What Counts as Nintendocore?
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- čas přidán 17. 03. 2022
- What makes a band Nintendocore? In this video I create a scientific method to determine just that, and then analyze HORSE the Band, Crystal Castles, Heavy Heavy Low Low, and I Set My Friends on Fire through that lens. Which bands should I test next?
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They'll be in the next one for sure! Definitely looking like the most requested.
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Golly, thanks for checkin it out! I've got lots of ideas planned, some more focused on video gamey stuff- no metal knowledge required. :0
IS WEEKLY WORDS AND GRAMMAR NINTENDIECORE
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I only want to cover good bands in these videos, sorry.
HORSE the Band are the prototype for sure! Makes me really miss 2005-2010. IAMERROR, I Shot the Duckhunt Dog.. other bands in that vein were so rad man! Great video! Much Fun! Very Nice!!
Thanks so much for checking it out! Yeah man, the MySpace days were awesome for Nintendocore and metalcore in general. I'll have to analyze IAE and ISTDHD in coming videos for sure.
@@Uhole no problem man! Keep em coming! They really were the golden days and a "renaissance" for scene music. HtB and Arsonists Get All the Girls, will remain a couple of my all time favorite bands.
@@SynthLikeKnives Ah, yeah. I'll have to take a closer look at Arsonists as well. Dang, I feel like this series could go on for quite a while. :0
@uhole if you need any info inside ISTDHD I got you! I actually grew up with Corey's little brother and was with them when they made some of the songs.
Sky eats airplane
They'll definitely be in the next one! If I had squeezed one more band into this one it would have been them.
Is mayonnaise a nintendocore? What about horseradish?
Mayo definitely gets the fun point, so I mean, maybe?
Getting myself into the genre and Unicorn Hole was the first “band” i listened to, thank you for your work in this very noche but cool genre. Greetings from Brazil!
Yo! It's an honor to be your introduction to the genre- thanks so much! I'm working on a new batch of CZcams videos now, including part two of this series. I hope you'll check em out.
Is "The Bunny The Bear" considered a nintendocore?
I'll add em to the list to check in a future video! What do you think? :0
@@Uhole , yes
@@Uhole, I also want to throw you a performer for verification "heccra"
@@randomherointhisworld9678 I'll add em to the list! Thanks!
@@Uhole, You should know about the band "Yellow Magic Orchestra" - nintendocore semedesyykh
What about "all levels at once"it can be considered a nintendocore or chiptune?
I dig the project name, ha, but I've never heard of em. I'll slap em on the ol list. Thanks for the lead!
@@Uhole, i found a Russian group and it seems to be Nintendocore "Кобыла и Трупоглазые Жабы Искали Цезию, Нашли Поздно Утром Свистящего Хна"
What do you think of this group?
@@noisemen Holy heck that name! I just bopped a couple of their tracks, and I dig their stuff! My first instinct is that they'd land at around 4-6 on my scale. I wouldn't say they're quite metalcore based on what I heard, and their synths are cool, but I think they're more focused on trance type stuff than video game sounds. I could totally be off though, I'd have to listen to more. I'll keep them in mind for future deep dives. Good find and thanks for sharing!
Yooo U got a Chidori shirt? Such a good band
Chidori is rad! If you didn't see my Top Ten Nintendocore Albums of 2021.. well, spoilers, they're on it. :0
Man, this videos are addictive the format, the nerdy stuff not a Nintendocore enjoyer at all but I like my Hardcore and my videogames
Dude, thanks so much for giving the videos a chance and being open-minded! I'm gonna be making more of these, so stay tuned if you'd like! :0
THE ALGORITHM!
I didn't even mean to set that up at the end, but yes! I haven't listened to them in quite a while. It'll be cool to revisit em.
Man, I love you Unicorn Hole!
There was an old like, blog style website where I found several odd Nintendocore-esque artists.
That where listed by name and had maybe an album or a few of their songs linked to a small description of the band/artist.
Wish I could remember what the site was called haha
Heck yeah! Ehh the only site that comes to mind like that is Piranha Party, which I think doesn't exist anymore. I should look into that though, sounds super useful :0
Great video, man!
My list of bands for you to do next:
Unicorn hole (idk if u know this one)
Error37
Raccoon City Massacre (it's obvious, but still)
Meet Me In Lavender Town
Yeltsin Is Illuminati
Fucking Werewolf Asso
Math the Band
Thanks much!
Part 2 definitely needs to happen soon! You should talk about some of the more rock and pop based bands that got labeled nintendocore often like Amy Can Flyy, Dungeon Elite, 1-800-Zombie, Anamanaguchi, The Advantage, etc...
