OPERATION: SUMERIANCORE WIKI
Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 11:00am by Vince Neilstein
Just because Metal Inquisition’s Sergeant D failed at having his own self-coined micro-genre of metal added to Wikipedia doesn’t mean we’re not gonna give it a shot; where Wigger Slam was struck down by the Wikipedia fascists, Sumeriancore shall succeed because it’s decidedly more PC.
Folks, Sumeriancore isn’t just some mistake the MetalSucks Mansion Monkeys stumbled upon whilst banging away at their typewriters; it’s a real movement, and it’s making itself felt in the scene in a serious way. Phil Freeman of the quite-reputable Allmusic.com (ex-Metal Edge) referenced the term in his review of Born of Osiris’ A Higher Place, a review which is now being syndicated by hundreds of sites including iTunes, Best Buy and Barnes & Noble. Kids are debating the meaning of the term on MusicianForums.com, while over at the SMNnews.com forums a member of MetalSucks-faves The Binary Code poses this question to the masses: “Is my band ‘Sumeriancore’?” Even on Sumerian Records’ own Last.fm page, kids are e-yelling “SUMERIANCORE!” in the comments.
So let’s get this shit going. Despite what MS Maniac Caspar Colderson commented on yesterday’s Tesseract post, “Sumeriancore” isn’t yet in Wikipedia. Can someone who’s bored at work take a stab at entering it in? ‘Cause we can’t do it ourselves, lest we make the Wikipedia Gods angry. I like Freeman’s definition: “a blend of tech-death and hardcore played by preternaturally talented youngsters,” as well as “Any band that sounds like they are/could be signed to Sumerian Records (the Faceless, After the Burial, Veil of Maya)” from the aforementioned Binary Code post.
We’ll send anyone who helps out a copy of A Higher Place signed by Glen Danzig.
-VN
yay, I’m officially a MS Maniac!
I’ll shut up now…
also, what I meant yesterday was that you should wikipedia “crab-core”, which will the pleasently surprise you.
its not on the archives, it doesn’t get on wiki.
this isn’t negotiable,
Ha! Dudes Sumeriancore is (or at least should) a totally legit term, and so is/was wigger slam. I’m not even joking about either, they are both very descriptive of particular genres that are actually not all the small, especially Sumeriancore.
Ironically I don’t really think they’re part of Sumeriancore, but I fucking love ABACABB, who are on Sumerian. The breakdown in “Infection” is one of the best ever, they spend a good minute leading up to it, with the gang vocals “GET FUCKED!” bringing it to a climax. Makes me want to kill someone every time I hear it!!
Wikipedia fascists = No Fun Club
I COMPLETELY disagree. I think it makes metal in general look even more retarded to the rest
of the world.
ABACABB is pretty awful, bro. Breakdowns are annoying…
You: “Blah blah get off my lawn, I hate fun- and where’s my Hydrahead Frequent Shopper card?!”
I hate fun? Bro, I fucking party down al the damn time. What i really hate is no-talent breaks in music that are only there to appease kids and sell records.
I’m a musican. I listen to classical just as much as I listen to metal. It bothers me when I hear senseless, pointless, staccato notes played over and over.
Sergeant D, you have some cool shit, but you also have some gay shit. Loved the slam compilation.
But honestly, ABACABB? I could write a deathcore record pretty easily. Seriously, if you’re going to do a breakdown, at LEAST put it in something over 4/4 and don’t bash the same fucking cymbal (sorry, don’t know the name, i really don’t give a shit about drums) that EVERY FUCKING BREAKDOWN uses.
And, why the hell WOULDNT I want a frequent shopper card? That shit is amazing. If fun is listening to unrefined, boring music, and making bad deals about shopping, then consider me the antithesis to fun.
LOL FUCKING EPIC +1
Yeah fun’s really overrated. I’m totally into not having any fun.
Zakk’s blood clots….still funny.
what the fuck IS sumeriancore? Any deathcore band signed to sumerian?
Technical/progressive deathcore I guess.
Didn’t you mean Meshuggah?
Does meshuggah really have deathcore elements? They seem more just like rhythmically complex chug-death. And, all of these suppposedly sumeriancore bands don’t really fit the bill of “progressive deathcore” the only one that does is conducting from the grave, and they don’t really breakdown so much as put slow chug bits under cool high bits, like Unearth’s last CD.
I dunno, maybe i’m missing something, but most of this seems just as gay as normal deathcore.
ENOUGH of the fucking sub-genres allready. They just get more and more rediculus and erode the allready
smally ammount of cred metal has in the music world.
Crabcore, Sumeriancore, Wigger slam…..GEEZUS. I thought the point of this site was to break metal head
stereotypes. None of these musical styles are different enough from metal itself to be called a different
fucking genre. It’s just a marketing device used to foster “brand” recoginition and above all else make some
thing appear new and fresh.
