Slowly warming up to some Djent stuff

[MetalAges]

I've been finding myself catching more Djent "in the corner of my ear" and becoming intrigued. A lot of it for me is just soulless/emotionless, but I'm hearing more and more where this genre is starting to come into its own. No names off the top of my head as I have purposely avoided yet another genre to start keeping track of!

However, one band that I did order today, is called Polyphia. It shocks me even more because they are an instrumental group. I'm usually a super hard sell on instrumental albums. Two of my all time favs are Tony Macalpine's Maximum Security and Yanni (yes, that Yanni) Live at the Acropolis. I love soundtracks, and I do have much more instrumental stuff, but not a whole lot.

So all that rambled/said, see what you all think of these guys. Super talented players and some great melodies.

 

[RedStorm]

good stuff

 

[0Marty]

I hate Djent with a passion, and when I saw these guys in the video I thoght it was gonna be horrible, but these two songs were actually quite cool. I'm not gonna listen to them again probably coz I need riffs in my metal but I liked it.

 

[EternalMetal]

The only djent ive ever heard that I could tolerate is Meshuggah's ObZen, and damn what a beast of an album it is. Nothing they have done before or after has quite caught my attention like this album.




As for being soulless or clinical, I think that's the point in this case. Everything about it just makes me imagine the chugging along of a machine, with flawless execution. The tone of everything just fits perfectly as well.

 

[Pitiless Wanderer]

ObZen is a fucking monstrous record, but I can't listen to it often.

 

[Omni]

I was going to ask what this was, but I know Meshuggah. Not my taste, sadly.

 

[Nephilim96]

Sorry, but it's all utter trash imo (especially TesseracT). Worse than Deathcore.

 

[Krow]

Djent comes off really plasticy and mechanical to me. Meshuggah is okay enough but stuff like TesseracT adds some sugariness to it I just can't handle.

I feel like it's the things about modern technical metal I don't like with the metal edge taken out.

 

[Dak]

Yeah, ObZen was the only Meshuggah album I could get into, and even then I could never finish the album. Combustion was really all you needed.

Edit: Polyphia is listenable, but isn't all the djenty.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

I dont hear any djent in Polyphia. Just basically progrock
dudes are pretty talented. although I hate the wammy bar shit they are doing.

 

[viewerfromnihil]

Djent is cool to watch live, but I'm not interested in it otherwise. Since when is Meshuggah considered djent? I understand they influenced it, but can you really lump Chaosphere with Animals as Leaders?

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I dont hear any djent in Polyphia. Just basically progrock

Yea, i hear no djent there either.

Last two Animals as Leaders albums are pretty much prog metal with some djent sprinkled on top.

But this beast right here is from their first album ...


.. not a fan of DJENT, but i fuckin' LOVE that track.

Not only are Meshuggah DJENT. They're one of the originators of that "subgenre".

 

[Master_Yoda77]

Yeah, any band that rocks not one but multiple dudes in those comb-over haircuts ala Hawthorne Heights is definitely not my thing. Their tunes sounded like if Between the Buried and Me lost anything that made them enjoyable and cranked up the bullshit wankery.

Back to what I do best.

 

[EspaDa]

ObZen is a fucking monstrous record, but I can't listen to it often.

Exactly what I think. Although some time ago I used to overkill the track Bleed.

 

[tagradh]

'Djent' would be a lot more tolerable if any of the bands really sounded like Meshuggah. Catch Thirtythree, I and obZen, anyway.



What I hear always sounds more like prog rock/metal and neoclassical shreddy bullshit.

 

[The Ozzman]

Love Meshuggah and Animals as Leaders. Although, I didn't really dig Koloss as much as Obzen or DEI or Chaosphere.

 

[Dak]

I like AaL also, forgot about them.

 

[Luoto]

Yeah, Polyphia isn't djent. It seems to have become a trendy word that gets thrown around undeserved.

 

[EternalMetal]

Love Meshuggah and Animals as Leaders. Although, I didn't really dig Koloss as much as Obzen or DEI or Chaosphere.

Koloss is like a boring, inferior version of Obzen. I wasnt a fan of it either.

Animals as Leaders is definitely not my thing, but I admittedly did have fun drunk monkey dancing/moshing to them when they were on the bill with Devin Townsend this past year. Would never listen to them on cd though. Their songwriting is directionless and they basically just ooze of too much pretentious technicality.

 

[MetalAges]

I tend to use that when I hear a lot of the djent-djent-djent rhythms and the BOOooooooo percussive effects. I know that's a shallow "qualification" but that's where the whole "djent" thing originated (unless I am off base).

But yes, solely Djent, No. They definitely have elements of neo-classical and Prog in there.