This article is a list of notable bands and musical artists described as playing djent. Djent (/dʒɛnt/) is a subgenre of progressive metal,[1][2] distinguished by a high-gain, distorted, palm-muted, low-pitch guitar sound. The name "djent" is an onomatopoeia of this sound.
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This article is a listof notable bands and musical artists described as playing djent. Djent (/dʒɛnt/) is a subgenre of progressive metal, distinguished...
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rapid growth ofdjent led by bands such as Periphery and After the Burial, progressive metal saw an increased interest with a large number of newcomers to...
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top-10 of Best 2012 djent-albums at got-djent.com, along with albums of such prominent progressive metal bands as Hacktivist, Veil of Maya, Meshuggah and...
French Zeuhl band Sigur Ros: Icelandic post-rock band Sikth: British progressive metal and djentband Peter Sinfield Skin Alley: Progressive band from the...
solo project by Abasi. They are a prominent band within the djent scene. Prosthetic Records released the band's eponymous debut album in 2009. They have...
influence from djent. Progressive metalcore evolved from progressive metal and metalcore in the 90s. After the Burial is a pioneer of the genre, forming...
part of the projects Haunted Shores and Four Seconds Ago, and Of Man, Not of Machine. Mansoor is considered to be one of the forerunners of the djent movement...
instrumentation. Some notable practitioners take influence from djent. Examples of progressive metalcore bands include After the Burial, Erra, Northlane, Invent Animate...
indie rock/pop, and djent. Emma Wilkes of Revolver, noted elements of trap and jazz. According to Mary Varvaris of The Music, "[the band fuses] heavy metal...
the bass and snare drums Djent, a style of progressive metal named after the sound of a palm-muted guitar Donk, a style of UK house music containing...
modern metal bands, and gained a cult following. The band was labelled as one of the ten most important hard rock and heavy metal bands by Rolling Stone...
the band's previous releases, noting that the album is a metalcore release. This album has also been described as djent, and that it uses djent playing...
notable player of the djent subgenre. Terreberry created his YouTube channel on January 7, 2008. His first video was a guitar cover of "When the Saints...
band's sound as "heavy indie rock" and "djent pop," contrasting heavy, down-tuned guitar riffs with soft, pop-adjacent choruses and verses. The band was...
characteristic is the use of extended range seven-, eight- and nine-string guitars. Djentbands include Periphery, Tesseract and Textures. Fusion of nu metal with...
Veil of Maya's early work is generally considered deathcore. Their third and fourth albums Id and Eclipse blended the genre with metalcore and djent. Their...
metal influences than their later releases. This associated them with the djent movement, although they were characteristically less heavy and more melody-based...