History Main / Djent

* Music/{{SikTh}} (early TropeCodifier, also NuMetal. The EnsembleDarkhorse of the subgenre)

** Moreover, djent is better described as a style of guitar ''playing'' than an actual genre; the djent "sound" can vary greatly across different bands and can resemble anything from {{Metalcore}} and ProgressiveMetal, to more extreme and technical forms of DeathMetal, DoomMetal and AvantGardeMetal, and can even sound like conventional GrooveMetal, AlternativeMetal, IndustrialMetal, or NuMetal with syncopation and polyrhythms added in.

** Moreover, because djent is better described as a style of guitar playing, the sound can vary greatly across different bands and can resemble anything from {{Metalcore}} and ProgressiveMetal, to more extreme and technical forms of DeathMetal, DoomMetal and AvantGardeMetal, and can even sound like conventional GrooveMetal, AlternativeMetal, IndustrialMetal, or NuMetal with syncopation and polyrhythms added in.

* Music/{{Nevermore}} (the other TropeMaker; quite possibly the only djent band ever that overlaps with PowerMetal)

* DeadUnicornTrope: Djent bands are stereotyped as always using 8 and 9-string guitars, largely due to the influence of Meshuggah. In reality, most bands in the genre, even the earliest examples, use downtuned six-strings seven-strings.

* Music/{{AERIAL}}

* AERIAL

* The Afterimage

* Aviana
* Betraying the Martyrs (also deathcore)
* Blankfield (known for doing the music for the ''Danmaku Unlimited'' games)

* Car Bomb (''w^w^^w^w/Waveform'' onward, also mathcore)

* The Contortionist (earlier material, abandoned the genre completely in favor of prog-tinged post-hardcore on ''Clairvoyant'')

* A Fine Constant
* Frontierer (also mathcore)

* Haunted Shores (mixed with AlternativeMetal. Also see Periphery)
* Humanity's Last Breath (an offshoot of Vildhjarta, also deathcore and mathcore; their later material also has prominent dissonant death metal elements)

* Ion Dissonance (''Minus the Herd'' onward, also deathcore and mathcore)

* Jinjer (some nu metal elements)
* Krosis (also deathcore)
* Sarah Longfield (also see A Fine Constant; her solo work toes the line between djent and modern instrumental prog ala Scale the Summit, but she is ultimately rooted in djent)

* Myth of I (also instrumental prog)

* Ovid's Withering (overlaps with deathcore and SymphonicMetal)

* Reaping Asmodeia (also deathcore)
* Jason Richardson
* Skyharbor

* Dan Sugarman

* The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza (also deathcore and mathcore)

* Viscera (also deathcore and metalcore)

* Voyager (overlaps with progressive metal on their earlier material, but ''Colours in the Sun'' mostly abandoned this for a djent/synthwave hybrid sound)

* DeadUnicornTrope: Djent bands are stereotyped as always using 8 and 9-string guitars, largely due to the influence of Meshuggah. In reality, most bands in the genre, even the earliest examples, use downtuned seven strings.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually around the 8-10 range. Some bands like Novelists FR and Hacktivist can dip into a 6 whereas more extreme bands like Meshuggah, Vildhjarta, and The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza occasionally venture into Level 11.

'''Djent''' is a subgenre of heavy metal characterized by heavy syncopated riffs, polyrhythmic drumming, and irregular time signatures which became popular in the early 2010s. Later bands also added in other elements that became commonly associated with the genre, namely clean, ethereal atmospheric textures, [[ElectronicMusic electronic]] overtones, and occasionally clean singing depending on the act. Dissonance is sometimes associated with the genre in the late 2010s, usually in more extreme acts that may or may not use the "thall" tag[[note]]an onomatopoeia created by Vildhjarta to describe the sound of an open note on an extended-range guitar[[/note]]; this was largely codified by Car Bomb and Vildhjarta in the earlier part of the decade and additionally popularized by Humanity's Last Breath in the final quarter of the decade, and most extreme djent acts with prominent dissonant death metal or post-metal elements fit within this stylistic framework. Essentially, a cross between ProgressiveMetal and GrooveMetal.

