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* TakeThatUs: In a gear video, Tim notes that he and Scott are probably the worst two people [=DiMarzio=] could've possibly gotten to either talk about their gear or sell it.
** Some of their merch says "Fuck Polyphia".
* TrollingCreator: Polyphia sells a hoodie that loudly insists that their 4th album is just a myth and is not coming out...right next to a hoodie that insists that it will be coming out in spring of 2021.
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** New Levels New Devils features Lewis Grant appears on ''Look But Don't Touch'', [[Music/Covet Yvette Young]] on featured in "Rich Kids", CHON guitarists Mario Camarena and Erick Hansel on "Yas", Jason Richardson on "Nasty", and Ichika Nito on "Death Note".

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** New Levels New Devils features Lewis Grant appears on ''Look But Don't Touch'', [[Music/Covet [[Music/{{Covet}} Yvette Young]] on featured in "Rich Kids", CHON guitarists Mario Camarena and Erick Hansel on "Yas", Jason Richardson on "Nasty", and Ichika Nito on "Death Note".

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* SpecialGuest: Lewis Grant appears on ''Look But Don't Touch''.

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Lewis Grant appears on ''Look But Don't Touch''.Touch'', [[Music/Covet Yvette Young]] on featured in "Rich Kids", CHON guitarists Mario Camarena and Erick Hansel on "Yas", Jason Richardson on "Nasty", and Ichika Nito on "Death Note".
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More special guests on RTYWD! Insane.


** ''Remember That You Will Die'' takes it up to eleven: vocalist Sophia Black appears on "ABC", [[Music/{{Deftones}} Chino Moreno]] sings in "Bloodbath", [[AWildRapperAppears Lil West]] has a rap verse at the end of "Chimera", rapper $NOT appears in [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck Around and Find Out"]], rapper Killstation appears in "Memento Mori" and Music/SteveVai takes a solo at the climax of "Ego Death".

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** ''Remember That You Will Die'' takes it up to eleven: vocalist Sophia Black appears on "ABC", [[Music/{{Deftones}} Brasstracks is featured in "Genesis", keyboardist Anomalie appears on "The Audacity",[[Music/{{Deftones}} Chino Moreno]] sings in "Bloodbath", [[AWildRapperAppears Lil West]] has a rap verse at the end of "Chimera", rapper $NOT appears in [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck Around and Find Out"]], rapper Killstation appears in "Memento Mori" and Music/SteveVai takes a solo at the climax of "Ego Death".
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** ''Remember That You Will Die'' features two: vocalist Sophia Black appears on "ABC", and Music/SteveVai takes a solo at the climax of "Ego Death".

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** ''Remember That You Will Die'' features two: takes it up to eleven: vocalist Sophia Black appears on "ABC", [[Music/{{Deftones}} Chino Moreno]] sings in "Bloodbath", [[AWildRapperAppears Lil West]] has a rap verse at the end of "Chimera", rapper $NOT appears in [[PrecisionFStrike "Fuck Around and Find Out"]], rapper Killstation appears in "Memento Mori" and Music/SteveVai takes a solo at the climax of "Ego Death".
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Go listen to their first couple of EPs and first album after listening to ''Renaissance'' or anything after that. You'd think an entirely different band made them.

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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Go listen to their first couple of EPs [=EPs=] and first album after listening to ''Renaissance'' or anything after that. You'd think an entirely different band made them.

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* GenreBusting: Their blend of {{djent}} and {{math rock}} with trap beats and pop sensibilities is very unusual.



* NamesTheSame: Two Clays!


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* OneSteveLimit: Averted. Both their drummer and bassist are named Clay.


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** ''Remember That You Will Die'' features two: vocalist Sophia Black appears on "ABC", and Music/SteveVai takes a solo at the climax of "Ego Death".
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* ''TBA'' - 2021

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* ''TBA'' ''Remember That You Will Die'' - 2021
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cut trope


* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Instrumental Djent that somehow became Trap-Prog-Rap-Metal-Rock.

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* DeadpanSnarker: The whole band is this. They insisted on calling themselves "true christian metal"...while releasing their intentionally raunchiest video.

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* AvantGardeMetal: A standout case of a band pushing the boundaries of ProgressiveRock and ProgressiveMetal to such an extent that they [[ZigzaggedTrope overlap and weave into each other]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The whole band is this. They insisted on calling themselves "true christian metal"...ChristianMetal"...while releasing their intentionally raunchiest video.


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* NewSoundAlbum: ''[=TheMostHated=]'' was a hard GenreShift into LighterAndSofter but no less technical and creative musical territory.


