Skip to main content
Urban Dictionary Merch
Your favorite words on things you can wear, drink from, read, or give to a friend.
The Urban Dictionary Store sells gifts you’ll have to explain.

mathcore 

Very tech hardcore. Uses strange time signatures and very staccato and syncopated guitar melodies.
Dillinger Escape PLan
mathcore by James Lennon October 17, 2003

mathcore 

A sub-genre of hardcore/metal.
Normally involving technical guitar work, high-ranged vocals, and off time-signatures.
The Number 12 Looks Like You & The Dillinger Escape Plan are two good example of Mathcore.
mathcore by XDillionX October 20, 2007

mathcore 

mathcore aka math metal is a form of hardcore and metal that employs unorthodox chords and time signatures as well as poly-rhythms. mathcore bands often quickly change from part to part with some exceptions such as meshuggah. early mathcore was very atonal and was mostly discordant atonal parts. however bands like dillinger escape plan have started to add electronics and clean passages to their music. tapping is a popular technique among mathcore bands because of its unorthodox sound. bands like psyopus have gone so far as only to use tapping.

mathcore styles vary greatly due to the individuality that is the scene commends.some of the more melodic mathcore bands include the dillinger escape plan. other math core bands stick to guitar stunts and crazy parts like psyopus. bands like meshuggah use low heavy poly-rhythmic parts to make their sound. bands like evrytime i die keep a rockin feel but throw in unorthodox chords and parts to make them math metal

mathcores influence can be seen in many genres. bands like Lamb of god use out of scale odd time signatures on songs like hourglass. bands like the fall of troy use some of the same techniques as math rockers. finally meshuggah has become the favorite artist of prog metalers like tool and porcupine tree
Xoverkid:dude dillinger is the most mathiest mathcore band ever
mathcore by Xoverkid February 21, 2008

Mathcore 

A sub-genre of contemporary heavy metal music, derivative of various forms of progressive metal and metalcore; mathcore is characterized by unusual time signatures, technically complex instrumentation, punctuated staccato playing and screamed rather than growled vocals.
He liked the Mathcore band Dillinger Escape Plan.
Mathcore by QuincyBurts September 22, 2010

mathcore 

A term used by someone who tries to make music genres too complicated to sound cool or like they know what they are talking about.
Person A-"Hey what's your favorite style of music?"

Person B-"I would have to say mathcore"

Person A-"What the fuck is mathcore?...."
mathcore by 1The1Wise1One1 November 29, 2009

mathcore 

A style of music, where the music can range from piano melodies to intense guitar solos, growling and/or screaming vocals in the matter of seconds, which seems almost ADD in nature.

Music that is ADD as fuck.
Guy 1: Protest the Hero is so f***ing mathcore!
Guy 2: I know! One second I'm about to tear up because it's so beautiful, the next I'm headbanging!
mathcore by aliadesa October 14, 2011
More from Urban Dictionary
korean word for madam, older woman
Ajumma wait a moment
Ajumma by aintnotinbutnice July 5, 2009
Word of the Day on September 30, 2026

Slop Grenade

When someone uses AI to generate a large document, slide deck, or piece of code/software and tosses it over the fence for you to deal with.
Chad: Hey Brent I sent you the new backend API change to review, it’s only 100 files changed.

Brent: he just tossed me a slop grenade
Slop Grenade by Joe Squid September 28, 2026
Word of the Day on September 29, 2026
Short-hand for the word floccinaucinihilipilification, meaning the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).
After we broke up, he was floxi to me.
floxi by Dr. Geek May 13, 2009
Word of the Day on September 28, 2026
NYC people who migrate north to Quahog, RI to see the leaves in the fall.
New York and everyone from there can fornicate themselves with an iron stick.
leafers by ss++ February 8, 2005
Word of the Day on September 27, 2026

Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
Word of the Day on September 26, 2026

You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
Word of the Day on September 25, 2026
Load more