Haters Gonna Hate: The Official Djent Thread
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BenMech
student of the d'eh
Said it before, and I'll say it again:
Djent is the Grunge Movement of the new generation (in a way that Nu-Metal and Metalcore were NOT).
Djent is the Grunge Movement of the new generation (in a way that Nu-Metal and Metalcore were NOT).
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TribunalRecords
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SIKTH from 2003!!
this song is one of my favorites. if only their original label weren't such douches i would have licensed this for Tribunal back then. some battles can never be won.
video gets kind of graphic at end. warning.
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this song is one of my favorites. if only their original label weren't such douches i would have licensed this for Tribunal back then. some battles can never be won.
video gets kind of graphic at end. warning.
music only version
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I felt like their label didn't know what to do with them and the band was sort of forced to fend for themselves. I had heard Skindred's manager signed them to a really good management deal and the band was headed for some bigtime UK success but they broke up. 
They were definitely without a doubt ahead of their time.
They were definitely without a doubt ahead of their time.
eaeolian
Division Guitarist
None of those bands desperately wants to be Sikth.
Before the anger starts, I hear all of this stuff fresh off the presses, as one of the mods at sevenstring.org. Some of it impresses me (Gru, especially - his album is probably my favorite in this style at the moment), but honestly a significant chunk of this genre could really use some time to learn to compose a piece of music. I rather like Tesseract, and I listen to the Periphery disc instrumentally (I cannot fathom what Misha is thinking with that singer, but, hey, it's his band), but if I want to hear something in this style, I almost always end up back at Sikth. They knew how to write songs.
It'll be interesting to see how this genre progresses once the trendies fall off.
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What I don't get is how you can be a fan of Mercenary but not some of these bands? While not entirely the same, they are similar. Not picking on you, just curious. I'm loving this thread and how open-minded even the people who don't like this stuff are to it.
CAlexanderParra
Nocturnal Dream
Pretty funny how a word to describe a palm-muted metallic sounding chord (e.g. Metallica-Sad but true) turned into a word to describe modern progressive bands that tune their guitars around B-flat or lower.
Anyways, it's pretty unique stuff and I like it. Vocals are usually always a miss for me though.
Anyways, it's pretty unique stuff and I like it. Vocals are usually always a miss for me though.
Just curious if bands like Concept Insomnia, Solution .45 or Enditol would be considered djent. Pretty comparable to Periphery to my aging ears.
Pretty much. It sounds emotionless to me. Sure they are amazing musicians, but I don't hear any emotion. Its like a robot is playing this shit. I don't hear any feeling in any of these clips.
IMO it takes more talent to play with emotion, and to know how to write catchy melodies. I have said this about Michael Batio Angelo for years. The dude can shred like a motherfucker but has literally only a couple of songs that I actually like.
The trick is finding the common ground between both and blending them together.
As for whoever posted that one band and said the singer sounds like Nils... LOL! He sounds about as much like Nils as John Tardy does.
The name of the genre is pretty dumb as well. Djent? HAHAHAHA oooo k!
Prog_Please
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The vocalist is Mats Levén, a vocalist for Therion. What a coincidence considering Therion is playing at ProgPower USA this year.
I didn't see Chimp Spanner mentioned previously in this thread, so I thought I'd throw it out there. Its purely instrumental.
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jem777az
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Solution .45 in no way would be considered djent. I don't know the other bands you mentioned, so I can't speak of them.
edgeofthorns
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Well AS, I gave these clips a listen and this just isn't my thing. I liked the first song pretty well, and the second clip reminded me of Disturbed. From that point forward, the rest of the clips went down hill for me.
~Brian~
~Brian~
BenMech
student of the d'eh
eaeolian
Division Guitarist
I would say that it's more like Enditol is what djent wants to be when it grows up.
jem777az
Bozzman
I think these guys would qualify as djent. I particularly enjoy this song.
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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWEA8XFtDK4&feature=youtube_gdata_player[/ame]
I've been listening to a lot of 'djent' over the past couple of years or so, there are many great bands within this scene. Of those already mentioned I'm big fan of Tesseract, Textures, Vildhjarta (hurry up and release an album already), Radiance and of course the mighty Sikth
Some others that I love are:
Cloudkicker
The Contortionist
Cyclamen
The Safety Fire
Jakub Żytecki
The Ocean (their earlier stuff)
Hacride
Some others that I love are:
Cloudkicker
The Contortionist
Cyclamen
The Safety Fire
Jakub Żytecki
The Ocean (their earlier stuff)
Hacride
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