Electronicore is a volatile fusion genre that emerged in the mid-2000s, colliding the aggressive breakdowns and screamed vocals of metalcore with the pulsating synthesizers, programmed beats, and drop-heavy production of electronic dance music—particularly trance, dubstep, and electro-house. Born from the MySpace era's experimental spirit, bands like Enter Shikari and Attack Attack! pioneered a sound that traded traditional guitar-driven interludes for neon-lit keyboard assaults and club-ready rhythms, creating a polarizing but undeniably kinetic experience. Unlike straightforward metalcore's focus on riff-driven intensity or post-hardcore's emotional catharsis, electronicore deliberately injects dancefloor euphoria into mosh-pit chaos, often toggling between guttural screams and autotuned clean vocals within the same song.
What distinguishes electronicore from adjacent scenes is its unapologetic maximalism—where trancecore leans harder into rave aesthetics and hardcore prioritizes raw aggression, electronicore thrives in the collision itself, refusing to choose between the warehouse and the Warped Tour stage. Bands like I See Stars and Crossfaith layer glitchy synth arpeggios over chugging guitars, while acts such as Electric Callboy (formerly Eskimo Callboy) inject irreverent humor and genre-bending audacity into their neon-soaked breakdowns.
This is music for those who crave whiplash—a genre that soundtracks strobe-lit rebellion, where dubstep wobbles collide with double-kick drumming and anthemic choruses erupt from walls of distortion. Electronicore doesn't ask for your approval; it demands you move, whether headbanging or shuffling, in its unrelenting, Day-Glo maelstrom.
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| #89 | ByTHE MADNA | Released:1955-08-25 | |||
| #100 | ByHORSE the band | Released:2001-09 | |||
| #90 | ByHORSE the band | Released:2001 | |||
| #94 | ByHORSE the band | Released:2002-08-09 | |||
| #91 | ByNo Hollywood Ending | Released:2003-01-01 | |||
| #77 | ByBreakdance Kickboxer | Released:2005 | |||
| #41 | BySky Eats Airplane | Released:2006-01-01 | |||
| #59 | ByGenghis Tron | Released:2006-06-06 | |||
| #97 | ByKonami Defense System | Released:2007-02-06 | |||
| #11 | ByEnter Shikari | Released:2007-03-14 | |||
| #56 | ByHORSE the band | Released:2007-08-28 | |||
| #4 | ByEnter Shikari | Released:2007-11-12 | |||
| #51 | ByAttack Attack! | Released:2007 | |||
| #79 | ByFamily Force 5 | Released:2007 | |||
| #66 | ByAttack Attack! | Released:2007 | |||
| #76 | ByGreta Knights | Released:2007 | |||
| #10 | BySky Eats Airplane | Released:2008-07-22 | |||
| #15 | ByBreathe Carolina | Released:2008-09-16 | |||
| #7 | ByI Set My Friends on Fire | Released:2008-10-07 | |||
| #3 | ByAttack Attack! | Released:2008-11-11 | |||
| #48 | ByDance Club Massacre | Released:2008-11-11 | electronicoremetal | ||
| #32 | ByWe Butter the Bread With Butter | Released:2008-11-21 | |||
| #34 | ByOf Machines | Released:2009-03-03 | |||
| #71 | ByCall the Cops | Released:2009-03-03 | electronicore | ||
| #75 | ByCall the Cops | Released:2009-03-03 | electronicore | ||
| #57 | ByDying Diva | Released:2009-04-06 | |||
| #9 | ByI See Stars | Released:2009-04-14 | |||
| #38 | ByAbandon All Ships | Released:2009-04 | |||
| #37 | ByThe Word Alive | Released:2009-07-21 | |||
| #6 | ByBreathe Carolina | Released:2009-08-18 | |||
| #31 | ByOne Morning Left | Released:2009-09-20 | |||
| #12 | ByWe Came As Romans | Released:2009-11-03 | |||
| #27 | ByThrown | Released:2009 | |||
| #39 | ByI See Stars | Released:2009 | |||
