More than any other Hardcore sub-style, Doomcore is defined by its own aesthetics, themes, mood, settings and tropes.
And these are, as expected, dark, doomed, and haunted.
There are references to horror movies, hellraiser, nightmare on elm street, the evil dead.
There are tracks about spiritism, hauntings, demonic possession, infernal vortices.
Madness is a theme; the mental asylum, derangement, the criminally insane.
Zombies, Poltergeists, Vampires, Witchcraft and Lilith - they are all here to join the party and their feet burn on their dancefloor - and maybe they'll burn your soul too, if you're not careful!
Similarly, there is an affection for science fiction tropes - of the dystopian kind.
Alien reign, future police states, meteors hitting earth... and the apocalypse is just around the corner.
Related to this, we can find tracks of resistance and political uprising - against these dystopian authorities, against present or future tyrannies.
Yeah, tracks who are outspoken in that manner are less common than those that are about summoning spirits.
But the theme of dark rebellion, an uprising of societal outcasts, the fury of the lost & forgotten (and the dead and haunted?) is a thread that runs right through the whole doomcore movement.
We can see that the general themes of Doomcore appear close to other genres, like Gothic, Industrial, Death- and Black Metal.
Yet there is of course also the dance beats, the euphoria, the ecstasy of Techno parties here.
A mid 90s entry in the PCP mail order catalogue advertised it's records as the right stuff for "future zombie ravers".
Hence it is a bit of a paradox. "The Graveyard becomes the Raveyard".
And all the grim emotions, the hauntings, the tracks about demonic possession should not be taken too seriously and with an "ironic eye", too.
Generally, Doom heads are more like horror movie nerds who are well behaved in social happenings, and not real life Hannibal Lecters.
Bridging this dichotomy - between "Doom" and "Rave", between melancholy and euphoria, dark feelings and nights of dancing, is in my opinion, the main thing that defines Doomcore.
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