I'm thinking part two of this series will be my next CZcams video. Good call, I'll add those guys to the list!
Do Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas and Sky Sanctuary. One I’m expecting more ncore than the other but both are fun and I want to know what you think.
Also what about I see stars and enter shikari seeing as they are on the ncore wiki 🤦🏻 similar vibes to FALILV but I wouldn’t say ncore but would be interesting to see how they turn out.
Fear and Loathing are so rad! I actually don't know about Sky Sanctuary, I don't think.. Enter Shikari were definitely planned, I already have some thoughts on them and my metric. I See Stars, yeahp yeahp, they'd be good to look at too, though my gut is that they lean more towards the synthcore side of things.. We'll see! :0
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Totally worth it! I love the way they designed everything for that release. Even if you're eatin hot dogs and ramen noodles for a month, you made the right call, haha.
I love australian band Error37, and I believe they fit in your nintendocore explanation pretty good
Also I like We Butter The Bread With Butter, german guys, but i didn't listen to every their album, so I'm not sure about variations of their sound, but they're definitely nintendocore-ish in some songs
Lemme know what you think if you know those bands, or consider listening, WBTBWB are very fun
Great video!
I have a song I made on this channel that features Error37! It's called "Round Threeie" and you'd most certainly dig it. And yeah, WBTBWB are super fun. I remember boppin Breekachu back in the day. Thanks so much for the feedback!
I ate an airplane.
Always eat a handful of Tums after an airplane.
Nintendocore has always been one of my many guilty pleasures. I actually really dig your music man! I went in not expecting much but was really surprised! You're talented man
Edit: "a title, I guess" is my favorite so far. And raccoon city massacre is a dope artist name😂
Hey, no such thing as a guilty pleasure! Thank you so much for checking out my stuff, and for the kind words! What are some other Nintendocore bands you're into? :0
Cool vid dude really liked this. Crystal castles are named after a video game tho so maybe they should have gotten a nerd point? Lol
Wowzerino, I didn't even know that. Definitely gonna need to mention that in the next part. Thanks for that!
I did a little research and it looks like that's actually a coincidence. :0
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I love your videos . Keep up the good work
Thanks so much for checking it out! I'll be making more videos in this series soon. Plus the otherrr thing I hinted at in this video has been recorded now, just gotta edit it and get it up. :0
@@Uhole thank you for keeping Nintendocore alive I love the genre . I want a Nintendocore band but its rare to find people that want to play it . But I definitely want to learn keyboards for it I mostly play bass and guitar
@@mexicanscreamo742 It is pretty niche nowadays, ha. Check out the Facebook groups Defend Nintendocore and Big Money Cybergrind though- they're both healthy, active scenes of people making this type of stuff! Do you have any music you've made online?
@@Uhole yes i have music I made online but there not mix and master except my high school metalcore band that’s EP is mix and master but we took the EP off the internet but one of the songs is still on my page .
@@Uhole my recent band was this slam band called secrets of the crypt I have band practices and our ep on my CZcams page . It’s a few months old like 4 months back . But where not a band anymore .
I always thought nintendocore was video game cover songs, stuff like FamilyJules and Minibosses/Advantage.
I think a lot of bands like that do call themselves Nintendocore, and it's not wrong per se. The second episode of this, which I just need to finish editing, oops, has The Advantage as one of the bands. 👀
I still listen to Sky Eats Airplane sometimes.
Same! They definitely had some bangers. Part two of this series is stuck in limbo right this moment, but once I get it edited and uploaded you can hear my take on them!
I found chip punk bands under the Nintendocore title. chip punk sound more like skate punk or pop punk with chip tunes. I coined the term because no name describe the music I was making about seven years ago.
Sounds fair to me! What are some projects you would call chip punk? :0
What would you categorize Arsonists Get All The Girls as? Also would you consider I See Star's "Not Today Bish" as nintendocore?
I'll put another point for each of these bands on my to-do list! Good picks! I've got the second installment of this series in production right now, with more planned after :0
@@Uhole that's pretty dank
The Algorithm deffo has some N-Core vibes mainly in Remi's older works, and especially throughout the whole of OCTOPUS4 (can't forget that Will Smith title track that still "slaps" hard to this day 😏) so would be dope if ya covered that French Djent legend, along with Heptaedium for that full Baguettecore appreciation 😉👌
Haha very good. I'll definitely throw em on the list. I honestly know very little about The Algorithm. I heard a song or two back in the day, but that's it. I'm excited to jump in and see what's up!
