Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images Google 'djent' and you'll be hit with over 2.5 million search results. On Instagram, #djent has been used ...

Through nü-metal-leaning tendencies for bouncy groove riffs and rapped vocals, Volumes secured their place as a pioneer of djent. Although former guitarist Diego Farias passed shortly after leaving ...

Chuggah-chug-chuggah-chuggah-chug! It's time to celebrate one of metal's relatively newer genres: djent! The term was derived from the sound downtuned seven and eight string guitars make when met with ...

The Internet is a treasure trove of data just waiting to be spliced and re-assembled in new and interesting ways. The results are fascinating. The most popular bands, or the “Big Four of Djent,” are ...

Asking musicians to describe their sound is often an exercise in futility. Other than trying to avoid pigeonholing themselves into a certain subgenre too much, most artists point to general influences ...

Few bands can legitimately claim to have spearheaded an entire movement in music, let alone a genre all its own. Meshuggah can. If you enjoy bands such as Periphery or Tesseract, Animals As Leaders or ...

You’re not alone if the band Sol Invicto doesn’t ring a bell, even with its high-profile members. The supergroup features Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter, Cypress Hill percussionist Eric Bobo, ...

Now that djent’s been on the decline for some time, the majority of the copycat acts have faded into irrelevance, allowing interesting artists to come out of the woodwork. Of course, this has resulted ...

UPDATE (Jan. 12, 2023): Periphery have now released two new songs — "Wildfire" and "Zagreus" — which can be heard further down the page. Did someone just open up a can of worms? Periphery are on their ...

Metal has so many subgenres and classifications it can be impossible to keep up with them all. It’s so complicated at times that some bands don’t even know what kind of music they play, and some ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Album art by Meshuggah, Tesseract and Sleep Token. "But does it djent?" It's a question that's haunted a generation (djeneration?) ...

PERIPHERY, the D.C.-born band which has been twice nominated for a Grammy Award, will release its first album in four years, the self-deprecatingly titled "Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre", on March ...