Your way in
Djent 2007
The name imitates the sound: seven- or eight-string guitars, heavily compressed palm mutes and polyrhythms. Meshuggah built the vocabulary; a generation of forum users named it.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 6
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- Sweden / United Kingdom
- Tempo
- 90-160 bpm
- Song length
- 4-7 min
- Written about
- Consciousness and the self, Cosmology, Abstraction - where its parents were literal
- Vocals
- Sung and screamed
Why this one
| You said | Djent | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | mixed | 100% | ×3 |
| As heavy as it gets How much weight do you want behind it? | 9 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 6 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| This century Does it matter when it was made? | 2007 | 100% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 6 out of 10 | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 96% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 9. Djent leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Opeth, Blackwater Park 2001
Opeth - Blackwater Park. Growls and acoustic guitar in one song, and nothing forced about it.
- 2The one to put on first
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Progressive metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Djent's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Cyber metal 95%
Mechanised death metal with cold digital production, dual vocals and science-fiction themes.
4 steps from Djent, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Cyber metal -
Progressive metalcore 93%
Metalcore with eight-string guitars, ambient passages and structures borrowed from djent.
4 steps from Djent, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Progressive metalcore
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 9.
- As heavy as it gets put 13 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Rock and roll, Folk rock, Country rock. Worth 2 of 9.
- This century put 43 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 9.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.