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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't that a style of rock music?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As far as I can tell, it's basically heavier prog, but I'm not sure. While I'm into genres that are tangentially related, prog/math stuff has never really been my scene, so YMMV.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Not necessarily heavier, just more technical, usually with polyrhythms and funky time signatures.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not necessarily heavier. Check out TTNG or Delta Sleep.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess I was thinking of mathcore like Dillinger Escape Plan and Between the Buried and Me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Genre names are pretty wild these days. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I like how it's a great way to describe a band's sound to others who are conversant with related genres, but it can be really opaque to newcomers. "Technical progressive space-death" and "blackened funeral doom" are very descriptive, but only if you know the proper context

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like calling them shiny math rocks and will continue to do so.

[–] Cqrd 2 points 2 years ago

I think this is sort of a joke about the genre math rock. At least, I hope it is, otherwise it's just dumb.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

To be clear, the real "dice dumbass" is the one who calls a singular die by its plural term. Followed closely by those that decree a paltry number of dice sets to be "enough" at any given moment. Stand fast, fellow shiny math rock fans! 🤘🏼🤓

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to nitpick about plural vs singular for dice, but then I decided to never say die.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Goonies never say die.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The plural of dice is dicen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Okay. That's really funny

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

It is talking about our shiny clickety-clackety math rockses, my prescious.