Gyrocore

Infobox Music genre
name=Gyrocore
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stylistic_origins=Technical metal
Death Metal
Chaoscore
cultural_origins=United States
instruments=Guitar - Bass guitar - Drums
popularity=Low, from mid-late 2000s.
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regional_scenes=United States
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Gyrocore is a style of any type of Metal infused Hardcore music which, generally speaking, creates a "feeling" of spinning, gyration, and the likes.

Characteristics

Gyrocore is characterized by a "spinning feel" and there are certain elements that create that in music. The most prominent aspect in gyrocore is the guitar work. To create a feeling of gyration, there needs to be little space between not only notes but rythms themselves, as any type of "spinning" is circular and not choppy or blocky in the least. Guitar riffs in gyrocore are usually assimilated to those of technical death metal. The riffs utilize speedy, complex melodies, usually consisting of dissonant and chromatic intervals. Popular intervals between notes are thirds and fourths. The difference lies in that, while technical death metal riffs mean simply that they are technical riffs played with death metal, Gyrocore riffs are only so if they create the feeling of smooth and dark gyration. To enhance the smooth and continuous feel, tremolo picking is often used while playing the riffs. Because no bands currently play solely gyrocore music, it is unclear as to how an entire "gyrocore" song is to be played, and the future of it is left to speculation.Drumming in gyrocore can vary widely, but what ties it to gyrocore is that it feels constant, steady, and scientific. During a typical gyrocore riff, fast paced double bass usage has been noted. This, like the guitar's tremolo picking, induces a more continuous and smooth feel to the music. Many other drumming techniques, however, may be used. This could range from rhythmic minimalism to mathcore influenced rythms. Vocals in gyrocore are typically basic death metal growls, though any vocal technique can be used. The vocal technique is generally an elongated, syllabic vocal pattern, with nothing too choppy or quickly spoken. Vocals are also more sparsely located throughout gyrocore music than in technical death metal and related genres. Lyrical content has been shown to be ranged. There have been gyrocore segments in popular metal artist's songs containing politically charged messages, descriptions of their own nightmares, typical death/gore oriented content, and many more beyond those examples. However, the gyrocore genre is growing to be a fresh, trendy, and generally intelligent brand of metal and hardcore, and most traditionalism in metal will not find its place in gyrocore, whether lyrically or musically.

History

Gyrocore is still quite new, though bands using the technique (perhaps unknowingly) are not necessarily so new. The most prominent use of gyrocore today can be found in Progressive Death Metal band Between the Buried and Me in their album entitled The Silent Circus. Expect to hear early and unrefined Gyrocore influence in the tracks "Lost Perfection a) Coulrophobia", "b) Anablephobia", briefly in "Mordecai" and "Ad a Dglgmut", and lies strongly in the final 3 tracks of the album: "Destructo Spin", "Aesthetic", and "The Need For Repetition". ("The Need For Repetition is, to this day, said to have one of the closest examples to "true gyrocore" music in all of music's history so far. It can be found beginning at 2:10 into the track, ending at 2:40.)It has also been said that technical death metal band Glass Casket, consisting of a guitarist and the drummer of Between the Buried and Me, implements some gyrocore feel at times, but this statement has been doubted.Another specific example of gyrocore music can be found in death metal band Cannibal Corpse's song "Death Walking Terror" from their most recent album Kill. This selection can be found beginning at 2:24 into the track and ending at 2:40.)There have surely been other uses of unrefined gyrocore such as the former, though it is difficult to maintain all examples as gyrocore is not yet an established and well known genre.

Dance

Gyrocore dance is a very recent addition to the gyrocore scene, and represents the quick growth and freshness of the subgenre. Gyrocore kids usually station themselves in the pit of a concert floor in the same way hardcore dancers would when throwing down. The typical dance or movement associated with gyrocore involves a fixed stance with legs planted, the hands being clenched into fists, and the arms swinging around constantly in circular and continuous motion. This is merely an evolution of the "windmill" technique in hardcore dancing. In more recent cases, gyrocore dancers have been swinging their arms in all directions while moving their upper torso in a smooth, circular pattern. This somehow causes the head to naturally headbang due to the constant throwing of the body from the arms. The result is a rather inhuman appearance, a person standing still, throwing their arms about, head being flung all around unnaturally. Persons just beginning to get into gyrocore generally "windmill headbang", which has been a part of the general metal scene since the earliest of death metal. Windmill headbanging can be described as a circular swinging of the head, causing the hair (if long enough) to swing around the persons head, and the person participating in the act will feel as though their surroundings are swinging all about disorientingly. As gyrocore is fresh and not widely popular, many concert goers generally stick to their accustomed spin kicking, windmill dancing, and other general hardcore dance techniques. Gyrocore dance style will eventually solidify, but is as of now open to some interpretation.

Criticism

As with most subgenres affiliated with metalcore, there is to be expected strong resentment from traditional metal and extreme metal fans. Criticism thus far has been minimal, or even unheard of by artists practicing elements of gyrocore.

ee also

*List of gyrocore bands
*Death metal
*Metalcore

References

[http://www.last.fm/tag/gyrocore]