math rock

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.

by octavius April 26, 2004

math rock

Peice of shit floating in an un-flushed toilet bowl.

Dude...is that a math-rock?

by Meh February 15, 2007

Math Rock

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.

by Unplugged Red Piller September 5, 2011

Math Rock

A term coined by @trans_zero on Twitter, meaning crack cocaine so high quality it will take tons of math to figure out how much you’ll make selling it.

Damn, Chris started selling math rock a week ago, he’s still doing the math on his first sale

by Lexiiiiii_ June 24, 2021

Math Rock

1. A subgenre of rock music defined through its use of complex time signatures.

2. A die.

1. Toes is a great math rock band.

2. Check out these math rocks I just picked up from Dragons Keep!

by Ganondox October 26, 2022

mathrock

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.

Don Caballero, Breadwinner, The Oxes, Farauet, and The Kickass are all examples of mathrock bands.

by "Loc Star" November 1, 2005