morse code for YYZ. That IS mathrock.
by octavius April 26, 2004
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Progressive Rock, but with all the blues, feel and groove sucked out of it. Everything is mathematically calculated.
Wow, after hearing Math Rock, I feel like I just listened to a bunch of robots playing music with absolutely no emotion. I think I'll go listen to Gentle Giant now.
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Get the Math Rock mug.Intentionally using numbers and formulas to create music. The patterns usually consist of 1's and 2's with accents on the 1's; Using any rhythmic pattern of chug-chugs to create an odd time-signature. Another common practice is to add or subtract a beat from an even time signature.
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