| #46 | Byiamerror | Released:2009 | |||
| #99 | Byiamerror | Released:2009 | |||
| #21 | ByJamie's Elsewhere | Released:2010-02-16 | |||
| #17 | ByCasino Madrid | Released:2010-02-16 | |||
| #60 | ByHis Statue Falls | Released:2010-02-26 | |||
| #28 | ByAttack Attack! | Released:2010-06-08 | |||
| #14 | ByAbandon All Ships | Released:2010-10-05 | |||
| #19 | ByMotionless in White | Released:2010-10-12 | |||
| #45 | ByChunk! No, Captain Chunk! | Released:2010-11-01 | |||
| #82 | ByMonomate | Released:2010 | |||
| #43 | ByShoot the Girl First | Released:2011-01-09 | |||
| #40 | ByI See Stars | Released:2011-02-22 | |||
| #33 | ByPrurient | Released:2011-07-11 | |||
| #54 | ByAmyst | Released:2011-08-09 | post-hardcoreelectronicore | ||
| #72 | ByFarewell, My Love | Released:2011-08-16 | |||
| #64 | ByCrossfaith | Released:2011-08 | |||
| #30 | ByWe Came as Romans | Released:2011-09-13 | |||
| #25 | ByCasino Madrid | Released:2011-10-11 | |||
| #69 | ByAsking Alexandria | Released:2011-11-21 | |||
| #83 | BySkip The Foreplay | Released:2012-01-05 | |||
| #73 | ByFamous Last Words | Released:2012-01-17 | |||
| #67 | ByMake Me Famous | Released:2012-03-27 | |||
| #80 | ByThe God Hand | Released:2012-08-30 | electronicoregrindcore | ||
| #47 | ByBreathe Carolina | Released:2012 | |||
| #55 | ByCrossfaith | Released:2012 | |||
| #49 | ByCombichrist | Released:2013-01-25 | |||
| #84 | ByI See Stars | Released:2013-03-28 | |||
| #61 | ByShoot the Girl First | Released:2013-06-04 | |||
| #18 | ByAsking Alexandria | Released:2013-08-05 | |||
| #58 | ByHis Statue Falls | Released:2013-10-18 | |||
| #8 | ByI See Stars | Released:2013-10-22 | |||
| #78 | ByMyka, Relocate | Released:2013-10-29 | |||
| #22 | ByEnter Shikari | Released:2015-01-14 | |||
| #42 | ByWe Butter the Bread With Butter | Released:2015-05-22 | |||
| #95 | ByJarrod Alonge | Released:2015-05-26 | |||
| #2 | ByKrewella | Released:2015-07-22 | electronic rockelectronicore | ||
| #35 | ByI See Stars | Released:2015-08-28 | |||
| #86 | ByBreathe Carolina | Released:2015-09-28 | |||
| #85 | ByBring Me the Horizon | Released:2015 | |||
| #74 | ByEscape the Day | Released:2016-02-29 | |||
| #26 | ByError37 | Released:2016-04-24 | |||
| #16 | ByI See Stars | Released:2016-06-17 | |||
| #36 | ByVIXX | Released:2016-11-21 | |||
| #68 | ByError37 | Released:2017-11-18 | |||
| #70 | ByPaledusk | Released:2018-03-14 | |||
| #44 | ByCapture | Released:2018-05-14 | electronicorepost-hardcore | ||
| #81 | ByCrossfaith | Released:2018-08-03 | |||
| #24 | ByThe Browning | Released:2018-10-26 | |||
| #62 | ByOsatia | Released:2019-05-31 | electronicore | ||
| #63 | ByVersus Me | Released:2019-09-13 | |||
| #23 | ByWaterparks | Released:2019-09-25 | |||
| #20 | BySOLENCE | Released:2019 | electronicorepost-hardcore | ||
| #92 | ByMikau | Released:2020-07-24 | |||
| #88 | ByHORSE the band | Released:2020-11-27 | |||
| #13 | ByAnnisokay | Released:2021-01-29 | |||
| #50 | ByNekonomicon | Released:2021-04-04 | |||
| #98 | ByNekonomicon | Released:2021-05-10 | |||
| #53 | ByUtsu-P | Released:2021-10-27 | |||
| #65 | ByThotcrime | Released:2022-04-15 | electronicore | ||
| #1 | ByElectric Callboy | Released:2022-09-16 | |||
| #29 | ByElectric Callboy | Released:2022-09-16 | |||
| #87 | ByThotcrime | Released:2022-10-28 | |||
| #5 | ByElectric Callboy | Released:2023-06-21 | metalcoreelectronicore | ||
| #93 | ByDoodseskader | Released:2024-03-08 | |||
| #52 | Byfallingwithscissors | Released:2024-06-24 | |||
| #96 | ByEverfear | Released: | trancecoreelectronicore |