OK if you want something to be new and fresh, stick to the things that are actually of SUBSTANCE like the
fucking music. Maybe I’m overeacting but it’s shit like this that makes me wonder why I have not grown
out of this music yet.
For the record, a genre does not relate to fashion styles of the fans, lyrics of the music, stance of
the guitar players, similarity of musicians to crustaceans, whether or not the musicians wear fitted
caps, or the fucking record label they come from.
I’m worked up over this because I LOVE metal and FUCKING hate people making it look even
more stupid.
A GENRE IS DEFINED BY THE MUSIC ITSELF NUMBNUTS!!!!
Wow, you really hate jokes, don’t you?
You must be a blast at parties: “This movie is fucking bullshit!! Rick Moranis barely reduced the mass of those children by 50%, that hardly constitutes a shrinking! You people are FUCKED, I’m out of here!!”
lawl. That’s a great movie. I need to find it.
Dude, even an idiot could tell Rick Moranis had WAY over 50% reduction going. That doesn’t change the fact that sumeriancore is still deathcore is still fucking fail.
I love how this dudes response to everyone who disagrees with him is ”
wowee gee you must hate fun!”
Wigger Slam and Sumeriancore IS funny though. But it’s more of a
laughing AT you kind of thing as opposed to laughing WITH.
Besides that so it’s a joke now and I don’t get it?
Here’s you Sergeant:
“Ha! Dudes Sumeriancore is (or at least should) a totally legit term, and so is/was wigger slam. I’m not even joking about either, they are both very descriptive of particular genres that are actually not all the small, especially Sumeriancore.
”
Yeah so you actually seriously think it’s a “serious” “descriptive” term
not a joke. So yeah I am laughing….AT YOU.
WHO THE FUCK IS GLENN DANZIG?
Ha! Born Of Osiris reference! It’d be funny if it weren’t so sad…
All right…I’m still a little fuzzy on the exact meaning of Sumeriancore-is it basically techdeathcore that’s signed to Sumerian?
Exactly which pretty much means we should still be calling it “tech-death metal” but honestly I think
even that is too much. It’s just fucking Death Metal. If we are going to re-write the rules now
we are going to have to create a new “genre” for every fucking label which is complete idiocy.
It DOES seem a little silly. Though it has more “-coreness”, it does seem a little ridiculous to make an entirely new genre.
Hey I have an idea by the same lines. Lets make an all-new genre for Gojira. I was thinking Whalecore,
Frog Slam or Life Metal…..
Life Metal is actually good o.O
Whalecore’s already been applied to Mastodon. I do like “Life Metal”, though.
LOL @ the fact that Whalecore is allready in use!!!!!
http://www.last.fm/tag/Whalecore
Oh wait….Leviathan…yeah I guess that actually makes sense. At least it’s making me
laugh now. Earlier today it was really pissing me off. Truth be told I get pissed off a lot
easier before five oclock rolls around.
i attempted to make a facebook group for sumeriancore but couldnt work their shit siystem
Hey don’t look at me, I had the Wigger Slam page up for more than a month
Sub genres are important. When my friends tell me about a band, the more specific the genre, the more likely I am to know immediately if I will possibly like them. If someone said, for instance, check out so&so, they’re Sumeriancore. I might be more inclined to look into them because I like a lot of Sumerian bands. If someone just said check out so&so, they’re death metal; I would be less inclined to check them out because they’re is a lot of death metal I necessarily don’t care for. I do agree that sticking to subgenres based on SOUND is important, not fashion or crablike stances. Which by the way, the idea of crabcore makes me want to swallow a fistfull of glass shards.
I think its a hell of a lot easier to just check out their myspace and actually listen if you like it.
OK I have a question you guys ought to ask yourself. What do you call a “Wigger Slam” group if the members are actually black…..LOL
I have actually asked this question to several bands, most recently Winds of Plague who toured with Suffocation- you can read it on Metal Inquisition!
Winds of Plague is a fucking joke. I saw them at summer slaughter with suffocation. I think every black person, metal or not, should be inclined to beat bitches like those goes down to the curb. Fuck, I have a lot of black friends who i listen to rap with, and told them about that shit, and we all decided they needed a good teabagging. I’m white and i’m insulted.
LOL seriously Winds of Plague is lame. I didn’t know the members were black but that
really makes no difference to me at all either way.
They’re not… That’s the point. WoP is a bunch of white kids and a white girl that dress “hood.” When I saw them, the singer had a wife beater, baggy jeans, and a ball cap twisted to the side.
Anyways, thanks for the +1 up there, I had to defend my musical tastes and all..
This ‘genre’ doesn’t need any more attention than it’s unfortunately been given already. Total rubbish.
I helped out, but I want cash
My band plays post punk, pre-sumerian, prog-techcore, death over easy, crabcake slam, wiggeresque post music. Its basically that really cool space in the middle of the breakdowns where there’s no music. Yeah it’s super sick. We totally murder it!!!
Lol. I actually got a good chuckle out of that. Especially the “wigger-esque” bit.