Editing Mathcore (section)

== Etymology ==

Before the term "mathcore" was coined, mainly in the 1990s, the style had been referred to as "chaotic hardcore" or "noisecore",<ref name="greenway2">Whitney Strub, "Behind the Key Club: An Interview with Mark "Barney" Greenway of Napalm Death ", ''PopMatters'', May 11, 2006. [http://www.popmatters.com/music/interviews/napalm-death-060511.shtml <nowiki>[1]</nowiki>] Access date: September 17, 2008.</ref><ref name=":3">"Botch ... a noisecore pioneer", 'Terrorizer'', "Grindcore Special", #180, Feb. 2009, p. 63.''</ref> though the genre's existence before this time is generally recognized. Kevin Stewart-Panko of ''[[Terrorizer Magazine|Terrorizer]]'' referred to groups such as [[Neurosis (band)|Neurosis]], [[Deadguy]], [[Cave In]], [[Today Is the Day]], [[The Dillinger Escape Plan]], [[Converge (band)|Converge]], [[Coalesce (band)|Coalesce]], [[Candiria]], [[Botch (band)|Botch]], and [[Psyopus]] as falling under this label.<ref name="ksp">Kevin Stewart-Panko, "The Decade in Noisecore", ''Terrorizer'' no. 75, Feb 2000, p. 22-23.</ref> Stewart-Panko described the sound of these bands as a "dynamic, violent, discordant, technical, brutal, off-kilter, no rules mixture of [[hardcore punk|hardcore]], metal, [[progressive rock|prog]], [[math rock]], [[grindcore|grind]] and [[jazz]]."<ref name="ksp" />

The term is generally applied by journalists, rather than by musicians themselves. [[Jacob Bannon]] of Converge stated:{{cquote|I really don't know what mathcore is. Converge is an aggressive band. We have elements of hardcore, [[punk rock|punk]], and metal for sure. But I think trying to define our efforts and other bands with a generic subgenre name is counter productive. We all have something unique to offer and should be celebrated for those qualities rather than having them generalized for easy consumption.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Axe to Grind: Four Tense Questions with Converge |work=[[New York Press]] |date=October 28, 2009 |url=http://www.nypress.com/blog-5310-axe-to-grind-four-tense-questions-with-converge.html |first=Rebecca |last=Huval |agency=Press Play (blog) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606220152/http://www.nypress.com/blog-5310-axe-to-grind-four-tense-questions-with-converge.html |archive-date=June 6, 2011}}</ref>
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