* Northlane (early material was straightforward djent/metalcore, ''Alien'' mixes in nu-metal and rave music)

'''Djent''' is a subgenre of heavy metal characterized by heavy syncopated riffs, polyrhythmic drumming, and irregular time signatures which became popular in the early 2010s. Later bands also added in other elements that became commonly associated with the genre, namely clean, ethereal atmospheric textures, [[ElectronicMusic electronic]] overtones, and occasionally clean singing depending on the act. Essentially, a cross between ProgressiveMetal and GrooveMetal.

* Chelsea Grin (''Ashes to Ashes'' and ''Self Inflicted'', also metalcore and deathcore, though they have regularly flirted with this over the years)

* MohsScaleofRockAndMetalHardness: Usually around the 8-10 range. Some bands like Novelists FR and Hacktivist can dip into a 6 whereas more extreme bands like Meshuggah, Vildhjarta, and The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza occasionally venture into Level 11.

* DeadUnicornTrope: Djent bands are stereotyped as always using 8 and 9-string guitars, largely due to the influence of Meshuggah. In reality, most bands in the genre use downtuned seven strings.

* FollowTheLeader: One of the biggest criticisms of the genre, and even its musicians will (half-jokingly) admit to it. The stereotype of the Periphery or Animals as Leaders soundalike with a plural noun name, preppy-looking members in dress shirts, a vocalist (if the band isn't an instrumental ensemble) whose clean singing voice sounds suspiciously similar to [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington]] or [[Music/{{Deftones}} Chino Moreno]], guitarists who use Kiesels or Strandbergs, run everything through Axe-Fx, and play a mix of chugging riffs, groovy bends, effects-laden atmospheric textures, and heavily processed fusionesque leadwork, and Website/YouTube channels that are mostly covers and Jared Dines-aping comedy sketches exists for a reason, and all but the most self-unaware djent musicians will probably laugh with you and/or offer several additional components if you bring it up.

* MohsScaleofRockAndMetalHardness: Usually around the 8-10 range. Some bands like Novelists FR and Hacktivist can dip into a 6 whereas more death metal flavored bands like Meshuggah, Vildhjarta, and The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza go into 11 range.

* Northlane (early material was straight forward djent/metalcore, ''Alien'' mixes in nu-metal and rave music)

* DeadUnicornTrope - Djent bands are stereotyped as always using 8 and 9-string guitars, largely due to the influence of Meshuggah. In reality, most bands in the genre use downtuned seven strings.

* FollowTheLeader: One of the biggest criticisms of the genre, and even its musicians will (half-jokingly) admit to it. The stereotype of the Periphery or Animals as Leaders soundalike with a plural noun name, preppy-looking members in dress shirts, a vocalist (if the band isn't an instrumental ensemble) whose clean singing voice sounds suspiciously similar to [[Music/LinkinPark Chester Bennington]] or [[Music/{{Deftones}} Chino Moreno]], guitarists who use Kiesels or Strandbergs, run everything through Axe-Fx, and play a mix of djent riffs, effects-laden atmospheric textures, and heavily processed fusionesque leadwork, and Website/YouTube channels that are mostly covers and Jared Dines-aping comedy sketches exists for a reason, and all but the most self-unaware djent musicians will probably laugh with you and/or offer several additional components if you bring it up.

* IAmTheBand: In Djent, a lot of "bands" in the genre are really just one guy who can play guitar and bass using programmed drums. The genre has become rather notorious for that.

* Humanity's Last Breath (also deathcore and mathcore; their later material also has prominent dissonant death metal elements)

* Myth of I

* Music/{{Vildhjarta}}

* Music/BornOfOsiris (Also {{Deathcore}} and [[TechnicalDeathMetal Progressive Death Metal]])

* Music/{{Nevermore}} (UrExample; quite possibly the only djent band ever that overlaps with PowerMetal)

* TropeMaker - {{Music/Meshuggah}}

* Music/VeilOfMaya (also {{Deathcore}})

* InternetBackdraft[=/=]FlameBait: Go onto any metal forum, ask if Djent is a genre and see what happens. If you want a ''really'' vicious response, go onto a prog forum.

* Humanity's Last Breath (also deathcore and mathcore)

* Polyphia

* Entheos (''Primal'', mixed with TechnicalDeathMetal; they mostly shed this on ''The Infinite Nothing'')