Whitechapel
- DAY: Warm Up Day
- GENRE: deathcore
- COUNTRY: USA
One of the key representatives of deathcore – radically modern, ambitious, ready to change, all while being so heavy that they make the plasterwork fall off from the ceiling. When they smack you with the breakdown, there’s no pieces left to pick up. When they switch on their melodic mode, they just might move you to tears. If they decide to be aggressive, they reach the highest planes of brutality. It’s no surprise then that with such attributes they are the heroes of the genre. It simply couldn’t be any other way.
History:
Whitechapel was formed in the US, in Knoxville, in 2006 and since 2007 they’ve continued with virtually the same line-up. The only changes that did happen concerned the drummer’s position. The band took its name from the London district where Jack the Ripper murdered his female victims. In 2007, the band released their debut album on which they freely set their own standards of deathcore, but the breakthrough came in 2008 when they released their sophomore record, This Is Exile. The album reached no. 118 on the Billboard 200 chart and made the band into a bit of a household name. They went on to tour intensely and brick by brick, album by album they were building their own deathcore style. The groundbreaking milestones in this endeavour were The Valley and Kin, two albums on which the band eagerly borrowed from progressive …
Discography:
Full albums:
The Somatic Defilement, 2007
This Is Exile, 2008
A New Era of Corruption, 2010
Whitechapel, 2012
Our Endless War, 2014
Mark of the Blade, 2016
The Valley, 2019
Kin, 2021
EPs:
Recorrupted, 2011
Demos:
Demo I, 2006
Demo II, 2006
Singles:
The Saw Is the Law, 2014
Hickory Creek (Acoustic), 2020
A Visceral Retch, 2024
Splits:
Maximum Metal Vol. 266 (z A Pale Horse Named Death, Oversense, Emigrate, Every Time I Die, Devil May Care), 2021
Live albums:
The Brotherhood of the Blade, 2015
Live in the Valley, 2024
