Google ‘djent’ and you’ll be hit with over 2.5 million search results. On Instagram, #djent has been used well over one billion times. So, with players pushing the boundaries of the style of guitar ...

Few bands can legitimately claim to have spearheaded an entire movement in music, let alone a genre all its own. Meshuggah can. If you enjoy bands such as Periphery or Tesseract, Animals As Leaders or ...

UPDATE (Jan. 12, 2023): Periphery have now released two new songs — "Wildfire" and "Zagreus" — which can be heard further down the page. Did someone just open up a can of worms? Periphery are on their ...

“But does it djent?” It’s a question that’s haunted a generation (djeneration?) of progressive metal bands. Ever since Meshuggah first stormed onto the scene in the mid-1990s with their polyrhythmic ...

The Internet is a treasure trove of data just waiting to be spliced and re-assembled in new and interesting ways. The results are fascinating. The most popular bands, or the “Big Four of Djent,” are ...

Metal has so many subgenres and classifications it can be impossible to keep up with them all. It’s so complicated at times that some bands don’t even know what kind of music they play, and some ...

Asking musicians to describe their sound is often an exercise in futility. Other than trying to avoid pigeonholing themselves into a certain subgenre too much, most artists point to general influences ...

It seems as though the djent trend is on a downswing at this moment. While bands like Periphery, Animals As Leaders and Veil of Maya rose to prominence on the sound, if I hear a new band trying to ...

In the spring of 2010, an explosion of chuggy riffs, subsonic booms and futuristic metal sounds carved a corner for itself in metal. It was called djent, so named because of the djent-djent sounds of ...

Now that djent’s been on the decline for some time, the majority of the copycat acts have faded into irrelevance, allowing interesting artists to come out of the woodwork. Of course, this has resulted ...

On April 20, 2010, Washington, D.C., sextet Periphery released their self-titled debut album. The release went over even the most loyal metal fans' heads, but marked the beginning of a controversial ...