the difference between folk, symphonic, power, death, heavy, and black metal
yes it is considered metal. its a mix of two metal sub genres; metalcore and death metal, so yeah its metal whether people like it or not.
Every decade has a watered down commercial version of metal that the community rejects but finds enormous success with teenagers who desperately want to be metal but don't want to have to learn to play or listen to it. It was the hair bands ages ago, grunge, nu metal, now the whatever-core kids are the next in line. It will pass soon enough and they'll be forgotten.
No, it is not considered metal, lets start from the beginning. Metalcore is Hardcore with Metal influences. Hardcore is a sub-genre of punk, therefore Metalcore is more punk than metal. Deathcore is Metalcore with death metal influences. No matter where you go with all this, it is Punk with some sort of influence. The only things Deathcore has in common with Death Metal is the word death in their genre and possibly the speed. Death Metal, overall has a more complex riffing style, has growls and death grunts portrayed in their music, instead of the hardcore screams and pig squeals deathcore vocalists use. Also, Deathcore makes constant use of Breakdowns, which is a big no in death metal. Unfortunately, it has been slogged into the metal category by the mainstream media, simply because it is 'heavy', but if you look into its origins and its fanbases, it has nothing to do with metal.
No, because in terms of riffing styles, lead guitar work and instrumental techniques metalcore is closer to punk than metal. Death core only really takes breakdowns (which aren't used often in death metal) and drop tunings from deathmetal, the majority of instrumental techniques are from punk. So it's more a sub genre of hardcore punk. But of course Hardcore punk died, so metal gets lumbered with it...
it's close enough, a lot of people aren't willing to call deathcore metal because of the hardcore influence, but there's tons of metal with non metal influence, so it just turns into a case of whether or not you hate the style of music that metal is being blended with, that almost always determines how willing people are to call something metal, bands like Ensiferum and Tyr are acknowledged as being metal because most metalheads don't hate traditional folk music.
