- Aluminum Christmas Trees: They, along with the Deftones, essentially rescued 7-8 string guitars from the scrappy heap for progressive rock and metal even though they'd been on store shelves since the 80's. Tosin even began making his own line!
- Award Snub: At the 2015 Alternative Press Music Awards, Tosin Abasi lost best guitarist award to Pierce the Veil's Tony Perry. Animals As Leaders' label, Sumerian, had a bit of fun with this one.
- Creator Worship: Tosin by pretty much every fan of progressive and more so by fans of djent.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Of djent. Djent has become a widely hated genre by metalheads, but this is one of the few actually well loved djent bands by metalheads.
- Follow the Leader: Along with Periphery, mixing clean guitar chords with lots of heavy chugging, complex riffage, weird timing, and eight string guitars. AAL are also credited with popularizing it.
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