Djent

Djent /ˈdʒɛnt/ is a style of heavy metal music that developed as a spinoff of traditional progressive metal. The word "djent" is an onomatopoeia for the distinctive high-gain, distorted palm-muted, low pitch guitar sound most notably employed by bands like Meshuggah and Sikth. Typically, the word is used to refer to music that makes use of this sound, to the sound itself, or to the scene that revolves around it.

Development

Fredrik Thordendal, guitarist of Swedish band Meshuggah, is considered the originator of the djent technique. However, the scene itself developed from an online community of bedroom musicians including Misha Mansoor whose success with Periphery brought djent "from the virtual world into the real one." Other important pre-djent era bands in the development of the style are Sikth, Mnemic, Animals as Leaders,TesseracT, and Textures.

The scene has grown rapidly and members of the original online community, including the bands Chimp Spanner, Gizmachi, and Monuments, have gone on to tour and release albums commercially. Other bands that are often considered djent include A Life Once Lost,Veil of Maya,Vildhjarta, and Xerath.Born of Osiris have also been described as being inspired by the djent movement. Furthermore, Hacktivist are a djent band that uses rapping as primary vocal style.