Psycore: Discovering the dark, deranged, and disturbing side of the Psytrance spectrum

Do you like Psytrance? Goa? yes? (Although I've been told these are actually two *different* genres).
It's so-so for me. Yeah there are some "hits". Really good stuff. Also among the oldschool. LSD, Hallucinogen, Astral Projection, Trust In Trance, that kind of stuff.
But let's face it. There are too many "fillers"; endless clones with perpetual "woob woon woob" bass drums and eternally rising and descending cut off frequencies.
Yet, there is one thing that is very interesting to me - that I love a lot.
Psycore. A pocket genre, a miniature style. That, I think, so far managed to elude and evade the gaze of the "mainstream eye".

It's a combination of Psytrance and Hardcore... no wait... this dry description that does not do this genre judgement at all.
It's amongst the most deranged, nihilistic, and sanity-shattering music I ever heard. You take some sounds of psytrance, maybe goa - and speed them up, until 200 bpm, 300 bpm, even 1000 and beyond. everything becomes psycho, the basslines become the walls of a lunatic institute, the sonic structures just rush by, you fall into an endless chasm of fluctuating sounds, until your mind goes into vertigo (and starts to scream).

I'm not certain how popular / attached to the general psytrance scene this psycore pocket genre actually is.
Is it just some freaks who do it? is it played at a lot of psytrance parties?
is it like some obscured black metal or synthwave genre that noone really knows - except a few insiders?

I don't know - but i know the scene and sound is vital and alive, has its dedicated fans and followers, and is going strong since years.

Oh yeah, it's also interesting how psycore gives the "psytrance" tropes and topics the hardcore treatment.
these tracks no longer talk about 'being one with the universe', or hoping for a happy future of humanity, or attaining a state of calm, mindfulness, and serenity - the plates on their menu are the end of the cosmos, the destruction of logic, chaos, disorder - just sheer cosmic horror, basically.

so better take care!

now here is a selection of 10 notable psycore tracks:

1. Dravna inxtibhiothic - aokigaravna - 280BPM



2. Dravna - Dimension at C - 137 (220-240 BPM)



3. Paranoise - We Are Freaks



4. Black Phillip - Triunfo de Venus



5. Infra - Series No. 1 {260bpm}



6. Arcek vs HyperActive 25 - Wicked 210bpm



7. Intraception - Occult Frequencies (250)



8. Omnipresent Miscreants - The Warped Quantum Holes



9. ToxiKlouds - Run

10. ToxiKlouds - Kerberos