Sky eats airplane?
They'll definitely be in part 2!
I feel like the core aspect can mean multiple things from metalcore, deathcore, grindcore, and post-hardcore considering how varied the core influence is.
I pretty much feel the same. If a band is playing straight up grindcore, but it's about video game stuff and has some bleeps and bloops, of course that's still Nintendocore as far as I'm concerned.
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I have never, ever seen that band name. I thought you might have mistyped, haha. I'm looking forward to checking it out!
What about Shemales From Outta Space of Death?
I've had them suggested once or twice. Definitely on my list!
Hello, tracker user that makes old school grind+PV chiptune here
I love your music and I love this video very much.
While it is important for historical accuracy to say that Nintendocore is essentially metalcore plus chips, I am honestly tired of hearing everyone say that Ncore explicitly has to be Metalcore. Like literally using Metalcore as theoretical framework for your scale annoys me!
Why? I have known about the subgenre since '07, but I always liked Bubblegum Octopus the most. Spazzpop isn't Ncore for sure, but exposure to m@'s music made me love heavy chip bands so damn much. At the same time, I always hated Metalcore, hated the Metalcore dudebros in gym shorts that shared the same high school as me, and still just think that Metalcore isn't the best heavy subgenre.
When I got re-exposed to Ncore in 2019, I was really hoping that the subgenre would have evolved. Calling anything -core should allow bands to be free to have any type of hardcore punk influence they want. I was disappointed to find you and other Ncore channels saying that Ncore HAS to be Metalcore to be Ncore. I personally do not like the Cybergrind scene that much but I have to go there because they're more accepting of my music than the Nintendocore community is, because I do not make Metalcore influenced music.
I know my argument is nothing more than a tantrum, just a complaint about a music scene that I have nothing to do with...but again.. if you call yourself "_____-core," you all should honestly start to redefine what it has to sound like to be considered a part of the subgenre. If I'm making grindcore/west coast powerviolence on a tracker, it's heavy and fast, and I'm doing heavy vocals, I really don't see why I can't call myself Nintendocore; yet I can't because "I'm NoT mEtAlCoRe." Honestly bored of all of the modern Nintendo core artists just trying to LARP as their early 2000s predecessors.
Hello! First off, thanks so much for the support!
So, I used metalcore as one of the requirements for what constitutes Nintendocore because Horse the Band are definitely metalcore. My scale is largely based on them, as the creators of the term. That said, since the "core" part of my metric is worth three points total, I would say that anything harsh with screamed vocals is most certainly gonna get two of those points. Heck, I gave Crystal Castles a point for "metalcore" even though they definitely fall pretty far from it. Since a total score of 9/10 is still "true nintendocore" on my scale, a band could earn that rank without ever playing a breakdown, or being strictly metalcore at all. My goal with these videos is definitely not to tell anyone they aren't welcome or that they can't use any certain term. It's just my own metric, so people will know where my ideas are coming from.
The metalcore dudebros you mentioned isn't really something I experienced myself. I'm sure the scene was different in different places, and I can see how that would be off-putting. Out of curiosity, where have people not been accepting of your music in the Nintendocore community? I'm an active member of both that and cybergrind, and don't recall much gatekeeping, but I'm certain it happens nonetheless. I try to support all kinds of stuff personally. Check out my "Top Ten Nintendocore Albums of 2021" video if you haven't seen it- I shout out tons of things I wouldn't call Nintendocore. :0
Can someone make Segacore a thing lol
I've seen a handful of bands calling themselves that! Anti-PizzaBoy has an album called Super Segacore 20XX. ThyHarvesting also has some, like his BAHAMUT track, and his [BIO-NETWORK] album. I'm positive I've seen more here and there as well. :0
They didn’t make up the term and they actually think the term is dumb. I’ve listened to podcasts with them where they make fun of people who call them that.
The word Nintendocore appears on their demo from 2001. If you know of the word being used before that, educate me! And I address in the video that they distanced themselves from the term later, and why I think they did so.
Polygon Horizon gets 10 points.
That's almost certainly correct, but I'll have to double-check sometime just for funsies!
I H8 Nintendocore 😏
Aw man : (
Whats this cibergrind bs xd
I don't remember how cybergrind came up in this video, but it's basically digital grindcore that's fast and abrasive and intentionally out of the realm of what's possible for real people to play- for example it might have 32nd note blast beats at 300bpm. But like all genres there's tons of variety within it :0
If that's totally not what you were asking lemme know lol