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 ...

The biggest trend in metal these days is djent, a new-ish form of technical, progressive metal that's really captivating audiences and musicians alike. But what the hell is it anyway? Let's get ...

but marked the beginning of a controversial scene in heavy metal music: djent Djent is a spinoff of progressive metal that revolves around a very specific guitar sound achieved through palm-muting ...

There’s a debate currently raging over at Gear Gods, where two of the site’s writers have gone head to head in the battle to end all battles: has djent ruined or has it improved metal? In one corner, ...

From obscure masked metal curios to Download headliners and record-breaking streams, Sleep Token are the biggest thing to hit ...

The post Periphery Announce New Album Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre, Unveil Two Singles: Stream appeared first on Consequence. Progressive metal act Periphery have announced a new album ...

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 the guitars, and U.S. outfit Periphery had ...

To the band's credit, Djent is actually considered a "subgenre" of progressive metal rather than a genre, per Wikipedia. While Meshuggah's Frederik Thordendal is often credited as the originator ...

The masked, anonymous UK quartet might be the biggest metal band in a generation—yet their laborious, watered-down fusion of pop, rap, and djent amounts to very little. But Even in Arcadia is a ...

Few albums arrive with such a purposeful message as Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre. The Washington, D.C. prog-metal maestros’ seventh album – 2015’s Juggernaut: Alpha and Omega releases ...

In addition to videogame work, Goodman has been a longtime member of influential djent metal band SikTh, and has done similar spoken word performances as part of his music in the past. This time ...