Cultivated by artists such as Meshuggah, Animals as Leaders and Periphery, djent is among the most prevalent components of progressive metal. Basically, it emphasizes palm-muted, low-tuned and highly ...

Programmer and musician Dennis Mårtensson is kicking off your year with a ton of procedurally-generated djent. Mårtensson's AI created 152 different djent songs that all flow into one another for a ...

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 ...

Djent wasn’t well-known beyond the online communities it grew up in when Prog first encountered TesseracT in 2010. As they prepared to release their debut album, One, and embark on their first US tour ...

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 ...

Through nü-metal-leaning tendencies for bouncy groove riffs and rapped vocals, Volumes secured their place as a pioneer of djent. Although former guitarist Diego Farias passed shortly after leaving ...

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 ...