Google ‘djent’ and you’ll be hit with over 2.5 million search results. On Instagram, #djent has been used well over one billion times. So, with players pushing the boundaries of the style of guitar ...

“But does it djent?” It’s a question that’s haunted a generation (djeneration?) of progressive metal bands. Ever since Meshuggah first stormed onto the scene in the mid-1990s with their polyrhythmic ...

The “djent” / bedroom producer-musician scene has gone from a tiny niche community on the Internet to a worldwide phenomenon in just a few years; in 2010, it’s a serious presence in the scene that any ...

It seems as though the djent trend is on a downswing at this moment. While bands like Periphery, Animals As Leaders and Veil of Maya rose to prominence on the sound, if I hear a new band trying to ...

There’s a debate currently raging over at Gear Gods, where two of the site’s writers have gone head to head in the battle to end all battles: has djent ruined or has it improved metal? In one corner, ...

In the spring of 2010, an explosion of chuggy riffs, subsonic booms and futuristic metal sounds carved a corner for itself in metal. It was called djent, so named because of the djent-djent sounds of ...

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 ...

Few albums arrive with such a purposeful message as Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre. The Washington, D.C. prog-metal maestros’ seventh album – 2015’s Juggernaut: Alpha and Omega releases dropping ...

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 ...

We already know that the word "djent" is one of the worst descriptors ever coined to describe a musical sub-genre. Now, according to the supposed creators of the style, Meshuggah, they claim it was ...

Meshuggah guitarist Mårten Hagström was quoted back in 2018 as apologizing for creating djent, and said the term came from fellow guitarist Fredrik Thordendal being drunk. "First of all, we're very ...