Originally Posted by The Batlord

It's a sort of third generation thing. First wave of deathcore bands set the standard of brutal death metal meets metalcore, second wave made the sound stagnant and cookie cutter and embarrassing, and then the third wave tried to pretty up the genre but they were still deathcore fans/bandwagon jumpers so they didn't have any real creativity or musical depth to do anything but tread water in a different way.