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* ProgressiveRock / ProgressiveMetal

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* ''TBA'' - 2021


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* TrollingCreator: Polyphia sells a hoodie that loudly insists that their 4th album is just a myth and is not coming out...right next to a hoodie that insists that it will be coming out in spring of 2021.
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[[caption-width-right:350:"We play rap music with guitars."[[note]]From Left to Right: Clay Aeschliman, Tim Henson, Clay Gober, Scott LePage[[/note]] ]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:"We play rap music with guitars."[[note]]From Left to Right: Clay Aeschliman, Tim Henson, Clay Gober, Scott LePage[[/note]] [=LePage=][[/note]] ]]
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Polyphia is a Dallas-based {{Djent}}-slash-ProgressiveRock band started in 2010. Initially started as a pure djent band that got big through a viral video on [=YouTube=] and subsequent covers, they branched out from their first couple of [=EP=]s and first album as a band willing to experiment with pop elements while also keeping the tight, djenty feel while mixing progressive elements and math rock time signatures and progressions into their sound, creating a unique and upbeat sound.

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Polyphia is a Dallas-based {{Djent}}-slash-ProgressiveRock ProgressiveRock band started in 2010. Initially started as a pure djent band that got big through a viral video on [=YouTube=] and subsequent covers, they branched out from their first couple of [=EP=]s and first album as a band willing to experiment with pop elements while also keeping the tight, djenty feel while mixing progressive elements and math rock time signatures and progressions into their sound, creating a unique and upbeat sound.

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Polyphia is a Dallas-based Djent/Progressive rock band started in 2010. Initially started as a pure djent band that got big through a viral video on [=YouTube=] and subsequent covers, they branched out from their first couple of [=EP=]s and first album as a band willing to experiment with pop elements while also keeping the tight, djenty feel while mixing progressive elements and math rock time signatures and progressions into their sound, creating a unique and upbeat sound.

And then in 2017, ''[=TheMostHated=]'' EP dropped, marking a hard left turn in their sound.

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Polyphia is a Dallas-based Djent/Progressive rock {{Djent}}-slash-ProgressiveRock band started in 2010. Initially started as a pure djent band that got big through a viral video on [=YouTube=] and subsequent covers, they branched out from their first couple of [=EP=]s and first album as a band willing to experiment with pop elements while also keeping the tight, djenty feel while mixing progressive elements and math rock time signatures and progressions into their sound, creating a unique and upbeat sound.

And then in 2017, ''[=TheMostHated=]'' [[NewSoundAlbum ''[=TheMostHated=]'']] EP dropped, marking a hard left turn in their sound.



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!!!Discography
* ''Resurrect (Demo)'' - (2011)
* ''Inspire '' - EP, 2013
* ''Muse'' - 2014, re-released in 2015
* ''Renaissance'' - 2016
* ''[[GenreShift [=TheMostHated=]]]'' - EP, 2017
* ''New Levels New Devils'' - 2018


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* DeadpanSnarker: The whole band is this. They insisted on calling themselves "true christian metal"...while releasing their intentionally raunchiest video.


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* NamesTheSame: Two Clays!


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* RereleaseTheSong: ''LIT'' is actually ''Light'' from ''Renaissance'', but re-orchestrated and with additional trap/pop elements, and as a result it sounds extremely different.
* SpecialGuest: Lewis Grant appears on ''Look But Don't Touch''.


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** Some of their merch says "Fuck Polyphia".
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[[caption-width-right:350:"We play rap music with guitars."[[note]]From Left to Right: Clay Aeschliman, Tim Henson, Clay Gober, Scott LePage[[/note]] ]]
Polyphia is a Dallas-based Djent/Progressive rock band started in 2010. Initially started as a pure djent band that got big through a viral video on [=YouTube=] and subsequent covers, they branched out from their first couple of [=EP=]s and first album as a band willing to experiment with pop elements while also keeping the tight, djenty feel while mixing progressive elements and math rock time signatures and progressions into their sound, creating a unique and upbeat sound.

And then in 2017, ''[=TheMostHated=]'' EP dropped, marking a hard left turn in their sound.

''[=TheMostHated=]'' incorporated trap beats, pop synths, and drum machines into their sound, creating a weird but very original take on their contemporaries, and it was such a wild success that they haven't looked back since, releasing their next album and their next five singles using this formula, and they don't appear to be slowing down whatsoever.

They are also characterized by their deeply [[DeadpanSnarker un-serious-but-serious personas]], especially Tim and Scott, who basically spend interviews and videos messing around and telling jokes when they aren't playing.

!!Band Members
* Tim Henson - Guitar
* Scott [=LePage=] - Guitar
* Clay Gober - Bass
* Clay Aeschliman - Drums

!!Polyphia and their music contains examples of:
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Tim is an extremely attractive, young, fashionable looking guy.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Go listen to their first couple of EPs and first album after listening to ''Renaissance'' or anything after that. You'd think an entirely different band made them.
* {{Instrumentals}}: All but two of their songs don't feature a singer.
* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Instrumental Djent that somehow became Trap-Prog-Rap-Metal-Rock.
* TakeThatUs: In a gear video, Tim notes that he and Scott are probably the worst two people [=DiMarzio=] could've possibly gotten to either talk about their gear or sell it.
* UncommonTime

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